Authors have different motivations to write either a poem or a novel. Writers display similarities and differences when developing their work. The differences among authors may be established on different grounds, including inspiration to write, challenges when developing content for different works as well as factors contributing to their success. However, authors may also exhibit a number of differences in...
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Studs Terkel's Hard Times is a panoramic chronicle of the great American depression of the nineteen-thirties. The book is entirely comprised of interviews and provides the vision of the great recession from top to bottom. From the administration that muddled through the crisis to the hobos and hustlers that scrambled through it. Written towards the late 60s, Hard Times also...
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The depictions of true Christian faith in “The Three Hermits” and “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” resemble one another in that God will accept all regardless of who they are and how they choose or choose not to worship. In the three hermits, the hermits pray to God and worship him in the only way they know, with their simple...
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'The female is nothing but the body.' Following your study of Chaucer's The Merchant's Tale and Milton's Paradise Lost, how far do you think that women are presented as inferior to men in each text? The texts examined in this essay, Chaucer's The Merchant's Tale1 All references are from Hussey M ed., 1975, The Merchant's Prologue and Tale, Cambridge, CUP....
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Johnathan Swift is known as the greatest satiric writer in all of English literary history. Born m, without a father and his mom abandoning him to return to England, he was raised by his relatives. Swift’s childhood was impaired with Meniere's disease which caused vertigo, nausea, and hearing loss. In 1688, Swift migrated to Leicester, England, after the Glorious Revolution...
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During the late eighteenth and mid nineteenth century oversaw the birth and fast-paced growth of the Industrial Revolution in Britain. (Baker, 2019) Factories overtook the role of previously played by agriculture in the economy and the working-class citizen quickly made his way out of the village and into the workhouse. (Barrow, 2013) Though the economy was thriving, there was a...
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Ch. 1: According to Chapter 1, what main event changed Boo Radley’s early life? Predict: What kind of a man do you think he might have become because of this? According to Chapter 1, the main event that changed Boo Radley’s early life was when he was arrested and sent to court. The neighborhood legend that explains Boo Radley’s early...
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This essay will examine the character Victor Frankenstein from before and after creating the monster to gain an understanding of his motives and the responsibility he has burdened himself with within the text of the well-known book Frankenstein by the acclaimed novelist, Mary Shelley. In the story, the reader is introduced to Robert Walton, a seemingly parallel character to that...
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Many literary works have a sense of supreme authority or identity loss in them, which is precisely why this makes them akin to colonialist literature, even when at first glance the books seem to have nothing to do with (post) colonialist literary theory. In Catch 22, we see these elements and more of Postcolonialism through representations of oppressors, non-oppressors (or...
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After numerous adventures around the world that Pangloss had taught him were “the best of all possible worlds,” Candide gained wisdom and reanalyzed the philosophy of optimism, that whatever happens in the world is for the best (Voltaire 2). He saw and experienced slavery, war, executions, dismemberments, torture, and many other evils during his travels. In the end, Candide discovered...
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Two Worlds In the book entitled Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska, Sara Smolinsky deals with the clash of the Old World and the New World as an immigrant in New York in the 1920s as she struggles with placing her individual values over her family. On the other hand, James Baldwin in his book, The Fire Next Time, wrestles with...
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Dracula, a novel by Bram Stroker, is currently still known for being one of the most successful novels in literary history. No other novels have been subjected to the popularity of transforming into a movie as much as Dracula (1897). The book Dracula has been made into various film productions that remain to serve justice to the author of the...
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The book Henry Ford- A Life From Beginning To End written by Hourly History recounts the events of Henry Ford's childhood which shaped the person he turned out to be. The book also highlights the many accomplishments of Henry Ford throughout his life. The main focus of the book is to tell the impact Henry Ford had on the automobile...
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Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1911 Horror Fiction, Fantasy Characters: Mattie Silver: Protagonist. Mattie is Zeena’s cousin who moves in with her and Ethan who she shortly thereafter falls in love with. 'Zeena' Frome: Protagonist. Zeena is Ethan’s wife and they live a struggling and sad life. Despite every vile action acted against her she becomes the bigger person and takes...
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‘Compare how far and in what ways death is presented as harder for those left behind’. Death is often presented as a bringer of horror and destruction; it is a grave reminder of the loss of a loved one, and how the living continue to live on without their presence. Indeed, grief is carried in many ways and from many...
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In contemporary literature, novels such as The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas or The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander depict the cycle of oppression among African Americans. A book from the perspective of a Caucasian police officer advocating white privilege or racism is rarely seen on the shelves of bookstores, much...
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“Good novels take you to interesting places. Great novels take you where you need to go.” Markus Zusak’s 2005 war novel, The Book Thief’s presentation of complex ideas and issues is a perfect example of one such “great novel.” The novel follows the story of a foster child, Liesel Meminger growing up in World War II Germany. With the help...
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Introduction A person undertakes to read and enjoy a work of literature only if he is truly interested in acquainting himself with it. This is not to say that people do not read literary texts due to other motives. In contrast anyone would want to watch a film even if it is an adaptation of a literary text as long...
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According to Sigmund Freud, all dreams contain a subliminal message. These messages are able to be interpreted by a psychologist inorder to find the sources of one's pain or discomfort in life. The process of studying dreams is referred to as psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis has its application in the physical world and in literature. Dostoevsky has revealed the insights of Raskolnikov's...
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Truman Capote is one of the most famous and controversial writers in contemporary American literature. He was a flamboyant character, cultivating eccentricity and a certain taste for scandal, as you can guess from this self-portrait: 'I am a alcoholic. I am a drug addict. I am a homosexual. I am a genius.” In turn adulated and criticized, he was one...
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“We accept the love we think we deserve” Dear friend, being a wallflower does help gain the trust of other people but, does being a wallflower allow those to participate in life completely? “We accept the love we think we deserve” but how do we know if we deserve any better. Steven Chbosky explores the themes of acceptance, tolerance and...
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In the novels The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, the protagonists are both unsatisfied with their lives. They either have everything that the average person would be envious about or they fill their days with partying and alcohol. Both are trying to fill an empty void that the whole generation is...
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In the early 1900’s the American society was influenced with rapid and easy possession of wealth, as we can understand while reading the book The Great Gatsby. Money in our lives affects our behavior. F. Scott Fitzgerald has many characters in his novel; but the most important characters in this novel are Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Myrtle. These characters portray...
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The concept understood as race is the foundation of a continuous socio-political structure that entraps Black people within the racist confines of the United States of America. While race is a social construct that is continually being challenged, the othering of Black folks has not been dismantled since the involuntary migration of enslaved Africans. This systematic structure helped produce emotions...
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1. The central idea of the story; Who Moved My Cheese; tells a parable, which you can directly apply to your own life, in order to stop fearing what lies ahead and instead thrive in an environment of change and uncertainty. Funny, how you sometimes stumble into things that were right in front of your nose, all along. 2. The...
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Women have been mistreated, enchained and dominated by men for most part of the human history. Until the second half of the twentieth century, there was great inequality between the social and economic conditions of men and women. The battle for women's emancipation, however, had started in 1848 by the first women's rights convention, which was led by some remarkable...
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It is not unusual for Shakespeare’s plays to have a recurring, main theme spread throughout and reflected in the characters, the incidents and situations they experience, and detailed suggestions made in the plays. One of such main themes in the play Hamlet is the theme of loss, be it loss of family, loss of possession, loss of love or loss...
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Loss of Innocence What is loss of innocence? Erica Goros wrote, “Never mourn the loss of innocence because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.” It is an event in a person's life that leads to a greater acknowledgment of evil, pain and suffering in society and daily life around them. This is an important theme throughout Harper...
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Hamlet's character in the movie ‘Hamlet’ is very distinct from the other, more masculine characters. This is primarily due to the fact that he analyses situations rather than jumping into action without considering the consequences. Hamlet is described as a ‘floater’ and has a delay in seeking revenge. Throughout the play, Hamlet is put into certain situations where he can...
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Pride and Prejudice has a well-knit, coherent plot where all events and characters are integrated and exemplify the same theme. The Lydia-Wickham episode is one of the subplots of the novel and contributes much to the main plot of the Elizabeth-Darcy courtship and marriage. Wickham as a Foil to Darcy Wickham's first importance is to deepen Elizabeth's prejudice against Darcy....
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