Essays on Literary Genres

According to Hetherington The novel Frankenstein was written in 1816 and published in 1818, with romantic themes such as the pitfalls of knowledge and the importance of emotions, the despair of human inability to interfere with one's own goodness, the agony of looking, the solitary hero, and the irresistible force of...

Throughout our journeys, we encounter many people who have an impact on our lives. The plot is used by the writers to illustrate their point. I saw a most amazing little boy. In Little Prince, the pilot meets the little sovereign, and Little Prince meets a...

The willingness to use appeal in literary works has remained the defining characteristic that distinguishes modern literature writers from literature writers who are communicating to a particular audience. While a wide variety of literary works, such as songs, novels, plays, and many other types, are important, poems have continuously been...

Arthur Miller's "The Price"Arthur Miller's "The Price" is a novel about two estranged twins, Victor and Walter Franz, who reunite after their father's death. Walter is a successful business owner, while Victor is a police officer with few opportunities (Miller). Their years apart have strained their relationship, with Victor feeling...

Flannery O'Connor's "A Decent Man is Hard to Find"Flannery O'Connor's tale "A Decent Man is Hard to Find," published in 1953, is arguably based on what has become today's proverb "a good man is hard to find." Critically, one might say that O'Connor may have taken a special interest in...

According to Stewart (5), John Donne was one of the most well-known philosophical poets of his day, who discussed many topics related to nature and truth in life in his poetry. As a lawyer and a minister, Donne gave sermons and wrote poetry from personal experience, earning him the moniker...

Marie de France glorifies the subject of passion in his poetry. All three poems (Lais, Lanval, and Laustic) depict the various facets of love Marie expresses to society. Most of the poetry focuses on different forms of love; for example, the Lais depicts selfish and unselfish love and its manifestations,...

Dawn, by Octavia E. Steward, is a novel about the plight and optimism of people who have been ravaged by a devastating war. Any of the human survivors were rescued mostly for their own gain by an alien race. The aliens, dubbed the Oankali, are nothing like humans. They are...

Cameron Crowe and Jerry Maguire Cameron Crowe produced and directed the drama sports film Jerry Maguire. Leigh Steinberg inspired the film, which was released in December 1996. Jerry Maguire (starring), Dorothy Boyd (Jerry's lover), Rod Tidwell (Jerry's client), Bob Sugar (Jerry's protégé and agent), Marcee Tidwell (Rod's wife), and Ray Boyd,...

According to the writer, language is impartial and used as a medium to express the attitude of the individual that is using it, which implies that it has no prejudice or agenda on its own but only reinforces the social meaning of the people who use it. It can be...

The Marine Corps War Memorial monument was inspired by a photograph of six US Marines lifting the country's flag on Mount Suribachi after the Second World War encounter on Iwo Jima. The memorial is built to be a tangible reflection of an incident that culture wants to remember years later....

The first person figurative voice is used extensively in the poem 'To his Coy Wife.' Andrew Marvell's work is classified as a monologue due to his use of the first-person character, 'I.' Nonetheless, the dramatic nature of the poem is seen as he addresses a second person using himself as...