Essays Tagged: "fictional"
Hamlet and Gertrude, love or hate
uation would be enough to bring great depression to even the strongest of souls but for Hamlet, the fictional prince of Denmark in Shakespeare's play of the same name, this is not his imagination but ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
A Watership Down by Richard Adams. This essay compares the functions of the rabbits to those functions of our society, making it more than a children's story.
originally created for the author's children on a car trip to Stratford. The story is not merely a fictional adventure created for children though. It has many aspects that reflect the modern world, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Eddie Vedder is a Vampire?
iric state. Either he has become a vampire, he believes himself to be a vampire, or he is leading a fictional double life, from which he draws inspiration for his lyrics.What exactly is a vampire? Num ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
book burning and censorship in Ray Bradbury's futuristic fiction "Fahrenheit 451"
breed to believe thatbooks are evil things. However, just as in all situations of this kind real or fictional, there is acertain spark misssing in life. We see it in George Orwell's 1984 and we also s ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
This essay was written about George Orwell's novel 1984. It has a small biography, a synopsis, theme, structural feature, literary merit, and 3 references
, and achieved successes as abrilliant writer.2. SynopsisThe novel takes place in a theoretical and fictional dystopiantotalitarian society. The story begins in London on April 4, 1984after an atomic ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"The Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton, a science fiction book
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton is a science fiction book aboutthe fictional 'first crisis' in the biological field. The book starts out bypointing out that technology ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" by Kesey. A bitter commentary on the condition of the American society
shes this theme through the brilliant manipulation of setting. Kesey uses the specific setting of a fictional mental asylum to represent the non-specific realities of the real world. The literary term ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Life and Works of Charles Dickens
g up in a poor family or having the life of a pauper in a big city. In these tales, though at times fictional, Dickens seems to portray his life as a child through his books. The time period about whi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
Reader Response to "Canterbury Tales" by Chaucer
In his prologue, Geoffrey Chaucer introduces all of the characters who are involved in this fictional journey and who will tell the tales. One of the more interesting of the characters include ... t is today, and he was simply giving the people an ideal character to admire. He never intended his fictional star to be interpreted as a reality, and he was only giving his readers what they wanted. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucher
General George A. Custer comparred to one of his soldiers.
as viciously ambushed by Indians for no apparent reason. During elementary school we are taught the fictional side of history, the history that made Americans great. We have to do our own research to ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
General George A. Custer comparred to one of his soldiers, Frank Finkel
as viciously ambushed by Indians for no apparent reason. During elementary school we are taught the fictional side of history, the history that made Americans great. We have to do our own research to ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Essay on Themes Presented in Song Lyrics: Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Please ask for me to e-mail the original if you like it, as most errors in it are caused by the website).
procrastination, and societal decline.Corrupt leadership is a common theme, encountered not only in fictional realities, but those of the world that we are confined within day-to-day. Chapter eight pr ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing
"Civil Disobedience" vs "Huck Finn" (a contrast between authors and ideas)
rnment. Mark Twain was another writer during a somewhat later time period than Thoreau. Twain was a fictional writer, however his stories were based upon real life ideas and experiences. In on of his ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
The effects and Implications of Sin in The Scarlet Letter: This is an essay about how sin effected the different characters in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
is story deals with problems of secret sin and the guilt of a tortured conscience. Hawthorne uses a fictional symbol and a fictional woman to weave a tale with ageless significance. The Scarlet Letter ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
This is an essay about the symbolism regarding the roles of Women In Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man'.
ole of the Invisible man's victim. For example, the Sybil character is literally trying to create a fictional role-playing situation of the rapist and his victim. The stripper's role at the smoker was ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
How does Robinson Crusoe recall and represent his younger self to an imagined reader?'
The story of Robinson Crusoe although a fictional tale is rooted through the experiences of Alexander Selkirk and various other contributors ... t contains realms of social, moral and theological ideas as well as parts Defoe's life and Crusoe's fictional life. Even though the twenty-eight years Crusoe spends on his island appear to mimic in so ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Bless Me Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
hat the main character, Antonio, feels and you see what he sees. The book goes from being a normal, fictional reading to an actual experience through the author's eyes. You can't help but wonder if wh ... mbine to make a literary masterpiece. The many realistic aspects of this novel balance out the very fictional aspects to make the reading more believable. When you can feel all of the different emotio ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Nella Larsen's novel "Quicksand" defies any stereotypes about black women during the Harlem Renaissance.
life, yet is constantly unsatisfied with her available roles. I was personally offended when this fictional woman, Helga Crane, was given opportunity after opportunity, first a decent job at a well- ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
The Nine-Year-Old He Carried: Linda's role in Tim O'Brien's They Things They Carried.
oldiers like himself in the Vietnam War. Though the reader learns that the majority of the story is fictional, the overall message is powerful. To achieve this, O'Brien uses a mix of narratives, perso ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Analysis of STORY OF AN HOUR by Kate Choplin
In 1894, Kate Chopin wrote, "The Story of an Hour." In this fictional tale the author describes the experience of Louise Mallard, a woman with heart trouble, im ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers