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Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism, edited by Devoney Looser, is a collection of original essays designed to take the measure of current feminist thinking about Austen and to establish, as it were, a kind of feminist context for that thinking. In “Privacy, Privilege, and ‘Poaching’ in Mansfield Park,” the penultimate essay, Ellen Gardiner observes…

Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire of Long Island, may be a fraud and a rimming but readers see Gatsby as a sympathetic figure and root for Gatsby. Gatsby is like any other person. As a young boy, Gatsby dreamed Of living a successful life like many young adults do. He equates a successful life to lifting…

What are personal desires and how do we choose between them and conforming? The decision between desires and conforming is a challenging one we all face. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the conflict between our desires and conforming is vividly portrayed. Conforming can be tough when we have personal desires. The novel…

Depiction of natives in heart of darkness: Among the most powerful and bizarre images in colonial discourse is that of the black cannibals. In Heart of Darkness the well-known theme is adopted in order to make the setting of the narrative more realistic. The best part of Marrows crew consists of cannibals who help him…

In Night, a novel by Lie Wisest, a dark sky looms over Lie and his family. Weasel’s declaration of intolerance toward the Jewish communities denial of human did unity by the Nazi party speaks to why this book is celebrated and studied. Wisely’ firsthand d experience incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps and careful descriptions of…

How does Hamlet fall into the pit of despair in Act 1? Hamlets soliloquy reveals a whole range of captivated emotions. These emotions are all released at the same time leaving him slightly suicidal. We are shown that he is profoundly upset, mostly by what his mother has done as throughout the act, Hamlet’s anger…

They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of…

Macbeth Motifs Essay, Research Paper Macbeth Motif Essay William Shakespeare, in his tragic drama Macbeth, written in 1606, dramatizes the grim power of misrepresentation, insanity, and greed which finally consequences in the death of Macbeth. Macbeth allowed his desire to go male monarch overrule his opinion which consummately terminated his being. The drama is full…

There are several characters that I consider to play a part in Othello’s downfall, one of which is Desdemona. If Othello’s fatal flat was jealousy, then it could be said that Desdemona’s was generosity. When Othello dismisses Cassio as his lieutenant, Desdemona, sensing the injustice assures Cassio she will do all that she can to…

Homer:His Life and His WorksGreeks had used writing since c. 1400 BC, but it was not until the late 8th century BC that their literature was first written down. Greek literature began in Ionia with the brilliant epics of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey. These mature products of a long tradition of oral poetry…