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Essays 1891 - 1920

Magical Realism in the Novels of Isabel Allende

Beth E. Jorgensen defines magical realism as the "use of the literary devices of hyperbole, oxymoron, personification, flashback a...

Herman Melville's Narrative Voice

critic notes that, "Whether in a brief novella or in an epic tome, one common technique utilized by many writers is a framing of a...

Zora Neale Hurston and the Fiction She Inspired

card ready, as this seemed to impress people and verify that, yes, an African American could be a public accountant. Mentally, Ann...

Plot, Conflict, and Setting of Life of Pi by Yann Martel

comes as no surprise how faith symbolizes a component of mans existence that seeks unyielding reassurance. The problem with meani...

Literary Analysis of Amy Tan's 'Two Kinds'

reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...

Questions on the History of China

huge country (Kaplan, 2001). Wihtin this country were seven great powers (competing with one another in both military and economic...

Exegis in 2 Kings Chapter 4 Verses 8 through 17

in your arms." "No, my lord," she objected. "Dont mislead your servant, O man of God!" 17 But the woman became pregnant, and t...

American Contributions of Edgar Allan Poe

"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...

Irony as a Literary Device

You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...

Comparative Analysis of 2 of Kate Chopin's Short Stories

until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...

Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Religious Literary Devices

in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...

Two Examples of Madness in Literature

loves to write, and obviously sneaks off to do because we are reading about it. Writing is her passion and while it is seen as an ...

Los Angeles Literature

Chandler was famous for his evocative descriptions of L.A.; the heat and light, the flowers, traffic, noise and above all the vivi...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. This sense of pessimism is also one that is very u...

Tragedies Like That of Princess Diana

charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...

Overview of the World's Major Religions

it would be remiss not to include it in an essay such as this. All Christians follow the Holy Bible, the Old Testament and the Ne...

Madeleine de Scudery's Literary Salon and How It Influenced Marie Jeanne L'Heritier's Writing

of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it...

Research Study in Marie Jeanne L'Heritier's Writing and the Influence of Madeleine de Scudery's Literary Salon

it again" (De Sevigne, 1982). Analyzing the literary insights of a number of these female authors, including Marie-Jeanne LHeriti...

Literary Values in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

as they face the discrimination with the power of togetherness, as a family. Much of the play also focuses on embracing on...

"Political, Philosophical, Religious, Cultural, Social, Literary and Artistic Value of 'Poem of The Cid"

the field against the three thousand Moors; and such was the valor of him that in a good hour was born, and of his standard bearer...

Lion Feuchtwanger's Prophetic Novel, The Oppermanns

reader, who has the benefit of hindsight, to wonder why German Jews, such as the Oppermanns, did not react earlier to the Nazi thr...

Intellectual Development and Don Quixote, The Mali Epic of Son Jara, and The Epic of Gilgamesh

regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality and, perhaps above all, the concept of divine judgment and human guilt. I...

Pamela Joern/"Judgment Day"

This essay presents a literary analysis of "Judgment Day" by Pamela Joern. Three pages in length, one source is cited....

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...

The Topic of Corticosteroid Anti Inflammatories

to allow athletes to continue to perform in the presence of a possibly debilitating injury. Critics have argued that the use of s...

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...

"2b or Not 2b" by David Crystal

This essay pertains to "2b or Not 2b" an article by David Crystal, in which he defends texting as a behavior that is actually bene...

Critiquing Part 4, Chapter 5 of 'Gulliver's Travels' by Jonathan Swift

is based upon Lemuel Gulliver, who was a ships surgeon and he tells of being shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput (Summary of Gul...

Irony in Shirley Jackson’s Short Story, ‘The Lottery’

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

Herman Melville’s Message in Moby-Dick

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...