Category: Literature 5177

  • “Pamphilia to Amphilanthus” by Lady Mary Wroth

    Table of Contents Introduction Character Analysis Thematic Analysis Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is a sonnet sequence by Lady Mary Wroth, written in the seventeenth century. The 105 sonnets can be divided into four unequal parts, during which the author addresses various issues. While traditionally, the poems are considered to discuss the hardships…

  • “A Sorrowful Woman” Short Story by Gail Godwin

    The protagonist in Gail Godwin’s short tale A Sorrowful Woman is a woman and parent who, after becoming overburdened with her spouse and kid, withdraws from them and progressively cuts them off from her existence. She tries on different roles after becoming dissatisfied with her duties as a responsible wife and mother but discovers that…

  • Rashomon by Akutagawa: A Short Story Analysis

    The narrator in the story under consideration plays the role of a modernist, interpreting the servant’s consciousness in everything and not just conveying his actions. This story is one of Akutagawa’s shortest works, but it is very memorable because of the complexity and multilevel nature of the narrative. The author raises such an issue as…

  • “The Devil and Tom Walker” Short Story by Washington Irving

    There are many different negative features that are common for people of all times, be it the eighteenth or the twenty-first century. Greed, indifference, anger, corruption, immorality, and the readiness to sin for one’s own benefit destroy humans and everything good in society. To show the full horror of the prevalence of evil and greed,…

  • Love and Madness in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”

    The tone of drama is usually dictated by its beginning so that the reader can anticipate the ending reading the first scenes of the play. This tendency seems inapplicable to Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”, in which the atmosphere of chaos, spontaneous love, and madness is established in the introductory scenes, which acquaint the reader to the…

  • Moral Rightness in “Outlaws of the Marsh” by Shi Nai’an

    Outlaws of the Marsh or Water Margin is a classic 14th-century Chinese novel written by Shi Nai’an. The plot of the story, which has four volumes and from 100 to 120 chapters, tells about the adventures of 108 demons that incarnated in the form of people and became noble robbers living on Mount Liangshan. Their…

  • Plot & Themes in Bidpai’s “The Camel and His Friends”

    The Camel and His Friends is a short story, which was written as one of the five chapters of beast fables from India called Panchatantra. The story is attributed to a sage named Bidpai, who is thought to be the original narrator. In India, Bidpai is a legendary figure and little is known about him…

  • Comedy Play “Tartuffe”: A Character Study

    Tartuffe is one of Moliere’s most famous comedy plays. Although the first version was published back in 1669, the play is still present in the repertoire of modern theater companies. The reason for this is the bright comedy plot, as well as memorable characters. This essay aims to analyze one of the critical characters of…

  • The Poem “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath

    Introduction An intensely tumultuous beat runs through the poem Daddy by Sylvia Plath. She composes a poem about her father, Otto Plath, as an experience, including an unsolved complicated relationship. Plath regarded her father so highly that she alluded to him as an idol and a Nazi while comparing his personality traits to Hitler’s. There…

  • Cherie Dimaline’s “Marrow Thieves” Novel Analysis

    From the Marrow Thieves, the narrator of the novel is a sixteen-year-old Métis lad. Francis is his given name; however, he is rarely addressed as such. By the age of eleven, Frenchie had lost his father, mother, and older brother, Mitch. Frenchie is profoundly affected by his parents’ absences. Even though he adores his family,…