Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The Unattainable Chivalric Code Some Thoughts on Chivalry The chivalric code is a paradigm that is both poorly understood and was even more poorly applied, not because the code was not clearly written down and able Continue Reading...
Kafka's Metamorphosis Metamorphosis: Transformations The Metamorphosis as authored and offered by Franz Kafka in 1915 is often labeled as one of the more transforming, to use a pun, works in the history of literature of the last century or two, if Continue Reading...
Greek Mythology When the clay tablets that comprise the Akkadian / Old Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh were first pieced together and translated by scholars in the nineteenth century, some aspects of the ancient text seemed remarkably familiar. There w Continue Reading...
Chinua Achebe's fifth novel, Anthills of the Savannah, was first published in 1987, some fifteen years after his fourth novel, A Man of the People. In Anthills of the Savannah, Achebe states his abhorrence of any theory of radical transformation of s Continue Reading...
Thus Shelley's novel provides a third solution of sorts, an acknowledgement of the imperfect and estranged nature of humanity that is not comforting, but seems more realistic to modern readers, perhaps, as the monster seems like a modern anti-hero, Continue Reading...
Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Works Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the great nineteenth century masters of American fiction. "The Scarlet Letter" and "Young Goodman Brown" are two Hawthorne works that contain heavy symbolism of sin and immorali Continue Reading...
Value of Shakespeare The works of William Shakespeare are staples in our educational system at least from secondary through college levels. This has been true in some degree for more than 400 years, virtually since these works were first performed. Continue Reading...
William Wordsworth: A Wordsmith for All Time Harold Bloom in his book Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds says "Wordsworth remains, in the twenty-first century, what he has been these last two hundred years: the inventor of a po Continue Reading...
incongruous to try to compare the artists William Shakespeare and Bob Marley. These two men, separated by centuries and embodying two very different forms of art, both make up part of the history of popular culture. One man is considered the premier Continue Reading...
Jordan has not been honored by naming any street or postal holidays. She was respected and recognized by her own milestones; as she designed modern Harlem with R. Buckminster Fuller, had coffee with Malcolm X, received suggestive teachings from Toni Continue Reading...
John Updike & Nathaniel Hawthorne John Updike and Nathaniel Hawthorne are two of the most well-known writers to have contributed to the body of American Literature. Updike, the more recent writer of the two, has been considered one of America's Continue Reading...
Phillis Wheatley and the poem "Being Brought From Africa." PHILLIS WHEATLEY Phillis Wheatley came to America as a slave when she was a young girl; she was probably about eight-years-old when Mr. And Mrs. Wheatley purchased her. She lived in Boston Continue Reading...
Self-Made Man and the Recipient of Divine Grace: Benjamin Franklin vs. Jonathan Edwards Despite the fact that both Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards are honored as two of the greatest authors of colonial America, they could not be more differ Continue Reading...
Childhood Poets of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth century concerned themselves with childhood and its various experiences, but the particular historical and aesthetic contexts within which different poets wrote affected their perspe Continue Reading...
Apparently Plath wrote the poem during her stay in the hospital, which can be a depressing place notwithstanding all the nurses and orderlies dressed in white. The appendectomy followed a miscarriage that Plath had suffered through, so given those r Continue Reading...
" In the context of a war poetry, this metaphor emphasizes the greatest honor a citizen of a state can embrace is to die for his land. Obviously, Owen uses this phrase in an ironical manner, circularly ending his poem by noting: "The old lie; Dulce e Continue Reading...
He doesn't know how to enjoy the heron the way Sylvia does, and all he can think of to do with it is to kill it and stuff it -- to bend it to his will and make it something pretty for display, and a testament to his own prowess and skill. This is in Continue Reading...
Additionally, the holy ritual of anointing the selected things for God's intentions is discussed as well in Moby Dick -- where Queequeg come to a decision that the whaling ship must be anointed and as a result, he alone come to a decision to anoint Continue Reading...
Edna develops an independence to the point that this final tug of society makes the two completely incompatible; Robert is gone when she returns, and Edna drowns herself, ignoring Adele's dying admonition to "Think of the children!'" (289). One woma Continue Reading...
Marlowe's Faustus An Examination of Christopher's Doctor Faustus The Play in its Period The Play Personal Evaluation The Play in its Period Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus is a frightening Continue Reading...
Sylvia Plath: The Use of Dramatic Monologue as Confessional Poetry Sylvia Plath presents an unusual paradox as a writer. On one hand, she is lauded by literary critics, particularly feminist critics, for her use of confessional poetry. Specifically, Continue Reading...
Nature of Tragic Hero The nature of the Tragic Hero in Gilgamesh We can see all through the literature that the characters that have showed fortitude, audacity and strength have always been idolized. Epic of Gilgamesh is an ancient story that had i Continue Reading...
Handbook for Doctor of Ministry Projects Vyhmeister, Nancy Jean. Quality Research Papers. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2008 The book Quality research papers by Nancy Jean Vyhmeister is a book about quality research papers; the second edition o Continue Reading...
American Psycho In his seminal work American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis uses the character of the yuppie serial killer Patrick Bateman in order to criticize American consumer culture while simultaneously challenging the reader to confront his or her Continue Reading...
Odyssey and O' Brother In the course of human history, one of the interesting things about past literature is the way the heroic appears again and again. In fact, this appearance becomes an archetype in that we see very similar themes in literature, Continue Reading...
The only real politics that the book deals with is the one promoted by Defoe, as he is obviously focused on supporting the image of England as one of the most important colonial forces. Works cited: Clowes, Edith W. "The Robinson Myth Reread in Po Continue Reading...
Canadian Writers External Reflection of the Internal: The Usage of the Canadian Landscape in as for Me and My House and Who has seen the Wind A number of similarities exist between the novels of William Ormond Mitchell and Sinclair Ross, who wrote Continue Reading...
The character Strega Nona was included in an number of dePaola's other books as well. Although he has been well-published and received honorary degrees and other honors he has never been able to reach the upper echelons of the literary community. T Continue Reading...
Twice she disappeared in the fogged billows, then gradually reemerged like a dream rising up from the bottom of the night" (Kidd, p. 67). Bees creating "wreaths around her head" is adding another image to the element of honey and bees. In the ancien Continue Reading...
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an Eighteenth Century American author who through his works explored the subject of human sin, punishment and guilt. In fact, themes of pride, guilt, sin, punishment and evil is evident in all of his works, and the wrongs comm Continue Reading...
Popular entertainment is overly influenced by commercial interest. Superficiality, obscenity, and violence characterize films and television today because those qualities are commercially successful. Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree Continue Reading...
Teaching, I believe, is a vocation that should be pursued by those who can help students to not just master required subject matter but develop skills for critical thinking, so that, they in turn, will be able to contribute to and further build on th Continue Reading...
Symbolism in Poetry Ruba Symbols are referents which many people use in order to: (1) describe abstract feelings and concepts into concrete ones, (2) reveal ideas or truths through the use of symbols, (3) used to evoke feelings or ideas through the Continue Reading...
Hannah Foster's "The Coquette" Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette is scarcely remembered today, a point that she herself would probably have expected. Few women writing at the end of the 18th century could have expected that their works would prov Continue Reading...
Frankenstein Critical AnalysisProfessor Naomi Hetherington critiqued the novel Frankenstein 1818 version. The professor herself is a University tutor in English and Humanities at the University of Sheffield (Dr. Naomi Hetherington). She also co-leads Continue Reading...
Whitman Lens Walt Whitman -- From a Different Perspective Walt Whitman was inspired by the Transcendentalist Movement which was something of an offshoot of the Romantic Movement. As such, Whitman was something of a positive character who embraced d Continue Reading...
"O ancient holy ones, why do you marvel at us? The Word of God grows bright in the form of a man, and thus we shine with him, building the limbs of his beautiful body" (Hildegard). The poetic allusions in this passage are not difficult to identify. Continue Reading...
J.D. Salinger: How the Characters in His Books Interact With Society of the Time in Which They Were Written The objective of this study is to examine the writings of J.D. Salinger. In addition, this study will examine how the characters of Salinger Continue Reading...
Dickenson Whereas many of the other posts about Emily Dickenson focused on the poet's obsession with death, you chose to focus on her equally powerful interest in the theme of love. I appreciated this change of pace, and being able to explore Dicken Continue Reading...
Piggy even blamed Simon. Piggy said, "It was an accident…that what it was, an accident. Coming in the dark -- he hadn't no business crawling like that out of the dark. He was batty. He asked for it… We was on the outside. We never done n Continue Reading...
