Literary Genre Essay Examples and Research Papers Page 13

Edgar Allan Poe is known for his modern detective stories as well as his works in the science fiction genre. This versatile writer’s collective works include “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “The Raven”. He also wrote a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and many short stories (Poe’s Biography). Poe’s popularity today is primarily due to…

Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Cask of Amontillado” is one of the most famous tales of horror ever written. Montresor, the story’s narrator, plots revenge on Fortunato. Montresor lures Fortunato into the family catacombs with the promise of fine wine. At the climax of the story, Montresor chains Fortunato to a wall and seals him away…

Jack London, an American writer, has written a short story ‘To Build a Fire’ published in 1908. The narrator assumes the third person narration technique by taking the role of a keen distance observer who recounts all the events that unravel in the life of the protagonist and his dog. The author employs a vivid…

Feminism in film is usually approached through serious topics like the suffragette’s movement or sensational leaders dotting the 20th century. In the 1930s, however, feminism took a subtler form in romantic comedies, particularly the screwball comedy. While directors of screwball comedies do not make it a point to prioritize traditional feminist ideology and its goal…

The Curious Savage is a quick-witted and quirky comedy performed at the Southeast Whitfield County High School theater by Dalton State College of Communication and Theatre. It tells the story of an elderly and recently widow Ethel Savage (Adrian Thompson), whose husband left behind a large inheritance of $10 million in bonds. She plans to…

Nelly responds to situations with a certain busy-body-ness, dogged self-interest, and inflated sense of moral authority. Nelly rejects her own culpability in events, and expresses a desire to avoid in the present moment any drama, embarrassment, or overt challenge to the patriarchal status quo, which the more “passionate” and “rebellious” characters typically cause—much to her…

“The Graduation” is an inspirational narrative of Maya Angelou’s 8th class graduation. She uses really powerful descriptive words to explicate her milieus for illustration. Unlike the white high school. Lafayette County Training School distinguished itself by holding neither lawn. nor hedges. nor tennis tribunal. nor mounting Hedera helix. Its two edifices ( chief schoolroom. the…

​Chapter 1/pg.1:​ Dickens opens the book by saying ‘it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of…

Dystopian Fiction is a very important genre for our time, as it warns us of problems that could affect us in the future if we don’t change our ways. For this project, I compared three books; 1984, Hunger Games and Wall-E. Each of these books demonstrates different aspects about our society and they relate to…

To yearn for something unnatural to your own being is unproductive and unsatisfying. Throughout Morrison’s novel, Pecola Breedlove underwent a journey of ridicule, self-discovery, and self-appreciation, a journey that people of this time needed to take because the pressures of Whiteness imposed upon and accepted by the Black Community created loads of self-hatred and low…