English Literature Essays

The Violence In The 'American Psycho'
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Introduction: This chapter is focused on analysis of violence occurring in the book American Psycho, depicting the effect of excruciating torturing images on readers and explaining possible meanings of detailed bru...

How Margaret's Curse Affects Richard III
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Introduction: In the play, Richard has many agendas to perform in order to reach his objective as to be a king of England. In such a way that he is manipulating the situations to eventually eliminate the potential ...

Edgar Allan Poe’s Life Impact: “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Raven”
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Introduction: RUNNING HEAD: Edgar Allan Poe’s Life Impact on “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Raven”1 Edgar Allan Poe’s Life Impact on “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Raven” Abstract Suspended in ...

Social Conflicts Of 19th Century England
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Introduction: A woman without her man is nothing. A woman, without her, man is nothing. The first statement implies that a woman needs a man to be valued. In the second statement, the roles are switched and sugges...

A Prayer For Owen Meany | Analysis
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Introduction: John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany is a quest for faith and doubt through the love of a persistent friendship. First published in 1989, John Wheelwright retells his life growing up in New Ham...

Film Review: Whale Rider
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Introduction: Most of the film centers on the dynamic of this relationship between Koro and Paikea. Paikea respects and admires her grandfather, and holds a deep and mysterious connection with the tribe s ancestral...

A Review Of 'A Pair Of Tickets'
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Introduction: In Amy Tan’s story “A Pair of Tickets,” the protagonist June May, uses generalizations and internal conflicts to demonstrate how being ignorant and not embracing your roots makes you...

How does The House of Bernarda Alba represent Spain?
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Introduction: The play "The House of Bernarda Alba" gives an interesting portrayal of a middle class home consisting entirely of women. The plot is set in a small town, in a society dominated by men. It is believed...

Man And Wife Explication
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Introduction: “Man and Wife” is a beautiful poem about love and age. Robert Lowell uses stanza form, metaphoric language and symbolism to emphasize the idea that relationships get old with age and one m...

Gender Roles in the Victorian Era
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Introduction: Jane Eyre, the heroine of the novel portrays the ideal female of Victorian Society. She is passive, simple minded, dresses simply, and emotional hopes for her male love. The novel immediately opens w...

Summary Of Montana 1948
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Introduction: Montana 1948 is a novel by Larry Watson. The 1993 novel focuses on the life of young David Hayden, his family, and the fictional town of Bentrock, and it centers on the struggles of a family torn betw...

The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky | Analysis
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Introduction: In The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, Stephen Crane features the ordinary as well as its sometimes adverse consequences. In the story, Scratchy Wilson and Jack Potter confront a significant change in thei...

Erikson's Theory Of Development In The Outsiders
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Introduction: Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development is one that is very well known and respected. Erikson was a student of Sigmund Freud in Austria. After Freud died, he continued to research, alo...

Social And Psychological Oppression Of Women
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Introduction: The power of relationship between men and women had clearly shown in both of the novel. In the novel “Nervous Conditions”, the author portrays the five women Tambu, Tambu’s mother Ma...

A Look At Ngugi Wa Thiongo
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Introduction: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, a Kenyan writer of Gikuyu descent, began a very successful career writing in English before turning to work almost entirely in his native Gikuyu. In 1986 Decolonising the Mind...

Analysis Of 'After Apple Picking'
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Introduction: Robert Frost is arguably one of the best poets in the history of the world. He was raised in rural New England and started writing poetry early in his life. Frost’s poetry is laced with imagery ...

Motifs Between Wuthering Heights And Hamlet
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Introduction: The human mind is comprised of a myriad of personalities, emotions, and states, all of which greatly influence the way we act. Many authors now explore these deep crevasses of the human psyche, and de...

Analysis Of Claude Steele's Whistling Vivaldi
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Introduction: This semester has proven to be a very useful for the development of both my reading and writings skills. For me, as for a person who merely five months ago came from a country where English language i...

Reviewing 'The Beautiful And Damned' Novel
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Introduction: In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel The Beautiful and Damned, which challenged his literary reputation. In his novel, Fitzgerald intertwines his life experiences into the characters of the no...

Looking At Importance Of Setting
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Introduction: There are many points to consider in the creation of a good story. The most important of all those points is the setting of the story. It tells the reader about the background of the place in which th...

Female Defiance Of A Patriarchy Society
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Introduction: Patriarchal can be defined as a social system where the roles of males are at the heart of social organization, and where also they hold authority over spouses, children, and property. Historically, t...

The Place Of Judgment In 'The Crucible'
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Introduction: In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, the theme of judgment occupies a significant place. The word judgment has numerous definitions. Two of the possible definitions can be put in the context ...

The novel 'Crow Lake' by Mary Lawson
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Introduction: The novel Crow Lake written by the talented Canadian novelist Mary Lawson has already attracted the readers’ attention not only in Canada but also in many other countries. This book was translat...

Female Identity In 'The Woman In White'
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Introduction: Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White was first published in a serialized form in Charles Dickens’s periodical All the Year Round between November 1859 and August 1860 and according to Lyn P...

The Unknown Citizen: An analysis
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Introduction: The unknown citizen Poetry is open to how a person reads it and, thus, can be confusing. The period that poems are written can also make it hard to read. A poem written two-hundred years ago when peop...