Essays on Literary Genres

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Her: Modern Perspective of Love in a Movie

3 pages / 1585 words

Nothing can stand the test of time greater than the form of relation or sympathy. But even greater than that is the ability to force that compassion and relation into the reverse perspective... in other words, rather than feeling emotion upon reacting simply to what...

Science Fiction

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Heart of a Dog: The Possibility of 'The New Soviet Man'

3 pages / 1241 words

The gradual and horrifically strange mutation of the titular canine of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel Heart of a Dog into a ‘New Soviet Man’ provides an ideological counterpoint to the instantaneous and handsomely familiar appearance of that same model citizen in the pre-war USSR’s visual propaganda....

Communism Novel

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Stylistic Analysis of The Day is Done by Longfellow

3 pages / 1384 words

In his famous essay “The Poet,” Emerson claims that men who are skilled in the use of words are not true poets, saying, “…we do not speak now of men of poetical talents, or of industry and skill in metre, but of the true poet”...

Poetry

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Herzog by Saul Bellow: Suffering in a 'Right' Way

3 pages / 1488 words

Saul Bellow’s Herzog is a complicated and multifaceted novel. Moses Herzog, the protagonist, has a powerful though meandering intellect which does not seem to discriminate much in its choice of object. These myriad reflections can make the novel appear chaotic and undirected, a patchwork of...

Novel

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The Extent to What The Image of War is Far from Reality

3 pages / 1409 words

How often does the average person hear the truth about war? See the destruction and lives it takes? Does the media show the bodies lying on the roads lifeless and dismembered? Or is it only those who fight the wars and are on the frontlines...

Poetry

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Confounded Character: Moses Herzog’s Telling of His Own Story

4 pages / 2034 words

While Moses Herzog sits in the Chicago police station after he has crashed his rental car, the narrator of Saul Bellow’s work exclaims angrily, “See Moses? We don’t know one another” (299). This is the lone moment in the book where the narrator explicitly suggests...

Novel

3408

Fellowship, Religion, Devotion, and Personalities

3 pages / 1327 words

Hanif Kureishi’s well known short story “My Son the Fanatic” (1997) explores themes of friendship, religion, fanaticism and identities. In a detailed discussion, this essay will discuss the significant relationship between the father, Parvez, and his friend, Bettina, who works as a sex worker. The...

Short Story

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Similarities Between Hans Christian Andersen’s and Disney’s Mermaids

3 pages / 1150 words

Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” and Disney’s 1989 film adaptation differ in a multitude of notable ways, from key elements of plot to those of character. Perhaps the most distinct difference, aside from the highly contrasting endings, is the characterization of...

Disney Fairy Tale

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Hardcastle by John Yount: The Question of Superiority

6 pages / 2688 words

Switch County, Kentucky, is the rural area depicted in John Yount’s novel Hardcastle. Once a peaceful, rural farming community, it was transformed into a coal-mining region during the industrial revolution of the early 1900s. It soon lost its connections to subsistence farming and traded in...

Novel

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Distorting The Narrative in The Film Adaptation of Half of a Yellow Sun

3 pages / 1452 words

The Distortion of Narrative in the Film Adaptation of Half of a Yellow Sun Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie is a literary tour de force that examines Nigerian culture through the lens of three main characters. The novel focuses on violence and...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Novel

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Misogyny and Sexism in Hangover Square

3 pages / 1283 words

Patrick Hamilton represents women in such a misogynistic manner in Hangover Square that we do not get insight on a single positive portrayal of a woman that George, the novel’s protagonist, meets on his journeys. Instead, we only hear a remotely positive attitude about a...

Comedy Novel

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Research of G. Brooks's "The Bean Eaters"

2 pages / 948 words

Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “The Bean Eaters” highlights the loneliness and poverty of an old couple, people who have been forgotten by pretty much everyone. They have been forgotten by their kids who have grown up and moved out; they have been forgotten by the society...

Poetry

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The Role of Daily Sacrifice in The Rain Came

3 pages / 1301 words

People must make sacrifices every single day. Whether such sacrifice serves to benefit them, those around them, or society in general, people find that decisions to give up aspects of their lives are prevalent in human nature. Both spectrums of this theme are thoroughly explored...

Short Story

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Breaking Down The Features of Fairy Tales

2 pages / 941 words

Fairy tales were handed down orally until the 18th century when the Romantics began to collect them together and write them down. The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, are the best-known recorders of European tales. In the classic fairy tale, laws of nature are suspended,...

Fairy Tale

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How The Perception of Home Changes as a Person Grows Up: Hansel and Gretel

7 pages / 3207 words

As a child coming of age in the mass-consumerist, technologically innovative, and media-influenced climate of the twentieth century, one’s exposure to fairy tales will have likely been informed by recurrent viewings of Disney film adaptations. Reared on such a diet of animated full-length features, as...

Fairy Tale

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Death, Ghosts, and The Afterlife: an Analysis of Guantanamo Diary

2 pages / 1057 words

Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s book Guanta?namo Diary is a work that deals heavily in complex themes. Questions of morality, accusations of terrorism, and descriptions of torture abound in his story, but it is the subtle undercurrent of death throughout the book that I find most intriguing....

Novel

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Green Grass, Running Water: Stylistic Means of Creating Ridicule

2 pages / 882 words

The Relation To and the Importance of Henry Dawes, and the Dawes Act, to Green Grass, Running Water 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 Henry Dawes was...

Fiction

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How Grimms Created The Image of Curiosity

2 pages / 970 words

The Grimm brothers’ widely-known collection of fairy tales includes two especially significant stories: “Little Snow-White” and the lesser-known “The White Snake.” The main characters of each tale are, respectively, Snow White, a beautiful young princess, and an unnamed, lowly, but handsome servant boy. Though each...

Fairy Tale

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Gabriel’s Inventiveness in Go Tell It on The Mountain

6 pages / 2617 words

God’s Apostles Bring Redemption In Every Life. 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 Shame, blame, all the same. Good Artists Breathe Reality Into Existence, Lies. Shame, blame,...

Novel