Category: Literature

Table of Contents Introduction Main text Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The 20th century drama underwent major alternations with the advent of such playwrights as Tennessee Williams and Samuel Beckett who marked the beginning of new anti-realistic absurdist theatre. It should be stressed that the anti-realism movement on the stage with its intricate fragmented dialogs, paradoxes,…

The poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden is devoted to the relationships between parents and children, specifically, between the author and his father. The poem consists of three stanzas that are not rhymed. The first stanza includes five lines, the second does four, and the fifth one does five. The author reflects on his…

The mysteries that the human life is full of are really enormous. The more attempts to solve the riddle we make the more complex and intricate they appear to be. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut is a treasury of such mysteries. Each page of the book states a new problem to solve, but the author…

Table of Contents Introduction Dante the Poet, Dante the Traveler The way to the Inferno as the Way to Dante’s Inner Essence Works Cited Introduction The Divine Comedy presents three aspects of objective reality such as personal drama of the poet, the story of humanity and the structure of the universe. Also it may be…

The main female characters Anne Elliot from Persuasion by Jane Austen and Rosalind from As You Like It y Shakespeare have the similar problems and circumstances that prevent them from happy life with their lovers. The timid and composed Anne Elliot finds a number of barriers and faces with the rivals, trying to maintain the…

Raymond Carver, a major short-story writer, and poet in the 1980s are often called a minimalist writer. His stories were brief with strong messages. The stories contained themes of importance in real-life described small periods and often it included alcoholism, which was a part of his life as well. In this paper, two of his…

“The Telephone” was written by Mr. Anwar Accawi as a journal of how his simple, if not primitive village of Magdalena, Southern Lebanon was changed forever by the arrival of the telephone. Before the telephone arrived, their people were a naive group who was satisfied with what their village life had to offer them and…

Louise Erdrich uses the Native American oral tradition in her short story “Fleur”. Such a literary approach enabled her to concentrate the reader’s attention on the central character of the story – Fleur Pillager. She uses other distinctive characters to create the all-in-one picture of the story. Erdrich writes that “the first time she drowned…

Robert Burns poetry is a perfect example of simplicity combined with effectiveness. And depth This paper analyzes the poem A Red, Red Rose (1794), stating that the poems usage of simple similes, hyperboles and repetitions extended the meaning of the poem, in which he describes how deep and everlasting his love is. Burns was born…

Table of Contents The things they carried Spin Love Conclusion Works Cited The book by Tim O’Brien is made up of short stories compiled in several chapters. The stories in this book are about the American war in Vietnam. The soldiers are seen to have gone through a lot during that time and Tim lives…