Essays on Literary Genres

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The Theme of Adultery in "A Mad World, My Masters" by Thomas Middleton

3 pages / 1258 words

Through his work, A Mad World, My Masters, Thomas Middleton challenges the viewer’s perspectives on adultery by portraying it as comical, rather than starkly reproachable. During the first four acts of A Mad World, My Masters, the play seems to encourage the audience to support...

Comedy Literature Review

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Defoe’s a Journal of The Plague Year: an Examination of The Effects of Apocalyptic Disease on Humanity

6 pages / 2547 words

Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year gives the modern reader insight into the tense atmosphere of disease-infested urban London. However, the most important insights we gain from H.F.’s narrative are his observations on human behaviour, ones that can be applied universally to those...

Novel

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Class Distinctions in a Journal of The Plague Year

2 pages / 1025 words

Class Distinctions in A Journal of the Plague Year 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 Defoe repeatedly returns to how different classes experienced the plague of 1660’s...

Novel

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Constructing Authenticity in Daniel Defoe's a Journal of The Plague Year

3 pages / 1257 words

In A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe uses several methods to create convincing history out of fiction. In developing a false journal entry, Defoe creates authenticity primarily through the narrator, H.F.. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized...

Novel

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The Plague Diaries of Samuel Pepys and Daniel Defoe: a Historical Overview

9 pages / 4299 words

Autobiography has often been a response to moments of historical crisis. Diaries such as those of Anne Frank who wrote about the hardships of living in Nazi Germany as a Jew, the Bronte Sisters who wrote of the era in which they lived, and Nelson...

Novel

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The Connection Between Art and History for Julian Barnes

5 pages / 2050 words

The connection between history and art is similar to the law of Causality in physics, otherwise known as the “cause and effect” law. As history progressed through multiple ages, fashions, and mentalities, so did artistic styles and tendencies. Art is important to the historic field...

Short Story

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Understanding Freedom in a House for Mr. Biswas

3 pages / 1395 words

A House for Mr. Biswas, written by V.S. Naipaul, is an epic that tells the story of Mohun Biswas, a poor boy believed to be a bad omen from birth, and his life in Trinidad. The life of Mr. Biswas is presented in the form...

Fiction Freedom

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Dave Eggers’ a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: The Game of Pain

3 pages / 1169 words

Dave Eggers is a playful author, wiling to experiment and take risks for his audience. At the same time, Eggers is aware of his ploys and sometimes uses these games as a way to pawn off the tragedies that happened to him over the course...

Tragedy

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Augusta Webster and The Universal Poet

5 pages / 2059 words

In the essay “Poets and Personal Pronouns,” Augusta Webster discusses the amount of personal expression that a poet inserts into his or her own work. She delves into the differences between a novelist and poet and elaborates on the importance of creative imagination; she even...

Poetry

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Lermontov’s Paradox: an Analysis of Pechorin

2 pages / 903 words

In Mikhail Lermontov’s novel A Hero of Our Time, the author brings out the irony surrounding various characters with Pechorin being at the center stage. The portrayal of Pechorin is viewed in the book as an exemplary Byronic anti-hero and Lermontov describes him as a...

Book Review Irony Novel

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Who is Pechorin: Ambiguity and Unreliability in a Hero of Our Time

3 pages / 1348 words

The novel A Hero of our Time is a Russian novel about the life of a soldier named Pechorin serving in the Caucasus, written by Mikhail Lermontov and translated in one of its most famous versions by Vladimir and Dmitri Nabokov. Throughout his novel, Lermontov’s...

Literature Review Novel Vladimir Nabokov

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Bridging The Gap: Comparing "Letters from My Father" and "The Writer"

2 pages / 884 words

The short story “Letters from My Father”, written by Robert Olen Butler, and the poem “The Writer”, written by Richard Wilbur, both depict family struggles. “Letters from My Father” is about a Vietnamese girl who grew up without a father because of troubles with immigration...

Short Story

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Already Dead: The Need for Human Interaction in Butler’s "Titanic Victim Speaks Through Waterbed"

3 pages / 1473 words

Robert Olen Butler’s story “Titanic Victim Speaks Through Waterbed” is narrated by the ghost of a victim who died on the Titanic, whose spirit continues to haunt the waters in which he dwelled. Making his way from the ocean, to a cup of tea, and...

Short Story Titanic

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The Role of Stereotypes in a Confederacy of Dunces

3 pages / 1233 words

In his novel A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole casts Burma Jones in a stereotypical role in society. By hiding Jones’ face behind space-age sunglasses and a cloud of smoke, Toole maintains Jones’ ambiguity while gradually diverging from his stereotype. During Jones’ employment at...

Novel

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Manhood in a Gathering of Old Men

4 pages / 1707 words

Manhood in A Gathering of Old Men In his novel, A Gathering of Old Men (1983), Ernest J. Gaines writes about a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The plantation’s white, Cajun work boss is shot and seventeen old black men and one white woman...

Literature Review Novel

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Comparing "The Kite Runner" and "Where There's a Wall"

3 pages / 1515 words

One thing that perhaps all humans can agree on, based on their own experiences of life, is that obstacles cannot be avoided. They can be ignored, they can even be dodged sometimes, but at the end of the day, they cannot be avoided. In the...

Poetry The Kite Runner

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Erasure in Change-rae Lee’s "A Gesture Life"

2 pages / 1112 words

Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life tells the story of a man of slippery character. Known by his neighbors as “Doc,” Franklin Hata is a friendly face around town, always maintaining a respectful, purposeful distance. He assimilates with the people of Bedley Run quietly and gracefully,...

Literature Review Novel

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English, Nationalism, and Ngugi: Language in a Grain of Wheat

8 pages / 3815 words

Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat is a Kenyan novel written in English, a language traditionally associated with colonialism and oppression in Africa. Despite the fact that the novel is written in English, Ngugi still uses language to speak to the novel’s theme of...

English Language Nationalism Novel

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The Consequences of Capitalism: a Marxist Analysis of "The Gift of The Magi"

4 pages / 1597 words

Marxist philosophy believes that society views the world through a completely economic lens. Marxism dictates that society is separated into two classes: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie utilizes ideology to suppress the proletariat mainly by manipulating their perceptions of their free agency. One...

Short Story