Category: Literature

One of the most important subjects raised in “The Talisman” by Walter Scott is the differences between Islam and Christianity and the confrontations between the followers of these two religions in the times of King Richard of England and the Crusades. In the first chapters of “The Talisman,” Walter Scott vividly emphasizes the clash between…

Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The traditionally dominating role of women was as housewives and submissive, while it was the husband’s role to focus on family maintenance and work. However, due to the evolving world, the social role of women has been changing from traditional roles whereby women can pursue…

Maria Elena Lucas’ life is probably one of the hardest ones I have ever read. The hardness and outrageous strength of this woman simply fascinate. There is a great power held in one female who used to be a little girl suffering from the life circumstances that God put on her. Born in 1941 she…

Table of Contents Introduction Sled’s First Experiences Accustomed to Filth Racism and Dehumanization Conclusion Works Cited Introduction “With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa” is a book by Eugene Sledge, a man who served as a marine in the United States Army during World War II. It was first published in 1981 and contained…

Table of Contents Introduction Main Characters Analysis Conclusion Reference Introduction Dogeaters is a political satire novel written to address the history of the Philippines. The author, Jessica Hagedorn, uses a platform of a postmodern society and themes like dictatorship, sexuality, religion, colonization, and the search for identity to explore accomplish her objectives. The novel adopts…

The role of cultural identity and the moral independence are significant in human life. Those who managed to agree personal moral independence with the cultural identity are lucky people as they should not live in constant struggle between personal considerations and social demands. Even though the novel Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya does not…

The geisha is a unique phenomenon for the Asian culture as well as, of course, for the western one. Feminine social roles in Japan were divided into three main branches: a wife, who served men’s body, a woman of pleasure, such as, for example, an oiran, who prostituted, and a geisha, whose main concerns were…

Table of Contents Introduction Colonialism and the ‘Other’ Other in Race / Nationality / Physical Appearance Other in Gender / Sexuality Conclusion References Introduction Fiction is defined as “an imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented” or “a literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and…

Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion References Introduction Critical and empirical schools employ research methods using content analysis in a range of ways. Empirical communication scholars analyze test hypotheses through methods of content analysis to categorize mass media to acquire quantitative data. Critical scholars, on the other hand, are less quantitative but extremely qualitative…

Dostoevsky notes that the Underground Man not “only may but must exist in our society, taking under consideration the circumstances under which our society has generally been formed” (1). The Underground Man is banned from the society in which he lives. As the main character, the Underground Man exemplifies the antihero in many aspects. First,…