Essays on Literary Genres

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The Paradigm of Geneology in Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

3 pages / 1479 words

Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain is a “genealogical puzzle” of a novel as the one-drop rule subjects characters into a tragic existence. The pseudoscience of race and what makes up whiteness and blackness are prevalent themes in Roxy’s complicated victimhood. Her self-loathing serves as the...

Mark Twain Novel Pudd Nhead Wilson

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A Theme of Migration in The Poems of Peter Skrzynecki and Warsan Shire

2 pages / 992 words

Introduction Poetry is an effective tool to represent the migrant voice, illustrating the sacrifice and estrangement many migrants face to assimilate into a new country. Peter Skrzynecki’s ‘Migrant Hostel Parkes 1951′ and Warsan Shire’s ‘Home’ explores how poetry successfully voices the experiences of migrants, composed...

Peter Skrzynecki Poetry

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The Role of Class Stratification in Pedro Paramo

5 pages / 2171 words

Throughout the history, the class stratification exists everywhere, for example: empires, countries even in some special group or area. The class stratification can be defined as a form of social orders that in a society which tends to divide people at different ranks that result...

Fiction Pedro Paramo Social Stratification

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Magical Realism in Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

4 pages / 1812 words

Magical realism this artistic creation style produced under the big explosion of literature in Latin America in the 19th century, due to the economic oppression of the new imperialism. It is a style of fiction and shows a realistic view of the real world but...

Fiction Literary Criticism Pedro Paramo

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A Theme of Loss in Bishop’s One Art and Hughes’ Harlem

3 pages / 1273 words

Loss can be defined as a means of losing someone or something, typically leaving an individual with a feeling of uncertainty. Elizabeth Bishop and Langston Hughes both published poetry within the same time period. Although completely different people they both experienced tremendous events of loss...

Elizabeth Bishop One Art Poetry

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Depiction of Japanese Canadian Internment in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan

2 pages / 837 words

After the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, Canada responded quickly by establishing several concentration camps for Japanese civilians of any descent, including Canadians. The individuals in these camps were forcibly removed from their homes, businesses, and even separated from their families. In Joy Kogawa’s novel,...

Novel Obasan

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Analysis of Naomi’s Character Development in Obasan by Joy Kogawa

1 page / 490 words

In the novel, Obasan, Kogawa uses Naomi’s character development to convey that early life racism, internment and abandonment from loved ones can lead to one feeling confused about their identity. The narrator of the novel, Naomi, goes through a series of traumatic events as a...

Character Novel Obasan

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Analysis of The Poem O Captain! My Captain

1 page / 439 words

Walt Whitman wrote “Oh Captain! My Captain!” to honour Abraham Lincoln after the President was assassinated in April 14, 1865. Lincoln’s death inspired Whitman to write one of his most memorable works — a simple, three-stanza poem of sorrow that bore little resemblance to his...

O Captain My Captain Poetry Walt Whitman

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A Theme of Deception in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

4 pages / 1641 words

Introduction William Shakespeare attained literary immortality through his exposition of the various qualities of human nature in his works. Such works include the romantic comedy, “The Merchant of Venice”, which displays the deliberate use of deception. This human quality is a tool utilised for many...

Comedy Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare

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Comparative Analysis of Perrault’s Sleeping Beauty and Maleficent

4 pages / 1952 words

Narratives are cultural devices that represent their era, playing an important academic role in reflecting and developing the values, ideas and attitudes of their context, and even warning the audience about what could happen in the future. Appropriations are a clear example of this where...

Fairy Tale Literary Criticism Maleficent

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The Role of Narrative in Milton’s Lycidas

6 pages / 2644 words

Abstract This paper is going to explore the role of narrative in the funeral elegy, especially in John Milton’s Lycidas and argue that the elegy is supposed to be a public address; it is a mourning, which should be distinguishing from grieving. Made-to-order essay as...

Literary Criticism Lycidas Poetry

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The Issue of Identity in Looking for Alibrandi and Beneath Clouds

3 pages / 1582 words

Introduction  As Josie said in Melina Marchette’s novel, ‘Looking for Alibrandi’, “You can’t hate what your part of. What you are. I resent it most of the time, curse it always, but it’ll be part of me till the day I die.’ In today’s ever-growing...

Looking For Alibrandi Novel Self Identity

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Analysis of Little Red Riding Hood Through Marxist Theory

3 pages / 1270 words

Basic intro to the storyline that everyone knows, identify the two versions that you will be focusing on. As a child one believes that the folktales read to them are just folktales, but in reality, they signify so much more. One can compare the Perrault...

Fairy Tale Little Red Riding Hood Marxist Criticism

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Little Red Riding Hood: Comparsion of Perrault’s and Grimm’s Story

2 pages / 944 words

Introduction An Irish poet, W.B. Yeats once said that “Storytellers make us remember what mankind would have been like had not fear and the failing will, and the laws of nature tripped up its heel.” Over time, people’s interest in folk and fairytales is waning...

Fairy Tale Little Red Riding Hood

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Gender Roles in Little Red Cap by Carol Ann Duffy

2 pages / 905 words

The poem “Little Red Cap” by Carol Ann Duffy is a twist of the original story “Little Red Riding Hood”. Carol Ann Duffy takes a stand where at the end of the poem the wolf does not eat the girl like in the original story...

Carol Ann Duffy Little Red Riding Hood Poetry

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The Function of Flouting in The Little Red Riding Hood

2 pages / 873 words

This assignment will focus on the children’s script ‘The Little Red Riding Hood’ as the source of data for analysis. The assignment will review the function of flouting (as described by Grice’s cooperative principle) within the tale and consider whether this function is prevalent and...

Fairy Tale Literary Criticism Little Red Riding Hood

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Magical Realism in Murakami’s Kafka on The Shore

6 pages / 2913 words

Abstract This research focuses on Haruki Murakami’s fantasy fiction, Kafka on the Shore, that chronicles the adventurous and metaphysical journey of a fifteen-year-old boy Kafka Tamura who leaves his home and his father behind in search of his identity which was turned void as his...

Fantasy Kafka on The Shore Novel

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A Theme of Identity Formation in Kafka on The Shore

3 pages / 1272 words

Identity is essentially who a person is, the way he thinks about himself, the way he is viewed by the world and the characteristics that define him, however in the novel these factors can vary and increase with each character, identity is unique to each...

Kafka on The Shore Novel Personal Identity

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The Influence of Internet on Literature: Analysis of Joy Harjo and Silvia Plath

2 pages / 1100 words

Literature in not like it was in the past, where in the past to get a full understanding of a text one would have to have to read the text multiple times or have to discuss it between a party or individual in person. Today with the innovations that have progressed technology that is now a thing of...

Joy Harjo Media Influence Poetry