Essays on Literary Genres

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A Quest for Closure: Stevens’s Journey in Ishiguro’s Remains of The Day

5 pages / 2166 words

“The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.” Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts...

Journey Novel The End of The Affair

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True to a Lie: Two Perspectives on Moral Responsibility in "Return of The Soldier"

4 pages / 2022 words

In two of the concluding paragraphs of “Return of the Soldier”, both Jenny and Margaret grapple with the moral dilemma of whether to or not to “cure” Chris. Although the women, while looking over Oliver’s toys in the nursery, convince one another that it is...

Novel

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Transforming The Presentation of Gender: Epicene and The Roaring Girl

3 pages / 1501 words

‘Oh London…. Thou hast all things in thee to make thee fairest, and all things in thee to make thee foulest: for thou art attir’de like a Bride, drawing all that looke upon thee, to be in love with thee but there is much harlot...

Comedy

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Reality and Appearance: a Comparison of Hamlet and The Revenger"s Tragedy

3 pages / 1322 words

Throughout both Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy, the disparity between how things seem and how they really are is a constant underlying motif; the depth in which both plays examine the concept of appearance and reality justifies the claim that they are a...

Hamlet Revenge Tragedy

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Middleton’s Parosy on a Revenge Tragedy in "The Revenger’s Tragedy"

6 pages / 2561 words

A revenge tragedy is a genre of play, popularized in the seventeenth century, in which the protagonist pursues revenge for real or perceived abuses. Thee tragedies typically employ a number of the same conventions, such as escalating causes for revenge, interrupted trials, botched executions, and...

Revenge Tragedy William Shakespeare

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Treatment of The Independant Female in The Portrait of a Lady and Jane Eyre

7 pages / 3365 words

Introduction Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, and The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James, both utilise the Victorian convention of the orphaned heroine that is forced to find her own way in the world. Treatment of female independence and the independent heroine in Jane...

Jane Eyre Novel

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The Ideas of Maturity in Sense and Sensibiity and Two Part Prelude

3 pages / 1566 words

“In what sense is a child of that age a philosopher?” – Coleridge Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay If philosophy is defined as ‘advanced knowledge or...

Jane Austen Novel

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The Professor’s Release in Cather’s The Professor’s House

2 pages / 796 words

The 1920s is an era somewhat paradoxically described as an anachronistic one rife with social upheaval. Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House sheds light on this awkward time as she details the life of Godfrey St. Peter, an academic caught between the past and the future,...

American Literature Novel

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The Cinder Path: Andrew Motion’s Shift from Royal to Public

6 pages / 2716 words

‘I want my writing to be as clear as water. No ornate language; very few obvious tricks. I want readers to be able to see all the way down through its surfaces into the swamp. I want them to feel they’re in a world they...

Poetry

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Fulfillment on The Susquehanna: Billy Collins’s Message

3 pages / 1478 words

There comes a time for many people when the gruffness and chaos of the real world becomes too much and they crave a break from it all. Throughout the poem “Fishing on the Susquehanna in July,” Billy Collins is able to convey this desire to...

Poetry

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Ted Hughes’ Presentation of Animals

4 pages / 1722 words

Hughes is well-known for his nature poetry and use of animal symbolism. In both “The Jaguar” and “Hawk Roosting”, the animals symbolize different human characteristics while remaining, on the surface, an in-depth, fantastic poem about the animal itself. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need...

Poetry

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The Influence of The Arts in The Playmaker

3 pages / 1193 words

Thomas Keneally’s 1987 novel The Playmaker follows the career and personal life of Ralph Clark, a British lieutenant (and prospective playmaker) recently relocated to penal Australia. The storyline is based loosely on true events of the late eighteenth century, when colonial Australia was still something...

Novel

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Psychoanalysis of The Lancelot Character in T.h. White’s "The once and Future King"

4 pages / 1893 words

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” Vladimir Nabakov often told stories of men and women destroyed by unknowing forces and desires driving them to madness....

Fantasy King Arthur

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Strategies for Challenging The Patriarchy: "Fight Club" and "The Passion of The New Eve"

7 pages / 3344 words

Gender studies is the interdisciplinary study based around ideas of the masculine and feminine. It also looks at sexual differences and the more fluid definitions of gender which have arisen over time. This theory can also be broken down into three sub categories: Women’s studies,...

Dystopia Gender Novel

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Capitalism Kills: an Analysis of The Military Industrial Complex in "The Physicists"

4 pages / 1726 words

In the satirical play The Physicists, screenwriter Friedrich Dürrenmatt explores the morality of nuclear science and the true intentions behind the creation of nuclear weapons against the backdrop of three physicists in a sanatorium run by head psychiatrist Doctor Mathilde von Zahnd. After the physicist...

Satire

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The Overcoat: Symbolism in "The Overcoat"

4 pages / 1687 words

In his short tale “The Overcoat,” Nikolai Gogol has unfolded tragedies as well as satirical jokes by imagining a wide range of roles an overcoat can fulfill within an oppressive, bureaucratic, and heavily materialistic society. Without loss of humor, he has shown his reader different...

Short Story

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Unreliable Narration in "The Moonlit Road" and "In a Grove"

2 pages / 1113 words

Both “The Moonlit Road” and “In a Grove” are murder mysteries that confront the reader with the question of truth in storytelling. The texts present the reader with several first person testimonies of a crime, or the witness’ involvement in it, but give it no...

Ghost Narrator

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Gogol’s Search for Greater Understanding in The Namesake

2 pages / 869 words

Introduction Jhumpa Lahiri eloquently points out in her novel, The Namesake, “For his [Gogol’s] father had a point; the only person who didn’t take Gogol seriously, the only person who tormented him, the only person chronically aware of and afflicted by the embarrassment of his...

Novel The Namesake

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Love in The Namesake

3 pages / 1480 words

Throughout Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake, themes of marriage, love, and intimacy are carefully woven into the lives of the Ganguli family; namely Gogol and his parents. The novel begins with Ashima and Ashoke, Gogol’s parents, and the beginnings of their arranged marriage, and follows for...

Novel