Literary Genre Essay Examples and Research Papers Page 13

Voltaire’s adventurous, yet satirical, story of Candide sheds light on not only the extreme optimism that some possess, but also deep pessimism as well. From the start of Candide’s treacherous, yet enlightening, journey in Chapter 1, that takes place in the German province of Westphalia to this final destination in Constantinople in Chapter 30 of…

Baba is presented as a very generous man but Amir disagrees outside the orphanage, the next day, they had ran out of chairs. A lot of people had to stand and watch the ceremony this quote shows Babas generosity as out of his own money Baba builds an orphanage. This also shows his determination and…

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…

Being as my major is psychology I can break this down to a deeper meaning. In a psychology class I learned that our subconscious does try to tell us things that we need to know through dreams for survival. Sigmund Freud has said that our subconsciousness tries to tell us things through dreams. Here I’ll…

“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…

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…

​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…