Essays on Literary Genres

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Impact of War on an Individual in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road

1 page / 542 words

Introduction In the novel “Three Day Road,” it explores how the Indigenous lifestyle, identities, and behavior were altered through the colonialism of the Europeans as well as their own cultural traditions. The setting is a significant factor in the characters' actions and can profoundly affect...

Novel Three Day Road

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Man and Nature’s Union in The World is Too Much with Us

2 pages / 973 words

Introduction William Wordsworth’s sonnet, “The World is Too Much With Us” was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807, a collection characterized by its Romantic exaltation of nature. While the sonnet has often been read primarily as a critique of nineteenth-century society’s discord...

Sonnet The World Is Too Much With Us

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The Elements of Romantic Poetry in The Tyger by William Blake

3 pages / 1418 words

Introduction Nature serves as a muse and a source of clarity in times of distress; it soothes and re-centers the soul. On the other hand, Nature can be a force of chaos that has the capacity to bring mankind to its knees. Romanticism strived to...

Poetry The Tyger William Blake

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Analysis of What Makes The Raven a Great Piece of Poetry

2 pages / 1091 words

Edgar Allen Poe wrote the poem, ‘The Raven’ in January of 1845 and upon the (book, magazine, etc.) of his piece, he was met with great praise and (very popular with movie and theater critics, etc.), (even though there is the existence of) having been...

Edgar Allan Poe Poetry The Raven

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The Conflict Between Man and Nature in The Rattler

2 pages / 704 words

The conflict between man and nature dates back to the beginning of time, when Satan in the form of a snake tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. “The Rattler” tells the story of a man torn between his morals and sense of...

Short Story The Rattler

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Nature Versus Culture in The Martian Chronicles and Avatar

4 pages / 1602 words

Abstract The innovative experiments and findings benefit the present world with power of predictions about futurist scenario. The Socio-political movements exist, before and at times, provide an in-depth analysis of the upcoming ages and events and the same has clearly influenced the literary genres mainly...

Ray Bradbury Science Fiction The Martian Chronicles

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A Theme of Genocide in The Man in The High Castle by Philip K. Dick

3 pages / 1464 words

Genocide, in which mass amounts of a specific group of people are killed, and cultural genocide, in which the culture of a group is forced in extinction, often arises from violent conflicts that typically have at least one of two main factors driving them: religion...

Genocide Science Fiction

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A Review of The Play The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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On the crisp fall evening, I attended a play at the theatre. The theatre presented Washington Irving’s well-known speculative fiction, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The play was directed by Janette Gaines. The character, Ichabod Crane, was played by Lucas Schmidt. The setting took place...

Gothic Literature The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Theatre

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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

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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