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February 21, 2025
Themes Summary of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
As this analysis of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens seeks to explore, it is of the persistent preoccupations in Charles Dickens’s novels is the careful and detailed study of the social problems that troubled 19th century England. Little Dorrit is no exception, and it is →
Comparison of “The Decameron” and “The Canterbury Tales” : Common Themes in Boccaccio and Chaucer
Despite huge differences in plot and subject matter, there are many striking similarities between “The Canterbury Tales” and “The Decameron” by Geoffrey Chaucer and Giovanni Boccaccio respectively. Both of these 14th century stories, The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio, and “The Canterbury →
Analysis and Summary of The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale (Canterbury Tales)
While the structure and organization of The Canterbury Tales permits multiple voices and perspectives to be represented and conveyed to the reader by utilizing a technique known as the frame narrative (Gittes 77), it is not entirely clear upon an initial reading →
Comparison of Cane by Jean Toomer and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jean Toomer’s experimental novel, Cane, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic, The Great Gatsby, may seem, at first glance, to be wildly different novels in terms of their subjects, settings, plots, and narrative structure and organization. While this is true, the two novels →
Representations of Women in Medieval Literature
As it becomes apparent in a few select works representing women in medieval literature, includingThe Book of Margery Kempe, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Le Morte Darthur, in the middle ages or medieval period, restrictions placed on women underwent a significant →
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: Fantasy Versus Reality
There are several divisions and blurred lines with fantasy and reality in , Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. Most people experience moments of either wanting more than their circumstances permit or wanting different circumstances altogether. One hardly needs to look further than →
The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth : A Comparison Analysis of Gender Roles
Almost all novels rely upon the development of tension, both within characters and among them, in order to develop a plot that will engage the reader. When such tension is developed effectively, the reader is invited to make an emotional →
The Yellow Wallpaper : Gilman’s Techniques for Portraying Oppression of Women
In The Yellow Wallpaper, the author uses a number of literary devices to express the political theme of feminism and the oppression of women. To achieve her goal of expressing feminist sentiment in The Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman creates a narrator who is at →
Feminist Analysis of the Prologue for the Wife of Bath (Canterbury Tales)
In her Prologue as part of “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath offers readers a complex portrait of a medieval woman. On the one hand, The Wife of Bath is shameless about her sexual exploits and →
Appearances Versus Reality in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Many of the problems and confusions in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” are the result of gender bending episodes, many of which involve disguise and deceit of one form or another. In the most prominent examples of disguise and appearance versus reality →
