Essays on Literary Genres

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The Role of National Identity in "The English Patient"

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Who we are is shaped by where we are from. 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 This is a common thread in the human experience; our backgrounds...

National Identity Novel

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Radio is an Effect Means of Passing Information About Addiction and Its Detrimental Effects.

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“The Enormous Radio”, by John Cheever, can be viewed as a study of addiction and its detrimental effects on the individual and their surroundings. The story introduces the Westcott family and the radio they listen to daily. The radio stops functioning one evening, and knowing...

Novel

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Ethnic Assimilation in 'The Dim Sum of All Things'

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With the increasing emphasis on cultural exchange in recent literature, writers have attempted to point out how difficult it was for the people to maintain their ethnic identity besides their national identity. Assimilation into the mainstream American culture seems to be a primordial way of...

Asian American Novel

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Jacoby's Evasive and Unappealing Vision of Utopia

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American society is rarely content with its present state. Rather, it constantly seeks ways to improve and enhance the current standard of living. Ideally, these changes should be paving the path to a better future, one in which hostility and conflict become practically obsolete and...

Novel Utopia

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Human Bodies Are Geographical Markers as They Can Span Physical Borders Through Their Affection.

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Textual, mnemonic, and physical gaps leave room in which identity is found through body and environment in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Toni Morrison’s Jazz. Ondaatje’s characters retrieve their absent personas by mutually colonizing lovers’ bodies, thus developing a metaphor for the body as...

Jazz Novel

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The Role of Imagery, Symbolism and Metaphor in The English Patient

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Whilst the four main characters of The English Patient are extremely powerful, and important to the reader’s understanding of the story, they cannot stand alone without the patterns of imagery, symbolism and metaphor which underpin the text, and offer a complexity which extends beyond the...

Novel

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Comparison of Two Landscapes in "The Dispossessed"

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The landscape in The Dispossessed contributes a great deal in shaping the cultures and characters of both Urras and Anarres. Although meant to be contrasting civilizations, Urras and Anarres are alike in the sense that they both possess highly complex and highly organized ways of...

Science Fiction

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Ursula K. Le Guin "The Dispossessed": Urs Vs Antares

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The full title of Le Guin’s 1974 novel reads “The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia” and proves to be just what the title suggests. This science fiction novel is also a utopia, but not one which serves as “a hopeful prescription for a near perfect future”...

Science Fiction Sula

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Clash of Worlds in Le Guin's "The Dispossessed"

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Societies attempt to create a world which is beneficial for all, in which all individuals are happy and content. A world like this, however, is hard to attain: People have various conceptions of how a perfect world operates, and how to achieve a society that...

Science Fiction

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Hard Work Doesn't Always Pay as Portrayed in 'The Devil in The White City'

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Novels are often written to convey an inherent truth of life. However, when a nonfiction book is written and the inherent truth is still prevalent, one must take notice of the lesson to learn. This concept occurs in The Devil in the White City, a...

Book Review Hard Work Novel

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Wins and Losses in The Chicago World's Fair

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The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 represented a triumphant moment of success for the city of Chicago as well as for the entire nation. Yet, the grandeur of the fair was paralleled with an equally great amount of corruption and abuse. During this time known...

Literature Review Novel

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Purpose of Communication in 'The Dew Breaker'

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Many people in today’s world have trouble when it comes to communicating. In literature many authors use communication as a way to either create relationships or to create barriers in one. In the novel The Dew Breaker, by Edwidge Danticat, many characters struggle when it...

Creole Novel

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Characterization of Macoute in The Dew Breaker

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The Dew Breaker, a novel by Edwidge Danticat that tells of Jean-Claude Duvalier’s inherited dictatorship in Haiti, appears to be a novel about two things. On the one hand, it documents the life and trials of a Tonton Macoute, a government sanctioned torturer; on the...

Creole Novel

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Inspiration and Education Achieved Through Poetry

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‘Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in the word mimesis, that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting or figuring forth – to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture – with this end: to teach and delight’. Made-to-order essay as fast...

Poetry

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Poetry's Impact on Society in 'A Defense of Poesy'

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In the long essay, “A Defense of Poesy,” Sir Philip Sidney responds to the attempts of repression by the Puritan Movement on poets and their work by characterizing poetry as the roots of culture and intelligence. Sidney uses mythical allusions and historical references to various...

Poetry Puritans

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Sexual Relations Narration by Dioneo in "The Decameron"

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At the beginning of Boccaccio’s Decameron, both the male and female narrators hesitate to discuss the seemingly lewd topic of sexual relations. On Day I, the Florentines discuss various topics, yet only one narrator is brave enough to introduce sex as a theme: Dioneo. This...

Renaissance Short Story The Decameron

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Depiction of Culture Clash in The Dark Child

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Camara Laye’s demonstrative narrative The Dark Child delineates the author’s childhood and adolescence in colonial Upper Guinea in the early twentieth century. Simple in construction, the story gives emotional value to the experiences common among young boys of Laye’s social class as well as to...

Literature Review Narrator Novel

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Female Liberation and Power in Boccaccio’s "The Decameron"

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Introduction Giovanni Boccaccio’s medieval masterpiece “The Decameron” is a collection of stories, chronicled over ten days, which highlights the best and worst of human nature. Boccaccio’s tales deal with themes such as adultery, love, premarital sex, devotion, trickery, and manipulation, among others. Yet this work...

Renaissance Short Story The Decameron

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Renaissance Implications on Morality and Censorship in "The Decameron"

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Writing in Italy during the 14th century, Boccaccio is caught in the historical dichotomy between the blind adherence to the Church that permeated the Middle Ages and the emerging Humanism that characterized the Renaissance. It is clear that Boccaccio chooses to look forward, as he...

Renaissance Short Story The Decameron