English Literature Essays

The Merchant Of Venice By William Shakespeare
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Introduction: The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare is a comic, revengeful and tragic play which is set in Venice and the nearby country estates of Belmont. Shakespeare wrote the play during times when Engl...

Cesare Beccaria and Rational Choice Theory
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Introduction: People commit crimes for an infinite number of reasons and the human mind is a complex electrical network that we are only beginning to understand. For this reason in part, we have a system of laws in...

Walton S Mississippi: An American Journey | Analysis
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Introduction: Before his travelling to Mississippi, he never really felt the severity of the issue of racism, for he was born into a neighborhood where people ‘kept......

A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain
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Introduction: The book A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain written by Robert Olen Butler, a famous modern American fiction writer, consists of several short stories which are narrated by the Vietnamese who live in...

The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen
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Introduction: I think the sea witches educates the mermaid about human sexuality using similar images. That is an image of flowing blood prepares the girl for menarche. She prepares to become the woman as a human. ...

Analysis Of Non Fiction Writing
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Introduction: Find a work of nonfiction. It can take the form of a newspaper or magazine article, a biography or autobiography, or a website dedicated to a person or event. Locate one or two paragraphs from your ch...

Simon from The Lord of the Flies
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Introduction: Simon is a character who represents peace and tranquility, with some references to Jesus Christ. He is very in-tune with the island, and often experiences extraordinary sensations when listening to it...

The Murders In The Rue Morgue
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Introduction: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, literary critic and editor, and a bright representative of American Romanticism. He wrote numerous short stories, but became famous mostly because of his ...

Red Hunting Hat | An analysis
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Introduction: Comfort of the Red Hunting Hat The novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger explores the pain of growing up through the experiences of Holden Caulfield, a sixteen year old boy who has just flu...

Learning Leadership In The Once And Future King
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Introduction: Having the position to lead can be challenging depending on the leader. In the beginning of the book The Once and Future King, the Wart is placed in the position where he has to learn quickly to tran...

A Critical Reading Of Through The Tunnel
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Introduction: Thesis statement: Through the characterization of Jerry as an isolated character, Lessing portrays his rite of passage as one that begins in search of acceptance and belonging with the French boys and...

The Chronicle Of A Death Foretold Commentary
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Introduction: Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that centers around the narrator’s efforts to put together the fragments......

The Actions Of Characters In Abner Snopes
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Introduction: Faulkner uses selective diction and the actions of characters to present Abner Snopes as a sympathetic character. Abner is static, but can be interpreted as very deep, troubled, and justified in his a...

The Crucible By Arthur Miller
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Introduction: The Crucible is a story about dignity and morality, despite the adversities. The novel is set in the town of Salem, Massachusetts; when panic rose from the public because many people were being accuse...

Military Customs And Courtesies
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Introduction: Military courtesy is basically no different from courtesy in civilian life, just good manner and politeness in dealing with other people. The experience of life has proven that courteous behavior is e...

Reputation Is Something That Is Respected | Beowolf
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Introduction: In “Beowulf”, reputation was the leg that people stood on so to speak. If a person didn’t have a strong reputation they didn’t get much respect. In the book reputation comes up...

The Handmaids Tale | Book analysis
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Introduction: I think this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside. The egg is glowing now, as if it had an energy of its own. To look at the egg gives me inte...

Masculinity In Marlowe's Edward The Second Play
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Introduction: Renaissance plays often have the tension between order and disorder as its underlying central issue, which is frequently expressed through the conflicts presented in love, loyalty, family relations, g...

Comparing 'Down And Out In Paris and London'
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Introduction: The comparison of Paris and London sections of George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. Both reality and fiction play an important role in George Orwell’s literary sociography, Do...

Short Story 'Winter Dreams' | Analysis
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Introduction: F.Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” documents the life of Dexter Green, “a young man from a modest background who strives to be a part of the exclusive world inhabitated by th...

Ulysses And My Last Duchess
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Introduction: A dramatic monologue is defined as a poem written in the form of speech of an individual character to an imaginary audience. “Ulysses” and “My Last Duchess” are two poems that ...

Novel On Feminism: 'A Doll's House'
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Introduction: In the 19th century , the society was patriarchal, dominated by men, and women were deprived of all rights. The society was constructed and conducted in a way that women were completely dependent on m...

Looking At Death And Dylan Thomas
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Introduction: In the first stanza of the poem, the fourth and fifth line “Tells with silence the last light breaking / And the still hour” (PoemHunter.com) speaks of the moment of death. Light is usuall...

Gender roles in Ancient Greek Society
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Introduction: As seen through the role of Antigone In an age that confined women to the domestic household and expected them to conform to male dominion and rule, the character of Antigone was unique. In standing u...

'Interpretation of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Introduction: The process of analysis for this English Extended Essay on “Interpretation of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri was definitely a journey where in I discovered and learnt a lot. When I was assigne...