English Literature Essays

Kite Runner Analysis: The Concept Of Betrayal
Example essay. Last modified: 1st May 2017
Introduction: The Kite Runner is a story about the life of Amir, the narrator who is living in the US, and how his childhood years in Afghanistan shaped his life.  As a child, his father tells him that a child who...

Portrayal Of War In Dulce Et Decorum Est
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Introduction: Throughout history, many poets have expressed their feelings towards war and battles. Two poems that express these feelings are Dulce et decorum est by Wilfred Owen and Charge of the light brigade By ...

Poetry A Reflection On Life
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Introduction: As Cohen suggests poetry like your deeds is what remains of life, suggesting a final immortality for those penned in verse. Poetry is a powerful literary genre that endeavours to showcase emotions thr...

The Themes In Odour Of Chrysanthemums
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Introduction: Odour of Chrysanthemums, by D. H. Lawrence, once again is full of themes and motifs. One could study this text and come up with many different interpretations. In this story Elizabeth seems to have a ...

Book Report About The Little Bee
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Introduction: The beach in Nigeria is the place that Andrew and Sarah first met Little Bee and her sister. It is where Andrew refused to cut off his finger and where Sarah cut her own finger instead to save Little ...

Racial Self Loathing The Bluest Eye, Analysis
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Introduction: Morrison in the book "The bluest eye" also brings out the theme of racial self loathing through Pecola because the novel indicates that once the father raped her twice she hates herself and believes t...

Analytical Essay The Alchemist And The Little Prince
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Introduction: Throughout journeys we meet many people who affect our lives. The authors use plot to show their idea. “I saw a most extraordinary small person.” (4) In the “Little Prince”, th...

Heartbreaking Hunger In Angela's Ashes
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Introduction: Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt is a heartbreaking memoir novel in which the family suffers from poverty and hunger. The lives of McCourt’s family are being darkened by the father, Malachy...

Childrens Books Are Thus Inevitably Didactic
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Introduction: Peter Hunt’s claim in his essay, Instruction and Delight, is that all children’s books are unavoidably didactic to some extent, since all authors have their own motives when writing a book...

The True Mocking Bird Boo Radley
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Introduction: In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee tells a story of Scout Finch and her older brother, Jem, in the 1930’s Alabama. In the beginning Scout, starts out as a very undeveloped child not knowing th...

A Timeless Work Of Art
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Introduction: Universal has many associations as to what it means, generally concluded to mean that it can be commonly used, with vast potentials and a capability to satisfy many different occurrences. As so, when ...

Michael Ondaatje's 'Coming Through Slaughter'
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Introduction: Michael Ondaatje, the first Canadian writer to win the prestigious Booker Prize in 1992, is celebrated as a contemporary literary treasure. In his works he attempts a re-evaluation of history by focus...

A Short Story 'The Red Convertible'
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Apr 2017
Introduction: “The Red Convertible” is a short story, written by Louise Erdrich. This story is about the brotherhood between Lyman Lamartine and his older brother Henry. The narrator considers himself a...

Sydney Carton: From Zero To Hero
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Introduction: Charles Dickens extraordinaire revolutionist novel A Tale of Two Cities portrays an excellent character of Sydney Carton whom develops dynamically throughout the novel. Carton overshadows Charles Darn...

The Great Gatsby: A Critical Analysis
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Introduction: In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gastby, Fitzgerald uses vivid descriptions and applies his knowledge of literary devices. He uses a variety of devices to symbolize something much more intric...

First World War poetry
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Introduction: The First World War poetry of Wilfred Owen provide a comprehensive and emotional account of the violence he himself witnessed during his time served in WWI with the Manchester Regiment from 1914 to 19...

Exploring Female Degradation In Hamlet
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Introduction: Shakespeare portrays women in Hamlet as complicated beings. Gertrude, the mother of Hamlet, is criticized for her hasty marriage to Hamlet’s own Uncle Claudius, the brother of his father. Opheli...

Friday Night Lights By H G Bissinger
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Introduction: Establish the purpose of the novel and the movie Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger. Are they the same? Different? How? Why? What values are communicated in each? Is there a shift from book to mov...

Identity Of Pearl In The Scarlet Letter
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Introduction: Pearl is described to be elf, fey, and evil, which ascribes a unique shadow of light and shadow to her perpetual mystery and danger. She is wild, rebellious, and uncontrollable, whom God is never like...

Jean Michel Basquiat, Graffiti Artist
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Introduction: There are several amazing and thought provoking pieces that Jean Michel has done, but the three works of art that will be discussed in this review will be, The Nile 1983, Untitled “Skull” ...

Looking At Skating By William Wordsworth
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Introduction: The poem skating is very much a lyrical poem as the poet expresses personal and emotional feelings, in this case he is expressing feelings of when he was a child and expresses the emotions that he fel...

David Fincher's Adaptation Of Fight Club
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Introduction: Originally founded by Sigmund Freud in the late nineteenth century, psychoanalysis opened up a whole new perception of the human mind, establishing both revolutionary and controversial theories. In hi...

Personality Of Lin Daiyu And Xue Baochai
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Introduction: For ages, hundreds upon hundreds of eminent scholars have been contributing all their lifetime to the study of Dream of the Red Mansion, which is called “redology”. However, with the study...

Review Of The Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
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Introduction: The tone in The Metamorphosis is depressing. The readers follow Gregor through his life as an insect and how his family never shows affection towards him. They feed him, but after a while they stop a...

Racism In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Apr 2017
Introduction: The US edition of Mark Twains classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is to be published without the offensive racial term “nigger.” The word appears 219 times in Twains text, and...