Essays on Literary Genres

You are content writer. You have to add headings with html tags h2 or h3 for any of paragraphs in original text. The Significance of Faith in "Young Goodman Brown" Young Goodman Brown is a Nathaniel Hawthorne short story that is engaging to its readers because it provides a...

The Themes Explored in Candide The basic and common concepts that the author discusses in a literary work are referred to as themes. Voltaire satirizes many facets of European life in his book Candide to illustrate the shortcomings and corruption of the 18th century. The novella has multiple themes, but one...

Welty’s story, A Worn Path Affords to be a distinguishable work of fiction. Through the use of the simple tone and the scope, Welty structures the story incorporating a creamy and prosperous texture of symbolic meaning making it sound real. The story remarkably describes the journey of Phoenix, an ancient woman...

About every community believes in the desire to connect with the deceased. Many individuals have claimed to be able to communicate with our dearly departed members since time immemorial. Classic fiction, such as Shakespeare s plays, the Bible, and folklore, describes this contact with ghosts and spirits (Holloway 182-187). Deception and...

The Scarlet Letter is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that takes place in Puritan Boston in the 17th century. The story revolves around a woman who has committed adultery with a Reverend and is sentenced to carry a scarlet letter as punishment for her transgression. When Hester is released...

Cummings' poem, Everyone Lived in a Pretty How Town, raises concern about how people value relationships in urban areas. Cumming portrays contemporary relationships as fading, claiming that people no longer value others. Instead, they respect their own selves and only see their industries as essential, and they show no care...

Walker's characters stand out in the novel Everyday Use, in part because of her wits in struggling for her family's heritage. The story takes place in the late 1960s, after a period of dramatic change for African Americans. African Americans gained their freedom from resistance, overcoming acts of segregation, brutality,...

The novel Black Boy by Richard Wright is about understanding American history from the eyes of an African-American boy growing up in the early twentieth century. Wright journeys through his early childhood in this semi-autobiographical book, not understanding that there is such a chasm between whites and blacks. He is...

Worth Jenifer discusses the first and second installments of Marjane Satrapi's novel Persepolis. The two novels are unconventional solo performances that can be read as an articulated solo performance that Satrapi would otherwise deny. Satrapis' Comic Relief and Social Change Satrapi provides comic light relief when juxtaposing the macabre imagery of revolt and...

Absurdism has been extensively used in representing Estragon in Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." This type can be used by an actor to recognize the character's role. This paper investigates how an actor should use absurdist methods and norms in representing Estragon as seen in Waiting for Godot. The use...

Introduction William Butler Yeats' second coming poetry depicts a theme centered on the connection between politics and the arts. William Yeats, a poet, argues that the British government's intervention in the Irish political system resulted in bad politics, which in turn produced a power play that enabled Britain to influence the...

Perceval, the Tale of the Grail Perceval, the Tale of the Grail is an unfinished romance story written by Chrétien de Troyes, most likely in the 12th century, though the precise year is unknown. The novel, like other literary works published at the time, contains various incidents of superstition mixed with...