Literature Essays

Poetry Journals of Different Authors
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Introduction: This essay explores poetry journals of different authors, providing a personal review of each of them....

A White Heron by Sarah Jewett | Analysis
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Introduction: A White Heron contains nature elements as well as a portrayal of beauty and innocence. Syliva is a nine-year-old girl who is living with her grandmother, whose name is Mrs. Tilley, at the New England Countryside....

What Natural Influences Did Blake and Wordsworth Respond to in Their Poetry?
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Introduction: When looking into the influences of both William Blake and William Wordsworth it is very important to remember a key important event often associated with the term “revolution”, French....

Is Le Petit Prince a Story for Children?
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Introduction: The Little Prince was written by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, a French writer, an aviator, and an aristocrat. The story is about a young prince who visits various planets in space, including Earth and focuses on themes such as loneliness, friendship, love, and loss....

Analysis of Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”
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Introduction: In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” the author manipulates time by beginning at the end.  He painstakingly provides details of Miss Emily’s life through the eyes of a narrator,...

Evolution of Literary Style in Different Eras
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Introduction:  Literature is written pieces of works that have artistic and intellectual worth. There are many different pieces of literature such as poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction journalism and song...

Unhappiness in Utopian Literature
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Introduction:  A utopia is a society that is perfect and  where everyone is happy and enjoying their lives. It is more of a dreamed up society that usually won’t function well when it is actually c...

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth | Analysis
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Introduction: The poem I have chose is called I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth and the poem talks about the speaker was walking around through the hills and valleys, but he felt all lonely an...

A Raisin in the Sun: Analysis of Lena
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Introduction: Reading Journal 3 In the play A Raisin in the Sun, an African American family has an opportunity to have their dreams come true with the arrival of an insurance check after the death of ...

A Post-Colonial Perspective on “On the Rainy River” By Tim O’Brien
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Introduction: A Post-Colonial Perspective on “On the Rainy River” By Tim O’Brien  While examining the short story “On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien from a post-colonial perspec...

Archetypal Theory Analysis of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air
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Introduction: Into Thin Air- Archetypal Theory Tags: Into Thin Air | Nonfiction | Archetypal Criticism | Archetype | Mountain Climbers The archetypal theory refers to universal symbols, chara...

Juror 8 in 12 Angry Men
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Introduction: Could the boy be accountable for murdering his father?  The play 12 Angry Men written by Reginald Rose in 1957, presents a homicidal case that confronts twelve jurors who vote whether the bo...

Social Commentary in Allen Ginsberg's Howl
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Introduction: Conformity is a fundamental aspect of which society as we know it has been built upon. Since the beginning of mankind, people have tended to conform to behaviours that are common among other peop...

Hemingway’s Metaphorical Hills
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Introduction:  Author Ernest Hemingway is known to be keen on making his stories as minimalistic as possible, giving the reader just enough undeniable indications to be able to make indefinite conclusions...

The Multicultural Self as the Palimpsest of Native & Foreign Identities in Zadie Smith's White Teeth
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Introduction: The tussle over the consciousness and a sense of self as it manifests through native and foreign culture is nowhere more apparent than in the diasporic populations. As Zadie Smith herself notes i...

Red Riding Hood: Hunted or Hunter?
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Introduction: Red Riding Hood is a tale used to warn of the dangers in the world especially those of strangers and their desires to harm the innocent. But in deeper investigation I have come across a different...

The Mango Rains Will Only Come When Women’s Health is a Nation-State’s Priority
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Introduction: Monique and the Mango Rains is a beautifully written true story of courage in the face of overwhelming odds and the power of women from vastly different cultures banding together to change the wo...

Robert Browning's Porphyria’s Lover | Analysis
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Introduction: Everyone comes from different surroundings, cultures, ethnicities, but they all have something forbidden to them. In Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue, Porphyria’s Lover, a tragicevent of ...

Book Reflection: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Introduction: The book, Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (2010) talks of the journey of a Virginia mother who changed the whole world through her cells without her knowledge. It focuses on He...

Culture and its Influence on Hell Screen by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
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Introduction: Culture and its influence on Hell Screen by Akutagawa Ryunosuke Any piece of work which is written by a human being, will be influenced by the beliefs and opinions of the author. It is i...

Analysis of This Side of Paradise
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Introduction: “This Side of Paradise” is a title that Fitzgerald has taken from a poem narrated by Rupert Brooke who used to be one of the top poets during the early 20th century. Brooke’s poems were abo...

Analyzing a Bureaucratic Way of Rule and the Effects It Has on the People in Catch-22
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Introduction: Analyzing a bureaucratic way of rule and the effects it has on the people in Catch-22 The way of rule in Catch-22, a bureaucracy, affected the people in the novel greatly and developed a...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker: Redemption of Mr
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Introduction: The Color Purple by Alice Walker: Redemption of Mr._____          Change: it is an inevitable force that happens to everything and everyone in tim...

The Romantic Period of Literature
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Introduction:  Romanticism in literature was defined as a literary, artistic and philosophical movement originating in the late 17th century and early 18th century, a movement against the Neoclassicism of...

Existentialism in The Metamorphosis
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Introduction:  The Metamorphosis, a short story written by Franz Kafka, begins with Gregor Samsa waking up as a “monstrous vermin bug” (Kafka, 1915, p. 3) without any explanation, which ends up changi...