English Literature Essays

The Use Of Realism In Short Stories
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Introduction: J.P Stern defined realism as being: ‘no more, and no less, than an undertaking to look all the relevant facts in the face’. [1] Literary realism is a trend that began in nineteenth centu...

Symbolism And Narrative Voice
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Introduction: This extended essay aims to challenge the categorization of the female protagonists in Alice Walkers The Color Purple and Nawal El Saadawis Woman at Point Zero as “repressed” by examining ...

Analyzing The Tragic Hero In Shakespeare's Othello
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Introduction: Since the writing of Shakespeare’s play in the 1600’s there has been a great deal of controversy over the character of Othello. Critics have debated the extent to which he can be deemed a ...

Thomas Hardy's Style Of Poetry
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Introduction: In this paper we are going to study Thomas Hardy´s life including some of his works. Then we are going to include an overview of the twenty century in the most important and influential events in Har...

Powerful Women In The Sweet Hereafter
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Introduction: In connection with The Sweet Hereafter, one interpretation is that women play a central role in the story. Only two women survive the accident this fact connects them throughout the story. They are th...

Kate Chopin's: The Story Of An Hour
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Introduction: Initially, the character of Mrs. Mallard seems to be presented as an old woman “afflicted with a heart trouble” (442). However, it is revealed that Mrs. Mallard is young with “a fair...

Literary Criticism About Harry Potter
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Introduction: The books about Harry Potter were written in England by J. Rowling and were published during the period from the 30th of June 1997 till the 21st of July 2007. The genre of the series is Fantasy, Myste...

Holes By Louis Sachar: Character Analysis
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Introduction: Introduction ‘Hole’ is a novel written by Louis Sachar and has already won Newbery Medal. The plot of the novel is about the life of multiple characters and a leading character with whom t...

The Story Of And Hour And Eveline
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Introduction: For the present-day society, the equality between men and women is very common and popular theory, for example, Secondary School Place Allocation System. The High Court of Hong Kong ruled, on 22 June ...

The Struggles Of Growing Up In Poverty
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Introduction: In the short story Marigolds by Eugenia Collier, a girl named Elizabeth and her family struggle through living in the time of the Great Depression. Elizabeth is an African American girl that is on the...

The War Poetry Of Wilfred Owen
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Introduction: The First World War poetry of Wilfred Owen provides an exhaustive and poignant account of the atrocities he witnessed between the Allies and the Germans from 1914 to 1918. Although the style and struc...

A Summary Of A Country Doctor
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Introduction: This story is about a country doctor who experiences so many hardships in a time no one in his village is willing to help him in any manner. In the book, A Country Doctor, by Franz Kafka, the doctor e...

James Baldwins Story Sonnys Blues
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Introduction: The setting of the story starts off in the shoes of a commuter in the city of Harlem. The commuter, who is essentially the unnamed narrator of the story, after a long loss of contact with his younger ...

Elizabeth Short, The Black Dahlia
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Introduction: Elizabeth Short or to many known as The Black Dahlia was born on July 29, 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts. She moved to Santa Barbara at the age of 21, where she was arrested on September 23, 1943 for u...

Selfless sacrifice an entity few possess
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Introduction: In Sophocles’ legendary play, Oedipus Rex, and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, both embody the common theme of sacrifice. In Oedipus Rex, Sophocles uses sacrifice as a key theme, in which...

The Social Norms Of Wuthering Heights
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Introduction: When I speak of the social norms and conventions of the 19th century, it must first be stated what these norms and conventions actually entail. In the 19th century, more specifically in the Victorian ...

Fate And Free Will, Macbeth
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Introduction: Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, is a play that transcends time due to its timeless and universal themes. The themes presented in this play are just as relevant to modern audiences as they would ...

Analysing The Pardoner In 'Canterbury Tales'
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Introduction: The Pardoner in the Canterbury Tales is hypocritical, gluttenous, vindictive, and spiteful towards others; he is morally and spiritually corrupt in the extreme. He does, however, tell a tale that, as ...

Relationships Between Literature And History
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Introduction: The novel which will be discussed in this essay is Cien Años de Soledad, by Gabriel García Márquez. One of most important factors in this very successful book is the relationship between literature...

Ernest Hemmingway's 'Old Man And The Sea'
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Introduction: In The Old Man and the Sea, Hemmingway uses symbols effectively to create a strong theme of pride throughout the story. The first symbol used......

The Tyger By The Author William Blake
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Introduction: The poem is more about the creator of the tyger than it is about the tyger. In contemplating the terrible ferocity and awe-inspiring symmetry of the tyger, the speaker is at a loss to explain how the ...

Machiavellianism In Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
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Introduction: The term "Machiavellian" originated from ideas found in The Prince. The definition of being Machiavellian has evolved from what was traditionally......

An Inspector Calls Essay
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Introduction: Priestley writes his didactic play in 1944/45 when the war was coming to an inevitable end. As he sets his play in 1912, he adds to the realism as he had first hand experience of the brutality of the ...

The Sin In The Scarlet Letter
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Introduction: The Scarlet Letter was immediately successful, and still is today, because it addresses divine and ethical issues from a unique American standpoint. In 1850, adultery was a tremendously sensitive subj...

Season Of Migration To North
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Introduction: Mustafas point of view is introduced in Chapter two, where Salih uses the prolepsis and analepsis devices to allow Mustafas first person narration of his story to be told to the unnamed narrator. Sali...