English Literature Essays

McMurphy's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
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Introduction: This question is answered through the investigation of five specific aspects of McMurphy’s life in the asylum: McMurphy’s arrival into the asylum, his healing miracles, the change and...

Popular Movie My Girl | Analysis
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Introduction: I was ecstatic when I realized I had an opportunity to write a term paper based upon one of my favorite movies. The movie I chose to write about is My Girl, which was released in 1991. This movie is b...

Jane Eyre | Literary Analysis
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Introduction: It is society’s nature to label certain expectations out of the population based on age, race, clothing, accent, skin tone, etc. With only one glance, a teacher might label a sophomore as a moro...

Dante Alighieri And His Biased Inferno
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Introduction: In The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, nine circles make up Hell; Circle one being the least punishment, to Circle nine being the greatest punishment. In the beginning circles many famous heroes and poets...

Hamlet: The Masterpiece Of Shakespeare
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Introduction: Hamlet revolves around the notions of deep revenge, psychological problems which are similar to madness and portrays political and ethical corruptions of the time. It also portrays the dual nature of ...

Fate In Herman Melville's Moby Dick
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Introduction: Exploring the Concept of Fate in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. Fate is a tricky concept to define. In one sense, fate indicates an unalterable course that a person takes in life; meaning that the...

War In 'A Farewell To Arms'
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Introduction: Throughout the years, love has become a wide universal theme throughout literature. Many different authors portray their different views of love through different types of literature such as, Romeo an...

Portrayal Of Social Issues Faced By Women
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Introduction: The aim of this extended essay is to analyze how Patience Agbabi portrays the issues women are faced with in her poem cycle ”Seven Sisters” from her poetry collection ”Transformatrix...

Racism In 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'
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Introduction: The problem of racism is one of the central themes in the American literature. Remarkably, the problem of racism has persisted since the time of slavery and slave trade, when black slaves were treated...

Control And Power: Bram Stoker's Dracula
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Introduction: Human beings do not have the ability to posses omnipotent control over one another. In Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, however, Humanity, Dracula, God, and Nature influence each other, both directl...

Short Stories By Louise Erdrich
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Introduction: In the short stories that I have read by Louise Erdrich, she always includes a central idea of loss in them. In her short story, "The Red Convertible", the main characters tells of slowing losing his...

A Study On The Frog Prince
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Introduction: Throughout the analysis of “The Frog Prince” it has proved many different opinions on the poem. Stevie Smith’s poem was gravely affected by events in her life as well as her beliefs. However...

Discrimination In The White Tiger
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Introduction: The narrative techniques observed in these two novels are different each with its own unique style. This essay deals with the narrative technique employed by Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird and Ar...

Theme Analysis In Shakespeare's Macbeth
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Introduction: The Scottish play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare demonstrates that a person can bury the guilt deep inside him/her, but their conscience will keep reminding them what they have done. In the play gui...

Characterization In Lady With The Dog
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Introduction: Anton Chekov is a famous Russian writer whose best skill in writing is reflected in showing the psychology people’s relationship and the psychology of human being itself. The interesting fact is...

Critical Analysis Of Rudyard Kipling
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Introduction: Mary Postgate, Mrs. Fowler, the nephew Wynn Fowler, little Edna, Nurse Eden, Dr. Hennis and injured airman. The title character of the story is Mary Postgate. The story concerns itself with loss, fear...

The Hills Like White Elephants
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Introduction: The twenties opened up writing to a time of self- indulgence and free spiritedness. It was a normal thing at that point in time for the wealthy people within the US to freely move to Europe. Being amo...

Oryx And Crake By Margaret Atwood
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Introduction: In Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, the protagonist of this book is called Snowman. He was once named Jimmy as a little kid. One main theme in this story is changing the name because of all the thin...

The American Dream 'The Day Of The Locust'
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Introduction: The book The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, tells the story of some people who came to California in search of the American Dream. They travel west hoping to get away from the less than perfect ...

Macbeth: An Aristotelian Tragic Hero
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Introduction: In the Poetics, Aristotle devises certain requirements for the principal character of a tragedy and these have been generally accepted as the standard for the character of the tragic protagonist. Acco...

Conflict In The Cherry Orchard
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Introduction: Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard in which he chose to focus on the deepest desires and fears of his characters while Henrik Ibsen, considered to be the father of modern drama w...

The Underlying Theme Of Time
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Introduction: There is a certain level of hesitation that is often experienced when it comes to one’s acceptance of time. One may see this uncertainty not only in others’ but perhaps in his or her own p...

Contrast Between Grendel And Beowulf
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Introduction: The Spear-Danes in days gone by/ and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness. / We have heard of those princes heroic campaigns. In the poem Beowulf, Beowulf is painted as a hero, a celebra...

What Is Feminism? Analysis
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Introduction: Feminism is not just a word to defend women’s rights and be anti-men, it is more than that. Feminism refers to movements aimed at founding and demanding equal political, economic, and social rig...

Symbols of laura in The Glass Menagerie
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Introduction: In the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee William’s Laura is one of the main characters. Laura has a disability because of her leg. She has a slight limp and has to wear a leg brace. Amanda w...