Edward Rochester is a controversial and fictitious character in the two books; Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. In both novels, Mr. Rochester played a significant role though it is challenging to draw parallels between the two works. In both books, Rochester plays the...
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Kate Chopin is one of the most celebrated figures in 19th century American literary fields. Born in 1850, Chopin published novels and short stories that have remained relevant to date. She is a renowned feminist and author whose work reached peak with publication of Bayou Folk and A Night in...
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Lord of Flies: A Discussion of the Background and Plot Lord of Flies is a novel written by William Golding in 1954 focusing on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited highland and attempting to survive though they were unsupervised, uncivilized until they are rescued. The novel was well...
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America and Discrimination America is one of the countries where cases of discrimination have raised a lot of concern over the years. When the author writes about the story; Native Son, these issues are pervasive with the American Negros minority group being affected. The Miserable Life of Bigger Thomas The story on Bigger...
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Importance of Reading and Books Reading is an imperative skill that each individual should possess in life. Parents should strive to develop the reading skills of their children at an early age. Reading ability does not only assist in school, but also furnishes one with a full program of understanding texts...
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The novel The Green House, was written by a well-known literature Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, published back in the year 1966. The writer of the novel, Mario Vargas Llosa was born on March 28, 1936, in Peru, and currently, he has established himself as one of distinguished...
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The current technological advances in the world have been of greater impact to the society. We are connected in a technological world that is characterized with hi-tech devices such as phones, laptops, and other advanced gadgets. This has made communication easily thus playing a critical role towards connecting...
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Sophocle’s Antigone is a play of expansive and lasting well known appeal. However, it is ironical that most of the play’s admirers have hardly arrived at a concurrence regarding its interpretation. This paper seeks to discuss one character in the play, Creon, who becomes the new king of Thebes following...
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Fitzgerald's Background and Observations Fitzgerald is considered to be a great American writer. During his life, he authored several books most notable was the side of paradise, Great Gatsby among many others. The author was born and raised in Alabama a state in the United States of America. In the 1930's,...
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'The Things They Carried' 'The Things They Carried' is a collection of twenty-two stories, all of which are based on the Alpha Company and the fate of the soldiers after their return to America from war. The soldiers carry along essential goods, and the war is isolating but exposes the truth...
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Literature and its Evolution Literature evolves as life continues to change and develop. As with evolution of human beings and animals, literature follows the same trend when the need to do so arises. Fortunately, the need for literature to evolve arose in the Victorian era when Dr. Robert Luis Stevenson and...
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In her essay Homeless, Anna Quindlen portrays the struggle that people who have lost their homes have to undergo. A homeless person just wants a place to call their own, and that's why some prefer not to go to shelters and seek refuge in the streets, subways, and parks because...
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