English Literature Essays

Antisemitism In 'The Merchant Of Venice'
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Introduction: Shylock’s cries for a pound of flesh have made him one of literature’s most memorable villains, but many readers and playgoers have found him a compelling and sympathetic figure. The quest...

Comparison | Edgar Allan Poe And Edogawa Rampo
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Introduction: This study compares ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ written by Edgar Allan Poe and ‘The D-slope Murder Case’ by Edogawa Rampo. The two writers are known as the Father of detect...

Anahorish And Digging | Comparative Essay
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Introduction: Anahorish and Digging are two poems written by acclaimed Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, from the 1972 anthology “Wintering Out” and the 1966 anthology “Death of a Naturalist”. Anah...

The Effects Of Slavery In America
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Introduction: Slavery’s existence has plagued human history for thousands of years. Slavery seems to fill a need to produce things at a vast scale. For the United States, that product was unquestionably cotto...

Point Of View In Short Stories
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Introduction: Effectiveness Of Point Of View In Short Stories Compare and contrast the effectiveness of viewpoints utilized in the stories by D.H. Lawrence in “The Rocking Horse Winner” and Graham Greene in “...

Science And Religion By Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Introduction: “I am aweary, aweary; / I would that I were dead!” (11-12 Tennyson) This excerpt from Mariana, provides evidence for an always present theme in the poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson, that is ...

The Tale Of Genji
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Introduction: Lady Murasaki was born in about 978 in Kyoto, Japan. She’s known as a Japanese poet, novelist and a maid of honor of the imperial court. Her real name is unknown. It is thought that she was call...

Barn Burning | Sarty's Moral Dilemma
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Introduction: In 1939, William Cuthbert Faulkner writes "Barn Burning". In "Barn Burning", a ten-year-old boy named Sartoris Snopes is in court, sweating he will not have to testify in the arson case not in favor o...

Hamlet: From Good To Evil
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Introduction: The evil inside of one person, in a way, is like a viral disease. It can be inside of one and after a while infect another, and it keeps doing this repeatedly until the last evil person dies without p...

To Kill A Mockingbird | Book Review
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Introduction: Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird portrays an accurate reflection of people affairs in the southern United States during the 1930s. The story, which is set around a single-father househo...

Study of John Proctor
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Introduction: John Proctor is a classic tragic hero because he contains the element of hamartia, is able to redeem himself, possesses many noble characteristics, and of course, suffers a tragic death. John Proctor ...

Aristotle's Definition Of A Tragic Hero
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Introduction: Sophocles, an ancient Greek tragedian, authored Oedipus around 429 BC. Although written nearly 2500 years ago, the story remains among the most riveting tragedies of all time. The mere mention of th...

Running In The Family | Book analysis
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Introduction: Crisis of identity is a very common theme in most postcolonial literature. The term “post-colonial”, according to Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin in The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Pract...

Realism In Life On The Mississippi
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Introduction: After reading a literary piece from both Realism and Naturalism, You can tell there are many differences in the two. “Life on the Mississippi”, written by Mark Twain, is an excellent piece...

Francesco Petrarch | An introduction
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Introduction: Love is the most powerful thing in the world that can make a person to whether do the greatest thing or to do the worst thing. When someone falls into love, they can do everything that used to be impo...

Dante Alighieri In The Divine Comedy
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Introduction: Dante Alighieri was the author of a comedy called The Divine Comedy. This comedy is known as one of his greatest achievements in world literature. In The Divine Comedy, Dante portrays a vivid descript...

Hide And Seek By Vernon Scanell | Analysis
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Introduction: Childhood is a wonderful time of life in which a child transforms to an adult; however it is something that is constantly explored in literature. Childhood is a pleasurable time in which life is innoc...

Lost Time Is Never Found Again
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Introduction: My grandmother’s apartment back in Cairo, Egypt, right by the Nile River was where my childhood in the early 1990’s started. Starting with the creaky entrance gate to the sublime backyard ...

Analysis Of 'Memoirs Of A Geisha'
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Introduction: But only Chiyo ends up in a geisha house, an okiya, her sister becomes a prostitute. Chiyo stays in the Nitta-okiya. Here lives the most successful geisha of Gion: Hatsumomo. She is a real bitch and s...

Negligence Project Manager In Construction Industry
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Introduction: CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Negligence of project manager in construction industry Construction industry is one of the contributors to economic development of the country. It is consists of many p...

'Crime And Punishment' | Analysis
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Introduction: The title is referring to Raskolnikov’s crime, which was the murder of Alyona Ivanovna. The novel also chronicles the punishment Raskolnikov suffers following the murder. The punishment is menta...

Annotated Bibliography 'The Crucible'
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Introduction: The Crucible is a classic play written by Arthur Miller, there were many characters, along with a unique storyline. There were twenty characters in the book that played separate but important roles th...

The History Of The Geographical Setting
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Introduction: The classic children story “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was written by Lyman Frank Baum. This novel is published by George M. Hill Company and it was first released in the year 1900. This ...

Looking At Shylock: Victim Or Villain?
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Introduction: In this essay I am going to look at the character of Shylock and I will discuss both sides of the argument of whether Shylock is a victim or a villain. During the play there are many times when he is ...

The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock
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Introduction: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot is a poem that is said to have been written over the days he was in Harvard in 1910. Despite the time of its composition, The Love Song of J. Alfred Pr...