English Literature Essays

Consciousness In The Snows Of Kilimanjaro
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Introduction: The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a short novel by well-known American novelist Ernest Hemmingway (1899-1961) by the use of stream of consciousness. The novel shapes the hero Harry, the dying writer, althou...

Nathaniel Hawthorne | Dr Heidegger's Experiment
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Introduction: Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 19th century. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment is about a doctor ......

Analyzing Sacrifices Within Literature
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Introduction: “One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.” Oscar Wilde said, during the time of great Plague where many people are dying instant...

Roger Chillingworth | Character Analysis
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Introduction: “The Scarlet Letter” is a story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is based on the Puritans’ lifestyle during the 17th century in Boston and Massachusetts. It is written in twenty fo...

Still Be Neat | Delight in Disorder | Analysis
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Introduction: Ben Jonson’s poem, “Still to Be Neat,” and Robert Herrick’s poem, “Delight in Disorder,” both argue the themes of naturalness. While both poems have similar themes,...

The Scarlet Letter | Plot and analysis
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Introduction: In this section, the book describes a nameless character who coincidentally shares the same occupation and desires as the author of this book, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The narrator works as a chief execut...

The Point Of View Of Stories
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Introduction: The two short stories chosen ,”The Gift of the Magi” and “The Lottery”,written by Shirley Jackson, both have different points of views. They are both narrated in first-person n...

Charles Dickens' Narrative Styles
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Introduction: As the voice of a fictional and, sometimes, nonfictional literary work, the narrator is often the central feature in literary works and is given a number of responsibilities. Depending on how the narr...

Pinjar: Film Review
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Introduction: ‘Pinjar’, produced by Lucky Star’s Entertainment Ltd. and directed by Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi, is a movie set in the Indian subcontinent where the fight for freedom from the Briti...

Times When Two Cultures Come Together
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Introduction: Culture is defined as the historically transmitted and interrelated web of values, assumptions, norms, belief systems and behavioral patterns that differentiate one human group from another. Culture i...

Atonement By Ian McEwan | Summary
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Introduction: The fourth novel that I chose was Atonement by Ian McEwan. In the introduction, a young girl name Briony is producing a play to put on for her brother. Briony’s mother, sister, and three cousin...

A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud by Carson McCuller
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Introduction: Philosophy of the modernism and postmodernism period takes twists and turns at every chance it can. As the world begins to change at a speed previously unseen, people all over the world are confused a...

Mercutio In Romeo And Juliet
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Introduction: In the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare has created several memorable characters, aside from the witty, humorous, and theatrical character of all time Mercutio. Mercutio is neither Capulet nor Monta...

The Stranger, Albert Camus
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Introduction: The Stranger, Albert Camus’ reader gluing book is all about an inane activities of Meursault the protagonist. The setting of this book is in Algiers; in the beginning of this wonderful novel we ...

The Romantic Poems Of John Keats
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Introduction: John Keats was an English Romantic poet who lived during the 19th century. In his short-lived life he faced many ordeals and had to witness death and suffering that shaped him as a poet and reflects i...

Young Goodman Brown | Analysis
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Introduction: The conflicts between the everyday battles and forces of good and evil are portrayed the story, “Young Goodman Brown”. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses many symbolic elements, from the characters ...

Short Story Example | In The Year 2050
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Introduction: As a little kid I was taught, There is nothing new under the sun, and I believed that until yesterday. Yesterday was like any other day, except the fact that I was on midterm break. This meant no work...

On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
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Introduction: John Keats’ “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” is a sonnet in which he writes of the impact of reading Chapman’s translation of Homer. Reading Chapman’s Homer...

Little Red Riding Hood | Psychology analysis
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Introduction: Even though there are abundant approaches engaging in understanding literature, the psychoanalytic interpretation attempts to make use of the symbolic secrecy of a work. In contrast to the orderly ap...

Look on the Bright Side | Bartleby, the Scrivener
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Introduction: The world is full of all sorts of different people. The differences are really what keeps’ the world revolving because of all the different ideas that comes from these people. But even though ...

Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe | Analysis
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Introduction: In the poem “Eldorado,” poet Edgar Allan Poe delivers a fundamental message that can be understood if carefully evaluated. Poe gives the account of a knight in search of a land called Eldo...

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe | Analysis
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Introduction: Things Fall Apart Things fall apart is a tragedy novel written by Chinua Achebe. Okonkwo, who is the protagonist of the novel and one of the most powerful men in the Ibo tribe often resorts to violen...

Divakaruni's Narrative Techniques
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Introduction: Narrative is a telling of some invented and true events or linked series of events, described by a narrator (even though may be more than one of each). Narratives are to be identified from description...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | Analysis
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Introduction: Charlotte Bronte was born at Thornton, Yorkshire, in 1816, the third child of Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell. Mrs Bronte died in 1821 and Charlotte, her four sisters, Maria, Elizabeth, Emily and An...

Crime and Punishment | Character Analysis
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Introduction: In the novel Crime and Punishment, the author Fyodor Dostoevsky creates a character in Raskolnikov who is plagued with dueling personalities. One side of Raskolnikov is caring and sensitive, often sh...