Essays on Literary Genres

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The Moderate Victorian Male Spectator in a Study in Scarlet, The Moonstone, "The Harlot’s House" and "Hermaphroditus"

7 pages / 3035 words

The Victorian depiction of the masculine is divided by not only class factors but also by degrees of gender conformity and morality, it is this conformity and morality that shapes the role of the masculine narrative in Victorian literature. In this essay I will be...

Novel

2909

Intertextuality in The Moonstone

4 pages / 1615 words

In 1987, Michael McKeon theorized that the novel form developed concomitant with the rise of the individual in English society. This correlation implies that the novel marked a shift from a communal experience of literature to a solitary experience of text: the writer writes alone,...

Novel

2910

Delusion and Demise: The Obsessions of Moliere’s Alceste and Monsieur Jourdain

5 pages / 2131 words

Moliere, who built his reputation writing plays that satirize late 17th French society, develops two title characters in his dramas “The Would-Be Gentleman” and “The Misanthrope,” the former, Monsieur Jourdain who attempts to recreate his self image in order to be accepted into high society,...

Drama

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The Theme of The Haunting Past Chapter Iv of The Moonstone

3 pages / 1469 words

One of the main themes developed in the passage from the novella “The Moonstone,” by Wilkie Collins, is the indelibility of memories and by consequence, of the past. The past comes back to haunt the present constantly throughout the passage, building tension as well as...

Novel

2912

Bulgakov’s Devil: not so Evil after All: Gnostic Elements in The Master and Margarita

12 pages / 5465 words

The devil is a common literary icon. This enemy of God has generally been established as an unwavering representation of evil—a figure out to trick and torment his arch-nemesis and readers alike. Whether making pacts with mortals to sell their souls or raising armies against...

Novel

2913

Cowardice and Consequences in "Master and Margarita"

4 pages / 1941 words

In Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel, The Master and Margarita, many types of sin and corruption are exemplified in both Moscow and Yershalaim: people are rude and curt to others for no reason, accept bribes, act and speak hypocritically, spy and betray others, and so on. In...

Novel

2914

The Travel Log and Its Depiction of The ‘other’

4 pages / 1788 words

There is something inherently cathartic, inherently exciting about the ‘travel literature’ genre that emerged in the later 17th and early 18 th centuries. The lands viewed were never accurately depicted; instead, the author would embellish local details and cultures to bring the reader into unexplored...

Drama Elizabethan Times

2915

Lies and Deception in The Maltese Falcon

3 pages / 1368 words

The Maltese Falcon at its core is a novel about people making up stories. Characters in the novel display a remarkable ability and willingness to lie. As each new character is introduced to the plot, a new host of lies is introduced as well. The...

Novel

2916

Digory Kirke Heroic Characteristics Analysis

2 pages / 778 words

In 1955 C. S. Lewis wrote and published The Magician’s Nephew, a high fantasy adventure story set in early 20th century England, a prequel to the other stories in The Chronicles of Narnia. In the story, Digory Kirke, a young boy, travels to a strange...

Character Fantasy

2917

Evolution of Attitude in Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

3 pages / 1224 words

Evolution of Attitude in Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” 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 T. S. Eliot’s notoriously opaque “The Love Song of...

Poetry Song The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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The (modernist) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

3 pages / 1406 words

T. S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock demonstrates several Modernist ideas. In particular, by frequently employing imagery, repetition, alliteration, assonance, rhetorical questions and references, creatively shaping lines and sentences and weaving in ambiguity and uncertainty in his words, Eliot includes Modernist characteristics...

Book Review Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

2919

Muddled Memory: Values and Virtues in The Loved One

2 pages / 1044 words

Today, the good is often overshadowed by the evil. The media is flooded with more crime and negativity than it is the positives and stories of charities and selfless deeds. Similarly, in Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One, the bad, those obsessed with money, self-preservation and...

Novel Satire

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Prufrock’s Social Anxiety

3 pages / 1422 words

Though the poem is specifically about Alfred Prufrock, it embodies the idea that every modern person struggles with these social barriers at some point in life. Eliot’s skillful use of repetition, rhyme, assonance, and imagery present a picture of a modern, single man who is...

Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

2921

Role of Dreams in The Lover by A.b. Yehoshua

7 pages / 3052 words

“[She] starts to sort it out, to turn over the day, scraps, feelings, words and laughter, all are like a thin layer of rubbish that [she] gathers up and throws into the basket” (9). In A.B. Yehoshua’s novel The Lover, Asya utilizes dreams to release...

Literature Review Novel

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A Walk with Prufrock

3 pages / 1415 words

T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is the story a man contemplating emergence from his solitude into the world, a man capsized by the fear of being misunderstood. In this poem Eliot employs the quest motif in an ironic fashion to explore...

Poetry T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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The Self Esteem of J. Alfred Prufrock

3 pages / 1486 words

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Elliot, depicts the thoughts of a modern day Hamlet. It follows, what seems like, the typical evening with Mr. Prufrock. He is a man that often loses himself in his own mind, efficiently losing his ability...

Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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Prufrock, Paralysis, and Pieces of The Modern City

4 pages / 1952 words

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” depicts an image of the modern city that is marked by paralysis, alienation, decay, and repression. Prufrock is a modern man who can see the superficiality of the social values of middle class society, and yet lacks the...

Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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Inner and Outer Worlds; The Internal and External in James Joyce’s ‘ulysses’ and The Poetry of T. S. Eliot

6 pages / 2650 words

In the novel Ulysses, a hallmark of modernist writing, James Joyce presents to the reader a particular relationship between inner and outer worlds, blurring the distinction between the internal consciousness’s of his characters and the externality of the world around them. The two become intrinsically...

Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Ulysses

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The Unreachable Prufrock

4 pages / 1808 words

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is at once a comic poem as well as a trenchant satire on the low aspects of urban life. Its speaker, a man going bald and self-conscious about his every gesture, represents a sexual as well as spiritual...

Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock