English Literature Essays

Analysis Of Eliots The Four Quartets
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Apr 2017
Introduction: The “Four Quartets” was composed after Eliots conversion to Christianity, and these poems appear to be Eliot working with a new understanding ......

Poverty Of Mirrors A Struggle Expressed
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Introduction: “An accurate taste in poetry can only be produced by severe thought, and long continued intercourse with the best models of composition.” William Wadsworth Poetic interpretations present s...

Pride And Prejudice By Jane Austen English
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Introduction: The new historicism as an approach for assessing noncontemporary works regards the historical and cultural context that is generally the more interesting contrast to the present, and the more difficul...

Analysis: Twilight Movie And Book
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Introduction: For instance, Edward was dazzling to Bella. In the Twilight book, Edward repeatedly smiled a crooked smile. Every time he did so, Bella just couldn’t resist agreeing or loving him. Dazzling make...

Languages, 'Cathedral' By Raymond Carver
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Introduction: Languages, “Cathedral,” by Raymond Carver, opens with the narrator telling the reader in a conversational tone that a blind friend of his wife is coming to visit them. The narrator is clea...

The Characteristics In Monster Novels
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Introduction: The “monster” characters in Dracula and Maus share similar personalities. In the first novel, the “monster” is the vampire named Dracula; he is a very greedy and cold-blooded c...

The Master Builder By Henrik Ibsen
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Introduction: In the play, The Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen, a variety of concepts could be drawn, but one concept that drew my attention was the frequently occurring theme, of age vs. youth and a sense of rejuv...

The Danger Of A Single Story
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Introduction: Im a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call “the danger of the single story.” I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. My mo...

Emotions In 'A Mother In A Refugee Camp'
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Introduction: The poems War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy, A Mother in a Refugee camp by Chinua Achebe and Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas may at first seem to have a little in common. Howev...

Placement Of People Dante Hated In Hell
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Introduction: Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno is a medium for the poet to condemn his enemies of the Italian church and state. The Inferno contains a great number of references to people from the Italian socie...

The Major Influences Of Killing King Duncan English
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Introduction: In Act 1 of the play, “Macbeth”, William Shakespeare allows the audience to follow the emotional and psychological journey Macbeth takes as he decides whether or not to murder King Duncan....

Masculinity in 'The Life of Pi'
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Introduction: The stereotypical men are generally portrayed to be brave, strong and independent. These are all positive stereotypes in which men are portrayed. However, some people may argue than men are portrayed ...

Examining Scenes In The Polar Express
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Introduction: The film The Polar Express is an adaptation from the children’s book written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. The theme of the Polar Express lies in the struggle about losing one’s &...

Analysis: Oedipus the King
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Introduction: The play, Oedipus the King, is an unambiguous case of Hellenic tragedy. A tragedy ought to have certain elements as instituted by Aristotle and they are ‘ plot, tragic hero, hamartia, anagnorisi...

Kitty Tsuis: Bridging Cultural Gaps
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Introduction: Kitty Tsui, the forefront pioneer in Asian-American lesbian literature, wrote “fire-breathing poems”, such as the “A Chinese Banquet” (Aguilar-San Juan 937). The poem is a desc...

Toni Morrison And Alice Walker
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Apr 2017
Introduction: Essentially, there is a line dividing the realm of literal and figurative language. Interpreting in a literal manner, in The Bluest Eye, Morrison is only talking about a house saying in her train of t...

Paper On Elements Of Satire In Gullivers Travels
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Introduction: Satire can be used in many different forms for writers to express themselves. Satire is used by writers in all types of literature to communicate with their readers. More importantly satire allows wri...

Central Symbol In John Steinbecks The Chrysanthemums
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Introduction: In the short story The Chrysanthemums, John Steinbeck uses the chrysanthemums as the central symbol to help the reader understand the storys plot and recognize the emotions and thoughts of the main ch...

Marian Halcombe Between Genders And Gender Roles
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Introduction: In this chapter I want to show that Marian's unconventionality resides in the way she looks and behaves and that this allows Collins to challenge gender roles......

Studying The Poetry Of Plath And Hughes
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Introduction: Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) and Ted Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) are known as some of the best poets of all time. They wrote with passion and flare and...

Walt Whitman And Emily Dickinson Were Giants
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Introduction: It is indisputable that both walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were giants in the history of American literature owing their extraordinary accomplishments in poetry composing plenty of poems, focusing ...

Judith Butlers Book Gender Trouble
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Introduction: Working off of the post colonial theories presented by Bhabha and Foucault, Judith Butler wrote her book Gender Trouble, as a way to undermine our firmly held beliefs of sex, gender and sexual identit...

Understanding The True Meaning Of Heritage
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Introduction: Alice Walker illustrates the significance of heritage in material objects by contrasting the family members in the story “Everyday Use.” Walker uses Mamma and Maggie, the youngest of the t...

Analysis Of A Christmas Carol
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Introduction: The title of this novel is A Christmas Carol, which is written by Charles Dickens. In this novel, the main character, Scrooge, has a callous personal. He doesn’t recognize poverty, kindness, and...

William Wilberforce's Christian Commitment
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Apr 2017
Introduction: What were the social and political implications of William Wilberforce’s Christian commitment as in the texts you have studied? WilliamWilberforce (1759-1833) was a politically active abolitioni...