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The plot: The story is about a class of schoolchildren on Planet Venus. The atmosphere of Venus is such that it is constantly raining. The sun is only visible for two hours every seven years. Margot is a little girl who moved to Venus from Earth just five years before the story takes place, so she is the only one...
All Summer in a DayConflictLiterary Criticism
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The American Dream has played a pivotal role in the aspirations of many Americans. Although the American Dream has been traditionally represented by the idealistic symbol of the “white picket fence”, the dream is perceived differently by different people. For many, this dream resides in the acquisition of money. However, for the characters in literary works such as A Raisin...
A Raisin in the SunCharacterLiterary Criticism
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Introduction 'Revolutionary Road,' written by Richard Yates, is a thought-provoking novel that delves into the lives of Frank and April Wheeler, a young couple struggling with the realities of suburban life in the 1950s. The novel explores various themes, including the pursuit of personal fulfillment, societal expectations, and the complexities of marriage. One significant aspect of the story is the...
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Mary Shelley, with her splendid story of humanity's fixation on two restricting powers: creation and science, keeps on drawing perusers with Frankenstein's numerous implications and impact on society. Frankenstein has had a significant impact crosswise overwriting and popular culture and was one of the significant supporters of a new sort of ghastliness. Frankenstein is most celebrated for being viewed as...
FrankensteinLiterary CriticismNovel
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A key theme of the short story is mental health. The narrator struggles with his sanity. He begins by asking the reader directly, 'How then am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story.' this then leads into a paragraph that essentially says that he is going to kill an old man...
Literary CriticismShort StoryThe Tell Tale Heart
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Prometheus Unbound, a lyrical drama depicting the resistance of Prometheus against the supreme ruler of Jupiter, was published by Percy Bysshe Shelley in the early 1800s. This drama depicted the punishment Prometheus received on a mountaintop since he gave fire to humanity. Shelley published this story in 1820, which was during a period of great social upheaval in England due...
ForgivenessLiterary CriticismPerspective
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Another tool Geoffrey Chaucer includes in his fabliau tale centered around immorality is an engaging love story. The plot revolves around an unorthodox love triangle. Both men involved in this threesome attempt to win Alisoun’s hand by any means necessary, as discussed in the previous paragraph. This story about romance and courtship helps Chaucer in his purpose to uncover the...
CheatingLiterary CriticismThe Canterbury Tales
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Urban decay is the setting. Why is this important? Urban decay is very important as a setting in 1984, as it is another example of an unjust social system. The Inner Party doesn't care about the living conditions of the Outer Party and the Proles, it shows they don’t have their best interests at heart. If the people they govern...
1984Literary CriticismNovel
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“Is this a dagger I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight, or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?” This is a reflection...
Literary CriticismMacbethWilliam Shakespeare
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The importance of this scene illustrates how truly innocent Desdemona is, innocent of the crime of adultery, which she has been wrongly accused, by her husband, Othello and innocent in regard to the ways of the world. If Desdemona doubts whether women are capable of cheating, this shows how distant she is from committing such an act. The whole scene...
CharacterLiterary CriticismOthello
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In a harsh future, a firefighter whose obligation is to demolish all books starts to scrutinize his assignment. Fellow Montag is a fireman who lives in a desolate, confined society where books have been banned by the government who are in fear of a freethinking society. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury uses weather to display character’s emotions and to foreshadow events...
Fahrenheit 451Literary CriticismRay Bradbury
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Satire is the use of humor, irony, or exaggeration to expose and criticize people’s immoral behavior, usually when it has to deal with politics or other controversial topics. It can also be described as any piece of writing or media that was designed to make the reader feel critical, whether it be of themselves, their peers, or their society. It...
Gulliver’s TravelsLiterary CriticismSatire
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Working hard and thoroughly planning is a necessary key to accomplishing the goals one will set in life, but what usually happens is that something will go wrong, and it’s usually something out of anyone’s control. Despite how stressful and discouraging it is to see plans and schedules get messed up, the only thing that can be done now is...
HopeLiterary CriticismMarriage
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When the word “feminist” comes to mind, people typically tend to think of a strong independent female. However, historically speaking, women have been portrayed as emotionally, weak and inferior to men. Until recently, women have been unable to shake off the image of “a damsel in distress” who is only ever capable of caring and loving. Even though Mary Shelley’s...
CharacterFrankensteinLiterary Criticism
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There are many existential questions that modern philosophers still have yet to answer. Some of these questions follow the question of Who am I? What is my purpose in life? How do I know what to believe? Many philosophers have spent their entire lives trying to answer these questions but none have been able to truly answer those questions before...
CharacterHamletLiterary Criticism
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Introduction Karen M. McManus's novel, One of Us Is Lying, presents a compelling exploration of adolescent turmoil, mystery, and identity. The story unfolds in a high school setting, where five students walk into detention, but only four leave alive. Each character in the narrative carries a unique role, contributing to a multifaceted storyline that captivates the reader's attention. This essay...
CharacterLiterary CriticismLying
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Development 'No [woman] can be esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her...
CharacterJane AustenLiterary Criticism
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'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a magnificent illustration of society’s deficiencies. The story primarily focuses on individuals’ lack of value, and judgements towards their neighbor and highlights the nature of human beings and inconsistency of faith by contrasting the community's reactions to the old man. When an angel comes into your house, what...
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‘... a renewed sense of passion for the wild, the unfamiliar, the irregular, and the irrational’. (1317) This is how David Damrosch described the Romantic literary movement in ‘ The Longman Anthology of British Literature’. In this essay, I aim to prove that Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights embodies these core concepts and as a result shows that this text is...
Literary CriticismRomanticismWuthering Heights
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The theme of good vs evil is practically the heart of this literary epic just like the heart of Te Fiti is the constant in the movie Moana. Each character in the story plays a role that allows for the development of the theme of good vs evil. Each character also has a background and motives that provide good reasoning...
BeowulfLiterary CriticismPoetry
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In the memoir, A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, He shares his experiences that we can learn more about and understand and he guides us through his daily life. For Beah, his childhood is not very pleasant and he encountered the horrors of war, loss of innocence, and how humans can change given the circumstances they endure. Throughout the...
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Christine de Pizan, a prominent moralist and political thinker, defends the excellence and good virtue of women in her book City of Ladies. It is through this book that she wants to underline the critical roles women play within society which are commonly forgotten or not acknowledged with the help of the three virtues: Reason, Rectitude, and Justice. Christine tackles...
AntigoneLiterary CriticismTragedy
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Throughout the 1950s life was very limited for African American women. They were racially discriminated against and classified as second-class. African American people were afraid to stand up for their rights, and the limited freedoms they had were lost. In the 1950’s colored people were mistreated and abused by white people because of their lower status. 'A Raisin in the...
A Raisin in the SunCharacterLiterary Criticism
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After watching a scene from Act 3 scene 1 within the Hamlet movie, produced by Andrew Fierberg and Amy Hobby it’s instantly evident a modern approach was taken. The characters are dressed with what would be in style in the year 2000 when the movie was released. While also having their hair styled to suite the modern day, while in...
HamletHamlet MadnessLiterary Criticism
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A Hope in the Unseen is set in the city of Washington, D.C., in the 1990s, where Cedric Jennings works to elevate himself out of hardship as well as the pathway to attending Brown University. The book showcases Cedric’s accomplishments and failures along the way, centering on the strife that African Americans all over the world face when they strive...
CharacterHopeLiterary Criticism
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All stories have various elements. At TellTale Heart, literary learners not only have a deeper understanding of the essence of the story through the five elements but also a deeper understanding of why Edgar Allan Poe created the story. By spending time and energy digging into the details, setting, relevant historical background, and author biography, people begin to see the...
CharacterLiterary CriticismThe Tell Tale Heart
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A Bildungsroman is considered a novel in which “regular development is observed in the life of the individual, with each of the stages having its intrinsic value and is at the same time the basis for a higher stage” (Boes, 2006). The Bildungsroman genre became popular and was spread during the Victorian era, when writers forged protagonists, such as Jane...
CharacterLiterary CriticismWuthering Heights
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Abstract Oedipus Rex and Faustus are two very different characters with tragic yet, similar fates that they reach to, in different ways and actions. Oedipus’s character goes through numerous trials of fate and tries his best to overcome the fate written for him. Faustus, on the other hand, pulls the story’s plot towards him and he is a scholar, who...
Doctor FaustusLiterary CriticismOedipus the King
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Concerning your wider reading explore and comment on how identity is presented in George Orwell's 1984 and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go Identity is how you see yourself; it also refers to your own perceived idea of how you view yourself which is ultimately affected by how others see you. This highlights that an individual does not have a...
1984DystopiaLiterary Criticism
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Never Let Me Go is set in a dystopian world of late 1990s England, in which human clones are created, so they can donate their organs as young adults. It gives a thought to the issue of organ donation. The organ donors are obtained from human clones. Never Let Me Go - tells about the lives of cloned children, who...
DystopiaLiterary CriticismNever Let Me Go
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