Literary Genre Essay Examples and Research Papers Page 11

In Medieval times, millers operated and worked on the mill where grain was ground to make flour. In the feudal system, millers were generally lower in the social hierarchy, but were important and crucial laborers in every community. In The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, the Miller is the lowest ranked of all of those…

Poetry is more than just a seemingly complex set of words strung together. Often, poetry is rather simple; it is meant only to express what a writer might be too afraid to say out loud. Poetry is hard to define—it is as arguable as, “what is art?” Everything is art, and technically all written or…

“The Story of an Hour” is about a woman who feels unhappy and trapped within her marriage and becomes free when she hears the news of her death then dies when she realizes he not dead. The first sentence foreshadows the end story by talking about her heart condition and making the ending sound believable….

George Orwell’s Nighteen Eighty-Four powerfully expresses the definition of a dystopian society, a society where greed takes control to illuminate an individual’s freedom and their role in the community. 1984 collides with the loss of identity and thought as a way for the government. Dystopian stories are often written to immerse humans into a world…

Holocaust denial, “the act of denying the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust during World War II”, has become a very interesting idea supporting numerous controversial claims. These claims being extremely ignorant, include the fact that figure of 5 to 6 million Jewish deaths was an extreme exaggeration. But in Night, a personal autobiography documenting…

In the play Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus touches one of the fundamental political problems – the nature and essence of power. The bearer of the highest and unlimited power in this play is Zeus. Aeschylus endows him with features that do not evoke sympathy from the audience: Zeus in this tragedy is despotic, cruel, and, at…

In “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer, Chaucer begins his writing by describing several different individuals whom he would be going on a pilgrimage with to see the shrine of Thomas A. Beckett. Chaucer would be experiencing this pilgrimage with twenty-nine other individuals, each with a distinct personality and background. During the pilgrimage, Harry Bailey,…

Summary of Book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson is a compelling story expressing the injustice of legal practices predominantly in southern states. Throughout the novel Stevenson exposes his audience to a handful of death row cases he worked on first hand. One of the most controversial cases Stevenson worked on was that of Walter McMillian,…

In A Tale of Two Cities, to develop themes, Charles Dickens uses the color red, the evil Marquis, and Young Jerry’s experience. Dickens also uses the gallows, mobs, and funeral shrouds to create moods. Finally, Dickens develops characters with Mr. Manette, the Marquis, and Mr. Lorry. Charles Dickens, in A Tale of Two Cities, develops…

Sophocles’ Antigone communicates the desire for power and the struggle that erupts between Antigone and Creon who is her uncle and King of Thebes. Both characters dissent from each other in the way that Antigone’s brother Polynices is to be buried. Creon and Antigone, being consistent in their morals, are stubborn individuals. At the conclusion…