Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (1847) - How important is time in the work of Charlotte Brontë?
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
The novel was published in 1847 under the male pseudonym of Currer Bell. The historical context is the Victorian era, during which the British Empire was at its height with possessions all over the world. The literary context of the work coincides with the beginning of the Romantic movement, so...
Junky - William Seward Burroughs (1953) - Is Junky merely the story of the narrator's drug addiction?
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
Junky, the first novel of W. BURROUGHS, was published for the first time in 1953. It deals with the story of drug addiction, through one example: William LEE, the narrator. It is a major work relating the lifestyle of drug addicts during the 1950s. He employs a laconic tone, but he always seems...
The Subterraneans - Jack Kerouac (1959) - The role of jazz in the novel
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
"The Subterraneans" is a Jack Kerouac's novel written in the 50's (written in 1953 and published in 1958). This novella is not fictional, it deals with a very short romance that Jack Kerouac had with an African American woman, Alena Lee (New York, 1953). But it was bad form to have this...
The Great Depression and World War II (1929-45) in U.S. Literature
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
The confidence of the Jazz Age died in 1929 with the Crash. As the nation threatened to disintegrate, the American writer recognized the fragility of its coherence ; capitalism and industry could no longer be trusted to sustain an egalitarian society that could guarantee the welfare of all....
The Blindfold - Siri Hustvedt - Post-modernism
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.' Is a quotation from Harold Pinter that illustrates the ideas of the post-modernist movement,...
Beat Generation - Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
'Follow your inner moonlight, don't hide the madness' is a quote by Allen Ginsberg that embodies the ideas that members of the literary and social 'beat generation' movement advocate. The later was created in the 1950s at the end of the Second World War, mainly by two young...
The Appointment in Samarra - W. Somerset Maugham (1933) - Encounter with Death
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Terrorising and scary, death has always been a threatening subject. Although nobody wants to think about dying, we all wonder when Death is going to take us. In the fable "The Appointment in Samarra" by W. Somerset Maugham (1933), the author demonstrates that humans cannot avoid their fate. When...
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharto, 1905) and Passing (Nella Larsen, 1929) - Women identity issues in the early twentieth century
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton) and Passing (Nella Larsen) are novels presenting female characters struggling to fit into the 20th century society. At the time, women were not very independent and had almost no means to earn a living. In The House of Mirth, Lily Bart's parents died and in...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (1962) - The 3 main characters
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
At first sight, this quotation makes me think that in reality it is our acts which determine the person that we are. We can be judged by our acts. It is particularly true in Ken Kesey's novel... The example of the three main characters: The Chief, the Big Nurse and McMurphy.
"Myth and Reality" in Antony and Cleopatra
Essay - 7 pages - Literature
Analyse et confrontation des notions de mythe et de réalité dans l'oeuvre "Antony and Cleopatra" de William Shakespeare
Does it really matter whether or not oppression has 5 faces, as Marion Young claims?
Essay - 10 pages - Literature
Iris Marion Young présente une théorie de l'« oppression », concept central rendant compte de l'ensemble des rapports sociaux inégalitaires selon elle. C'est une pensée de type critique, qui envisage le monde social, passé et actuel, comme traversé d'antagonismes et d'injustices. Si on peut...
"Perspective" in Gulliver's Travels
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
This document explores Jonathan Swift's book, "Gulliver's Travels", published in a complete version in 1735. Indeed, this classic of English literature remains rich to explore, as can be that of Lemuel Gulliver during his many travels.
Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England - Genders and Feminine Monstrosity in Beowulf and Judith
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
Monstrosity has always been a recurrent topic in literature, especially during the Anglo-Saxon period, as people were fascinated by what was considered as abnormal, such as monsters, marvels and miracles. Definition of monstrosity is intricate and is profoundly associated with the viewer's...
Pride and Prejudice, Volume II, Chapter 3 - Jane Austen (1813)
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
This fragment is located in the third chapter of the second volume of the book. This chapter is showing that Elizabeth Bennet has been rejected by Mr Collins, cousin of the Bennet sisters and the heir to their properties. Its principal function is to show us that this rejection has touched her...
English Literature
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
Here is an essay evaluating three literary critics' view on Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 94.' The essay demonstrates how to build an argument and how to evaluate other pieces of literary criticism, whilst clearly articulating onself in order for the reader to understand the train of...
"Myth and Reality" in Antony and Cleopatra - publié le 17/01/2020
Essay - 7 pages - Literature
William Shakespeare, Londonien writer from end of XVIth century, beginning of XVIIth, is considered to be one of the most important playwright of all times. He is one of the most translated writer in the world, and has been studied for generations worldwide. His plays are played in many different...
The Circle - Dave Eggers (2013)
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
“My God. (…) It's heaven” are the first thoughts of Mae when she discovers the Circle (p. 1). This heaven will progressively become hell as we follow her into The Circle, a science-fiction novel written by Dave Eggers and published in 2013. Mae Holland joins the Circle, the most...
"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...
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...
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...
