Essays on Literary Genres

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The War Theme in 'A Loaf of Bread' by Ranar Bitar

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Ranar Bitar has published ten poems in a book called A Loaf of Bread. You can read through them in less than an hour, and empathize with emotions so deep; you wonder that they are coming from you. Bitar’s skill is to touch on commonly...

Book Report Book Review Poetry

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Poe’s Message in The Tell-tale Heart

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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” is told by a mentally unstable murder who is going insane and is trying to prove that he is completely normal. He does this by saying he has an immaculate sense of hearing, ‘I heard all things in the...

Edgar Allan Poe Short Story The Tell Tale Heart

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Reflection on The Poem Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave

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“Human is a sociable animal,” or “human is a sociable creature” is known as a quotation that belongs to Aristo. Starting from this point of view, every human being surely thinks that we as a human are not able to live alone. It means that...

Poetry Thomas Hardy

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Theme of Greed in The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving

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Introduction In the book “The Devil and Tom Walker,” written by Washington Irving, many different themes are explored. All themes in the story can connect to choices we all could make and the consequences we might regret in our lives today. Greed and wealth are...

Short Story The Devil and Tom Walker

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Romeo and Juliet: a Tragic Love Story

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Romeo and Juliet, a tragic love story written by William Shakespeare. A pair of star-crossed lovers that fall in love. Unfortunately, fate is against them and the misfortune is what leads to a tragic and sorrowful ending. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it...

Romeo and Juliet Tragedy William Shakespeare

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Overview of 'When The Emperor Was Divine' by Julie Otsuka

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When The Emperor was Divine by Japanese-American author Julie Otsuka is a fascinating and moving novel. The powerful story of a Japanese-American family during WWII is a reference to thousands of families who suffered internment in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. This...

Book Review Novel When The Emperor Was Divine

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Parallels to Today in 1984 by George Orwell

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In 1984, O’Brien says, “Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear and rage”. That is something which is a parallel to today because our world now is based on hate and deception. A society can survive if...

1984 Dystopia George Orwell

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Chaucer’s Ideas of an Immoral World in The "Lak of Stedfastnesse"

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Avarice is the ultimate mechanism for diluting a compassionate man’s generosity, driving him into corrupt practices. These effects of greed are developed through Geoffrey Chaucer’s, The Canterbury Tales, in which he implements various forms of mockery to reveal loss of ethics. Chaucer satirizes human life,...

Geoffrey Chaucer Poetry The Canterbury Tales

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A Scary Story: Believing in Ghosts Exist in Real World

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Have you ever heard a crazy ghost story? A scary story that sounds so crazy that a child may have made it up? When you think of ghosts, you might often think they are embodiments of people who have died, which appear in a somewhat...

Fear Ghost Short Story

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Review of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy' Written by Douglas Adams

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Have you ever asked yourself what the meaning of life was? If so, you will have to wait for another 7.5 million years since Earth was destroyed 5 minutes before the answer was revealed. Luckily for human Arthur Dent, a lazy, comedic average Joe, and...

Book Review Science Fiction

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Setting and Symbolism in 'The Devil and Tom Walker'

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Washington Irving wrote a short story “The Devil and Tom Walker”. Showing the way people may be on the outside but how they truly are on the inside. An example being Tom Walker he’s a quiet guy but on the inside he is a greedy...

Literary Devices Short Story The Devil and Tom Walker

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Literary Analysis of The Poem Incident by Countee Cullen

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The poem The Incident by Countee Cullen is a perfect example of a lyric. A lyric is a brief poem that expresses a writer’s emotions and thoughts through shorts stanzas, and that he certainly does. While reading the poem you can recognize there are three...

Incident Poetry

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Pigs as a Symbol of Loss of Civility and Innocence in Lord of The Flies

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In the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding includes many characters or objects that act as symbols. Pigs are one example that symbolizes many concepts including the loss of civility, innocence as well as the inner desire and want in mankind. To begin, the obsession...

Lord of The Flies Novel William Golding

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Analysis of Carol Ann Duffy’s Poem Shooting Stars

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Carol Ann Duffy’s poem entitled ‘Shooting Stars’ originally published in her first anthology “The World’s Wife” in 1999 is an emotive recount of the treatment of Jewish prisoners of the Holocaust during WWII. Whilst Duffy was not personally involved in the events that she explores...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry

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The Theme of Love in Two Poems: "To The Ladies" and "Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines"

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Poetry connects the conscious with the subconscious mind to produce a catharsis. The poem To the Ladies by Mary Chudleigh talks about how marriage turns a man evil and controlling back in the 1700s and that women were treated more like servants than wives. Tonight...

Pablo Neruda Poetry

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Theme of Courage in The Book Thief

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Throughout the years, humans have been known to stand up for what they believe in. As many people know, history tends to repeat itself. In the novel The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, he uses characters to repetitively show acts of courage in the...

Novel The Book Thief

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Symbolism in J.m. Coetzee’s Novel Disgrace

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Why does symbolism matter? Symbolism is used to reflect something else, to contribute to the development of meaning and emotion in a narrative. Symbolism is what makes the story so true to the audience in all novels. It is the perception of a person that...

Literary Devices Novel Symbolism

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Summary and Main Themes of The Novel Atonement

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Ian McEwan portrays a theme of architectural detail throughout his novel Atonement. Through the use of these descriptions, McEwan constructs the theme of guilt, and the quest of finding atonement, that follows through his main character, Briony Tallis. Briony, who is a writer, writes these...

Atonement Novel

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Themes and Literary Techniques in Atonement by Ian Mcewan

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Through a critical reading of an excerpt from the novel Atonement by Ian McEwan, many formal and stylised characteristics can be identified in assisting the success with which the novel delivers it’s themes to the readers. Some of the techniques used in this specific excerpt...

Atonement Literary Devices Novel