Essays on Literary Genres

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Opening of Behn’s The Rover

3 pages / 1539 words

It is imperative for drama to require much more consideration regarding the intended audience than other literary forms, since in the end, a play is meant to be a performance. In drama and its theatrical depiction, the spectators experience the authorial vision in a defined...

Comedy

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Sex and Sexuality in The Rover

11 pages / 5074 words

Sex and sexuality as historical constructs acquired new meanings in the Restoration, with them becoming the essential components of the economy of exchange. Situated amidst the popular libertine culture, the ideals of love, virtue and more importantly, the image of the woman was being redrawn,...

Comedy

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The Mask of Marriage: Virtue, Honor, Reputation and Female Identity in The Sexual Economy of The Rover

6 pages / 2748 words

In The Rover, Aphra Behn illustrates a world in which sex and economic exchange unite under the mandates of the patriarchy. In such a society, sexuality is commodified, and a woman is either sold into the marriage market (by her family, in an effort to...

Comedy

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Love as Symptom in Beroul’s Tristan: The Original Text and Its Film Version

6 pages / 2823 words

Thanks largely, if not entirely, to Shakespeare, audiences today can immediately recognize the promise of a romance in any title featuring the names of two characters. “Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Tristan and Isolde,” croons the leading tagline of the 2006 adaptation of the...

Legend Tragedy

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Fate and Freewill in The Romance of Tristan

3 pages / 1139 words

Be´roul’s The Romance of Tristan exhibits the inevitable, predetermined relationship between Tristan and Yseut. Neither Tristan, Yseut, nor Mark is able to interfere with the lovers’ relationship, suggesting that fate takes away choice and freewill in love. Other characters, such as Frocin, prove that one’s...

Legend Tragedy

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The Use of The Fantasy Genre in Behn’s The Rover and More’s Utopia

7 pages / 3222 words

Sir Thomas More’s Utopia and Aphra Behn’s The Rover are two vastly different works of literature that focus on different matters: More’s work is a political document, while Behn’s can be categorized as more of a social one. While the two works in themselves are...

Fantasy Thomas More Utopia

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Hurdles in Life: Understanding The Samurai’s Garden

3 pages / 1281 words

The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama is a book about a young man, Stephen, who is faced with tuberculosis changing the course of his life by taking him to a small peaceful village, Tarumi. When he first arrives at Tarumi, he meets Matsu, Sachi, and...

Asian American Culture Novel

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The Effectiveness of The Opening of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice

2 pages / 858 words

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is in many ways a ‘la piéce bien faite’ (translated as ‘well-made play’), which consists of a four point structure: an exposition; a complication and a climax followed by a denouement. Certainly, the exposition can be identified as...

Comedy Voice

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Mari’s Character and Use of Language in Scene Seven of "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice"

3 pages / 1352 words

Throughout The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Cartwright presents the character of Mari Hoff as irresponsible and vulgar, especially through his use of colloquial language. Scene Seven certainly supports this view, but also introduces her vulnerability: a trait that the audience must understand before...

Comedy Voice

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The Portrayal of ‘the Other’ and Its Relationship to The City in The Roaring Girl and The Witch of Edmonton.

5 pages / 2411 words

“By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could only be given to traveling: namely, the strange” – Jane Jacobs. 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 In...

Comedy

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Sympathy and Objectification in The Revenge Tragedy Genre

6 pages / 2746 words

The genre of revenge tragedy has been both popular and unique in its ability to simultaneously arouse feelings that appear to be unrelated in its audience: vengeance and sympathy. What makes this genre vary from play to play, however, is the author’s ability to either...

Revenge Tragedy

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Misinterpretation and Passivity in The Romance of Tristan

5 pages / 2479 words

The themes of misinterpretation and passivity are threaded throughout Beroul’s text “The Romance of Tristan”: characters often misread signs and events, as well as each other. There are several key misinterpretations in the story that reveal where the author’s true sympathies lie. Because most of...

Legend Tragedy

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A Boy and His Horse: The Oedipal Complex at Work

7 pages / 2992 words

“[H]e would sit on his big rocking horse, charging madly into space, with a frenzy that made the little girls peer at him uneasily.” This passage, from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” describes the “mad little journey” of Paul as he searches for the luck...

Short Story

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Behaving Reasonably: a Defense of Romance in Howells’s Realistic Fiction

5 pages / 2208 words

Harry T. Moore, in the afterword to William Dean Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham, says, “Much of the criticism of Silas Lapham has been directed at the love-story subplot” (345). Critics of Howells are quick to point out the Romantic elements in this otherwise...

Novel Realism

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Christianity, Culture, and Conflict in The River Between

3 pages / 1491 words

The River Between The novel by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, The River Between, tells the story of two tribes that hold very different beliefs central to themselves. However, though they agree on very little, there are still people that believe in peace and unity. The clash...

Kenya Novel

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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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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