Horace Walpole vs. Clara Reeve: The role of the Gothic
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
Gothic novels are seen as the beginning of modern horror fiction. Many devotees believed Gothic novels have inspired pleasant horror in its readers. The genre is generally accepted to have been started by Horace Walpole and his novel The Castle of Otranto. Although Walpole was an aristocrat and...
The Odyssey in Song of Solomon
Thesis - 6 pages - Literature
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon has a small but important feature that distinguishes it from its predecessors: unlike Sula and The Bluest Eye, its protagonist, Milkman, is male. While Sula and The Bluest Eye center on female characters, and locate themselves in domestic spheres, Song of Solomon...
Reinventing Myth, Recasting gender: Myth in Morrison
Thesis - 12 pages - Literature
As an African American woman writer, Toni Morrison's relationship with myth is complex and multilayered. In an interview with Charles Ruas, Morrison calls myths the “nourishing stories”(115) that we are raised on. Myth educates future generations about values and strategies for...
A room with a view: Narrating intersubjectivity in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse
Thesis - 23 pages - Literature
The outcry in 1942 was definitive: Virginia Woolf wrote novels without characters. According to D.S. Savage, Woolf's characters are completely incoherent, “void of internal definition” that would distinguish one character from another or from the world that surrounds them. According to...
"I.O.U. The debt threat and why we must defuse it", Noreena Hertz - publié le 07/05/2009
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
NOREENA HERTZ is a British economist who teaches political economy at the University Of Utrecht, Netherlands. Her last book is I.O.U. The debt threat. In this book, she talks about Bono, the lead singer of U2 (real name Paul Hewson), who will challenge the rich world to help eradicate Third World...
Essay on the national liberation struggle in mozambique - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 7 pages - Philosophy
Mozambique is, in the early 20th century, a very heterogeneous country. Without any linguistic, cultural or ethnic harmony, the only point that is common all over this southern African country turns out to be the Portuguese colonial power. However, after an intense liberation struggle, Mozambique...
Reading note on Kant's perpetual peace - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - Literature
Immanuel Kant was born in Königsberg, Prussia in 1724. He studied philosophy, mathematics and physics at the University of Königsberg, and became a renowned teacher and scholar thanks to his works on reason, knowledge and judgment. Indeed, he intended to explain rationalism, and therefore...
The Jews and the passion
Thesis - 3 pages - Philosophy
The Passion narratives must be understood through the Jewish historical experience, religious tradition and, above all, holy scripture. It is crucial to remember that the Passion story, considered as the birth of Christianism, is very linked to the Jewish culture and holy scripture since,...
Occidentalism, the redefinition of a concept in the discourse of international culture - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Philosophy
Occidentalism can exist and develop only in relation to its pre-existing coefficient, orientalism” . Indeed, there exists a dichotomy between these two concepts. It refers to the description of the World and its organization. Therefore, an analysis of the meaningful concept of...
Catholic religious orders in Europe - publié le 07/05/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Philosophy
Monarchism started in Egypt during the IInd century and may have its roots in the forms of some Jewish sects. Saint Antony (236-347) created next to Alexandria what we call anachoretism. He organized a hermits' life. These men gather in communities called anchoret. They live alone but meet on...
Jean- Paul Sartre, "Huis clos", Lecture plurielle - publié le 07/05/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Basing your essay on specific extracts from the play, would you say that, according to Shakespeare, fate determines man's action, or that man is always free to choose his own course of action? According to masters of literary theory, a tragedy draws the destiny of extraordinary people fallen...
Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller - publié le 07/05/2009
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
Since the very beginning of the play, we realize the essential role of dreams and reminiscences in Willy Loman's life because he seems to live in his own world. Indeed, as soon as he comes back home, we learn that this day, he wasn't able to drive all the way to the place he was supposed to go...
American writers in Paris: Anaïs Nin - Houseboat - ; James Baldwin - Equal in Paris - - publié le 07/05/2009
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
“Houseboat” is the initial short story in a collection entitled Under a Glass Bell, published in 1944 by Anaïs Nin. It presents us with the complex relationship the artist carries on with Paris - a relationship made of both attraction and repulsion. It also gives us an insight into the...
The universal human rights concept
Essay - 5 pages - Philosophy
The UN was founded immediately after the horrors of the Second World War because of the Nazi-regime and in response to the economic and social difficulties after the Depression. This need of security by law was explained by a particular tradition in Europe where in the seventeenth and the...
Richard Dawkins, "The selfish gene" - publié le 07/05/2009
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins elaborates on another perspective of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, basing his argument on the recent discovery of the DNA molecule's structure. The theory of evolution, which relevance had been largely suffering from a lack of physical validation, now...
A critical comparison of Aristotle's and Augustine's concepts on time
Thesis - 5 pages - Philosophy
Aristotle and Augustine are two men whose intricately crafted ideas have been regarded as some of the most intelligent for thousands of years. Both men came from very different times and many times took very different approaches when explaining their ideas. Aristotle conceptualizes using mostly...
Literary commentary on the poem "the satirist" taken from collected poems by Louis Mac Neice
Text commentary - 1 pages - Literature
Louis Mac Neice was a famous Irish playwright and poet. He was born on September 12th, 1907 and died on September 3rd, 1963. He was a member of the "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis and Stephen Spender. He wrote many plays like The Dark Tower and other radio scripts and...
Dreams in story of the stone
Thesis - 10 pages - Literature
“Last night Chuang Chou dreamed he was a butterfly, spirits soaring he was a butterfly (is it that in showing what he was suited his own fancy?), and did not know about Chou. When all of a sudden he awoke, he was Chou with all his wits about him. He does not know whether he is Chou who dream...
Love and death in Shakespeare's sonnets
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
In 1609 Thomas Thorpe published, a collection of 154 sonnets written by William Shakespeare under the title SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS. Most of these poems were probably written in 1597 though the earliest ones could have been composed as early as 1593. Sonnets cycles were a traditional genre of...
Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress": a Baroque reworking of conventions
Text commentary - 4 pages - Literature
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) was an English Metaphysical poet. Marvell wrote several satirical poems against the corruption of the court, but they were published after his death (for being too subversive). ?To His Coy Mistress', though not about politics, is also a subversive poem. It is an...
The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster
Text commentary - 4 pages - Literature
The Duchess of Malfi is a tragedy by the English Jacobean dramatist John Webster. Little is known of Webster's life. He was born around 1580 and probably died in 1634. His plays are considered masterpieces of Elizabethan and Jacobean Theater. The two most famous ones are The White Devil and...
Graphic novels
Thesis - 4 pages - Literature
For this project I chose to focus on graphic novels that have a lead female character. I chose graphic novels because I feel that most teachers don't want to use them in their classrooms and I believe that most young adults would be interested in reading them in school as many of them do on their...
Incorporating multicultural literature
Thesis - 6 pages - Literature
“Multicultural education is for everyone regardless of ethnicity, race, language, social class, religion, gender, sexual orientation, ability, and other differences” (Neito, 2000, 4). For many teachers the idea of incorporating multicultural literature into their everyday English...
The escape from Alcatraz
Thesis - 4 pages - Literature
Alcatraz, America's most infamous maximum security prison was designed to be escape proof. But on a clear, cool night in the summer of 1962 three prisoners did make it off the island and then vanished without trace” (Discovery Communications). It is still a mystery today if the prisoners...
The master book
Thesis - 6 pages - Literature
Creating a novel can be one of the most frustrating tasks for a writer to do. In the essay below, I will concentrate on the writing styles of six writers' from different writing genres, including technical writing, academic writing, and fiction writing. Comparisons will be drawn in regards to...
Would I lie to you
Thesis - 5 pages - Philosophy
What do job interviews, parents, significant others, store managers, telemarketers, homeless people, personal managers, and movie ticket agents have in common? They've all been lied to. At job interviews, applicants may tell a little lie about their qualifications in order to get the job. An...
The Breedlove family in The Bluest eye by Toni Morrison
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
In her novel ?The Bluest eye', Toni Morrison presents a portrayal of racism in the 1930's through the life of the Breedlove family, and specifically through the vision of the daughter, Pecola. In this story, the characters do not suffer from direct oppression, but the novel shows another...
William Blake's "London"
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
William Blake's version of the city of London is a rather negative picture. In his poem "London", the speaker shows a much damaged population. Though the description is one of a plagued eighteenth-century London, the poem is meant to relate the condition of more than a single city in a single...
The Importance of Soliloquies in Drama, and its Relevance in Sam Shepard's Fool For Love
Book review - 1 pages - Literature
Theatre, and particularly drama, uses all kinds of rhetorical and situational tools to create a particular ambience that permeates everything from setting to the actor's performances. One of these rhetorical tools is soliloquy. Creating a sort of intimacy between a character and the audience,...
Wife-Wooing, by John Updike - publié le 04/05/2009
Book review - 1 pages - Literature
In his short story, 'Wife-Wooing', John Updike portrays the life of what seems to be an ordinary family through which he discusses matters related to matrimony. This story centers around two people who seem to have forgotten the meaning of their marriage. Through this essay, I will...
