Category: Literature

Table of Contents Introduction Main text Summary References Introduction Although both “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde and “Dr. Faustus” by Christopher Marlowe is filled with humor, each of these plays addresses the morality, or immorality, of deception. In “The Importance of Being Earnest”, more than one character pretends to be someone or…

Table of Contents Introduction Discussion Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The story, set in a small town in New England, opens with three teenage girls, wearing just their bathing suits, walking into an A&P grocery store; it is the watching of these girls that gets the story rolling (Tiger-town). The narrator, Sammy, a teenage boy working…

A highly prolific and versatile artist, Hughes was widely regarded as the poet of his people. He took the world for his audience but the lives of ordinary black people for his principal subject. Langston Hughes was fiercely proud of his black heritage–and utterly convinced that African Americans as African Americans, not honorary whites, would…

The story picchi (madness) presents a dilemma that has engulfed a family. The protagonist in this story is Ramana and the antagonist is his mother Damayanti. Ramana’s father was not lucky because Damayanti, his second wife, had turned mad. The first wife had hanged herself. Misfortunes were following Ramana’s father closely but fortunately he was…

The ‘Wilderness Boy’ is a historical book wrote to bring into picture the consequences of the Revolution. It takes place in the eighteenth century specifically during colonial North America. Margery tries to bring out the conflicts a young boy faces when he is forced into adulthood that has wars all over at only the age…

Erin Hunter wrote a series of novels entitled The Power of Three. The sixth in this series is the novel, Sunrise. The work analyzes two important issues. First, it aims to find the murderer of the cat, Ashfur. In this sense, the work belongs to the novel crime genre. Second, it aims to inform the…

Table of Contents Introduction ‘Death of the Ball Turret Gunner’ ‘To an Athlete Dying Young’ A Comparison Works Cited Introduction The two poems chosen for comparison are Randall Jarrell’s ‘Death of the Ball Turret Gunner’ and A.E. Housman’s ‘To an Athlete Dying Young’. Both poems deal with death and have deeper meanings than the words…

Flannery O’Connor came from a very religious Catholic family, and this factor has influenced her career as a writer and her works. The books by Flannery O’Connor are designed to explore various dimensions of faith and religion, a different understanding of sin and virtue, and the impacts religiousness or atheism can make on people. “Wise…

Table of Contents Introduction The Prologue of Hartmann’s Gregorius Features in the romance prologue of Hartmann’s Gregorius Conclusion Works Cited Introduction A hagiographic legend is a term that is used to refer to a legend that entails religious matters where people follow religions of their choice. When talking of hagiographic legend is usually adopted and…

“Sophie Scholl and the White Rose” is a historical book describing the cruel politics in Germany during the 20th century. In their non-fictitious story, Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn give a vivid description of young people who were against the Nazi regime. Controlled by superiority, greed, and cruelty Hitler stamped out all forms of democracy…