English Literature Essays

Commentary On Voltaires 'Candide'
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Introduction: Voltaire’s work, Candide, uses powerful satirical narrative to represent slavery in the eighteenth century, the supposed Age of Reason, and Candide’s epiphany, represented throughout the c...

A Failure To Communicate
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Introduction: "What we have here is a failure to communicate." This famous quote from the 1967 film, Cool Hand Luke, characterizes the plight of the characters in the short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri. "A Temporary Ma...

Composed On Westminster Bridge And London
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Introduction: William Wordsworth was born on 7th April, 1770 in Cumberland, in the Lake District. Blake was born to four other siblings; Richard, John, Christopher and Dorothy, his only sister. Wordsworth was taugh...

The Negro Speaks of Rivers
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Introduction: The Negro Speaks of Rivers is Langston Hughes's most anthologized poem. Hughes wrote this brief poem in fifteen minutes in July, 1920, while......

Themes Of Rivalry In East Of Eden
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Introduction: John Steinbeck was born into a middle class family that resided in Salinas, California. During his time at Stanford University Steinbeck worked and took classes he believed were beneficial before even...

Traditional Chinese Wedding Customs
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Introduction: This is the elaborate process on the grooms parents part to look for the right kind of bride for their family. Rich families will look for a bride who can take care of household finances and most impo...

The Almond Tree By Jon Stallworthy
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Introduction: A poem which involves a journey which is both literal and metaphorical is ‘The Almond Tree’ By Jon Stallworthy. We are made aware of this journey’s deeper significance through the po...

And Then There Were None
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Introduction: Agatha Christie was born on September 15th, 1890 in Torquay, England. Her name at birth was Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, and her parents were Clarissa Boehmer of Belfast, Ireland and Frederick Miller,...

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
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Introduction: The story revolves around a woman, Mariam being sent to marry a harsh orthodox man named Rasheed (in Kabul) at the tender age of fifteen, after losing her mother and being forced to live with her fath...

Shakespearean Female Characters And Roles
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Introduction: During the Elizabethan era women were not allowed to perform by law as they were second class citizens at that time. Young boys, also known as “beardless boys” were hired to act to play th...

Negative Effects Of A Patriarchal Society
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Introduction: Many literary men experienced this century as the Age of anxiety while many female counterparts experienced this time as en era of exuberance. An important reason for such a reaction was the increase ...

Knights Of The Middle Ages
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Introduction: Duty, loyalty, and bravery are all ideas that have been taught by every society since the early civilizations of Mesopotamia to the societies around the world today. No time period relied on these ide...

An Analysis Of Holden Caulfield
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Introduction: The mind of a teenager is a very complex organ that has various sections, each specifically designed to deal with an assortment of different problems which that person happens to be encountering. Alth...

Adult And The Child Readers Interest
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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,......

Woman as a Postmodern Novel
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Introduction: FOWLES’S THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN AS A POSTMODERN NOVEL Linda Hutcheon (Hutcheon 1986: 81-94) and David Lodge (Lodge 226-27) consider John Fowles as a writer, linking modernism and p...

Vengeance Theme in Shakespeare
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Introduction: Vengeance Theme Shakespeare “Sweet is revenge-especially to women” (Barlett, 1980, pg 460). Vengeance is not just a theme created by authors; it is seen throughout the world everyday. Vengeance...

Emergence Of New Women In Rk Narayan
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Introduction: This term paper shows how a woman asserts herself by breaking the old shackles of tradition and convention and finally brings an era of a new woman....

One Thousand Dollars
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Introduction: Old Bryson was a calm, anti-social man, about forty years old. Gillian say to Old Bryson Ire just come from a meeting with my late uncle’ lawyer. He leaves we an even thousand dollars?”. A...

The Impressions Of Pride And Prejudice
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Introduction: Elizabeth Bennets pride and prejudice gives her inaccurate first impressions of Fitzwilliam Darcy. In the beginning, Elizabeth judges Darcy as “the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world&#...

A Look At Rapunzel English Literature Essay
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Introduction: There was a man and his wife who wanted a child for many years. They lived next to a witch, who had a garden that was surrounded by a wall. The wife wanted some lettuce so bad that her husband agreed ...

Setting and weather in ‘Wuthering Heights'
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Introduction: Consider the importance of setting and weather in ‘Wuthering Heights’ In ‘Wuthering Heights’ the setting is very important. In the novel the setting and weather mirror the mood of some...

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
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Introduction: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown is a fully documented version of the obliteration of the Indian Americans in the late 1800s culminating at the Wounded Knee Battle. Brown brings to light tor...

The Significance Of Dreams In Richard III
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Introduction: Richard III was written by William Shakespeare and tells the story of how Richard wants to become king and does everything in his power to get there by assassinating members of his family to do so, fo...

The Popular Poet William Cullen Bryant
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Introduction: William Cullen Bryant is one of the most popular poets of the nineteenth century. He has attended most of the public occasions with a kind of poetry that reached all levels of society. He is a poet ...

A Stylistic Analysis On The Nightingale
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Introduction: Stylistics refers to stylistic study specially. The aim of the stylistic study is to interpret the literary meaning and aesthetic effect of literature texts linguistically. There are many definitions ...