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

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Subjugation Under Supposed Freedom in Catch-22

2 pages / 939 words

In the midst of World War II, apprehensive soldier and antiheroic bombardier John Yossarian endures the perpetual torment of war with a tenacious desire to escape. Witnessing a number of horrendous events and ceaseless bureaucratic absurdity, Yossarian and his companions struggle against the surreal parameters...

Catch 22 Novel

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"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

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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

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"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

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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

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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

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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

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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

3829

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

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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

3831

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

3832

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

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A Comparison of before You Were Mine and Pluto

2 pages / 983 words

In both Before You Were Mine and Pluto, Duffy uses characters to present different viewpoints of the past and present. In Before You Were Mine, the past is seen to be tangible and physical as the character of the narrator’s mother is heavily described, whereas...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry

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Memory and Retrospection in Duffy’s Poetry

2 pages / 877 words

In both “Before You Were Mine” and “Brothers,” Carol Ann Duffy uses descriptions of memory as a means of re-living past family life. Throughout “Before You Were Mine,” Duffy writes about her mother, and imagines her life before motherhood. This poem is designed as Duffy’s...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry

3835

Love in Valentine and Havisham

2 pages / 874 words

Duffy explores ideas, thoughts and feelings about love in Valentine and Havisham by commenting on societal expectations of the outcomes and portraying love as unstable, dangerous and likely to cause hurt. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater...

Carol Ann Duffy Havisham Poetry Relationship

3836

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

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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

3838

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