Introduction Olaudah Equiano and Phillis Wheatley stand as pivotal figures in the canon of early African American literature, their works providing a profound exploration of the African experience in 18th-century America. Equiano's autobiographical narrative, "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano," and Wheatley's poetic oeuvre, including "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral," offer distinct yet complementary perspectives....
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Ray Bradburyâs famous novel, Fahrenheit 451, is about Guy Montag, a man who burns books for a living in an uncultured dystopian future. Set in the United States during an unspecified distant time period, people have become utterly consumed with modern media and advanced technology. Through a cultural lens, Fahrenheit 451 is a tragic story about the loss of individuality...
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair gave a very harrowing insight into the meatpacking industry during the early nineteen hundreds. Chapter after chapter I read some pretty revolting things such as having rodent feces on the meat, workers falling into vats of chemicals, and meatpackers using spoiled meat and trash in some of their canned products. Following the release of The...
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Franz Kafka was born into a Jewish family on July 3, 1883, and passed away on June 3, 1924. During his youth years, Franz spent most of his time focusing on his writing. However, he died shortly after of tuberculosis. The fictional novel 'the metamorphosis was written by Franz Kafka and is commonly known for Kafka's best literary works because...
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This essay focuses on the novel The Great Gatsby and how the American Dream is portrayed in Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby through the three aspects: beliefs from the âLost Generationâ, social-economic classes, and values towards romantic relationships. Through contrasting the American Dream of the two characters, how Fitzgerald contrives the outlook of the American dream in the specific cultural...
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We are living in a world where it is more important to own an iPhone 11, than to have a plate of food in our homes. Lars Eighner and Anna Quindlen have both written personal essays about consumerism and materialism. In Eignerâs personal essay âDumpster Divingâ he portrays how he can make a living by searching dumpsters, and how people...
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Introduction William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus stands as one of the most controversial and intricate works in the playwright's canon. Often categorized as a tragedy, the play delves into themes of revenge, political betrayal, and the cyclical nature of violence. Set against the backdrop of a decaying Roman Empire, the narrative follows the titular character, Titus, a war-hardened general, as he...
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Robert Frosts poems are quite simple, dealing with everyday situations and emotions, yet taking them to another level of exploration. He looks at aspects of nature and then converts them into symbols to use in his poems, thus making them completely relevant to our everyday lives and easy to make sense of. In After Apple-Picking, there is another symbol derived...
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Biographical paragraph describing the author. Helen Keller was an American educator, a leader, and a political radar. She was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When she was 19 months old due to an episode of illness, she lost her eyesight and hearing. Just as she turned six, her parents hired a tutor, Anne Sullivan who guided her...
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In this short story the meaning of the title symbolizes the former lovers Calixta and AlcĂŠe affair with one another. The title has an important job by bringing/driving the two into one another's arms and giving them the time and space to take part in an extramarital entanglement before everything outside returns back to normal. As a thunderstorm creates uproar...
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What if you lived your whole life without ever getting to know anyone in the world? What if you could never have a meaningful conversation with anyone at all? Human connection is a prominent theme in âFahrenheit 451â because it shows the reclusive reality that the main character, Guy Montag, lives in. Although socialization is one of the most important...
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Blakeâs biggest fear is the city or industry engulfing everything. Most of his poetry revolves around politics, philosophy and religion. Blakeâs works show that terms like Innocence and Experience are antithetical terms and contain within themselves their own opposites. He unsettles established oppositions and makes us see the world in new, imaginative and liberated ways; innocence to experience, good to...
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In this essay I will be writing a comparative analysis of two sonnets, the first being William Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 20' and also 'Sonnet 116' whilst referring to two essays in 'An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory' about Love and Queer. Both sonnets centre around the theme of love, with 'Sonnet 116' focusing on Shakespeare's personal thoughts on love and...
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Throughout this essay, I will discuss the presentation of Juliet in Shakespeareâs play âRomeo and Juliet.â I will firstly discuss Julietâs character traits, secondly her relationship with other characters, and finally, examine how Julietâs character has changed throughout the play? In act 2 scene 2, after meeting Romeo at the Capulet ball, Juliet seems to be cautious before she falls...
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The theme of loneliness is presented in John Steinbeckâs Of Mice and Men. In the novel Of Mice and Men, loneliness is an important emotion that often drives the characters to behave in a different manner to usual. Steinbeck uses characters, some of the most important ones including Curleyâs wife, Candy, and Crooks, to reflect on the bigoted time period...
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In this essay I am going to analyse the tragic role of the central character from the novel âThings Fall Apartâ written by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in 1958, Okonkwo, who goes from having a good life and power within his clan to being a man driven to death by his misery and his misfortune. I will use the...
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As we begin to compare Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, it is interesting to see the observations once made by William Godwin. As Shelleyâs father and Wollstonecraftâs husband, few knew both figures as well as he did. Godwin noted that his time spent with Shelley was different as it was bright and joyful, and he would 'never anticipate the evil...
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The Enduring Influence of Shakespeare's Hamlet Although written over 400 years ago, William Shakespeareâs Hamlet has remained one of the most imitated and relevant plays in contemporary society. Interpretations of Shakespeareâs classic tale of revenge have popped up in some surprising places: childrenâs television programs and films, a beloved Sunday comic strip, a popular television series about a corrupt motorcycle...
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Shakespeare's one-of-a-kind play, âOthelloâ 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 âOthelloâ, the feeling of suspense plays an immense role in how...
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William Blakeâs paradoxical poem âAuguries of Innocenceâ is described as âpropheticâ (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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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 itâs from Maâs heart-breaking journey to escape her physical imprisonment in âRoomâ or Esther Greenwoodâs painful course to reclaim her independence after mentally trapping herself in âThe Bell Jarâ, 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 âBlack Womenâs poet Laureateâ. Her poems always reflected the image of the society and the problems she faced being a BLACK. Here in her book âCaged Birdsâ mostly refers...
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âMacbethâ is a tragic play about Macbethâs downfall. There are several key moments that lead to the tragic heroâs 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 Macduffâs 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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âThe Hobbit, or There and Back Againâ 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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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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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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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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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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