Essays on Literary Genres

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I for Isobel is a Proof that Fantasy Provides a Safe Haven for Harsh Reality

1 page / 1783 words

Isobel’s wildly vivid imagination serves as a powerful survival tool throughout a traumatic childhood and subsequent tumultuous transition into adulthood, providing escapism from an agonizing and often humiliating reality, and comfort that she cannot receive from anyone or anything else. Her love for and reliance...

Fiction

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Examining Racism in if He Hollers Let Him Go

1 page / 2491 words

World War II had a profound impact on American culture. Essentially every person in the country was affected in some way, but the war’s impact of African Americans was unique. Although African Americans were indeed Americans they were often treated like the enemy on the...

Novel Postmodernism

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The Cause of Isobel's Emotional Isolation in I for Isobel

1 page / 840 words

Isobel’s emotional isolation is a complex tapestry woven from the threads of her tumultuous childhood, primarily shaped by her mother, Ms. Callaghan. The profound impact of Ms. Callaghan’s cruel and sadistic behavior forced Isobel to retreat into herself, ultimately leading her to develop a defensive...

Fiction

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The Role of Style in Creating a Link Between Reader, Author, and Narrator

1 page / 1494 words

So here you are now, ready to attack the first lines of the first page. You prepare to recognize the unmistakable tone of the author. No. You don’t recognize it at all. But now that you think about it, who ever said this author had...

Novel Postmodernism

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The Importance of Realizing a Sense of Belonging as Demonstrated in I for Isobel

1 page / 2482 words

For a large portion of the novel, Isobel drifts through life believing intensely that the key to her happiness is belonging- that if she is a part of a crowd, if she is accepted, she will be “normal,” and it is this goal on which...

Fiction

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The Theory of Theodicy as Portrayed in The Book of Job and The Animation South Park

2 pages / 931 words

The presumption of a benevolent and omnipotent God makes the existence of evil problematic. This dilemma, known as theodicy, is often used to prove the lack of a God. The Book of Job as well as the South Park episode “Cartmanland” explore this theme, but...

Drama God Literature Review

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In Pursuit of Authority in Hunters in The Snow

3 pages / 1168 words

“Hunters in the snow” is the story about three friends named Tub, Kenny and Frank. They are friends and they decide to go hunting outside Spokane, Washington. The fail to get any game and Kenny shoots a dog that belongs to an old farmer. Kenney...

Short Story

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A Study of Tree Girls

2 pages / 905 words

“A sex symbol’s currency lies in her youth, her curves, in the suggestion that a sexual encounter lurks around the next corner.” (Sharon Krum, The Guardian) The power struggle between genders in society is something that can be seen every day, particularly in the media....

Homosexuality Short Story

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The House of Mirth: Features of Naturalistic Tradition

4 pages / 1916 words

Lily Bart, the heroine of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, is understood from chapter 1 to be a female of remarkable beauty. Throughout the novel she is classified as uniquely attractive, a woman to be desired by men and subtly threatening to women. But...

House of Mirth Novel

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From Wealth to Poverty: The Role of a Social Class in House of Mirth

5 pages / 2473 words

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton offers a multidimensional and fluid analysis of social class. Initially, Lily attempts to belong to the upper class. However, through a series of unfortunate decisions, we witness Lily’s inevitable descent into dinginess, poverty, and death. Towards the end,...

House of Mirth Novel

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Lily's 'Heart of a Fool' in The House of Mirth

2 pages / 1110 words

In Edith Wharton’s novel, The House of Mirth, the beautiful but helpless Lily Bart is never able to escape from the follies and superficialities of the society that she is born into. According to a verse in Ecclesiastics which the novel was titled after- “The...

House of Mirth Novel

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Class Differences in House of Mirth

4 pages / 1775 words

Edith Wharton’s IThe House of Mirth] tells the story of Lily Bart’s fall from the upper reaches of the social spectrum to the lowly depths of the working class. The characters in the novel represent all levels of society, from the urban poor to the...

House of Mirth Novel

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Means of Creating Satiric Effect in House of Mirth

2 pages / 1107 words

In The House of Mirth, Percy Gryce is a rich young eligible bachelor upon whom Lily, one of Wharton’s central characters, sets eyes on. Gryce is used by Wharton as a vehicle to convey the shallowness and brutality of the New York high society, often...

House of Mirth Novel

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The Role of Alienation in The House of Mirth

4 pages / 1762 words

In Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, the cold and unforgiving world of New York’s high society never favors the perspective of the outsider, or the looker-on. But the author seems to award a great deal of credit to those characters who adapt to this...

House of Mirth Novel

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The Degradation of Lily Bart in The House of Mirth

3 pages / 1305 words

The Gilded Age of the late 19th century saw the rise of extravagant hats, hairstyles, and high society. Subsequently, the Gilded Age was also host to an increasingly treacherous gap between the rich and the poor and stifling social restrictions against women as suffocating as...

House of Mirth Novel

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The Artistic Role of Weather in "The House of Mirth"

9 pages / 4060 words

In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton uses weather in a variety of ways that provide symbolic significance along with a vivid setting. Wharton uses weather, climate, and the change of seasons to foreshadow events in the immediate future and to reflect Lily’s emotional state...

House of Mirth Novel

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Hrafnkels Saga: Teaching Responsibility

2 pages / 1082 words

Legality, although often intertwined with morality, is not to be confused with it. In Hrafnkel’s Saga, Hrafnkel is a chieftain who makes an oath to slay anyone who rides his beloved Freyfaxi. He generously provides Einar with a job, only asking that he not ride...

Poetry Vikings

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The Image of Home and Its Impact on The Fate of Main Characters in Robinson’s Housekeeping

3 pages / 1526 words

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson portrays the life of its narrator, Ruthie, alongside her sister Lucille as the two grow from mere children to young women while being surrounded by the confusion of shifting guardians, as well as the influence of transiency. Once the final guardian...

Fiction Novel

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Howl’s Moving Castle: Breaking The Past Traditions of Creative Writing

5 pages / 2309 words

Everyone has his or her own idea of literature and what separates a work of literary fiction from a work of popular fiction. Generally speaking, a work must adhere to literary traditions, convey a deeper meaning, and present conventional themes in order to be recognized...

Fantasy Novel