Literature Essays

The Ecological Indian and Solar Storms
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Introduction: In the novel Solar Storms by Linda Hogan, traditional indigenous lands and cultures are being destroyed to make room for infrastructure development, like dams. Hogan portrays Native Americans sim...

The “Ballad of Birmingham”: A Historical Analysis
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Introduction: The poem, “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall, is a piece of work that is incredibly important in history and for American literature because it depicts the disgusting reality that racis...

Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal | Review
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Introduction: Chomsky review  In Aviva Chomsky’s novel Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal she emphasizes how the idea of immigration was built upon racism and bigotry. She stands behi...

Mental Health in The Yellow Wallpaper and The Invisible Man
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Introduction: Character Essay According to the website Wiseoldsaying “There is nothing invisible in this universe! There is only our lack of eyesight!”- Mehmet Murat ildan. So many of us i...

The Literary Canon as an Ideological Construction
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Introduction: In the twenty-first century, what we both formally and informally assume is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ literature is often, and conveniently assumed to be what is either canonized or non-canonized r...

Biography of Marjane Satrapi, Author of Persepolis
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Introduction: “Be true to yourself” is a piece of advice given to Marjane Satrapi, the author of the memoir and graphic novel, Persepolis, which is 1980’s Iran when the book is set, is very hard to follo...

Representation of the Community in A Taste of Honey and U and non-U
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Introduction: Raymond Williams called ‘community’ ‘that warmly persuasive word’. Explore the way that one or more texts represent the idea of community as either inclusive or alienating. Both ...

Dehumanization in All Quiet on the Western Front
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Introduction: How does Remarque demonstrate the dehumanization of man through the use of his characters? Does his novel imply that it is possible to revert back to a state of humanity?  “We are...

Women as Migrants in The Season of Migration to the North
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Introduction: Inna nisah shayatin khuliqna lana Na’ udhubillah min sharri shayatin Women are devils created for us We seek refuge in Allah from the ill luck of the devils (Al- Mawa...

Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin | Analysis
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Introduction:  “Sonny’s Blues” is a story authored by James Baldwin and published in 1957. The short story takes place in the center of civil rights movements in American society. Baldwin is conside...

Analysis of Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Introduction: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Young Goodman Brown” is one of certainty and uncertainty. From the beginning to the end, Hawthorne uses the adventures of Goodman Brown to expose Biblical princ...

Symbolism in Eveline by James Joyce
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Introduction: A Paralyzed Soul Catholicism was the dominant religion in Ireland throughout the age of Modernism. The role of the Catholic church played a vital role in Eveline’s life and served ...

Comparing Governments of America and China to A Brave New World
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Introduction: In a world dominated by government control we must wonder if the government is controlling most aspects of our lives. One main thing that the governments in the U.S. and in Brave New World is bir...

Analysis of Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
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Introduction: Darkness at Noon In his essay, The God That Failed, Arthur Koestler opens by saying that “a faith is not acquired by reasoning” (The God That Failed, 15). When creating his protagoni...

Utopian and Dystopian Fiction by Octavia Butler
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Introduction: Bulter’s unique and naturalistic dystopian characters are very much prominent about the overemphasized loads mostly overstressed sort of powers, with the survival of stories, with amplification...

Analysis of That Face by Polly Stenham
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Introduction:  That Face is a Post-Modernist play that first premiered in London, in 2007.  The play was written by Polly Stenham and was written in the style of Realism.  That Face is considere...

Sexuality in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
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Introduction:            The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger heavily probes the theme of sexuality – specifically, Holden Caulfield’s immense turbu...

Huck's Development in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Introduction: Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first published in 1884, in a small town of St. Petersburg in Missouri. Located close to the Mississippi River, and is decades before...

Motherhood as an Exercise in Feminism: Toni Morrison’s Sula
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Introduction: In the world that Toni Morrison crafts in Sula, society seems to force women into the age-old binary roles in which they have always been cast: Lilith or Eve? In the Christian book of Genesis in ...

The Pursuit of Happiness in Typical American by Gish Jen
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Introduction: What is America? America is the land of the free were individuals can find opportunity for prosperity and success. Many people immigrate to America for the hope of achieving more from their lives...

The Embodiment of Isolation By 1930s’ Prejudice in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
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Introduction: The significance of rejection and exclusion is echoed throughout a myriad of events in history, especially the Great Depression, for countless causes. Causes like: racism, sexism, ableism, and cl...

Era Influence within Hawthorne’s Literature
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Introduction: Nathaniel Hawthorne, a newly emerging author in the time of Romanticism, made his mark in literature for his engrossing views on sin and his distinctive display of emotions. Hawthorne’s literat...

A Woman's Role in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House
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Introduction: Playing dollhouse A woman’s place in society has always been mapped out for her before birth. Women born in a patriarchal society of the late 1800s must endure the discrimination b...

The Underground Railroad Rhetorical Analysis Essay
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Introduction: In the fictional novel, The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead writes about slavery and it’s unfortunate/ dishonorable history. He includes the racial discrimination against African America...

Toni Morrison’s Depictions of African American Culture
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Introduction: Abstract Toni Morrison is an award-winning author, best defined for her explicitly intricate narratives displaying African Americans throughout history. Morrison reconceptualizes the cul...