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- 1621: Inside the Character’s of The Scarlet Letter
- Inside the Character’s of The Scarlet Letter Stated in the Bible, Expose 20:17, “You must not commit adultery,” This was the platform for Nathaniel Hawthorn’s The Scarlet Letter. A magnificent work of literature written by Nathaniel Hawthorn in the 19th century was The Scarlet Letter. This novel explored the dramatic meaning of guilt and sin among the Puritans way of living presented in the 17th century. The main ...
- 1622: Comparing 'Casablanca' to '1984'
- Comparing 'Casablanca' to '1984' How can a hero survive in a world gone mad? Both Casablanca, the classic 1940s film, and hailed as the greatest movie ever by some, and 1984, a piece of classic literature by George Orwell, also seen as being one of the most important novels of the 20th century, revolve around a world in chaos, where no one trusts anybody else, and a war wages on within ...
- 1623: The Lottery: A Book Report
- ... explored in Sir James Frazer's "The Golden Bough"; and the underlying structure is elaborated in René Girard's "Le bouc émissaire." "The Lottery" also serves well to illustrate the role of literary theory in literature and medicine, particularly reader response theory, hermeneutics, and narratology. In “The Lottery”, one of Shirley Jackson’s most famous short stories, we are made familiar with her chilling sense of humor. “The Lottery”, was about ...
- 1624: A Tale of Two Cities: Inner Soul and Human Emotion
- ... book based on historical events, the inspiration might come from their particular viewpoint on the event that they want to dramatize. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, is an example of social criticism in literature. Dickens uses this novel to express his disillusionment with society and human nature. Besides the central theme of love, this story has another prevalent theme, that of a revolution gone bad. He shows us that ...
- 1625: An Interpretation of William Faulkner’s “Dry September”
- An Interpretation of William Faulkner’s “Dry September” William Faulkner, is one of the most commonly known names in twentieth-century American literature. His works, connected closely with the South also underline a very realistic image of reality. His use of shifting points between charaters, and unsequential narratives are used frequently in his short story “Dry September”. The ...
- 1626: Filling in the Gaps: Ideology in Faulkner’s “Dry September”
- ... ideological drama played out in the story, but by Faulkner’s art are forced to think about the results of their own ideologies in action. Works Cited Bercovitch, Sacvan. “The Problem of Ideology in American Literature,” Critical Inquiry, 12 (summer 1986) Rogalus, Paul. Explicator, Washington, DC, 1990 Spring, 48:3, 211-212. Sutton, Brian. Explicator, Washington, DC, 1991 Spring, 49:3, 175-77. Jones,-Anne-Goodwyn. “Desire and Dismemberment: Faulkner and ...
- 1627: Tragedy and the Common Man
- ... is what terrifies. In no way is the common man debarred from such thoughts or such actions. Seen in this light, our lack of tragedy may be partially accounted for by the turn which modern literature has taken toward the purely psychiatric view of life, or the purely sociological. If all our miseries, our indignities, are born and bred within our minds, then all action, let alone the heroic action, is ...
- 1628: Rip Van Winkle as a Folktale
- ... at the end. Nevertheless, since the tale displays all these characteristics of what a folk tale is, it is therefore a prominent example of one. A folktale is a term for all types of narrative literature found in oral traditions of the world. They are heard and remembered, and are subjected to various alterations in the course of retelling. Nevertheless, an essential trait of folktales is their diffusion, and their passage ...
- 1629: Comparative Analysis: Cinderella and Snow White
- ... 2000. 607-619. Perrault, Charles. "Cinderella." Rpt. in Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. 7th edition. Ed. Laurence Behrens and Leonard Rosen. New York; Longman, 2000. 598-602. Yolen, Jane. "America's Cinderella'." Children's Literature in Education. Vol. 8: 21-29. Rpt. in Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. 5th edition. Ed. Laurence Behrens and Leonard Rosen. New York; Longman, 1994. 528-535.
- 1630: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- ... sacrificing” (Woloch, p. 73). Women were being sent to academies, not to further their own advancement, but to promote their learning of the skills necessary to be a good wife and mother. A flood of literature, manuals and guides, were published that advised women on how to perform their duties in the home in a way which would characterize them as a True Women. Barbara Welter illustrates woman’s ideal role ...
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