Essays on Literary Genres

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Analyzing The "Einstein's Dreams" by Alan Lightman

2 pages / 800 words

In Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman criticizes people’s struggles to hold onto time through hyperbole, nameless characters, average themes and simplistic syntax. The people in Lightman’s vignettes have a common problem: how to slow down time; whether to hold onto youth or save a moment for...

Novel

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Generations Difference in "The Achill Woman" by Eavan Boland

2 pages / 761 words

Eavan Boland is an Irish poet and author born in Dublin, Ireland in 1944 who focuses much of her work on the national identity of Irish people, the role of Irish women throughout its history, as well as Ireland’s rich and, at times tragic, history...

Poetry

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Humanity in Frank Herbert's "Dune"

3 pages / 1570 words

Fiction has created the opportunity for humanity to explore concepts in an experimental and safe arena. The Anthropocene has seen the adverse consequences of the human species experimentation, which is why it is essential for literature to be allowed the parameters for experimentation. This essay...

Fiction

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Who’s to Say: Insanity in Dutchman

2 pages / 976 words

An apple pressed precariously to her blushed lips, Lula from Leroi Jones’ existential drama Dutchman is the epitome of temptation. She snakes around the train car, spying Clay and eventually driving him to his outburst late in the second scene. Clay’s speech is spontaneously provoked,...

Drama Literature Review

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"A Cry from an Indian Wife" and "The Onondaga Madonna" Ideas Comparison

4 pages / 1985 words

The Northwest Rebellion of 1885 brought to the forefront issues of Indigenous identity in Canadian literary dialogue. The Northwest Rebellion, a five month rebellion against the Canadian government, was fought by the Metis and their Aboriginal allies in what is currently Saskatchewan and Alberta (Beal...

Poetry

3825

The Role and Creation of Myth in Dutchman

5 pages / 2340 words

“The Flying Dutchman” is a nautical myth about a ghost ship fated to traverse the ocean waves for all eternity. The story is rooted in the legend of Hendrik van der Decken, a 17th-century Dutch Captain who dared to sail beyond the Cape of Good...

Drama Literature Review

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Symbolism in Dylan Thomas's Works

2 pages / 1094 words

Death is an inevitable factor of life, one which all of humanity must eventually face. What varies among people is how they handle this ‘coming of the end’. Some accept it with grace and tranquility, while others fight it until their dying breath. Dylan Thomas...

Poetry Symbolism

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The Theme of Death in "Do not Go Gentle..." by Dylan Thomas

2 pages / 806 words

Death is often a sensitive subject; after all, most individuals relate death to the loss of someone who was especially important or beloved. In Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night,” a strong message is delivered to those who are near death....

Poetry

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The Power of Inevitable in "Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night"

5 pages / 2246 words

Dylan Thomas expertly investigates notions of reality and higher power as he reflects on life and death in his poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Seemingly a rejection of religion and God altogether, the poem never directly states a presence of a...

Poetry

3829

"Dubliners" and "Kew Gardens": Modernism in Woolf's and Joyce's Works

4 pages / 1960 words

‘[T]he modern period […] begins really with the late nineteenth [century], when the sense of the passing of a major phase of English history was already in the air.’ Indeed, when we discuss ‘modern’ in terms of literature this tends to be a reference to...

Dubliners Modernism Short Story

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The Abyss Between Humans and Sacred in "Eveline"

3 pages / 1168 words

What happens to a dream deferred? According to James Joyce, perhaps nothing. Illustrated in his short story Eveline, this Dublin-born author both poses and responds to the age old-question of comfort versus risk. In a time of upheaval throughout the continent, Eveline serves as an...

Dubliners Eveline Short Story

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Gaze Through The Window: Paralyses in Joyce's "Dubliners"

8 pages / 3640 words

Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word, paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me...

Dubliners Short Story

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The Description of "The Mundane" in Joyce's and Woolf's Works

4 pages / 2045 words

‘How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it…’ Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences...

Dubliners Short Story

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Wandering Blindly: The Idea of "Araby"

3 pages / 1408 words

Darkness and light are everywhere, and one cannot exist without the other. However, a combination of the two creates shadows in which a world can be altered into a form of dusk, twilight. It is in this shadowy light that a person may find themselves...

Araby Dubliners Short Story

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"The Sisters" and It's Source of Mystery

2 pages / 740 words

In “The Sisters” James Joyce creates an elusive mystery surrounding the death of James Flynn by withholding narrator insight into the events of the story. He achieves this by selecting a young boy as the narrator, whose age is not specified but is hinted at...

Dubliners Short Story

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The Effects of Social Pressure on The Characters in Dubliners

4 pages / 1613 words

Even though money can’t buy happiness, the lack of money is usually the cause of sadness. Poverty is, in fact, a widespread problem that can sometimes restrict and even imprison a person to the point that struggling seems pointless. In Dubliners by James Joyce, the...

Dubliners Short Story

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Jimmy Doyle in "After The Race" by James Joyce

2 pages / 794 words

Introduction Just one of the many short stories compiled in James Joyce’s Dubliners, “After the Race” is an effective portrayal of the shame and misfortune that result from Jimmy Doyle’s efforts to become accepted by a wealthy group of men. His constant desire to present...

Character Dubliners Short Story

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The Farrington's Case

2 pages / 957 words

In literature authors often attempt to create meaning by causing characters to undergo some form of moral reconciliation or spiritual reassessment. In the case of Dubliners, James Joyce has created a series of stories that center on one central epiphany, that of paralysis within a...

Dubliners Short Story

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Deconstructing The Old Style of Writing in "A Mother"

2 pages / 1137 words

James Joyce’s A Mother is a short story based around the life of Mrs. Kearney, a strong-willed woman whose breach of convention results in the destruction of her acclaimed reputation. Joyce’s linguistic use of naturalism, modernism, and feminism, exemplifies the “paralysis”[1] of Dublin’s rigid societal...

Dubliners Short Story