The Catalogue of the Universe is an enchanting book that displays many themes that can be related to life. It shows the themes of betrayal, rejection, self-discovery, the struggle of a single parent and most of all love. Despite the title, the book abandons fantasy mode and deals with real issues in...

The theatre department at Stony Brook University recently put on John Guare\'s play \"Six Degrees of Separation.\" These talented young actors and actresses did a fabulous job of presenting each of the individual characters and their personalities. Although there were a few minor mistakes along the ...

In an old time during the Middle Ages, there is a boy known as lazy Joe for his nickname. He is a scholar. His whole family is peasants do farming for the Lord. He always goes out for fun. He is one of the pleasant in those days and all he thinks about is play. Until in his age of 14, he fell in lov...

Another Version of Society"A little world; an individual man or a community that is a miniature universe or a world in itself"; a microcosm...Phineas and Gene, along with the other boys of Devon School formed a universe of their own during World War II. In A Separate Peace, John Knowles examines th...

This is essentially a poem that deals with love and is an expression of the intensity of love that the protagonist has for his partner. It is also a poem that intends to show the universal value and meaning of true love. The central literary device used in the poem is a form of extended metaphor, kn...

Service "We are rarely taught to serve in life. We are taught to work. Work, we are taught, is the act of doing what needs to be done in order to acquire the things that we need. Work, we believe, is necessary to our ability to survive in life. Work, as it is done in this society, is the ultimate...

There are critical periods or turning points in everyone's life. Discuss the way Alex's Coloundra vacation affects his life. This is the topic question asked for this essay. This topic is a key theme of the novel After January because it is a time of change or a turning point in Ale...

Emotions have helped humans evolve and survive by changing the way we react to and think about our environment. Positive and negative emotions create patterned responses in both individuals and in whole societies. Emotions can help people understand the world, including other human beings,...

"It is a truth universally acknoledged, that a singlr man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Within this opening line Austen instantly introduces us to the comic irony and surroundings of "Pride and prejudice." The use of the words "universally acknowlrdged" humoursly ...

A Letter to Felice Examples of amae can also be found in Kafka's letters. Especially relevant in this context is a passage in a letter to his fiance Felice Bauer (The Basic Kafka, pp. 286f) which he regarded as so important that he also noted it in his diary and quoted it in a letter to his fr...

Selfishness, Bad or Good? When someone calls another person selfish, it is usually taken in a negative sense. But why? Is it truly bad to be concerned with yourself before anyone else? If I'm crossing the street with my friend and I see a car coming at us, would I be wrong to save myself...

In The Stone Angel, Margaret Lawrence portrays a woman attempting to understanding herself and her life. Hagar is the narrator of the book. She is ninety, and is trying to avoid an old aged home where her son Marvin, and Marvin's wife Doris want to put her. During this her attempt to move t...

In the beginning Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver with the Italian army in World War I, meets a beautiful English nurse named Catherine Barkley near the front between Italy and Austria-Hungary. At first Henry wants to seduce her, but when he is wounded and sent to the American hosp...

Dreams and Realities in 'Jude the Obscure' and 'A Kind of Loving' 'Dreams and realities' are both part of life in both different and similar ways. Dreams are what you want whereas reality is what you have. Many dreams can become reality. In the case of t...

In The Stone Angel, Margaret Lawrence portrays a woman attempting to understanding herself and her life. Hagar is the narrator of the book. She is ninety, and is trying to avoid an old aged home where her son Marvin, and MarvinÕs wife Doris want to put her. During this her attempt to move to Sh...

In taking a closer look at my own life and my purpose here on earth. I have pondered the questions of love, self-actualization, and destiny. By studying World Literature and through class discussion I have gained some insight into these universal questions. It is my opinion that this is why these gr...

Love is a many-faceted thing. It can be the best feeling in the world or the bane of your existence. This is one of the central themes in "A Rose for Emily," Faulkner's tale of twisted love. But what kind of love is it that pervades the entire text? Is it the love of man and woman, the lov...

The article I choose to discuss is \"Two Ways to Belong in America\" by Bharati Mukherjee. My personal experiences with different cultures and Bharati\'s relationship with her sister are very similar to mine; however, I have different experiences in the marriage and feelings of belonging. Bharati an...

Its existence has been questioned no less than that of God, truth, and the limit to our universe. It has no textbook definition, because, like cold temperature, nobody has yet been able to agree on a concrete meaning of it. It is the key topic of countless songs, poems, books, works of art, plays,...

The works of William Shakespeare have been awarded praise for their universality. They contain themes that everyone is familiar with-love, lust, revenge, glory. Troilus and Cressida is no different than any other of Shakespeare's works in this respect. One of the major themes in Troilus and Cress...

Relationships are the mechanisms of life that make the world go round. Personal, spiritual, mental and physical relations give the chaos of life its meaning. Mankind's desire to be loved and give love offers mankind its biggest motivation for creativity. It is this creativity that we seek to...

THE MAN IN THE BOX Once upon a time there was a man who lived in a box. It was a nice box, with a nice size, and it was nice inside the box. Everything worked in the box, all the systems supported each other, and everyone supported (or was supposed to support) the system of the box. The box was n...

Faust: a figure defined by the characters in which he interacts. In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust first part, Faust is a famous character of self-inflicted tragedy. The characters such as Mephistopholes, Wagner, and Gretchen imply those feelings, impulses, needs, and wants that many ...

"A rose for Emily" reveals William Faulkner's highly technical style of writing. The motif of the story can be understood in several different ways such as cultural conflict between Southern and Northern America or as conflict between old and New generations. However there is more than that which au...

Information on Banana Yoshimoto Banana Yoshimoto was born on July 24, 1964 in Tokyo. She graduated from Nihon University and majored in literature. Her first work was the novel "Kitchen" which was very successful and she won the 6th Kaien Newcomers Writers Prize in November 1987 and th...