Today's Date:
January 12, 2025
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Allegory in The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Allegory is one of the primary literary devices used in “The House of Seven Gables” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and, as in the case of many other works by Hawthorne, it sets the tone for the story and communicates a number →
Character Analysis of Cory in the Play “Fences” by August Wilson
All of the characters in the play by August Wilson Fences experience a personal transformation over the course of the play. While the characters of Troy and Rose in “Fences” by August Wilson may seem to be the characters whose experiences of →
Feminism & Science Fiction : “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” and “When It Changed”
Two works of science fiction with unique understandings of gender, “When it Changed” by Joanna Russ and “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” by James Tiptree challenge the grasp on sexuality and gendered meaning. While these are two specific examples →
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 →
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 →
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 →
