Category: Book Review
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The Trapped Sexuality in Fear of Flying
Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying is about 29-year-old poet Isadora Wing, who is bored in a bourgeois marriage. She dreams of a sexual encounter with a stranger, and when she travels with her husband to Vienna and meets the attractive Adrian Goodlove, she indulges in this fantasy. At the time of the book’s release in…
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Flannery O’connor’s Intellectuals: What is Tunnel Vision
Some critics would argue that a fiction writer’s Christianity, or understanding of ultimate reality in terms of the Fall of humankind and redemption through Jesus Christ, automatically disconnects that writer from “reality” as the modern world defines and experiences it, thereby confining that writer’s work within a closed system of possibilities and purpose. Yet Catholic…
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An Ethnographic Study of The Impoverished Chicago Neighborhood in No Way Out, a Book by Waverly Duck
No Way Out by Waverly Duck incorporated insight from numerous renowned sociologists, including Durkheim, Garfinkel, Goffman, and Rawls, which increased the credibility of Duck’s claims. As the author, Duck acquired information for his book by spending prolonged periods of time observing the subjects for his book and getting to know them on a personal basis.…
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Franticness and Detainment in Ntozake Shange’s for Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide…
Dark Phrases of Womanhood: Madness and Imprisonment in Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf The first reading of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” was in 1955. It incited a national controversy regarding the antiestablishment movement and counter-culture. Its run-on sentence is equal parts avant-garde and angry, striking out at…
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The Price of Life as Depicted in The Bet by Chekhov
Would you accept the offer of two million dollars in exchange for fifteen years of your life? Despite what you may think, some people would accept the offer without thinking twice. The short story “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov perfectly demonstrates that wealth delivers a happiness that only lasts for a fraction of time, while…
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Persuasiveness of The Narrator in “Few Men Would Believe This Creature”
The Book of Margery Kempe is widely considered to be the first autobiography in the English language. Unlike previous texts, in which a presumably truthful narrator voiced the story of the characters, Kempe is the author of her own story. As readers from an age in which autobiography and fiction are long-established literary forms, we…
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The City of Ladies: Analysis of The Logic of The Created World
Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies is a book of philosophical and logical refutations and arguments. It is a direct response to several writings in which the male authors make claims against women’s purity. These books, according to de Pizan, slander Woman, and she has been ordained by God, with the…
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The Theme of Darkness in The Heart of Darkness
“Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad is a very contemplative, symbolic piece of literature. Superficially, the story is about the journey of a man named Marlow, working for an ivory company and in search of adventure, deep into Sub-Saharan Africa. On a deeper level, however, the story is about the titular “darkness”. It is an…
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The Death Context: a Critical Look into The Characters in The Duchess of Malfi
In ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ the characterisation of the protagonists allows the concept of death to be explored deeply. Webster’s portrayal of the Duchess marks her embracement of death as she appears to be prepared for her fate, whereas the Cardinal is shown to be terrified when truly exposed to the idea of mortality. This…
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The Relation of Brave New World to Our Society Today
Brave New World, written by , is a dystopian novel which goes to a large extent to tell modern society how the novel could develop in our world today. A is a novel in which individuals of a society believe they are living a perfect life, but in reality, their lives are anything but perfect.…