English in literature No truly human society could exist without the use of a natural human language. The word "literature" is etimologically related to "letters". The earliest English poetry wich has survived is written in Old English poetry many linguistic devices which de...

I think that the contrast between a typical modern day love story and the typical Victorian love story is very interesting. For instance, if Persuasion were to take place today, there is no doubt in my mind that there would have been a lot more "drama" about the new arrival of Captain Wentworth int...

ALL THE PRETTY HORSESBlevins was a very important character in the novel. He represented a sense of anxiety and puts some sort of a humorous mood to the story, because is mainly based on drama and problems in life. He is a very smart kid for his age and life has taught him a lot, from the beginnin...

The movie, To Kill a Mockingbird, is one of the best family oriented dramas ever made. The film has a timeless quality about it that transcends the very dated subject matter, which was racism during the depression in the South. The movie teaches the importance of tolerance, justice, integrity ...

Science FictionScience fiction is among the most versatile forms of writing. It can be a romance, a comedy, a war story, a drama, a mystery and as the recent film The Wild, Wild West proves, even a western. Take any literary classic add in a crazed robot bent on world destruction, and a space s...

The Scarlet Letter Author's essay The Scarlet Letter was a lot of fun to write. I knew if I gave it all my heart, it would definitely be a great novel, and that's exactly what I did. Considering that I was born and raised in Salem, writing a book about my homeland would be exciti...

In the past, critics have ad moralized and/or brutalized every writer they could get their pen on. This is seen from criticisms of Henry Adams to William Butler Yeats. These writers critique everything about the writer and his/her works. For instance many critics criticize Willa Cath...

Pop fiction is extremely popular with readers in the USA and also in Britain. Surprisingly, the sales statistics reveal that 33% are thrillers, 28% romance and 5-6% are written on science fiction, horror and fantasy. Pop fiction makes a good read because they ask the reader to read the book with sus...

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser clearly illustrates the development and regression of its two main characters, Carrie Meeber and George Hurstwood. Carrie is an ordinary girl who rises from a low-paid wage earner to a high-paid actress, and Hurstwood, a member of the upper middle class in the late ...

Introduction sentence: In an ideal world, low class people wouldn't be working at weekend. In an ideal world, high class people would donate money to the people who need help. In case one has not heard, the world is not ideal and perfect, world peace isn't a possibility, and young children...

Interrupted Event in The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole creates a gothic tale filled with fascinating events and a wonderful plot. Within the story a new crisis or event often arises before the current one is resolved and this effect creates so much suspense. These events and crisis that arise s...

The list for uses of knots and sailing lore seems endless; from the countless uses on the armed forces; to the boys scouts, knots have many uses. They are used for protection, in the event of an emergency; security, to keep sailors and others safe on sea; and they are always a symbol of trust, b...

Although mostly remembered for his earlier work, The Cement Garden, McEwan\'s more recent work of fiction, A Child In Time, offers a very different perspective into the theme of childhood - this time an adult\'s understanding of a juvenile world. The novel has been highly critically acclaimed since ...

"The Death of Ivan Illyich" is a book about a man's struggle with the idea that men are not as invincible as they seem and that we all must come to terms with the one very thing that none of us can escape from, and that is death. We may think about death in secondary terms, or we ...

Article Review for Hope Leslie Bell, Michael Davitt. "History and Romance Convention in Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie." American Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 2, Part I (Summer, 1970). 213-221 Michael Davitt Bell is a renowned literary researcher whose scholarly work has ...

Cyclical Evaluation Of Mice And Men was written in the late 1930's, a time when money was scarce and employment was low. This novel reflects the lives and experiences of two men, who along their journey discover a bond of loyalty, which adds to the drama of this compelling book. A few rela...

Nicholas Sparks' A Walk to Remember draws out many emotional responses two of which are happiness and sadness. The happiness didn't just come from various instances in the story, but came from the story as a whole. When Landon says, "It was, I remember, the most wonderful moment of ...

In, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee refers to Oliver Optic, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Victor Appleton as three authors whose works were enjoyed by Scout, Jem and Dill. These 19th and 20th century authors had similar writing styles and plot formulations. Adventure stories, which were the genre o...

Is This Some Sort of Sign? Symbolism by definition is a revelation or suggestion of intangible conditions or truths by artistic invention. Requiem Guatemala, a novel by Marshall Bennett Connelly, exemplifies superlative symbolic use at its prime. Connelly's use of imagery and symbolism in...

Ondaatje's novel, In the Skin of a Lion, reflects the situation of immigrants and the political power structure in Canada earlier in the century. The writer argues that those at the top of society's power hierarchy during that period, from both a political and financial standpoint, were disregarding...

"Suffer the Little Children""Suffer the Little Children" is a great science fiction story written by the legendary author Stephen King. The short story is filled with many descriptive statements that really catch the reader's imagination. "Suffer the Little Children" is about a third grade element...

"Let me now re-emphasise the extreme looseness of the structure of all objects" How Ondaatje makes use of "loosness" in the novel. In "In The Skin Of A Lion" by Michael Ondaatje, "the extreme looseness of the structure of all objects" is carried into the themes, characte...

Margaret Atwood: 'Spotty-Handed Villainesses' (1994) BIOGRAPHY • Born in Ottawa, Ontario, 1939 • Studied at the University of Toronto, then took her masters degree at Radcliffe College, Massachusetts, in 1962 • Canada's most eminent novelist and poet, and also writes shor...

Different or Weird? "James Finney Boylan's glasses look ordinary enough. But the world he sees through them is something else,"(Stanley-Sanborn). The way Boylan sees and writes is what makes him a popular writer. He is a comical writer, yet his books still have heart. Many say t...

The Humor of Pride and Prejudice Of all the novels that Jane Austen has written, critics consider Pride and Prejudice to be the most comical. Humor can be found everywhere in the book; in it's character descriptions, imagery, but mostly in it's conversations between chara...