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Alice Walker: In the Pages of History. The artists are believed to be working in order to illustrate their unexpressed emotions and feelings. The artists without an emotional quotient are no artists at all. Alice Walker is an African American novelist, poet, short story writer and political activist.
Literature is called the mirror of the human mind, not only because it reflects the ethos of contemporary society and culture, but also gives expression to the opinions and contemplations of the individual authors. This may be the scenario in present times when humanity is thriving amidst the principles of democracy and egalitarianism. But the situation was not the same a few centuries ago.
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The protagonist initially appears possessed by an inability to comprehend or reflect on his youth. While waiting for his shoe to get resoled at a shoemaker’s gallery in Warsaw during his first night in the city, he questions what time is? He tries to find answers as per the writings of Spinoza but ultimately concluded that time was something real.
Sir Philip Sidney’s ‘Sonnet XXXI’ and Philip Larkin’s ‘Sad Steps’ are two poems that evoke many deep and great feelings that revolve around the use of symbolism and creative imagery. Both poems induce its readers to actively construct a moving progression through their lines that encourages visualizations with the words that they contain.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus was born on December 8, 65 BC in the town of Venusia where the Horatian tribe in Rome belongs (Milman, 6). The life of Quintus Horatius Flaccus is considered to be the “image of his eventful times” (Milman, 2) in which in his every artwork he always incorporates and relates this to his personal experiences in life.
The following two examples highlight the latent literary genius of the author. In the 1930s the people of China suffered from inferiority complex and those returning from foreign countries were pseudo- intellectuals. The author argues that the students returning from abroad suffer from enlarged egos and once in their homeland, they face tough options of settling down in a war-torn country with its economy devastated and which has lost its cultural moorings.
The story is set in late 19th century Manhattan and is one of Melville’s best-known works. Bartleby takes on the job of a scrivener, progressively isolates himself from social interaction, stops work, and denies discourse with the everyday world. The story is narrated by an unnamed lawyer, with an office on Wall Street.
This essay examines some of the predictions that have come true and those yet to be fulfilled. Orwell foresaw how technology could be used by the Party as ‘Big Brother’ in monitoring the movements and actions of people. Specifically, one of such devices was the ‘telescreen’, which ‘received and transmitted simultaneously’ (Orwell, 5).
The setting, though it is a very important part of a work of prose, seldom become the focus of comparison between different works. The setting or the scenery of a literary piece, whether it be a short story, a novel, or even a poem can drastically alter the theme, and plot, and characters of the literary piece.
In his debut novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain shows the current American society’s perspective on war and soldiers in a new dimension for his readers. The novel is set on the backdrop of America’s war in Iraq, portraying the struggle of the veterans in adapting to their homeland culture.
The author uses a high level of metafictional structure that serves to question the belief of the reader in the notion and aspect of reality and how reality can be likened to the happenings in contemporary works. To achieve this end, the author writes in a way that he questions the originality and intertextuality of human existence.
Earlier novels focused on how women would fit in society and when a woman penetrated that she could not she would often kill herself like in Madame Bovary and The Awakening. Just before the scene where she is shot to death by Maxim, she says “I will be the best mother Max just like the best wife I was” (Maurier, 1997, p. 284).
The situation presented in the narrative is indeed fascinating and inviting presenting the topics that one happens to be familiar with in the contemporary times. It goes without saying that the characters in the story are utterly interesting, especially the Ishmael. Quinn has used Ishmael to facilitate a unique perspective on the human history.
Throughout the journey, readers appreciate the livelier atmosphere in the saint’s party, the brutal conflict in Albania, the political celebrations in Athens, discourses on the history of Greek and the challenges facing modern combatants. The storyline takes different approaches including the first person and third person; this style breaks boredom in readers.
This act of distortion does not make those realities alien or unidentifiable; rather they become blessed with newer identity and meaning. On the surface level, these distorted portrayals entertain the readers by providing them with endless pleasure of comic imitations of human natures and activities.
The literary theory implies a possible connection between language, definition, and consumption (Stern 322). This paper seeks to criticize “The Lottery,” a short story by Shirley Jackson. Such a literary criticism approach will use three points, credibility, emotional, and logical approaches of the author, which will be discussed in the paper.
Andrew Jackson, a Defining President of United States. “Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own; one cherishes it not only as precious but sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and it’s conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.”1 This is a quote by Andrew Jackson which reflected his views as an American citizen, as a military leader and as a president.
Verbal positive depiction of Othello is illustrated through the many speeches of different characters in the play. Through such speeches, we discover Othello’s bravery and his integrity.
The essay based on two excerpts from Voltaire’s and Gronniosaw’s works talks about the manner of narrative’s expression in the stories. The main idea of this paper is highlighting the differences and similarities of characters and their behavior in spite of the fact, that a plot of both narratives is based on the marine topic.
The essay describes the basis of modern Greek literature and film industry through the research of ancient works. This paper presents a critical analysis of Homer’s Odyssey , the ‘Return of Ulysses’ and other epic poems. For example, the Odyssey is a basis for many modern Western novels. It gave many archetypes for works of other writers.
American identity has long been a central subject under discussion among writers particularly due to America’s historical background and its culturally diverse inhabitants. A wide range of factors including colonization, conquest, immigration, race, ethnicity, color, and gender affect the national identity of American citizens.
Paradise Lost sees the performance of several roles by several characters. But for a character to be assigned the tag of being a hero, the character is expected to be the protagonist of the story. Rightly so, Satan could be said to be the protagonist of Paradise Lost due to the definition of roles that were given to Satan in the poem.
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The wife of Bath and Tales from Chaucer’s Canterbury is one of the foremost literary works from the medieval period and the main character “The wife” (Alison) is arguably one of the most extensively discussed and studied women characters. Her attributes sharply contrast with the submissive and docile nature that was characteristic of women in that particularly patriarchal historical period.
The Great Gatsby is one of the finest novels written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a famous American writer in the twentieth century. This novel is a simple story with intricate descriptions of the characters that are honored and criticized by many. The story revolves around the main character named Nick, who narrates to the readers, the life of another character, Gatsby.
The novel remains dystopian and socially critical towards the reality that it creates and the narrator, Komiaga covers the unpleasant reality of the society portrayed. Komiaga’s use of repetition structures and legitimizes truth and conceals the monstrous social and cultural beliefs of futuristic Russia.
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Raymond Carver is credited with helping to revive the short story form. Carver’s “Cathedral” is one of his most anthologized and popular stories. It relates to the narrator’s encounter with a blind man, who is his wife’s friend and a house guest. The narrator starts out with rigid, preconceived notions of a blind person and is surprised to find that his guest does not conform to these ideas.
It is immediately apparent that the setting of poem is in a rural setting from the description given of goatskin bellows and the reference to the old village. The poem’s themes include alienation and human conflict as characterized by the relocation of the old village’s inhabitants to the hill camp. The young man and his father buried their tools of trade.
The Africans should also take advantage of the raw materials they have to produce finished products and sell them to the European nations, rather than waiting on the Europeans to produce finished products for their raw materials. A lot of modern technology and knowledge was instilled in the Africans by the Europeans.
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The book shades light on Saks’s struggle with hallucinations, delusions, and imagined voices as she struggled with mental illness but triumphing ultimately. The book provides insight into her battle through madness, an understanding of the illness which she fights and tries to accept as part of herself.
Missionaries play various roles in Achebe's Things Fall Apart. First, the role of missionaries in this novel is to cause socio-cultural transformation. The ultimate definition of a great man was the one who was able to feed his family with yams, from one season to the other (Achebe, 33).
According to Jonathan Kozol, “The Human Cost of an illiterate society” is far reaching than just their inability to read and write. With their inability to read and write, these people cannot make any informed decisions whatsoever, whether social, economic or political.
Michael Henchard in the Mayor Casterbridge. Michael Henchard is a character in the Mayor of Casterbridge written by Thomas Hardy. The protagonist in this novel has many encounters, many challenges than the hero that most individuals come across in the novels.
“Christopher, the Fisherman” is a short story written by Hermann Schubnell is a commendable read. The reader will easily understand the literary elements that the writer has tried to portray, the symbolism being one of them. The use of nature to explain a man’s mistake, who is fighting for nature itself is a rather brilliant approach.
Peter represents the child’s rebellion against adults, rejecting even maternal love and actively fighting adults: he is “so full of wrath against grown-ups” that he pants because of his belief “in the Neverland that, every time you breathe, a grown-up dies” (11). The Neverland is a place for children to vent their rebellion against the adult world.
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‘The Story of an Hour’ is written by Kate Chopin about a woman Louise who is married to Brently. Louise has heart troubles while the readers learn that her husband has died in a road accident. Louise’s friend Josephine read Bentley's name in the list of those who died. Josephine and Brently’s friend Richards carefully told Louise the news.
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Pottery acts as archaeological evidence of the span of people's settlement. In its decorations and forms, archaeologists can draw histories over a period echoing transforming populations and evolving ways of life. Pottery is significant in archaeological excavations since it can be applied to determine cultural series, define location groupings and shed light on past ways of life.
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The short story; “Two Kinds” is the final installment of Amy Tan’s collection of stories titled the Joy Luck Club; the book is segmented into four sections with and each of these holds an autonomous story (Becerra 1). Two Kinds is and examinations of the relationship between mothers and daughters and the complexities and conflicts that can ensure especially if both of them come from different backgrounds.
With skillfully coined insight, knowledge, commitment and humor she makes her audience to see that, although, the art of advertisement may seem harmless, they add up to the conditioning of our cultures. These also relate to Erving Goffman who has dedicated his time in studying human behavior and understating their deeper meaning, he also relates advertisements to individual’s self presentation and determination of their identities.
Sometimes, the poem seems to be narrated in the form of a dramatic monologue in which the narrator seems to talk to himself. But through this monologue, Hardy successfully conveys the antiwar message to his readers. The narrator’s reference to the war as a whimsical meaningless fight between the narrator and the man whom he has shot dead sufficiently unveils a new, rather absurd, aspect of war.
Naranjo-Morse uses the poem “Ta” to tackle the difficult endeavor of measuring “success.” The underlying themes of her poem are ethics, social justice, and integrity, which are all related to the same themes found in “Ethics,” Clayton’s “A Whole Lot of Cheatin’ Going On,” King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” and Carter’s “The Rules about the Rules.”
The Descendants is the novel that tells how ethics can be practiced in normal life situations. His behavior can be debated as right and wrong but his inclination to strive for the greater good is visible when he turns down the offer to sell the property. He gave more importance to the peace of mind, his daughter’s love for the island over dollars.
The slogan of the group was; “we are the 99 percent”. The reason for the slogan was to show the inequality between the haves, considered to be 1% and the have not at 99%. The main purpose was to camp out for days or even months to instigate change in the management of corporations and multinationals.
The personification of the fish can also be said to be Bishop’s attempt to show the great admiration that she feels for the fish, considering the fact that it has lived for so such a long time in fishing waters without having been caught. While at first, Bishop looked upon her catch as a great accomplishment, worthy of an amateur, her personification of the fish afterwards is a sign that she ends up empathising with it.
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The hero of the novel is John Marcher and he considers himself different from other people. Metaphorically speaking, he is a beast in the social jungle where he does not seem to fit. The heroine is May Bertram a young lady, who is living at her great aunt’s house.
Edgar Allan Poe's stories have real-life substance for they are as dark, mysterious, and remarkable as his real life. Edgar Poe was born on July 19, 1809, to David Poe and Eliza Arnold. In his father’s side of the family, alcoholism was prevalent, and it soon took a toll on David until he decided to leave his family when Edgar was barely three years old (Iszáj and Demetrovics 1615).
Doctor Faustus, who is the protagonist in this play, is a citizen of Rhodes Germany by birth. He was however brought up in Wittenberg. Here he attended top schools up to the university and excelled. He achieved much scholarly and got a doctor of letter degree in theology and divinity. He read bibles and religious books could quote bible verses.
In his nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood, the author, Truman Capote, has created suspense by focusing more on the murderer’s motive behind the act, instead of searching for who the murderer was. The reader knows from the beginning about the identity of the murderer. There is deeper suspense behind this.
This essay will begin with the statement that one of the most difficult aspects for any particular writer to engage in a level of integration and separation from the subject matter that they are presenting. The authors fall into the rut of becoming to detect and merely representing the information that they seek to portray in an unemotional and underinvested manner.
Medea was not intended to be a social critique of the status of women. Even though Euripides does not portray Medea as originally wretched, Medea at the start of the play stands in stark contrast with the terrifying witch demon who escapes in a chariot given to her by her grandfather. The presentation of Medea should never be taken as separate but rather a concern.