Essays on Literary Genres

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Presentation of Stevens in The Remains of The Day

5 pages / 2080 words

Stevens believes that to be a great butler, one must maintain their professional facade at all times in order to remain dignified (or at least, the ability to maintain a professional facade regardless of one’s circumstances is Stevens’ definition of dignity). This results in him...

Novel Professionalism

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Appearance and Staging of The Relapse; Or Virtue in Danger

5 pages / 2164 words

In John Vanbrugh’s The Relapse; or Virtue in Danger, Act I, scene i. plays a crucial role in establishing the theme of appearance versus reality. Because this play is a continuation of Colley Cibber’s Love’s Last Shift, it is imperative that the first scene of...

Literature Review Tragedy

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Professionalism and Englishness in The Remains of The Day

2 pages / 915 words

In The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro exemplifies English identity from the perspective of the butler of a prominent estate, Mr. Stevens of Darlington Hall. Ishiguro uses Mr. Stevens’s account to establish English identity, allowing Mr. Stevens’s conservative perspective to be a commentary on...

Novel Professionalism

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Personality, Class, and Culture in The Remains of The Day

5 pages / 2318 words

“A profound and heart-rending study of personality, class and culture” To what extent do you agree with this assessment of the novel? Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my...

Culture and Communication Novel

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Speech, Silences and Bodily Manifestations in Madame De Lafayette’s The Princess De Cleves and Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko

4 pages / 1979 words

In her essay, “Origins of the Novel”, Marthe Robert characterises the novel as knowing “neither rule nor restraint. Open to every possibility, its boundaries fluctuate in all directions”. Indeed, both Madame de Lafayette’s The Princess de Cleves and Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko are often claimed to...

Novel Oroonoko The Prince

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The Quiet American - Greene and The Cold War Mindset

2 pages / 863 words

Set during the throws of the Cold War offensive and the threat of the domino theory in Asia, Graham Greene’s fiction annexes his experiences as a war correspondent in Indochina during the years 1951 – 1954 into his works, impart reasoning and voice into a...

American Literature Novel

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Narrator’s Reaction to Erskine's Death in "The Portrait of Mr. W.h."

4 pages / 1828 words

The long, antepenultimate paragraph of “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” neatly interrupts the dialogue that has just revealed the true nature of the death of Erskine, a friend of the narrator. The narrator is taking in the shocking news that Erskine had died naturally of...

Oscar Wilde Short Story

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Romantic Poets & The Poetic Problem of Representing London

5 pages / 2195 words

Writing on nineteenth-century London poetry, William Sharpe comments that ‘Regardless of shared reference to sublimity, fog, of Babylonian blindness, each poet’s London is different. Each time we read ‘London’ we have to begin again.’ For poets in the late eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, London...

Poetry Romantic Era Romanticism

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A Woman’s Journey from North America to Europe in The Portrait of a Lady

4 pages / 1593 words

In psychology, one of the most frequently debated topics deals with the issue of environmental and societal impact on one’s upbringing. It is commonly believed that society plays a tremendous role in how one behaves and how one readily conforms to the environment he is...

Novel Woman

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Imaginative Architectures in "The Portrait of a Lady"

3 pages / 1253 words

“On her long journey from Rome her mind had been given up to vagueness; she was unable to question the future. She performed this journey with sightless eyes and took little pleasure in the countries she traversed, decked out though they were in the richest...

Novel

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The Heart of Glory: Children, Humanism, and Character in Greene’s Novel

5 pages / 2310 words

In Graham Greene’s dynamic novel The Power and the Glory, we follow the Whiskey Priest throughout his harrowing journey as he runs for his life, avoiding capture and death at the hands of the Lieutenant. This novel shows the development of the priest as he...

Humanism Literature Review Novel

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Hoppie's Heroism in The Power of One

2 pages / 985 words

In The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, Hoppie Groenewald is a train guard, conductor and star welter-weight boxer. While reading the book, the reader will notice Hoppie does not have as extensive of a role as some other characters but is undoubtably the strongest...

Heroism Novel

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The Role of Father in "The Gift" and "My Papa’s Waltz"

3 pages / 1259 words

Both the speakers in “The Gift” by Li-Young Lee and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke look up to their fathers with wide-eyed admiration. Comparing these two poems, we can say that what stands out the most is the similar theme – each boy has...

My Papa’s Waltz Poetry

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"Mother Deluxe" from Li Young Lee’s Behind My Eyes: Using a Card Game Metaphor to Come to Terms with Life Experience

4 pages / 1860 words

Famous Romantic era poet Percy Shelley once noted that “a poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds”. In his 2008 poetry anthology Behind My Eyes, IndoChinese-American author Li Young Lee sings thirty nine different...

Poetry

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The Work and Life of Lucille Clifton: a Biographical Approach

2 pages / 1127 words

“You can walk in another’s shoes, the saying goes, but you cannot walk in his skin.” -Tracey Mishkin 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 Lucille Clifton is...

Poetry

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Analysis of "A Nation’s Strength" by Ralph Waldo Emerson in The Context of National Consciousness

6 pages / 2939 words

Poetry is arguably the most democratized art form. It is written by the common man, for the common man. As a result, it becomes an effective medium to express sentiments of nationalism which lie in the deep consciousness of the ordinary man, but are not...

Poetry Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Mocking The Sonnet

2 pages / 924 words

When it comes to literature, individual stylistic preferences can differ radically. Some people like long, flowery, detailed pieces of elaborate writing, while others prefer short and simple ones. As a poet himself, Billy Collins is at times quite blunt about his tastes. In “Sonnet “,...

Poetry

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Nissim Ezekiel as a Poet

2 pages / 776 words

Nissim Ezekiel is generally known as a poet who has written in only language, and his example is often cited in contrast to the careers of other Indian poets who are often bilingually accomplished (for instance, Arun Kolatkar, Kamla Markandaya, Dilip Chitre and Kamla Das)....

Poetry

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The Presentation of The Queen’s Emotions in ‘i Grieve, and Dare not Show My Discontent’

3 pages / 1362 words

“I Grieve, and Dare Not Show My Discontent” is a three-stanza poem written by Queen Elizabeth I that allegedly features Francis, the French Duke of Anjou as her beloved. Throughout her reign, Queen Elizabeth I entertained many suitors to get what England needed, including English...

Poetry