Literary Article Review: Elizabeth Cady Stanton piece “You Should Have Been a Boy” The piece is essentially the opening to Stanton’s life and it goes into detail to show how she formed the foundation of her life’s work on women’s …
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Literary Article Review: “The Lost Boys” by Sara Corbett” When reading this article, I could not help but be completely sucked into the story simply because of the emotion it caused me to feel. The tone of this article …
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The Merchant of Venice. By Shakespeare Many obvious themes and symbols of character conflict are found in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. There is a theme of a vindictive nature confined in Shylock as a grudgeful Jew with lots of money …
Another view on Shylock Shylock is an interesting character in The Merchant of Venice and seems to be set up as the main antagonist for the story. However, he has had to deal with Antonio and others berating himself and other Jews …
Shylock: Villain or Victim? The Merchant of Venice. By Shakespeare One of the strongest themes in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice is revenge. Shylock is a greedy Jewish moneylender who has been insulted, spit on, harassed, and made to suffer financial …
The Importance of Being Earnest- Gender and Class Conflict After reading a couple of pages of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, I thought reading it will be ok, but let’s see it being acted out somewhere. I was lucky …
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Defining Literary Movements Just as painters throughout history have had “movements” like realism, impressionism, and cubism…so have writers. These movements or “periods” generally coincide with historical time-frames and themes or styles of writing. For example, one movement I am sure you …
Petition to the President by Leo Szilard’s and co-signers The letter was intended to dissuade the US president from using nuclear weapons upon Japan during the 2nd world war. Upon analyzing the letter, one may argue that the authors (Szilard’s …
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Critical Evaluation of: “A Modest Proposal” By Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal has been written by Jonathan Swift in 1729 and it has been written about the sad fate of poor Irish who has always been in struggle to feed …
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The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd’: A Feminist Criticism of Raleigh’s Response to Marlowe Sir Walter Raleigh authored the poem “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” during the 1600s as a response to Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His …