Essays on Literary Genres

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The Theme of Fear Illustrated in Henry Fielding's Novel in Regards to Realismin

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Amelia is certainly a change in direction from the writing style Henry Fielding employed in Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews. Gone are the frequent author-as-narrator interjections, as well as much of the comedic relief captured in the later mentioned novels. By veering away from a...

Novel

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Henry Fielding's Tom Jones: a Comedic Novel Illustrating The Wisdom of Discernment

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Tom Jones is a comedic novel by Henry Fielding that relays moral messages in an entertaining format, often demonstrating the downfalls of making assumptions, and of not questioning someone else’s motives in certain situations. Tom himself repeatedly is lied to and lied about, and at...

Novel

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Henry Fielding Explains Human Nature in Relation to Eighteenth Century London

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Henry Fielding, the author of Tom Jones, states in the Chapter 1 of Book 1, “…nor can the learned reader be ignorant, that in human nature, though here collected under one general name, is such prodigious variety, that a cook will have sooner gone through...

Novel

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Main Themes and Motifs in The Hour of The Star

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In The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector includes a page prior to the story providing alternative titles that she was considering for the book. These titles are significant in the analysis of the novel as several of them originate from references within the text,...

Novel

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Franco Moretti Posits in The Way of The World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture

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Franco Moretti posits in The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture that “Even those novels that clearly are not Bildungsroman or novels of formation are perceived by us against this conceptual horizon; so we speak of a ‘failed initiation’ or of a...

Novel Virginia Woolf

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Samuel Johnson’s Style of Writing in His Book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

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Samuel Johnson’s The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, which follows Rasselas and his companions as they search for the choice of life that generates the most happiness, influenced Johnson’s generation so profoundly that the period from 1750 to 1784 has been dubbed the “Age...

Novel

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The Theme of Forbidden Love in "The Guide" and "The God of Small Things"

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Forbidden love is a prominent theme in both The Guide and The God of Small Things. While R.K. Narayan utilizes Raju’s affair as a plot device, Arundhati Roy displays several sexual taboos as part of a broader theme to challenge societal expectations in India. Made-to-order...

Literature Review Novel The God of Small Things

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Ayi Kwei Armah's Novel The Healer Tackles Issues of Traditions, Life and Values

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Theodore Roosevelt once stated that “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” Often, illusions of comfort blockade the mind and sway an individual’s ability to clearly see the moral...

Novel Tradition

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Gender, Identity, and Expression in 19th Century British Society

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Dorothy Wordsworth, a poet, diarist, and sister of the esteemed Romantic poet William Wordsworth, remains an underappreciated figure in literary history. Despite her integral role within the Romantic literary community, her work was largely kept private during her lifetime, with only a handful of her...

Poetry Romantic Era

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Narrative Style in The Good Soldier

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Narration is a critical aspect of Ford’s The Good Soldier. Since the narrator also serves as one of the main characters, his narrative perspective becomes even more interesting to the reader. One of the most fascinating aspects of Dowell’s narration is that it is inconsistent,...

Novel

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The Modernist Elements in The Good Soldier

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During the Modern period, writers were concerned with discarding Victorian literary traditions, addressing new topics and using new forms. Many of them had become disillusioned by the devastation of the First World War, and they were fed up with the hypocrisy of Victorian society. People’s...

Novel

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Dowell's Assumption of Appearance and Reality in The Good Soldier

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In The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford makes it difficult to distinguish the differences between appearance and reality. By using Dowell’s detached and inaccurate narrative and characterizations throughout the book, Ford forces the reader to construct his or her own assumptions about the true intentions...

Novel

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"The Novum": Analysis and Consequences of Science Advancements

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The concept of the novum is a central theme to science fiction as a whole. It represents something new and different from the world as we know it. The novum usually functions as the impetus to the science fiction story, guiding the motivations of main...

Science Fiction

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Curiosity Killed The Cat' Proved in Lucious and Pentheus Stories

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Throughout both Roman and Greek ancient literature, well-renowned writers ranging from Aeschylus to Thucydides have demonstrated the major character flaws of mortals and the effects of their failings on their life and well-being. Although the outcome of each protagonist is different in each of these...

Novel Roman Art

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Symbolism of The Role of Education in 'The Good Earth'

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Published in the early years of the Great Depression, Pearl Buck’s novel The Good Earth brought hope and encouragement to many people struggling economically. The main character, Wang Lung, rises from a Chinese farmer to a landowner and well-respected man with scholarly sons. One symbol...

Educational Psychology Novel Symbolism

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Personal Perception of The World in 'The Good Soldier'

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According to Murray Baumgarten, “the narrator of the expressionist novel no longer worries about the ‘real’ world (422).” Instead, the narrator of the expressionist novel is concerned with the creation of a new, almost illusionary, and composite world where the creator, in this case, Ford’s...

Novel

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Edith Wharton's Personal Ambitions and Anxieties

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Edith Wharton is perhaps the most preeminent female Gothic writer in all of American history. What made her career so unique, besides the fact that she was a woman in a traditionally male dominated field, was that she was not writing for money, fame, or...

Fiction Ghost

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Katherine Mansfield's Perception of Modernity in The Garden Party

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Introduction In Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden-Party,” the socioeconomically-derived false consciousness discussed by Michael Bell in “The Metaphysics of Modernism” initially blinds the protagonist Laura from viewing the world in any context outside of her household. While the story’s pivotal actions do not change Laura’s physical...

Short Story The Garden Party

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Anguish Disguise to Happiness in 'Bliss'

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Sometimes, people have a tendency to disguise their anguish with elements of happiness and constantly tell themselves that they are happy when they truly are not. Bertha Young from Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss” believed that she was truly happy in her life because she seemed to...

Short Story The Garden Party