Essays on Literary Genres

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Religion and Critical Thinking: a Union Created by Dostoyevsky

4 pages / 1641 words

"You see, like you, I suffer from the fantastic and so I love the realism of earth. Here, with you, everything is circumscribed, here all is formulated and geometrical, while we have nothing but indeterminate questions!"(said to Ivan by "The Devil", 776) Made-to-order essay as...

Justice Novel The Brothers Karamazov

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The Brothers Karamazov and Their Contemporary Russia

2 pages / 1087 words

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, exaggerates the extremes of Russia, saying that “[Russians] need continually…two extremes at the same moment, or they are miserable and dissatisfied and their existence is incomplete. They are wide, wide as mother Russia.” In many of his works, Dostoyevsky’s...

Novel Russia The Brothers Karamazov

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The Brothers Karamazov’s Wound

3 pages / 1375 words

In his essay, “The Brothers Karamazov: Idea and Technique” Edward Wasiolek examines two aspects of Dostoevsky’s work. He begins with an exposition of the scene in Elder Zosima’s cell and Ivan’s internal struggles with religion, and then follows this with a detailed look at the...

Novel The Brothers Karamazov

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The Role of Family Ties in 'The Brothers Karamazov'

6 pages / 2904 words

Reading a Dostoevsky book doesn’t give us any insight into the mind of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky almost never makes a blanket statement in his books, and, in general, very few opinions voiced by characters in his novels can be traced back to the author himself....

Family Relationships Novel The Brothers Karamazov

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In Pursuit of The American Dream: The Idea Behind Otsuka’s Style

2 pages / 698 words

What is the American Dream? It’s the idea that people can come to America with nothing and make something out of nothing; the pulling oneself up by his or her own boot straps. “The Buddha in the Attic”, is a poetic novel written by Julie...

American Dream Novel

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Splitting Far from The Breaks: a Historical Investigation of Richard Price

3 pages / 1390 words

Richard Price is an accomplished novelist and screenwriter, writing his first novel The Wanderers while he was attending Columbia University. After this impressive debut he wrote several more novels in quick succession including Bloodbrothers, Ladies’ Man, and The Breaks. The Breaks, written in 1983, was...

Fiction

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The Difference Between Being a Clown and a Comic

2 pages / 949 words

Richard Price’s The Breaks details the life of Peter Keller, a troubled young man fresh out of college and trying to find his calling in the world. Throughout the novel Peter has trouble defining himself and what he should do with his life. While transitioning...

Fiction

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Impacts of an Abusive Government in The Bridge at Andau

2 pages / 914 words

Throughout the history of literature, there are several situations that can prove that the arrangement of political power does in fact impact the thoughts, feelings, and actions of the people being governed. In James Michener’s novel The Bridge at Andau, the oppressive nature of the...

Novel Plot

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The Bridge at Andau: The Juxtaposition of Dictatorship and Anarchy

2 pages / 794 words

Government is the basis of all modern civilization. If living under oppressive governmental rule was our only given option, would we be better off living in daily fear and distress, or would it be more beneficial to have no government at all? In James A....

Dictatorship Literature Review Novel

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Analyzing "Fin Amors" in Fountain of Love and The Book of The Duchess

3 pages / 1349 words

Fin amors, or refined loving is a staple within medieval literature. Showcasing the romantic relationships of noblemen, fin amors expresses the struggles and games that are played between a man and woman during courtship. Similar to unrequited love, fin amors focuses itself around women holding...

Geoffrey Chaucer Poetry

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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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Analysis of Dream-visions in Different Poems

5 pages / 2118 words

“The dream-vision appears personal and private.” Discuss 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 Despite their frequent internal contradictions and their transitive, pseudo-empirical character, dreams can make inexplicably...

Geoffrey Chaucer Poetry

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T.s. Eliot’s Impact on The Creative Development of Hart Crane

4 pages / 1764 words

Poetry, as a genre of literature, is broadly defined as “The art or work of a poet”, or “Imaginative or creative literature in general” (Oxford English Dictionary). With a definition so broad in context, poets are able to conceive their own literature as poetry by...

Poetry T.S. Eliot

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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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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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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