English Literature Essays

Feminst View On The Yellow Wall Paper
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Introduction: According to the societal norms of the time period, women in the nineteenth century were expected to carry out their duties as mothers and wives. They were to be content in these roles and nothing fur...

The Other In Frankenstein And Heart Of Darkness
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Introduction: Encounters with people who differ visibly from ourselves often generate reactions of horror, dread, and, in some cases, violent efforts to destroy the other in order to eliminate the perceived threat ...

Seabiscuit And Red Pollard Comparison
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Introduction: Many times people see their life reflected in the life of another person, some times because they have the same experiences or even because they are similar physically or they have some aspects in com...

Portrayal Of Helen Burns: Jane Eyre
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Introduction: Portrayal of Helen Burns from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, a Victorian Novel. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, was published in 1847, and is a bildungsroman, following the life of the protagonist Ja...

Chronicles Of Death Foretold Importance Of Virginity
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Introduction: However, in Like Water for Chocolate, instead of Mama Elena trying to protect her daughters virginity, she instead ends the mother and daughter relation with Gertrudis. Whilst Garcia Marquez criticize...

Long Days Journey Into Night Analysis
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Introduction: “Long Day’s Journey into Night” is a personal play about a twentieth century family and the grueling realities they had to face. This play was written in a realistic mode by an Ameri...

The Crick Crack Monkey By Merle Hodge
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Introduction: The novel Crick Crack Monkey was written by Merle Hodge, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago. The novel was first published in the year 1970 by Heinemann Publishers Limited. The story is narrated thro...

Analyzing A Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
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Introduction: The objective of this extended essay is to analyze the character Brick of the book Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, written by Tennessee Williams in order to find the factors that take the protagonist to a poss...

'The Rules Of The Game' Research
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Introduction: Amy Tan opens her story “The Rules of the Game” with an “example of old world wisdom” (Biagiarelli 7-8): ” Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from ...

The Characters Of Tom And William
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Introduction: Many good novels in the past have had films produced about their storyline. However, producers often modify the plot, change the characters and introduce new events and ideas to try and make the film ...

T S Eliot: The Waste Land, Analysis
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Introduction: How are issues of faith or belief represented in T.S.Eliot’s The Waste Land? Faith and belief, or the lack of it, has always played a major part in T.S. Eliot’s canon; perhaps more than any ot...

Guilt In Oedipus And Metamorphosis
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Introduction: ‘Oedipus the King’, by Sophocles is an ancient Greek tragedy. The play focuses on the tragic life of King Oedipus who is a victim of his irretrievable fate as he is destined to perpetrate...

Character Identity In 'Come And Gone'
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Introduction: In August Wilson’s play, Joe Turners’ Come and Gone the characters struggle to find a life that will help them overcome the pain from their past. My goal is to examine how each character&#...

Death Of A Salesman: Psychoanalysis
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Introduction: One of Sigmund Freud’s greatest accomplishments was creating psychoanalysis (Thornton). “Psychoanalysis is a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and uncon...

The Mystery Of Life Or Death
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Introduction: When faith is dead, how can we tolerate everything? How can we confront ourselves, forgive the past mistakes, and to rebuild tolerance and faith? Is it better to pardon or to revenge; to live or to ...

Virginia Woolf's Literary Themes Of Feminism
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Introduction: There are only a few authors who are as renowned as Virginia Woolf. For she was one of the first authors of her time to try to break the "Victorian grasp" on literary works and put imagination in almo...

Sylvia Plath And Her Poem 'Daddy'
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Introduction: Sylvia Plath was an American poet and novelist, but also a mother, teacher and wife (Plath, p.2). She was born in Boston Massachusetts on October 27, 1932 (Ibid, p.2). Her mother Aurelia Schober Pla...

The American Dream In The Great Gatsby
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Introduction: Besides the color white, Fitzgerald uses other colors such as gold and silver, to represent ideas that help him communicate his perception of the American Dream. The colors gold and silver are commonl...

The Human Comedy By William Saroyan
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Introduction: In the Human Comedy by William Saroyan, there are several different example of human unity during a time of war throughout the book in its entirety. Homer, a 14 year old boy, given the task to run his...

The Life Of A Hero | Essay
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Introduction: The movie started with his novel where he revealed the truth. The Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, the two novel of Rizal serve as the way to reveal the bad side of the government and the church...

Unique Writing Style Of William Porter
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Introduction: William Sidney Porter was born September 11, 1862 in North Carolina, where he spent most of his childhood. He learned to love books when he was very young. Later on in his teenage years he became a li...

The Main Themes To A Christmas Carol
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Introduction: A Christmas Carol is novel by an English author by the name of Charles Dickens. The book opens with the approval of the death of Marley, Scrooge’s long time friend and companion in business. The...

Nathaniel Hawthornes Rappaccinis Daughter
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Introduction: One of Nathaniel Hawthornes most famous works is the short story, “Rappaccinis Daughter”. It was written in 1844 and published in book form in the Mossess from and Old Manse in 1846 (Tuer...

Gothic Literature Focused On Death
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Introduction: Gothic literature was a literary movement that focused on death, decay and both physical and psychological terror. Gothic style also suggests a belief in the supernatural and thus many gothic texts co...

Of Mice And Men And Cannery Row: Analysis
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Introduction: Of Mice and Men is a novel by John Steinbeck which was published in 1937. The novel tells the tragic and unfortunate story of two friends George and Lennie in a ranch in California during Great Depres...