English Literature Essays

Dark Romanticism In The Modern World
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Introduction: The label Dark Romanticism is used by people in different contexts to describe gothic novels from the 18th century as well as culture from today’s society. Imagination and mystery are key featu...

The Great Gatsby | Critique
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Introduction: “Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them”. This quote voiced by William Shakespeare is a popular idea among many a...

The Great Expectations | The Bildungsroman Novel
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Introduction: Charles Dickens’ bildungsroman, Great Expectations (..), cannot help but impress upon the reader an overwhelming sense of guilt which permeates the novel at various levels. As the plot unfolds, ...

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button | Adapting literature
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Introduction: Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18. This quote from Mark Twain inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald to write his short story „The Curio...

The Kite Runner And Atonement | Analysis
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Introduction: In this essay I pretend to demonstrate what betrayal is. In both books it presents a long variety of examples of betrayal. As we know betray is something that has existed in all over the world is also...

Virginia Woolf | Femininity, Modernity And Androgyny
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Introduction: Showalter, Elaine, ‘Virginia Woolf and the Flight into Androgyny’, in A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Pres...

The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Analysis
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Introduction: The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a novel by Mohsin Hamid, young celebrated writer who had very intricately woven the story around a young Pakistani, Changez, who faces a post 9/11 situation in the Unit...

Everyday Use, Alice Walker | Symbolism And Characters:
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Introduction: In the story “Everyday Use,” Alice Walker uses a detailed description to help describe the symbolism of the unique and highly valued quilts, as well as, contrasting the characters througho...

Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling | Analysis
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Introduction: In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the protagonist, Harry, is today’s modern hero. It is noticeably apparent that Harry is a hero, using the guideline, “t...

Tone And Diction In Poetry
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Introduction: Analyzing poetry begins with carefully weighing the words and considering every nuance. Tone and diction are two poetic devices to take into account. Tone refers to the attitude or mood conveyed by t...

Exploring Death In The Odyssey
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Introduction: In Homer’s The Odyssey, many different motifs and themes into his epic, and this theme catches the attention of several critics: death and rebirth. There are several examples of how a burial is ...

Analysis Of Ted Hughes' Poems
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Introduction: As the title suggests, this poem is about wind and the destructive effects that it has on both the landscape and people that live in a isolated house. The narrator tells us how the inhabitants of the ...

Season Of Migration To The North | Analysis
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Introduction: Season of Migration to the North tells the story of Mustafa Sa’eed, a prodigy from Sudan who goes to study first in Cairo and then in London, where he hunts women but eventually falls for one hi...

Academic Discourse: An Overview
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Introduction: Academic Discourse In order to understand the concept of academic discourse one, must know what the meaning academic discourse is. Discourse is a common word. The word of discourse can be interchanged...

Howards End, E.M. Forster | Analysis
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Introduction: In 20th century London, recognizing a persons social and financial class could be as easy as simply viewing their household. A house during early 20th century London can influence a person’s rol...

An Analysis Of Shaffer's Equus
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Introduction: The play is in two acts, the first consisting of twenty-one; the second of thirty-five scenes. It is not realistic in that it includes flashbacks performed onstage (like a movie). However, it is an ex...

Robert Frost And Nature Themes
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Introduction: Robert Frost was one of the few leading poets of the 20th-century and won the Pulitzer Prize four times. Frost was a poet from rural New England, but his poems could be related to any part of the worl...

Stephen Dedalus And Dorian Gray
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Introduction: Stephen Dedalus from “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” written by James Joyce and Dorian Gray from “The Picture of Dorian Gray” written by Oscar Wilde, go through many ...

Ancient Greek Theatre | Lysistrata
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Introduction: Ancient Greek theatre has been a fascination to millions of people across the centuries. Theatre is one of the most important innovations of the Greek civilization. Ancient Greek theatre which began a...

The Street | A Rose for Emily | A Story of an Hour | Themes
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Introduction: The process of evaluating and interpreting literature is to understand what type of philosophy it presents and to compare our own values with the text. Since literature enlightens and entertains, the ...

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow | Analysis
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Introduction: Legend of sleepy hollow is a kind of a short story which was written by Washington Irving. This story is based on a real legend and it reveals how the main character, Ichabod Crane, disappeared. It is...

Macbeth's Ambition
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Introduction: Macbeth goes through a steadily detrimental transformation in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. Macbeth goes from being a conscientious, compassionate, logical and caring man in the beginning of the p...

Macbeth And Jay Gatsby | Evaluation
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Introduction: Jay Gatsby and Macbeth are in many ways responsible for their own downfalls, though I believe that Macbeth contributes more directly to his downfall than the comparatively indirect actions of Gatsby. ...

English Romanticism And Its Characteristics
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Introduction: Romanticism as a trend in art and literature of England emerged in the 90th of XVIII century. Romanticism in England took shape earlier than in other Western European countries, it had its vivid spe...

The Survival Of The Fittest
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Introduction: “Survival of the Fittest” just might as well be the title of this short story. Only the strongest will survive is Charles Darwin’s theory of “Survival of the Fittest” (Pu...