Books essays

The Great Gatsby By Scott Fitzgerald: Empathy For The Main Character

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A novel in which I felt sorry for the main character is ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F Scott Fitzgerald. The novel depicts the story of a delusional, hopeless individual blinded by his dream, believing he can bridge the gap between the contrasting social classes in 1920s America, eventually leading to his demise. The author prompts the reader to feel compassion...

Character Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

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The Lost Generation Image And Code Hero In A Farewell To Arms

3 Pages 1361 Words

Behind the best American novel to emerge from World War One, is the embodiment and depiction of the many soldiers who returned to their states broken down and alienated from the war. Lieutenant Fredric Henry, the protagonist in A Farewell To Arms, is a clear illustration of Ernest Hemingway’s idea of the Lost Generation and the idealistic code hero. Like...

A Farewell to Arms

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The Relationship Between Book And Movie To Kill A Mockingbird

3 Pages 1240 Words

It is often a challenge for movie producers to create a movie exactly the same as a book; therefore, they try their best to make the story have the same meaning, to let the audience explore the same questions as a book, and to give the same experience of empathy. The movie adaptation of the book “To Kill a Mockingbird,”...

Harper Lee Literary Criticism To Kill a Mockingbird

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Superman and Me

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In the essay Superman and Me an Indian boy named Sherman Alexie recalls how he advanced in reading above his age group. Sherman Alexie was being discriminated against by the other student in his class and his teachers. Due to him being Native American and living on a reservation his talents went unnoticed and because he was smart, he was...

Superman and Me

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The Events Depicted In The Diary Of Anne Frank And Its Effects On Society

5 Pages 2172 Words

In the dark, silence was maintained. Being loud was dangerous and opening the blinds to see the outside world was forbidden. Anne Frank was shut out from the world, in order to be kept hidden and protected. Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl born on June 12, 1929. After World War one, a notorious fascist leader named Adolf Hitler...

Anne Frank Events The Diary of Anne Frank

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Making Decision In The Poem The Road Not Taken

2 Pages 713 Words

Often times we overthink and criticize ourselves when it comes to making a decision to the point of having regret and sorrow. When we are up against a fork in the road distress kicks in, creating a heavyweight and burden that brings doubt and concerns if we made the right decision. What if the decision we regret is actually the...

Literary Criticism Robert Frost The Road Not Taken

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The Archetypes, Myths And Folklore In Harry Potter

6 Pages 2579 Words

Introduction “It’s changing out there, just like last time. There’s a storm brewing Harry and we’d best be ready when she does” - Hagrid says this to Harry in film harry potter and The half blood prince screen play by Steve Kloves (15 July 2009). For me that storm was the Harry Potter series and the worldwide phenomena it became....

Archetype Harry Potter Myths

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Corruption in Ozymandias and London by Shelley & Blake

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Throughout both Ozymandias and London, the poets portray power through the corruption of both the Egyptian tyrant Ozymandias, and the most wealthy groups of society in Victorian London such as the government, monarchy and the church. Shelley uses Ozymandias’s corruptive nature to highlight how his rule over his empire, led to him becoming an arrogant leader with a love for...

Ozymandias

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Theme Of Blindness By The American Dream In The Play Death Of A Salesman

4 Pages 2058 Words

The possibility of the American Dream is genuinely abstract. To a few, it is living in the lap of extravagance in all perspectives. To other people, it is an opportunity at a superior, more splendid open door for themselves or their families. In 'Death of a Salesman' by Arthur Miller, the author depicts the promise of the American Dream as...

Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman American Dream Tragedy

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Evaluation Of Themes And Characters In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

6 Pages 2592 Words

Kate Chopin was a female author of New Orleans. She was notable for writing rather controversial short stories and a highly controversial novel, The Awakening. Growing up, Chopin knew very well about the “etiquette” that women had to follow in the 19th-century, mainly because she lived in this time period. She wrote the novel The Awakening to show some of...

Kate Chopin The Awakening

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Metaphor, Foreshadowing And Allusion In The Book To Kill A Mockingbird

2 Pages 928 Words

To Kill A Mockingbird is a book that talks about growing up, and innocence. This book is told from the point of view of Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout. Scout is a small girl growing up in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. She has a lot to learn in her upcoming years in Maycomb, as she is...

Harper Lee Metaphor To Kill a Mockingbird

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Hamlet: From Revenge To Flaws To Death

2 Pages 1034 Words

Death becomes a frequent and almost normal event throughout Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. The story follows Hamlet, a young man mourning his father’s demise, who comes to know the culprit behind his father’s death and must seek vengeance for his father. So, Hamlet seeks revenge and he completes the task, the burden placed upon his shoulders, but at what price?...

Hamlet Hamlet Revenge

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Narrative Construction In Hard Times By Charles Dickens

3 Pages 1357 Words

The characters created by Charles Dickens in Hard Times are a collection of victims and victimizers, some pitiable, others damnable. Dickens juxtaposes the errors of rationalism against the established values that individuals hold within a circus group. Through the characterisation of Thomas Gradgrind and his children Tom and Louisa, Dickens examines the impoverishment of life through the metaphor of the...

Hard Times

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Wilderness in The Scarlet Letter & Ethan Frome

7 Pages 2977 Words

Within the American novella, authors such as Hawthorne and Wharton value the presence of the wilderness in their respective narratives, but to differing levels. The representation of wilderness within the authors’ narratives is used to express the inner most feelings of their characters, whilst being simultaneously presented as a physical threat that shapes the lives of others. Wilderness poses as...

Ethan Frome Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter

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Repression, Guilt, and Identity Transfer in Poe's Stories

6 Pages 2587 Words

Many of Edgar Allan Poe’s works discuss the importance of mental health and the factors that might hinder the mind’s function and well-being. The Boston born writer is notorious for his cultivation of literary pieces that include elements of mystery and macabre. Writer Julian Symons believes that “the qualities that make Poe’s horror stories... unique in their kind are not...

The Black Cat The Tell Tale Heart

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Comparing Governments Of America And China To A Brave New World

3 Pages 1171 Words

In a world dominated by government control we must wonder if the government is controlling most aspects of our lives. One main thing that the governments in the U.S. and in Brave New World is birth control. Both offer pills and clinics to support the persons cause. A Brave New World’s government makes the citizens take the pill as soon...

American Government Brave New World Literary Criticism

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The Morals And Importance Of Wife Of Bath’s Tale In The Canterbury Tales

4 Pages 1817 Words

Introduction: Unveiling the Wife of Bath Every “Abril” in fourteenth century England, everyone from the aristocrats to the peasant class, excluding the royals and serfs, was required by the Church to make a pilgrimage to a holy destination. In Georffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, rife with satire, thirty pilgrims journey together to Saint Thomas Becket's shrine in Canterbury, England. To...

Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales

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Jane Eyre' and 'Wide Sargasso Sea': Comparison Essay

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Section A: In this section I will be analysing Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, It is a prequel to English novelist Charlotte Brontë’s most prominent novel, Jane Eyre. This extract takes place in the latter half of the postcolonial novel, part three in section seven. In this essay, I am going to make a contextual linguistic analysis of Wide...

Jane Eyre Wide Sargasso Sea

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The Myth Of The American Dream Exposed In Death Of A Salesman

3 Pages 1227 Words

Miller's work on “demise of a salesperson” is an example piece of labor furthering the social protest regarding totalitarianism and the yank Dream. in the course of the piece, Miller makes use of his voice of sense of right and wrong and passion for the reason of disclosing the reality approximately the concepts. the usage of the perspective of Willy,...

Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman American Dream Tragedy

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The Fault In Our Stars: Movie Theory And Concept

2 Pages 706 Words

Hazel Grace is the protagonist in the novel, as she is the center of the story and the major character. She is a seventeen- year -old girl who has had cancer for a while now. Due to her mother’s request she attends a support group for cancer patients. Upon one of these meetings, she meets Augustus Waters who has had...

The Fault in Our Stars

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Stereotypes in Zootopia & The House on Mango Street

2 Pages 741 Words

Through the movie Zootopia and the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros many forms of harmful stereotyping can be seen. These harmful connotations of stereotyping are dividing groups of people and are usually very discriminatory to a race or sex of people. Society should not be so quick to judge or generalize a group of people and...

Novel The House on Mango Street Zootopia

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Attitudes to the Past in The Glass Menagerie and Never Let Me Go

5 Pages 2323 Words

An attitude can be defined as a feeling or opinion about something or someone. In Williams’ The Glass Menagerie and Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, there are several attitudes to the past revealed in the texts. These include escapism, regret, comfort, the view that the past is difficult to leave behind and comes round full circle. The past is something...

Never Let Me Go The Glass Menagerie

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The Themes Of Individualism In 1984 By George Orwell

2 Pages 696 Words

In George Orwell’s book 1984, we are taken to the year 1984 in a futuristic totalitarian state. We experience this ‘new’ society through the main character, Winston Smith. Winston is portrayed in the story as an average man living in Oceania and working for the government in the Ministry of Truth. Even his surname, Smith, which is the most common...

1984 George Orwell Individualism

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