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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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In the 1872 novella Carmilla and the 1897 novel Dracula, both Le Fanu and Stoker bestow the treatment of women as a catalyst for exposing the dangers of gender stereotypes, to illuminate social concerns and injustices for the reader that were occurring at the time in Victorian. These injustices are mirrored in the above statement. Both authors allude to the...
DraculaGothic FictionLiterary Criticism
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The black death is set upon the city of Thebes, as the people look towards their righteous king, Oedipus for hope and resolution. Oedipus is seen as a hero to the people, but has not identified with himself: 'I grieve for these, my people, far more than I fear for my own life' (Sophocles 163). Oedipus's self-thoughts and heroic beliefs...
IronyLiterary CriticismOedipus the King
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It is often said that certain literary works and characters within such works represent real-world issues. In the work The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character of Gatsby is shrouded in ambiguity to the reader, providing them with a possibility for personal interpretation. In the work, Gatsby’s character develops from a character representing materialism and a fixation on...
CuriosityLiterary CriticismThe Great Gatsby
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The book begins with an introduction by the author. While it is not part of the actual story, it is worth looking into because it describes the author’s thoughts and comments on his success and the true meaning of the book and its application to his life. The Prologue introduces the alchemist and tells a new version of the Greek...
Literary CriticismLiterary DevicesThe Alchemist
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Stylistic analysis has a great role in understanding the importance of the literary elements as well as the linguistic contents in literary text. An attempt is made in the current paper to stylistically analyze the literary elements used in the concerned short story. Introduction Stylistic analysis is of great importance to know how language functions in a text. It provides...
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Mindstyle refers to the term coined by Roger Fowler, in 1977, which referred to any distinctive linguistic representation of an individual mental self, whether of a character, narrator, or implied author. The impression of a mindstyle is usually cumulatively conveyed through consistent linguistic choices which together cut the narrated world to a distinctive cognitive pattern. To first discuss the particular...
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Dark places by Gillian Flynn and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, similarly use symbolism to discuss major themes within the novel such as the American dream, memory and true crime through the use of narrative of crime events. Symbolism and figurative imagery is used within both texts as a voice to express the writer's inner thoughts, commenting on themes...
In Cold BloodLiterary CriticismNovel
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Lord of the Flies is set during a war; Golding may have got this idea as he was in a war himself. The boys are being evacuated, when the plane crashes on the island. After the boys get out it is washed out to sea. 'He glanced around the scar ', this is the first thing that Ralph sees when...
Literary CriticismLord of The FliesNovel
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Introduction Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, Never Let Me Go, is a profound exploration of the complexities of human identity, the ethics of cloning, and the inexorable passage of time. Set in a dystopian England, the narrative follows the lives of Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth—students at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic boarding school. The novel delves into the philosophical and moral questions surrounding...
Literary CriticismNever Let Me GoPerspective
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The Tell-Tale Heart is a story that indicates that one man’s fear and guilt can drive him insane. This is a story about a caretaker who has had enough of an old man’s eye. His diseased mind thinks that the old man’s eye, which he likens to that of a “vulture eye; it was pale blue with a thick film...
Literary CriticismSymbolismThe Tell Tale Heart
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Introduction In the book 'Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp: Lessons from the Sea,' author Joy Williams provides a thought-provoking and often humorous exploration of humanity's relationship with the environment. Through a collection of essays, Williams confronts the destructive actions and attitudes that contribute to the degradation of our natural world. This essay provides a summary of the main themes...
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