Genre Essays

The Sound and the Fury, written in 1929 by William Faulkner, is a masterpiece. It revolves around the Compson family, who have strong Southern ties. The novel presents the perspectives of four characters: Benjy, Quentin, Jason, and Dilsey. Faulkner’s portrayal of Dilsey Gibson and her family as the black servants to the Compson’s has raised […]

The Most Dangerous Game Introduction: A. This story is started off by explaining how Sanger Rainsford and his hunting companion Whitney are traveling to Rio, Amazons to hunt jaguars. After they discuss about the island that they are passing which they believe has a bad reputation and is a not a very good place to be. […]

The Role Of Women in The Awakening The role of women is one of the major themes of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. The three main female characters of the story help to show the views of women to society, with Madame Ratignolle showing the example of the perfect woman, Mademoiselle Reisz representing the opposite of […]

The most frightening experience of my life I have heard many people telling some frightening stories that they experienced in their lives. But those stories are not as terrifying as mine. It occurred in a foggy night in a small town called Lujan in which i was accompanied by my boyfriend and my brother. Whenever […]

Compare and Contrast the sisters, Elinor and Marianne, in sense and sensibility to Cecily and Gwendolyn in the Importance of Being Earnest. Be sure to consider the personalities of each woman as you analyze how the demand’s and requirements of courtship dominate her attention and her interactions with others. The Differences and Similarities Between Two […]

The Theme of Prejudice in To Kill A Mocking Bird To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated from the viewpoint of Scout, a young girl of about six years old who is the daughter of another central character, Atticus Finch. Atticus is the voice of justice and rationalism speaking out in a town full of highly […]

Ninay (summary) The first Philippine novel, Ninay gathers together a large number of themes and motifs which shaped the works of a large number of literary texts. It was written by Pedro Paterno and was published in 1908. It portrayed the richness of the Philippine environment and culture through intertwined narratives and descriptions of the countries sights […]

Report: Loss of Identity portrayed in a range of literature For my report I chose to look at the loss of Identity portrayed in a range of different literature. The texts that I chose to study were: ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ by Jean Rhys, ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ by Robert Louis […]

Gothic fiction has always been a form of literature that opposes tradition and breaks boundaries. While the Enlightenment era celebrated reason and clarity, Gothic fiction consistently highlighted the existence of darkness, despair, ambiguity, and uncertainty in seemingly fixed surroundings. This trend started with early authors like Walpole, Radcliffe, and Matthew “Monk” Lewis, who incorporated the […]

This essay examines how Wilkie Collins delves into the character of Count Fosco in The Women in White, focusing on the writer’s narrative craft and appeal to the reader, as well as the writer’s use of language for emotive effect. Initially, the essay explores Collins’ background, the main themes of the novel, and Fosco’s role. […]

Irony is a humorous or mildly sarcastic use of words to mean the opposite of what is said. Irony can be used in a satirical, humorous or sarcastic manner. It can be used to indirectly put a message across to someone as a joke. In Austen’s books the characters sometimes valued irony because that is […]

Name Here Teacher Here Course date A Northern Light A Northern Light is set in 1906 in upstate New York in the area called the North Woods. The Book tells about a young 16 year old girl name Mattie Gokey who is caught up in a murder as well as choosing between her family and […]

The story “The Wife’s Story” is about the tale of the werewolf but vice versa, instead of seeing everything from the human’s point of view it shows it in the werewolf’s perspective. The author of this is Ursula K. Le Guin and she did a fantastic job writing this. Its odd how she reversed the […]

The girl of The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen I choose the character of the girl; the reasons are chiefly as follows: To begin with, she is very ambitious, but not realistic in her future. She truly believes that she is a writer and her novel The Chelsea Set will be a success just because her publisher […]

Manka and Louise Both short stories are a patriarchal society that restricted the roles of women, especially in their marriage. The setting in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” takes place in a small city in the early 1900s. This story has actual characters with names, such as Louise Mallard. The main character is […]

The Confliction on the Page In the short story “The Masque of the Red Death”, by Edgar Allen Poe, the main conflict is the “Red Death” arrives at Prince Prospero’s Masque, and kills everyone. At Prince Prospero’s ball the guests in attendance all partied in a castellated abbey which had seven rooms in which the […]

A Boy and Girl’s Relationship in James Joyce’s “Araby” A relationship is a connection between two people or more. The relationship could be made up of different types, races, or genders of people. One relationship in the story “Araby” by James Joyce is on that has to deal with a boy and a girl. The […]

Seeing What You Believe Having strong ties to a particular subject causes strong feelings on it. When you believe in something you are, in my opinion, more likely to see it or think you’ve seen it. In Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Irving tells a story of just this type of situation. Article […]

In Alice Walker’s short story, “Everyday Use” she discuss the life of an African American family of a mother and her two daughters. The mother has a tremendous amount of love for both of her daughters, but the two are different individuals in terms of their personality. Maggie, the younger of the two, was much […]

The two stories, “A Journey on Foot” and “Shino and Hamaji,” take place in the late 1700s and early 1800s in Japan, a time when the country was underdeveloped and travelers would travel by foot to reach their destinations. Despite the primitive setting, love takes on a central role in the lives of friends and […]

Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was a highly esteemed writer from the South who published numerous novels, short stories, and poems. His works had a profound impact on both the world and the literary community. In this paper, we aim to examine the various themes and meanings present in Faulkner’s works […]

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” depicts the life of Mrs. Mallard, who has just received the news of her husband’s death in a train accident. Instead of being aggrieved, however, Mrs. Mallard is relieved because her husband’s death frees her from his domination. However, it turns out later that the information about Mr. […]