What is literature? ... What is literature? What is literary study? ... Literary work is not a simple object but rather a highly complex organization of a stratified character with multiple meanings and relationships. ... If one then believes that 'writing in the sense of fiction' is the meaning of literature then who is it that decides what is true and untrue - and thus ultimately, literature? ...

• Word Count: 5585
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The two angels represent his choice between Christian good conscience and the path to eternal damnation (Marlowe 8). ... The readers' attention is focused on Faustus' intention to use the power and on what he wants to achieve outside the academic knowledge he possesses. As the agreement indicates, Mephistopheles returns and Faustus keeps his promise and signs away his soul; he signs the oath with his own blood and writes on his arm the words ˜Homo fuge' meaning ˜Fly, man'. ... The readers get aware of Richard's intentions early in the play, and they...

• Word Count: 4910
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To label Goblin Market as a children's poem opens the door for Rossetti to explore "themes of the evil of self-indulgence, the fraudulence of sensuous beauty and the supreme duty of renunciation [which] become all the more sinister when disguised as whimsical child's play", without blatantly acknowledging to herself or to her readers that this is what she is doing. ... While the relationship between the two sisters is never made clear, there are instances when the poem can be read as hinting towards homosexuality. ... While Goblin Market could be said to explore an infantile sexuali...

• Word Count: 3193
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography

She is skilled at image-making, " the images themselves are important for what they tell us of her sense of being victimized and victimizer but more significant than the actual image is the swift ease with which she can turn it to various uses- (Uroff). ... The images themselves are important for what they tell us of "her sense of being victimized and victimizer but more significant the actual image is the swift ease with which she can turn in to various uses- (Uroff). ... Plath uses a comparison between her father and the devil to emphasis her attitudes toward him. ... And then I knew what...

• Word Count: 2858
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School