Category: Literature
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Major and Minor Characters in Literature
A lock cannot be unlocked without a key that fits into hole. Many literatures form the lock-and-key relationship through their major and minor characters. While major characters lead the story, minor characters add the key elements of the story
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Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
An event I chose from Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut was from chapter six. The event I chose in the book was the day that the atomic bomb was going to hit Japan and Newt, the son of a scientist,writes a letter to
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Athena: Teacher, Guide, and Guardian Angel
The Odyssey depicts numerous gods and goddesses whose sole purposes are to exude their power and force down on the characters of the epic. In many respects, these gods and goddesses reflect forces of nature or
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, a novel about an English woman’s fights told through the writing of Charlotte Brontë, has filled its audience with thoughts of hope, love, and deception for many years. These thoughts surround people, not just
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, the character, Dorian Gray goes through a major transformation. His major concern throughout the book is himself, which makes the internal conflict in the novel is man vs. himself. When
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Poetry Explication: Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130”
William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130”, was written as a mockery of the traditional love poem. Most love poems portray a woman as the epitome of perfection. Women are made out to be divine angel-like creatures who have
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Romeo and Juliet: Dead and No One to Blame
He did it! No, she did it! Whose fault is it that Romeo and Juliet are dead? Both died from tragic misunderstandings and fatal love for one another. This resulted from Romeo’s suicide, followed shortly by Juliet’s. So who do you blame for their deaths? In this Shakespearian tragedy, Romeo, Juliet, and their parents are…
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“The Old Man and the Sea” – by Earnest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway, the author of The Old Man and the Sea, based a lot of his books on his life, friends, and family. I will briefly discuss some of these similarities between his life and his book The Old Man and the Sea.
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“Big Mouth and Ugly Girl” – Character Analysis of Matthew Donaghy
Matthew Donaghy’s lows: On page 5, Matt is surrounded by two strangers. “The man with the glasses and a small fixed smile introduced himself and his companion to Matt as detectives with the Rocky River Police Department and asked Matt to
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Huckleberry Finn Racism Debate: Con
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered a great American novel; it also is one of the most controversial books because of its use of the word “nigger”. A word found an offensive by nearly an
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“The Tomorrow Series” – by John Marsden
In the tomorrow series by John Marsden, “Tomorrow when the war began,” seven friends, Ellie, Homer, Lee, Fi, Robyn, Corrie and Kelvin go through a number of devastating problems. There are friendships,
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MacBeth and Feminist Theory
In MacBeth, we see a dramatization of man versus woman. It is, in fact, easy to view MacBeth as the victim of women; Lady MacBeth’s towering ambition, as well as the victim of the witches’ bad intentions. In support of
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The Great Gatsby – Unchained Love
Imagine being lost into a relationship where you could not truly show your love for someone due to their prior engagement. Now think of that same relationship if it were mostly non existent and just remained a figment of
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MacBeth and Marxist Theory
Marxist ideology doesn’t simply indicate a belief system, but a manipulative set of ideas designed to benefit a ruling class; one which dictates a false/faulty understanding of social reality and [adsense:336×280:1:1]
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Pride and Prejudice – Discourses
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” (Pride and Prejudice p.1) “A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, dancing, and the
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Weak Woman Becomes Strong – Antigone’s Sister
The 1950’s, when the men worked and the women cooked and took care of children, the perfect time, NOT! The women of the 1950’s are a lot like Ismene at the beginning of the play Antigone, she is the ideal,
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“All My Sons” – The Story of Joe Keller
Parenting is a very difficult job; there are no exact guidelines on how to parent. Sometimes parents just don’t know where to draw the line, and that’s exactly what happened with Joe Keller in the novel All My Sons.
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Jonathan Pollard Biography
Almost 20 years ago Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested. Almost everybody here has heard of Jonathan Pollard, maybe you know he was convicted of a crime and has been sitting in jail for the last 20 years.
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“Of Mice And Men” – John Steinbeck
The classic American novel Of Mice and Men is a great example of allusion to another author’s work. Allusion is where an author refers to another work or existed work of literature in their work. John
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Lady Macbeth is The Embodiment of Evil
We are studying Shakespeare’s famous play about the tragic down fall of a great hero. Macbeth. Macbeth was written during the Renaissance Period 1606-1611. I think it was written to show people that even the
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Appearances Can Be Deceiving
Everyone has experiences that prove to be defining moments in their lives—moments that cause us to look at the world or ourselves and what we can accomplish differently, moments that affect a change of opinion on
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Relationship Between Fiction and Non-fiction
Fiction and non-fiction are both very intriguing types of writing to read. Many people view them as total opposites. The fiction stories are usually very funny and made up, but they can be very informative if put in
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Mark Twain’s Use of Dialect in Huckleberry Finn
Q: Discuss Twain’s use of dialect in the novel. What effect does this usage have on the reader? Does it make the novel less of an artistic achievement? In Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses words and phrases
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“Hills like White Elephants”: A Symbolic Interpretation
In the beginning of Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills like White Elephants”, he gives a short introduction about where the story takes place. I got to know that a man and woman are in Spain at a railway
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The Lost Generation – Seeking Meaning in Life.
The term “lost generation” was created by American poet Gertrude Stein to describe American literary artists that sought meaning in life, drank excessively, and had love affairs during the 1920s. These artists include Sherwood Anderson, Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, Ford Maddox