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The Romance Genre

Part of the trouble with this genre is that the novels are very formulaic and the plot points never vary. While this is off-puttin...

George Lukacs: Narrative or Description?

the audience; in another, its from the stage itself; and in still another he considers it during a performance, depicting "scene c...

"Faust" and "Madame Bovary"

who is, for a good many people, the most entertaining character in the play. Mephistopheles manipulates Faust so that he "loves an...

A Moveable Feast

errors, and so kind to people that I always thought of him as a sort of saint" (Hemingway 88). This is clearly a very high claim t...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

Burmese Law Enforcement Experiences of George Orwell and How They Shaped His Views of the British Empire

Acquiescing to pressure from his father to also become a member of the Imperial Service, Orwell joined Burmas Imperial Police in 1...

The Story of Sonny’s Blues

problem is, he and Sonny have never really understood one another; or rather, his brother has never truly understood Sonny. For So...

The Outsider’s Viewpoint in Literature

the experiences their protagonists have growing up as young, ethnic women in America. However, the relationship between the fictio...

Comparative Analysis of Prometheus Bound and Medea

the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...

Emily Dickinson's Poems 341 and 465 Compared and Contrastd

power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...

Spiegelman, Remarque, and Wiesel: The Transformative Quality of Violence

device to thematically distill the essence of war and genocide, present its reality in a way that is more humanistic than statisti...

Peter's Confession of Christ

was the bishop of Hierapolis and who identified John Mark as the author (Smith, 2008; NIV, 1995). Mark was also known to travel wi...

Examples of Different Humor in Mark Twain

he cannot recall which. But he does remember that "I was not celebrated and I did not give the banquet. I was a Literary Person, b...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society Examined in Literature

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

Discussing Realism, Naturalism and Modernism

literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The following paper offer a description of the characteristics of...

Magical Realism and Marquez’s Death Constant Beyond Love

Garcia Marquez seriously or are they an absurdists slanted look at the world? This paper argues that even though they are often co...

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narra...

Bathcat the Warrior: A Narrative Expression of Celtic Value

grassy hollow to be found in the frozen woods to the north. Here, he was told, he and his men would encounter the undead legions o...

How Women Are Treated in "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston

refusal to come to Sykes assistance after the snake bites him represents the decline in her spirituality, the sweat of her hard wo...

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...

Racism in Othello

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

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...

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...

American Stories and the Use of Location

true Huck; de ony white genlman dat ever kep his promise to ole Jim" (Twain 119). Twain shows us an America with two faces; a cou...

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...

Octavio Paz and Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Comparative Analysis

college (although neither received a degree) and developed an early interest in writing. Although Marquez initially intended to b...