Essays on Literary Genres

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The Matrix: People Imprisoned in a Simulation

3 pages / 1275 words

What if our world were simply a hyper-realistic simulation, with all of us merely characters in an artificial world? Summarizing The Matrix, it is a movie where people are kept inside capsules and are experiencing a real life simulation without noticing it being artificial. Throughout...

Movie Review Science Fiction The Matrix

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Moliere’s Tartuffe and Its Role in The World Literature

4 pages / 1657 words

“Tartuffe or The Impostor” is one of Moliere’s most famous plays, which premiered in 1664, but remains popular to this day. The name Tartuffe became a household name, denoting a deceiver, a prude, a hypocrite. Moliere is an outstanding satirist, a talented poet, but in...

Comedy Tartuffe

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Analysis of Carpe Diem Poetry: to His Coy Mistress and to The Virgins, to Make Much of Time

4 pages / 1728 words

Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth century a significant theme in poetry was once carpe diem. Carpe diem is a Latin term that means “seize the day.” The theme of carpe diem is mainly used in love poems and may also be described as “Time is...

Carpe Diem Poetry

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Analysis of Structuralism in The Matrix

3 pages / 1563 words

Introduction The Matrix, as a movie, is a perfect representative for an analysis of Structuralism presenting a reality that is torn between the two ideologies, The Matrix: the movie or the artificial world, the double life of the main character or the red and blue...

Science Fiction The Matrix

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"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker: Summary

1 page / 549 words

“Everyday Use”, a short story written by Alice Walker, is told in the perspective of Mama. Mama is described as “a big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands”. The story begins with Mama waiting on her oldest daughter Dee to arrive home. It is learned that...

Alice Walker Everyday Use Short Story

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Representation of Zombies in Zone One by Colson Whitehead

4 pages / 1642 words

Are zombies dead or alive? What does it mean to be living or be dead? Dead and alive seem to have clear definitions at first glance, and they appear to be binary. The definition can be biological (no heartbeat), ethical, and even practical. But is...

Novel Zombie

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The Theme of Loss and Regret in The Remains of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

2 pages / 960 words

There is a quality that every individual strives to achieve and possess in his lifetime. This quality is dignity. In The Remains of the Day, a novel written by Kazuo Ishiguro, many themes are presented throughout the narrative of the main character, Stevens. Of the...

Fiction Regret

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Moving Toward The Destination: an Analysis of Stephen Vizinczey's "Elephant"

2 pages / 972 words

Life and death are two sides of a coin that all humans must face. Life is a beginning, but its destination that we all human share, is death which is inevitable. The trip from life to death, is sometimes long and can be, rapturous and...

Literary Devices Poetry

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The Concept of Home in "Kindred" by Octavia E. Butler

2 pages / 1013 words

A home is one of the places in which an individual feels the most safe and enjoys spending a lot of their time. In Octavia E. Butler’s novel, Kindred, the concept of home is complicated by the clashing emotions of the characters Dana and Kevin....

Fantasy Science Fiction

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The Theme of Big Government in "Ender’s Game" by Orson Scott Card

2 pages / 825 words

A big government can create dangers in people’s lives by taking away their rights. In Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, a young boy is taken away from his family at the age of 6 and is sent to a battle school in space that...

Ender’s Game Science Fiction

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Analysis of The Main Messages in "Ender’s Game" by Orson Scott Card

3 pages / 1586 words

Orson Scott Card’s novel, Ender’s Game, parallels the concept of the Cold War that developed shortly after World War II which was a state of political hostility. New technologies rose in the 1980s as well, such as the world’s first and only fleet of space...

Ender’s Game Science Fiction

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Aliens Versus Humans Conflict in The Film Men in Black

1 page / 511 words

The film “Men in Black” employs both Horatian and Juvenalian satire to explore the “aliens versus humans” conflict. Horatian satire is characterized by a voice that is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. The speaker gently ridicules the absurdities and follies of human beings, aiming to...

Film Analysis Satire

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Depiction on Human Contact with Aliens in The Film "Arrival"

1 page / 463 words

Introduction Movies about contact with aliens are pretty numerous, and what aliens mostly do is abduct, scrutinize, infiltrate, devastate, enslave, observe, and attack humanity. In those rare cases when aliens’ intentions are peaceful and harmless, it is usually not a problem to understand them. All...

Aliens Film Analysis Science Fiction

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The Impact of Technology on Relationships in The Book "Feed" and The Film "Gattaca"

2 pages / 741 words

Technology and the rate of use by people have been growing exponentially and much more than the last 50 years combined. The line is only expected to get steeper meaning more and more humans are using technology. Other than the overwhelming growth in technological use...

Dystopia Gattaca Science Fiction

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Comparison of The Film "Gattaca" and The Short Story "Movement"

2 pages / 849 words

Introduction Science fiction texts comment on the present, made evident through the exploration of various fictional futures. Composers of science fiction texts highlight the differences between the present and their speculative fictional futures through the utilisation of conventions, specifically by manipulating the setting and characters...

Dystopia Gattaca Science Fiction

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Lessons of Motherhood in Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

2 pages / 727 words

Born A Crime is a humorous and serious memoir by Trevor Noah. The book begins in South Africa, where Noah is from, under apartheid, and continues throughout his childhood and adolescence, as South Africa rid itself of apartheid. Trevor and his mother go to church...

Comedy Motherhood

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Motherhood and Childhood in Gabriela Mistral’s Works

3 pages / 1447 words

Gabriela Mistral’s literary legacy transcends sentimental representations of human experience. This study investigates her thematization of mother child-relationship in her monologue “Gabriela Thinks about her Absent Mother” (1923), with some references to the poems “Rocking”, “My Mother” and “The Parrot”. Analysis reflects a well wrought...

Childhood Memories Motherhood Poetry

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Relationship Between The Past and The Present in Octavia Butler’s "Kindred"

4 pages / 1825 words

Octavia Butler’s Kindred involves two central themes of time travel and slavery. Published in 1979, the novel focuses on many issues during slavery in the 1800’s including the abuse of power, gender hierarchy, and the outcome of racial conflict. The novel features a twentieth century...

Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction

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Depiction of Women in Lamb to The Slaughter by Roald Dahl and a Jury by Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

2 pages / 831 words

Introduction Since the beginning of time, there have been vast differences in the roles that men and women play in society. The way society treats women is mostly determined by the attitudes of men living in the society. This presents itself in the short stories...

Gender Equality Lamb to The Slaughter Short Story