English Literature

Kate Chopin was thought to be ahead of her time in the views and telling of the misfortunes of feminism and slavery.  The injustice of the times is seen in many of her works, but the story of Desirees Baby takes the injustice as step further.  The story shows the ability of misinterpretation when one uses sight to know the race of another.  So like the critic Wai-chee Dimock, the injustice in Desirees Baby was the attribution of the misinterpreted racial identity of Desiree. The...

Marijuana is a preparation for use as a psychoactive drug from a plant known as the cannabis sativa, commonly known as the hemp plant. This preparation is mostly used in dried form. Almost every part of the plant is dried for use as a drug. There are different types of hemp plants grown around the globe. These include the Shiva shanty, the blue berry, the northern lights, and the white window. Marijuana forms the largest part of the most commonly abused drugs. It is mostly consumed as a cigarette....

The central theme of the story is about guilt, a psychological state in which Hawthorne constantly explores. The protagonist, Reuben Bourne, is tormented at the brink of insanity because of the guilty feeling. The story made people think that if Reuben has the reason to fell guilty. He left his companion, Roger Malvin, to die. However, the old man requested Reuben to leave and survive. Moreover, Reuben failed to fulfill his promise to Roger Malvin to go back on the rock and bury his bones and say...

Roger Malvins Burial is one of the short stories collections of Nataniel Hawthorne which primarily concerns two colonial survivors returning home after a battle. The story begins after Lovewells Fight, series of colonial conflicts in North America. Survivors of the battle Roger Malvin, an elderly soldier, and Reuben Bourne, a young one, try to get a human settlement through the woods. Though both are wounded and weak, they still fight for their survival. The older man however, knowing that he will...

Romanticism, (1790-1850), the beautiful and vibrant word, has thrilled young hearts through the ages. It has many connotations.  It hints at the Romance languages, but eludes them and had its origin and development in Germany and England. Coinciding with many revolutions, including the industrial revolution, it has the same spirit at its centre. So powerful, is the core that some of its precepts have found its way even to the twenty first century (Introduction to Romanticism. 2010). Thus in...

Student (me) What do you think about the problem posing approach being adopted by the physical therapy program youre having Do you think it is helping you Sister (patient) Yes, I think its a great experience because we really hit the goal of the therapy and that is to help me recoup my verbal skills again, in a way that is not stressful for me. Student (me) Are you learning from the therapist She just asks you questions and you just answer, how do you think learning comes in Sister (patient)...

Angela Carters The Wise Children and Carol Ann Duffys The Worlds Wife present two quite distinctive views of feminine agency which become quite apparent when the two works are compared.  Duffy, for instance, seems to be arguing for pure equality between the sexes, as she recasts classic works with masculine protagonists replaced with female ones.  Her choice of works, however, is what illustrates equality rather than superiority.  For every poem such as Anne Hathaway that reinvents...

There are many stories and poems written by Edgar Allen Poe, but the Cask of Amontillado is a vicious, cold-blooded story that uses symbolism and irony to tell the tale.  The basic plot of the story is revenge, and while the reader does not know what the exact offense occurred from the words of author within the very first sentence of the story.  He sets the storys theme of revenge saying, The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could but when he ventured upon insult,...

Crash is an Oscar-winning and highly-acclaimed film that addressed the variation in ethnicities and addressed the present diversity in the contemporary American society. The characters in the movie portrayed people from different ethnicities. The movie also portrayed the stereotypes associated with the different races. The film was exalted for its accurate portrayal of discussions only held in intimate and covert settings. The movie projected the conversations that illuminate the relationship between...

Vladimir and Estragon, and Pozzo and Lucky are more similar than it seems. Does this hold some significance in Samuel Becketts play Waiting for Godot The comparison between these two sets of characters holds a deeper meaning then what is presented out in the open. Vladimir and Estragon need each other, even when they have both said that they would be happier with out the other, and compared to Pozzo and Lucky they are in many ways the same, especially with their need of domination and submission,...

Religion and God are two topics that show up, intentionally or subliminally, in most pieces of literature. Because religion is present in some form in the lives of most people, it stands to reason that it is usually a contributing influence or driving force in the works of writers. Religion is not necessarily a positive presence in literature in fact, it frequently causes turmoil or angst in characters. The conflict of religion in humanity and the way that religious views and events affect people...

Michael Novacek wrote with complete control of a subject that is very familiar to him since he is a scientist. In The Sixth Extinction he had presented facts and statistics that supported theories of histories of annihilations of living things. These extinctions came before the existence of human form. With or without human interventions, circumstances will happen that would cause these phenomena.  This is not to excuse the human involvement to what happened to our environment today, in fact, every...

Alias Grace, a mixture of authorial invention and historical facts and fiction, is a rich source of intertextuality. Margaret Atwood has reconstructed the nineteenth century historical fiction based on an iniquitous twin murder trial  and this very evident when Grace while adeptly sewing Tree of Paradise quilt remarks that she has changed the quilts pattern a little to suit (her) own ideas (459) where the quilt with a adapted pattern symbolizes intertextuality. This research paper delves into...