Books essays

Illusion vs Reality in 'The Great Gatsby'

5 Pages 2276 Words

The intention of this essay is to consider the representation of illusion and reality throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1925). It shall focus on characters and their perception of the illusions and realities that they represent, such as Nick Carraway’s illusion of what he perceives Gatsby to be and what in reality, he is. It shall look...

Reality The Great Gatsby

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Invisible People: Perception Problem'

4 Pages 1624 Words

In our society, people often become “invisible” due to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, or social class. A person’s identity is shaped by others’ perceptions, without others’ perceptions of who he or she is, they will feel invisible. In other words, one must discover oneself and not seek for approval because of social expectations and gender roles. ‘Girls at...

Black Lives Matter Chinua Achebe Invisible Man

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Reflections of McCarthyism: Struggle for Rights in Miller’s 'The Crucible'

2 Pages 892 Words

People cannot control their destiny but must live through the hardships and change their perspectives/personality to survive the hysteria. Mankind must persist through the failures and as long as courage drives ambition, their voice will be heard across the world. This power of inspiration is expressed during Mccarthyism, an era where Arthur Miller faces contempt with congress but persists on...

Arthur Miller Mccarthyism The Crucible

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Loneliness, Poverty, and Dreams in 'Of Mice and Men'

3 Pages 1244 Words

‘Of Mice and Men’ is a 1939 American drama film based on the 1937 novel and play of the same name by John Steinbeck. The film was produced by Hal Roach Studios, and directed by Lewis Milestone. This film took place when the great depression was happening, which means it deals with issues such as loneliness, poverty and unfulfilled dreams....

Dust Bowl Great Depression Of Mice and Men

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Notes on Lord Rama as the Protagonist of the Ramayana

3 Pages 1305 Words

Lord Rama is one of the most respected and reversed gods in Hinduism. He is believed to be the seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Lord Rama was born during Treta Yuga out of four cyclic yugas described in religious books. Lord Rama is considered to be one of the most ideal man acquiring several names like “Maryadapurushotham –respectable and best...

Mount Everest Ramayana

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Brief Summary of Louis Sachar's Novel 'Holes'

2 Pages 950 Words

There’s a boy named Stanley Yelnats IV who was arrested because he is wrongfully convicted steal the sneakers of Clyde Livingston who was the famous baseball player and donate his sneakers to for a charity. He was been sentenced in Camp Green Lake for 18 months. He was a kind of boy that has no one friends and he always...

Holes Book

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Elizabeth Bennet's Transformation in 'Pride and Prejudice'

2 Pages 883 Words

Austen’s quote from Persuasion overtly and skilfully encompasses and defends the idea of how women are capable of self-correcting themselves, being perfectly flawed yet finding the strength in learning from their mistakes, achieving personal growth. In her novels she does not make the central heroine to be perfect, rather highlights their flaws and how they overcome it leading to personal...

Elizabeth Bennet Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

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Body Writing' in Chimamanda Adichie's 'Purple Hibiscus'

3 Pages 1385 Words

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel ‘Purple Hibiscus’ explores the tumultuous relationships between the members of the Achike family, inflicted by the father, Eugene. The novel is narrated in the first person, by the fifteen-year-old protagonist Kambili. This essay will portray the significance of ‘body writing’ which will be depicted through Eugene and Aunty Ifeoma. The entire family are subjects to domestic...

Nigeria Novel Purple Hibiscus

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Review of William Blake’s Poem ‘A Poison Tree’

1 Page 558 Words

‘A Poison Tree’, written by William Blake and published in 1794, uses rhyming couplet form, symbolism and metaphors, and tone to convey message. The message of the poem is that humans ‘water’ their anger and let it grow, whereas the poem tries to teach us that this is unideal. The poem ‘The Poison Tree’ is a rhyming couplet. This is...

A Poison Tree William Blake

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Significance of Henrietta Lacks' Case for Modern Medicine and Healthcare

2 Pages 1116 Words

‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’, by Rebecca Skloot (2010) tells a story of a poor African American woman whose cancer cells were extracted without her awareness or consent and used for medical research at a lab of the Johns Hopkins University hospital. These cancer cells, later known as HeLa cells would become a major breakthrough in the field of...

Health Care Policy The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Toni Morrison's 'Sula': The Wright Women Vs the Peace Women

2 Pages 727 Words

Two families, two viewpoints, two destinies. Seemingly, the Wrights and the Peaces are discrepant, conflicting, contrasting, antithetical families. In ‘Sula’, a 1973 novel by African-American Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, two opposing universes the conventional Wright’s home and the Peaces’s liberal household work unintentionally together to build up strength and entitle women to explore sexual, economic, and mental freedom. On...

Sula

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Ethical Questions in 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'

6 Pages 2737 Words

Taking cells from patients is a standard practice of biomedical research worldwide from the 50s till today. The first immortal cell line (HeLa cells) were created from cervical cancer cells taken from Henrietta Lacks, a young mother of five children died in 1951 at the age of 31 after seeking treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital for an aggressive form of...

Cervical Cancer The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Camus' Absurd in Physicians' Professional Practice

5 Pages 2364 Words

Viktor Frankyl, a holocaust survivor recounts his time in Aushwitz in his book, ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’. He found that while himself and others suffered through one of the greatest tribulations in history, they were still able to find meaning among the suffering and thus were building resilience against ungodly misery. Frankyl believed that by changing one’s attitude of suffering,...

Albert Camus Doctor The Myth of Sisyphus

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Importance of Ambiguity in Hopkins, Blake, and Carroll's Poems

3 Pages 1514 Words

Ambiguity has been identified as one of the core aspects of poetry by many. Sir William Empson said of it: “The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry”. This paper is a contemplation about the extent Empson’s utterance it truthful to. To understand significance of ambiguity it is important to be aware that it is only one...

A Poison Tree William Blake

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Alice in Wonderland: Hero or Not

2 Pages 922 Words

Joseph Campbell wrote about the hero monomyth after he discovered that most hero stories have a common pattern and storyline. Joseph Campbell’s hero monomyth is a theory he proposed that heroes follow in a narrative, especially in an adventure novel. His theory states that almost all heroes follow the steps of this patterned journey. ‘Alice in Wonderland’ in its many...

Alice in Wonderland Hero’s Journey Joseph Campbell

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Alienation in the Metamorphosis

2 Pages 1089 Words

Reviewed

Alienation is the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved. Alienation is a central theme that Franz Kafka discusses in his story ‘Metamorphosis’ from the beginning all the way to the end when the main character, Gregor, dies alone in his room. Gregor’s...

Kafka Metamorphosis

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Ender's Use of Empathy in ‘Ender's Game’ by Orson Scott Card

3 Pages 1524 Words

Orson Scott Card called ‘Ender's Game’ a fantasy story which talks about how human and buggers can live in a space, and it can be enjoyed as a tale about how Ender who is six years old and monitors by his brother and his sister that are older than him tries to find a safe and quite place which has...

Empathy Ender’s Game

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Religion and Wisdom of Huckleberry Finn

1 Page 631 Words

Religion is a very controversial subject, in this particular case it is presented in a satirical way under the words of Mark Twain. In ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’, Twain portrays religion as superficial, hypocrite and superstitious theme that goes along diverse parts of the text. Criticizes the conventional religion comparing it with the true religion of one of the...

Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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“So It Goes” as a Main Motif of Kurt Vonnegut's ‘Slaughterhouse Five’

1 Page 626 Words

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The finest example of satirical literature and science fiction, was written 1969 by Kurt Vonnegut ‘Slaughterhouse Five’. The book becomes Vonnegut’s way to release traumatic experiences during World War II and protest against it. He subtitles the book ‘The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death’, to demonstrate many of the soldiers inexperience and little knowledge of the war, and the...

Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five

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‘The Metamorphosis’: Masks, Strangers and the Existential Anxiety

4 Pages 1804 Words

'I am separated from all things by a hollow space...and I do not even reach to its boundaries” - Kafka‘s diaries. It is no wonder that Kafka felt such a hollowness between himself and everything around him, considering that he existed within a monotonous, traditional, patriarchal and a habitual society. Such anxiety and separation from meaningfulness in life has not...

Existentialism Kafka Metamorphosis

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Narrative Voice in 'Frankenstein' and 'North and South'

4 Pages 2021 Words

The extract from ‘Frankenstein’ demonstrates how Shelley utilises first person narrative to express the inner thoughts and workings of Victor Frankenstein’s brain and conscious. Whereas in ‘North and South’, Gaskell employs the use of third person narrative to contrast Margaret’s sophisticated way of life with the working-class characters in the novel. Narrative voice and perspective are important in every novel...

Frankenstein North and South

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The Theme of Abandonment in Toni Morrison's 'Sula'

3 Pages 1430 Words

Abandonment is defined as leaving completely and finally or to forsake utterly. Sometimes in the case of abandonment it causes women to switch roles with males and become the head of the household. Women can use sex as a means of switching roles also and that is what we see in the book ‘Sula’. Men use sex as a way...

Sula

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Various Moral Themes in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

3 Pages 1371 Words

Robert Louis Stevenson’s ​'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' ​was originally published in 1886 during the Victorian era. This was a period where almost every sphere of society was changing in some way, for better or for worse. The story is about a man who finds out a way to separate the evil parts of himself by...

Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Fatal Consequences of Conforming in Kafka's ‘The Metamorphosis’

2 Pages 891 Words

In ‘The Metamorphosis’, Franz Kafka depicts Gregor Samsa and his acceptance with the the psychological and mental repercussions of an inalterable physical transformation. The local segregation that Gregor faces within his household parallels to the seclusion of the cultural ‘other’, who lies on the outskirts of societal norms. Throughout history, minority groups have been oppressed by dehumanizing stereotypes and stigmas...

Conformity Kafka Metamorphosis

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Reaction to Rebecca Skloot's Novel 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'

3 Pages 1367 Words

My first reaction to this book was outrage. What an extremely disgraceful way for medical professionals to treat a human being. Henrietta’s story raises questions about ethics, race, and informed consent. John Hopkins University Hospital should be ashamed of themselves! There is an element of time frame that could be used to account for a practice that was status quo...

Bioethics Drama The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Reflections on Kafka's Metamorphic Themes

2 Pages 770 Words

Introduction Franz Kafka’s novella, The Metamorphosis, is a profound exploration of existential alienation and familial obligation, presenting a narrative that transcends its initial bizarre premise. At its core, the story revolves around Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman who awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect. This grotesque transformation serves as a metaphor for the dehumanizing effects...

Kafka Metamorphosis

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The Depths of Heaney's 'The Thimble'

2 Pages 796 Words

Introduction Seamus Heaney, a Nobel laureate and one of the most lauded poets of the 20th century, has left an indelible mark on literature with his rich, evocative poetry. His poem, 'The Thimble,' exemplifies his ability to interweave personal history and universal themes. In this review, we will delve into the nuances of 'The Thimble,' examining its thematic depth, stylistic...

Seamus Heaney

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Materialism and Inferiority in Kafka's ‘The Metamorphosis’

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Have you ever felt out of place in your workplace or community? Society as a whole has several negative aspects with the main being that people are very hollow. One prominent writer such as Franz Kafka laid out some of these critiques in his novel. In ‘The Metamorphosis’ by Kafka society is shown to be extremely materialist as a whole...

Kafka Metamorphosis

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Influence of Romanticism & Enlightenment in 'Frankenstein'

2 Pages 701 Words

In Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’, Victor Frankenstein runs away from his newly animated monster. Appalled by his creation, he collapses into a months-long fever while Henry Clerval takes care of him. This passage takes place during a pivotal part of the novel when Clerval and Frankenstein both spend the summer studying Oriental languages. It is a turning point for Frankenstein as,...

Enlightenment Frankenstein Romanticism

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Review of the Novel 'Purple Hibiscus' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2 Pages 721 Words

‘Purple Hibiscus’ falls under multiple genres like Bildungsroman and Romance that we see though Kambili’s character but is also a Novel and Domestic Fiction piece. The genres establish many themes and Adichie challenges readers to not just to think about violence, but about religious hypocrisy, family, and politics. The novel is broken up into four parts but does not follow...

Nigeria Novel Purple Hibiscus

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