"Women-fowls and tree-women metaphors: an ecofeminist perspective on Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary"
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
This paper is an ecocritical reading of an extract from Madame Bovary, and assesses the extent to which such a reading is a fruitful demonstration of the relevance of ecocriticism to literary analysis.
Focus on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's life and The Gulag Archipelago (1973)
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
The author of The Gulag Archipelago, born a hundred years ago on December 11, 1918, in the very early Bolshevik Russia, is a Russian writer and dissident of the Soviet regime. Alexander Solzhenitsyn experienced civil war, Stalinist gulags, exile and disintegration of the former USSR. It is a...
Small Island - Andrea Levy (2004): which elements of Hortense's childhood can explain her behaviour as an adult?
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
This theme is large so we decided to focus on the theme of family throughout the novel, and especially Hortense's family. This character is a complex one and the reader doesn't always support her as she is often showing contempt to Queenie or Gilbert, her husband. In addition, she is...
The Three Weissmanns of Westport - Cathleen Schine
Book review - 7 pages - Literature
Joseph (Joe/Josie) Weissmann divorced his wife. Joseph has got another woman, Felicity. Betty, his wife was surprised. They travelled to Tuscany. It was as if she was a maid (femme de chambre) and she was being fired. Joseph will give the apartment to Betty. Felicity liked this apartment....
Biography of an English novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
We studied Jane Austen as a romantic writer, although her interests lie outside the range of romantic elements. Jane Austen lived all her life (except for a few years) in the countryside. She started writing to entertain her family, she published 6 novels (their date does not correspond to the...
As You Like It - William Shakespeare (1623)
Essay - 10 pages - Literature
Northrop Frye, in A Natural Perspective, explains that there is often in Shakespearian comedies what he calls "a displacement from a world of chaos to a forest". The world of chaos is in As You Like It the Court, the spatial framework which used to prevail in the first Act of the play. Normally...
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde (1895)
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
In The Decay of Lying written by Oscar Wilde in 1891, one character named Vivian asserts: "... I prefer houses to the open air. In a house we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure." This statement proves to be true in The...
Self-Concepts in The Red Dress (Alice Munro, 1946) and Raymond's Run (Toni Cade Bambara, 1972)
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
The short stories, The Red Dress by Alice Munro and Raymond's Run by Toni Cade Bambara, explore the effect that self-constructs have upon one's identity. In each of the short stories, characters' actions and lives are defined by their images alone, and they are often criticized for...
Damned Human Race - Mark Twain (1905)
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
Initially, Twain appears as the narrator having a serious voice which gives his age credibility. This is the false authority fallacy he uses the first. However, the instant satire appears, the satirical intentions of the author become clear. All the society represents the only stereotype in this...
Claude Cahun : l'exotisme intérieur - LEPERLIER François
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
Claude Cahun was born Lucy Schwob in Nantes the 25th of October 1894, in an upper-class intellectual family. She is the daughter of Maurice Schwob, a republican, patriot, progressive and anticlerical man, who directed the newspaper Le Phare de la Loire, and of Marie Antoinette Courbebaisse. She...
Under the ribs of death - John Marilyn
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
Under the ribs of death is a novel written by John Marilyn that takes place in Winnipeg during the interwar period. It is the story of Sandor Hunyadi, a young boy from a Hungarian working-class family, who dreams of becoming rich and integrated in the Canadian society. The book shows...
Waiting For Godot - Beckett: in what way does Beckett explore the dramatic tensions of communication?
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Waiting for someone is favorable to communication. In this play which is all about waiting, we will see in what way the dramatic tensions of communication are explored by Samuel Beckett. The first part will present the difficulty of communication between the two protagonists and how Beckett...
Far From The Madding Crowd - Hardy: nature, love and relationships
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Nature is essential in Far From The Madding Crowd but love and relationships are central elements in this novel. Hardy articulates these dimensions by using nature as an omen, as an echo of feelings and thoughts but also as a pretext to bring people together. In the novel, Hardy uses nature as a...
Of mutability - Shapcott: how does the author explore the theme of boundaries?
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
In the collection Of mutability, boundaries are a central theme explored by Shapcott, illustrating life. The author crosses and defines, in different poems, the body's limits but also life and deaths ones and the limits of classical structure. In the anthology, shapcott explores the...
Far From the Madding Crowd - Hardy: how does Hardy explore fate in his novel ?
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." said Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Far From the Madding Crowd, fate steps in as soon as the book begins. We will see in details how Hardy explores fate in his novel, first by the names he chose for his characters, then by how one of...
Recitatif - Tony Morrison: racial division
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Never has there been a subject that has aroused as much discussion as racial division. Toni Morrison wrote "Recitatif" in 1983. Twyla and Roberta, two young girls grow up in a segregation atmosphere. Even though this situation will be implicit the entire story long, the author desires to make the...
Recitatif by Morrison and Sonny's Blues by Baldwin: identity's symbolic position in society
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Never has there been a subject that has aroused as much discussion as identity's position within society. Identity is a set of characteristics gathered to allow people to differentiate themselves from others. "Recitatif" wrote in 1983 by Toni Morrison and "Sonny's Blues" wrote by James...
The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov: people's behavior change
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Never has there been a subject that has aroused as much discussion as people's behavior change. "The Cherry Orchard" is a comedy written in 1904 by the Russian Anton Chekhov. The plot is focused around Madame Lyubov Ranevsky, a Russian woman, her family and their estate. The main theme of...
Washington Square - Henry James
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
I have chosen to present the novel Washington Square, which was written by Henry James and published as a book in 1881. Henry James was born in 1843 in New York City in a wealthy family of intellectuals. James's father was a prominent theologian and philosopher and could provide for him,...
How does the incipit of Pride and Prejudice legitimate the moral criticism of women's place in the Georgian society that it foreshadows as being the matter of the forthcoming narrative?
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
Jane Austen's works occupy a central place in the early-19th century literature as it contributed to the link between the Enlightenment period, Romanticism, and Realism, to which she added feminism. In the incipit of Pride and Prejudice, a work which was published in 1813, the narrator...
Education and gender bias in accounting - Literature Review
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
In a workplace, managers, employees, and other workers are faced with different situations that require critical thinking and involving decision-making. Interactions and people's behaviors influence their perception towards each other. For example, gender issues arise from these factors and...
An initiation story for both Ernest Hemingway and Nick Adams
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
In this essay, I am going to study Ernest Hemingway's short story Indian Camp published in 1924 by using first the historical and biographical approach and then the structuralist approach. In this story, we follow Nick Adams and his father, a doctor, who is called at an Indian camp to help a...
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf: Lily
Essay - 1 pages - Literature
Lily Briscoe embodies the figure of the artist in To the Lighthouse. In the first part of the novel she prepares her painting. It's only in part 3 that she rediscovers her half-finished painting and finally goes back to finish it. She is a single young woman who rejects marriage and social or...
As I Lay Dying - Faulkner: Anse's and Addie's ambiguous concepts of loyalty
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
In As I lay Dying, written in 1930, William Faulkner tells about the Bundren family and their journey to Jefferson. The mother, Addie, has passed away so her family drives her to Jefferson where she wanted to be buried. The respect of Addie's last wishes is actually the whole purpose of the...
Spielgelman, Art, Maus: A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds History and And Here My Troubles Began (1978-1991)
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
Let me begin with a short biography of the author. Art Spiegelman was born on February 15th, 1948, in Stockholm. He is the son of Vladek and Anja who are Polish Jews who survived to the Holocaust and the deportation in Auschwitz. His parents' life left its mark on his own life and his work....
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been Vs. Smooth Talk
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
The movie Smooth Talk which is based on the short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" has many similarities. The majority of the movie uses the same outline on which the short story is written from, as well as uses the same characters that are also used in the novel. Yet, a sober...
The grass is singing - Doris Lessing: conversation between Charlie and Tony
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
In this excerpt from The Grass is singing, published in 1950, Doris Lessing relates the relationship between Mary Turner, a racist white woman married to Dick Turner, a poor farmer, living in South Rhodesia, and Moses, a black boy working for them, during the 1940's. The extract is located at...
Comparing male antagonists in Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anonymous' short story The Mysterious Stranger
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Anonymously written and translated from German into English, then published in 1860, "The Mysterious Stranger" is a tale which can irrefutably be compared to Bram Stoker's Dracula, published in 1897. It is unknown if Stoker was inspired by this anonymous author, but readers of vampire tales...
The Tenement Saga: the Lower East Side and early Jewish American writers - Sanford Sternlicht
Book review - 1 pages - Literature
The book "The Tenement Saga: The Lower East Side and Early Jewish American Writers" by Sanford Sternlicht explores the life of Jewish immigrants living in tenements on the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the early 20th century. The Jewish immigrants who migrated from Europe to find a better...
Jewish Wisdom for Business Success: Lessons from the Torah and Other Ancient Texts - Levi Brackman and Sam Jaffe
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
The book "Jewish Wisdom for Business Success: Lessons from the Torah and Other Ancient Texts", by Levi Brackman and Sam Jaffe, is a business book that incorporates lessons from the Torah and other Jewish texts and applies the concept to success in business. Through a series of stories related to...
