Essays on Literary Genres

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The Reality of an Unnerving Dream: Theodore Faron's Nightmares Within "The Children of Men"

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The Children of Men by PD James depicts the life of Theodore “Theo” Faron alongside his five acquaintances Julian, Miriam, Rolf, Gascoigne, and Luke as they embark on a harrowing mission to privately birth the child that will likely become the future of all mankind....

Children of Men Dystopia Novel

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Escaping Reality and Humanity in Mr. Sammler's Planet

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Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet explores the world as seen through the lens of the title character, a world of isolation and disinterestedness. All of the characters in the novel have disengaged from society and humanity on some level or another, either voluntarily like Mr....

Novel

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Emotional Distance Upheld by Brecht

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Berthold Brecht’s deliberate strategy to create an emotional distance between the actors and the audience stands in stark contrast to traditional theatrical techniques aimed at eliciting sympathy and aligns poorly with the principles of theatrical realism. Brecht’s distancing effect is achieved through a range of...

Bertolt Brecht Tragedy

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Elimination of Cliché in Brecht

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“When something seems the most obvious thing in the world, it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.” How does Brecht attempt to ensure that the obvious is absent from this play? Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it...

Bertolt Brecht Tragedy

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Soldiers' Disregard in Brecht's 'Mother Courage and Her Children'

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While there is still confusion over the exact causes of the Thirty Years’ War, everyone can acknowledge how horrific and devastating it was. Enormous amounts of civilians in besieged cities such as Magdeburg lost their lives, and those who survived lost everything else. The soldiers...

Bertolt Brecht Tragedy

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Satire in 'Monkey and The Ramayana'

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In ancient Eastern society, written novels eventually rose to a prominent place in culture, following upon a long tradition of oral accounts and short works such as poetry. In addition, with strict government policy on content, many authors and poets feared punishment and so avoided...

Novel Ramayana

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Effect of Queer Family Structures Described in 'Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab'

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An old Chinese proverb states that, “A family in harmony will prosper in everything.” In the 21st century, harmony looks different in every household––especially queer households, which are not always conducive to the harmony of heteronormative family structures. In her essay “With friends like these:...

Family Relationships Novel

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Characters and Photos in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

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Ransom Riggs, an American filmmaker and writer, first got his idea for a novel with pictures when he randomly ran across some sinister-looking vintage photos. Ransom recalls, “the photos suggest stories even though you don’t know who the people are or exactly when they were...

Fantasy

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Necessity and Morality in Defoe's Moll Flanders

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Much of the critical debate surrounding Daniel Defoe’s novel Moll Flanders centers around whether the author makes good on the promise he makes in the preface that the story will be morally instructive. For instance, Ira Konigsberg writes that “One of the book’s contradictions that...

Book Review Morality Novel

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Social and Cultural Constraints in Midaq Alley

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The seventy-year-old Moll Flanders who narrates her own life story considers herself a reformed criminal. But to what degree should her perceived transgressions cause her to actually be understood as such? After all, Defoe’s novel makes it clear that a number of different factors ultimately...

Book Review Novel Society

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Human Characteristics as Depicted by Nathaniel West

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The traditional human condition plagues every individual; each suffers, and consequently, thirsts for personal freedom and utter fulfillment in whatever way possible. While Western culture recognizes this tendency as rooted in religiousness or spirituality, most Eastern philosophy understands this human characteristic as ultimate, drawing no...

Fiction

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Effects of Segregation in "Mississippi Trial, 1955"

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In Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe, the author tells a story about a boy named Hiram who comes back to Greenwood, Mississippi to visit his Grandfather. When he revisits and goes down memory lane, he discovers that a lot of things have changed since...

Fiction Segregation

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Destructive and Heroic Acts in Mister Pip

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The conflict between Papua New Guinea and the Bougainville Revolutionary Army between 1988 and 1998 has been described as the largest conflict in Oceania since the end of World War II. The novel Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones examines the impacts of war on the...

Fiction

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Effect of Flashbacks on The Present in The Novel Monkey Beach

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Throughout Monkey Beach, author Eden Robinson effectively alternates passages transitioning between the present and flashbacks of Lisamarie’s life. It is through these flashbacks that Robinson is able to offer the reader a deep insight into Lisamarie’s childhood and upbringing. By placing these flashbacks in between...

Fiction

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Black Oppression in Preceding Apartheid as Depicted in Mine Boy

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Peter Abrahams’ Mine Boy illustrates in beautiful and haunting prose the oppression black citizens of South Africa faced in the years preceding apartheid. The country’s white minority imposed its power over black South Africans in several ways, the most significant of which are succinctly listed...

African American Fiction Oppression

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Symbolic Levels Stated in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts

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With its alternately overt and subtle use of symbolism, Nathanael West’s ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ works on three separate yet interrelated symbolic levels: a simple symbolic level, in which objects, people, and events in a particular scene are representative of one small symptom of the overall weariness...

Fiction

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The Order and Meaning as Potrayed in Miss Lonelyhearts and The Crying of Lot 49

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In Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, the protagonists embark on a quest for order and meaning amid the chaos of modern America. While both novels illustrate the potential for meaninglessness within the chaotic landscape of contemporary life, West’s...

Fiction The Crying of Lot 49

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Main Character's Battle Between Apollonian and Dionysian Duality in Miss Julie

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In The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzche discusses at length the duality inherent in the development of art. This duality is caused by two opposing principles termed Apollinian and Dionysian. These two principles are employed in August Strindberg’s Miss Julie through the main character of Miss...

Literature Review Tragedy

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Human's Bird Nature in Symmons Roberts Hitchcockian

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Symmons Roberts presents to us the idea of primal instinct and savagery which still is a part of human nature; he is comparing our natural demeanour to that of birds. The poem is obviously not about birds attacking people despite the link to the Hitchcock...

Poetry