Dracula makes an effort to portray what the role of sexuality and gender had in the Victorian Era. It does a good job of making the novel more realistic and adding a different aspect to it. Women were very naive and were not allowed to show affection towards men or do anything that would show […]
Introduction Pasty white skin, sharp fangs, and grows young by drinking others’ blood. That’s right, vampires. One of the most well-known vampire books is Dracula by Bram Stoker. It tells the story of a group of people that are plagued by the vampire Dracula, and their story to hunt him down and kill him once […]
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The Great Depression was a period of low business activity and overall economic crisis that plagued America for roughly ten years, beginning in 1929 and finally coming to an end in 1939. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is a fictional novel detailing the lives of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven […]
American novelist, John Steinbeck, is author to one of the most influential novels of his time period. That being, The Grapes of Wrath, which was published in 1939 depicted the trauma which Americans induced during the Great Depression. Many families were scarred from the memories of this time period, which forced them to leave what […]
It is the 1930s. Many farmers are beginning to lose their crops. They worry about how they are going to feed their families. The farmers go out and work all day just to watch their crops die. Many are starting to lose their farmers and livelihood from this drought that is beginning to plague Oklahoma. […]
Brave New World and 1984 are similar in illustrating a dystopic version of society, where the state strips individuals of their deepest humanities. The two governments illustrated, however, choose very different ways in which they control the individuals to achieve their societal goals. Brave New World succeeds in this, by the government making life satisfying […]
While Huxley still lived in London in 1932 there was a lot of events happening at the moment. One which we cannot take our eyes off is the Great depression, it not only affected the United States of America, but it also influences many other countries and their behavior. Then there what was known as […]
Jane Eyre From her trials during childhood with her abusive Aunt and relatives, to her time at Lowood, her affection for Mr. Rochester, and her teaching and encounters with the Rivers. Jane learns many valuable and worthwhile lessons throughout the book. From childhood Jane was forthright, and slowly she learned how to stand up for […]
In spite of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn being the source of so much controversy, one can assume that no other piece of American literature has been discussed as heavily as this piece. Mark Twain’s novel has been regarded by many as the greatest literary achievement America has yet produced(Novels for Students), written in 1885 […]
Dear John Wallace, I object to your statement that Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the most grotesque example of racist trash ever given our children to read, [and] it should be removed from our elementary and secondary school classrooms. I vehemently disagree with your statement. Your argument is based upon the book […]
Although Mark Twain wrote the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn after the abolition of slavery in the United States, the story itself takes place before the Civil War, also known as the antebellum, when slavery was still legal and the economic foundation of the American South. This slavery and racism poses a frequent thematic […]
Is it wrong that Mark Twain used the word Nigger? Many black African Americans very upset from the author using Nigger in the story because they think that its racist and disrespectful towards the way they used the N word. Nobody should ever call any black person out by the color of their skin. Yes, […]
In this paper I will discuss the impact mental health and treatment of prisoners has had on mass incarceration in the United States and how it has been dealt with in Norway. Mass incarceration, in short, is the process of imprisoning a large part of the population in jails and federal and state prisons. The […]
In the book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the character that stood out the most was Harry Potter. However, Neville felt like a good choice because he isn’t talked about a lot in the book; yet is still important. Throughout chapters 7-9, you could tell that Neville has a fixed mindset; he shows it […]
Looking back at womens role in society, women in the late 1800s and early 1900s were usually portrayed as inferior and submissive to their husbands. These women were looked at to be objects rather than human beings. A woman was expected to cater to all their husband’s needs, such as cleaning and staying home all […]
Beowulf; A legend or not? The making of Beowulf was framed on the base of the Germanic Heroic Code. Under this code, a legend exhibits characteristics of quality, valor, a great notoriety, and reliability. While some may contend that Beowulf’s egotism cleanses him of his chivalrous title; his self-importance is one characteristic which makes him […]
It is incredible how a single quote can encapsulate the main idea of an entire novel. Chinua Achebe, the author, puts the reader in Okonkwo and Obierikas shoes when their culture disintegrated before their eyes, and they let it happen. The novel takes place in the village of Umuofia in Africa. There, culture is based […]
As a young boy, I couldnt wait to explore the aisles at Toys R Us. I would wait patiently at home for my parents, daydreaming about the latest releases. In the aisle designated for boys, all the toys were action-oriented: Superman flaunted his strength, Hulk flexed his abnormally enormous biceps, and Nerf guns were filled […]
Women have been deemed inferior to the male sex since the start of civilization and to this day, women around the world are still held captive by the prison that society forces them into. Although society in first world countries has evolved since the time that Jane Eyre was written, it was a very different […]
Reverse Slavery is defined as the day when white people become slaves, or as some say the day justice is served. Many years ago slavery was still a way of life practiced in our great nation, the United States of America. Slavery was a legal institute for human enslavement, which mainly consisted of Africans and […]
There are many differences when most literary works become movies. Usually because the director wants to cut parts out because he does not feel they are important enough to make the final cut. That is usually true for all works that are made into movies. The book will go more into depth about people, things, […]
It is no secret that women have always been looked down upon in society throughout the years, it has been going on for many decades now and is not a shock to anyone. There are even stories written in old literature portraying just how strong the use of feminism and gender roles are, two very […]
Gothic can be characterized as “writing managing the abnormal, puzzling, and extraordinary intended to conjure tension and fear in the peruser.” Gothic writing for the most part exhibits similar topics and themes: love, lust. Gothic writing investigates forbidden subjects; for example, murder, suicide and inbreeding. “A Rose for Emily”, by William Faulkner, illustrates the Southern […]
Southern Gothic. A genre within Gothic literature with many presences of irrational, horrific, and transgressive thoughts. In the short story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is a strong example of what Southern Gothic literature is. In A Rose for Emily, the story is about the life of Emily Grierson, telling about the death […]
The tradition of the old south is very prevalent in the story of A Rose for Emily. It is the tradition of the people of the town that forces them to hold Emily in a very high regard because her father was a civil war hero. The town may not want to hold her above […]
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner a short story about the life of South America at the beginning of the 20th century, which illustrates an attitude to women during the period described. The author gives interesting outlook of the social structure of the society of the time described. In this short story Faulkner manages […]
In the reading A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, expresses a story of a lonely woman who has suffered from being stuck in her older ways of life. Over thirty years before the depiction of Emily’s story, her very strict father passes away, and she was left by herself with no real guidance. In […]
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is one of the most popular short stories written by Faulkner. By Faulkner writing about the political and social ways of the South, Faulkner was creating an illusion of the New south, as being what we know today as America. To give background to A Rose for Emily, […]
In William Faulkner’s short story, A Rose for Emily, the reader acknowledges the rude reality of Emily Grierson’s inability to be receptive of a new, dynamic and ever-changing world. Emily is not only lonely but also a mysterious lady, who lives in a large, post-civil war era home with her father. William Faulkner narrates this […]
The rose dedicated to Emily tells the story of a child in the southern aristocratic family. Emily is a child of a southern aristocratic family. Under the overprotection of her father, Emily became a lonely and weird woman. After the death of her father, Emily met Homer. She paid all the love for Homer, but […]
