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The essay “Mother Tongue” and the novel Joy Luck Club are both written by Amy Tan who is the second generation of Chinese immigrations. “Mother Tongue” sheds significant light on her novel Joy Luck Club that can help in the understanding of the novel and the development of the four daughters. In her essay, she…

Wordsworth, more than any other great English poet, is a poet for mature and thoughtful appreciation; except for a very small part of his work, many readers must gradually acquire the taste for him. But of his position among the half dozen English poets who have made the largest contribution to thought and life there…

In The Odyssey loyalty is an important theme that has an effect on the entire epic novel. By its definition loyalty means a feeling of support or allegiance to someone or something. In this epic is four major examples that convey loyalty, which is shown by Penelope, Telemachus, the servants, and Odysseus. Penelope is the…

The term “Crucible” has both a literal and metaphorical meaning. Literally, it refers to a container used for heating substances to high temperatures. Metaphorically, it represents a severe trial or test. Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, explores this latter meaning. Set in Salem Massachusetts during the notorious Salem Witch Trials, the story delves into the…

There are three important messages that we all can understand and learn from in Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue”. Firstly, and most importantly, Tan wants to convey the message that words are more than just words and sometimes we must read between them to fully understand their meaning. Another message conveyed in this essay is that…

Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ are both poems that protest against and depict the subject of war. They both follow Wilfred Owen’s angst against those who encourage war and the savagery of warfare that he experienced himself. His poetry was devised to strike at the conscience of England during…

Hamlet and the Psychological approach After enveloping myself in the world of Shakespeare’s tragic play/story of Hamlet, I without a doubt believe that the best way for me to critically analyze the literature is to approach it in a psychological critic mindset. In relations to Hamlet a question keeps intriguing my mind, in which, why…

Edgar Allan Poe was a very dark and dramatic writer. All of his stories require the audience to reread his works of art because there are so many elements incorporated into them that it would be impossible to understand everything after just one reading. His stories drip with irony and reveal mysteries in an interesting…

Thesis: Napoleon is not a democratic leader, he is a dictator. George Orwell, the author of Animal Farm, wrote this novel to discuss the role of a non-democratic leader. In the novel, Napoleon, a pig, is the leader. However, Napoleon uses his power to frighten and to control the animals. For this reason he creates…

1997: Novels and plays often include scenes of weddings, funerals, parties, and other social occasions. Such scenes may reveal the values of the characters and the society in which they live. Select a novel or play that includes such a scene and, in a focused essay, discuss the contribution the scene makes to the meaning…