Once upon a time in a faraway village in the African hinterland, there lived two children a boy named Jose and a girl named Mary. They grew together and continued to love each other as their parents promised them that they would get married when ...

Introduction Emily Dickinson is among the most recognized and greatest poets in America. For the past fifty years or more, a number of study resources such as books and essays have explained her life and poetry. For instance, some critics have made ...

John Hoyer Updike an American poet, short story writer and a novelist, is said to be one of the most respected, popular and prominent American author of his times. The reason for all that credit is because of his keenness in observing social ...

The Lysistrata play which was written by Aristophanes is a comical account of a mission which a woman embarked on in order to bring to an end the Peloponnesian war. Lysistrata is able to convince all women to deny their husbands the sexual ...

According to the novel 'mocking bird' written by Harper Lee, he uses ethos, logos and pathos to describe his speech in persuading jurors that 'Tom Robinson is innocent from raping Mayella by using his identity as a believer of a god'. In his ...

After the First World War, America got on the fast lane. The 1920's were a golden era for America as industries flourished. The economy was in a boom and more and more money was flowing down to the people. Alcohol that had been prohibited under the ...

Major characters in "Bartley, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" are the narrator and Bartleby. The narrator (lawyer) is a major character because he plays a big role in the whole story as it all revolves around his minds working and constantly ...

The setting is in Michigan in the northern forests about a year or two after the World War I ended. The main and only character is Nick Adams, who we are already familiar with from the previous tales in the Nick Adams series. He has just recently ...

Introduction Born to poor parents, Joseph Paine and Frances Cocke Paine, in 1737, Thomas Paine is today regarded as one of the intellectual revolutionaries and one of the founding fathers of America. He was an author, pamphleteer and a radical ...

The story is set in the North Dakota when the Indian tribe has a struggle to keep the little land that they have since they have lost a lot. The Indian people keep losing their land and they now get to the brink of their patience. The Indian people ...

In many works of art such as Shakespearian and Greek tragedies, character has been many a time been blamed for the destiny that is ultimate for a character. These characters usually have a fatal flaw or a great heart that inevitably lead them to ...

Central to any story is the use of characters which enables its author to interact with the audience. The first involvement between the audiences with a named story often develops when they read of different characters that are able to take ...

Medea is mostly noted to be a very interesting and captivating woman character in history. This is because she was able to hold diverse characters traits that made the viewers and readers of the story have divided / changing opinions about her role ...

Maurice Sendak is an artistic genius in children literature illustrations and imagery. One of his great works is where wild things are, this book is a work highly criticized both in the positive and in the negative perspectives.  It is a world ...

The Journey to the west by Wu Cheng'en can be considered as literary myth and legend that explores the Eastern part of Asia wit much attention paid to China and then expanding to the entire world. The story explores the life of Xuan Zang's, also ...

Introduction The Roman culture embraced comedy and plays as they were part of the entertainment that most of the citizens looked forward to. Plautus was a well known Roman comedy writer as his talent in the area was evident through the plays that he ...

Connection between environment and death There is aspect of death in The Stranger and The Metamorphosis by Albert Camus and Franz Kafka respectively. Both authors show us that death will always relate o the environment in which they occur. There are ...

What are the heroic qualities which make difference from other characters in a society? A dissonant cord is strike by the Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. The sound of this heroic figure must be recognized very earlier. It is an important ...

The title of the poem 'Back When All Was Continuous Chuckles' creates a flashback scenario in the poem. This immediately makes the reader to have a reflective mindset of an event taking place in some medieval era or past time.  This element is ...

Nick serves the purpose of literary device that has been employed to tell the themes of the story. In the novel, Nick Carraway tells us a story about Gatsby in which the latter tries to use wealth to attain happiness (Curnutt, 2004). Unlike all ...

The two stories, Girl by Jamaican Kincaid and A rose for Family by William Faulkner depicts mixed emotional reaction to the reader. Girl shows responsive, caring and concerned motherhood of the persona, creating satisfactory feelings to the reader. ...

In the ancient Greek, gods were seen as divine beings, for instance the Trojan War was viewed by many Greeks not just as a dispute among men but as a desire of the gods. In fact after reading the Iliad, one is made to believe that had the gods not ...

A university scholar whose studies are interrupted by his father's demise, Hamlet is exceptionally thoughtful and reflective. He is predominantly drawn to complicated issues or questions that cannot be answered with any conviction. He is ...

Introduction Hamlet added around six to sixteen lines in the play "player king" which were previously lacking in the play Hamlet. Immediately the players arrived at Elsinore, Hamlet said he wanted to add a dozen or sixteen lines to a play "the ...

Earnest Hemingway's heroes are achieved through the triumph over major challenges in placed before a character. His conception of a hero is not defined so differently from that of Joseph Campbell's in the Hero with a Thousand Faces. Characters are ...

The Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar reflects the power struggles in the times of civil strife. The subject matter of the play is about the concerns of the people and their ancient history. Shakespeare took an upheaval and examined the role of a ...

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a story about a young man named Gregor Samsa who is transformed from a human being into a gigantic insect. He works so hard as a travelling salesman so as to provide for his parents, but finds himself in a strange ...

Life is not a smooth path, we learn from our mistakes and experiences. The difference between those who prosper in life and those who are failures is the desire to keep on living. It is based on this realization that the poem entitled 'poem at ...

Literary conflicts are built upon the plot of the work of an author. They are brought out clearly through the characters that are used by the author. These conflicts could either be person versus person, person versus society, person versus nature ...

Metamorphosis is a biological process that involves a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism. Metamorphosis aims to create a stability which frees a person from past negative experiences that may be ...

1. Theme "Hills Like White Elephants" by Hemingway The term theme in a piece of art infers to the main or controlling idea that can easily be identified, message or moral that it is intended to be passed to the audience, introduced, explored or ...

This is a story of the homecoming of Odysseus who is one of the reputed Greek heroes of the time. His homecoming had been subjected to some delays due to the displeasure of the gods. Finally after ten years he was left to go after choosing to go ...

In the urge to give the 'best' to their children, parents sometimes go wrong in the things that they do. In the short story 'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan, the narrator's mother had the perception that her daughter could become anything that she set her ...

Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" presents guilt versus innocence as the major theme running in the story. After witnessing members of his town and his own wife take part in a Black Mass, the Puritan man gives up with human kind and subjects himself ...

Oedipus Rex and Hamlet are stories that describe the tragic lives of the protagonists as they fight with both people and spirits in determining their fates. Oedipus Rex describes the story of Oedipus the king from the time he is asked by the people ...

"Sophocles (495 BC-405 BC) was a famous and successful Athenian writer of tragedies in his own lifetime. Of his 120 plays, only 7 have survived. Oedipus the King, also called Oedipus Tyrannos or Oedipus Rex, written around 420 ...

Sal, the main character in the novel arrives at his old friend Remi Boncoeur's place in Mill City and moves in with his friend Remi and his girlfriend Lee Ann. Remi is delighted to see Sal and has a lot of things for him. Sal starts to work where ...

'Othello' is one of William Shakespeare's major works that revolves around tragedy and love. Various themes are brought out in this play. They are analyzed differently by various scholars in the literary world. The major theme is love. In this ...

First, conflict is a major theme in the play Othello by Shakespeare. The theme of conflict is seen due to the fact that some characters are hypocrites. For instance, Iago is a character who others describe as honest but his actions bring conflict in ...

The "PARADISE LOST" by John Milton is an epic poem that tells the biblical story of the fall from grace of Adam and Eve (and, by extension, all humanity) with the main characters being God, Lucifer (Satan), Adam, and Eve. The story is an explanation ...

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and unique qualities in addition to its apparent meaning. It may be written independently or may be presented in conjunction with others. It usually uses specific terms to ...

The poem Porphria's Lover revolves around two lovers and the events that are unfolding in their affair. From the onset of the poem, it's very evident that the speaker is obsessed with Porphiria. He shows the effect love has on people and how love ...

Realism represents a period in American literature which spanned from1865 to 1900. This period was characteristic by great turmoil in the American history. The civil war had just ended and the aftermath which was inevitable and very devastating. The ...

Realism in art and literature is an attempt to describe human behavior and environment or to depict figures and objects realistically as they appear in life. Trials at realism have been attempted now and then throughout history in all the arts. The ...

Introduction The relation between social environment and individual psychology is a kind of response that Malinowski represented in his introductory chapter of Argonauts  when he stated that "what concerns man most intimately holds life has on ...

A twelve year old boy named Langston had been exposed to an environment sated with pious individuals. They have subliminally attempted to instigate a paradigm shift of his perception of religion by coercing him to dogmatically subscribe to the ...

Introduction Satire is a literary genre that society's vices, abuses, follies and shortcomings are ridiculed with the basic intention of shaming the individuals as well as the society itself to foster their improvement. Use of satire is often ...

The two novels provide the portrayal of the couple's failing marriage. In tender is night Scott, starts by introducing a two youngster who encroaches into the marriage of a couple the Divers, Rosemary Hoyt, is a very beautiful 18-year-old ...

Bormann, J. et al. (2006). "Relationship of frequent mantram repetition to emotional and spiritual well-being in healthcare workers". The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 37(5): 218-224. In this article, it is clearly brought out that ...

The Things They Carried is a novel written by Tim O'Brien in the late 1980's in Massachusetts. It is a collection of interrelated short stories, mainly about the Vietnam War. The story took place in Vietnam in the late 1960's and in Massachusetts in ...

Introduction Through his writings, Shakespeare expressed his views and ideologies regarding wars and human responsibilities for going to war and conducting wars. This comes out in his works, which include Henry V, Richard II and Troilus and ...

1. Horatio is character in the play Hamlet and also the closet friend to prince Hamlet. He is a rational man who offers advice to the prince on how to revenge his father's murder. Horatio is a true friend to Prince Hamlet who supports him through ...

Robert Louis Stevenson is a renowned author. Born in the year 1850 on November 13th, he was raised up in Edinburgh. When he was a little boy, Stevenson's life was full of fear and often, he would experience nightmares.  During the night, he ...

1. Who wrote this story? Sarah Orne Jewet 2. When? 1886 3. Where is the story set? In New England countryside 4. In what city, state, or nation? New England 5. In what environment? In a poor countryside environment. 6. Describe the settings of ...

William Carlos Williams was less popular compared to his colleagues Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot in the globe of poetry. However, he was influential in poetry and also in the lives of his patients .He had minute contribution in poetry compared to his ...

Pan is the Greek nature god who is believed to be the only Greek god who has died according to Plutarch. He is the protector of shepherds and animals such as sheep, and goats. The name Pan originates from the Greek word, paein, which stands for "to ...

The development of Shakespeare as a dramatist is associated with various things. One of these things is the public of his time and his inheritance of a dramatic technique. According to George B. (1907), Shakespeare inherited his dramatic techniques ...

Romance is described as a pleasurable feeling of excitement and the mystery that is often associated with love and it is used to imply an expression love or ones deep emotional desires in connecting with another person. Gatsby is considered ...

Throughout ages, religion has been an important role in literature works. Brown (1976) describes Oedipus a mythical Greek king of ancient time and puts to light how the matter in question influenced literature. In his plot he gives an allusion of ...

Thea Kronborg, a daughter to the Methodist minister of Moonstone, Mr. Peter Kronborg, is the heroine of this novel. She is a Swedish girl. We are introduced to her at the onset of the novel when she is only eleven-years old.  This was at a time ...

Literature is any written or spoken creative material, always read aesthetically, and which meets certain features and stated criteria to distinguish it from other forms of writing. The criteria and features include use of metaphors, similes, ...

The winter's Tale is classified as one of William Shakespeare's comedies given that it has a happy ending despite the sad plot. However some harsh critics have labeled it as one of his failed plays. This is rendered by the fact that in the play ...

1. Who is Chinua Achebe? Chinua Achebe is one Africa's most prolific writers. He is largely and widely considered as one of the early pioneers of African literature. Achebe has had an illustrious writing career in writing. His novels are mostly ...

John Upidike as a writer underwent several transformations that defined his works as a renowned writer. He mainly sough t to give the world his idea of the world as he saw it and that was a basic theses in most of its work. Although his earlier ...

Wilde's weird theory of art .Oscar Wilde was born at Westland Row in Dublin in 16th October 1854 as a second child of Sir William Wilde and Jane Francesca Wilde. Wilde lived during the Victorian era as writer and poet and who was able to achieve his ...

Baptized on the 26th April 1564, William Shakespeare died on the 23rd April 1616. He was an English playwright and poet, he is extensively observed as the supreme writer in English and the world's eminent dramatist. In England, he is considered the ...