Literary Genre Essay Examples and Research Papers Page 9

The book 1984 by George Orwell is a dystopia about a Totalitarian political regime. The main character in the book is Winston, who is part of the outer party, he works in the Ministry of Truth. Winston’s job is to rewrite history to match what the party says is true. The Party represents the government…

Some people are remembered forever in the hearts and minds of those that have been impacted by that person. This allows for their name to live eternally, much after their existing presence. However, what truly sets these people apart from others is the fact that they are selfless. In Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two…

Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen, is a bildungsroman that follows the life of Catherine Morland. Catherine is the “heroine” of the novel, however, Austen makes sure that she doesn’t embody the typical gothic definition of the heroine but rather that of an ordinary and relatable young girl. Much to her dismay, her intelligence, wealth, beauty…

A tragic hero is a character who makes a judgement error that eventually leads to their downfall. Oedipus is an example about a tragic hero. The play is about a tragic hero, Oedipus. He did not have control over his fate, since he was prophesied from birth. When he was an infant, an prophet prophesied…

Literature is a word derived from the Latin word ‘litteratura’ meaning ‘writing formed with letters’. According to James Ellis, Literature is the garden of wisdom. Roberto Bolano utters that Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a…

Aristotle (384-322) B.C. defines plot as the ‘soul of tragedy’ and has given much importance on it. ‘The arrangement of incidents’ (Ch.6) is what Aristotle describes the concept of plot. The story is formed through the incidents which serve as the raw material and the way in which these events are structured into a rational…

The Slaughterhouse Five, a novel written by Kurt Vonnegut, centers around the life of the protagonist and solo character Billy Pilgrim. Pilgrim grew up in New York and was very intelligent during his youth. He took Optometry classes and eventually was drafted into World War II. Prior to being shipped off, his father died. Death…

Although this description of Miss Manette seems to be more imagery than character analysis, we can see in the extensive way that Mr. Lorry describes her that he is misogynistic. Men typically only notice so many things about a woman’s appearance because all they see in their character is the female gender. When Mr. Lorry…

In the novel ‘Persepolis’ so far, the author, Marjane Satrapi, introduces the reader to her own life experiences. She talks about her experiences in the first person and explains everyone in her life at the time. She introduces us to Mehri, her babysitter. Mehri left her home when she was eight, so she could work…

Both themes of two works from Jojo Moyes and John Green are obviously a romance type of stories. The obvious thing is that both stories have sad endings. The difference is that the characters from The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, which are Hazel and Augustus, they both have diseases which are cancer,…