Essays on Literary Genres

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The Role of Setting in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

1 page / 497 words

Introduction to the Significance of Setting in Literature Literature has the ability to transport readers to another place, another time, and another world. The details that authors use in their settings have a huge impact on a reader’s experience. Setting doesn’t just influence the story...

Gothic Literature The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Analysis of Stockett’s Use of Storytelling in The Help

3 pages / 1357 words

The three main characters of the novel, The Help, are the white journalist Miss Skeeter and the two black maids Aibileen and Minny. Miss Skeeter wants to write a book about the relationship between the black maids and their employers from the point of view...

Literary Criticism Novel The Help

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The Idea of Racial Inequality in The Help by Katherine Stockett

2 pages / 1046 words

The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett, follows the lives and perspectives of three women in a Southern American town in the early 1960’s. Jackson, Mississippi is a stereotypically conforming small town with clear racially discriminative norms where coloured maids work for white households. The Help...

Novel Racial Discrimination The Help

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Comparative Analysis of The Stone Angel and Death of a Salesman

3 pages / 1300 words

Though often unintentional, individuals can be responsible for their own devastating turn of events. This is best exemplified in Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller and The Stone Angel, by Margaret Laurence. Death of a Salesman follows the life of Willy Loman, a failing...

Novel Protagonist Stone Angel

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The Cultural and Contextual Considerations in Mariama Ba’s so Long a Letter

4 pages / 1729 words

Mariama Ba wrote her epistolary novel So Long a Letter to demonstrate the practice of polygamy and its influence on women. The integration of particular events in Senegal’s history such as its independence from France in 1960, resonate with the realities and make the novel...

Epistolary So Long a Letter

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Summary and Analysis of so Long a Letter by Mariama BA

1 page / 622 words

The book So long a Letter by Mariama Ba was published in 1979 in Senegal. This is an autobiographical novel which talked about women in the western part of the African Society. This essay will explain what the novel is about and how it portrays...

Book Review Epistolary So Long a Letter

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A Reflection on Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

2 pages / 1088 words

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) by Tom Stoppard is a play about identity, and understanding one’s sense of self. At some point in our lives, we were all confused about who we were. We questioned what we want to be when we grow up,...

Comedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead as an an Absurdist Play

2 pages / 727 words

Tom Stoppard’s ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’, a tragicomedy written in the 1960s, is a play that is a continuation of ‘Hamlet’, which expounds the events faced by both Rosencrantz and Guildenstern upon their arrival to England. The play ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’ is...

Comedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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The Issue of Equal Rights in Alex Haley’s Novel Roots

3 pages / 1333 words

In Alex Haley’s novel Roots, he expresses the struggles and challenges of African American men and women. He turns bad situations into a beautiful thing by including the love that everyone in the book had for their families. The challenges faced were of gaining power...

American Literature Novel Roots

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Analysis of Character Depiction in Ransom and Beowulf

3 pages / 1489 words

Through the use of characterisation, the true identities and traits of characters are able to be revealed to readers, particularly when viewed through qualities such as leadership. Collectively, this leads to narrative meaning becoming a tool that initiates thinking through the use of emotive language...

Character Novel Ransom

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The Similarities Between The Novel Ransom and The Film Invictus

2 pages / 806 words

In the novel Ransom written by David Malouf and the film Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood, both show worlds and people that are deeply divided. Both Invictus and Ransom explore how historical forces divide people into different, often conflicting groups – whether this be race,...

Novel Ransom

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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