A piece of literature will be acknowledged with acceptation into a literary canon. ... This is not meant to devalue what effect taste has to do with literature and understanding literary movements. ... Quality from my perspective has to to with how the literary piece catches my attention. ... If not that, they contain a moral lesson that guides the reader into understanding what things one should avoid to prevent the themes of dystopian fiction to become the salty favoring to the autobiography of our own lives....

• Word Count: 638
• Approx Pages: 3
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Both authors use narrative perspective, setting, and situational irony to illustrate the theme of isolation in the literature. ... The use of setting in both works is used to further demonstrate the theme of isolation. ... In both literary works, the authors use setting to demonstrate the social separations and alienation of the characters from their communities. Situational irony is another literary device used to convey the theme of isolation in both of the literary works. ... William Faulkner and Edwin Arlington Robinson use a first person pleural narrator, setting, and situational iro...

• Word Count: 1022
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ernest Hemingway uses a literary style called the "Iceberg Theory" to convey only the information that he feels is pertinent, and leaves the rest to the reader to determine. ... Both Kafka and Hemingway exhibit, through their styles of writing, ambiguous meanings, implied motifs, and similar hidden themes. ... This is particularly the case in Hemingway's short story because of his creation of the literary style called, "The Iceberg Theory". ... The conscious literary choice to use the iceberg principle in "Hills Like White Elephants," and the unintended tran...

• Word Count: 3072
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Soon after her birth, her family moved several times to various Quaker communities in the rural south, which would eventually show through in her somewhat Southern literary style. ... Tyler's love and deep interest in her family is often reflected in the themes of her works. ... In Saint Maybe Tyler explores the theme of guilt within a discontented middle-class family with a surprisingly optimistic undercurrent suggesting that no matter what happens, life goes on. In Tyler's second novel, The Tin Can Tree, the feeling of stagnation of life and a person's sense of identity cre...

• Word Count: 834
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The professor has memorized literary works in the hopes that one day he will be called upon to recite them so that they may be re-written. ... While Beatty's character vehemently detests books and those who read them, paradoxically, he is well educated and often includes literary references in each of his conversations with Montag. ... Bowels add dimension with their respective story lines, the exclusion of any of these characters would not detract from the story's overall theme. ...

• Word Count: 239
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David punter describes the political relationship of the Augustan thinker to the literary world, " It is tempting to see in Augustanism the doctrine of a small cultural elite holding on to power and status under increasing pressure, and that pressure as precisely that exerted by the new reading public on the homogeneity of the old literary establishment (p 31 Punter). ... Johnson, on the other hand, was a firm believer in these literary rules and yet it was his "Preface to Shakespeare" which became the first significant breach in these limitations. ... The Augustan approach was intellectual wi...

• Word Count: 1271
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

David punter describes the political relationship of the Augustan thinker to the literary world, " It is tempting to see in Augustanism the doctrine of a small cultural elite holding on to power and status under increasing pressure, and that pressure as precisely that exerted by the new reading public on the homogeneity of the old literary establishment (p 31 Punter). ... Johnson, on the other hand, was a firm believer in these literary rules and yet it was his "Preface to Shakespeare" which became the first significant breach in these limitations. ... The Augustan approach was intellectual wi...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The variety of passionately displayed themes, interactions, and events presented in The Bluest Eye provide an understanding of Toni Morrison's inner thoughts and beliefs which were highly impacted by her various life experiences. ... She writes about several different themes including good and evil, love and hate, beauty and ugliness, friendship, and death. ...

• Word Count: 2626
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These techniques are important in analyzing the novel of Madame Bovary as a whole and in understanding the several themes and motifs. ... Evans' review of the beggar's emblematic significance to the story's characters and themes gives a more in-depth revelation of Emma's tragedy. ... These books reflected the more exuberant aspects of Romanticism, a literary and artistic movement that focused on the expression of the emotional and imaginative life of the individual. ... Evans provides a detailed overview of the beggar's physical ailments, and then interjects, ...

• Word Count: 1106
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George Orwell, a profound literary figure in his own right, said: "the worst books are often the most important because they are usually the ones that are read earliest in life- (Hunt, 1). Because of this lack of acknowledgment by the literary establishment, the critic P. Hunt maintains that children's books should be displaced from the literary canon altogether (7). But when viewed from both a critical and emotional standpoint, children's literature occupies a very dense subgroup of the Literary Canon. ... It has been said that Little Women has in it the universal theme of human ...

• Word Count: 1473
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Discuss, with close attention to characterization, style and themes. ... These changes in Elizabeth are shown most strongly through her interactions with Darcy, a character who also embodies the central theme of overcoming one's prejudices. ... A major literary device that Austen uses to enhance characterization in her novels, and particularly Pride and Prejudice, is dialogue. ... This theme is central to Pride and Prejudice and the object of some scorn from Jane Austen. ... These skills are integral to serving the themes of the novel, and to the style and characterization employed b...

• Word Count: 998
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The first line of the novel examines the notion of a blurred true/false reality in the novel, whereas the tagline from the movie brings in the theme of a conflict between cultures. The essay will further examine the similarities and differences between the literary text and the film adaptation through a consideration of the variations on the original (style and content), and how these variations in the adaptation change the meaning and effect of the original. ... The director of the movie though, maintains the comedic nature of the film as a way of allowing the adaptation to address the same ...

• Word Count: 1319
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" Rejecting these concepts was among many of the cultural forces that drove literary modernism. ... Modernism, as a literary style is built upon the ideas and concepts found in both literary naturalism and realism; All together the beliefs in these theories reject the basis and ideals of romanticism. ... A main theme in "The Open Boat" is the idea of that constant fear that is lingering in human nature regarding the unpredictable nature of death. ... Gustave Flaubert as a modernist literary legend was a master at the precision of detail in his novel and this emphasized the...

• Word Count: 3767
• Approx Pages: 15
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hopkins often uses intense themes such as drug addiction, mental illness, abuse, and prostitution to hold the attention of her readers. ... Along with the literary techniques utilized by Hopkins, she also sparks intrigue through her unique placement of words on the page. ... Through her many literary techniques, Ellen Hopkins has created a new genre of writing. ...

• Word Count: 875
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The literary elements of plot development, characterisation, setting and themes, combined with the characteristics of the text, allow the novel to conform to and challenge the classical approach of detective fiction while exploring interesting ideas about power, corruption and life's facades. ... Another example of Day's use of the setting to get across key themes gives an insight into the criminal underbelly which will feature heavily in the story, while also describing the scene. ...

• Word Count: 1114
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Although the contexts of the different times that Emma and Clueless were composed alter considerably from one another, the themes of vanity, marriage, deception, social rank and social values, and are still communicated through both texts. ... Austen employs large sections of dialogue and utilizes sophisticated and often complicated sentence structure to convey the themes of Emma. ... Though the language that Jane Austen has utilized in Emma has transformed to accommodate modern responders of Clueless, the values and themes communicated through these literary vehicles are essentially identi...

• Word Count: 1742
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

McEwan utilizes literature to provide insight into human nature through his clever interpretation of humanity's fragility at the mercy of war along with literary preservation through history. 1. ... Writers write with the purpose of presenting and explaining some sort of universal theme relating to human life, which survives in history through generations, along with the stories they create, because they are written down and read by others who keep that tradition and the values connected with it ongoing. ...

• Word Count: 1179
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Aphra Behn is a complicated figure within English theatrical history. As the first woman in England to classify herself as a professional writer and playwright, she wrote to support herself and to prove a point during a time when women were deemed subordinate to men. She was a commoner among royals, revolting against the societal norms of her time with her vulgar, yet ingeniously crafty works. Behn's influence extends far beyond being just a writer of her time period; rather, she left a mark as a pillar of English literature. She was an adventurist, an abolitionist, feminist, and civil r...

• Word Count: 2238
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The term "Frankenstein" has undergone sequences of alterations, and an elongated lifetime than its carrier, Victor Frankenstein. The memoir of the title can likewise be perceived as more intensely appealing than that of the expert scientist. Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, has certainly origin...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate