Essays on Literary Genres

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The Assault: How to Recover from Trauma

3 pages / 1502 words

Trauma survivors often cope by investing their entire energy into silencing and suppressing the harrowing events of the past. One such survivor is Anton Steenwijk, the protagonist of Harry Mulisch’s 1982 novel, The Assault. Especially in the first chapter after the “incident”, set during the...

Book Report Literary Criticism Novel

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Analysis of Sindbad’s Traits of Character

4 pages / 1961 words

The story of Sindbad the Sailor, found in “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” and filled with countless economic transactions, can be understood through the application of different economic models to reveal the motives and driving forces of the principal character. By evaluating the actions of Sindbad...

Fairy Tale

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Meaning of Selflessness: Examples from Classic and Modern Literature

3 pages / 1238 words

While being selfless is often thought of as a good personality trait, sometimes selflessness can bring unexpected consequences in our own lives as well as in the lives of those around us. In both the collection of stories known as The Thousand and One Nights...

Fairy Tale

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The Meaning of Being an American in Henry James' Novel

2 pages / 761 words

The American by Henry James is a masterly crafted novel that explores the differences between the American and European cultures. Through the main character, Christopher Newman, the author is able to articulate a clear and distinct criticism of American culture in that Americans have no...

American Literature Literature Review Novel

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Man Vs Society in "The Age of Innocence"

3 pages / 1438 words

One of the main themes that is recurrent throughout Edith Wharton’s work The Age of Innocence is the ongoing struggle between the individual and society. This is an issue that Wharton was quite concerned with in the novel, and it is reflected in the characters...

American Literature Novel The Age of Innocence

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The Age of Innocence: The Role of Conventions in Society

3 pages / 1452 words

Although Edith Wharton describes a society that had disappeared in order to make way for the progress of a later age, she both criticizes and lauds the unrecoverable culture that helped to define New York City in the 1870s. Throughout The Age of Innocence, she...

American Literature Novel The Age of Innocence

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King Arthur: Two Stories About One Tragedy

7 pages / 3033 words

As one of the most important figures of bravery, goodness and heroism in British legend, the idea that, as a tragic hero, Arthur Pendragon might have deserved his fate, is an uncomfortable one. However according to Aristotle’s Poetics, there can be no escaping the fact...

King Arthur Tragedy

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Confronting The Public

8 pages / 3574 words

“It’s worth everything, isn’t it, to keep one’s intellectual liberty, not to enslave one’s powers of appreciation, one’s critical independence?” (164). Questioning the concepts of true freedom and liberty, the overall theme presented throughout Edith Wharton’s masterful novel, The Age of Innocence, is the abstraction...

American Literature Novel The Age of Innocence

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The Role of The Creative Process in The Aeneid

3 pages / 1343 words

How can art and warfare be reconciled? It would appear that art would have no place on the battlefield, where men are too concerned with survival and personal glory to indulge in aesthetic appreciation. The combination of art and Aeneas’ shield in the Aeneid however...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Edith Wharton’s Opposition of The Past and The Future in The Age of Innocence

7 pages / 3404 words

The past permeates the lives of New York Society as portrayed by Edith Wharton in The Age of Innocence. Society appears to be an inherently conservative institution with extreme attention to ritual and tradition, evidenced by our introduction at the beginning of the novel to...

American Literature Novel The Age of Innocence

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Analysis of Aeneas as a Worthy Fighter

6 pages / 2906 words

‘I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile’, begins Virgil, and it is on precisely the issue of this man of arms that critical debate in recent years has tended to centre. Scholars continue to disagree on whether or not...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Exploring The Theme of Impossible Love Throughout Virgil’s The Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses

3 pages / 1253 words

Throughout the ages, the theme of impossible love in literature has prevailed. Impossible love is an overall broad theme; generally speaking, it is a love that is forbidden, unrequired, or unable to flourish. Somewhere between 29 and 19 B.C. the legendary Roman author Virgil wrote...

Ancient Rome Metamorphosis Poetry

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Lavinia: The Only Ruler of Rome

4 pages / 1721 words

In Book IV of Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, the gods’ messenger Mercury advises the hero Aeneas that “An ever uncertain and inconstant thing is woman” (IV.768-7). As Aeneas makes his journey from the ruins of Troy to the potential glory of Latium, he discovers just...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Aeneas and Turnus: Their Roles in The Plot

4 pages / 1801 words

In The Aeneid, Virgil introduces the post-Homeric epic, an epic that immortalizes both a hero’s glory and the foundation of a people. The scope of the Aeneid can be paralleled to the scope of the Oresteia of Aeschylus, which explores the origins of a social...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Ovid and Virgil: Two Perspectives on The Same Relationship

3 pages / 1163 words

Mythological accounts constantly transform themselves in crossing cultures and enduring time, but two versions of the story of Dido and Aeneas, one by a shy, serious, government-sponsored poet; the other by an often lighthearted author, a future exile, show that even among contemporaries living in...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Potential of Beauty in The Age of Innocence

6 pages / 2766 words

It has been said that the true power of beauty is felt most deeply by those who have caught but a glimpse of its potential; those able to see its ethereal quality without demanding more. Perhaps, some have said, the fragility of aesthetic beauty can...

American Literature Novel The Age of Innocence

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Image Creation in Aeneid

2 pages / 1082 words

An important recurring image throughout Virgil’s Aeneid is that of the serpent, which appears both realistically and metaphorically. The serpent icon is a harbinger of death and a symbol of deception. These two elements represented by the snake are important to the whole epic, but...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Stylistic Analysis of Aeneid: Repetition

3 pages / 1297 words

Repetition in the Aeneid 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 Ancient Rome was highly dependent on repetition; a repetition of Greek Architecture, repetition of the Olympian Gods,...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Landscape Symbolism in The Aeneid

2 pages / 1111 words

Introduction Throughout The Aeneid, Virgil details the fated trajectory of Aeneas, who follows his preordained path from the ashy ruins of destroyed Troy to the high ramparts of incipient Rome. In the convoluted framework of the epic poem, these two cities appear as among the...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid