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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Play Review: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar The play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde is a play that tells the differences between the manners of the upper class and that of the lower class with irony and …
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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 …
Critical Review: To His Coy Poem The two critical approaches I thought reflected my poem was Reader- Response and Archetypal. The reason I chose reader- response is to me it leads you to interpret on what you think the author …
Critical Review: “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos” also known as “Deportee” by Woody Guthrie He two critical approached I chose to analyze “Plane Wreck as Los Gatos” are new historicism and cultural criticism. In 1948 a U.S. Immigration Service plane …
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Critical Review: The Lake Isle of Innisfree Poem Reader-Response criticism is what I find myself often doing naturally when reading a poem; I have an assumption that all poetry is from the authors experience and that in some ways the …
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Critical Review: “My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet The poem “My Dear and Loving Husband” was written in the mid-seventeenth century by Anne Bradstreet. Anne was the first published American author and a woman, though she was not …
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Critical Review: “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie is the popular song remembered most likely from elementary school years. From first reading the poem, tons of imagery is identified the …
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Critical Review: “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” by Dylan Thomas The two critical approaches I chose are biographical criticism and reader-response. The reason I chose biographical criticism is because the author died at a relatively young age …
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