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A Literary Analysis and a Comparison of the Illiad and the Odyssey by Homer (1062 words, 2 pages)

The Iliad and The Odyssey A ComparisonAlthough both works are credited to Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey provide two remarkably different views on the nature of the Olympian Gods, their relationship to humanity, and the general lot of mortals throughout their all too brief lives. As a result of ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Parallels between Beowulf and the Hobbit (839 words, 3 pages)

Parallels between Beowulf and The HobbitCanst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? Canst thou put an hook into his nose? Or bore his jaw through with a thorn . . . his scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal . . .. Out of ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Depression in to Kill a Mockingbird (1204 words, 2 pages)

To kill A Mocking BirdFinal1. To Kill a Mocking Bird is based in about 1935, right in the middle of the depression. It is set in a small town in Alabama called Maycomb. Maycomb, like most small southern towns, has a problem with widespread racism toward Negroes. The novel focuses ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Michael Norwick’s Police Brutality (617 words, 3 pages)

Literary AnalysisIn Michael Norwicks Police Brutality, he expressed the many ways police brutalityhas affected and changed many peoples lives and their families. But in this book real lifestories of not only police brutality but racism as well, make up the entire book. Many ofthe controversies in Police Brutality, are about ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (692 words, 1 pages)

Everyone is a traveler, carefully choosing which roads to follow on the map of life. There is never a straight path that leaves one with but a single direction in which to head. Robert Frosts "The Road Not Taken" can be interpreted in many different ways. The shade of light ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Human Nature in Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1024 words, 2 pages)

HAMLETIt seems that it is human nature to want to please others, but compromising ones values in order to do so can result in people getting hurt emotionally or physically. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the desire to please those in authority overweighs the judgement of many characters. These characters are ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Politics in the Prince by Machiavelli (557 words, 3 pages)

Machiavelli wrote this book, The Prince,which is about becomming a politicalleader from examples of his own life. Niccolo Machiavelli lived from 1469 to 1527, sawwhat we now consider the height of the Italian Renaissance- a period that produced someof Italy's greatest achievements in the arts and sciences, but that also ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Jews in Literature by Elie Wiesel (350 words, 1 pages)

Elie Wiesels is a powerful novel that describes the occurrences during the Holocaust. The story takes place in the times of WW II in the concentration camp at Auschwitz. Night can be interpreted as an autobiography of the authors personal experiences during his captivity by the Nazis in the concentration ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (892 words, 6 pages)

A Picture of Dorian GrayBasil's Changes As Related To Wilde's Opinion On ArtOscar Wilde, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, makes Basil's lifechangedrastically by having him paint a portrait of Dorian Gray and expresstoo much of himselfin it, which, in Wilde's mind, is a troublesome obstacle to circumvent. Wilde ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Touch Wood by Renee Roth-Hano (835 words, 4 pages)

"Touch Wood" by Renee Roth-Hano?Touch Wood? is based on the author?s own life when she was growing as a Jewish girl during the German invasion of France. In 1940, Renee and her family were living in Alsace, France, where nothing ever changed. No one expected anything unusual to happen. Then ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Problem of Language in All Quiet on the Western Front (3347 words, 16 pages)

German LiteratureThe Problem of Language in "All Quiet on the Western Front"For it is no easy undertaking, I say,to describe the bottom of the Universenor is it for tongues that only babble child's play.(The Inferno, XXXII, 7-9.)Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, a novelset in World War ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Personal Identity in the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (2885 words, 12 pages)

English Quest for Personal Identity in Toni Morrison's The Bluest EyePost World War I, many new opportunities were given to the growing andexpanding group of African Americans living in the North. Almost 500,00African Americans moved to the northern states between 1910 and 1920. Thiswas the beginning of a continuing migration ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of a View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller (827 words, 4 pages)

Character Essay After reading Arthur Miller's play "A view from the bridge," I am convinced that the most striking character is Marco. He is an Italian immigrant that moved illegally to the United States with his brother Rodolpho to work as longshoremen, since at the time (the play was written ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Devils in the Crucible by Arthur Miller (2560 words, 11 pages)

English - The Crucible by Arthur MillerThe True Devils in SalemIn The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the madness of the Salem witch trialsis explored in great detail. There are many theories as to why thewitch trials came about, the most popular of which is the girls'suppressed childhoods. However, there were ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Journey of Odysseus and Telemachos in the Odyssey by Homer (2563 words, 12 pages)

The Journey of Odysseusand Telemachos In The Odyssey written by Homer and translated by Richard Lattimore, several themes are made evident, conceived by the nature of the time period, and customs of the Greek people. These molded and shaped the actual flow of events and outcomes of the poem. Beliefs ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Essay Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (469 words, 3 pages)

topic english-Emerson "self-Reliance"Misunderstood GreatnessThe quote that most provoked thought and emotion from within me comes from the essay "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. "To be great is to be misunderstood" was used by Emerson to explain the lagging growth of the conception of ideas and thoughts of his generation. Original ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literary Analysis of Medieval Literary Drama (4510 words, 23 pages)

Medieval Literary DramaDialectic and Spectacle in the Harrowing of HellRoland Barthes's essay on "The World of Wrestling" draws analogically on the ancient theatre to contextualize wrestling as a cultural myth where the grandiloquence of the ancient is preserved and the spectacle of excess is displayed. Barthes's critique -- which is ... Read More

A Literary Analysis and a Comparison of Electra by Euripides and Sophocles (590 words, 3 pages)

Subject EnglishGreek Literature -Sophocles's Electra vs. Euripides's ElectraEuripides and Sophocles wrote their own versions of the Electra story.The basic plot is as follows Agamemnon is killed by Clytemnestra andher lover Aegisthus after he returns from the Trojan war to reclaim hissister-in-law Helen from the Trojans. Electra and her brother Orestesplot ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literary Analysis of Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1979 words, 13 pages)

Romanticism officially began in 1798, when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge anonymously published Lyrical Ballads. This work marked theofficial beginning of a literary period which had already begun many years before 1798. Awork is defined to be of a certain period by its characteristics, therefore to be considered a ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Captain Ahab in Moby Dick (516 words, 1 pages)

Hemanth VenkataramanAhab EssayIn Moby Dick, Captain Ahab is a tragic hero. He is the commander in the story, and has many interrelated flaws which lead to his ultimate downfall. These tragic flaws include his pride and ego, obsession with revenge, and his determination to defy destiny. Counteracting these negative images ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Oedipus’s Inextinguishable Flaws by Sophocles (479 words, 1 pages)

Advanced English 10 3rd hourSeptember 28, 1997 Oedipus's Inextinguishable FlawsFlaws plague every man and woman on this planet. Flaws are what we have in common with each other, and all characteristics that make us human. Sophocles's Oedipus, shows that sometimes the combination of certain flaws and other human characteristics can ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Tithonus by Alfred Lord Tennyson (842 words, 6 pages)

Regret A Hopeless QualityTenets of Tenneyson in TithonusTithonus was written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The poems setting is the ancientstory of Tithonus. Tithonus fell in love with Eos, goddess of the dawn, and asked her forimmortality. Unfortunately for Tithonus he did not ask for eternal youth, only eternal life. He,therefore, ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of a Poem Sea Fever by John Masefield (1240 words, 6 pages)

John Masefield's poem "Sea Fever" is a work of art that brings beauty to the English language through its use of rhythm, imagery and many complex figures of speech. The meter in "Sea Fever" follows the movement of the tall ship in rough water through its use of iambs and ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Character Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (622 words, 3 pages)

Romeo's best friend. Mercutio shows many different qualities before he is killed. Whenwe see Mercutio using one of his best qualities, be humorous is when he has his majorsoliloquy about Queen Nab. Mercutio second quality is being arrogant to Tybalt when hewants to fight Romeo for being at the Capulet ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Irony in Macbeth by William Shakespeare (505 words, 3 pages)

There are many types of irony used in Macbeth. Without the irony, the tragedywould not be quite so tragic.One type of irony used in Macbeth is verbal irony. This is when a character saysone thing and means the opposite. Examples of this are when Macbeth says to Banquo,Tonight we hold ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Themes in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (376 words, 3 pages)

In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare introduces manythemes that he continues throughout all of his tragedies, including the languageof love vs. the language of death. The balcony scene is the most valuablescene illustrating the language of love, whereas in the final scene of theplay the language of death is ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Ways in Which Arthur Miller Presents Eddie Carboni as a Victim of Brooklyn in the 1950s (1256 words, 5 pages)

Jo HawkinsAssessment 2 Semester 1 1998A playwright with a social conscience. Analyse the ways in which Arthur Miller presents Eddie Carboni as a victim ofBrooklyn in the 1950s.In his play, A View From the Bridge ,(1955), Arthur Miller (1915-) portrays theprotagonist, Eddie Carboni, an uneducated Italian-American longshoreman, as a victim ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Theogony by Hesiod (1497 words, 5 pages)

The Theogony was written by Hesiod toward the end of the eighth century BC, and itspurpose was to serve as a genealogy of the Olympians for the Greeks, as well as offer anexplanation as to how the Olympians came to be their gods. The event of primary importance isthe overthrow ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Hard Times in the Literature by Charles Dickens (2308 words, 3 pages)

Hard TimesEurope began the nineteenth century dominated by the romanticists. The realists changed the face of Europe once more by the middle of the nineteenth century. The importance of science and the industrialization of Europe characterized their movement. Where the romanticists believed in feelings, intuition, and imagination, the realists believed ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literary Analysis of the Hymn to the Aton in Ancient Egypt (2068 words, 7 pages)

During the New Kingdom of Egypt, from 1552 through 1069 BC, there came a sweepingchange in the religious structure of the ancient Egyptian civilization. The Hymn to the Aton wascreated by Amenhotep IV, who ruled from 1369 to 1353 BC, and began a move toward amonotheist culture instead of the ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013