Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato is one of the most highly acclaimed books of the 20th century by Spanish author Ernesto Sabato. The novel is grounded in existentialism and the story revolves around Juan Pablo Castel, the protagonist who in a very dark mome Continue Reading...
Edward Taylor Education Private Life Profession Purpose of Works Intended audience Central goal of writings Writing Style Early works Comparison between writings in England and America Comparison to other authors Personal Style Use of Ima Continue Reading...
Anatomy of an Aesthete The Picture of Dorian Gray and the Rise of Aestheticism Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray is the manifesto of Late Victorian Aestheticism. The Late Victorian Era was characterized by numerous artistic and literary mov Continue Reading...
Rape of the Lock ay, why are Beauties prais'd and honour'd most, / The wise Man's Passion, and the vain Man's Toast?" Clarissa's speech in Canto Five of Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" touches on one of the main themes of the poem: vanity. F Continue Reading...
Shaw's primary purposes in writing Pygmalion, the story of a phonetics professor who, on a bet, transforms a guttersnipe of a flower girl into a lady, was to educate. The title of the play comes from the Greek myth of Pygmalion, a sculptor who creat Continue Reading...
Homosexuality: An Analysis of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room Introduction to James Baldwin Ask any "PK"; they'll tell you that, on top of the four odds that were stacked against him as a child, James Baldwin had one additional card piled up agains Continue Reading...
Emile Zola and the Movies The translation of any work of literature into another medium, even one apparently so closely aligned with the written word as film, is always a chancy proposition. While literature and film focus themselves on the same tar Continue Reading...
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but returned home after one year. She continued to live in her family home with her younger sister, mother and father. Her brothe Continue Reading...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on Non-Violence and Natural Law Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is internationally recognized for his iconic leadership of the Civil Rights Movement, which resulted in a furthering of social justice and fairness for people of Continue Reading...
Underground The books that emerged during the first half of the 19th century and some a little later as well belonged to the romantic age of literature that demonstrated a deep fascination for the dark side of human nature. Starting with such books Continue Reading...
There is more going on between Marlow and Kurtz because of Marlow's desire to know Kurtz. There is a curiosity there that allows Marlow to be open to Kurtz on some level. He is fascinated by his success and searches him out. He may begin his journey Continue Reading...
The earth lay white under the night sky."(Kawabata, 1) This opening phrase of the novel is very revealing: the hero comes from the intimacy of darkness (the tunnel) into the open blankness of the Snow Country. The setting thus translates the sense o Continue Reading...
The Holy Sonnet 'Death be not Proud' (Complete Poetry 283-4) seems to show Donne's mind grappling anew with the reality of death in the wake of his wife's demise. The form of the poem gives an impression of thinking aloud, as if the reader overhear Continue Reading...
... Poor Catholic poor-white crazy woman, said the black folks' mouths" (8). But throughout the novel, it is factual treatment of race that dominates any emotional construction of race. The central problem of identity in Cane is grounded in lack of Continue Reading...
Leo Tolstoy's Inclusion In The Literary Canon In Tolstoy's prolific literary career, it appears that one central concern drove everything he did both in his life and his writing. This concern was the meaning of life. The drive behind the actions of Continue Reading...
Cultural Reflection of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre In Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, we are introduced to a timid, insecure orphan child who is set extraordinary odds to find happiness and eventually love in 19th Century England. Jane Eyre is Continue Reading...
Comparing and Contrasting The Birthmark and Hills Like White ElephantsHawthornes The Birthmark and Hemingways Hills Like White Elephants are two stories with a similar theme and dissimilar treatment of that theme. Each represents a relationship betwe Continue Reading...
Human Chair This short story has many provocative and erotic themes -- but is it really a story about sexual decadence or is it more about alienation? Indeed it is almost as though he is getting sexual pleasure by hiding in that chair. But the rea Continue Reading...
Evening," Mohan Singh celebrates the mystery of erotic love. Mohan Singh communicates the themes of life and love using symbolism, diction, and imagery. There are two "characters" in Singh's "Evening," that of Evening, and that of the horse. The Eve Continue Reading...
Mimesis" means "to imitate." Forms of imitation are diverse and include imitation, the presentation of the self, representation, resemblance, and mimicry. Mimesis, in psychology, illustrates a stage in human development that infers a child's ability Continue Reading...
1. First stanza: "Little Lamb, who made thee? / Dost thou know who made thee?" IV. Body paragraph III: Contrast with Tyger A. Ironically, the lion is "commonly known as the protector of the Lamb," (Damon & Eaves 242). B. The lion is "often a Continue Reading...
It is the character's inner nature that eventually triumphs in its fight with the environment. Goethe's main character is apparently obsessed with the fact that he is human, especially given that his point-of-view regarding the topic is that people Continue Reading...
..it is sadomasochism made acceptable to a mass readership by the elimination of any ostensible sexual element. Imbedded in the tale is the psychological journey of an egocentric who derives pleasure from cruelty."(Pritchard, 148) While this explanat Continue Reading...
Their dreams are more depressing than they are inspiring. When, for example, Mrs. Gibbs expresses her desire to see Paris, the audience knows she will not ever get to achieve her dream because of her husband's stubborn closed-mindedness. Emily's fru Continue Reading...
Clearly, color, specifically the color red, plays a significant symbolic role in developing these aforementioned central themes. At the most basic level, in a book that is primarily about slavery, color is a powerful theme as the colors of black an Continue Reading...
Fitzgerald focuses much like a scriptwriter on her body parts to set the sensual stage. Her throat is "full if aching, grieving beauty told only of her unexpected joy" (Fitzgerald 90). There is such passion evoked through these words that it is diff Continue Reading...
Jones The Hidden Self: The poetry of Matthew Arnold and Walt Whitman Helen Vendler wrote that a work of poetry "offers a personal sense of the world" (Vendler, 287). Of all the themes of poetry, the personal quest for a sense of "true self," and a Continue Reading...
Symbolism of the 'Self' in Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" In the domain of modern literature, particularly in 20th century literature, Franz Kafka ranks as one of the most revolutionary writer, who used the techniques of expressionism and symboli Continue Reading...
Dying is a unique novel in that there is no discernable protagonist. In lieu of the protagonist is a corpse, Addie, who is dead for most of the book. The novel is written in the first person, from the perspective of Addie and her family, although th Continue Reading...
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott's defining work, which brought her much fame in her time, is a biographical account of her family. In the book, her father Amos Bronson is Mr. March and her mother Abigail May is Marmee, while her older sister Anna is Continue Reading...
Charles in Madame Bovary Charles in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary represents a provincial archetype -- in fact, the exact sort of common countryside provincialism that his wife Emma comes to resent, find banal, and from which seek to escape. Yet, Continue Reading...
The Raven Poe's famous poem, "The Raven," to most readers is a straightforward yet haunting, chilling tale of the loss of someone loved, and the troubling emotions and inner sensations that go along with a loss, no matter how the loss occurred. In Continue Reading...
" A woman, although not receiving an inheritance, knew that she would at least be under the roof of her husband. Johnson, in her book, Jane Austen: Women, Politics and the Novel, characterizes Austen as a novelist who "defended and enlarged a progre Continue Reading...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley conceived her well-known novel, "Frankenstein," when she, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and their friends were at a house party near Geneva in 1816 and she was challenged to come up w Continue Reading...
This is an interesting point-of-view about Aylmer and it works with his character. Others identify Georgiana's birthmark as something that is essentially hers and therefore, should remain with her. Shakinovsky goes even further to say that it is a " Continue Reading...
Flannery OConnor: Annotated BibliographyCiuba, Gary M.Desire, Violence & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine AnnePorter, Flannery O\\\'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy. LSU Press, 2007.This book is helpful in understanding the role th Continue Reading...
The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Iliad, and the Bhagavad Gita are three of the most enduring ancient texts in the canon of global literature. All are heroic tales focusing on a strong male warrior protagonist, who endures a series of tests in order to achi Continue Reading...
Families are united and in many cases, all family members live under the same roof which also applies to the case of the Buendias. The men in the novel, from Jose Arcadio who founds, together with his wife, the town of Macondo, to Aureliano Babilon Continue Reading...
One Hundred DemonsThis book, whose author is Lynda Barry, reveals how she can confront demons of various kinds in her life in seventeen vignettes that are full of color. According to her, the meaning of demons is the lie moments that haunt someone, f Continue Reading...
