Essays on Literary Genres

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Social Injustice in Mary Barton

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Throughout Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton, social injustice is a powerful and prevalent theme. This essay will focus especially on Chapter Six, where John Barton seeks medicine for his equally impoverished friend, Ben Davenport. This Chapter perhaps presents the fact that Gaskell’s novel moves beyond even...

Novel

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The Spiritual Transformation of Mary Barton in Elizabeth Gaskell's Novel

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Mary Barton is a story of material temptation, sexual seduction and spiritual transformation. The character Mary Barton is an impoverished girl with considerable material ambitions who is seduced by the lavish wealth of her rich suitor. Mary’s lifelong poverty leaves her with the fervent desire...

Novel

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Searching for The Truth and Justice

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Matigari by Ngugi wa Thiong’o follows the eponymous hero in his search for truth and justice for his oppressed kinsmen, from the moment he puts down his arms to when another freedom fighter takes them up. The narrative is almost cyclical, and this is reflected...

Novel

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The Trope of Masquerade in "The Rover" and "Marriage A-la-mode"

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In England, the Baroque was a partly useful concept when discussing about the Restoration Comedy. The English theatres were closed for 18 years, during the English Civil War and English Commonwealth. They were reopened in the Restoration of Charles II (1660). During this period, the...

Comedy England Literature Review

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Longing for Freedom after Lost Love

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He claims that it is better to have loved and lost. She claims that it is better to never have loved at all. He spends his free time pining for her. She spends her time with him longing for freedom. While modern stereotypes tend to...

Poetry

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Sacrifices Made to Succeed in Life

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Music has historically been a means of expression and a way of portraying the conditions of the time in which it was written, and the feelings and circumstances of the person by which it was created. This way of expression through music can be seem...

Poetry

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An Analysis of The Secretary Chant by Marge Piercy

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The poem “The Secretary Chant,” by Marge Piercy, holds many characteristics that are meant to pull the reader in. As with any poem, the words mean more than they appear to. Each line is written with a purpose. Every word is there for a reason;...

Poetry

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Provision of Guidelines for Social Conduct

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Barbie doll as a popular icon in American culture has been carried with a long history. However, it is also a controversial toy that often critic by its unrealistic body image and the women stereotype imposed on her. Marge Piercy’s poem presents the theme about...

Poetry

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Systematic Programm for Physical and Emotional Consciousness

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Memories, the good and the bad, shape the character of the people that we become, as Mark Jarman demonstrates in his 1997 poem, “Ground Swell.” The author effectively recreates his chilly summer mornings of surfing for the reader, through use of visual and tactile imagery,...

Poetry

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Review of "Marriage A-la-mode" by John Dryden

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The English Restoration significantly impacted the work of the artists of the day. As England moved from a monarchy under Charles I, to a commonwealth under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell, and then back again to a monarchy with Charles II on the throne, artists,...

Comedy Literature Review Tragedy

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The City of Gopher Prairie in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

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Small towns are often depicted as serene and bucolic places filled with caring people. Gopher Prairie appears, at first glance, to be one of these towns. But through the trials of Carol Kennicott the true nature of these towns is exposed. In this town the...

Fiction

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Dark Past of The Characters in Fall on Your Knees and Man Gone Down

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It is very common in literature, both in the past and modern-day, for characters to have dark backgrounds. Many authors choose this approach because it creates an approachable character with whom the reader can identify, and provides the reader with an admirable protagonist. This darkness...

Character Fiction

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Struggle to Find Solidality in a Chaotic World

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“…Bud is sitting on the rail of the bridge. The sun has risen behind Brooklyn. The windows of Manhattan have caught fire. He jerks himself forward, slips, dangles by a hand with the sun in his eyes” (105) . . . Made-to-order essay as fast...

Novel

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Literary Techniques in Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos

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“Oh I know everything is dead.” So says Billy Waldron to Ruth Prynne in chapter two, ‘Nickelodeon,’ of the third section of John Dos Passos’ ‘Manhattan Transfer’. This statement embodies several techniques Dos Passos uses throughout his novel – such as an almost insignificant ‘throwaway’...

Novel

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Real Experiences for Survival: The Open Boat

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Novelist Ray Bradbury once said, “I used to take my short stories to girls’ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?” (“Ray Bradbury Quotes”). While speaking from a comical perspective,...

Fiction The Open Boat

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Natural Forces Leave Humans with No Free Will

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For centuries, philosophers have debated just how much truth can be found in the concept of free will. As humans, we tend to favor a viewpoint that grants us more control, that is, that we are capable of determining our future with our actions. However,...

Fiction

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Implications of The Second Theater Scene in Stephen Crane’s Maggie: a Girl of The Streets

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With the second theater scene of Stephen Crane’s novella Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, the plot of the selected play is used ironically to provide insight to the hopes and concerns of its audience. Because the theater is a form of escape for Maggie...

Fiction

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Men Have Become The Tools of Their Tools

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Henry David Thoreau, a leading philosopher of the 19th century, stated that “Men have become the tools of their tools.” Machine Man, written by Max Barry, holds true to this quote. In this fiction novel, scientist Charles Neumann surrounds his entire life based on mechanical...

Fantastic

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The Violence and Volatile Power

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Power exists in many forms: weapons, threats, size, and even words. Amidst the violence and volatile power that exists between Israel and Palestine, Mahmoud Darwish attempts to influence people’s feelings through his poetry. In Darwish’s politically charged poems, he utilizes a combination of common symbols...

Poetry