Essays on Literary Genres

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Comparison Between Life of Struggles and Comfortability

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Les Miserables is a story of redemption, forgiveness, charity, salvation and moral obligation. The main character, Jean Valjean, enters the novel as a thief, having spent nineteen years in prison. He is given this second chance by M. Myriel, a prominent bishop, who offers Jean...

Novel

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Analysis of Walt Whitman's "Spontaneous Me" as a Natural Poem

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Walt Whitman’s “Spontaneous Me” (Norton 2151-2152) crystallizes his attempt to create poems that appear natural, impulsive and untamed. The natural effect is a carefully crafted technique that appears throughout his writing, hinting at a philosophy of life while seeming to simply offer observation. As in...

Poetry Walt Whitman

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The Ideals of Romanticism in Hygo's Les Miserables

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The Romantic era began with the desire to create something new and pleasureful, and to leave classicism in the past. Parker explains that “Romanticism is the art of presenting to people the literary works which …are capable of giving them the greatest possible pleasure; classicism,...

Novel

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Importance of Sense of Justice and Molarity

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 “Les Miserables” by Victor Hugo is one of the most unique and powerful stories of redemption of all time. This story is unique in many different ways; from its diverse cast of characters to its meticulous blend of storylines. One of the truly unique aspects...

Novel

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Comparison of The Poems "Ant Farm" and "Running Out of Choices"

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“Ant Farm” and “Running Out of Choices” express two distinct ideas. The first is how experience, knowledge, and instinct can influence our actions or view of things. The second is that a life with restriction may be more satisfying than the burden of choice. When...

Poetry

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Gender Roles Nd Sexuality in Lady Audley's Secret

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Romance and sexuality are not unfamiliar concepts to the typical Victorian sensational novel. Reversing and deconstructing these themes, however, marks a more sophisticated sensation novel and makes for a more enduring literary work. This technique is intriguing to a postmodern audience, but to a Victorian...

Novel

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Feminist Critisism of La Belle Dame Sans Merci

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“La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, or in translation, “the beautiful lady without pity” is a phrase appropriated by John Keats as the title of his 1820 poem depicting the story of a seductive and deceitful woman who tempts men away from the world of masculinity...

Feminist Literary Criticism Poetry

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The Theme of Deception on Lady Audley's Secret

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s sensation novel Lady Audley’s Secret presents the astonishing and cynical notion that the “sort of surprise at the fictional company one is keeping, or at the view of the world… is central to a whole genre of fiction” (Introduction). In the story...

Novel

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A Real Woman Waits for The Perfect Man for Her

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote “The Lover: A Ballad” in an effort to dismiss the sexist attitudes of several male poets from the period. John Donne (“The Flea”), Andrew Marvell (“To his Coy Mistress”), and Robert Herrick (“To Virgins, Make Much of Time”) attempt, through...

Poetry

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Analysis of Lady Audley's Character in Braddon's Novel

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In Lady Audley’s Secret, Braddon portrays the character of Lady Audley as a truly complex one. She is shown to be intelligent and manipulative when she supposedly kills her husband George while also manipulating her new one, Michael, for his wealth. However, despite such cruelty,...

Character Novel

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Being Brother's Keeper in Bad and Good Times

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There are certain foods that evoke emotions inside everyone. Some people, when they inhale the aroma of a warm soup, are taken back to cold winter evenings snuggled by the fire. Others, when taking the first bite of a PB&J, are reminded of childhood sandwiches,...

Novel

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Modernization Transition Has LED to Loosing Culture Identity

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During the late 19th century, the Meiji era in Japan paved the way for the Japanese to drift from their traditional values into modernizing western values. The influence of western powers, had a significant impact of the traditional ideals of Japan. Western influence had transformed...

Novel

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Becoming a Woman in The Missing Piece

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In Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat expands on the difficult role women must fulfill in a corrupted Haitian society. She portrays some of these requirements through the various transformations in the story, “The Missing Peace”. With this important text, Danticat indicates that maturity and sexuality are...

Fiction

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Nothing and No Situation Can Last Forever

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John Keats’ “Ode on Melancholy” is a complex poetic investigation into the equally complex emotions of pain and sadness. Melancholy is defined as a gloomy state of mind, a dejection, depression, or despondency. Keats urges the reader to view melancholy in a much more positive...

Poetry

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The True Nature of Reality in John Keats' to Autumn

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Keats’ “To Autumn” is an ode that concerns itself more with the true nature of reality than many of his earlier works. The Spring Odes—“Ode to Psych”, “Ode to a Nightingale”, and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”—are all representative of consistent searching. The speaker in...

John Keats Poetry

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Comparison of Tennyson's Ulysses and Keats' on First Looking into Chapman's Homer

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When we think about author and reader in tandem, a question or issue often comes immediately to a head: should the reader’s interpretation of a text take precedence over authorial authority? This question seems particularly pertinent with regards to both Tennyson and Keats’ poems which...

Poetry

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Adoration for Art in The Poems of John Keats and Christina Rossetti

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Introduction Both John Keats’s ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ and Christina Rossetti’s ‘In An Artist’s Studio’ both tackle similar themes; adoration for art be it one’s own in Rossetti’s poem, or the art of another in Keats’s, with Keats admiring the translation of Homer...

Poetry

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Analysis of Literary Form in John Keats's Poems

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Form as Strategy: Keats’s “On the Sonnet” and “Bright Star” 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 “On the Sonnet” is a poem that deplores convention, flouts convention,...

Poetry

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Freedom and Will of Expression

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William Blake and John Keats were both prolific English poets of the Romantic era. Blake, an early Romantic along with Wordsworth and Coleridge, produced a poem called “Night” in 1789, which is part of a series of illustrated poetry called “Songs of Innocence.” This poem...

Poetry