Essays on Literary Genres

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Analysis of The Meaning of Edgar Allan Poe's Poem The Raven

3 pages / 1420 words

On January 29th, in the year 1845, famous american poet and author Edgar Allan Poe wrote what may be his magnum opus, The Raven. This poem is synonymous with american literature, and has had a deep impact on pop culture. From The Simpsons adapting it...

Edgar Allan Poe Poetry The Raven

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Discovering Justice and Revenge in The Count of Monte Cristo

3 pages / 1459 words

As John Ford, an American film director, once said, ‘Revenge proves its own executioner.’ In other words, one who seeks revenge often entangles themself so deep they end up doing more harm than good. In Alexandre Dumas’s novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, Dantès is...

Character Novel The Count of Monte Cristo

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Jane Austen and Her Everlasting Writing

3 pages / 1466 words

Introduction to Jane Austen’s Literary Legacy Jane Austen is widely recognized as one of the most influential authors in English literature, whose works continue to captivate readers across generations. Living during the Regency era, a time when societal norms were heavily restrictive for women, Austen...

Jane Austen Novel Pride and Prejudice

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The Relation of Orwel’s 1984 to The Uighur Conflict in China

3 pages / 1517 words

The writing style of renowned English novelist George Orwell can be characterized as a critique of society that incorporates political culture and disagreement with totalitarianism. All of the things that characterize his writing shine through in his most famous literary work, 1984, published in 1949...

1984 Dystopia George Orwell

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Poe’s Use of Literary Techniques in The Tell-tale Heart

4 pages / 1608 words

The most unique and well distinguished American of the 19th century was writer Edgar Allan Poe. He was inspired by events that occurred in his life and decided to make a living by writing about them, he also became one of the first writers to...

Edgar Allan Poe Short Story The Tell Tale Heart

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The Essence of The 1920s in The Great Gatsby

4 pages / 1799 words

The 1920’s, also known as the “Roaring Twenties”, was a time for change, success, and traditional/cultural change. This was also known as the “Jazz Age”, or simply a time of youth, wealth, freedom, partying, and self-indulgence. During this time, people rejected trad. moral standards and...

Novel Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

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A Reflection on Reading Scary Stories

4 pages / 1871 words

 A great scary and suspense story that engages you. The best ones build to that engagement and constantly, throughout the script, build that suspense. The main elements that people are looking for in a scary story are concept, suspense, atmosphere. They have to arouse readers’...

Book Review Fiction

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Comparison of The Poems Songs of Myself by Whitman and Howl by Ginsberg

4 pages / 1922 words

Two poems can sound so alike and mirror each other almost identically, but mean completely different when taken into account the context in which the respective poems were written in. When Walt Whitman wrote his poem “Songs of Myself” in 1852 at its earliest edition,...

Poetry Walt Whitman

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How Orwell's 1984 is Relevant to Today's Audience

4 pages / 1927 words

1984 is a dystopian novel based on the horrors of World War II to create a warning about the fate of humankind. In the novel, 1984, George Orwell crafts a text that can be read and interpreted by two different readers: through the eyes of...

1984 Dystopia George Orwell

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A Report on The Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

4 pages / 1961 words

The Tell-tale Heart is probably the most iconic short story of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The story is either approached simplistically as a horror story, encompassing some paranormal features, or, from a more modernist perspective, as a complex psychological portrait of a disturbed unnamed...

Edgar Allan Poe Short Story The Tell Tale Heart

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Comparison and Review of 'Metaphors' Poem and 'The Handsomest Drowned Man in The World'

5 pages / 2121 words

Over the course of this class, we have learned the importance of the elements of literature and expanding our understanding in fiction, poetry, and drama. This course has also helped us to develop the knowledge of the human condition and cultures, especially to relation behavior,...

Literary Criticism Literature Review Poetry

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Thomas Hardy and His 'Jude The Obscure'

5 pages / 2223 words

Biography Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840 in Higher Bockhampton , a village within the parish of Stinsford to the east of Dorchester in Dorset, Britain. Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. Hardy was trained as an architect in Dorchester before...

Novel Thomas Hardy

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Emily Dickinson’s Views on Death in Her Confessional Poetry

5 pages / 2244 words

Emily Dickinson is considered one of the leading 19th-century American poets, known for her bold original verse, which stands out for its epigrammatic compression, autobiographical voice and enigmatic brilliance.  One of the most captivating aspects about the literature of Emily Dickinson is her ability to...

Emily Dickinson Poetry

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Analysis of Robert Frost’s Poem The Road not Taken

5 pages / 2268 words

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American artist. His work was at first distributed in England before it was distributed in America. Known for his practical delineations of rustic life and his direction of American casual speech, [2] Frost...

Poetry Robert Frost The Road Not Taken

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Exploitation of Language in George Orwell's 1984

5 pages / 2389 words

A Brief Inspection of the Language Language possesses the exclusive capability to shape the learning and behavior of its users (Hays, 2000). It programs the mind by dint of manipulating the senses and neurons of human psychology. As a matter of fact, language performs straightly...

1984 Dystopia George Orwell

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Thomas Hardy’s Pessimistic Views in His Poems

6 pages / 2550 words

As human beings, each individual has a different perspective or stance at attaining life. Our attitudes and our mindsets are shaped around our surroundings, and the attitude we choose to follow in life remains difficult at times due to those surroundings. Even though our personality...

Poetry Thomas Hardy

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Analysis of Raskolnikov’s Character in Crime and Punishment

6 pages / 2690 words

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s iconic novel ‘Crime and Punishment’ is set in St. Petersburg, Tsarist Russia in the 1860s. Orthodox Christianity to this day is the leading religion of the country, with an extremely faithful population of Christians. Religion was significant for people to have hope for...

Crime and Punishment Novel

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The Issue of Fate in 'All The Light We Cannot See'

6 pages / 2922 words

Fate: Is Life Happening To Us? When reflecting on one’s life up until this very moment, there is a divide between how much of what has happened is directly a result of our own doing, and how much of it was seemingly fate. To delve...

Book Review Literary Criticism Novel

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How Jane Austen Questions The Society in Which She Lives on Its Moral Beliefs and Attitudes Towards Women

7 pages / 3044 words

Some literary critics such as Röpke consider Austen to be a ‘conservative female writer’; a traditional woman who upheld traditional values throughout her writing. They believe Austen’s ideas on the behaviour of women are identical to what is described in eighteenth and early nineteenth century...

Jane Austen Novel Pride and Prejudice