Miscegenation in the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper and Catharine Maria Sedgwick.

Miscegenation in the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper and Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Introduction Racial issues occupy the principal place in American Literature due to the prolonged racial relations between Native Americans and European colonizers. The aim of this essay is to compare and contrast the issue of miscegenation through the principal characters of James Fenimore โ€ฆ Read more

New Modes of Poetic Discourse in the Poetry of the Romantic Period: Wordsworth, Blake and Coleridge

New Modes of Poetic Discourse in the Poetry of the Romantic Period: Wordsworth, Blake and Coleridge Wordsworth and Coleridge, in the Preface to the 1800 version of the Lyrical Ballads, state the following: โ€œThe majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how โ€ฆ Read more

Horror Presented In Birdsong Essay

Horror Presented In Birdsong INTRODUCTION The Oxford English Dictionary defines โ€˜horrorโ€™ as โ€˜an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust.โ€™ Both Owen and Faulks use the experiences of young soldiers to illustrate the horrors of the First World War and the feelings of fear, shock and disgust created in these men by the atrocities of โ€ฆ Read more

Kill Billย Hides a Male Adolescent Taste for Violence

Kill Bill Hides a Male Adolescent Taste for Violence Introduction The claim risks becoming rather self-defeating. It assumes that violence is a predominantly masculine trait but betrays confusion about its stance on masculinity and aggression. One must choose whether violence defines men, or men define violence; this question tries to sustain both possibilities simultaneously and โ€ฆ Read more

Arthur Millerโ€™sย The Crucible

Arthur Millerโ€™s The Crucible Introduction Arthur Asher Miller is one of the most influential playwrights of the twentieth century, whose plays have had resonance not only in America, but all over the world. This renown as a playwright of depth and insight has increased over his career, and he has been described as โ€œa moralist, โ€ฆ Read more

Analyzing Abraham Lincolnโ€™s First Inaugural Address as a Dramatist Narrative.

Analyzing Abraham Lincolnโ€™s First Inaugural Address as a Dramatist Narrative Kenneth Burkeโ€™s โ€œdramatismโ€ is a theory that isolates motive in communication. Dissecting all aspects and directions of speech, Burkeโ€™s dramatism can be used effectively in analyzing Abraham Lincolnโ€™s first inaugural address. Using dramatismโ€™s pentad component, Lincolnโ€™s intentions and the gravity of the setting in which โ€ฆ Read more

The Superiority of Moral Worth over Physical Charms

The Superiority of Moral Worth over Physical Charms โ€˜The critic is he who can translate into a new manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This โ€ฆ Read more

Angela Carterโ€™sย Wise Children

Angela Carterโ€™s Wise Children Angela Carterโ€™s Wise Children is a novel centring on the story of the Hazard family, a theatrical dynasty which dominates the British stage for nearly a century. The narrator of the story, Dora Chance, is one of the Chance twins, identical twin girls who are illegitimate twice over: their famous father, โ€ฆ Read more

The Emergence of Modern Day Horror from 19th Century Gothic

The Emergence of Modern Day Horror from 19th Century Gothic Exploring modern-day horror films and novels, it is possible to draw a parallel between the nineteenth-century gothic genre and contemporary horror. Such a shift is inseparably connected with the spread of psychoanalysis created by Sigmund Freud, Jacque Lacan and Julia Kristeva and that gradually influenced โ€ฆ Read more

I Think, Therefore I Am

I think, therefore I am The statement โ€œI think, therefore I amโ€ is a declaration made by the philosopher cum mathematician, Rene Descartes, in his โ€œDiscourseโ€ first published in 1637, and later amplified in his Meditations on First Philosophy . There are many interpretations of this statement, some profound and philosophical, others, profane and flimsy, โ€ฆ Read more