English Literature Essays

Story Titled The Accident
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Introduction: When we about to sit in a car, we usually take safety for granted. Many people don’t even realize the dangers when driving from one place to another. Driving has become routine. People can̵...

Masculinity in Great Expectations
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Introduction: Late Victorian Masculinities are bound up with discourses of evolution and aesthetics. Analyse this statement in relation to Charles Dickens’ Great expectations and Oscar Wilde’s The Pictu...

The Sacrifice Of The Oedipus Rex Play
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Introduction: Sacrifice, a trait few hold. In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Sophocles renowned play, Oedipus Rex, each possess the mutual theme of sacrifice, specially “selfless sacrifice” —...

A Doll's House | Analysis | Female Gender
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Introduction: Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House presents to us Nora, the ‘doll’, who is caught up in a constricting marriage to Torvald, who represents the society of 19th century Europe through...

Funny Boy And Running In The Family | Analysis
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Introduction: Searching for identity is big theme in Postcolonial studies. Identity or the sense of belonging plays a major role in everyone’s lives. Identity tells us who we really are and where we have come...

Night by Elie Wiesel | Book Analysis
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Introduction: 1. In the book, the narrator’s mentioning of the Exile of Providence and the destruction of the Temple at the beginning of the story foreshadows the events in this section of Night by showing th...

Influence Of Italy on the English Renaissance
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Introduction: The Italian renaissance is said to be a phenomenon of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and is explained as an outgrowth of the rise of the independent city-states. It is a cultural phenomenon wh...

Science Fiction And Utopia In 'Gulliver's Travels'
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Introduction: Many critics consider this satire as one of the earliest science fiction writings, while many others exclude this book from the science fiction genre....

'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit' Religious Metaphors
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Introduction: In Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson uses many references of biblical allusion and religious metaphor to develop the novel. The chapters are named after the books of the bible in the ...

Analysis Of The Scarlet Letter
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Introduction: In The Scarlet Letter, Nathanial Hawthorne made it quite evident that Pearl was a very symbolic character. As we know, following Hester’s act of adultery, she became pregnant with Pearl and we g...

Analysis of 'Our Day Out'
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Introduction: Willie Russell’s Our Day Out is a play which uses humour which covers some serious issues including some serious messages. The play is set in Liverpool; where the author was originally from. The...

The Rat: Chinese Zodiac
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Introduction: The symbol of the rat is regarded as to one of the most conspicuous symbols of the Chinese zodiac. It must be special since it’s the first symbol of the complete twelve year cycle. The general p...

The Bonesetter's Daughter | Character Analysis
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Introduction: LuLing: Ruth’s mother. She immigrated to United States from China through her sister, Gao Ling. She shows how her life had changed through her writings in part 2. She is very emotional character...

Major Themes Of Wuthering Heights
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Introduction: Emily Bronte, who never had the benefit of formal schooling, wrote Wuthering Heights. Bronte has been declared a “romantic rebel” because she ignored the repressive conventions of her day ...

Article About Time Travel
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Introduction: “Suppose that i give you a time machine and you travel some seventy years back and kill your grandfather. Since your grandfather would not have been married by then your father’s birth is ...

The Women Of Beowulf
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Introduction: An epic tale of heroes and monsters, the story of Beowulf is filled with excitement and adventure, However Beowulfs importance goes far beyond that of just an excellent literary piece. It also offers...

A Pragmatic Marriage: Analysis
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Introduction: A pragmatic marriage, very popularly known as an arranged marriage is incredibly common in many parts of the world due to the common notion that relying on the family to select a potential spouse is c...

An Analysis Of 'Boys and Girls'
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Introduction: According to R. W. Connell “when sex role theory provided the main framework, there was a fairly straightforward account of how people acquired gender. Babies were, from the start, identified as...

The Themes In 'A Dolls House'
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Introduction: Sacrifice is a powerful theme that pervades these two plays, and expresses itself through its characters as well as its plot. However, the manner in which it is portrayed to the reader varies between ...

Imagery Of Madame Bovary
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Introduction: In many forms of literature, authors use symbols as a representation of interpretive meaning. In Gustave Flaubert’s novel, Madame Bovary (1856), one of the major achievements is the excellent u...

Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allan Poe
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Introduction: The story of “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is full of conflict from beginning to end. The narrator of this story does not reveal why such a conflict exists other than to say...

Themes Of Fate And Destiny
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Introduction: Oedipus as a major victim of fate have tried to evade his fate when he realized that he was going to kill his father and sleep with his mother. His shocked and dreadful emotions made him run away from...

The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
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Introduction: This paper aims at exploring the charm of the adventures of Tom Sawyer. It includes two parts: they are the charm of the plot arrangement and the......

The Effects Of War On Humanity
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Introduction: A dictionary definition of War is “a state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties”. Whilst this definition is clear enough it does not come...

Far From The Madding Crowd
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Introduction: How does Thomas Hardy gain sympathy for his female characters in ‘Far From The Madding Crowd’? Sympathy allows us to walk in someone else’s shoes. It gives us the ability to recogni...