Essays Tagged: "Prose"
Effective Usage of Sound in Jaques "All the world's a stage" speech.
As infamous as Shakespeare is, and as well known as his works are, some proseare just simply more extraordinary than the rest. There are many ways to look at Jaquesspeech, ... ch, such as use of language or imagery yet, something we often do not reflect on isthe sound of the prose. When reading this particular speech, the subject is directlyrelated to the sounds Shakespeare ... t age. Words associatedwith lovers are soft and flowing, much like those used by Shakespeare in the prose of thisage. "Sighing like furnace, with woeful ballad" (2.7.148), depict more emotion than see ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
tween the two sisters, but evolved to become the novel we know and read today (Bates). As a supreme prose stylist, Austen secured a lasting place in English literature.Jane Austen was born in Stevento ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Walt Whitman's view of the Civil War
se at the time, war was only viewed by those who had never seen the ugly side of it.Like a diary of prose, 'Drum Taps' follows the war and the attitudes that accompany such an event. A further example ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
A Critical Analysis of "The Parting" by Michael Drayton
m as possible. This distillation process means that the waffle that would have filled up a piece of prose has to be cut, and leaves a much clearer, less cluttered version of his feelings. Often, he ha ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
John Irving's "The World According to Garp"
cording to Garp, it has been said "His style is simplistic, almost childlike...'(55), and "Irving's prose is the prose of a poorly educated man-his vocabulary is uninspiring, his grammatical proprieti ... 5) I agree with all that has been said to an extent; Irving is by no means perfect when it comes to prose, grammar, and vocabulary, yet I laughed cried and mourned with the characters he created. The ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Howard Nemerov
'Nemerov's contribution to our literature--as a gifted writer of fiction and critical prose, but pre-eminently as a poet-- does not seem to me to have received as much celebrity as it de ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: Any man who tries to argue Jane Austen's ability to draw characters would be undoubtedly a fool, for the author's talent in that area of prose is hard to match.
n's ability to draw characters would be undoubtedly a fool, for the author's talent in that area of prose is hard to match. However even the most ardent fans of Austen will have to agree with the fact ... ls of truth hidden between the lines of jokes. Without him those who do not appreciate the author's prose and plot are in danger of boredom as well as missing or misinterpreting some major themes of t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The following essay stresses the importance of teaching literary theory to students in the secondary schools, allowing them to see the world from multiple perspectives.
self with it. Literature made him want to vomit. He could not understand the recondite and mystical prose that certainly did not bear any discernible relation to his life. He felt helpless, hopeless, ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Herodotus: Greek Historian
us, Thucydides, Machavelli, Plato, Sophocles, Theopompus, and Philistus in order to show Herodotus' prose, as well as to express arguments.Brief BiographyHerodotus was born to wealthy parents, Lyxes a ... s conclusions are wrong, his conclusion appears the most logical. (Flory, 1-157)Herodotus' style of prose moves effortlessly, going from one subject to the next. Many say that it can be deceiving as w ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Having looked at a variety of critical studies, and having weighed the evidence, what do you consider to be the most important motives behind Iago's actions in Shakespeare's 'Othello'?
ugh language; he adopts his talk to suit his purposes. When conversing with Roderigo, he uses blunt prose; "I follow him to serve my turn upon him", conveying his wily nature. His vicious tongue indic ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Description of the evolution of Romance literature and the use of heroism as a common theme
ed constant themes. When it originated, romances were written, as the are today, in either verse or prose, and typically involved legendary, supernatural, or amorous characters. As romances developed, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
This is a guide for the students on how they should study To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
ut her 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee employs many literary strategies to perfect her prose. These said methods are difficult to categorize, though it is simplest to divide her methods i ... rper Lee has intermingled a slew of metaphors with the books text, carefully sewn into the lines of prose. They include:-The rumor of Boo Radley being chained to a bed dismissed by Atticus, explaining ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Billy Budd by Herman Melville Term Paper over the Short Story Billy Budd, his life, why he wrote the book, and religious symbolism.
clusion in a volume of poetry to be called John Marr and other Sailors (1888), and Melville wrote a prose headnote to accompany it. Then the story began to grow and change in Melville's imagination, a ... d suggests that was he approached the end of his writing career, Melville rediscovered the power of prose fiction. It is if the story of the young sailor Billy Budd was too potent to be contained with ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
This essay is about the punishment of those with "unnatural tendencies" in the third ring of the seventh circle of Hell in Dante's "Inferno."
who was influential in Dante's early life. Throughout their exchange, Dante, through the art of his prose and particular word choice, portrays the sin(s) of his old friend and teacher that led him to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
A novel is an authors perception of the world - or is it? An analysis of 'The Well of Loneliness' by Radclyffe Hall and 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Wilde
keyboard could not have been invented without them. There is also the fact that the novel is where prose writing becomes art, and since all art is quite useless it would take a species with a spectac ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
A comparison of the characters in the poem (by Samuel Pepys) and short story (written by Elizabeth Bowen) both entitled 'Demond Lover'.
Many similarities exist between the poem version and the prose story both titled Demon Lover. Both works seem to be warnings of some kind or another to marri ... er other man, and is eventually punished for her decision. In the version of Demon Lover written in prose, the main character does not want to be with the man who is coming for her. One is led to beli ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
"Waiting for the Barbarians" by J.M. Coetzee.
this domination and struggle very well. Once I started this novel I couldn't put it down. Coetzee's prose was excellent.It was hard for me at first to relate or sympathize with the main character beca ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Analysis of Ted Hughes' "Last Night" & "That Girl".
atisfying these urges by means of casual sex. The structure of Hughes' "Last Night" reads more like prose, but Hughes emphasizes the continuation of birth and death by the repetition the image of a la ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
"Henry Purcell" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
oem. Alliteration is perhaps the most widely used of these, and if the poem were to be rewritten in prose form the effect of this would be lost. Other similar devices that would disappear if the poem ... his would be lost. Other similar devices that would disappear if the poem were to be written out in prose form would be the use of archaic language (and other unusual vocabulary), repetition, parallel ...
Subjects: Art Essays
The life of Ernest Hemingway.
lorful and most publicized man of his time while also being the most influential American writer of prose in the first half of the century."The baby weighed nine and a half pounds and was just an inch ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors