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Bronte Sisters: Initial Consciousness of Female Independence

6 Pages 2528 Words
Introduction In the nineteenth century, male dominated the world of literature. Even so, it is often referred to as the age of the female novelist (Showalter 3). The reason being, that it is characterized by great women writers such as Jane Austen, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Shelley and the Brontë sisters. These women are just some...

The Joker As American Gothic Genre

2 Pages 701 Words
American Gothic is a diverse genre that often follows themes of terror, oppression, and danger. A popular film, The Joker, follows many common characteristics of this genre by portraying a subject that demonstrates the severity of numerous mental illnesses that individuals fight every day in our society. The production follows Arthur, a standup comedian and clown, who has numerous medical...

Feminism In The Works Of Jane Austen And Charlotte Bronte

2 Pages 876 Words
Over the centuries, women did not have equal rights and privileges as men on many levels. Regarding English literature written by men, women were just objects and no leading roles. However, at the end of the 18th century, women began to write literary works and the female roles became individuals rather than serving as accessories of male roles, as they...

Ray Bradbury And Fahrenheit 451

3 Pages 1505 Words
Author Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois, to Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, a worker for power and telephone utilities, and Ester Moberg Bradbury, a Swedish immigrant. Bradbury enjoyed a well childhood in Waukegan, which he later incorporated into several semi-autobiographical novels and short stories. As a child, he was fascinated with magicians, and was a...

Othello: The Consequences of Knowing and Not Knowing

4 Pages 1903 Words
Shakespeare has used deception throughout the vast majority of his work. In the well-known comedy Twelfth Night, Viola deceives everyone including her own family into thinking that she is a man named Cesario by changing how she dresses, acts and talks, all to benefit herself. In the tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Juliet secretly marries Romeo whom she truly loves and...

Benefits And Drawbacks Of Technology In Fahrenheit 451

5 Pages 2065 Words
With the average adult in the United States spending around 8.5 hours a day looking at screens, technology has come to surround everything in our society, from phones that connect all of us together to the nuclear missiles designed to protect from terrorism. As technology continues to advance into uncharted territory, many people fear that technology will outgrow ourselves and...

Twelfth Night As A Festive And Romantic Comedy

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Comedies treat usually the joyful aspects of human life. Shakespeare’s comic works deal with love’s lighter side and often marriages. Twelfth Night is a very unlikely comedy written by Shakespeare because many of its characters seem out of place and the comedy seems to be coming out of this very fact itself. While focusing upon serious issue like construction of...

The Significance Of The Inevitable Fate In Oedipus Rex

3 Pages 1260 Words
One of the classical Athenian playwrights for tragedy is Sophocles, and is well known for his drama, Oedipus Rex. His plays contain characters who have noble qualities and are liable to their tragic fate. Fate is inevitable in the context of the play. Sophocles intentionally presents fate to be inevitable to ensure the submission of society. In the play, Oedipus...

The Prediction Of Future Society In Fahrenheit 451

2 Pages 1085 Words
Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury in 1951, this novel is about a futuristic dystopian society. It’s about this society that doesn’t want the citizens to be thinking and be entertained doing other things. It’s also about firemen that instead of putting fires out, they start them by burning books. They burn them because in their society books aren’t allowed....

Oryx and Crake: Human Trafficking in Canada

3 Pages 1588 Words
Human trafficking is the trade of humans for forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. Canada has been identified as both a transit and a destination point for this crime. Over the years it is found that human trafficking often takes place in urban centers, within Canada's borders as well as smaller cities and...

Main Themes of the Novel The The Scarlet Letter

3 Pages 1235 Words
In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne tells the story of an affair between Hester Prynne and Rev. -Arthur Dimmesdale two members of the Puritan community of Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1640s. When Roger Chillingworth, Hester's long-lost husband, arrives in the colony and discovers the affair, he is consumed by a desire for revenge. For Hawthorne, revenge is an all consuming...

Theme of Childhood and Adulthood in Catcher in the Rye

3 Pages 1375 Words
Adolescence, a transitional stage of physical and psychological development occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood. Teenagers between thirteen and nineteen years of age, experience awkward increase in stage of their lives. During the teen years, teenagers reveal in some overwhelming external and internal struggles. In the novel “Catcher in the Rye (1951), J.D. Salinger uses the motif...

The Scarlet Letter: Societal Stereotypes and Identity

2 Pages 1025 Words
Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, and society. Parents and relatives form children to follow their principles. Society demands that we present an identity that can be comfortably cataloged. We are no longer accepted for ourselves. Judgment based on culture, religion and a plethora of other expectations has created a world filled with formidable situations, filling the...

Influence of Surrounding Individuals in The Kite Runner

2 Pages 813 Words
Individuals are drastically shaped and impacted by the morals display by those they choose to surround themselves with. The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is set in war torn, Afghanistan in the late 20th & early 21st centuries. The protagonist, Amir, lives in Kabul before and during the Taliban invasion and takeover when the rights of all citizens...

The Conflict and Message of The Kite Runner

2 Pages 868 Words
In the conventional Hero’s Journey narrative, the Hero overcomes adversity in order to obtain their resolution. It is in the face of this adversity that superior works of literature maintain a healthy confusion in which readers find both enjoyment and disquietude, and is in this confusion that readers are able to better connect with characters and find the incentive to...

The Issues Of Love In Midsummer Night's Dream

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In Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare portrays this idea of love as being a hardship where the character Helena represents the sad truth of a one-sided love. For example, Helena loves Demetrius but he has his eyes set on Hermia. Meanwhile, Hermia loves Lysander but her father wants her to marry Demetrius. Throughout the play we see that women are ready...

Othello's Male to Female Relationships in the Elizabethan Era

2 Pages 948 Words
Male to female relationships is a common topic in literature. The women were known as supporting the men in their positions of higher authority and taking care of their family. Othello by Shakespeare is a great example of relationships. In the play, it shows the acts of love and hate for one another in the examples of Othello and Desdemona,...

Tradition in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Jackson's "The Lottery"

5 Pages 2450 Words
Throughout the world People do things for various reasons. Belief, survival, religion, peer pressure, culture or tradition, are some of the reasons the people carry out things. People have various traditions such as Christmas, Easter Day and so forth. Some people have strange or out of the ordinary traditions. The two short stories The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and A...

Medea: The Treatment Of Gender

2 Pages 831 Words
Traditions for centuries have defined gender roles in societies. Some critics today may declare that gender role does not exist, but others believe that they do exist. In ancient Greece, women suffered many hardships. Greek society considered the role of a woman to be insignificant compared to their men. Greek plays depict a woman as either a villain, a victim,...

Of Mice And Men: Mental Illness And Society

2 Pages 993 Words
Do people who are treated poorly in society due to a mental illness, hold accountability for their own actions? Well this question is tested in the book Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck. The story takes place in the early 1930’s. Two men, Lennie and George are workers who dream of one day having their own farm. Lennie...

Interpreting Irony in Harrison Bergeron and The Lottery

6 Pages 2614 Words
Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos, was once valued at ten billion dollars for her idea of a revolutionary machine that could detect diseases including cancer, diabetes, and tumors from a single drop of blood. However she was a fraud, and her Silicon-Valley startup was a hoax. Even worse, some people knew, but never could speak up due to...

The Meaning Op Piggy Character In The Novel Lord Of The Flies

2 Pages 914 Words
A stereotype is a mistaken idea or belief many people have about a thing or group that is based upon how they look only on the outside. The character, Piggy, defies stereotypes by using his intelligence through his words instead of his actions. The novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, tells a story about a group of British...

Real and Fantastic World of Holden in Catcher in the Rye

2 Pages 1059 Words
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, tells the story of Holden, a teenager who is searching for understanding in the world. After his expulsion from yet another boarding school, Holden runs to New York, where he spends the next few days. During his stay in the city, Holden constantly attempts to connect with others only to end in...

Death of a Salesman and Fences: Robbed of a Childhood

1 Page 503 Words
Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman and August Wilson's play Fences portrays the image of both protagonists transfering over the burden of their mistakes to their sons. The pattern of being away from home can become the cause of betrayal, secrets and a loss of responsibility and resentment from others. Troy Maxon from Fences and Willy Loman from Death...

Why You Should Read Animal Farm

3 Pages 1387 Words
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a communist society? George Orwell wrote Animal Farm using the metaphor of animals on a farm to talk about communism. Animal Farm is based on the Russian Revolution and many of its characters are based on real people. Some examples of this are Napoleon representing Stalin, Snowball and...

Gender Inequality in Emma & Great Expectations

2 Pages 851 Words
The roles of Pip (Great Expectations, Charles Dickens) and Emma ( Emma, Jane Austen) are both developed through the influences of social class, money, and the people around them. In the Novels, Emma by Jane Austen, and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the authors maintain a theme of limitations within gender equality, mostly the role of women in society at...

Journalistic Approach In Chronicles Of Death Foretold

2 Pages 994 Words
There are many different forms of narration that can be used in a novel; the topic of this essay specifically discusses the journalistic approach used in the novella, Chronicle of the Death Foretold written by Gabriel García Márquez, and how it enhances the major themes of the story. In this work, the utilization of the author’s journalistic experiences combined with...

The Features of Human Relationships in Othello

1 Page 478 Words
Jealousy and pride tend to take root within an individual and unravel relationships between people. The play, Othello, tells a tale of Othello, who begins to lose trust in his beloved wife Desdemona, due to his uncertainty of deserving her love and lies that his trusted friend, Iago, had told him. In Othello, Shakespeare particularly takes a more pessimistic view...
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