81 Literary T Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports
An analysis and evaluation of selected teaching strategies.
This analysis and evaluation will seek to describe four lessons taught by myself to a middle ability Year 8 class during my first block placement at Langleywood School. The unit that I have chosen to describe, analyse and evaluate, will outline the two teaching strategies; use of images and shared ....
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....
Ancient Olympics
One difference between the ancient and modern Olympic Games is that the ancient games were played within the context of a religious festival.
One of the more intriguing true stories about ancient Greece and the Olympics of ancient Greece would have to be that during the Olympic Games, all fighting ....
Anthem for Doomed Young
A Soldier With Some Catsup
The eulogy and sonnet Anthem for Doomed Young by Wilfred Owen uses a variety of literary techniques to evoke emotion and create a powerful anti war statement. It has no set rhyming pattern and is written in standard 14 line iambic pentameter. The poem is broken up....
anton chekhov
Chekhov is very different from most of the other playwrights throughout history, in that, he did not always aspire to be a writer. It is something he stumbled upon out of necessity. He began writing humorous anecdotes for a local paper as a mean to support his family while putting himself through ....
Australian Literature: Lawson, Baynton and Fullerton
The 1880s in Australia marked a significant step forward in its literary history. We see the creation of the weekly magazine; the Bulletin and the publication of literary works attempting to encompass what it meant to be Australian. The landscape itself became a character in these works, and several....
Beginning of the End - My Son My Executioner by Donald Hall
For its relative brevity, My Son My Executioner by Donald Hall, is an example of a deeply interpretive piece of literature. Upon initial evaluation, it would seem that a poem of less than 60 words would be rather straightforward and leave little to subjective interpretation. This poem, however, ....
biography of mary shelley
Mary Shelley
July of 1816, aside from being historically significant, was probably the most important single month in literary history. Mary Shelley traveled with her stepsister Claire Clairmont and her soon to be husband Percy Shelley to stay with Lord Byron and his young physician John Polidor....
Bram Stokers Dracula
Dracula
This essay responds to the following statement:
Bram Stokers Dracula is a complex text which demonstrates the convention of the gothic mode while challenging its readers with a range of theoretical perspectives
It will discuss the statements with reference to personal and critical....
Charles Dickens
There are few men on the planet that match the literary talent of a man named Charles Dickens. Throughout his life he traveled the western hemisphere enriching the lives of many with his wonderful works of literature.(Cody 12) His success with books such as A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, and....
Chrysanthemums
The content of fiction literature operates based on the imagination and not on fact. Although every piece of fictional literature is incomparable with another they all have the same tools in developing the story. The tools for developing a story is by creating characters that grasp the readers at....
Chu Hsis Views on Heian Japan
During the Song Dynasty, Chu Hsi became one of the most significant Neo-Confucian scholars. He contributed to Confucian philosophies by adapting ideas from competing religions into his form of Confucianism. Zhu Xi was also influential in Japan, where his followers were called the Shushigaku School. ....
Cloudstreet
Through my study of Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, my critical interpretation of the context has changed as initially this was considered a family saga, but now my interpretation has changed by the further studying of this book, and by the readings of others. The meaning now can be seen as sub textual....
Columbian Culture
Colombia
Colombia is a beautiful lush fertile country that is kept green year round with its climate and yearly rainfalls. Colombia is notorious throughout the world for their drug exports as well as their incredible climate. Since the late 20th century Colombias climate, flat lands, and mountai....
Comparative essay Arethusa & Death of a Naturalist
The poem Arethusa, from Ted Hughes's Tales From Ovid, is similar to Death of a Naturalist, written by Seamus Heaney in that they both explore a contrast between childhood and adulthood. The theme of rebirth or maturing is present in both of these texts. Puberty is a very important part of a human's....
Comparitive analysis between William Blakes The garden of Love and Sir Luke Fildes The widower
1A: 1000 word essay on Romanticism (15%)
QUESTION:
Select ONE painting (discovered during our Art Gallery Visit) from either the Romantic or Victorian period and use its themes and techniques as a starting point for a comparative analysis of the themes and techniques in a piece of writin....
Connecting the Words: The Art of Association in Poetry
Connecting the Words: The Art of Association in Poetry
William Blakes Jerusalem can be related to all aspects from the world of everyday experience through the power of association. The aesthetic qualities of this beautiful poem can create a realm of imagination for the reader. The reader of this....
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....
Contrast in Irony in Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeares, Romeo and Juliet is well known to everyone as a tragic love story. However, even the classification of this story is contrast, using the words tragic and love together to describe a story, because the two could not be more different. This, is an example of irony, one of....
Contrasting Characters in Aldous Huxleys The Brave New World
Contrasting Characters
Physics studies all movements and changes that were made relative to another object. A similar method is used in literature when the writer wants to describe a particular character. An evil character brings out the good in the others while the righteous characters make us ....
Critical Analysis of Dawn Frasers Biography by Ken Knox
Dawn Fraser is the Queen of Swimming in Australia . One of the most influential sportswomen of all time, she redefined the concept of Olympic Champion, and is still a source of inspiration in the world of championship swimming. In the biography, The Dawn of Swimming, author Ken Knox, provi....
Critical Analysis of Goldings Use of Tone in Lord Of The Flies
When viewing the atrocities of today's world on television, the starving children, the wars, the injustices, one cannot help but think that evil is rampant in this day and age. However, people in society must be aware that evil is not an external force embodied in a society but resides within each p....
Critical Review of Mark Allen Petersons Anthropology and Mass Communication
Cross Cultural Communication
Critical Review of Mark Allen Petersons
Anthropology and Mass Communication.
In 1936, the opening television program of the world's first regular public service of television, an entertainer sang:
'The air has eyes that scan us from the skies An....
Critical Study of Text: Gwen Harwood - Year 12 2005 Advanced English
Through reading the article, Towards the Hearts True Speech: Voice-conflict in the Poetry of Gwen Harwood, Elizabeth Lawson illuminates many different reoccurring themes in Gwen Harwoods poetry giving a greater understanding of her texts. Lawson presents the idea that as a poet, Harw....
death of salesman
Arthur Miller is one of the most renowned and important American playwrights to ever
live. His works include, among others, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge. The plays he
has written have been criticized for many things, but have been praised for much more, including
his magical devel....
descriptive text
1.The text and text types.
The word text is used to refer to any passage, spoken or written, of whatever length, that forms a unified whole. A text is a unit of language in use. A text has always a purpose (informing, describing, persuading) and the purpose is defined by a context, referring to al....
differences between happiness, joy and gladness
The differences between happiness, joy and gladness
1. Introduction
The concept of happiness can be characterized by three separate prototypes, which all refer to happiness but each approaches the concept of happiness from a slightly different meaning. The differences reveal mainly in the ....
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....
Discuss the significance of the following extract from Death Of A Salesman
Discuss the significance of the following extract from Death Of A Salesman
P21-26: Biff-Happy-Willy-Bernard
Death of a Salesman is set in the late nineteen-forties/ early nineteen-fifties and is located in Brooklyn, New York, United States. The play addresses the painful conflicts within ....
Dulce Et Decorum est
Dulce Et Decorum est
Dulce Et Decorum est is a poem written during World War I in which Wilfred Owen tries to persuade his reader that it is not Good and Glorious do die for ones country. Based on his own experience, Owen describes a gas attack he witnessed as a group of soldiers lea....
Dystopia is merely a utopia from another point of view? - Brave New World
Dystopia is merely a utopia from a different point of view. Discuss this statement in relation to two pertinent literary or filmic examples.
The following essay proposes to consider the concepts of dystopia and utopia, analysing the ways in which they can be deemed to constitute the same phenomen....
Edgar Allan Poe
When picking a topic for my research paper. I thought of many different ideas. I started to think about my interests is reading literature, and I decided to write about my favorite author Edgar Allan Poe. This paper is going to look at Poe from a psychological perspective. There seems to be few atte....
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....
foils in hamlet
Foils in Hamlet
A foil is a minor character that helps the audience better understand a major character. A foil may exist as a comparison character, with similarities between the two, as well as differences that bring to light an important contrast between the foil and the main character. A ....
For Love of Money
Throughout history, wealth and riches have sometimes made but most often broken the lives of many Americans. Although materialism has become widely accepted and encouraged in society, it has also been proven to be vastly destructive. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a represent....
GATHERING BLUE by Lois Lowry
The novel I studied was "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry. The mysterious title caught my attention instantly and I was eager to read the novel. I realized that throughout the book, I had the same feeling, eager to keep on reading. The reason I think I felt that is because throughout the nove....
Great Expectations - How effective is the opening chapter?
'Great Expectations' is a novel written by the legendary Charles Dickens, in the Victorian era. "Great Expectations" is Dickens most popular novel .Most of his ideas and inspirations for "Great Expectations" have been based on his own childhood and the things he has been through....
great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald is an author who is distinguished for his use of symbolism in his literature, like in the novel The Great Gatsby. He uses the image of Doctor T. J. Eckelburg's eyes to symbolize a godlike being. Fitzgerald uses the symbol of the two women in yellow at Gatsby's party to represent....
How does Charlotte Bront convey Jane Eyres state of mind in chapter 2 of the text Jane Eyre?
The story of Jane Eyre is, in many respects based upon the author Charlotte Brontës own experiences. Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816 in Yorkshire, her father being a Church of England clergyman and her mother coming from a prominent Cornish Methodist family. Brontës character, Jane Eyre, i....
how does Dickens build up tension in chapter one of great expectations
How does Dickens build up tension in Chapter One of Great Expectations?
This essay will address how Charles Dickens builds up tension in chapter one through analysing the setting, the characters of Pip and Magwitch, the language and dialogue, the historical and social context, and lastly the stru....
How does Uncle Toms Children represent a black revolutionary consciousness?
Uncle Toms Children was unlike previous Black literature in many ways. It was a revolution in black awareness, and a new attitude towards racism. Previous literature by Negros painted an image of blacks in the south as submissive helpers to the whites. Yet this image which is epitomised by the figur....
How Shakespeare's technqiues shaped understanding of Hamlet's central themes
Shakespeare utilises a range of techniques in order to influence reader understanding of Hamlets main themes and ideas. Shakespeare in particular applies soliloquy, strong imagery, parallel stories, and contrasting minor characters to convey the texts central ideas. Hamlets distinct techniques....
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....
James Joyces Artistic View of Dublin Life
Joyces modernistic view of Dublin society permeates all of his writings. The Irish experiences account for a large portion of Joyces writings. Stephen Dedalus is sometimes Joyces pseudonym and represents Joyce and his life in Joyces works. Joyce plays a crucial role in the modernist movement....
Jane Eyre
¢ñ. Introduction
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), the third among the five daughters of Patrick Bronte, a Yorkshire clergyman of Irish origin, was the longest living and most prolific of the brilliant three Bronte sisters in English literature. All the daughters of the family seem to have been more ....
Knowledge in Name of the Rose
Knowledge was one of the most powerful tools of the middle ages. It was highly valued by many kings and members of nobility, but the greatest procurer of knowledge through the middle ages was undoubtedly the church. Their motive for the capturing of wisdom was not for their own enrichment, but pre....
Life of Jack London
The short lived life of Jack London is a direct reflection of his literary works major theme, the struggle for survival of strong men driven by primitive emotions. To Build A Fire and White Fang are two of his works that coincide his life experiences and illustrate his literary theme.
London....
literary theory language control
Rather than say that we are in control of language, we might consider the
idea that the language is in control of us. Discuss with close reference to AT LEAST ONE theoretical perspective studied on the course.
Introduction.
This is a topic which most certainly has many different view....
Looking for Alibrandi - how its challenged my perspectives
How has your study of Looking for Alibrandi challenged your perspectives? Include literary techniques.
Looking for Alibrandi is undoubtedly a novel of discovery, not only for the main character Josie but for us as the readers, as well. The first-person perspectives and powerful messages embed....
Lysias 1 - Characterisation
Lysias displays literary tact, humour and attention to character in his beautifully written speeches and is famous for using his skill to conceal his art. It was obviously desirable that a speech written for delivery by a client should be suitable to his age, social status and circumstances. Lysias ....
Macbeths Fear of Fear
Macbeth is one of the William Shakespeares shortest plays, but it finely portrays a human drama of ambition, desire, and guilt. The protagonist, Macbeth, is seen to be a contradictory character who has fear of fear itself. This can be seen through his soliloquy, his conversations as well as his re....
Mid-Term Break, Diary of a Church Mouse and Prayer before Birth
In all three poems, the poets give as insight into the various aspects of human behavior. MacNeice in Prayer before Birth emphasizes the negative aspects in which a person will be treated through out their life and focuses in on how people will enslave you, manipulate you etc. In Mid- Term Bre....
Modern Woman in the Victorian Age
The Victorian Age is a difficult era to define. First, Queen Victoria, the periods monarchical namesake, was on the throne from 1837 to 1901. Inevitably, her reign was characterized by change if for no other reason than the natural procession of time. However, the sh....
motifs used in Death of a salesman
According to the dictionary of literary terms and devices, a motif is a recurring structure, contrast, or literary device that can help to develop and inform the texts major themes. Arthur Miller uses a variety of different motifs in Death of a Salesman. One of the motifs he uses is mythic fig....
Multicultural Curriculum
According to Neubert and Jones (1998), "in the effort to develop multicultural curriculum, holidays are the first thing teachers think of." (p.14). From my experience, I agree with this statement. In addition, Neubert and Jones (1998) says that teachers need to include more things in the ....
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....
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
OF MICE AND MEN
BY JOHN STEINBECK
John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in Salinas, California, a region that became the setting for much of his fiction, including Of Mice and Men. As a teenager, he spent his summers working as a hired hand on neighboring ranches, where his experiences of rural Califo....
Ophelia: Feminist Criticism and Shakespeares Hamlet
Males have conducted our society in such a way as to show their superiority over women. Ranging from social to economic to familial, our civilization is mainly patriarchal, controlled by males and organized to elevate the status of men while maintaining the subjugation of women. However,....
Paulâs Letter to Philemon
â1. Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker, 2. to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier and to the church that meets in your home: 3.Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4. I alw....
Platonic forms
What are the platonic forms, how can we know them,and how are they related to the things we are familiar with?
Plato (BCE 427-347)
Plato is one of the world's best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. Known as the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, he wrote in t....
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....
Role of Sovereigns In Herodotus & The Old Testament
Herodotus & King David Paper
Throughout time, historians have attempted to bridge the gap between historical account and narrative. In two particularly famous examples, Herodotus The History and the Old Testament, the use of storytelling techniques within the works helps to add another dimensi....
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....
Saladin
Among the most intriguing and legendary figures of the Crusades is Saladin, or as he is more commonly referred to in Arabic, Salah ad-Din Yusuf Ibn Ayyub (Righteousness of Faith, Joseph son of Job).1 Christian and Muslim scholars alike have written volumes of work praising him as a man of virtuous q....
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....
shakespears sonnets
Shakespeares Sonnets
The theme that is running throughout Shakespeares, The Sonnets starts from the first sonnet and is worked throughout the rest of the book in all the sonnets. To waste self-consumption and virtue is the idea that Shakespeare touches on by using many different literary te....
sitting bull
Sitting Bull
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American Indian Frontier 101
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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....
The art of Katherine Mansfields short stories
Katherine Mansfield was one of the most famous women writers in the early 20th century. In some sense, she was also the real founder of the literary of the New Zealand nation. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand in Oct. 1888. At the age of 14 she went to London to study at Queens College. Du....
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the dog in the night-time (The Curious Incident ) redefines societys understanding of a proper novel to be all prose/ a story that readers can follow and learn from in a conventional narrative form. The novel allows readers to develop a new sense of understanding by in....
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 Role of Creon in the Theban Plays
In each of Sophcles' Theban plays, the Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus, we encounter the character Creon. His role in each play varies, as does his character. In this essay I will outline the key aspects of his character in each play and then compare and contrast the most prominent....
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....
To Kill a Mockingbird
Test Question 1 As readers, we saw Scout mature and grow as our narorater and as a person. She learned many things, but also lost many things. As she grew up and changed, she began to see how things really were, and gained the knowledge of the pure hate that one man can show another. Scou....
Two Sunflowers Move in a Yellow Room
For this poetry analysis, I chose "Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room" by William Blake. The term that comes to mind when you first read this poem is definitely personification; Blake makes the sunflowers come to life with his words. The persona in this poem is the two sunflowers....
Virginia Woolfâs Ideal Heroine
Throughout the tradition of heroic quests, women play a subordinate role and men dominate. In To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf challenges literary tradition by exalting the feminine roles while demeaning the chief male character. Mrs. Ramsay is a beautiful, caring woman with a strong influence on....
Walden Two community - The concept of Frazier
Who is Frazier? What is The Walden Two? Its really difficult and at the same time quite easy to define them. They both are a utopian subject and matter. I wonder and its doubtful that Frazier really existed. In most I believe that (although Skinner might not accept it) that Skinner had quite....
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....
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