The concept of poverty is pervasive throughout the novel The Outsiders and provides a significant representation of the struggles of those living in it. Poverty is the state of being extremely poor and greatly affects the quality of someone’s life. Written by S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders (published 1967) follows the story of a group of juveniles who are discriminated against because of differences in socioeconomic status in society. Poverty in The Outsiders creates division in society and affects a greaser’s...
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Out of all the short stories that I have learnt, “A Worn Path” written by Eudora Welty would be my favorite because this short story tells the tale about an old African-American grandmother who walks to a town to acquire some medicine for her grandson. At first, while reading this story, it is not clear where Phoenix is headed or why she is even going anywhere. The one thing that I do know is that she is determined to get...
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“Narcissists try to destroy your life with lies because theirs can be destroyed with the truth.” We are all encouraged at an early age to tell the truth. Told that we can better our lives if we follow this single rule. Yet deception and lies still creep into our lives. We're each lied to 10 to 200 times a day, and tell a lie to others ourselves on an average of 1 to 2 times in that same period. In...
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Although revenge is the most obvious theme in Hamlet, Shakespeare writes extensively about madness. As the play progresses, the thin line between sanity and madness blurs, leaving readers to wonder if Hamlet is insane. Ophelia has a minor role in the play, but the theme of madness is central to her story. Even Claudius has moments of madness when he is not acting as the chief mourner of Denmark. Of these three characters, it is Ophelia whose madness is genuine....
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Lewis Carroll, who is the author of Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, is a famous British fairy tale writer, mathematician and logician. Alice's Adventure in Wonderland is one of his representative works. The book tells the growth of a little girl, Alice, from the rabbit hole fall into a magical world, and met many creatures and experienced many beautiful adventures; At the same time, she is continuously learning about herself and growing up. According to the development of the plot, this...
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The history of America is a key of exploring what means exactly being an American and how somebody can be identified. As it is said in EOD an American term is a complex of different nations from different regions. In my essay I will focus to explain how American literature helped people to understand the term of American identity Sheldon Hackney says that: [1: Originally: a native or inhabitant of America, esp. of the British colonies in North America, of...
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The book “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is a novel that tells the story of the multi-generation of the Buendía family. The first generation were the founders of Macondo, a small town that was first isolated from the outside world in which we are first introduced to solitude, one of the first oppositions throughout the novel that plays across the story. For a long time, Macondo was in solitary, disconnected, and hidden to the outside world,...
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Iceberg theory is an approach of writing practiced by numerous writers in which distinct parts of a story are concealed, some details that both the writer and the readers know naturally and intuitively. Ernest Hemingway gave the name to this method and felt that this approach of writing creates a stronger connection with the readers as the reader is perceptive and join the pieces that were looked over. According to him, the correct idea of the story must not show...
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Humans differ in personality. What a man love may be a dislike to another. We are also associated with one culture or the other, which often shape our choice to life, culture, and heritage. It is however not uncommon to see people reject their culture and heritage. They tend to go after a culture which seems to be more valuable or modern. They, however, view their culture as barbaric and archaic. In the short story, Everyday Use by Alive Walker,...
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Recurrently, ideals comprise a further connotation apart from the word arrangement on the paper, the symbols so graciously called letters constitute the smallest portion of the main theme. A wordsmith is entirely capable under approximate circumstances to tell a short story with scarcely any indirect utterances that substantiates the theme. Words do not perpetually comprise the theme; under certain circumstances a writer will use literary devices and methods to present the theme. For instance, In 'The ones who walk away...
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In the book Man’s Search for Meaning, we get a personal perspective of one man’s experiences and survival of the Nazi concentration camps. During World War II, Victor Frankl was separated from his wife, his parents, and everything he knew and was taken to Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapist. While at the camps he derived his logotherapy theory which concentrates on the meaning and purpose of one’s life. Frankl observed that the average prisoner had...
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Every poem has its own way to interpret the message that the author is trying to convey. This happens through the usage of figurative language. The poems “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell have their own interpretations of a mistress through a variety of elements, but both are very different. The difference between “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare and “To His...
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Dystopian Societies and Female Oppression: An Overview The protagonists in both ‘The Handmaids Tale’ by Margaret Atwood and ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ by Khalid Hosseini suffer in the societies in which they exist. Similarly, the theme of religious oppression underpins the suffering of the female protagonists in both the fictitious, dystopian society of Gilead in ‘The Handmaids Tale’ and the historical realities of Afghanistan in ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’. The Handmaids Tale is a dystopia written in a near future...
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Introduction to Robinson Crusoe and its Themes The novel Robinson Crusoe is written by Daniel Defoe and was first published in the year 1719. It is about a man named Robinson Crusoe, from England who has a dream to explore the sea. Robinson’s father does not agree with his dreams and wants him to live a normal middle-class lifestyle. Robinson’s disagreement with his father caused him to run away and start adventuring into the sea. During his adventures with sailing...
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Unequivocally, scientific conditioning cannot completely remove fundamental human nature. Although the conventional society presented in Brave New World increases socio-economic ‘stabillity’, it solely represses the potential for human growth. Through satirising the like of H.G. Wells and Aquinas’ theory of human nature, Huxley iterates the point that eugenic breeding and other spiritually impoverished solutions cannot cure the ills of civilisation. Alternatively, through the adoption of Thomas Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’, The Picture of Dorian Gray advocates a more hedonistic and debauched perception...
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Both “Still I Rise” and “Black Boy” from Maya Angelou and Richard Wright have inspired people with their stories. “Black Boy” and “Still I Rise” being powerful stories, all about the struggles of having hope. Have given the message, no matter what happens the protagonist will always rise. The poem “Still I Rise” and the book Black Boy has similarities in the stories in the way they show courage and hope. Both Maya/Richard convey similarities as they both show Courage....
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Prose in literature demonstrates its beauty as well as complications when a narrator or third person reflector comes to play their role in narrating the story and molding the plot. There is a lot that depends on the writer’s view as well but the way a narrator communicates and comments upon the plot directly hits the reader and shapes their interpretation of the text. The more vividly an author tries to demonstrate his idea through the help of a narrator;...
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There is no shore of Time, no port of Man. It flows, and we go on. Literature introduces various conceptions of time depending on the literary genres. For instance, romantic poets like Alphonse de Lamartine and John Keats take into account the eternity of time by focusing on the ephemerality of men in order to share their melancholy. On the contrary, in response to Romanticism, realist novelist like Émile Zola and Charles Dickens set their feelings aside and tend to...
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Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk that recounts the experience of an unnamed protagonist who struggles with insomnia. The central character gains inspiration from his doctor’s comment that insomnia is not a kind of suffering leading him to find relief in the impersonation of a terminally ill individual in several support groups. The protagonist then encounters a mysterious man called Tyler Durden and the two forms a secretive fighting club for cathartic reasons. Tyler works several night...
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The actions and choices of characters in Wuthering Heights are often an attempt to raise their social status. This is clear in Catherine’s reason for marrying Edgar Linton instead of Heathcliff, and the sense of revenge that overtakes Heathcliff in his adult life when he attempts to inherit Thrushcross Grange as well as the Heights. It is not within the nature of all characters to be infatuated with social class and the desire to elevate it, instead such feelings frequently...
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Good and evil, despite being two very different and separate deeds, relate with each almost all the time. In essence, society needs one to appreciate the other. Typically, people only take note and appreciate the good in others only after encountering some evil from other experiences. In this context, Emily Brontë, in her book Wuthering Heights, gives a clear contrast between good and evil from the setting, characters, and the supernatural aspects she implements in the novel. For instance, she...
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Many Japanese Americans were very badly mistreated in the past and still are. Houston and Takei’s experiences are different yet are very similar in many ways. They all had many fears due to racial hate, hostility, and eventually they all wanted to boycott against it no matter what situation they were in. Houston and Takei's experiences are different yet similar in many ways. They all had many fears due to racial hate, hostility, and eventually they all wanted to boycott...
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What is psychological literary criticism? What is Freud's Theories and how to apply in the novel Heart of Darkness? The psychological criticism: An approach to literary criticism that interprets writings, authors and readers through a psychological lens. Focus on expressing the subconscious at work, looking at psychology in the narration itself as well as in the author. It was founded in the late nineteenth century until the early twentieth century by Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory and treatment...
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An author uses literary devices to improve the value and the meaning behind their story. Symbolism is often utilized to represent an idea, and can take different forms. Usually it is an object that represents another by giving it a much deeper meaning and value than what it really is. Us readers use symbolism while we read a novel, poem, or story without even knowing it because our brains think symbolically. Symbolism represents storytelling and keeps the readers interested in...
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Written by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death” takes place in a monastery where Prince Prospero and one thousand of his subordinates attempt to survive the red death. The red death is an illness that has killed half of the country’s population and can kill in half an hour of contracting it. Prospero addresses this crisis by locking himself inside his castle’s monastery with an abundance of food, friends, and entertainment leaving many to die. Plenty of...
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“1984” is George Orwell's view of how a totalitarian government will look in the future. Winston Smith, who works in London, in the United Kingdom, works in the Ministry of Truth, which is mainly the center of government propaganda. Winston begins to question the government and wants to know more. This book is a warning, inspiring your readers with a foreboding of what the world might resort to in the not-so-distant future. This book is not just a book, it...
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This essay is about racism, the most important theme of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon, Native Son, written by the African – American writer, Richard Wright. Native Son, one of the most famous works of Richard Wright deals with the effects of the Great Migration, a historical event in which millions of African Americans left the oppressive political and social conditions of the South. This book is about Bigger Thomas, a young African American man...
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Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-born American novelist. He has written four novels The Kite Runner(2003), A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), And the Mountains Echoed (2013), and Sea Prayer (2018). These novels portray the real circumstance of Afghanistan to the world and stand as evidence for how morality and honesty are degraded by political conflicts and by social and economical conditions. His novels deal with the social, economic, religious, and political issues of Afghanistan and the plots are knitted with political,...
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Superficially, nothing could be more disparate than the Dig and To the Lighthouse. From being worlds apart in time to the complete contrast in setting and focus of interest, the lowbrow, simplistic concerns of a middle class family in their holiday home could not be further from the unmerciful realism of life in the Welsh countryside. However, on a much closer study, they have much greater affinity. In To the Lighthouse, the initial focus is the Ramsay’s marriage. A sense...
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Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina realistically portrays a socially and psychologically incarcerated female protagonist in her marriage in 19th century Russia. Although she ends her marriage, she forces herself into a seemingly loving relationship with Vronsky, her lover. However, the relationship of Anna Karenina and Vronsky showcases the polarization between the distinct gender roles in society. Although considered humdrum, the steeplechase scene symbolizes the rigid gender roles and male authority found within structures of Imperial Russia in the 19th century. The...
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