mily Dickinson, an early 19th century American poet, can be regarded as the most influential, and frankly the most important poet to ever grace the American poetry landscape. Writing as a woman in an ever growing patriarchal society, Dickinson laid out the framework for many young women to express their words, feelings, and thoughts in a brand new discourse unbeknownst...
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Out of all the short stories that I have learnt, “A Worn Path” written by Eudora Welty would be my favorite because this short story tells the tale about an old African-American grandmother who walks to a town to acquire some medicine for her grandson. At first, while reading this story, it is not clear where Phoenix is headed or...
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The word Comedy from the textbook The Theatre Experience is defined as, in general, a play that is light in tone, is concerned with the issues that pointed out the excesses and folly human behavior, has a happy ending, and is designed to amuse (Wilson, 2014. Pg.178). The elements that the film showed are that it was a comedy and...
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“Narcissists try to destroy your life with lies because theirs can be destroyed with the truth.” We are all encouraged at an early age to tell the truth. Told that we can better our lives if we follow this single rule. Yet deception and lies still creep into our lives. We're each lied to 10 to 200 times a day,...
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Although revenge is the most obvious theme in Hamlet, Shakespeare writes extensively about madness. As the play progresses, the thin line between sanity and madness blurs, leaving readers to wonder if Hamlet is insane. Ophelia has a minor role in the play, but the theme of madness is central to her story. Even Claudius has moments of madness when he...
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King Lear is a play written by William Shakespeare, dating back to Elizabethan times. This play follows the stories of two royal families and the dysfunction within it. The parents and children from the families all possess qualities and attributes that prove them to be inhumane. As much as we do not see it, children exhibit some of our greatest...
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Truth. It is the real facts about a situation, event, or person or the quality of being true, as described by the Cambridge Dictionary. But really this may not be one hundred per cent accurate as one person may have their own truth and experience that is different to the next person and same with the next and so on....
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One of the traits of an epic is that a character must have a transformation of nature throughout their journey in the narrative. For the Odyssey, that character would be Odysseus. Through all the encounters with gods, giants, monsters, and humans, each which helps in his development, he is able to grow into a different man as he manages to...
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Lewis Carroll, who is the author of Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, is a famous British fairy tale writer, mathematician and logician. Alice's Adventure in Wonderland is one of his representative works. The book tells the growth of a little girl, Alice, from the rabbit hole fall into a magical world, and met many creatures and experienced many beautiful adventures; At...
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The book “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is a novel that tells the story of the multi-generation of the Buendía family. The first generation were the founders of Macondo, a small town that was first isolated from the outside world in which we are first introduced to solitude, one of the first oppositions throughout the novel...
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Iceberg theory is an approach of writing practiced by numerous writers in which distinct parts of a story are concealed, some details that both the writer and the readers know naturally and intuitively. Ernest Hemingway gave the name to this method and felt that this approach of writing creates a stronger connection with the readers as the reader is perceptive...
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Humans differ in personality. What a man love may be a dislike to another. We are also associated with one culture or the other, which often shape our choice to life, culture, and heritage. It is however not uncommon to see people reject their culture and heritage. They tend to go after a culture which seems to be more valuable...
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In the book Man’s Search for Meaning, we get a personal perspective of one man’s experiences and survival of the Nazi concentration camps. During World War II, Victor Frankl was separated from his wife, his parents, and everything he knew and was taken to Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapist. While at the camps he derived...
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Recurrently, ideals comprise a further connotation apart from the word arrangement on the paper, the symbols so graciously called letters constitute the smallest portion of the main theme. A wordsmith is entirely capable under approximate circumstances to tell a short story with scarcely any indirect utterances that substantiates the theme. Words do not perpetually comprise the theme; under certain circumstances...
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Every poem has its own way to interpret the message that the author is trying to convey. This happens through the usage of figurative language. The poems “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell have their own interpretations of a mistress through a variety of elements, but both...
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Dystopian Societies and Female Oppression: An Overview The protagonists in both ‘The Handmaids Tale’ by Margaret Atwood and ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ by Khalid Hosseini suffer in the societies in which they exist. Similarly, the theme of religious oppression underpins the suffering of the female protagonists in both the fictitious, dystopian society of Gilead in ‘The Handmaids Tale’ and the...
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This essay will develop a brief critic and analysis of the play ‘A Doll’s House’, written by the playwright Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen wrote this play when he was in Rome and Amalfi in 1879 and he published it the same year. The play can be seen as a modern tragedy, as it has an unhappy ending and revolves around complex,...
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Introduction to Robinson Crusoe and its Themes The novel Robinson Crusoe is written by Daniel Defoe and was first published in the year 1719. It is about a man named Robinson Crusoe, from England who has a dream to explore the sea. Robinson’s father does not agree with his dreams and wants him to live a normal middle-class lifestyle. Robinson’s...
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At present, our society is facing various social inequalities. A significant problem is discrimination against minorities in the community and workplace. These minorities are neglected and concealed of these inequalities also by the media. Citizenship is crucial to this issue because it has always been a key factor in creating equality and inequality for equality assumes that all citizens, rather...
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Unequivocally, scientific conditioning cannot completely remove fundamental human nature. Although the conventional society presented in Brave New World increases socio-economic ‘stabillity’, it solely represses the potential for human growth. Through satirising the like of H.G. Wells and Aquinas’ theory of human nature, Huxley iterates the point that eugenic breeding and other spiritually impoverished solutions cannot cure the ills of civilisation....
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Prose in literature demonstrates its beauty as well as complications when a narrator or third person reflector comes to play their role in narrating the story and molding the plot. There is a lot that depends on the writer’s view as well but the way a narrator communicates and comments upon the plot directly hits the reader and shapes their...
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In Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic tales the use of literary devices such as setting, symbolism, and point of view are frequently used to reveal significant aspects of a central character. This can be portrayed in the short stories by Edgar Allen Poe's tell-tale heart, the black cat, the fall of the house of the usher. The gothic tales are used...
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There is no shore of Time, no port of Man. It flows, and we go on. Literature introduces various conceptions of time depending on the literary genres. For instance, romantic poets like Alphonse de Lamartine and John Keats take into account the eternity of time by focusing on the ephemerality of men in order to share their melancholy. On the...
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Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk that recounts the experience of an unnamed protagonist who struggles with insomnia. The central character gains inspiration from his doctor’s comment that insomnia is not a kind of suffering leading him to find relief in the impersonation of a terminally ill individual in several support groups. The protagonist then encounters a...
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The actions and choices of characters in Wuthering Heights are often an attempt to raise their social status. This is clear in Catherine’s reason for marrying Edgar Linton instead of Heathcliff, and the sense of revenge that overtakes Heathcliff in his adult life when he attempts to inherit Thrushcross Grange as well as the Heights. It is not within the...
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Good and evil, despite being two very different and separate deeds, relate with each almost all the time. In essence, society needs one to appreciate the other. Typically, people only take note and appreciate the good in others only after encountering some evil from other experiences. In this context, Emily Brontë, in her book Wuthering Heights, gives a clear contrast...
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In Lorraine Hansberry’s play, “A Raisin in the Sun”, Hansberry opens the play with a chaotic tone. The characters, Ruth, Travis and Walter were all rushing out of the house to get the day started. Through these characters, Hansberry unravels the value systems of a Black Family by allowing their family’s morals to dominate the current society’s expectations and devaluing...
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Many Japanese Americans were very badly mistreated in the past and still are. Houston and Takei’s experiences are different yet are very similar in many ways. They all had many fears due to racial hate, hostility, and eventually they all wanted to boycott against it no matter what situation they were in. Houston and Takei's experiences are different yet similar...
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What is psychological literary criticism? What is Freud's Theories and how to apply in the novel Heart of Darkness? The psychological criticism: An approach to literary criticism that interprets writings, authors and readers through a psychological lens. Focus on expressing the subconscious at work, looking at psychology in the narration itself as well as in the author. It was founded...
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Anne Rice exclaims, “The evil of one murder is infinite and my guilt is like my beauty- eternal. I cannot be forgiven for there is no one to forgive me for all I’ve done.” Most people would never consider killing another person for their own benefit, but those who have feel immense guilt for what they have done. In the...
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