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Analysis and Summary of “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau

In his essay “Civil Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau opens by saying,  “I heartily accept the motto, ‘That government is best which governs least’” (  ), and then clarifies that his true belief is “‘That government is best which governs not  →

Comparison of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Up From Slavery, and The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano : Literacy, Freedom, and Slavery

An analysis of two seminal works from African-American literature, both drawn from the authors’ autobiographies, reveals that the processes of learning to read and write is conceptualized as the means of personal and social liberation. While Frederick Douglass’s “Learning to  →

An Analysis of the Memoir / Autobiography Genre Through Four Autobiograpies

 Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, and Malcolm X’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X all represent a distinct voice from a different subaltern community.  →

An Overview and Extended Definition of Formalism in Literature and Theory

All literary theory has as its task defining what literature is and how it should be studied.  As part of this work, literary theorists are concerned with answering a number of questions, among them, what are the respective roles of  →

Comparison of “The Republic” by Plato and “Leviathan” by Thomas Hobbes

There are many common themes available for a comparison essay of The Republic by Plato and Leviathan by Hobbes but one of the most salient points to be made is that they share ideological similarities. Although there is some consensus on  →

Thematic Analysis and Summary of “The Republic” by Plato

The view Plato and Socrates hold about the role of women in society is at times easy to confuse with a more modern sense of gender equality because he advocates a mostly equal upbringing, but closer examination reveals that this  →

The Definition of Virtue in Plato’s Meno

Meno seems surprised when Socrates is unable to provide an answer to his questions about the nature and definition of virtue, but this rhetorical method allows Socrates to later question Meno’s assumptions about what is and is not virtue. “For my soul and  →

Themes Summary and Analysis of “The Narrative of Mary Jemison” : Gender and Culture

Mary Jemison’s narrative indicates that during the eighteenth century accounts of captivity began to offer two competing narratives of national identity. One narrative equated the English family with English culture and unfolded as if perpetuating the Englishness of Anglo-America depended  →

The Book of Margery Kempe and The Role of Women in Medieval Society

Throughout The Book of Margery Kempe the narrow roles for medieval women that were codified by the Church and more generally, the patriarchal society, were hardly negotiable. There were a set of strict expectations defining a woman’s duty both inside the home  →

An Analysis of Select Ideas from Hume’s Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary

David Hume contributed significantly to political and economic thought through his vast collection of writings, including. “Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary” and was one of the leading figures in the emerging Scottish version of the same period of Enlightenment that was sweeping  →