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The Wife of Bath: Female Empowerment In Medieval Europe women traditionally occupied specific gender roles. Some of these roles that women were expected to carry out included wife, peasant, artisan and nun. Women during this period were constantly told by society and the church that because of their gender they were meant to be weak…

In Ray Bradbury’s “August 2002: Night Meeting”, two beings have a random encounter that leads them to dispute the existence and reality of the other. Tomas Gomez is an Earthling living on Mars on his way to a party. While taking a break from driving, Tomas encounters a Martian named Muhe Ca. The two are…

The world where am I living is such a shitty place for me, that is why I want to find the best spot where no one else has known. My own Utopia. A place where only me can know or a place that is beyond the imagination of others. The perfect spot that I am…

Pip when we first see him in the book is made out to be a small, feeble eleven-year old boy who is an orphan and lives with his elder sister, Mrs. Gargery. He spends some of his time around his dead mother and numerous brothers in the graveyard. As he is an orphan, his elder…

Glenn Lord passed away on December 31, 2011. He was born on November 17, 1931 to the union of LeRoy and Lurline Lord in Pelican, LA.  Glenn served his country dutifully during the Korean War.  He retired from Champion Paper. He was also famous in own right as literary agent for Robert E. Howard.  He is preceded…

The Great Gatsby “What techniques does Fitzgerald use to convey the central ideas of The Great Gatsby? ” The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is primarily a social commentary on the state of American society during the post-war period of unprecedented affluence and prosperity. Fitzgerald depicts 1920’s America as an age of decline in…

The responsibility of Desdemona’s death falls on many different individuals throughout the play. Othello feels that it is entirely his fault and commits suicide while Cassio, Rodrigo, Emilia, and Brabantio all contribute to Iago’s plot and Desdemona failed to save her own life. However, one character, Iago, manipulated all of them. Othello was driven to…

F. Scott Fitzgerald believed that achieving the American Dream was unattainable, as depicted in The Great Gatsby through the eyes of Nick Caraway, the narrator. In the 1920s, life among the upper class revealed a superficial existence where distinguishing between reality and illusion became a struggle. Moreover, the influence of New York City during this…

Takes place in 1939. Takes place in Germany during Hitler’s rule. The narrator is Death Death introduces himself as the narrator. He sees the book thief for the first time on a train, then at a plane crash, and for the third time at a bombing. Death puts a color with each sighting:white, red, and…

After the Industrial Revolution, the English literature began to change its way from the period that people was concerned about the reason and materials to the time that people look more in to passion and see the beauty of nature again in the end of the 18th century. It is called “The Romantic Movement” of…