Essays on Literary Genres

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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

3517

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

3518

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

3519

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

3520

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

3521

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

3522

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

3523

Analysis of Lily's Choice in The House of Mirth

5 pages / 2145 words

Near the beginning of The House of Mirth, Wharton establishes that Lily would not indeed have cared to marry a man who was merely rich: “she was secretly ashamed of her mothers crude passion for money” (38). Lily, like the affluent world she loves, has...

Character House of Mirth Novel

3524

The House of Mirth and The Role of Women Characters

4 pages / 1936 words

The relationship between the ideal and the reality is many times pictured in black and white. The ideal can be defined as a conception of something in its perfection, whereas reality is defined as something that exists independently of ideas concerning it. In The House...

House of Mirth Novel

3525

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

3526

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

3527

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

3528

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

3529

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

3530

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

3531

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

3532

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

3533

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

3534

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