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The Elements Of Irony And Satire In The Adventure Of Huckleberry Finn

3 Pages 1515 Words
Mark Twain satirizes controversial topics such as slavery, civilization, women roles by contrasting them to the natural state of people living in harmony without external social constraints as exemplified by the life Huck and Jim lead on the raft going with the flow of nature symbolized by the river.. He accomplished this through the eventful journey of two companions, Huckleberry...

Comparing Women from Things Fall Apart with Women of Today

2 Pages 806 Words
Although the roles of Okonkwo’s wives in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart appear very different from women today, much of that is actually superficial. Certainly women in Igbo society were expected to cook, clean, and raise the family. They were also expected to help with the crops as needed. This is honestly not so different from early to mid-1900’s in...

Horror in The Yellow Wallpaper & Jane Eyre

5 Pages 2124 Words
In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte focuses on how women try to unravel their mind from the social conventions that they must live with day by day. Gilman and Bronte analyze how women is forcefully living in a haunted atmosphere and tries to slowly move away by their own means of understanding...

Evil In Lord Of The Flies And Zimbardo’s Stages

1 Page 609 Words
In the psychological fiction novel “Lord Of the Flies” by William Golding, a group of boys are stranded on an island with non adults after a plane crash. Out of the group of young boys, two neutral leaders arise which are Ralph and Jack. The innocent civilized boys start heading towards evil and savagery due to their actions and conflicts...

The Freedom to Choose As Existentialist Theme in Waiting for Godot

10 Pages 4776 Words
Existentialism as a concept took place after World War II as people were killed and faith in religion was being lost. The people started to question humanity and the whole purpose of their existence. In philosophy, existentialism stemmed out as a movement in somewhere 19th and 20th century just to question our understanding of life and our very existence. Soren...

The Gothic Elements In Poe’s Short Stories And Poems

2 Pages 742 Words
As we know, most Gothic novels are mysterious and horrible tales which intend to chill our spine and curdle our blood, and they are always characterized by Gothic elements such as gloomy setting and supernatural beings or monsters. Above all, the two short stories which I read are “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”. 'The Black Cat' is one...

The Power of the Sword and the Power of the Word with Iago and Othello

2 Pages 1116 Words
The power of word means the power of manipulating someone just with words, the power which affects people on their mind and not they corpse, we can say is something that hit your brain and causes confusions on your brain and not to your body. On the other side is the power of sword which is a physical power, it...

The Downfall Of Oedipus And Beowulf

5 Pages 2115 Words
King Oedipus was written by Sophocles and translated by Paul Roche, and Beowulf translated by Ethelbert Donaldson are two epics that narrate the tragic lives of two heroes who existed in the pre-Christian era. King Oedipus derived from the Greek mythical stories where goddesses and gods played an essential role in human life saw, the noble King undergoes the saddest...

This is Nigeria: the Most Acidic Satire in the African Giant

3 Pages 1263 Words
Nigerian rapper Falz has picked up the media glove This is America to undress the most serious problems facing his society. With This is America, the American singer Childish Gambino has assaulted in recent weeks the Olympus of the combination of culture and social networks and, at the same time, has opened unsuspected doors. As expected, the shock of This...

Writing Style of Heart of Darkness

5 Pages 2145 Words
What has come to be known as the sublime is an awe inspiring experience, caused by an equilibrium between aesthetic gratification and negative pleasure that one receives from witnessing raw power. What causes this awe is not solely a mere sense of beauty, but a much more magnitudinal force. Using the ocean as an example, one may relish in the...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Slavery, Racism and God

1 Page 707 Words
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was her first book which quickly became the bestseller of 19th century. In the first year more than 300,000 copies were sold but by the mid 1900’s the book was out of printing and returned back in 1960s for Civil Rights changes. The term “Uncle Tom” became an...

Philosophical and Psychological Issues in the Catcher in the Rye

4 Pages 1842 Words
The book Catcher in the Rye is an immensely diversified book in the sense that there are multiple aspects being involved. Everything from hate to love, compulsiveness to Holden's feelings towards his paradoxical and complex state of mind. And that's actually one of many recognizable things that you could notice by reading this piece of work. Depending on which chapter...

A Religious Approach of Evangelical Christianity in Jane Eyre

4 Pages 1631 Words
In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre encounters three different figures in her life: Mr. Brocklehurst, Helen Burns, and St. John. They represent their own established versions of religion that builds upon the foundation of her faith to God. These versions are presented in order to contrast the opinions of Jane which play a central part in her personal character...

Theatrical Innovation in Twelfth Night and Six Characters

2 Pages 1067 Words
Introduction The theater, as an expressive medium, has long served as a mirror reflecting societal norms and individual introspection. William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and Luigi Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" exemplify the dynamic role of theater in both entertaining and provoking thought. Each play, through its unique narrative structure and thematic concerns, challenges audiences to consider the...

Marriage in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

3 Pages 1185 Words
In the Victorian period, the view on women was around an image of women as both inferior and superior to men. They did not have legal rights, could not vote and had to pay for the labor force after the Revolution. Women have to do their inner space, clean their homes, eat their homes and raise their children. Men control...

The Role Of Literary Techniques In Of Mice And Men

3 Pages 1545 Words
Steinbeck begins the novel by introducing the reader to two characters wandering into a clearing. The long descriptive passage introduces the readers to the setting which creates an idyllic scene by using nature imagery. The passage establishes a sense of purity and perfection by utilizing nature imagery. The imagery is used to describe a world in which nothing unnatural and...

The Development of Conscience in To Kill a Mockingbird

2 Pages 1053 Words
To Kill A Mockingbird gives many important themes and lessons to ponder. There’s the theme of racism, sexism, and personal bias. But the most obvious was the theme of innocence to experience. Harper Lee explores this theme through the character of Scout Finch the things she does, the people she is surrounded by, and the events she witnesses. All of...

The Peculiarities in Writing Style of Ray Bradbury

2 Pages 842 Words
Humans have come up with numerous theories about what the future may hold; some predict new technology and better lives, while others predict a dystopia of complete chaos and disaster. Ray Bradbury had a different vision when he wrote Fahrenheit 451. In his novel, Ray Bradbury champions individuality while raising awareness for the oppressive menaces of technology in society through...

Crime, Punishment, and Guilt in Antigone

4 Pages 1787 Words
The interactive oral presentations for the play Antigone, written by Sophocles, has allowed me to acquire new knowledge about the background details of the characters, the history of burial, and the rules of marriage in the ancient Greek times. When I first started reading the play, I was confused with the storyline, characters’ names, and their family tree. However, the...

Retaining Indian Essence in Western Wedding

7 Pages 3056 Words
ABSTRACT Adapting literary texts into films, often disregarded as a secondary activity, is a crucial process that requires the effort and time equal to that of creative writing. An adaptation's success depends on its ability to amalgamate the gist of the literary text and the necessities of a visionary medium, without the objective of the adaptation getting compromised. Jane Austen’s...

Beckett Passage of Time in Waiting for Godot and Molloy

7 Pages 3328 Words
One of the most prominent themes throughout Beckett’s works is the passage of time. This essay will explore the presentation of the passage of time in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Molloy. The characters in these works are utterly constrained by the ways in which time passes, has passed and will continue to pass; from Vladimir and Estragon who are...

Comparison of The Kite Runner to Macbeth

3 Pages 1206 Words
Macbeth and The Kite Runner has a lot of similarities between the characters in both of their work. One of which is the problem and challenges that Amir and Lady Macbeth both face. Their stories are similar but has a different ending. Macbeth features the story of a well respected general and his wife who betrayed their friends and the...

William Shakespeare as the Feminist

2 Pages 728 Words
William Shakespeare’s plays have had an astounding impact on literature not only during his time, but for the many generations to come. Today, Shakespeare’s writing is known all across the world and has left its impact on movies, theatre, literature, and even the english language itself. Before Shakespeare, theatre was a pleasure that only the well educated and wealthy could...

Feminist Self-Development in The Handmaid’s Tale & The Scarlet Letter

2 Pages 1044 Words
Both The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Scarlet Letter written by Margaret Atwood, and Nathaniel Hawthorne respectively are novels that explore self-development within a dystopian society through a feminist lens. They also examine the idea of having self-consciousness under an extremely controlling and oppressive environments. Both of the protagonists, Offred from The Handmaid’s Tale and Hester from The Scarlet Letter derive...
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