Essays on Literary Genres

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Fly Away Peter: Analysis of Symbolism

2 pages / 1007 words

Fly Away Peter, by David Malouf, details not only the horrors of war, but the beauty of innocence found in Australian wildlife. In essence, Malouf expresses the concept of binaries, in particular the contrast between innocence and experience, and what it means to be alive....

Novel

3517

Fly Away Peter Or Why The Suffering is Needed

2 pages / 1108 words

In Fly Away Peter, David Malouf presents both physical and mental suffering through portraying the experiences of Eric and Jim, emphasizing both the acute and chronic suffering that the soldiers experienced as a consequence of war. Immediately, it is clear that Eric has been psychically...

Novel

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Trying to Find Your True Self in Fly Away Peter

3 pages / 1530 words

Jim’s search for identity throughout David Malouf’s novel Fly Away Peter is represented largely through his actions and interactions with others, as well as through his thoughts and interests. One of the strongest representations of this search is seen when he goes to Brisbane, where...

Novel

3519

Everything that Rises Must Converge: Breaking Down The Inner Conflicts

2 pages / 710 words

In “Everything that Rises must Converge” Flannery O’ Connor compares the robustness of different methods of maintaining identity. The two identity schemas being compared are those of Julian, the highly individualistic, cerebral main character and his mother, a condescending Southern woman clinging to her fading...

Short Story

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The Role of Violence in O'connor’s Works

5 pages / 2414 words

At first glance, Flannery O’Connor’s work seems to begin and end with despair. In many of her works, she paradoxically uses styles that are grotesque and brutal to illustrate themes of grace and self-actualization. The use of violence returns her character to reality and prepares...

Short Story

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A Failure to Hide One’s True Motives in The Lame Shall Enter First

3 pages / 1383 words

Introduction In the short story “The Lame Shall Enter First,” author Flannery O’Connor describes a widower’s attempts to mask his grief over his wife’s death. In order to fill the void in his heart, the widower, Sheppard, throws himself into miscellaneous charitable endeavors. He shows...

Short Story

3522

Ostriches and Elephants: a Perspective on Family Values

3 pages / 1487 words

In Fiela’s Child, the two families, the van Rooyens and the Komoeties, have a strong connection with animals, albeit not always a positive connection. The van Rooyens have a problem with elephants in the forest. The Komoeties’ ostriches give the family all kinds of trouble....

Novel South Africa

3523

Fifteen Dogs: a Critical Analysis

5 pages / 2284 words

Once given human consciousness, Prince’s journey works to answer many philosophical questions regarding what it means to be human as well as what a ‘good life’ really means through Andr? Alexis’ novel, Fifteen Dogs. Prince’s relationship with language forms almost immediately, showing the innate relationship...

Novel

3524

Fight Club: Trying to Find Your Real Self

4 pages / 1611 words

Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club is an anarchic, pessimistic novel that portrays the need for identity in life and Palahniuk explains, through the narrator’s personality disorder, that the desire for meaning is the sole internal motivation of civilization. In the narrator’s speech throughout the novel, Palahniuk...

Fight Club Novel

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The Question of Author’s Identity in Fight Club

3 pages / 1315 words

Throughout the novel, Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, the search for identity and meaning in life is explored through different aspects of the novel, specifically the characterization and development of the narrator. When the readers first meet the narrator, he has no sense of purpose...

Novel

3526

Can Tyler Durden Be Described as an Ideal Man

3 pages / 1350 words

In Robert Bly’s book about exploring what it means to be male, Iron John, he wrote that modern men are “not interested in harming the earth or starting wars. There’s a gentle attitude toward life in their whole being and style of living. But many...

Character Novel

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The Meaning of Nothing in Fight Club

2 pages / 1027 words

Throughout Fight Club, the concept of the separation of soul from body appears in various forms. Whether forced upon others by Tyler or originating organically, the gap created between the essence of a man and the reality of his life reveals a region of the...

Fight Club Novel

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Breaking Down The Stylistic Features of The Fight Club

3 pages / 1455 words

Fight Club is an example of postmodernism that radically breaks conventions and questions the meta-narrative that society by large plays into. In the modern world, there’s this ideology that we’re all expected to conform to: get an expensive college education, a job that makes us...

Fight Club Novel

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Fight Club as a Way of Creating a Feminized Society

5 pages / 2349 words

Introduction The novel Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, tells the story of a nameless protagonist enveloped in a consumer-driven society. A stereotypical American driven by consumption and possessions, he finds himself living day-to-day as a cog in the machine of a corporate society. Plagued by...

Fight Club Novel

3530

Raising Bazarov: The Sources of Bazarov’s Radicalism in Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons

9 pages / 3922 words

The genesis of the Russian radical movement is portrayed in Ivan Turgenev’s classic novel Fathers and Sons as a shock which resonated throughout the Russian public sphere, effecting change within both families and society. Indeed, historian Daniel Brower argues in {em Training the Nihilists: Education...

Book Review Literary Criticism Novel

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Fatum and Its Impact on Pechorin and Bazarov

6 pages / 713 words

The characters of Pechorin and Bazarov, the central figures in Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time and Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, embody the theme of fatalism and its profound impact on their lives. Both men appear to be doomed in different but equally tragic ways:...

Book Review Novel

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Fathers and Sons: a Close Look at The Most Crucial Passages

5 pages / 2303 words

Much of the tension in Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons arises from the conflict between the two main characters, Bazarov and Arkady. Bazarov is a nihilist and the catalyst for much of the action of the novel. He does not share the romantic views held...

Literature Review Novel

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Material Girl by Ezra Pound

3 pages / 1257 words

In “Portrait d’une Femme,” Ezra Pound examines the fragmented nature of the modern woman; cluttered with culture and accumulated intellect, her character exhibits mere parts of a whole that is both inscrutable and alluringly fascinating. Contrasting one feminine archetype, the radiant goddess, the mystifying siren,...

Poetry

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Pound, Ginsberg, and Olson: Modern and Postmodern Poetry

5 pages / 2497 words

With the advent of both modernism and post-modernism, the twentieth century was a time in which poetic expression was extremely diverse. Especially in the aftermath of World War Two, poets sought to widen the scope of their craft; they experimented with minimalism, for example, and...

Poetry