Essays on Literary Genres

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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

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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

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Caleb Williams: Realism Out of Romance

2 pages / 1000 words

In William Godwin’s Caleb Williams, the titular protagonist Caleb is purportedly writing to prove his innocence after his former master, Mr. Falkland, destroys his reputation. However, in the postscript, once Falkland has died after being convicted for his crimes, Caleb appears to regret his actions....

Character Novel

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Eros, Thanatos and Oceanic Oneness in Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep

2 pages / 1058 words

In Chapter IX of Henry Roth’s Call it Sleep, David achieves a rudimentary understanding of the intrinsic connection between sexuality and death. He is confronted with the reality of death for the first time in his short life when he sees a row of funeral...

Novel

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The Importance of Setting in "By The Waters of Babylon"

2 pages / 769 words

In the short story, “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benet, setting is a very important element of how the story is portrayed. Although readers are introduced to a setting that feels like thousands of years ago, the reader later figures out that...

Short Story

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Scouting for Identity: Interpreting Bridget Sprouls' Poem

3 pages / 1569 words

Life, in essence, is a search for belonging, purpose, and meaning. However, humans often do not possess enough wisdom to determine what is of worthy pursuit in life. While double-digit years of life experience may appear a period of time long enough to justify taking...

Literature Review Poetry

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The Human Experience in Bruce Dawe’s Poetry

2 pages / 795 words

A poet who energetically contemplated the world around him, Dawe wasn’t just a devoted Australian wordsmith with a dream that his work would one day be analysed. He was a book full of ideas, complex ideas, often about the essence of life and beyond. Through...

Poetry

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Truman Capote: a Child’s True Nature in "Miriam"

2 pages / 1055 words

Two people, one name: an inconspicuous, plain woman versus a poised young girl. A line is drawn between imagination and reality, but that line is blurred. In “Miriam” by Truman Capote, symbolism is incorporated to show that Mrs. Miller is living through the past in...

Short Story

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The Deconstruction of Opportunity: Danticat’s Narrative of Disempowerment in Breath, Eyes, Memory

3 pages / 1537 words

The narrative of disempowerment is one that is woven extensively through Edwidge Danticat’s postcolonial novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory. Placing great emphasis on the politics of the domestic sphere and the stories told between women, the novel spans the childhood and young adulthood of Edwidge’s main...

Book Review Gender Identity Novel

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Good Vs. Evil in Brighton Rock

4 pages / 1915 words

The conflict between good and evil is a prevalent theme in literature. Graham Greene incorporates the conflict throughout the text of his novel Brighton Rock. In order to do this he uses two prominent characters, Ida Arnold and Pinkie Brown. Ida represents “good” and is...

Book Review Good and Evil Novel

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Analyzing Windows as Metaphors in Broken April

3 pages / 1580 words

While windows are technically supposed to show a viewer the outer world, in Broken April they are used to give the reader a peek into the inner feelings of the main characters. When ‘Bessian put(s) his head close to the glass’ and ‘stay(s) a long...

Novel

3832

Maternal Problematic: The Painful Struggle for Individuality in Three Different Novels

7 pages / 3018 words

All human beings spend the first nine months of their lives in their mother’s womb. From the moment of birth, we wrestle with the notion of “mother”: we love this woman and feel intense connections to her, and yet we inevitably need to separate ourselves...

Novel

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Sara Smolinsky’s Journey to Fulfillment in Bread Givers

5 pages / 2308 words

Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers is the story of Sara Smolinksy, a young Jewish girl, growing up in New York City in the early twentieth century. Even as a young girl, Sara rejects the Orthodox Jewish teachings of her father, a rabbi. She refuses to accept...

Character Novel

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Reb’s Positive Influence on Sara in Bread Givers

3 pages / 1332 words

In 1925, American author Anzia Yezierska wrote the book Bread Givers. The story follows a poor immigrant family living in the lower east side of 1920’s New York. Throughout the novel, the family’s four daughters are treated merely as wage-earners by a father (Reb Smolinsky)...

Novel

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Bread Givers: The Limits of The American Dream

3 pages / 1154 words

For many immigrants, coming to America was an opportunity to leave their home country in hopes of finding a better life in a new land. In this vein, Anna Yezierska writes about the struggles of an immigrant Jewish family living in New York’s Lower East...

American Dream Novel

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The Appropriation of Perrault’s "Bluebeard" in Carter’s "The Bloody Chamber" and "The Piano"

4 pages / 1749 words

The fairy tale of Bluebeard has fascinated writers, filmmakers, photographers, and artists throughout history and across national boundaries. Coming from the European oral tradition, the first, and most famous, written version is Charles Perrault’s La Barbe Bleue, published in 1697. Developing a tale of a...

Fairy Tale Piano The Bloody Chamber

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The Beautiful Ambiguity of Blankets

2 pages / 815 words

“The Beautiful Ambiguity of Blankets: Comics Representation and Religious Art”, written by the University of Florida’s Benjamin Stevens, provides a great deal of insight into Craig Thompson’s 2003 autobiographical graphic novel Blankets. Stevens’ analysis focuses on characteristics of the novel such as style, the search...

Novel

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Social Behavior in Saramago’s Blindness

5 pages / 2165 words

Jose Saramago’s Blindness depicts a world suddenly stricken by a blindness epidemic. As an inexplicable wave of blindness spreads, society fragments and people freely express an “animalistic” form of human nature in face of the increased pressure for survival. The characters’ responses to their blindness...

Literature Review Novel