Essays on Literature

The Crucible: Diversity Of Women Characters

The Crucible is a play about the witch trials of Salem in 1692. In these trials, many women and some men were falsely accused and were either put in jail or hanged for not confessing to witchcraft. These accusations started when Abigail and many other teens got caught by Reverend Parris dancing in the woods...
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Sexism And Homophobia In Catcher In The Rye

The infamous book The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D Salinger in 1951. During the book, Holden expresses his feelings between the equality of men and women. Explaining how men are superior to men. Seeing them just for their curves and good looks, more-so as an object rather than a person. Not having really...
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The Great Gatsby: Old Money, New Money And No Money

The book The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald is about a man named James Gatsby and his way of pursuing the American dream in the 1920s. Taking place in the villages of east and west egg, Narrated by Nick Caraway a young man who finds himself in a situation with an American man named...
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Billy Budd: Chapter Analysis To Evaluate The Sense Of A Novel

Chapter 1-2 While reading this chapter I noticed Melville’s technique when it comes to his writing style. His sentences are long, complex, and tough. In comparison, he’s nearly like Shakespeare within the sense that he has been influenced by him. This is shown in the way he’s cramming the sentences to its maximum capacity. I...
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The Tragedy Of Othello And King Lear

The renaissance or golden age is the time during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth’s reign lasted from 1558 to 1633, where Queen Elizabeth occupied the throne after her sister, Mary, who was her half-sister died (John S. Morrill Stephen J. Greenblatt, 2019). Queen Elizabeth died in 1603, which also ended the 16th century...
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Never Let Me Go: Represent Of Childhood

Kazou Ishiguro’s novel ‘Never Let Me Go’ takes place in an alternate dystopian world in England, during the late 1990s. The novel is essentially about a widespread virus that leaves people in need of vital organs. Test tube babies or clones were created for organ donations for the people that have been infected. When they...
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The Presentation Of Power In Ozymandias And Storm On The Island

‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Shelley and ‘Storm on the Island’ by Seamus Heaney both present nature and time as powerful forces which can have an overwhelming effect on humans. In Heaney’s poem, the impact is on a whole community, whereas in Shelley’s poem it is affecting one man. Shelley was a socialist which means that he...
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Jane Eyre: Book And Screen Adaptation Comparison

Jane Eyre is one of the most important novels by Charlotte Brontë, and therefore this novel has been adapted for the screen. As the author of the article (Patsy Stoneman) says, there is more than one option to tell a story, which is why many writers and narrators are forced to make changes to their...
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