Literature

For the following essay I have taken a close look at the assigned poem by Howard Nemerov and focused mainly on the identity of the speaker, his/hers relation to the…

A subjective sensation of one sense being stimulated by another, synaesthesia is a non-debilitating perceptual disorder, which means literally joined sensation. Derived from the Greek words “syn” meaning join and…

The novellas ‘The Doll Queen” by Carlos Fuentes and “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, both share themes exploring human behavior. They explore dark emotions and tragic stories. In “The Doll Queen”…

Physical and emotional abuse carried out by a spouse can warrant different responses, from either the husband or wife, and depending on the situation, the responses could transform into negative…

Jean Howard, a critic greatly acclaimed for her studies on the politics of gender and sexuality in Jacobean drama, once posed the intriguing question: ‘How many people cross-dressed in Renaissance…

In Frankenstein the reader is faced with confused happenings concerning the quest for identity. The novel relies heavily on more than one literary genre to create this. Events in a…

Throughout adolescence, a person develops in various areas such as socially, emotionally, sexually. In John McGahern’s The Dark, the journey through adolescence challenges the narrator in ways that test all…

Ancient, Classical Greek and Roman warfare should be studied as warfare has always been a common part of life as it has always has been. To understand modern warfare and…

David Sedaris is the author of bestsellers as well as collections of personal essays. His book entitled Naked quickly shot onto The New York Times best seller list . The…

He was born in 1885 and died in 1930. His name was David Herbert Lawrence. He was born in the 11th September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. His father was a…

“A Family Supper” depicts a Japanese protagonist who has lived in California, and “The Kite” a Puerto Rican protagonist who lives in the United States. They are both struggling with…

Gender and identity can be applied to many written texts, as a way of analysing or criticising it. Gender is often seen as images of women, images of men or…

The years preceding the American Civil War were rife with tensions between the South and the North. The abolitionist movement was gaining popularity, and slaveholders were being increasingly criticised. A…

The Archaic age of Greece, occurred approximately between the years 800 and 500 BC, saw many changes and developments in Greek society. Rising from the relatively low period of history…

The first article that I discovered by using the MLA Database was “Teaching Shakespeare in the Context of Renaissance Women’s Culture”, by Jane Donawerth. 1 Jane Donawerth is an Associate…

The authors wanted to examine, through causal and noncausal events, if perception of cause and effect develops over time or is part of our innate endownment. They set about doing…

This essay will consist of a comparative study of two books we have studied in class. The first novel is One day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch. A novel…

Nonsense writing for children advanced through the seventeenth century and became most evidentin the nineteenth century with the work of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. Before the early modern era…

1. A Fortunate Life composed by A.B Facey is a reflection of a lifetime that most would hope to forget. In complete contrast Piano a poem written by D.H. Lawrence…

‘The Cone’s’ beginning effect strikes me as being uncertain and inconsequential. The Cone’ which was written in the late 19th century, was set in an industrial part of Britain, whereas…