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Understanding Lily for Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"
Understanding Lily Understanding Virginia Woolf’s mind within the weaving prose of To the Lighthouse is an undertaking that forces the reader to step back and consider, and indeed, reconsider everything that has just been read, assuming of course, that everything within her evolving story is remembered and comprehended. Woolf is known to challenge her readers with her unstructured worldview as to how an individual appears as people perceive the world around them. She uses her novels for more than just…...
To The LighthouseVirginia Woolf
Edgar Allen Poe
Tina Giarla Professor Allison 21 Oct. 2012 Edgar Allan Poe’s Theory & Poetry "The Philosophy of Composition" is an essay written by Edgar Allan Poe that explains his theory on good writers and their writing methods. Essentially, Poe believed every poem should have a strong effect on the reader and that poems should be short and to the point. In addition, Poe described his ideal writing process, where the author methodically and logically writes their poems, as opposed to writing…...
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Role of Religion in Early American Literature
Role of Religion in Early American Literature American Literature, especially of the early settler and colonial period is marked by a deep sense of religion and a stress upon writing about matters related to religion. The development of early American literature thus can be seen to be a reflection of the religious ideals followed by the early settlers and colonists and it became a means of promoting a moral and ethical way of life. Early American literature is filled with…...
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The Social Context of the Later Poems of Sylvia Plath
In the following sample essay on the social context of Sylvia Plath's later poetry. Read the introduction, body and conclusion of the essay, scroll down. The Self in the World: The Social Context of Sylvia Plath's Late Poems, [(essay date 1980) In the following essay, Annas offers analysis of depersonalization in Plath's poetry which, according to Annas, embodies Plath's response to oppressive modern society and her "dual consciousness of self as both subject and object. "] For surely it is…...
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Oates Short Stories of Young Characters
The following sample essay is dedicated to Oates' short stories about young characters and their difficulties in life. Read the introduction, body and conclusion of the essay, scroll down. Oates short stories usually follow young characters through their struggles in life. There are many family imperfections in Oates stories that mostly tend to have a disturbing image in the readers head. While it seemed that Joyce Carol Oates experienced dark childhood experiences, she seems to explore her thoughts according to…...
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"If I Could Tell You" W.H. Auden
"If I Could Tell You" Analysis In "If I Could Tell You" W. H. Auden uses personification, repetition and imagery in order to prove the point; you must live your life like you do not have time left. Auden gives a vast setting over all. There are two main characters; Auden and time. The dialogue is in first person and he is speaking to some one he cares about. Auden uses personification to give life to time. This shows how…...
CommunicationPoetryW. H. Auden
Ode To The West Wind Theme
Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” The eighteenth century was a time of revolution in Europe; the French Revolution. It introduced a new era of enlightenment and individual freedom. This revolution led the poets to explore freedom, independent ideas and limitless imaginations on poems. This movement was called Romanticism and it was characterized by stressing new ideas of nature and change. Percy Bysshe Shelley took up these revolutionary ideas in his poems. In “Ode to the West Wind”, Shelley presented…...
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Henry David Thoreau “Civil Disobedience”
It is simple to say that Henry David Thoreau's essay, "Civil Disobedience," influenced two of the most well known political figures of the past hundred years, Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King. It might be less easy to connect Thoreau's ideas with those of more flamboyant€"and one might also propose less wildly successful€"political reformers such as hilip Berrigan.Yet that connection can be made, and moreover, it can be made in a way few students of Thoreau might have considered. Perhaps…...
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William Shakespeare
The following example essay on "William Shakespeare" is a biography of the world famous playwright, poet and writer whose works have been translated into many languages. William Shakespeare was a writer, not a politician. But he was destined by the very fact of his greatness to become a theorist of politics as well. The temptation to find a sign of theory for politics in his work is too strong to resist – it is almost unbelieveable that a great writer…...
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Conflicts between the communities of Maycomb in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
First published in 1960, is an enduring masterpiece of American literature. Written by Harper Lee (for whom this was the first and last novel), the story speaks of a young girl’s (Scout Finch) love and support for her father and brother in the backdrop of the Great Depression. This was a time when America, especially the Southern states, was not ridden of racism and segregation. In this society, judgments of character was often prejudiced and based on superficial and materialistic…...
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‘I Started Early, Took My Dog’ by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson’s poems lend themselves to Freudian psychoanalysis as they are full of psycho-emotional posturing and insight. The poem in question ‘I Started Early, Took My Dog’ is subject to various interpretations as it is abstract and lacks a concrete meaning. The poem is thus rich in its interpretive scope across both literary and psychological dimensions. Sigmund Freud, who was a pioneer in the field of analytic psychology, placed a lot of importance on unconscious cognitive processes and behaviors exhibited…...
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Abeka 11th grade American literature, Test 10
James Weldon Johnson "She is not dead; She's resting in the bosom of Jesus". Jesse Stuart "After I'd seen the way my sister was beaten up, I begged to go to Lonesome Valley. " Edgar Lee Masters "Life is too short for you - It takes life to love Life. " Marian Anderson "I was born on Webster Street in South Philadelphia in a room my parents had rented when they were married. " Robert Frost "I took the one…...
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American Literature Unit 4: The Modern Age 1915-1946
The "modern temper" was uncertain and distrustful of science and religion. True World War I proved that society had succeeded in bringing peace and happiness to everyone. False World War I was a worldwide struggle for political, economic, and military supremacy. True _______ was reluctant to involve itself in European affairs. America The large-scale loss of life in ______ caused writers to be pessimistic. World War I After World War I, Americans were content with traditional manners and beliefs. False…...
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Comparison between Aldrich’s Unguarded Gates and Whitman’s A Broadway Pageant
Both Walt Whitman and Thomas Bailey Aldrich are important poets in the American literary canon. While Whitman continues to influence and contextualize contemporary American poetry, the popularity and reference to Aldrich have greatly diminished. One can see why this disparity has come about from the two poems dealt with in this essay. Whitman’s poem titled A Broadway Pageant is one of appreciation and warmth toward the people of the Orient and beyond. The poem was written in the year 1860…...
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English Renaissance/Jacobean Period/Caroline Period (Development)
What were other terms for the English Renaissance? Early Modern England & Elizabethan Utopia by Thomas Moore A political Romance explaining an ideal country Interludes Brief dramatic entertainments written and stage by professionals. Presented at court and in the homes of nobility. School Drama Plays written at Universities, presented at schools and colleges. Reflected Roman and Greek influence. Incorporated Medieval techniques as well. University Wits Wrote scripts for boys companies. Ex. Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, John Lyly, and Robert Greene.…...
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“Speaking in Tongues” by Zadie Smith
The daughter of a black Jamaican woman and a white Englishman, she discusses how she grew up speaking in a different accent than she is now. At a given time, she could converse both accents depending on the situation and her choosing (Smith, 13). As she progressed, her childhood accent would diminish progressively to the point where it completely vanished, and all she was left with was her posh British accent. Smith discusses how she continued to speak in her…...
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Romeo and Juliet quotes and literary terms/themes/motifs
Gregory, on my word, we'll not carry coals Sampson said it-Pun, comic relief, example of feuding If ever you disturb our streets again, / Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace Prince Escalus said it-foreshadowing, example of feuding I fear... with this night's reveals... some vile forfeit of untimely death Romeo said it- Foreshadowing, dramatic irony, example of light and dark motif O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! ... / Did my heart love till…...
FlashcardsLovePlaysRomeo And JulietWilliam Shakespeare
Pride & Prejudice / Letters to Alice – Quotes & Analysis
Weldon's didactic tone speaks to the reader through the character of Alice "..." showing the common attitude of her contemporary audience (Alice) because she has no appreciation for the historic text Weldon's didactic tone speaks to the reader through the character of Alice "you find her boring, petty and irrelevant... you cannot imagine what purpose there can be in your reading her" #commonattitudeofcontemporaryaudience(Alice)noappreciation Weldon uses the rhetorical question "..." this carries Weldon's purpose of encouraging appreciation of the literary canon…...
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American Literature: Colonial & Early National Period
1620-1820 The scope of the Colonial and Early National Period. Casas Bartolome de las ______: Spanish historian, social reformer, and Dominican friar, whose extensive accounts of the colonization of the West Indies revealed the atrocities committed by colonizers against the indigenous peoples. Castillo Bernal Diaz del ______: Spanish conquistador, encomendero, and governor in Chiapas and Guatemala, an outspoken critic of the over-blown claims made by Bartolome de las Casas. Thomas Morton Early American colonist from Devon, famed for founding the…...
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Essay on ‘A Haunted House’ by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's short story A Haunted House is short indeed. It's less than 700 words long, in fact. Despite this it's easy to write an essay on it, because it's full of interesting themes to discuss. To make a short story even shorter, A Haunted House is about a couple living in a house that's haunted by the ghosts of another couple. The ghosts are obviously looking for a treasure, and finally the narrator realizes what it is - the…...
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The Sporting Spirit Analysis
The Sporting Spirit encapsulates instincts, pride, appearances, nationalism, symbolism, social identity, and human penchants as core issues that foment the gravity of the essay; “savage” instincts coagulate with nationalism and appearances to foster one’s pride, symbolizing the proudness of being labelled by one’s country – American, British, Russian, or otherwise. Pride fosters greed, which disinters the need for war – either literally or figuratively. Orwell conveys symbolic war in his essay, The Sporting Spirit, depicting sports as a means of…...
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Henrik Iben’s “A Doll’s House”
Aroused great irritation and outrage in the audience response in the nineteenth century. Nora's decision to leave her husband and children, to leave the "Doll's House", provoked great controversy: There are different opinions regarding the development of the plot: Some see Nora as a great Heroine, a role model for the nineteenth century woman and a shocker for societies structure, a judgement which is popular especially nowadays. Others- and amongst them the majority of the nineteenth-century audience- reacted simply shocked.…...
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Characters in Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Scene 5
Discuss the importance of certain characters in Act 1, Scene 5 of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", explore various other productions and the variations in directions interpretations and presentations. "Romeo and Juliet" tells the tragic tale of two star-crossed teenage lovers who secretly fall for each other and marry. Their families, the Montagues and Capulets, have been fierce enemies for decades, and, even as Romeo and Juliet say their wedding vows, new violence breaks out between the families. In the end,…...
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William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’
William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' is a story set in Elizabethan times. It is about two lovers in an unfortunate situation which, from the start, is certain to end in tragedy. In Elizabethan times, the ideas on family life, parenthood and ranking in society were very different to what they are now. This is where Shakespeare took ideas from. For example, children were thought of as small adults and were property of their parents and women were property of their…...
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Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet adaptation
Shakespeare's second tragedy, "Romeo & Juliet", was written between 1594 - 1596. The tragedy is brought about by fate and the story is based on an Italian Legend, which was well known in England at the time. Baz Luhrmann directed the modern day film. It is shot in Mexico, although it is meant to be "Verona Beach which is a sexy violent world neither set in the future, nor the past. The language is still the old Shakespearean English but…...
AngerRomeo And JulietViolenceWilliam Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Sympathy for Juliet
At the beginning of Act three, scene 5, Romeo and Juliet have just spent their first night together. Romeo has to leave for Mantua, because it's morning and if he was found in Verona he would be killed. Juliet, though she doesn't want him to leave, says goodbye to Romeo and is left feeling unhappy. Her father, thinking she is still mourning her cousin Tybalt's death, announces that he is moving her marriage to Paris forward. He expects her to…...
Romeo And JulietWilliam Shakespeare
Discuss the dramatic effect of act1 scene 5
Romeo and Juliet is a very famous play, which was written around 1595 by William Shakespeare; it is also one of his most universal and popular plays. Romeo and Juliet is a romantic tragedy about two, young, star-crossed lovers and their controversial relationship; who suffer dire consequences when their rival families who have been feuding for generations, refuse to change their inflexible attitudes towards each other. The main characters in the play are Romeo and Juliet (hence the title of…...
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Shakespeare’s Tragic Finale in Romeo & Juliet
Four hundred years ago, late in the sixteenth century, William Shakespeare wrote 'The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet'; a play that tells the tale of the love between the children of two feuding families, and the tragedy that becomes their love. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love, then further dishonour, and in this course disobey, their parents by secretly getting married. When Romeo's best friend Mercutio is killed in a brawl Romeo takes revenge (death) on his killer,…...
Literary GenreRomeo And JulietTragedyWilliam Shakespeare
Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet for Teenagers
Baz Luhrmann an Australian producer of well known movies such as "Moulin Rouge" is most famous for creating "William's Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet" in 1996. He has adapted the original story to appeal to a modern teenage audience. In this essay I will talk about how he has tailored this movie to the needs of a young audience. Baz Luhrmann's version of Romeo and Juliet is the first of many movies to be set in modern urban America. The story…...
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William Shakespeare Was a very Prominent Playwright
William Shakespeare was a very prominent playwright for his time, he lived in a very rigid society where women were classed as below men and that wasn't about to change. He wrote many of his plays for Queen Elizabeth I as she had a great enjoyment for theatre. This society was very passionate about religion and were all god fearing people, but at this time England was in great turmoil as Elizabeth's father Henry VIII had turned they country from…...
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Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
'Romeo and Juliet' is one of the most world renowned plays by William Shakespeare; it is still performed, read and watched all around the world for many different purposes. The play deals with destiny, fate, rivalry, conflict, status and of course love. All the events take place within 72hours. The aim of this essay is to show who is responsible for the tragic deaths nearing the end of the play. Hopefully with all the analysis and evidence that will be…...
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Analysis of Romeo and Juliet
The following example essay on "Romeo and Juliet" is an analysis of William Shakespeare's literary work. The work reveals the plot and images of the main characters of the story. Romeo and Juliet is probably William Shakespeare's most famous plays. It is set in Verona in Italy in the medieval times and is based around love, death and tragedy. The play is about two feuding families, Capulet and Montague, who are life-long enemies, that don't quite know why they hate…...
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How do the writers use poetic devices and techniques to convey their ideas?
Although we are looking at World War 1, war poetry was around before then. It first came to Britain in the 19th century during the Boer War, when more people were able to write due to a push for mass education at the time. This meant that soldiers could express their feelings and record their experiences through poetry. They told their story first hand, describing the reality of what they saw every day. During the Boer War people began questioning…...
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The American Dream In Arthur Miller’s All My Sons
The American Dream in "All My Sons" by Arthur Miller Americans are just recovering from the effects of the great depression and the Second World War. Everyone is gripped with the desire to lead a comfortable and urban life. Joe Keller is one such pioneer. He is sixty-one years old and heads a business, which supplies engine parts to the military planes. His love for his family and the need to be prosperous makes him sacrifice his image and reputation.…...
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How does act one scene one provide an effective opening to ‘Romeo and Juliet’?
In Shakespeare's 'romeo and juliet', the first scene provides an effective opening scene. This essay shows how and what effected the audience in act one, scene one in the classical 1594 play. The factors that will be explored are how the actors play their roles, how action can be manipulated to have a greater effect upon the audience, the effect of a character and dramatic devices and how those factors added effect to the audience in 1595 (when it was…...
Romeo And JulietWilliam Shakespeare
Struggle of the individual in The Bell Jar and One flew over the Cuckoos Nest
The following sample essay focuses on the topic of the struggle of the individual in "Under the Glass Jar" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Read the introduction, body and conclusion of the essay, scroll down. In The Bell Jar and Cuckoo's Nest, both the protagonists struggle not only with a deteriorating mental stability and oppression from those surrounding them but also with a lack of a sense of individuality. Kesey and Plath explore these personal struggles through the…...
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Representation of men in Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Your Analysis To Show How Dickens Represents Men In The Novel. The extract introduces Mr. Bounder to the reader. He is introduced as being a proud, arrogant, factual man, displaying his dominance and is used by Dickens to represent men in the novel. This idea of Bounders pride and dominance is not unexpected due to the stigmas of the era, men were generally considered to be better, more capable than women. His factual nature Is also typical as It represents…...
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Characteristics of Romeo & Juliet
The following sample essay on Romeo & Juliet about Romeo and Juliet characteristic. The tragic play of Romeo and Juliet was written by a world renowned script writer William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died in 1616. William Shakespeare is for his great contribution to English literature. Even though nearly 400 after his death, many people choose to study his work over many other writers. Much of his work has been translated in a variety of languages. Shakespeare…...
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John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums”
Name: Course: Lecturer: Date: John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” Themes Gender inequality “The Chrysanthemums” has many underlying themes one of them being the theme of gender inequality. The story is a critique of a society that has demeaned its women. The society is filled with male chauvinists who give their women little regard. This is seen in the way the society fails to appreciate the qualities of Elisa, as she is smart, energetic, attractive, and ambitious. On the contrary, we find…...
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Explore Shakespeare’s Presentation of Romeo
Romeo and Juliet, the story of "two star crossed lovers". The story begins by telling us about the Montague's and the Capulet's."Two households both alike in dignity"Meaning the Montague's and Capulet's are both at the same social position, which is assumed to be rather high. The families have both been enemies, "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny".Romeo attends a Capulet ball, where he meets Juliet, and little does he know that she is a Capulet, he falls in love…...
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