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The Different Ways in which Imagery Contributes to Meaning in Anne Sexton’s Consorting with Angels and Sylvia Plath’s the Applicant (1222 words, 4 pages)

Imagery is an often-used device in the writing of poetry. An image can be defined as any depiction that appeals to one of the senses. Imagery is often an important tool as it enlarges and intensifies our sense of the poem thus contributing to meaning. This is especially so in ... Read More

A Comparison of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1131 words, 2 pages)

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe both involve the colonization on Africa. In Heart of Darkness, the author talks about how savage the natives were and how much there was a need to update the living conditions of the natives and to ... Read More

The Possibility of Creating Utopia in George Orwell’s Novel Animal Farm, the Movie Spiderman, the Website Is Utopia Possible and the Song Peace Train (2919 words, 3 pages)

What is Utopia? Utopia can be defined in many different ways. Utopia can mean a place of ideal perfection or it can represent a system of social and political perfection. Different people see Utopia signify different things. Due to an individual's thoughts, concepts and also beliefs, a person can obtain ... Read More

A Comparison of Delusional Characters the Dead by James Joyce and Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (891 words, 1 pages)

In both Joyce's The Dead, and Kafka's Metamorphasis, the central charater is suffering from a severe delusion about their own self. Gabriel, in Joyce's The Dead, believes he is the one true love in Gretta's life. When this deception is revealed his world becomse shattered. Similarly, in The Metamorphasis, Gregor ... Read More

An Overview of the Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Heroism Characters (717 words, 1 pages)

Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are epics that display heroism in different contexts. Though both considered heroes, Beowulf and Sir Gawain are drastically different characters in personality, ability, and perspective. The similarities are few each performs deeds for which they gain fame and honor, and each is ... Read More

Both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne and Herman Melville’s Billy Budd Are Guilty Victims (557 words, 2 pages)

Innocent victims appear very often in literature. Anti-transcendentalist authors often make their protagonists victims of strictly enforced harsh rules or malice to prove their pessimistic point. An example of such is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", or Herman Melville's "Billy Budd, Sailor". In both stories, the protagonists are depicted as ... Read More

An Analysis of the Praise of a Bilingual Country (603 words, 1 pages)

Praise of a Bilingual Country In the essay English as Second Language, English as First Love, Stephen Baker, the author, suggests that the United States should adopt English as its official language. He does not like the idea of the United States not having an official language, and does not ... Read More

The Theme of Madness in the Works of Emily Dickinson, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare (845 words, 1 pages)

Throughout literature madness, or insanity, is presented to the reader as a method to surprisingly control the plot of a story. In the poem "Madness is Divinest Sense," Emily Dickinson explains, "madness is divinest Sense To a discerning eye." Dickinson hints that apparent madness might not be madness at all. ... Read More

The Theme of Death in Four Poems by Robert Herrick, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Sylvia Plath and E. E. Cummings (1055 words, 2 pages)

Erica Prince English IV DC Mrs. Summers April 5, 2004 Different Natures of Death Portrayed In Poetry "Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over ... Read More

A Comparison of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1822 words, 3 pages)

Combination of religious and secular elements in Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight In this essay I will point out, on the one hand, the elements of the pagan warrior society and the Christian elements in Beowulf and, on the other hand, the contradiction of the heroic code ... Read More

The Theme of Surpirse Endings in the Works of William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doris Lessing and Guy De Maupassant (774 words, 1 pages)

Surprise Endings Many stories often benefit from surprise endings. They can give us great insight into the characters. Four stories that have surprise endings are Rose for Emily, Young Goodman Brown, To Room Nineteen, and The Necklace. The surprise in Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, is in the last ... Read More

A Comparison Between the Writings of Alice Walker and Amy Tan (916 words, 2 pages)

Alice Walker and Amy Tan are authors who base much of their writings on their cultural heritage. Their stories are different because Walkers characters struggle due to their heritage while Tanscharacter benefits from it. Alice Walker was born in 1944 in Eatonton, GA. The youngest of eight children, her parents ... Read More

An Analysis of the Stories: The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe and the Scarlet Ibis and in the Rules of the Game by Amy Tan (719 words, 9 pages)

Have we ever thought why most of us are interested in the story we read? I can surely say that writing a story is a complicated process. The writer has to think of how the story must be told, what effect must it have on a reader, and what is ... Read More

An Analysis of the Prized Possessions in the Necklace (427 words, 1 pages)

Prized possessions Of all my worldly possessions, I am most thankful for these three. A necklace given to me by my brothers would be the first. My collection of stuffed animals would be the second. Finally, my companion Zeus my dog would be the third. These are my most valuable ... Read More

An Analysis of Lysistrata, a Comedy by Aristophanes (1584 words, 3 pages)

Aristophanes' Lysistrata Prologue Lysistrata is concerned about the present situation in Athens, where she believes the Peloponnesian war has been continuing for far too long. The audience learns through the first scene that their husbands who departed to fight the Spartans have left these Athenian women at home. Lysistrata's solution ... Read More

Published: Monday 28th of October 2013