Essays on Literary Genres

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The View of Nature in The House of Mirth

4 pages / 1624 words

Nature, whether in the form of the arctic tundra of the North Pole or the busy street-life of Manhattan, was viewed by Naturalist writers as a phenomena which necessarily challenged individual survival; a phenomena, moreover, which operated on Darwin's maxim of the "survival of the...

House of Mirth Novel

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Wharton’s Analysis of The Victorian Age in The House of Mirth

4 pages / 1593 words

Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth presents an interesting study of the social construction of subjectivity. The Victorian society which Wharton’s characters inhabit is defined by a rigid structure of morals and manners in which one’s identity is determined by apparent conformity with or transgression...

House of Mirth Novel

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Salden’s Perception of Lily Bart

5 pages / 2078 words

One of the tragedies in The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is that Lily Bart is unable to marry Laurence Selden and thereby secure a safe position in society. Their relationship fluctuates from casual intimacy to outright love depending on how and where Selden...

Character House of Mirth Novel

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The Role of Carry Fisher in The House of Mirth

12 pages / 5514 words

Commonly called “a novel of manners” because of the way characters are shown thinking and speaking about how people in society ought to conduct themselves, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton focuses chiefly on Lily Bart, a woman whose social decline and fall is...

House of Mirth Novel

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Analysis of Mirth in "The House of Mirth"

4 pages / 1740 words

Which of the domestic palaces in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth claims itself as the titular source of the tragic novel? Each offers strong evidence in its own favor. There is the bucolic decadence of the Trenor’s Bellomont; the old money severity of Mrs....

House of Mirth Novel

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The House of Mirth: Analysis of The Depicted Society

5 pages / 2254 words

In Edith Wharton’s The House Of Mirth, money is the most evident and most basic value held by the characters who populate the author’s turn-of-the-century New York. Essentially, money is valued for only one reason – it provides the means by which those in possession...

House of Mirth Novel

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Try not to Do The Unimaginable, Simply Make The Wisest Decision: Henry’s Profound Qualities in Ford’s Novel

2 pages / 881 words

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the will to overcome it. Jamie Ford’s novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet shows this characteristic as a central element of its narrative. Henry is a Chinese boy who is living during World War...

Novel

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Hippolytus: Analyzing Phaedra

2 pages / 936 words

In the play Hippolytus, Euripides depicts characters in a realistic fashion by displaying their warring emotions in the wake of dramatic events, as well as their deceit in achieving their objectives. A prime example of such tactics is the character Phaedra, who is content to...

Tragedy

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Breaking Down The Poetry for an Emperor: Ovid and Horace

3 pages / 1241 words

Ovid and Horace, Roman poets in the age of Augustus, collectively captured a very broad range of sentiments and atmosphere in the empire at this time. Horace wrote odes, satires, and epistles that glorify Augustus himself and his reforms and intentions for Rome. Ovid, on...

Ancient Rome Poetry

3468

Hope Leslie: How Women Impose Law and Order

8 pages / 3461 words

In her novel Hope Leslie, Catharine Maria Sedgwick explores the influence laws arising from religion, nature, and society have on the development of a new nation. Specifically, her historical romance analyzes the culture created by seventeenth-century Puritans who left England behind to settle in the...

Novel

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Memories and The Past in Hotel on The Corner of Bitter and Sweet

3 pages / 1481 words

The past acts as a tabernacle for experiences and memories. The past not only lives in Henry but also makes up Henry’s very nature. Henry is his past. Life’s faded memories shape choices. Author Jamie Ford builds the relationship between experience and conscience through Henry,...

Novel

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The Role of Interior The Hotel on The Corner of Bitter and Sweet

5 pages / 2359 words

As a historical novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet[1] alludes to many occurrences, people, places, government acts, and organizations confirming the novel’s veracity by employing history. The book covers the period 1941-1986, a period of over forty years. During this time, Henry...

Novel

3471

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

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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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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