Essays On Books

Albert Camus’s, The Stranger takes you on a journey through the life of Meursault, an indifferent, atypical man, who is living in Algeria during the 1940s. Meursault’s life is explained through an egregious amount of physical details therefore showing his utter lack of emotions and his trouble to express his feelings. When Meursault is faced […]

Meursault in The Stranger by Camus appears as a comatose person who makes his decision at the last minute. He is unreasonable in the society as he disobeys its rules and habits, so he deserves his execution after he killed an Arab in the process of self-defense. Although, Meursault seems implausible and unfriendly at the […]

In his novel The Stranger, Albert Camus expresses his philosophy of the absurd: The irrationality of the universe, the meaninglessness of human life, the “importance” of the physical world. Camus is too concerned with the creation of meaning in a meaningless world through the process of living life. The novel is a first-person account of […]

Prof. Keith Walters Commentary to Bettelheim’s chapter on “Cinderella” Let me start off with saying that Bettelheim completely ruined my fantasy on fairy-tales. His contorted mind really made it hard to remember all the beautiful tales from childhood.Of course he is entitled to his own opinions and I won’t argue with that but I certainly […]

The story of Cinderella began in ancient China and has since been translated and recreated numerous times into stories, plays, and even movies. Perrault and Disney’s versions of Cinderella took special interest to Louis Bernikow, in which she analyzed in her essay “Cinderella: Saturday Afternoon at the Movies”. In the essay, Bernikow shows that “there […]

Krill Goal Teacher’s name Postulated Chinese Cinderella Interior Monologue I feel really bad for my precious little treasure; her mother Inning hasn’t lived with us for a year and a half. I’m only mother she knows. I loved looking after her. Inning shouldn’t have done this. She should have Just realized that Little Sister is […]

As the title, “l Fine, Thank you, Love you”, implies, this romantic comedy puts its message across well, I. E., be sarcastic, be fun, and be yourself. The plot focuses on an English tutor, named Tutor Plunge, who is asked by Kayak, her Japanese student who is leaving for the United States, to deliver the […]

Abandonment and loneliness – Chinese Cinderella- final copy.”Into her lips, i injected my loneliness, isolation and feelings of being unwanted. To my heroine I gave everything of myself” page 210. This is when she is writing gone with the locusts, about the little African girl who was taken for her parents. The passage later on […]

The film centers on the life of James J Braddock, a once-unsuccessful boxer with a disadvantaged background who ultimately becomes the heavyweight boxing champion. The narrative takes place during the American Great Depression and presents Braddock as an emblem of the economic and social difficulties that Americans encountered at that time. By depicting his battles […]

The Novel Jane Eyre in several aspects can be compared to “Cinderella”. Jane is similar to Cinderella, Rochester is like Prince Charming, Mrs. Reed is like her evil step mother, Eliza and Georgiana are like the evil step sisters. Jane’s life at Gateshed is like Cinderella’s life at her step mother’s house. When Jane was […]

Fairytales occupy a very important part of both children’s literature and indeed their education. They can be fantastical and contain hidden morals which may be used by adults to warn children of dangers in society “the entire story is usually made to demonstrate a moral point” (Bottigheimer. 152). In today’s society fairytales are often associated […]

Cinderella and Her Many Variations The story of Cinderella is one that is universally known and has hundreds of variations. Each variation of the story provides insight into the time period it was written, the cultural influences. This paper seeks to analyze and compare of the concept of the power of the female protagonist characters […]

“What goes around comes around, that’s what people say. So all the pain you caused me will come back to you someday” (Unknown. ) The theme of “what goes around comes around” is exemplified in both the Grimm version and the Disney version of Cinderella, however the Grimm version definitely exemplifies the theme more effectively […]

9 August 1978 I met her again, after yesterday. It was a long time since I had seen so beautiful and lovely creature. I had done nothing this two days during the ball but looked at her all the time. Tonight, I talked to her and I can say, she is almost perfect to me. […]

The novel Chinese Cinderella is an autobiography written by Adeline Yen Mah about the harsh life she had whilst growing up. Adeline? s childhood shapes her character, the reader can see these developments throughout the novel. One characteristic easily seen is her love for reading and writing. Adeline is also a very intelligent school student […]

In the familiar more traditional version, Cinderella is a poor maid girl that, with the help of fairy godmother, gets a chance to meet prince charming. They fall in love, get married, and live happily ever after, and then what? What is a happily ever after? Is this even a realistic thought? In the dark […]

Fairy tale is a basically a fantasy story about traditions and norms which covers various aspect of a society and culture. The fairy tales often involve marvelous elements and occurances and miracles that happen throughout the story. Fairy tales are often set in settings that are geographically vague and ambiguous as most of the story […]

According to Northrop Frye in The Educated Imagination, literary conventions are typical patterned ways of writing that happen repeatedly over time in the world of literature. To write stories, the writers imitate other people’s work, which they have read before. Therefore literary conventions become commonplace as a traditional way of writing. Also, Frye has mentioned […]

When we live in the world we live in, there will be conflict, confrontation, and a solution. Often times, when it is a matter of someone being offended, this results in censorship of whatever happened, or the artwork that was displayed. That is not always a bad thing though, for example the Grimm brothers’ children’s […]

For the purpose of this behavior analysis paper I chose the fairy tale character of Cinderella to analyze. Cinderella is a very familiar cartoon character among young children, especially young girls. Cinderella is a young woman who lives with her step-mother, who is often described as evil, and her two spoiled step-sisters. Unfortunately for Cinderella, […]

The concept of the Cinderella story is not exclusive to the animated tale most people are familiar with. Throughout history and across cultures, various versions of the Cinderella story have captivated both children and adults. The release of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ animated film in 1950 solidified the Cinderella story in the minds of many […]

Adeline Yen Mah’s is an autobiographical novel about ‘the secret story of an unwanted daughter. ’ The novel is memorable because the story is intriguing and it is also historical as it depicts the chaos of China in the early 1940s. The novel is also remarkable for its strong depiction of characters. The novel is […]