English Literature Essays

Dr Nawal El Saadawi: Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
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Introduction: Since my childhood, I have always dreamt of producing a film or writing a book about gender inequity in the Middle Eastern society. So that I could be able to accomplish this goal, I have to obtain ...

Pygmalion and Henry Higgins
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Introduction: The notetaker, primarily known as Henry Higgins, has a tendency to come off as being a jerk and really self centered. Since his profession is phonetics and speech, Higgins tends to have this mentali...

Women in Edgar Allen Poe's Literature
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Introduction: Poe Can Do It People don’t know the mysteries behind Edgar Allen Poe’s writings. Many believe that Poe was a Gothic writer, but I believe he was more than that. Edgar Allen Poe was a rea...

Planning a Nutritional Education Program
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Introduction: Nutrition Education Needs Majority of female prisoners have the thought of whether they will have enough food for themselves or for their families due to their incarceration. Half of them were inc...

Does Society Create Monsters? Analysis of Frankenstein
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Introduction: Does Society create monsters or are we born that way? Society is the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. Does society create monsters or are they formed when som...

Essay on Brendan Behan
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Introduction: This essay looks at three of Brendan Behan’s main works which most critics agree are his best. These three main works are; ‘The Quare Fellow‘ (1954), ‘The Hostage’ (195...

Beowulf's Pagan and Christian Elements
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Introduction: The unknown poet of Beowulf wrote about the Geats and the Danes, Germanic tribes who lived in pre-Christian times on the continent.  The plot of the story, therefore, has many references to pagan...

Research on Science Fiction and Ursula K Le Guin
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Introduction: Chapter – V Summation Science fiction is a genre of literature that deals with the technological advancements of the futuristic society. It does not stop with that but also compares the well-b...

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller | Analysis of Abigail
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Introduction: Obvious Faults In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. In the play, Abigail Williams is the main character in the book. She has worked at John Proctor’s house as a maid, she also love John and has ...

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Analysis
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Introduction: Love is not quick Is ones’ eager love and admiration enough to last forever? So Marlowe’s Passionate Shepherd To His Love would think so. On the other hand, Raleigh’s Nymph Reply T...

Romanticism in American Literature
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Introduction: Kathryn Pierce American Literature, section 43 Essay #3 Since the time of Socrates it has been widely said that art imitates life. In the case of literature, however, it would be more accurate to sa...

"The Lottery" and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" Analysis
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Introduction: Fiction/Short Story Essay In both of the short stories, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, both authors use charact...

Similarities in the Film 'The Hour' and 'Mrs Dalloway'
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Introduction:   The similarities in the themes of the film The Hour and the novel Mrs. Dalloway. The Hours is a 2002 movie directed by Stephen Daldry and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway has the similarities...

Pickering: The Victorian Gentleman
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Introduction: Pickering the Victorian Gentleman: In the play many characters changed as the play went on like Pickering. Pickering in the play seemed to be a gentleman around others and also treated them as a gen...

Edward Morgan Forster's "A Room With A View" to James Ivory
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Introduction: Table of Contents Introduction The Author (Edward Morgan Forster) and Director (James Ivory) Plot Summary Intersemiotic Translation of The Novel Major changes in the plot structure Characters in ...

Huck Finn's Journey to Adolescence
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Introduction: Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of Catcher in the Rye, takes a journey into maturity in order to form into an adult from an adolescent. Holden struggles to find the maturity and responsibility for...

Thomas More's Utopia Analysis
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Introduction: THESIS: In this essay, we will analyze Utopia’s role in the common laws, the religious freedoms, and dystopia/utopia similarities throughout More’s literature. Introduction Imagine yo...

Walt Whitman: The "Common Man" with Revolutionary Poetry
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Introduction: Born to a large, poor family in 1819, Walter Whitman was not thought to be anything special. Floating from job to job all around New York, he struggled financially for most of his early life. Throug...

The Death of Ivan Ilych and The Sun Also Rises Analysis
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Introduction: "Lie" The short story "The Death of Ivan Ilych" and the novel The Sun Also Rises have different from each other structure, scenery, and protagonists. "The Death of Ivan Ilych" is told by the auth...

Abigail Williams Character Essay
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Introduction: Being hung because of someone else’s lies, selfishness, and lustful temptations, seems fair right? This is exactly what happened because of Abigail Williams. 19 people were hanged during the S...

Mr. Palomar and When My Brother Was An Aztec Analysis
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Introduction: “When My Brother Was an Aztec” is Natalie Diaz’s first accumulation of poems. The book is separated into three parts. The first section of the book is committed to catching cultura...

Fences by August Wilson: Analysis of Troy
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Introduction: Unintentional Effect Around the early 1900s, racism was prominent and wasn’t sugarcoated at all. African Americans had to deal with several obstacles around this period because of the discrimi...

Themes in Metropolis
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Introduction: Channelling a zeitgeist of Totalities, Metropolis explores how dystopic values result in loss of humanity. The reductionism of the workers, debased to mindless cattle through the stark uniformity of...

Peter Carey's 'American Dreams' Analysis
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Introduction: Option 2 Short Stories Through a close critical reading of Peter Carey’s story ‘American Dreams’ on pp. 147-62 in the Anthology, A World of Difference, consider how the story’...

The Role of Homais in Madame Bovary
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Introduction: Elixir for Decayed Corruption In Madame Bovary, Flaubert expresses the complications that give rise as a result of the unsatisfactory life of a young woman belonging to the socio-economic class. He ...