Literature Essays

Depiction of the Nigerian Civil War in Civil Peace by Chinua Achebe
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Introduction:  In depicting significant real-life events or cultural conflicts; “Civil Peace” is a story about the aftermath of the Nigerian civil war. The story focuses on a fictional charact...

Women Roles in “My Contraband” and Little Women
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Introduction:  The American Civil War has often been referred to as the war between brothers. When the war began men were expected to fight and the women were supposed to take care of the house, and the c...

Love as A Medium of Exchange: William Shakespeare and Janet Mock
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Introduction: Sexuality is the result of diverse self-identities and social-definitions, which are explored and constructed in the human social interactions. Social interaction is generated from the Social net...

Awakening and Existence of Female Consciousness within Li Qingzhao’s Ci Poems
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Introduction: Literature is a window through which the public is able to study the essential events of a dynasty or a country and understand the development of a culture. The long course of Chinese civilizatio...

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Introduction:         Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English Poet of the Romantic Movement, best recognized for “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. In this poem, Coleridge...

Post-colonialism in Waiting for the Barbarians by Jm Coetzee
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Introduction: POST-COLONIALISM Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel written by JM Coetzee which has strong themes of Post-Colonialism. To begin, an understanding over what post-colonialism is specifi...

Evaluation of Burke’s Aesthetic Theory
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Introduction: Edmund Burke theorized the experience of the sublime and the beautiful in relation to power. Discuss the implications of Burke’s aesthetic theory in relation to one or more course texts. ...

Expressions of Emotions in Poetry
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Introduction: Time. Love. Pleasure.  Poetry is the way people find out about other people’s impressions to life or to loving. Sometimes it can turn into actually finding something out about you...

The True Genesis of Slavery: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
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Introduction: The True Genesis of Slavery Slavery, a word that continues to leave society in lasting bitterness. Images of inhumane conditions that appear instantaneously and the ugliness that it adds...

A Doll's House: Gender Inequality and Application to Society
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Introduction: Gender Inequality From the minute we are conceived we are put into one of two classes, male or female. We are never asked or viewed as anything besides. Furthermore, as a result of the s...

Intersectionality and Intergenerational Trauma in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
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Introduction: Erika L Sanchez’s I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter focuses on the life of Mexican-American Julia who, in the wake of her sister’s death, is on the threshold of graduating high school or...

Representation of Africa in Harlem Renaissance Texts
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Introduction: Essay Question: 1)     ‘The Dixie pike has grown from a goat path in Africa’ (Jean Toomer). Examine the representation of Africa in Harlem Renaissance texts (you...

The Lais of Marie de France | Book Review
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Introduction:  I’ve decided to do my second book review on the first book we read for this class. Which was “The Lais of Marie de France”. written by Marie de France in the 12th century but later tr...

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead: Rebellion and Endurance
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Introduction: How is the thing worse than rebellion its cause and how did slaves show that endurance is patience concentrated? In the modern alternate history novel, The Underground Railroad, Colson W...

Critical Analysis of Machiavelli’s The Prince
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Introduction: Machiavelli’s political treatise has raised many ethical questions and passionate debates since it was first published in 1532. He was trying to provide useful advice to new political leaders, ...

Postcolonial Feminism in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis 1 and 2
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Introduction: At the end of the 20th century postcolonial literature began to mold and take a slightly different route and took a more feministic stance. Throughout this essay I will be discussing Marjane Satr...

Literary Movements of Transcendentalism, Realism, and Naturalism
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Introduction: Seeing the Real World American literature explores the human thought process by showing how and why some actions take place. The social and natural world of a human’s involvement comes...

Biography of Poet Maxine Kumin
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Introduction: According to Webster’s Dictionary, a hypocrite is a person who claims or pretends to have certain beliefs about what is right or wrong but behaves in a way that disagrees with those beliefs...

Stories of Silencing and Censorship in Metamorphoses
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Introduction: Throughout Metamorphoses, Ovid attempted to narrate how society transformed from uncivilized to civilized through self-contained transformation stories. These stories often portray female charact...

Does Literature Reflect Society or Does Society Reflect Literature?
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Introduction: Consequently, society and literature reflect one another, because literature is made into reality everyday and history is constantly repeating and adapting new and better ways, along with various...

Character Analysis of the Speaker in “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
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Introduction: The poem Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night was written by Dylan Thomas in 1951.  He was exposed to literature at a very young age, his father used to read to him the works of Shakespeare...

Debate on Whether Shakespeare Wrote His Work
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Introduction: The Mystery of Shakespeare  “To be, or not to be,” are the famous words of renowned playwright William Shakespeare. To many, Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest, most talent...

Richard Mayhew’s Character Development in Neverwhere
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Introduction: Richard Mayhew is a quiet, lonely, and, overall, average man from Scotland looking for a new life in London. He meets, who he believes is the, love of his life, and enjoys every minute of being i...

Sons and Lovers in Terms of Modernism
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Introduction:  The new literary discovery of the XX was the modernist movement. Modernism is the art of a dehumanized era, the attitude towards humanistic values in modernism is unclear, but the modernist...

Double Consciousness in African-American Literature
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Introduction: Double consciousness throughout the history of African American Literature On a Saturday morning, I found myself walking to a Dominican hair salon with my mother. As we entered the glas...