Essays on Literary Genres

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Individual and Collective Interest in Politics

4 pages / 1989 words

In Shakespeare’s King Henry IV, the people in the places of leadership manipulate the ordinary citizens for their own gain. In the wartime environment, basic common sense is sacrificed for the benefit and personal gain of people in power. Major Cathcart continually chases his desperate...

Drama William Shakespeare

3802

Analysis of Carol Ann Duffy’s "Little Red Cap" as a Fairy Tale

3 pages / 1259 words

Most of us have a clear perception of what fairy tales are, or what we assume them to be. Over the past century, these tales have been burdened with so many clich’s, such as evil queens’ curses and damsels-in-distress, that we tend to identify them...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry

3803

Feminist Criticism and "Mrs Midas"

2 pages / 881 words

‘Mrs Midas’ is a revisionist version of the King Midas story told from the female perspective: traditionally, this ancient Greek myth was about a man who could turn everything to gold with a touch. This poem explores the sadness Mrs Midas feels in regards to...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry

3804

Analysis of The Theme of Gender in "Litany and Havisham"

3 pages / 1243 words

Duffy presents gender in the poems Litany and Havisham through society’s views and expectations of women, and the effects it has on them show how being female was harmful to their wellbeing. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to...

Carol Ann Duffy Gender Havisham Poetry

3805

Violence and Gender in Duffy’s "Queen Herod"

3 pages / 1197 words

Queen Herod is taken from Duffy’s The World’s Wife, a collection which inverts gender roles to celebrate female characters and display the injustice of men’s generalizations. This poem inverts the gender roles in the biblical story of the arrival of the Magi for Jesus’s birth...

Carol Ann Duffy Gender Poetry

3806

The Map as a Metaphor

3 pages / 1278 words

In the poem ‘The Map Woman’, Carol Ann Duffy uses the extended metaphor of a map being printed on a woman’s body to explore ideas surrounding hometowns, childhood and nostalgia. This is immediately introduced in the first line where the reader learns that ‘A woman’s...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry

3807

Symbolism in The "Ordinary"

4 pages / 1979 words

Carolyn Forch? frequently uses images of everyday life to draw the reader into her poetry. After establishing a connection with the familiar, she often reveals a darker side of humanity, integrating the two seamlessly. The transition between the two mirrors real life, where horrors coincide...

Poetry

3808

Analysis of The Setting in Cat on a Four Post Bed

2 pages / 981 words

Space is an important element in drama and is embodied by the stage itself as a representation of a space where action is presented. Plays differ significantly with regard to how they present space and how much information about space they offer the audience. The...

Drama

3809

"After I No Longer Speak"; a Message on The Impact of The Holocaust in "Shooting Stars"

2 pages / 794 words

Humans inflict suffering on other humans and when events are forgotten, they are repeated. In the poem “Shooting Stars,” Carol Ann Duffy tells a shocking story of a female prisoner held by Nazis in a concentration camp around the time of the Holocaust. This is...

Carol Ann Duffy Holocaust Poetry

3810

Representations of Betrayal in ‘adultery’ and ‘disgrace’

2 pages / 1028 words

Duffy’s poems, Adultery and Disgrace, portray the theme of betrayal in a number of different ways. Both show that betrayal is destructive and deadly to relationships, however, different diverse, including sibilance and oxymorons, are used across the two poems to portray this. It is possible...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry

3811

"In Mrs Tilscher’s Class": Self-discovery and Versatile Poetic Technique

2 pages / 779 words

Carol Ann Duffy’s poem “In Mrs Tilscher’s Class” expresses the poetic speaker’s love for literature in the context of an intriguing personal narrative. Such a passion came from her primary school teacher as Duffy’s protagonist grows into adulthood — from a dramatized experience in her...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry

3812

Duffy’s Perspective on Religion in "Confession" and "Prayer"

2 pages / 880 words

The poet Carol Anne Duffy presents two different attitudes towards religion in her poems “Prayer” and “Confession.” In “Prayer,” Duffy contemplates how, in the absence of organised religion, comfort can instead be found in ordinary, prosaic occurrences. These usually insignificant experiences instead become a source...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry

3813

Strange Dreams

4 pages / 1764 words

Sleep is a physically and mentally vulnerable state; the body is unconscious, unsuspecting, and the mind is visited frequently by an array of distorted images called dreams. Only devilish and cruel predators hunt sleeping prey, when struggle is least viable and victory is guaranteed. The...

Gothic Fiction Gothic Literature

3814

Isolation in The Gothic Novel: Gender and Genre

3 pages / 1198 words

In an essay concerning the components of the Romantic novel, James P. Carson frames the difference between Gothic and Romantic attitudes as a “disagreement over values inherent in attempts to represent people” (Matthews). He succinctly describes the difference as one of intent: the Romantic novel...

Gothic Fiction Gothic Literature

3815

The Evolution of The Vampire

6 pages / 2503 words

The appearance of the Gothic in architecture of the Middle Ages was the start point and muse of Gothic Literary. The lack of simplicity, symmetry, regularity and nonconformation to nature inspired the features of Gothic Literature: horror/ terror, dark environment, paranormal, evil creatures, supernatural entities...

Gothic Fiction Gothic Literature

3816

Sandburg’s "Fog" and The Imagist Movement

3 pages / 1192 words

Out of all of the poems written by Carl Sandburg, an early twentieth-century poet of the Imagist school, “Fog” may be his most famous. This may seem surprising; it’s a deceptively simple poem, only six lines long, with no real discernible meter or rhyme scheme....

Poetry

3817

Representation of Men and Women in Duffy’s "The World's Wife"

3 pages / 1207 words

Introduction Carol Ann Duffy wrote ‘The World’s Wife’ in order to scrutinize the representation of both men and women, inspired by her strong feminist views — reconstructing, for example, many of the ‘voiceless women’ from throughout history. As Duffy expressed it; ‘like sand and the...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry

3818

The Intertextuality of Carol Ann Duffy’s "Salome"

2 pages / 1011 words

“Salome” is a poem taken from Carol Ann Duffy’s collection of poems The World’s Wife; most of the poems share a common feature: a historically marginalized narrator retelling the story from personal perspective. Salome’s character originally appeared in the New Testament and over the centuries...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry

3819

The Presentation of Suffering in "Remains" and "War Photographer"

4 pages / 1735 words

Within Remains, Simon Armitage, who is widely known for focusing on physiological health and for creating a documentary of young soldier in the height of the conflict occurring in Afghanistan, presents the theme of suffering through the personal view of a young, regimented soldier, by...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry