Author of The Female Malady, Elaine Showalter, suggests that ‘women have been labelled mad because mental illness has been defined and codified by male psychiatrists’. Depictions of female ‘hysteria’ in texts such as Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper have notoriously been interpreted as the embodiment of deviance within a patriarchal hierarchy. Whilst The...
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Memoirs are a great medium for learning the in-depth details and story that occurred throughout someone’s long and storied life. This is most certainly the case for the two memoirs written by J.D. Vance and Ta-Nehisi Coates. J.D. Vance wrote his memoir titled “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” regarding his life events in Jackson,...
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One of the most controversial plays of its period, The Merchant of Venice remembers many question. When the reasons are addressed, it can be said that The Merchant of Venice is a rich work on religious, moral, class and gender discrimination. When the work is examined on different topics as stated, the aim of the play and the writing purpose...
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Introduction The 1930s in America was a decade marked by profound social and economic upheaval, vividly captured in John Steinbeck's seminal novel, The Grapes of Wrath. This period, characterized by the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, saw widespread poverty, unemployment, and displacement. Steinbeck's narrative serves as both a historical document and a poignant critique of the socio-economic conditions that...
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General Background Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and then it was published in the United States in February 1885. It is considered as one of the greatest American novels. The narrator of this story is “Huck” Finn who is also the narrator of the sequel The Adventure...
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Steinbeck repeatedly uses repetitive images throughout the Pearl to help convey the theme of how luck can lead to negativity and evil. On the first night, when Kino took possession of the pearl, he seemed to be worried about what was about to happen. Then, suddenly, an intruder entered the house, and “Kino held his breath to listen, and he...
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Maus is a two-volume graphic novel written by Art Spiegelman from the visits he made to New York to visit his father, Vladek. Vladek was a survivor of the Holocaust and Polish Jew living, his survival and the visits that Art made helped create this graphic novel. This story analyzes the relationship between Art and his father, Vladek. Vladek is...
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The Enduring Influence of Shakespeare's Hamlet Although written over 400 years ago, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet has remained one of the most imitated and relevant plays in contemporary society. Interpretations of Shakespeare’s classic tale of revenge have popped up in some surprising places: children’s television programs and films, a beloved Sunday comic strip, a popular television series about a corrupt motorcycle...
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Introduction In the last decade many researchers and readers has analyzed “The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho” through different literary theories and linguistics aspects. These studies mostly used psychoanalytical theory as a measurement to evaluate the story, otherwise others have different theories to use such as existentialism (Hasnah, Lily, 2008) and phenomenological (Mawadda, 2010). The alchemist is an allegorical novel written...
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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, children live in an imaginative world where mysteries flourish but little exists to actually cause them harm. Scout and Jem spend a lot of their time making up stories about their reclusive neighbor, whom they’ve labeled a “malevolent phantom”. Arthur “Boo” Radley is said to be an outsider who never sets foot outside...
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In this essay, a critical examination of the nature, function and utility of juries, as they operate in the legal system of England and Wales will be carried out. In essence, the paper will examine why juries are a fundamental part of the English legal system, as well as the criticisms of their role. Focusing on the jury’s role and...
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Shakespeare's one-of-a-kind play, “Othello” demonstrates how mixed feelings of anger, love, hatred, manipulation, and jealousy can lead to an enduring tragedy. To enhance that message with the audience, Shakespeare uses foreshadowing to create suspense to a great extent in Othello with the rising action, climax, and falling action. In “Othello”, the feeling of suspense plays an immense role in how...
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William Blake’s paradoxical poem “Auguries of Innocence” is described as “prophetic” (Rix, 2005). Contemporarily, Blake was inspired by political and social revolutions such as the aftermath of the American Revolution as well as the French Revolution (1789-1803) and the British Industrial Revolution (1760-1840). The concept of modernity plays a significant role in the poem as it can be perceived as...
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There once was a small law practice office on Wall Street in New York City. In this office, an elderly man of about sixty years of age runs his small business with the help of several scriveners: Nippers, Ginger Nut, and Turkey. The scriveners are employed to write journal work and to help review the works of others with the...
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Introduction In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, the main character Macbeth did everything he could to get ahold of power, and later, he did everything he could to maintain that power. Although the primary source of ambition and purpose came from the Witches’ prognosticates, the desire to fulfill one’s prophesy becomes very powerful throughout the play, and eventually leads to the downfall...
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Pygmalion play is a play which written by George Bernard Shaw, it is presented in the first time on the theater in 1913. This play was about a flower girl called Eliza, she is transformed into a lady from high class by the phonetics professor 'Henry Higgins'. He wagers Colonel Pickering that he is ablt to change a girl like...
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Effective texts contain recognisable narrative tropes that facilitate new understandings of our world and ourselves. This is evident in William Shakespeare’s play, Othello, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby which both portray new understandings of the tragic hero narrative trope. A tragic hero is a character who begins of a noble status or of great virtue. Though this...
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Throughout the entirety of both novels, characters are faced with physical and psychological manifestations of entrapment, from which the everlasting effects transcend beyond the point of their liberation. Whether it’s from Ma’s heart-breaking journey to escape her physical imprisonment in ‘Room’ or Esther Greenwood’s painful course to reclaim her independence after mentally trapping herself in ‘The Bell Jar’, both share...
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I know why caged birds sing is a book written by Maya Angelou. She is even known as the American poet and civil rights activist. She is globally known for the ‘Black Women’s poet Laureate’. Her poems always reflected the image of the society and the problems she faced being a BLACK. Here in her book ‘Caged Birds’ mostly refers...
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“Macbeth” is a tragic play about Macbeth’s downfall. There are several key moments that lead to the tragic hero’s downfall: firstly when Macbeth meets the three witches in Act 1 Scene 1, secondly when he decides to kill King Duncan in Act 1, and finally the order of the killing of Macduff’s wife and children just before Lady Macbeth kills...
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INTRODUCTION Robert Frost is most well known for his poems 'The Road Not Taken' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.' Both of these poems have messages that can be compared to actions taken in the first World War. In 'The Road Not Taken' The idea of making decisions and how they could affect the rest of your life...
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Lord of the Flies is a dystopian allegorical novel written by William Golding in 1954. It is both Golding's first and most recognized novel, it went on to become a best-seller and it was even adapted into films in 1963 and 1990. Lord of the Flies narrates a story of a group of English schoolboys castaway on a tropical island...
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In this paper, I will explore the complexities in identity and its effects on the characters in Jean Rhy’s Wide Sargasso Sea, J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus using the lens of postcolonial approach. The concept of identity is complex and different meanings of it are evident to offer good starting points for a research of the...
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INTRODUCTION No matter what age we are, everyone relish chocolates and candies but whenever we bite a chocolate bar or sip a cup of hot cocoa did we ever consider where it comes from? Chocolates make a person smile when they are sad, it can cheer up anyone at anytime and at any given situation, it is a token of...
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Beauty - a filter for reality. The subject under analysis is the vision of beauty in Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. The fin-de-siècle aesthetic sees in art a spiritual dimension that opposes the banality of daily existence: in “The picture of Dorian Gray” (1891), Wilde gives full expression to his conception of art, according to which it...
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‘The Hobbit, or There and Back Again’ is one of the most critically acclaimed pieces of literature ever produced, with over a hundred million copies sold already and more being picked off the shelves every day. The author, J. R. R. Tolkien, originally wrote The Hobbit for the amusement of his own children, as noted by Christopher Tolkien in 1937;...
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In “A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner tells the story of an antique and lonely female caught in her very own timeframe. Her controlling father died some thirty years ago and he or she has by no means pretty determined her own ground. Her residence has to turn out to be the most hideous home on the once maximum pick-out...
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As many may know, the Coronavirus outbreak was first recorded in China . Ever since then, the virus has spread all over the world and is now a pandemic. Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that cause illnesses that can range from a common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory...
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Alice Walker uses a recurring theme in the short story, 'Everyday Use,' to portray harmony amidst difficulties and conflicts within the African-American culture. She relies on the experiences of people in Mrs. Johnson's household. The encounter happens when the educated member of the family, Dee, visits her mother, Mama and her younger sister Maggie in the company of her Muslim...
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“Being a foreigner is a sort of life-long pregnancy-A Perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an on-going responsibility, only to discover that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding like pregnancy being a foreigner Ashima believes, is something that elicit the same curiosity from strangers, the same combination of...
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