When the Swedish Academy awarded poet and playwright Derek Walcott the Nobel Prize in 1992, they recognized his contribution to Caribbean literature as a brilliant response to the “complexity of his own situation”. Walcott’s life and work has always been reflective of this complexity wherein...
To define one hero, do you need to define all heroes? Or can you define one by stating their strengths, and that is it? It would all depend on how you define a hero, so how do you do that? For some, a hero could...
Indeed, historical fiction has long been battled by critics between being purely fictitious and a transformational stimulation of the past, ever since Sir Walter Scott's 'Waverley' in 1814 - the first recorded novel on this genre. Although it can entail a lack of 'critical analysis',...
In his article about scientific research, John Barry employs many rhetorical strategies to characterize scientific research as an application that requires strength and passion. Barry begins with a stark contrast between certainty and uncertainty. By stating these next to each other using the same syntactical...
'The Boy Named Crow' is an excerpt and prologue of sorts from the novel 'Kafka on the Shore' by the Japanese author Haruki Murakami. It was published in the year 2002, with an English translation released later in 2005 which was named one of 'The...
Poetry is literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or an emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound and rhythm. Poetry is a vast subject, as old as history, present wherever religion is present and possibly the primal form...
Since the very beginning of human evolution, we have managed to reach our goals with the purpose of overcome ourselves, ignoring the fact that doing it, we are contributing in some way to be a better species. However, the biggest achievements of humankind come from...
The author often uses dreams and thought as instruments in her novel, to help make readers clear about the unconscious condition of the mind of the characters. The psychological effects of all the major characters in the novel are distinct. The twins’ mother constantly dreams...
Transcendentalism is an idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around the 1900s due to rationalism. During the time the most important transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Lydia Maria Child, Amos Bronson Alcott, Frederic Henry Hedge, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Theodore...
The play talks about Professor Henry Higgins, a phonetics professor, He is betting on his ability to train Eliza Doolittle poor girl to speak the perfect English, she speaks in a tactless manner that can be described by vulgarity. Higgins mother began to fear her...
Craig Silvey’s Australian novel “Jasper Jones” highlights the importance of an outsider to make the readers feel connected and helps to show how a single persons biased view can affect everyone, when it comes to human experience the representation of an outsider helps to shape...
Don Quixote is about a man who spends his life reading fictions, which contain heroes and knights who help the helpless and are not afraid of adventures. This novel is claimed to be “one of the best-selling novels in world, and it is believed that...
The lingering notion of expectancy, craving for self-atonement, ever-present exoticism and a foggy, yet limpid discord of alien libido baffled with covet for power: a dark yet elucidating sphere that depicts the ideology concealed in the novel, Waiting for the Barbarians, written by J.M. Coetzee....
The essay entitled “The Effectiveness of Long Class Hours” is about the consequences of the number of class hours implemented in the formerly known Ateneo de Manila High School, more specifically the 50 minutes allotted per subject. In the essay, the argument is divided into...
Journal title : Source(s) of syntactic cross-linguistic influence (CLI): The case of L3 acquisition of English possessives by Mazandarani–Persian bilinguals Writer and local institution : Nader Fallah, Ali Akbar Jabbari and Ali Mohammad Fazilatfar - Yazd University, Iran. Abstract The study investigates English as third...
Philosophical views have become widely recognized as a handbook for mankind. Though some philosophical views may sound surreal and out of the world, most of them can be directly applied to life as well as the various happenings in life. The earliest known philosophers include...
Sometimes being in a sport such as boxing keeps kids out of trouble. Antonio cruz and Felix vargas have a friendship that is unbreakable and what brought them closer to each other is going to the same boxing gym together everyday. What helps is that...
There were both similarity and difference between Don Quixote and King Arthur. The similarity was they both had roles which made them noble. Both of them wanted the best for those around them. Before acquiring a position of knight Don Quixote was a normal man...
Motif is a recurring image throughout a literary piece. The author Robert Bolt used motif in his well adored play describing the historical events leading to Sir Thomas More’s death called A Man For All Seasons. In this play, water and land motif reveals Sir...
In James E. Crisp’s book, Sleuthing the Alamo, he accomplishes his overall goal of uncovering and debunking myths within Texas history. Every generation within the 21st century has had the opportunity to become educated about Texas history. Crisp tries to relate with his readers as...
“Remember the ladies” is a historical text. Regarding its nature it can be classified as a literary document, since we are analysing a personal letter, which was not composed to be published but rather to stay private. “Remember the ladies” was written by Abigail Adams...
In An Inspector Calls, Edna, only having less than 30 words in the entire play, is still a minor yet significant character. In an inspector calls, every character is representing a place in society, where Priestley Is presenting Edna as the mistreatment of the working...
The short story “A&P” talks about the transition into adulthood of a nineteen-year-old boy named Sammy. In the story, Sammy ignorantly placed himself in a position that led to him having an epiphany at the end. Sammy had a dead-end job, but he felt as...
John believed in the beauty of nature and what the human being entails in the world. He lived in London, England during the 16th and 17th Century and wasn’t just an ordinary man but a poet who managed to achieve his goals even though he...
In the many short stories contained in The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Adichie portray various characters of many nationalities and identities. For example, a few characters adapt to the West when they arrive in America. Also, many Caucasians find themselves disconnected from the...
In 'The Jacket' port of entry and written by Gary Soto duplicate on the characterization and development of the verbalizer. Soto is just looking and keeping his eye on the jacket throughout the majority of the story. Since “The Jacket” uses an exact object, the...
Wystan Hugh Auden is a poet, playwright, author, and a lead influencer of literature of the 20th century. Auden’s work is mysterious, and dark. Additionally, some of his literature is also mournful. One of Auden’s less commonly known poems “Funeral Blues” is clearly more sad...
“I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change” (Sparks). Nicholas Sparks is an American author who was born in Omaha, Nebraska to Jill and Patrick Sparks. Throughout his childhood, Sparks moved around the midwest due to his father’s graduate studies; which put a...
In life, people are always confronted with ethical dilemmas. The same applies to the short story “The Rattler.” The narrator shows the snakes struggle as he attacks and kills him with a hoe. In “The Rattler”, the narrator illustrates how all living creatures, whether human...
Betjeman challenges the Victorian notion of upper and middle class morality by presenting speakers, whom are engulfed by their wealth and social status to the point of viewing themselves as entitled. Although his love for Victorians is prominent, he found it difficult to resist making...
Character is a major building block in life and is essential to the development of literature. Often the development of characters is seen using archetypes. When an author uses an archetype in their writing, they link it to many other stories that use that same...
Henry James was, after all, a physical man. Throughout his childhood and young adulthood, James was deeply affected by the drama of competing illnesses enacted in his family: William suffered from neurasthenia and amusia; Wilkinson was frightfully wounded in the Civil War; Alice struggled with...
The name of the book is Q and A; the name of the movie is Slumdog Millionaire. It is a combination of drama and a novel. Our copy has 89 paged but the original book has 304 pages. There are 13 chapters, they are not...
In this essay, I will write about the novel and the film and compare and contrast them. There are lots of differences between the characters in the movie and the novel. In this task I am going to write about the similarities and differences there...
Jack Kerouac, one of the leaders of the Beat Movement, along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, had a view of America that was quite different from others. Although the term “beat” originally meant weary, it held various meanings such as “beaten down” or “beatnik”,...
According to author Kenny Jackson Williams, during Gwendolyn Brooks’ school years she had attended three different high schools and 1 college all with different racial standards. Being able to attend all of these schools, Brooks was able to experience many different environments and events to...
During the Post-War era, a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics started a literary movement called the Beat Generation. Throughout the 1950’s the vastness of their work was popularized and published. The rejection of standard narrative values, making a...
Cinderella is a poem which was written by Anne Sexton. It presents a story which revolves around a young lady called Cinderella. She suffers a great deal because her father, stepmother, and step-sisters torment her. On the other hand, Lady Lazarus is a poem written...
“The Lottery” (1948) by Shirley Jackson is set on what we would consider a picturesque day. Summer, clear skies and sunny with rich green grass and blooming flowers. It is in an undisclosed town with a population of 300 people. The people of this town...
Don Delillo's White Noise has a plethora of character's in the short novel that are dynamic and static. We are introduced to the main character Jack Glady and his family who are major characters and drive the story forward. They are all of varying degrees...
In the novel, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” it is clearly presented in the novel that the reaction and opinion of Dr. Henry Jekyll had changed as the novel progresses. In the beginning of the novel Dr. Jekyll is seen to...
Oscar Wilde is a well known poet and playwright who in his work often attempted to challenge or subvert the social conventions which were prevalent in the Victorian Era. In Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings and his play, titled The...
The importance of deception in courtships during the early nineteenth century cannot be understated. This was a time in which all affection was hidden for the purpose of public decency, and a true courtship consisted of “a number of quiet, gentlemanly attentions, not so pointed...
In 'Death be not proud' (Divine Sonnet X), Donne turns his rhetorical skills on his greatest poetic adversary - death itself. “Divine Sonnet X” by John Donne is one of his best-known religious poems. It famously begins “Death be not proud” and advances a stream...
John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” explores an argument about the power of death while addressing “Death” as a person. The speaker talks to Death about how Death’s power is only an illusion and is a slace to other forces such as chance, fate, kings,...
There are many differences between teenage infatuation and true love. Teenage infatuation is a short-lived adoration or longing for someone while love is a lasting adoration and longing for someone. This short-lived emotion is selfish, instantaneous, and impulsive. It is based solely on physical attraction...
“Why is Rumour here?” (Induction.22). Rumour is first introduced as a personified figure that reflects upon its own identity and the epistemological questions presented in the play. In the play's 'Induction', Rumour has on a robe 'painted full of tongues' (Induction). Rumour is presented as...
The relationships formed between characters and their environment remain a powerful lens through which different aspects of leadership are explored. Set during the political and social unrest of early 15th century England, William Shakespeare's historical play King Henry IV Part 4 acts as a commentary...
One of if not the most successful and debated of Albert Camus works, ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ is ground-breaking for many reasons, opening with the infamous quote, “there is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging where life is or is...
An emotionally captivating story of an impoverished African-American teenager, Michael Oher(Quinton Aaron), who is isolated and deprecated by society until one day he is adopted by a well-off Caucasian family, the Touhys, that turns his world around by providing him with food, shelter, and love,...
There are no definite reports on the experience of death due to its obscure and secretive nature. Instead, individuals can only imagine it. Literature can provide imaginative ways of approaching death from various perspectives. It is no surprise that death plays a prominent role in...
In Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark, she explores the ways that non-white presence was established in the United States and the means by which this presence shaped national identity. This blackness was crucial in developing the foundation of the nation’s literature. Rather than offering...
Better known as Everyman, this play is considered the greatest example of the medieval morality play. Written by an unknown author in the late fifteenth century, the play was judged to be only of a historical value. However, it was successfully revived on stage at...
“American-Born Chinese” is a miraculous story about self-discovering guys. Linking three unrelated-seeming journeys (of the Monkey King Legend, a lonely Chinese American kid Jin Wang and an embarrassed white boy Danny) with the wax of fairy miracle, the comic book has, more than that, delivered...
World War I weakened traditional concepts of morality, faith, and justice, no longer able to rely on the traditional beliefs that gave life meaning, the men and women who experienced the war became psychologically and morally lost, and they wandered aimlessly in a world that...
Aeschylus was said to have been born in about 525 or 524 BCE in Eleusis, a small town just northwest of Athens. His first play was performed when he was only 26 years old (in 499 BCE), and fifteen years later he won his first...
I attended the second showing of The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe at 8 p.m. on Feb. 1, 2019 located in the David Thayer Theatre at the University of Iowa Theatre Building. Before attending the performance, I had no idea what the synopsis of the play...
The book I chose to write my report about was The Phantom of the Opera it was originally titled “Le Fantome de l ’Opera” it was written by a French author, Gaston Leroux. The Phantom of the Opera is a Gothic fiction romance novel which...
Introduction Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear....
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost is a poem about changes in nature and human life. With the help of this poem, Frost explores various aspects of changing nature by examining that even the most beautiful thing of the world also changes with time....
In the time when silanization was just truly forming, there were only really four places in life and most people stayed in they were born into place. In Great Expectations Pip, the main character was one of the Fortunate few that changed there place in...
Setting The play takes place in the United States, during the late 1930’s, specifically in St.Louis, Missouri. This time period was commonly referred to as the great depression. The time period was given its name as a reflection of the tough conditions at the time...
One of Baca’s memories that truly showed how he felt about writing and how that it started his relationship to writing was his first time writing a word on his first page. “But when at last I wrote my first words on the page, I...
Author Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If”, was first published in Kipling’s volume of short stories and poems, “Rewards and Fairies” and in 1910, it became one of his best-known poems, and was even voted the United Kingdom’s favorite poem of all time. The poem “If” is...
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is an American classic that keeps the audience engaged in the story with its dramatic portrayal of family relationships, the dream of escape, and the way people come to terms with abandonment. As the first memory play The Glass...
Kate Chopin was an author of American origins who was born in February, 1859 and died in August, 1904. In the opinion of a certain scholars, she is believed to have been a predecessor of the feminist movement which took place in the 20th Century....
The poetries and prose texts that I studied in the paper 2 section dealt with topics that include hope/dreams, pride, greed and freedom. I have noticed many of the texts and poems like ‘The Necklace’ dealt with the theme of pride; In the Story Mathilde...
'Girl' was written by Jamaica Kincaid and its one-story people would get really attached with. This story can maybe make you feel different feelings about him because of her language, however, Jamaica Kincaid has not had the greatest life. Unspeakable things happened to her at...
Introduction Mikhail Bakhtin, a Russian philosopher who wrote on a variety of subjects, including his famous work Rabelais and his World, on the French Renaissance writer François Rabelais, where he discusses carnivalesque and Carnival. By definition, according to Bakhtin, it is the period of public...
“Emma” is a novel written by Jane Austen. The storyline of the publication is about youthful hubris and the risks of misinterpreted romance. The setting of the story is in a small fictional village called Highbury and the surrounding regions of Randals, Hartfield and Donwell...
Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey mainly focuses on gender inequality that was present in her society. The author tells the story of three families which stand for different social classes and special emphasis is put on the role of women. The first one is the 'great...
William Blake uses Visions of the Daughters of Albion to emphasize how important it is to use pure knowledge in the face of oppression. Blake uses marriage to illustrate female oppression, while simultaneously referencing slavery. The poem begins with the rape of the main character...
Since the beginning of human life, storytelling has developed and progressed though time, however many ancient techniques, styles and genres have remained popular and used ever since their creation, despite that changes it has experienced. One of the most famous of these ancient genres being...
The tragedy of “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare, was written in the early 1600s. Many people debate whether this play is an Aristotelian tragedy or an Elizabethan tragedy. The main components that are included within an Aristotelian tragedy involve, fate and free will impacting the character’s...
In the Meditations, Rene Descartes endeavors to questions everything that is conceivable. His vulnerability of things that ranges from God to himself. At that point, he proceeds to begin demonstrating that things do exist by first demonstrating he exists. After setting himself up he can...
Biographical Information about the Author Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 on March 26th in Columbus, Mississippi. He went to the University of Missouri for journalism. He wrote the play A Streetcar Named Desire right out of college in New Orleans where he lived. As...
The Tempest has a blend of excellent personas, fascinating milieu and an excellent plot lineally supported by various themes like for example magic, absolution, and kindness, colonialism, betrayal, racism, religion just to mention a few. The purpose of this essay is to the themes of...
Mark Behr’s first novel, “The Smell of Apples” (1995) uses his own experiences of growing up in South Africa in the 1970s, in an Afrikaner family, to describe the social turmoil and racial oppression taking place during the apartheid era. The novel is set in...
Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, like the typical Russian novel, is primarily driven by the mental and spiritual conflicts of its characters. Unlike most other Russian novels, Crime and Punishment features a main character who behaves in a strange manner. Rodion Raskolnikov is a literary “split...
The author of this book is “Phil Knight” or Phillip Hampson Knight, the founder and current chairman of Nike inc. He was previously a certified accountant. He has also held the position of CEO but has since resigned from that position. He currently holds a...
The book is divided into fifteen chapters which are divided into four sections. The first section called “Failures of capture scholarship” talks about history, concept, and measure of regulatory capture. It is important to understand theoretically what capture is, how it was created and how...
“Fear, what a strange thing fear was” In Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, there is no doubt that every character had their weaknesses, but to all appearances, these weaknesses were magnified in certain people. Doctor Armstrong, Detective Blore, and Philip Lombard show humankind's...
Justice Wargrave was a just and sadistic psychopath, who did have an understandable reason to commit the murders on soldier island and his behavior reflects the main flaws and virtues in our society. He was quite intelligent and methodical, however his lust to kill could...
‘’The sea. . . So peaceful today – sometimes so cruel … The sea that dragged you down to its depth. Drowned … Found drowned … Drowned at sea … Drowned – drowned – drowned …’’ A quote that seems so little yet a deeper...
Lanval was written by Marie De France in the twelfth century and according to Pepin, “the twelfth century was a prolific era of anti-feminist literature” (659). Hence, it can be argued that Marie De France’s Lanval is protofeminist as the usual male eminent plot is...
The poem starts out with the title “The addict”, giving the reader a chance to fill in the blanks as there are many addicts in the world. Addicted to alcohol, medication, drugs and food are just some of the addiction the average reader will know...
The following analysis will examine the Phaedo by Plato. The following questions will be addressed: What is the historical context of this period? Who was the author and what is his bias? What was the author’s intent in writing this and whom did he see...
Nikki Rosa is poem about someone’s (Nikki Giovanni) childhood being poor but making the best of it and relying on family to be happy regardless of their circumstances, although colour plays a major role growing up in this black suburbs of Cincinnati Ohio. The poem...
Shobhaa De is at her wicked best in her caricature of an Indian politician. Shobhaa De is to sordid reality what Yash Chopra is to designer romance. He makes things way more wispy, dreamy, mushy and epic than they could ever be. And she makes...
David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885-2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His collected works,represent among other things,an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industerlization, some of the issues Lawrence explores is sexuality, emotional health,...
The experiences and stories of Regeneration are greatly inspired by historical events, sociological influences, and the family history of the author, Pat Barker. Bringing real life poets and their experiences together with a fictional plot surrounding the Great War, Barker was able to produce a...
Cities of Salt: Less Wish-Fulfillment, More a Wish for Fulfillment In his review of Munif's Cities of Salt, “Petrofiction: The Oil Encounter and the Novel”, Ghosh criticizes the ending of the novel as being “founded in pure wish-fulfillment”, criticizing that unlike in the real world,...
To Janie’s strange eyes, everything in the Everglades was big and new. Big Lake Okeechobee, big beans, big cane, big weeds, big everything. Weeds that did well to grow waist high up the state were eight and often ten feet tall down there. Ground so...
The Analysis of Harold Green In the short story “A Loaf of Bread” by James Alan McPherson, the protagonist Harold Green is faced with a dilemma that jeopardizes his job as a grocer and his reputation. As a grocer, Green owns various grocery stores in...
Surely the Second coming is at hand; when a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: A shape with a lion body and the head of a man, / A gaze blank And pitiless as the sun,(2.9-15). Is the world actually coming to...
The Women of the Red Lotus As far as women go, there is a concrete list of gender roles that women are automatically expected to fit into to. These roles include caregiver, mother, lover and personal property. Among these terms of misogyny is a common...
Exposition: A black man named Jefferson is being convicted of murder during a robbery in Louisiana. Not if but when he is found guilty by the twelve white jurors he will be put to death by electrocution. During Jefferson's trial his attorney made an effort...
Literary history is reminiscent of an orchestra. Once a single entity, it further breaks down into families, pitch groups, and individual instruments. The sections play to different meters, harmonize chords at Adagio and Allegro, or stumble off a solo, flat note; such a cacophony demands...
It was published in 1933, Schuyler happened to be a journalist, he died in 1977. The novel is one of the page turner book, because it is a very interesting novel. Schuyler uses a lot of factors in writing his book because of his background...
Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney and Lament by Gillian Clarke both explore the concept of death. Mid-Term Break is formatted as an autobiography. The visceral grief experienced resulting from the death of the poet’s own younger brother is portrayed through the perspective of a young...
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