English Literature Essays

To Kill A Mockingbird
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Introduction: To Kill a Mockingbird is a very popular American novel. The plot was loosely based on Harper Lee’s own family and neighbors when she was a child. (Castleman) The novels’ setting is during ...

Analysis Of Anne Frank's Diary
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Introduction: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl takes place between June 12, 1942 and August 1, 1944 in Amsterdam, Holland. Specifically, it takes place in their “Secret Annex” which is hidden behin...

An Analysis: Othello By Shakespeare
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Introduction: Shakespeare’s Othello is a story of betrayal, jealousy, and revenge. The antagonist in the play, Iago, is considered to be one of Shakespeare’s most evil characters. Such a title is given ...

Studying Postmodernism In Childrens Books
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Introduction: Illustrations within children's books were originally to enhance the reading of the text, bringing with them tangible or elusive reflections, through time as......

My Last Duchess, an analysis
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Introduction: My Last Duchess dramatizes the internal conflict of the speaker, the Duke of Ferrara. He is conflicted with the faults of his last wife, and the desire for change in the upcoming marriage to his new f...

Representing Prostitution In Victorian London
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Introduction: Nineteenth century England is commonly characterised by the successful expansion of an industrial society. Industrial growth defined the geography, economy and society of Victorian Britain, allowing f...

The Basketball Diaries
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Introduction: The story, The Basketball diaries, tends to focus on the adolescent stages of development, due to the reason that the story is centered on the life of a teenage boy. It becomes obvious that the main c...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'
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Introduction: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s purpose in delivering The Scarlet Letter to the public is to show how individuals can be alienated from the society simply because they are different from others. Hawthorne...

Elements Of Struggle Between Passion And Reason
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Introduction: In nineteenth century literature a lot of importance was given to passion and emotional appeal in preference to reason and logic. Creative writing and fiction were usually charged with passion and str...

Intelligence Versus Instinct: To Build a Fire
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Introduction: When it states that the man has turned to climb the unsafe path it is described as “dim”, showing that he now has little hope of making it alive....

Studying 'The Lottery' By Shirley Jackson
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Introduction: “The Lottery,” written by Shirley Jackson and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” are admittedly very different stories. Although ......

The Statue Of Aphrodite
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Introduction: The form of the Marble Statue of Aphrodite is different from that of the Standing Parvati. Aphrodite is rough in texture because she is carved out of marble. She is wearing a sleeveless, ungirt chitin...

Characteristics Of Romanticism And Gothicism
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Introduction: The creature spoke, The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone. Within this quote, the creature of Frankens...

Autobiography In Chitra Banerjees Works
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Introduction: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is one of the worlds well known authors, a representative of the current Indo-Anglian fiction. Her new style of writing is different from the many other Indian writers, as i...

D Day By Ronald Reagan: Analaysis
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Introduction: “Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day” by Ronald Reagan delivered in Normandy is a sample of a effective and persuading speech, where the speaker uses different stylistic devices to in...

More Than Basketball Story
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Introduction: Draining shot after shot, snatching steals, flying for rebounds the excitement that amplifies the love I have for the game. I eat, sleep, and breathe basketball. If I am not playing it, I am watchin...

Robert Browning 'Youth and Art' Analysis
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Introduction: Youth and Art by Robert Browning Illustration One time, we settled in the same street, you and I were lonely like a loner bird. Your job was dealing with clay, polished and crafted it into a visual a...

Amitav Ghosh, The Circle Of Reason
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Introduction: In thinking through the category of diaspora and its link to geographical entities such as nation states, it is thus crucial to consider the important role of nation formation and constitution during ...

Fury As A Psychological Novel
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Introduction: “A psychological novel, also called psychological realism, is a work of prose fiction which places more than the usual amount of emphasis on interior characterization, and on the motives, circum...

Empire Falls, by Richard Russo: Themes
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Introduction: The novel, Empire Falls, by Richard Russo depicts the life of the townspeople in the town Empire Falls. The town is dilapidated and approaching bankruptcy after the factories, owed by the Whitings, ha...

Shakespeare's Use Of Mercutio
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Introduction: In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the character Mercutio mood represent the mood of the play itself, and when Mercutio Dies the Mood of the play changes from a comedy to tragedy , When ...

Reviewing The Role Of Women In Hard Times
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Introduction: Throughout Hard Times, the role of women is vital in the development and outcome to the story. In particular they cause Mr Thomas Gradgrind, the antagonistic school teacher, to change from his philoso...

An Analysis Of Young Goodman Brown
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Introduction: Most criticism and reflection of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” centers on the theme of good versus evil. Critics, also, debate interpretations of the main characterR...

Wind In The Willows: An analysis
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Introduction: The Wind in the Willows is a book written by Kenneth Grahame, and was published in 1908. The novel is slow moving and fast paced, it is about four anthropomorphized animal characters namely Badger, Ra...

Nick Hornby, High Fidelity: An analysis
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Introduction: Rob, is a morose person who needs this excuse to always complain. Hes a very pessimistic person, who cant seem to find a positive outlook in anything. Rob is also a very self-conscious person who is n...