Essays on Literary Genres

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Comparison Characteristics of "Evelina" and "Pamela"

6 pages / 2563 words

The birth of the novel occurred in in 1719, with the publication of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. This literary form quickly became the most accessible and enjoyable style; therefore, novels began being published rapidly. With nothing for comparison and no pre-issued sets of standards,...

Character Literature Review Novel

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Main Issues in "Silas Marner" by George Eliot

6 pages / 2590 words

As a result of betrayal, Silas Marner of George Eliot’s so titled novel becomes a man in body without incurring any of the duties normally associated with nineteenth century working class adults. Eliot creates these unusual circumstances by framing our title-hero so it appears to...

Character Literature Review Novel

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Reading an Author's Psyche in "Eva Luna" by Isabelle Allende

2 pages / 939 words

The Psychoanalytic Approach to Literature The primary ideal of a psychoanalytic reading is that literary texts are similar to dreams because they are both manifestations of a person’s psyche, and can be analyzed to discover the author’s unconscious meanings. “Eva Luna,” written by Isabelle Allende,...

Novel Psychoanalysis

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The Conflict of Man Vs Race in Erasure

3 pages / 1447 words

Percival Everett writes Erasure with an incredibly avant-garde structure for a fiction novel. The primary narrative is actually a frame story in which a plethora of writings stemming from a myriad of genres are skillfully embedded. The work features a brooding, African-American protagonist named Thelonius...

Novel

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Analysis of Tatiana Larina's Character

3 pages / 1544 words

What is it about Tatiana Larina? How is it that a young country girl, whose semblance is hardly remarkable and whose intelligence and judgment are suspect, has captivated literary culture and come to be regarded as “the Russians’ Mona Lisa” according to one prominent Russian...

Character Literature Review Novel

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Comparative Characteristic of Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky

3 pages / 1288 words

Alexander Pushkin’s novel, Eugene Onegin, gives the reader an excellent insight into his thoughts and beliefs regarding different types of human behavior. Throughout the novel Pushkin illustrates many of his own characteristics via the two main male figures, Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky, despite them...

Book Review Character Novel

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Searching for The Meaning of Life: Beckett's Dystopia in "Endgame"

3 pages / 1376 words

“The absence of action is intrinsic to Beckett’s vision of despair” Show how inactivity is linked to Beckett’s portrayal of a dystopia. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my...

Dystopia Meaning of Life

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Ben Johnson's "Volpone" and "Epicene"

5 pages / 581 words

Ben Jonson’s plays, Volpone and Epicene, showcase his mastery of comedy and moral storytelling. While both works share thematic elements of deception and trickery, they diverge significantly in their treatment of the consequences of such actions. This essay will explore the similarities and differences between...

Comedy England Literature Review

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Marxism and "Empire of The Senseless" by Kathy Acker

7 pages / 3234 words

The Female Arab: 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 Physical and mental lust were eating out my body at the same time I knew there was only...

Science Fiction

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Against The Traditions: Endgame Through Aristotelian Norms

4 pages / 1904 words

At first glimpse, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame has absolutely nothing in common with the model provided in Aristotle’s Poetics. Where Aristotle claims the most important element of any tragedy is plot, Endgame seems to have no plot. Where Aristotle discusses the importance of speech(es) conveying moral...

Literature Review Tragedy

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Angel in The House: Feminism and Culture in Aurora Leigh

5 pages / 2088 words

Victorian literature, like almost all literature, speaks inherently of the social, philosophical and religious issues which molded the people of the time. The Romantic ideals of the singling-out and celebration of the self are often challenged by Victorian literature, with its focus on putting the...

Poetry

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The Power of Silent Womanhood in Sonet 13 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2 pages / 1061 words

In Sonnet 13 of Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning skillfully manipulates the sonnet form to construct what is essentially a love poem, albeit an unusual one that paradoxically eschews the rote sentimentality associated with these works and emphasizes separation rather than blissful union....

Poetry

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The Analysis of Love in Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3 pages / 1507 words

William Wordsworth once described poetry as being “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings…”(1). He could not have described Barrett’s Sonnet 43 more succinctly, in spite of the fact that he preceded her by half a century. Barrett wrote 44 sonnets about her love for her...

Poetry

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Analyzing The Duality of Creation "A Musical Instrument" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

4 pages / 1946 words

During victorian period there were little amount of women poets. But, during this era, many important female poets were born, such as Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Browning and Christina Rossetti. Elizabeth Browning was one of the most important female poets in the nineteenth century. She was...

Poetry

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Krisztina's Role in "Embers" by Sandor Marai

3 pages / 1166 words

At times, a novel can communicate the most with the stories it chooses not to tell, rather than the ones it does. In Sandor Marai’s moody, claustrophobic drama, Embers, such is the case of the Henrik’s wife Krisztina, a woman who is already long dead...

Character Novel

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The Oppressive System Influence in "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point"

4 pages / 1860 words

‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point,’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is a dramatic monologue spoken through the voice of a female runaway slave. Browning was an abolitionist. In this poem, Browning deviates from the traditional values of motherhood and creates a narration where the speaker...

Poetry

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Rising The Woman Question: Works of Leigh and Browning

3 pages / 1493 words

The Victorian era was a period of great social and political upheaval, especially for women. Increasing opposition to the lack of women’s political rights in relation to marriage and property laws, such as the fact that any income a woman earned automatically belonged to her...

Gender Poetry

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What is Real: Edgar Huntly in Charles Brockden's Novel

2 pages / 1015 words

In Charles Brockden Brown’s novel, Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (1799), many characters have problems with interpreting their own ideas of reality and of what is actually real within the context of the novel. Edgar Huntly’s often-inaccurate perception of reality causes many of...

Novel

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Analyzing The "Einstein's Dreams" by Alan Lightman

2 pages / 800 words

In Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman criticizes people’s struggles to hold onto time through hyperbole, nameless characters, average themes and simplistic syntax. The people in Lightman’s vignettes have a common problem: how to slow down time; whether to hold onto youth or save a moment for...

Novel