Essays on Literary Genres

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The Castle as The Central Symbol Used by Walpole and Stoker

10 pages / 4498 words

Gothic architecture thrived during the high and late medieval period. The upper echelons of the feudal system were so impressed by the looming cathedrals that they had their castles built in the same Gothic style. These castles are striking yet, at the same time, sinister:...

Gothic Literature

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Static in Motion: Examining The Complexities and Contradictions of Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard

3 pages / 1266 words

A notoriously psychological composer of satire and comedy, Anton Chekhov employs The Cherry Orchard as a case study of an ensemble of ludicrous characters united in their inability to transform their behaviors or identities. Each character appears suspended in his/her separate concerns, each so self-absorbed...

Comedy

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Social Critique in Gothic Literature

7 pages / 2958 words

When Horace Walpole wrote the first ever Gothic novel in 1764, the world had never seen anything quite like it before. In an age we now call the enlightenment, where knowledge, science and philosophy had made huge leaps forward, this book dared to be openly...

Gothic Literature

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Building and Destroying of Alienation in Migrant Literature

5 pages / 2069 words

One similarity that exists across Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills, Meera Syal’s Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee and Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia is the ambivalence that their characters feel outside of their motherland. More obviously in Syal’s and Kureishi’s...

Novel

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Colonialism and Metropolitanism in The Buddha of Suburbia

4 pages / 1845 words

Societies are formed by a mixture of several cultures and people from different countries, as well as cultural backgrounds. But in some cases, the unity of society gives way to culturally hybrid societies that causes identity problem and creates ambivalence and in-betweenness in the inner...

Novel

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The Crucial Nature of "Therigathas" in The History of Women’s Writing

2 pages / 771 words

The Therigathas are essentially “Verses of The Elder Nuns”, a seminal part of Buddhist scripture composed by the first nuns who joined the Buddhist sanga or formal religious community. This is a collection of short poems composed and eloquently recited by the earliest members of...

Poetry

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Will Justice Be Served: Dostoevsky’s Depiction of Justice in The Brothers Karamazov

6 pages / 2615 words

One of the major themes of Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov is the concept of justice, both earthly and divine. Dostoevsky investigates the differences between the two forms and examines several aspects of justice. The novel introduces several different philosophies on justice and shows what...

Justice Novel The Brothers Karamazov

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Religion and Critical Thinking: a Union Created by Dostoyevsky

4 pages / 1641 words

“You see, like you, I suffer from the fantastic and so I love the realism of earth. Here, with you, everything is circumscribed, here all is formulated and geometrical, while we have nothing but indeterminate questions!”(said to Ivan by “The Devil”, 776) Made-to-order essay as...

Justice Novel The Brothers Karamazov

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The Brothers Karamazov and Their Contemporary Russia

2 pages / 1087 words

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, exaggerates the extremes of Russia, saying that “[Russians] need continually…two extremes at the same moment, or they are miserable and dissatisfied and their existence is incomplete. They are wide, wide as mother Russia.” In many of his works, Dostoyevsky’s...

Novel Russia The Brothers Karamazov

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The Brothers Karamazov’s Wound

3 pages / 1375 words

In his essay, “The Brothers Karamazov: Idea and Technique” Edward Wasiolek examines two aspects of Dostoevsky’s work. He begins with an exposition of the scene in Elder Zosima’s cell and Ivan’s internal struggles with religion, and then follows this with a detailed look at the...

Novel The Brothers Karamazov

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The Role of Family Ties in 'The Brothers Karamazov'

6 pages / 2904 words

Reading a Dostoevsky book doesn’t give us any insight into the mind of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky almost never makes a blanket statement in his books, and, in general, very few opinions voiced by characters in his novels can be traced back to the author himself....

Family Relationships Novel The Brothers Karamazov

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In Pursuit of The American Dream: The Idea Behind Otsuka’s Style

2 pages / 698 words

What is the American Dream? It’s the idea that people can come to America with nothing and make something out of nothing; the pulling oneself up by his or her own boot straps. “The Buddha in the Attic”, is a poetic novel written by Julie...

American Dream Novel

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Analysis of Dream-visions in Different Poems

5 pages / 2118 words

“The dream-vision appears personal and private.” Discuss 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 Despite their frequent internal contradictions and their transitive, pseudo-empirical character, dreams can make inexplicably...

Geoffrey Chaucer Poetry

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T.s. Eliot’s Impact on The Creative Development of Hart Crane

4 pages / 1764 words

Poetry, as a genre of literature, is broadly defined as “The art or work of a poet”, or “Imaginative or creative literature in general” (Oxford English Dictionary). With a definition so broad in context, poets are able to conceive their own literature as poetry by...

Poetry T.S. Eliot

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Splitting Far from The Breaks: a Historical Investigation of Richard Price

3 pages / 1390 words

Richard Price is an accomplished novelist and screenwriter, writing his first novel The Wanderers while he was attending Columbia University. After this impressive debut he wrote several more novels in quick succession including Bloodbrothers, Ladies’ Man, and The Breaks. The Breaks, written in 1983, was...

Fiction

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The Difference Between Being a Clown and a Comic

2 pages / 949 words

Richard Price’s The Breaks details the life of Peter Keller, a troubled young man fresh out of college and trying to find his calling in the world. Throughout the novel Peter has trouble defining himself and what he should do with his life. While transitioning...

Fiction

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Impacts of an Abusive Government in The Bridge at Andau

2 pages / 914 words

Throughout the history of literature, there are several situations that can prove that the arrangement of political power does in fact impact the thoughts, feelings, and actions of the people being governed. In James Michener’s novel The Bridge at Andau, the oppressive nature of the...

Novel Plot

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The Bridge at Andau: The Juxtaposition of Dictatorship and Anarchy

2 pages / 794 words

Government is the basis of all modern civilization. If living under oppressive governmental rule was our only given option, would we be better off living in daily fear and distress, or would it be more beneficial to have no government at all? In James A....

Dictatorship Literature Review Novel

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Analyzing "Fin Amors" in Fountain of Love and The Book of The Duchess

3 pages / 1349 words

Fin amors, or refined loving is a staple within medieval literature. Showcasing the romantic relationships of noblemen, fin amors expresses the struggles and games that are played between a man and woman during courtship. Similar to unrequited love, fin amors focuses itself around women holding...

Geoffrey Chaucer Poetry