The Literature Styles of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass lived a very hectic but fulfilling life; he wrote literature that had to do with his own past experiences, he used literacy as a means of power by raising his intelligence to the next level, and he didn't let any white slaveholders hold him back. Frederick Douglass gained intelli....

"In the time of Greatness"
Birth Date. William Shakespeare, surely the world's most performed and admired playwright, was born in April, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, about 100 miles northwest of London. According to the records of Stratford's Holy Trinity Church, he was baptized on April 26. Since it wa....

A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange The Monk: A Rebellious Offspring of the Age of Reason Understanding the Gothic novel can be accomplished by obtaining a familiarity of the Augustan point of view, which helps to develop a reference point for comparing and contrasting the origin of Gothic literature. The....

A Closer Look at O Pioneers!
A Closer look at O Pioneers! The man, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not. (Pirandello) There are many people who have left an imprint on the history of humanity through their writing. Every person has their own style of writing. Style is what differenti....

A Literary Analysis
After Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe, William Sydney Porter (known as O Henry) is the most read author in the world and bears the title of master of the short story . He has been called many things. Some people have called him the twentieth-century Balzak. Some have called him the American Maupassa....

A Literary Analysis of Barn Burning
At first glance, the story “Barn burning” seems just to be about a tyrannical father and a son who is in the grips of that tyranny. I think Faulkner explores at least one important philosophical question in this story were he asks at what point should a person make a choice between what....

a literary interpretation of hills like white elephants
A Literary Interpretation of Hills Like White Elephants In Hills Like White Elephants, Hemingway writes about a couple that struggles in making a decision that will permanently define their futures. The couple discusses whether or not the girl should have an abortion. In this story, Hemin....

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
ÁÖÁ A Great American moment in the history of the United States was when the fraternity of Alpha Phi Alpha was established. This a great moment because it made it possibly for young educated black men to join together and do great things for there community. This changed the world tremendously....

An Analytical Essay on Selected Poems by Anne Bradstreet
Anne Dudley Bradstreet epitomizes a puritan, an American woman, and a poet. As the puritan, she seems to struggle with her worldliness, as the American she took a lively interest in the contemporary scene, as a woman she argues against the aspersions cast upon her sex, and as the poet she trans....

An Examination of Southern Dialect
An Examination of Southern Dialect as Seen in the Works of William FaulknerIn the writings of William Faulkner, the reader may sense that the author has created an entire world, which directly reflects his own personal experience. Faulkner writes about the area in and around Mississippi, where he is....

Analytical exposition- Decode Gattaca the reflecting glass.
Analytical exposition- Decode Gattaca the reflecting glass. (The name Gattaca is composed of the letters used to label the bases of DNA: Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine and Guanine.) Science fiction is a literary or cinematic genre in which fantasy, typically based on speculative scientific discove....

Annabel Lee Narrative Analysis
Annabel Lee Narrative Analysis Edgar Allen Poe (2013) is known for his various short stories that are usually melancholy and disturbing. What most people didnt know is that he wrote poems as well. One of his most famous poems is Annabel Lee, which unlike most of his writings, was a poem that ....

Bamboozled is Effective as Satire
Bamboozled is Effective as Satire According to the New Columbia Encyclopedia, Satire is a term used or applied to any work of literature whose objective is ridicule or impact moral instructions, to denounce political or social abuses or to make display wit, to attack a political opponent or a li....

Beowulf - A Literary Analysis
Literary Analysis: Beowulf Hero or Heroic Actor Literary Analysis: Beowulf as a heroic actor With superhuman strength and tenacity unmatched by any man of his time, Beowulf may appear to some as a primeval super hero that would rival the modern day Superman. However, the distinct difference....

Book Review - Pride & Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a great novel written by Jane Austen. The novel is the most of Janes as well as one of the most romantic comedies novels. It was first written under the title First Impressions from 1796-1787 and revised later and was published in 1813 as Pride and Prejudice. The novel descr....

Buck is allegorically viewed as a human in Call of the Wild
Nick Goerg Mrs. Schneider American Lit. Honors 5/20/06 Buck; Mans Best Equal Dog; mans best friend, is a legendary saying that has proved true throughout history. From Lassie to Old Yeller, dogs have always been mans trusty, loving, loyal sidekick. In The Call of the Wi....

change in attitudes towards women by 1920
All of the above factors played a part in the change in attitude towards women. However, some of them were more important than others; Womens work in WWII, Articles and Magazines, and the campaigning of the suffragettes, among many other reasons which were also equally important. But the most impo....

character analyasis
Ever since its publication in 1951, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye has served as a firestorm for controversy and debate. Critics have argued the moral issues raised by the book and the context in which it is presented. Some have argued that Salinger's tale of the human condition is fascinati....

Common Experience: The Open Boat by Stephen Crane and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Common Experience Literature comes to us from many different times, places, and authors, and its main purpose is to tell a story. The author must be able to convey his story to the reader in a clear and concise way in order to get his point across. The setting and characters play a major point in t....

Conrads Absolutely Relative Lord Jim
Beginning with Platos search for objective moral facts in reaction to his teachers humble skepticism a great debate has raged between the diametrically opposed ideas of moral relativism and absolutism. The twentieth century has seen a great deal of prestige placed upon relativistic ideals espe....

Consumption of Food in Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary
Since food is an essential part of ones life, it is not surprising that we find frequent references to its consumption in novels of social realism, such as Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary. Food in literature can be used to symbolise all sorts of things, but in particular it can represent the pers....

Courtly lover
Courtly Love Courtly love is a type of romance that provided a model of behavior for unmarried young men to help others and perform good deeds in the late eleventh century. I believe this code of behavior helped control lawlessness during medieval times. Courtly love was viewed as an art with rules....

Describing different interests and opinions of my life.
Note: This piece was in accompaniment with a collage of pictures that related to these different aspects of my life. You may want to incorporate some of my work into an essay concerning your life as your essay may not have to include a collage. Rationale To accompany my collage I have written ....

Different Types of Criticism and Literary Movements in Short Stories
The short story dates back as early as the 14th Century. It offers what a novel or the equivalent would offer but it has a swiftness and completeness about it. According to Ruby Redinger, the short story is most powerful through graphic narration (752). The short story has captured a diverse grou....

dignity in relationships
David Mediale, a literary critic writes, Dignity as represented in these works, is not a universal good, but reflects rather the good and the bad, the mixed legacy, the inequities and imbalances of sociopolitical relations in imperfect societies. Consequently, where morality is compromised, digni....

Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Oscar Wilde belongs to those bourgeois writers whose literary activity, contradictory in its nature, mirrors the crises in bourgeois ideology. Wilde was regarded as the leader of the English aesthetic movement, but many of his works do not follow his decadent theory of a....

Edgar Allan Poe
Many authors have made great contributions to the world of literature. Mark Twain introduced Americans to life on the Mississippi. Thomas Hardy wrote on his pessimistic views of the Victorian Age. Another author that influenced literature is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known as the father of the....

Effect Of Postimpressionists On The Next Generation
Postimpressionism Postimpressionism was a movement in late-19th-century French painting that emphasized the artist's personal response to a subject. Postimpressionism takes its name from an art movement that immediately preceded it: Impressionism. But whereas impressionist painters concentrated ....

Enlightenment Philosophers
Two of Englands most important enlightenment philosophers were Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Both of these men were great thinkers that had different thoughts on the human nature and how the government should work. As believed by Thomas Hobbes, people were supposedly naturally bad and if th....

Essay on The Yellow Wallpaper by charolette perkins
Prior to the twentieth century, men assigned and defined womens roles. Although all women were effected by men determining womens behavior, largely middle class women suffered. Men perpetrated an ideological prison that subjected and silenced women. This ideology, called the Cult of True Womanh....

Existentialism at its best
Realism is a literary movement which originated in the United States and Europe in the eighteenth century. It represents the human condition of middle and working-class individuals struggling to survive, often in order to instigate reform. Realism can also be defined as a theory of writing in whi....

Five Distinct Qualities of the Elizabethan Period
Because Elizabeth I, queen of England from 1558-1603, had a strong personal character bringing about great influence on her constituents, it was appropriate that the period in which she reigned would be called Elizabethan. Her 45-year rule was instrumental in making England a nation of tremendous p....

Forthcoming of American Literature
The forthcoming of American literature proposes two distinct Realistic novels portraying characters which are tested with a plethora of adventures. In this essay, two great American novels are compared: The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger. The Advent....

France
Although a victor in World Wars I and II, France suffered extensive losses in its empire, wealth, manpower, and rank as a dominant nation-state. At present, France is at the forefront of efforts to develop the European military capabilities to supplement progress toward a European foreign policy. Fr....

Frederick Douglas
A Literacy Icon Intestinal fortitude and sheer determination is what drove one of the worlds greatest literary minds. A gifted man whose works for too long has been forgotten by history. Frederick Douglasss life is that of true grit and determination. It is also one of many obstacles that ....

genesis
Ascribed by tradition, though not by scholars, to Moses, the book of Genesis chronicles the creation of the world and everything in it, as well as God's early relationship to humanity. For purposes of critical analysis, Genesis is often divided into the primeval history (chapters 1 through 11), whic....

Gregorik Andras
Thin fabricGregorik Andras AN312.16I.Thick fabricII.StoicheiaIII.Three types of prose narration IV.The Augustan novelV.Conclusion"...no matter what kind of pleasure may await his senses, unless it serves exclusively the glory of God, he needs to cut it off of him, giving it upout of his love towards....

Hamlet
The drama titled Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare is considered to be one of his most well known and most quoted plays. I consider it one of Shakespeares finest works in his writing career because of its themes, its characters, its setting and most of all how Shakespeare gets ....

Hamlet
Shakespeares Hamlet William Shakespeares Hamlet is a literary work well known by all. Out of all Shakespeares literary works this is one of the best and most well known tragedies he has written. The date it was written however has always been debatable. Nevertheless, the work was created som....

Hamlet - In depth analysis
Hamlet Brief Intro To Tragedy Tragedy: · Is the account of a human conflict ending in defeat or suffering. · The main elements of tragedy are seriousness, magnitude, unity, conflict and suffering. · Seriousness- examination of life, especially the causes of human failure and unhappiness. ....

hamlets minor characters
t is reasonable to wonder what Shakespeare had in mind while writing Hamlet. After all, Shakespeare wasn't a philosopher or historian, or even a literary critic. He was a playwright. He didn't leave us critical essays examining his work. It is left to us to examine his work and decide for ourselves ....

Harper Lee
Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926. She was the youngest of 3 children born to Amasa and Francis Finch Lee. She was born in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended local schools until 1944, at which time, she entered Huntington College in Montgomery, Alabama. She became a Fulbright Scholar and spe....

How is Fear And Tension Created By H.G Wells in 'The Red Room' and Charlotte Bronte 'Jane Eyre'?
Gothic writing is a style of writing, which was extremely popular in the nineteenth century. It is a story set with the theme of horror in a supernatural way. All gothic writers followed the same concept when writing a novel. They all consisted of a large, dark, abandoned place; for example a castle....

How My Brother Leon Brought Home His Wife
When they are on their way home, Maria is somehow nervous to Leons father. Noel, she said. Yes Maria, Leon replied. I am afraid. He may not like me, said Maria. Does that worry you still, Maria? Leon said. From the way you talk, he might be and OGRE, for all the world The word og....

How Shakespeares Techniques in Hamlet link to the themes
The Revenge Tragedy, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare has rich, varied language which links closely to the themes. Written over 400 hundred years ago Hamlet is the tale of a young princes struggle to revenge his fathers death by killing his uncle. Techniques such as Soliloquies, Patterns of Imagery, ....

How the female attitudes towards children reveals character in Madame Bovary and A Doll's House
Since the act of giving birth to and raising children was the central role of a woman in the nineteenth century, it is unsurprising in works of social realism that both Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary, and Nora Helmer in A Dolls House are depicted as having borne children. In a time when women were ....

Huckleberry Finn Freedom versus Civilization
As with most works of literature, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn incorporates several themes developed around a central plot create a story. In this case, the story is of a young boy, Huck, and an escaped slave, Jim, and their moral, ethical, and human development during an odyssey down the Mississi....

Imaginative Use of the Metaphorical Concept Life is a Journey in Dobyns Body Traffic
Imaginative Use of the Metaphorical Concept Life is a Journey in Dobyns Body Traffic: the Creation of the Novel Imaginative Metaphor the Body is a Vehicle Abstract This article shows how the conceptual metaphor life is a journey pervades Stephen Dobyns' book of poems Body....

JFK: His Life and Legacy
On November 22, 1963, while being driven through the streets of Dallas, Texas, in his open car, President John F. Kennedy was shot dead, apparently by the lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. The world had not only lost a common man, but a great leader of men. >From his heroic actions in World War II to ....

Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a poet who made his name in history when he was named the founder of the transcendental period of literature. Some of his inspiration came from his childhood, which was tinged with sadness and death. Emerson managed to channel sad events from his life into the poems he create....

Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; an Allegory
In the world of allegory in literature, there is one story that sticks out. That is The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. Almost everyone has heard of the story and its connection to The Bible. The most popular book of the series is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. There have been many ada....

Lottery: a Breakdown of Jackson's Symbolism
Shirley Jacksons The Lottery, is a story that is filled with a magnitude symbolism in a fairly short story. The author uses it to help her represent human nature in real life as tainted, no matter how pure one thinks of himself or herself, or how pure their environment may seem to be. The story is ....

Mafia Subculture and Language
The Mafia is generally thought of as an Italian secret crime society, but the origins of the Mafia start way before the onset of automatic guns and cocaine. The Mafia began as a way of life: a way to protect one's family and loved ones from the injustice of the government. Only later, with the onset....

Mexicos Education System: Changes During and After the Revolutionary Period
A large part of the transformation of the new Mexico after the Revolution was anticlericalism. Up until the 1920s all public secondary schooling had been carried on in the Preparatoria which had been designed to prepare the sons of wealthy families for the National University (Britton, 1973....

Middle Age Entertainers
Both entertainment and education have been integrals parts of the humanexperience since the beginnings of time. Many scholars insist that the twoinstitutions often serve jointly, with entertainers and entertainmentserving as a main source of education. There is little argument, then,that in addition....

Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell, a well known novelist and playwright, is the author if the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game" which has proven to be a literary masterpiece. Its first edition was published in 1924 by Collier's Weekly and won the O. Henry Memorial Prize. "The Most Dangerous Game&....

My Personal Hero
What makes a hero? Webster defines the word hero a few different ways: 1. A mythological or legendary figure of great strength or ability; 2. A man admired for his achievements and qualities; 3. The chief male character in a literary or dramatic work.(Webster's New Explorer Dictionary, New Editio....

Myth and Modernity in the Novels of R. K Narayan
Myth and Modernity in the Novels of R. K Narayan The study of myth began with the publication of Frazers The Golden Baough. Ernst Cassirer in his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923-29) writes that the symbols are shaped by mans needs and purposes. In the symbol there is a thorough going iden....

Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born into a wealthy family in Springs, Transvaal, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg. (Nadine) Nadine's father was a Jewish watchmaker from the border between Latvia and Lithuania. He opened a jeweler's shop in Springs in Transvaal and sold trophy cups to shooting c....

One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude narrates the inseparability of the past, present and future in the imaginary town of Macondo, Columbia and the folks who established it, the Buendias. Macondo used to be secluded from the outside world but during a time-span of one hundred years that was joined by birth....

Parents vs. Potter
Parents vs. Potter: The Parental Outcry Potter mania has caused a lot more than crowds at the local Barnes & Noble. Many parents as well as Christian leaders are protesting the existence of these books in schools and libraries, because of their forceful occult themes. Sighting, a track record o....

Poetry on the Internet
Introduction The interest in poetry is at an all-time high, and much of that interest has to do with the accessibility of poetic materials on the Internet, a vehicle that offers both a wide latitude of choice to browsers and researchers and a curious mixture of attention and anonymity to those who ....

postmodernism in english literature
Postmodernism as a literary trend appeared in 1970s. Their concept of the world differs greatly from the previous ones. - Postmodernism worked out the principles of new historism. All historical facts are false. The history is what we imagine about it. - After all the catastrophes of the 20th ce....

Pride and Prejudice: morals and themes
Pride and Prejudice is one of the greatest book you can pick up and it have characters that you can learn from. Mrs. Bennet, a foolish woman who talks too much and is obsessed with getting her daughters married; Lydia Bennet, the youngest of the Bennet daughter who is devoted to a life of dancing, f....

Renaissance
Renaissance The Renaissance was a series of literary and cultural movements in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. These movements began in Italy and eventually expanded into Germany, France, England, and other parts of Europe. Their think....

Rennaissance
"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!" Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2 Modern art critics regard renaissance ....

role of the house in Beloved
Since man first walked the Earth thousands of years ago he has needed three essential things in order to survive, food, water, and shelter. Shelter has taken many forms during the time from a cave to a house. Man has been living in houses for thousands of years now and they have become a very import....

Romanticism
Literary Romanticism is a movement in literature present in the history of virtually every European country, the USA, and Latin America. It lasted from approximately 1750 to about 1870 and was characterized by reliance on the imagination and emotional subjectivity of approach, freedom of thought ....

S.E. Hinton
S.E. Hinton was and still is, one of the most popular and best known writers of young adult fiction. Her books have been taught in some schools, and banned from others. Her novels changed the way people look at young adult literature. Susan Eloise Hinton was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has always e....

Satire and Life
Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. In Bright Lights, Big City satire is used on numerous occasions in poking fun at the main charac....

Schindlers List Book Report
Kukathas is a freelance writer. In this essay, Kukathas considers the narrative strategies Keneally uses in his novel. When Schindler's List (under the title Schindler's Ark) won the Booker Prize in 1982, more than one critic objected to the fact that this work of nonfiction could win a major li....

Serial Killers - Natural Born Killers?
Natural Born Killers? It was the kind of smile that was both leering and arrogant, and it stayed with me as though the smile could, at any moment, grow feral, almost as if he could sprout fangs. -- Helen Morrison, M.D. (Morrison 72) The 19th century gave rise to a chilling new look in....

Siddhartha
Plot Overview Siddhartha, the handsome and respected son of a Brahmin, lives with his father in ancient India. Everyone in the village expects Siddhartha to be a successful Brahmin like his father. Siddhartha enjoys a near-idyllic existence with his best friend, Govinda, but he is secretly di....

sitting bull
Sitting Bull Xxxx xxxxx American Indian Frontier 101 Xxxx xxxxxx August 1, 2005 Of all the Sioux chiefs, Sitting Bull is the most commonly known to the American people. The man was an enigma at best. He was not impulsive, nor was he apatheti....

Sonnets
Essay Question: How has your understanding of the sonnet been enhanced by your study of two sonnets in class? The sonnet stands as an excellent illustration of a literary sensation; in spite of being Shakespearean or Petrarchan in form. Understanding one is difficult and must be enhanced by clos....

style of poems
Point of ViewThe voice of the story; the story from the perspective of the person doing the speaking. Examples: first person, second person, third person omniscient, third person limited omniscient, third person dramatic or objective. southhill.vsb.bc.ca/Departments/Upgrading/Skills3_Kyle/Terms....

Symbolism and Catcher in the Rye
Josh Weißböck 03/05/06 Block E, English 12 Mr. Youds Symbolism and Catcher in the Rye Symbolism is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as ...the art or practice of using symbols especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning as artistic imitation or invention tha....

symbolism in lord of the flies
LORD OF THE FLIES Some of Symbolism was a literary movement of nineteenth -century France. The Symbolist writers reacted against Realism and stressed, instead, the importance of suggestion and evocation of emotional states, especially by ....

the divine wind
The detrimental effects of war are widespread and far-reaching. The author of Divine Wind outlines in detail the devastating effects of war in a society. The tensions in a multicultural society are even more exacerbated. There are many factors which impact on how much tension is created such as th....

The Great Gatsby Movie and Book Comparison
The Great Gatsby is a literary masterpiece written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. In 2000, Robert Markowitz directed an A & E film version of Fitzgeralds literature. Markowitz applied a similar plot line, his actors and actresses depicted actions comparable to the books characters, the theme ....

The Great Maya Civilization
There is controversial debate between historians about whether or not the Mayan civilization was advanced and highly literate, and if their intelligence is overrated. Mayans have lived in Central America for approximately three thousand years, and were unquestionably the most advanced civilizatio....

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The classification of Upton Sinclairs novel The Jungle is ambivalent as it contains elements characteristic of both fiction and historical writing. These elements, including imaginary events which define fiction or literature, and the real events or statistics that comprise history, make it diffic....

The Life of William Carlos Williams
Nothing whips my blood like verse. These are the famous words of the great poet, William Carlos Williams. Williams was born on September 17, 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey. He spent most of his life in Rutherford, so today he is a local hero. Williams mother was Puerto Rican and almost had pure Span....

The lottery
The lottery by Shirley Jackson Foreshadowing is a literary device where the author laid hints or clues about what will happen in the end of the story. At the beginning of the story, these lines or events suggest a wide range of po....

The Mafia
The word "mafia" is taken from the old Sicilian adjective mafiusu, which has its roots in the Arabic mahjas, meaning "sanctuary". Roughly translated, it means "swagger", but can also be translated as "boldness, bravado". In reference to a man, mafiusu in 19th-century Sicily was ambiguous, signifying....

The Media and the Use of Propaganda in War
In researching the existing literature pertaining to the issue of the media and propaganda, there must first be proper definitions for the terms propaganda and media in the context of politics and war. Next follows an analysis of the different articles and works already undertaken on the sub....

The Natural and the Supernatural in Keatss La Belle Dame sans Merci
The Natural and the Supernatural in Keatss La Belle Dame sans Merci At the end of the 18th century, Europe saw the end of the dominance of the Renaissance tradition. Science faced an enormous development, therefore the lives of people was dominated by reason and logics. Mathematics, p....

The Nature of Imagery in Keats Poem, On First Looking into Chapmans Homer
Passionate, compelling, thought provoking. These are simply a few words to describe John Keats sonnet, On First Looking into Chapmans Homer. This poem refers to how the readings of Homer affected Keats in ways many could not believe were possible. How can such a short poem be so detailed and....

The sadness: A story of the Salem Witch Hunt
The Sadness: A story of the Salem Witch Hunt American History has presented us with many great stories to share from generation to generation. The settlement of New England stemmed from the Martin Luther's Reformation movement, a religious controversy. Martin Luther attacked the Church of En....

the scarlet letter
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a literary masterpiece that captivates and inspires readers and viewers to this day. This can be attributed to the powerful character development of the heroin, Hester Prynne. As we progress through the trials and tribulations of this Puritan womans li....

The Speaker
Walker Gibson, author of Persona: A Style Study for Readers and Writers, gives readers something to think about when he introduces the idea of a speaker or persona in his first chapter, Reading the First-Person-Singular. The speaker is a created character of the author who delivers the ....

The Speech of Polly Baker
Benjamin Franklins purpose for The Speech of Polly Baker appeared to be a woman asking for equal rights. She did not want to be punished again for having a child. She has taken care of her other four children and does not think that she would be punished or whipped. She wants to explain her st....

Thomas Hardy
The novels of Thomas Hardy are intricate and complicated works whose plots seem to be completely planned before the first word is ever actually formed on paper. Though I have no proof of Hardys method of writing, it is clear that he focuses more on plot development than characterization in the nov....

thoreau
Henry David Thoreau He spent his life in voluntary poverty, enthralled by the study of nature. Two years, in the prime of his life, were spent living in a shack in the woods near a pond. Who would choose a life like this? Henry David Thoreau did, and he enjoyed it. Who was Henry David T....

To kill a mockingbird
Plot Overview Scout Finch lives with her brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, in the sleepy Alabama town of Maycomb. Maycomb is suffering through the Great Depression, but Atticus is a prominent lawyer and the Finch family is reasonably well off in comparison to the rest of society. One....

Transcendentalism
Imagine being mentally suffocated. Because the government felt that thinking freely was not good for the public, they limited a persons civil rights. Transcendentalism is in existence today to prevent us from injustice towards our self. According to Merriam-Webster Online, transcendentalism is a ....

Unemployment and social criticism in The Grapes of Wrath
Naturalism is a literary style combining a deterministic view of human nature and a non-idealistic, detail observation of events. It is a theory in literature emphasizing the role of heredity and environment upon human life and character development. It differs from realism because it adds an u....

Was It Me, Or Not Me, That Is The Question
Shakespeare was a man of many accomplishments. Many were in his writings; others were in his great director and playwright skills. The play Hamlet is one of the most re-created and re-written books to date. Hamlet is still being performed in theaters around the world. Even though many people perceiv....

What a Tragedy
What a Tragedy! The Golden Age of Greece, circa 480 B.C. to 380 B.C., brought about a different outlook on life for the Athenian people. The explosion of creative and intellectual genius incited a deep appreciation for life and the arts; and a re-evaluation of the Greeks views of human purpose a....

What does Shakespeare tell us about the meaning of life in the play Hamlet?
Hamlet, written in the early seventeenth century, is without question the greatest and most famous play written by the most influential writer of English literature; William Shakespeare. In Hamlet, Shakespeare depicts the story of a philosophical prince, Hamlet, who is subjected to the harsh ....

Who Really Supports Gun Control
"Concealed Carry Prevents Violent Crimes" by Sarah Thompson outlines the issue of gun control with two distinct statements: "the presence of a firearm in the home increases the risk of homicide by 43 times" and "there are up to 2.5 million defensive uses of private firearms per year, with up to 400,....

William Blake Poetry: The Tyger, Sick Rose and London.
William Blake was essentially a poet who in a very simple way, dealt with profound and disturbing human issues. Through the poems The Tyger, The Sick Rose and London, Blakes details of destruction and despair are driven by tension, experience and power. These poems best reflect Blakes own bat....

William Butler Yeats
One of Ireland's finest writers, William Butler Yeats served a long apprenticeship in the arts before his genius was fully developed. He did some of his greatest work after he was fifty. Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland, on June 13, 1865. His father was a lawyer-turned-Irish painter. In 1867 the fa....

Winston Churchill
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, his family's ancestral seat in Oxfordshire, on November 30, 1874. He was the older son of Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, a British statesman who rose to be chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Com....

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