Essays on Literary Genres

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The Inner Battle Between Bukowski and The Blue Bird

4 pages / 1856 words

Introduction Charles Bukowski’s well-known poem Bluebird depicts a metaphorical and invisible bird that inhabits in his heart. In one’s first reading, the poem leaves an impression which incites the readers to search for inner bluebirds inhabit in their own hearts. In the poem, Bukowski completely dominates the...

Charles Bukowski Poetry

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Charles Bukowski's Views on Life in His Poetry

4 pages / 1860 words

Acne-scarred, transient, alcoholic; These are a few words that describe Charles Bukowski. Born Heinrich Karl Bukowski in Germany on August 16, 1920, his parents moved from Germany to California when Bukowski was young where they settled, and he grew up and went to school. Growing...

Charles Bukowski Poetry

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Analysis of Ham on Rye – a Semi-autobiography by Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski is known for being an underground author writing about the underbelly of America, specifically Los Angeles where he was born, both in non-fiction novel writing and poetry. Bukowski writes in blatant, honest and some could call it a pessimistic point of view. Ham...

Charles Bukowski Novel

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Toxic Masculinity in Charles Bukowski’s Poem Bluebird

2 pages / 834 words

For generations men have been taught to “be a man” through expression of toughness, bravery, violence, and through sex. According to dictionary.com, toxic masculinity is defined as a cultural concept of manliness that glorifies stoicism, strength, and virility which can be harmful to ones mental...

Charles Bukowski Poetry

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Denial of The Truth in 'A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'

3 pages / 1367 words

In the play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams advocates the view that denial of the truth surrounding one’s circumstances disrupts the relationship dynamic between that person and others around him or her. Williams develops this view of denial through describing the dysfunctional...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Drama

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Analysis of The Mendacity Scene

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a film that was released in 1958 and was directed by Richard Brooks. The movie was derived from a play with the same title written by Tennessee Williams, the renowned playwright. The movie centers around the tumultuous relationship...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Drama

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Gender Norms in Bertolt Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan

2 pages / 973 words

The play, “The Good Woman of Setzuan” by Bertolt Brecht is a work of epic theatre and revolves around the life of the protagonist Shen Te, that consists of marked elements of façade and survival in the society and the gender norms. The play aims...

Bertolt Brecht Drama

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Bertolt Bretch’s Portrayal of Social and Political Matters in His Works

6 pages / 2712 words

Bertolt Brecht wanted his works to revolutionise theatre’s bourgeois values and generate a social and political shift. As an influential dramatist, he developed a firm impression that theatre should make us; ‘think about power and the way our society works and it does this with...

Bertolt Brecht Drama

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Brecht and The Epic Theatre: The Political Undercurrents

4 pages / 1804 words

The German playwright, poet, and theatre director Bertolt Brecht(1898-1956) is perhaps best known as a pioneer and main exponent of “epic theatre” which, in opposition to naturalist or realist drama or the drama of bourgeois tendency that used to serve an ambiguous cause by not...

Bertolt Brecht Drama

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Marxist Reading of Bertold Brecht’s Play The Caucasian Chalk Circle

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“Behaviour is guided by extant exigencies and biological needs, and actors formulate a strategy of effectively modifying empirical reality in their own interests.” Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get...

Bertolt Brecht Drama

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Bertolt Brecht’s 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' as a Marxist Play

3 pages / 1481 words

Bertolt Brecht is regarded as one of the most important figures of twentieth century. He was born in Bavaria in the year 1898.He brought a great transformation in the traditional literary and theatrical form, through his ‘epic theatre’. He attempted to bring a revolutionary change...

Bertolt Brecht Drama Marxist Criticism

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Misuse of Power and Injustice Served in Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle

7 pages / 3117 words

Brecht’s source for the play “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” evolves from the play that he saw in Berlin: Li Qianfu’s medieval Chinese play “The Circle of Chalk” in an adaptation by the German poet Klabund. Brecht wrote the play during the World War II in...

Bertolt Brecht Drama

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How Bertolt Brecht Used Comedy as Political Device

3 pages / 1343 words

Bertolt Brecht was born in Germany in 1898, were he was raised in a middle-class family. Had strong social and political views in which he believed, while he discovered his love of the theatre and began to write his own plays finding the perfect place...

Bertolt Brecht Comedy

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Bertolt Brecht’s Message in 'Mother Courage and Her Children'

4 pages / 1920 words

Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and her Children shapes the audience’s perspectives on war and capitalism by exploring the interactions of an individual (the eponymous Mother Courage) with and in war. The presentation of war as an entity that has the capability to destroy anything, even...

Bertolt Brecht Drama

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Herman Melville's Benito Cereno and Its Literary Importance

3 pages / 1576 words

Benito Cereno is a 1855 novella by American novelist, essayist and poet Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891). His enigmatic writings often draws from his experiences at sea, where the unique personality of his character and the complexity of the plot makes his...

Benito Cereno Novel

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Application of 'Art of War' to Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

3 pages / 1354 words

Introduction Through his thirteen chapters in the Art of War, Sun Tzu provides a blueprint for successful conquest applicable to any leader in metaphorically any field. Although Sun Tzu’s Art of War primarily addresses the context of an actual battlefield, life presents several “battlefields” that...

Benito Cereno Novel

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Slavery and White Privilege in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno

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White Privilege existed from the historical events that endured racism and biases. It is a concept of societal advantages or immunity granted to white people over non-white people. Heman Melville’s novella Benito Cereno is a third-person limited retell of the historical event of a failed slave...

Benito Cereno Novel

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Themes and Message in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

2 pages / 991 words

With an intense mix of ambiguity and power, author Herman Melville provides the novella, Benito Cereno, in which Captain Amasa Delano, a friendly captain from America notices a ship coming from the distance clearing from a gray fog. Deciding to sail over and find out...

Benito Cereno Novel

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Power and Conformism in The Poems of Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs

5 pages / 2407 words

1950s America was a time of censorship, economic growth, consumption and racism, where the system was benefitting only a privileged few. Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, amongst others, were revolting against the dictation of their lives that infringed on the freedoms they wished to enjoy,...

Allen Ginsberg Poetry