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Issue of Mortality in Literature and in Life

is common knowledge. Who does not worry about death? Even children, from a very young age, often ask the ultimate question which i...

Analysis and Study Notes for 'The Excursion' by Wordsworth, The Black Man's Burden by Morel, and The White Man's Burden by Kipling

* Clearly, this poem read today would be interpreted from a different perspective than when it first appeared in 1899. 2. Edward...

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Imperialism

who assure the king that Gulliver is merely a trained animal and that the farmer, from which Gulliver was obtained, had trained hi...

Literature and Epiphany

drug addict living a life very similar to Sonnys. : "Thats right, he said quickly, aint nothing you can do. Cant much help old Son...

J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, and Journeys

is on his own journey for he too is aware of the murderer Injun Joe. As such their journeys, while different, essentially stem fro...

British Literature of the Seventeenth Century Examined

and women to enjoy each other. The Philosophical Viewpoints We want to relate the conflict and the writings to various philosop...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Materialism

with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...

Irony and Paradox in 'Battle Royal' by Ralph Ellison and 'On the Rainy River' by Tim O'Brien”

and hides and works for a man who never questions him, and he is torn terribly with his emotions because he wants to run and yet h...

Heroic Literary Symbolism

In six pages an analysis of the heroic symbolism in the epics 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,' 'Beowulf,' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh...

Greek Society Reflected in Literary Characterizations

era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation...

Literature's Theme Concept

the work is the subject, while the insights that occur as a result of the interactions of characters represents the theme. For ex...

Racism in Othello

seem that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio, the man that Othello favored for promotion over Iago. Convinced that Desdemon...

Literary Devices in Three Novels

makes an impression is the plot and specifically the incident when Huck could turn Jim in to the men who are hunting runaway slave...

Realism and Romanticism in Literary Works

a man they dislike, saw it and pulled it so that they would not be exposed with the rest (Twain, 2006). The entire town is convuls...

Literary Portrayals of Blacks in Works by Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, and Zora Neale Hurston

it up" (Hurston). By focusing on poor urban blacks instead of writing about the African-American doctors, dentists, and lawyers, ...

Literary Tools Used by Emily Dickinson

61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...

African Americans and Racism

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

Fitzgerald's Literary Influences, and His Influence on Literature

and actually wrote several novels and short stories during the period ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"). Interestingly, his novels were neve...

Paris Years of Ernest Hemingway and 'Soldier's Home'

writer, personal experience is simply the staring point, as they combine lived experience with created characters in order to pres...

Literary Analysis of Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'

time reader has no idea why. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer...

Analysis of 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor

Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...

Literary View of Human Calamity

bombs on the city that they created a firestorm-a self-perpetuating inferno that destroyed the city almost complete. The worst par...

Children's Literary Classic The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

a shelf, he decides to seek the counsel of the Skin Horse. He inquires what it means to be REAL, and the Horse answers, "Real isn...

Modernism and Literature

became sculptural" (Make It New: The Rise of Modernism). From another perspective one author notes, "It is usually thought that ...

Mississippi River Journey of Jim and Huckleberry Finn

and telling Huck his story. They both decide to simply hide out on the island together, fishing and getting what they can on the i...

Definition of an American and Homelessness

91). The first threatening wave of homelessness swept America between the years 1820 and 1860, when more than five million immigr...

Irish Literary Themes in 1916 by Morgan Llywelyn

conflict rages within, there are conflicts aplenty without. The passage of time also brings with it change, often initiated throu...

Applying the Literary Lessons of E.M. Forster and Henry David Thoreau

This paper examines the importance of being able to apply the teachings found in great literary works such as those of Thoreau and...

Literary Interpretation and Analysis of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...

Aphra Behn's 17th Century Literary Works

Indies, and lived an adventurous life of slave rebellions and observed Indian tribal rituals which would later appear in her works...