Essays on Literary Genres

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Anarchy, Nihilism and Liberalism in Dostoevksy’s Demons

4 pages / 1943 words

Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Demons" (Besy, in Russian, variously translated as "The Possessed" and "Devils") is a fundamentally political and social novel. It draws directly on the true story of a murder committed in 1869 by Russian anarchist and nihilist Sergei Nechaev (Saunders 324). The peasant reforms...

Novel

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Discovery in Venice: Setting and Sexuality in Mann’s Narrative

4 pages / 1673 words

One thing workaholics are tired of hearing is “you need a vacation!” The classic workaholic has no idea when they have worked enough, and usually has trouble making the decision to take a break for even a short period of time. Workaholic Gustav von Aschenbach,...

Short Story

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The Dangers of Art in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice

2 pages / 969 words

In Thomas Mann’s “Death in Venice,” Gustave von Aschenbach is described as “the watcher” (73), who becomes interested in the young Tadzio, eventually leading to a dangerous obsession that causes his death. In the novella, Mann uses Aschenbach’s sudden passionate fascination with the young Tadzio...

Short Story

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The Damaging Effects of an Oppressive Society in Dave's Neckliss

6 pages / 2663 words

Societal oppression persists in many facets of life and forces individuals into imposed roles that drastically determine their mindsets and identities. Those oppressed are not accepted into such societies and instead forced into subservient positions. These roles then become these individuals’ entire identities as they...

Fiction Oppression

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Women as Performers in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

12 pages / 781 words

In George Eliot’s novel “Daniel Deronda,” the exploration of women as performers emerges as a vital theme that underscores the complexities of identity, societal expectation, and the struggles for authenticity. Eliot intricately weaves the lives of her female characters into a narrative that challenges the...

Novel Victorian Era

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The Soul in The Jewish Marriage, as Embodied by Daniel Deronda

5 pages / 2287 words

The first few books of Daniel Deronda focused on Gwendolen Harleth, who shines as a self-centered, domineering young woman. In becoming trapped by marriage to Grandcourt, she develops growing fascination with Daniel, an attraction that began with their encounter in the opening pages of the...

Novel Victorian Era

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The Voices of The Voiceless: Comparing The Poetry of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen

4 pages / 1751 words

As two key figureheads in what is now deemed the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen served as voices for a previously voiceless population. Their poetry speaks of the enduring struggles of being an African American, and the effort required to merely survive in...

Poetry Voice

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Eating Crow: Analyzing Biblical Imagery in The Life and Songs of Ted Hughes’s Crow Poems

5 pages / 2364 words

Ted Hughes’s book, Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow, is a collection of 67 disturbingly dark poems that explore the evil aspects of life, and human tendency towards violence. The book, dedicated to Hughes’s dead second wife Assia Wevill and his daughter...

Poetry Song

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Survival of The Broken: Analyzing "My Faithful Mother’s Tongue" and "Leningrad"

2 pages / 1036 words

“The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.” – Paolo Bacigalupi Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts...

Poetry

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Theme of Obsession in Balzac's "Cousin Bette"

3 pages / 1259 words

Honore De Balzac’s Cousin Bette is a novel about obsession, but what makes the premise so fantastic is the manner in which each obsession is related to the others. The characters are obsessed with art, but the bourgeois universe of post-Napoleonic Paris is unoriginal. The...

Novel

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Kit as The True Heroine in Cue for Treason

3 pages / 1166 words

In Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease, a story of injustice, betrayal, and love is delivered from the perspective of Peter Brownrigg. Peter is a fourteen year-old Cumberland farm boy in the Elizabethan times, who ran away from home chased by the county nobility and...

Novel

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Manipulation and Appreciation in Coraline

2 pages / 768 words

Neil Gaiman’s Coraline introduces the story’s antagonist far before that very antagonist’s evil intentions are revealed. In the novel, a young girl Coraline has just moved into an old home. She feels ignored by her parents who are too busy working to pay attention to...

Novel

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The Blues of Corregidora

2 pages / 826 words

“Yes, if you understood me, Mama, you’d see I was trying to explain it, in blues, without words, the explanation somewhere behind the words. To explain what will always be there” (Gayl Jones, Corregidora, p 66). Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each...

Novel

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A Formalist Critical Approach to "Heritage" by Countee Cullen

4 pages / 1963 words

The speaker in “Heritage” expresses profound emotions regarding an African-American perspective of the motherland. Countee Cullen writes in an irregular meter throughout the piece, consistently using seven syllables in each line. The speaker is effectually declaring the pains of the slave trade to be innocuous...

Poetry

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The Importance of The Prologue: Poetry and Politics in "Confessio Amantis"

2 pages / 1110 words

Having subdivided the text into three distinct parts, namely, the State, the Church and the Commons, Gower’s Prologue addresses all three estates from its stylistic “medial” point. Although initially dedicated to the king, this poem addresses all people – the “lewed” as well as the...

Poetry

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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in The Novel Comfort Woman

3 pages / 1423 words

Comfort Woman, written by Nora Ojka Keller, tells the fictional story of two women, a mother and a daughter, bound by their genetics and torn apart by their varying cultures and experiences. Keller explores not only the past experiences of Akiko the mother, a Korean...

Novel Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Coleridge’s "Hymn": New Perspectives on Book Six of The Prelude

5 pages / 2343 words

During the first weeks of August 1902, Samuel Taylor Coleridge toured the hills of England near Scafell on foot. Ironically, the lines that “involuntarily poured forth” into a “Hymn” did not end up describing Coleridge’s ascent of Scafell, but rather a hypothetical scene in the...

Poetry

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Portrayal of a Natural and Exuberant Sense of Life in The Lyrical Ballads

4 pages / 1989 words

‘Lines’ opens with a celebration of natural life and its exuberance, ‘the red-breast sings from his tall larch’. Here the singing robin is portrayed through metonymy giving a sense that it is something accessible and familiar to the common people. The singing ‘red breast’ and...

Poetry

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"This Lime-tree Bower My Prison" and The Essence of Romanticism

2 pages / 975 words

The zeitgeist of Romanticism, while notoriously broad in its philosophy, had definite universal views upon the concepts of the individual, nature and imagination; which constitutes the basis of what today are known as the main aspects of the movement. Such aspects, addressed in Samuel Coleridge’s...

Poetry