In this vignette “Sally” in the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros illustrates the role of women in a Hispanic culture and many difficulties they’re facing just because they’re “women on the mango street”. This passage is significant as it highlights the difficulties of being a women in the Hispanic culture. As the passage begins, Cisneros jumps...
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In “The Jungle,” Upton Sinclair had two compatible goals in mind: to simulate outrage at the practice of selling diseased meat to the public and the sympathy for laborers who worked in the unsanitary conditions of warehouses. However, in “The Jungle” Sinclair places psychologically shallow, unrealistic characters in an extremely detailed, realistic environment. Thus causing readers to be more affected...
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Stranger Things has become one of the most popular television shows on the planet with its mind-blowing science fiction-horror storyline. The plot of the show revolves around a young girl named Eleven (Milly Bobby Brown) who has supernatural abilities. At the beginning of the show, Eleven escapes from a laboratory where she was being studied and travels to a small...
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Introduction: The Intersection of Literature and Cinema Over the past few decades, the motion picture industry has interwoven with literature, so much so that film adaptations of great literary works have become a popular thread in the fabric of the seventh art, becoming a main branch in the field of interdisciplinary studies. Although the two mediums have their own unique...
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The word symbol, derived from the Greek verb symballein, ‘to throw together’, is an animate or inanimate object that represents or ‘stands for’ something else.1 They use a concrete image to express implicit ideas or emotions, to be interpreted by the reader. In the 20th Century, for instance, the United States used Uncle Sam as an easily recognizable symbol in...
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that” ‘Pride and prejudice’ is the most influential romance novel of our time. Jane Austen opens literature to a whole new technique of writing and critique. A conventionally romantic novel usually focuses on the relationship between physically attractive man and woman. The hero and heroine usually meet early in the story and fall in...
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Introduction In recent years, the exploration of creative arts as a therapeutic tool has gained significant momentum, with poetry emerging as a particularly potent medium for enhancing mental health. The intricate interplay of emotions, thoughts, and language inherent in poetry offers distinctive benefits that resonate deeply with individuals grappling with mental health issues. Poetry provides a dual function: as a...
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This book is about a teenager named Charlie who is about to start his first day of high school after dealing with the suicide of his only and closest friend. To deal with the anxiety, Charlie begins to write letters to a stranger his heard is nice and can trust. He meets two friends named Patrick and Sam who later...
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Initially Charlie was intellectually disabled. He was happy but always wanted to be smarter. Charlie Gordon changed in some aspect, but not as a person. Doctor Nemur had come up with the idea of performing a brain surgery on a patient to make them smarter, this was only after it was proved that it was successful on a small white...
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Through describing a life changing journey experienced by protagonist Charlie Marlow in the Congo River, Joseph Conrad successfully exposes the loathsome evil and savage horror within the center of European colonialism. In the novel Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad challenges a dominant view by exposing the metaphorical “darkness” placed within the hearts of European colonialists. Portraying the European colonialists as...
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Introduction This essay will explain what postmodernism is and how it differs from previous movements, and in what ways this movement had such an impact on theatre and the arts. It will also explore how Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman can be considered an example of postmodern theatre through Miller’s use of techniques, style, and characters. What is...
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In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story, 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” sudden guest descends from the sky, and appears to test the confidence of a town. The townspeople have a troublesome time making sense of exactly how the elderly person with wings fits into their lives. Since this character doesn't fit with their idea of what an angel...
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Throughout Maus, readers feel the grief and loneliness Artie conveys through the use of “Prisoner on a Hell Planet,” which is found within chapter five of the novel. Before this, Artie bottled up his emotions, and hid them from the readers as they slowly ate him up from the inside. Leading up to this, Vladek depicts the Holocaust through the...
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“For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public” (Swift 2431). If you have ever heard of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, but have not read it, you probably have heard something along the lines of it being about eating babies. While it...
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The Giver, a young adult novel written by Lois Lowry in 1993, is set in what appears at first to be a utopian society with immaculate and faultless systems. Although as the story progresses, more and more of the society’s imperfections are revealed, posing the question to both readers and the protagonists of the book, is the community a utopia...
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The Necklace is the most famous short story of Maupassant, and its theme has always been controversial. The most typical one is the theory of love and vanity, which holds that the author satirizes the vanity of the petty bourgeoisie through Mathilde's tragedy. When Maupassant was writing, he used satire several times to satirize the heroine Mathilde. The first part...
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We as humans often like to fantasize about having a more glamorous life than what we actually have. Most of the time, people like to imagine being with someone who thinks is good for them, but it’s the exact opposite. That’s the mistake Mr.Kapasi ended up making in the story “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri. “Interpreter of Maladies” is...
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Having read the novel Frankenstein, I feel that religion and science are counterpoints to each other throughout the novel. There is a constant flow between science and religion that can be found in the characters at once in opposition and at other times in harmony. At first, we find Walton the one who brings Frankenstein’s story to us, is himself...
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The Alchemist imparts the experience of a young shepherd child named Santiago who is capable of finding a fortune past anything he would ever envision. On the way of his experience the child makes sense of how to check out his heart and to seek after his dreams. Through his journey he meets different individuals, for example, the Gypsy women,...
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American Historian of Science, Michael Brant Shermer once stated, “Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.” Identical characteristics are shown in humans no matter what period of time they are from. In Yann Martel’s Fictional Drama Novel, Life of Pi, the protagonist,...
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INTRODUCTION Wuthering Heights was back in those times written by unknown young girl Emily Brontë and it is considered as one of the greatest works of fiction ever written. It is the passionate love story between Catherine and Heathcliff represented as a wild, cruel character. Published in 1847 under the name of Ellis Bell, is considered one of the classic...
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It’s interesting that this book has been censored in many schools, I suppose people are scared away by all the goddamns. However, when examined by a keen eye, J.D. Salinger’s little window into the life of a certain adolescent, is an untapped well, brimming with educational merit beyond what those ignorant institutions are capable of appreciating. This fiction reveals more...
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Introduction to Witchcraft and Gender Roles in Salem For my paper, I read The Crucible. I will discuss the trials based on the significance of gender roles and the Puritan culture. I will also discuss the motivations of the producer and the accuracy of the film. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Witchcraft can be defined as the use of sorcery...
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Modern Drama- as it is known as despite the fact it is more than a century old came to be called so because it rejected traditionally accepted conventions. After the death of Shakespeare, neither Congreve, nor Sheridan or Goldsmith could restore drama to the pedestal that had been achieved by their predecessor. The Restoration and the Sentimental drama of the...
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After its official publication in 1813, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice managed to become one of the most popular and widespread works of English Literature. The novel unfolds the romantic story of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, which is now passed from generation to generation. Of course, the novel is to a great extend a straight-forward love story, but the value...
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Introduction Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, a cornerstone of Victorian literature, is often revered for its complex narrative structure, characterized by the dual roles of its storyteller characters, Lockwood and Nelly Dean. These narrators provide not only a framework for the plot but also a rich tapestry of perspectives that influence readers’ interpretations of the novel’s themes and characters. This essay...
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What makes the ideas of love, marriage and relationships universal? These ideas are relevant to all cultures around the world. All humans are capable of love and create relationships, whether they are familial or romantic. Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice is a modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and explores the enduring themes of love, relationships and marriage...
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Introduction: The Gendered Narratives in Fairytales The portrayal of men and women in fairytales has always served as a representation of societal gender roles for centuries. Gender roles in popular fairytales such as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty invigorate controversy and conversation for critic and reader alike. The role of women in such tales reflect the society of the time period...
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An American author, poet, journalist, and Civil War veteran, Ambrose Bierce had a mix of romantic and realist writing in his time. His real-life experiences created darker themes for his writings and helped him detail precisely (“Ambrose Bierce”). His experiences aided his realistic craft, ideally configured in his most popular and well-known short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”...
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Introduction to Utopian Societies in Literature Utopia is an imaginary world of ideal perfection ('Utopia Definition'). This definition portrays the societies created by the two authors Ursula Le Guin and N.K Jemisin in 'The ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' and 'The Ones Who Stay and Fight' respectively. Le Guin portrays a utopia made possible by the transference of all...
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