Category: Literature Review
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The Themes of Truth and Illusion in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
As an Absurdist, Albee believed that a life of illusion was wrong as in consideration it created a false content for life, it is therefore not surprising that the theme of ‘truth and illusion’ throughout Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf plays a significant role. Using critical language through stage directions and direct speech, Albee creates…
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Thoughts Beyond Distractions of Material World
‘Some religious texts seem to find it relatively easy to disengage from the material world. Many more, however, derive their dynamism from the difficulty of doing so.’ ‘Behold not the earth, but lift your eye up’, [30] Mercy sermonizes in the opening of Mankind, one play amongst a corpus of Medieval morality plays dealing with…
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A Comparative Study of War by Timothy Findlay and White Angel by Michael Cunningham
The Realisms of a Youth’s Reality: Comparative Essay on “War” and “White Angel” The world is daunting in the face of a young boy, all he knows is what is put in front of him until inevitably he is forced to grow up. Life acts as a mould for a youthful male, it holds them…
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Shifting The Binaries in “A Joke” by Anton Chekhov
The Anton Chekhov short story titled “A Joke” is an interesting read for the inquisitive readers. Very carefully written, the story allows the readers a chance to dive deeper into the unconscious of the characters and dig out layers of meaning behind the apparently normal words spoken and ordinary actions done by the pair of…
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Poems ‘Three Trees’ and ‘Not an Elegy for Mike Brown’: Analysis
Do Black Lives Matter? The Faith and Disgust in Society Discrimination is a social issue that has burdened numerous cultural groups in North America for many years. “not an elegy for Mike Brown” by Danez Smith and “Three Trees” by Wanda Coleman are two poems that bring up social identity and what it’s like to…
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Rhetorical Analysis of “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”
In the modern world, parenting is a popular debatable topic in the U.S. Every person has a different opinion on how children should be raised and disciplined. Different families, household, culture demand different skills and standards. Chinese parents believe that the way they raise their children is the way they will grow, especially, the person…
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Analysis of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Poems
Gerard Manley Hopkins is a rewarding and demanding poet, one of the three or four greatest poets of the Victorian era. His style was so radically different from that of his contemporaries. Without having a detailed knowledge of his life, beliefs and any other background we can read his poem with much pleasure. Through his…
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The Pursuit of Literacy by Malcolm X in Prison Studies and David Sedaris in Me Talk Pretty One Day
The narratives presented by both writers in “Prison Studies” and “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” both describe each author’s pursuit of literacy given different circumstances. In Sedaris’s account, he is illiterate in the French language, where Malcolm X struggles to learn English. Both are learning in a foreign environment, but places like France and prison…
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Main Character’s Battle Between Apollonian and Dionysian Duality in Miss Julie
In The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzche discusses at length the duality inherent in the development of art. This duality is caused by two opposing principles termed Apollinian and Dionysian. These two principles are employed in August Strindberg’s through the main character of Miss Julie. Societal class is a major theme of the play and its…
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The Writer’s Duty in Me Talk Pretty One Day, a Book by David Sedaris
The writer’ s duty is the author’s responsibility to connect and convey their message, through the expression of human nature, to the audience in their craft. William Faulkner, 1949 Nobel Prize winner, exhibits the significance of the responsibility within his acceptance speech. Essay composers including Sedaris, in “Me Talk Pretty One Day”, embodies the writer’s…