Essays on Literary Genres

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A Traditional Fairy Tale from a Feminist Perspective

3 pages / 1481 words

The Big Bad Wolf, Prince Charming, and The Beast: many fairy tales provide images of men varying from the courageous to the very evil. Each tale encodes messages for young girls about men, marriage, or sex as a type of socialization. Charles Perrault's traditional version...

Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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Questioning of Traditional Gender Roles in The Company of Wolves

4 pages / 1779 words

“Little Red Riding Hood” can be viewed as one of the most popular and famous bedtime fairytales. Based on the original counterpart, Angela Carter remolds this story by adding sexual elements through her work “The Company of Wolves”, in which the narrator describes the red...

Sexual Health Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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Analysis of The Bithedale Romance in Terms of Feminism and Sexism

3 pages / 1529 words

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Blithedale Romance is an extremely enigmatic text. Due to its highly complicated and confusing plot, as well as its somewhat unreliable narrative, it is difficult–and some theorists would say impossible–to determine its final, definitive meaning. In order to create a definitive...

Nathaniel Hawthorne Novel

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Gothic Traditions in ‘the Bloody Chamber’

2 pages / 1125 words

The opening of the short story ‘The Bloody Chamber’ by Angela Carter includes an abundance of conventions typical of the Gothic genre. The passage sets the scene for a tragic tale, where the innate curiosity of a young girl will inevitably find her in danger....

Gothic Fiction Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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The Rike of Books in J.d. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey

4 pages / 2038 words

…books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it...

Novel

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Australian Nature Versus European Newcomers as Portrayed in Literature

2 pages / 1064 words

In a discussion of Australian writers of the late nineteenth century, Gerry Turcotte writes: “Their exploration of the anxieties of the convict system, the terrors of isolated stations at the mercy of vagrants and nature, the fear of starvation or of becoming lost in the...

Novel

3503

Analysis of Salinger’s Franny and Zooey: an Uneasy Task to Be Independent

3 pages / 1590 words

In his novel Franny and Zooey, Salinger effectively portrays the troubled lifestyles of the Glass family, particularly those of Franny and Zooey, the two youngest Glass children. These two characters were raised with an education that promoted religious knowledge and awareness while being featured on...

Novel

3504

Dharma and The Twenty-seventh Man: The Meaning of 'Journey'

2 pages / 821 words

Within “Dharma” by Vikram Chandra and “The Twenty-Seventh Man” by Nathan Englander, the concept of the journey forms the central structure around which the rest of the narrative is built. While the two stories are contextually very different—“Dharma” takes place in mid-1900s India, and “The...

Short Story

3505

Personal Growth Versus Childishness in "Franny and Zooey"

4 pages / 1611 words

J.D. Salinger’s novel Franny and Zooey features various members of the Glass Family, and, while the two stories were originally published independently, one cannot ignore their combined significance. Seven years after the suicide of their eldest brother Seymour, the two youngest members of the family,...

Novel

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Analyzing The Society Portrayed by Ndebele

4 pages / 1746 words

Written in 1983, Njabulo Ndebele’s “Fools & Other Stories” deals with the experiences of ordinary people living under the apartheid regime. The author subtly comments on the political environment of the 1980s through the lives of average black citizens whom the apartheid system affects. Ndebele’s...

Fiction

3507

Foreigners by Carl Phillips: Being a Foreigner in Great Britain

2 pages / 1067 words

Caryl Phillips’s Foreigners depicts three separate stories based on historical facts and accounts of three Black men living in Great Britain at different times. Their lives, though not literally intertwined, greatly inform one another due to what substance Phillips’s writing highlights in each. The titular...

Fiction

3508

"The Four Quartets": Analysis of Language and Religion

4 pages / 1749 words

The poem “The Four Quartets” by T. S. Eliot illustrates an intricate link between the various problems and limitations of language and those of religious thought. This direct relationship is expressed through the poem’s first two quartets, “Burnt Norton” and “East Coker,” which see the...

Poetry

3509

Breaking Down The Slave Mother and Room

4 pages / 2013 words

In The Slave Mother and Room, respective authors Frances Harper and Emma Donoghue use the raw human emotions of hope, fear, and maternal love to convey how people cope with traumatic events. These qualities deepen the enduring human conditions that continue to resonate with different...

Poetry

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Frank O’hara’s Perception of Writing and Painting

3 pages / 1501 words

Frank O’Hara’s “Why I Am Not a Painter” constantly draws parallels between painting and poetry. O’Hara uses the title to set up these parallels. Next, he proceeds to use the first stanza to catch the reader’s interest in why, in fact, he is not a...

Poetry

3511

Crusoe’s Island Vs. Foe’s England

2 pages / 758 words

J.M. Coetzee’s 1986 novel Foe recounts the adventures and aspirations of Susan Barton, a fictional young woman who finds herself cast away on a most unusual island with the stolid Cruso and his tongueless slave Friday. The novel’s beginning takes place on the island, where...

Novel

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Crusoe and Susan: The Two Perspectives of The Same

2 pages / 790 words

“Hitherto I had given to Friday’s life as little thought as I would have a dog’s or any other dumb beast’s—less, indeed, for I had a horror of his mutilated state which made me shut him from my mind, and flinch away when he came...

Novel

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Analysis of O'connor's The River Through Augustine's Concept of The Original Sin

2 pages / 945 words

Flannery O’Connor’s short story “The River” tells the unfortunate story of a young boy named Harry who finds himself searching for meaning in his life. Due to the neglectfulness of his parents, he is left to figure out his own morals and beliefs on his...

Augustine Short Story

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The Effects of Fleetwood’s Upbringing in William Godwin's Novel

5 pages / 2105 words

In William Godwin’s novel Fleetwood, readers are introduced to a character who is predominantly solitary and is socially inadequate when he is within society. This is due to the fact that he grew up as the only child of a father who was withdrawn from...

Novel

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The Role of Natural Environment in Fly Away Peter

2 pages / 1106 words

In David Malouf’s novel Fly Away Peter, several key ideas are introduced by being paired with the natural environments that surround the central character Jim. Malouf presents the ideas of the horror of war and the destructive nature of humanity, demonstrating how such aggression affects...

Novel