Essays on Literary Genres

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The Black Knight: Historical Analysis

2 pages / 1066 words

Most of Chaucer's works contain references to famous historical, classical, and mythical figures. This trend holds true in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess. Most strikingly, The Black Knight plays a hefty role in the story. Because of the character's emotional state as well as his...

Geoffrey Chaucer Poetry

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Dream Vision in The Book of The Duchess

2 pages / 890 words

But if, Sir Knight, you let me know 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 The cause of this tremendous ill, As sure as God gives help, I...

Geoffrey Chaucer Poetry

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Chaucer’s Perception of Love in The House of Fame

4 pages / 1710 words

Allusions to ancient mythology are sprinkled within all genres of writing. Many authors have built upon the ideas of these well-known tales and adapted them into new crafts of literature. One such author if Geoffrey Chaucer. In nearly all his works, Chaucer weaves in aligning...

Geoffrey Chaucer Poetry

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A Dystopic Satire of Government: "Brave New World" and "The Body Snatchers"

2 pages / 940 words

Composers undermine institutions of power to show the unethical values of government with strict systematic control while also conveying how this influences the behaviors of society through creating a lack of individualism. Aldous Huxley’s novel ‘Brave New World’ conveys a dystopic satire of governments who...

Brave New World Science Fiction

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Ancient Islam View of Gender Roles

3 pages / 1468 words

When you picture Islamic women, the image that immediately comes to mind is a woman cloaked in black, with not one part of her body visible. Even more so, it is hard to imagine this specter as possessing any sort of sexuality. Yet, in Tariq...

Islamic Art Novel

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What is Performance Poetry All About: a Detailed Analysis of The Blue Roofs of Japan

6 pages / 2700 words

Topic Analysis “To listen is to simultaneously attend to what is present and what is absent”. In “Understanding the Sound of Not Understanding,” Jed Rasula analyses the impact of the spoken word on the understanding of poetry. Historically, poetry, and most literary forms, started as...

Poetry

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Main Character's Deterioration in The Blossoming of Bongbong

2 pages / 1006 words

In the short story “The Blossoming of Bongbong,” the main character, Bongbong, moves to America with big hopes to reshape his life and achieve success. This vague notion of the American dream leads to Bongbong’s desire for the quintessential, yet seemingly paradoxical American life: a...

Immigration to America Short Story

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Real and Ideal in The Boat

4 pages / 1836 words

The Dutch Historian Pieter Geyl once stated that “Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author’s personality.”(1) If we were to replace the word ‘history’ with ‘a historically based story’, is this...

Short Story

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Gothic Perception of Females in The Bloody Chamber

3 pages / 1386 words

The corruption of innocence and the gaining of experience are common aspects of Carter’s stories in ‘The Bloody Chamber’, which are applied to many themes such as sexuality in The Tiger’s Bride and The Bloody Chamber, self-awareness in Wolf-Alice and horror in the collection’s namesake....

Gothic Fiction The Bloody Chamber Woman

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The Dictation of Genre: Respective Failures and Successes of Communication in Tennyson’s "The Lady of Shalott" and Carter’s "The Bloody Chamber"

4 pages / 907 words

Both Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” and Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” center around women artists, making them rich subjects for comparison. In Tennyson’s poem, the relationship between reality and art is fraught with a breakdown of communication, as illustrated by the Lady’s...

Gothic Fiction The Bloody Chamber

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Sexual Preferences and The Liberation of Oneself in The Company of Wolves

3 pages / 1444 words

Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves is a different adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood where, instead of the little girl becoming the victim to a villainous wolf, she embraces the wolf as an experience beyond anything she has known or been taught. Red Riding...

Gothic Fiction The Bloody Chamber

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Genre of Gothic: Transformation as a Crucial Concept

4 pages / 1741 words

Throughout The Bloody Chamber, Carter uses traditional fairytales as a template for discussion on gender and sexual politics. Therefore, although her short stories contain conventional forms of transformation – men turn into wolves in The Company of Wolves, at the end of The Courtship of...

Gothic Fiction Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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Abstractionism in The Bloody Chamber and The Erl-king

3 pages / 1143 words

Angela Carter’s work in the short story collection “The Bloody Chamber,” makes frequent use of concrete objects as expressions of abstract concepts, among them freedom, bondage, and death in multiple forms, not only physical. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is...

Gothic Fiction Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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Role of Environment in 'The Bloody Chamber'

2 pages / 824 words

In The Bloody Chamber, Carter espouses setting as a tool which contributes towards the reader’s emotional reaction when delving into the corrupt themes of her stories. We can therefore become more engaged with her stories as the settings allow ideas such as superstition and male...

Gothic Fiction Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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Characters as The Victims of Their Own Nature in Angela Carter's Short Stories

2 pages / 944 words

Carter’s characters in The Lady of the House of Love (LHL), Wolf-Alice and The Werewolf differentiate between being victims of their own nature and victims of circumstance. These characters that are classified as ‘victims’ are often portrayed as being unable to help themselves as they...

Character Short Story

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The Symbolism of The Bloody Chamber

3 pages / 1417 words

Liminality pervades Angela Carter’s short story collection, entitled The Bloody Chamber, in her characters, physical settings and even her narrative voice. The bloody chamber, as a physical ‘chamber’ can refer to a room where violence and enlightenment occur simultaneously. It is a space of transformation...

Gothic Fiction Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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Hulk and Point of View in "The Tiger’s Bride"

5 pages / 2246 words

What attributes qualify someone, or something, as a monster? Despite the fact that the answer to this subjective query fluctuates immensely among individual persons, for centuries we have attempted to construct a universal definition of the word ‘monster’. The Oxford English Dictionary (1884) illustrates man’s...

Gothic Fiction Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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Analysis of Gothic Literature on The Examples of Stoker and Carter

3 pages / 1377 words

The Gothic is undeniably intertwined with transformative states, both literally, such as with the presentation of supernatural beings that lie between life and death, and also thematically, with the idea of transitional time periods and settings. One of the great contradictions of Gothic literature is...

Gothic Fiction Gothic Literature The Bloody Chamber

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The Natural Order of Things Should not Be Disturbed: Gothic Literature Perspective

4 pages / 1735 words

The opposition between the natural and the unnatural is particularly prominent in gothic literature and the transgression of the boundaries between the two is often seen to be condemned. In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth(1606), Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein (1818) and Angela Carter’s collection of short stories...

Gothic Fiction Gothic Literature The Bloody Chamber