English Literature Essays

A Film Review On The Film Thunderheart
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Introduction: In this film review I’m going to discuss how the Native Indians and white Americans are presented in the film Thunderheart and the stereotypes within the film and in which extent it meets the ov...

Animal farm essay
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Introduction: Animal Farm Essay Animal Farm by George Orwell is a compelling book that represents the Russian revolution. Although viewing through the eyes of animals may seem like a childish concept, George does w...

Quote Analysis from Sebold's 'The Lovely Bones'
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Introduction: Quotes from Lovely Bones- #1-15 Quotes Significance/Importance “The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for...

Twilight Samurai: A Film Analysis
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Introduction: This essay examines the image of the samurai created by director Yoji Yamada, as he tries to look at the qualities of the samurai through the biopic of Iguchi Seibei. This 2002 film chronicles Seibeis...

Mother Hubberds Tale By Edmund Spenser
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Introduction: Introduction Mother Hubberd’s Tale was composed by Edmund Spenser (1552-1599). As any other piece of art, its content was full of advice to the youths concerning life in general. From the tale, ...

Techniques Used In Pride And Prejudice
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Introduction: Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen explores the viciousness of social class and its breaking points. Set in 19th century in a rustic region of Longbourn, England the reader is confronted with ...

Synopsis Of Bold Girls
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Introduction: Bold Girls is a play set in war -torn West Belfast about the lives of Four women, Marie, Nora,Cassie and Deidre, Although their men have been killed or imprisoned for their political activities, every...

Analysis Of The Lord Of The Flies
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Introduction: Throughout the novel Lord of the Flies, various views and motifs are portrayed. Of these views and motifs, the main message which is illustrated is one that questions society. It is clear from the ver...

'The Handmaids Tale' And 'The Clockwork Orange'
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Introduction: The manipulation of language in the ‘The Handmaids Tale’ is seen as ‘chilling’, ‘satirical’ and ‘suspenseful’. This dystopian fiction portrays both the ...

La Belle Dame Sans Merci To Autumn
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Introduction: I have chosen to compare these two poems both written by Keats. Keats was only 26 years old when he died, and wrote ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ just three years before this. He died of tube...

Individual Art Movements Impact On Victorian Poetry
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Introduction: Renaissance art resulted from a cultural movement spanning roughly from the 14th to 17th centuries that began in Florence, Italy in the late middle ages and spread to the rest of Europe. Underlying th...

Oscar Wilde, The Picture Of Dorian Grey
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Introduction: Content: I give my personal opinion of the picture of Dorian Grey and how the author Oscar Wilde depicted himself in the novel. This essay reads the novel from several aspects include “beauty an...

A' Minimum Of Two' A Short Story
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Introduction: “Minimum of two” is a collection of short stories written by Australian writer Tim Winton. He writes his stories in different views such as first and third person, mainly for the reader to...

Relationships In The Novel 'The Road'
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Introduction: ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy is a fantasy which revolves around two characters, a father and a son. I am doing a character sketch on the man and the boy because I find them to have the mo...

How Othello's Identity Is Shaped
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Introduction: In his play, Shakespeare’s main protagonist is a black man – Othello, is a noble man merely to suit the convention that considered people of noble blood the only proper heroes for the stag...

Isobel Dixon And Mervyn Morris
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Introduction: “Little Boy Crying” by Mervyn Morris and “Plenty” by Isobel Dixon both explore the vivid childhood memories and experiences of the poets. In “Little Boy Crying,” a ...

Portrayal Of Vampires In Literature
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Introduction: "His face was a strong, a very strong, aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely ...

First Impressions Of College In The USA
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Introduction: Entering college is very exciting for everyone, especially in coming Freshman. This excitement is expressed in the article College (1925), written by Anzia Yezierska. Yezierska talks about her expecta...

Courage In Little Women And Treasure Island
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Introduction: Little Women was written in the 19th Century in the time of the American Civil War. Many men were away fighting the war or supporting their cause, so women were often left to await their return and r...

The American Dream, Corrupted
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Introduction: The ideal of the American Dream has been around for as long as American Literature itself has been. The idea that an individual can come to this land from anywhere in the world with nothing but his or...

Four Important Topics Of Literature
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Introduction: Introduction: This paper covers four important topics of Literature, which include: Essay, Poetry, Prose, Drama and Film. Essay is a form of writing, which can be literary-based or scientific-based. L...

Remarks On 40th Anniversary Of D Day
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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...

Sonnys Blue And Everyday Use
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Introduction: You will never say that these two stories are only mundane waste of ink. Reading these stories, you understand things you have never thought about before. However, what do people think? Did all of the...

The Diary Of Anne Frank
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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...

Ernest Hemingway And F Scott Fitzgerald
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Introduction: The dream of today is the reality of tomorrow. Certain dreams are light that make path into the future. Many men, through these dreams, have transformed lives. Those men are carriers. Carriers of happ...