Essays on Literary Genres

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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

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Santiago’s Life Obstacles in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

4 pages / 1744 words

The greatest and most important adventure in our lives is discovering our true purpose in this world. Whether we are embarking on a new-found love interest or wanting to explore our utmost life’s aspirations, we will always experience obstacles along the way. In Paulo Coelho’s...

Novel The Alchemist

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The Alchemist: The Importance of Following Dreams

1 page / 499 words

Nobody follows their dreams; in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist it is stressed that everyone has a designated personal legend. In the reading, it demonstrates “people’s inability to choose their own personal legends” inflicted by the world’s greatest lie: “our lives become controlled by fate” (Coelho,...

Novel The Alchemist

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A Theme of Fear in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

3 pages / 1332 words

Fear is in all human beings that always pulls us back into the darkness. It is also something that will protect us by signaling danger and preparing us to deal with it. But behind that fear is your Personal Legend. A Personal Legend is your...

Novel The Alchemist

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Bartleby, The Scrivener: Alienation and Loss Od Individuality

3 pages / 1571 words

Living in the 21th century, with unprecedented material abundance, we post-modern people, on the one hand, feel lucky to be blessed with the glories of this productive industrial era; on the other hand, however, we are frequently confronted with the problem of relocating ourselves in...

Bartleby The Scrivener Short Story

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The Quarrel of Social Responsibility Vs Social Isolation in Bartleby, The Scrivener

2 pages / 752 words

Written by Herman Melville, Bartleby, The Scrivener, is a short story that tells the tale of a fortunate lawyer on Wall Street who hires a scrivener named Bartleby to serve for his law firm. In the beginning, he is an excellent copyist but as the...

Bartleby The Scrivener Short Story

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Literary Analysis of The Monkey’s Paw by William Jacobs

3 pages / 1262 words

In “The Monkey’s Paw,” author William Jacobs delivers a cautionary tale about unexpected consequences and how achieving what we wish for might prove catastrophic in ways we would not expect. This terrifying story follows the White family who receive a talisman, a monkey’s paw that...

Short Story The Monkey’S Paw

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How Richard Louv Influences The Audience in The Last Child in The Woods

3 pages / 1250 words

In Richard Louv’s novel, The Last Child in the Woods, Louv argues that our society’s advancement in technology is furthering the separation between today’s generation and nature itself. Louv’s use of indirectly implying his main idea, having a narrative that consists of countless thought provoking...

Book Review Novel

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A Theme of The Loss of Identity in When The Emperor Was Divine

3 pages / 1582 words

Ever since the Pearl Harbour Attack on December 7th 1941, the United States opened hostilities with Japan and the relationship between the two nations reached an extremely tense situation. The profound effect of the war was that numerous Japanese started their hardships and sufferings in...

Novel When The Emperor Was Divine