Essays on Literary Genres

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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

3802

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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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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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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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

3809

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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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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The Key Elements in "Eleanor and Park"

2 pages / 1106 words

Rites of passage are a key element in adolescent literature. These are moments in which the character or characters do something where they essentially cross over the realm of adolescence to adulthood in some aspect. They are extremely common throughout the genre and hold a...

Eleanor And Park Novel

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Analyzing Ceres and Persephone Characters in Poetry

3 pages / 1200 words

As time passes, plants grow, people age and eventually the ones who hold most dear will leave your side. In the myth of Ceres and Persephone, the God of Harvest loses her matured daughter to the King of the Underworld. The tale continues on to...

Poetry

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Metaphors and Symbols in "Another Meditation at The Same Time"

3 pages / 1203 words

Short it may be, Edward Taylor’s “Another Meditation at The Same time” delivers to its readers a power articulation of both Christianity and the relationship between its Lord and his followers. Though there are several exceptions, the contributions of which are crucial to the poem’s...

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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Transformation in "Eating Poetry"

3 pages / 1189 words

The speaker in Mark Strand’s “Eating Poetry” is transformed so much by his consumption of poetry that he frightens a librarian with his animalistic behavior. At first glance, the poem focuses on the literal and visceral consumption of poetry by the speaker and how it...

Poetry