European Literature Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (9,457) essays
European Literature essays:
A Tale Of Three Classes. A Marxist Criticism on 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde
... Victorian era a new class was being born that integrated the two distinct upper class and lower class, that class was the Bourgeoisie, or the middle class. Wilde put this new class into his play with grand success. They were a class of business ...
"Eveline" by James Joyce, -- A Character Analysis
... dead mother's sake (Joyce 5)." Eveline wants a new life but is afraid to let go of her past. She dreams of a place where "people would treat her with respect (Joyce 4)" and when contemplating her future, hopes "to explore a new life with Frank (Joyce ...
"Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse" Paul St Pierre
... take advantage of others. Even though he has a strong belief about minding his own business, these other traits seem to eventually win him over; mostly for the worse. Quite early in the story ... actually ... character traits ... indication ...
Plot Overview - Wuthering Heights main plot events and character developments by Kala Harvey
... two families for all of her life: In around 1760, a gentleman-farmer named Earnshaw went from his farm, Wuthering Heights, to Liverpool on a business trip. He found there a little boy who looked like a gypsy who had apparently ...
The title of this essay is "Usage of the Narrator in a Passage Analysis". It is based on the novel "Pere Goriot" by Balzac.
... literature had focused on timelessness in the epic style, Pere Goriot is about contemporary life, for its own sake. Balzac's narrator even acknowledges the pocket-book sensibilities of Parisian love in Rastignac's tour-de-force assessment: "I know two ...
Explores point of view in Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants".
... the reader with very little in the way of background information or context with which to make inferences about the story and characters. 2 Because of this lack of information, the reader must make his or her conclusions directly from the dialogue ...
Christopher Marlowe's play, "Dr. Faustus".
... two strong, prevalent forces in life. The first of these battles this paper will discuss is the battle between the belief systems of two major time periods in history ... new, modern spirit, though ambitious, will lead only to a Faustian dead ...
Irony in "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift.
... actually part of a much bigger plan. This is where Swift's irony comes into play. The use of irony in Jonathan Swift's pamphlet makes his statement very powerful. In his pamphlet, Jonathan Swift proposes that poor beggar mothers ... ironic. Jonathon Swift's use of irony in his proposal is a very strong ...
The writing styles of 2 prominent british science fiction authors. Mary Wollenstonecraft Shelley and Herbert George Wells
... new term. Novels were first categorized this way towards the close of the 1920's. This word was first utilized in short stories that appeared in the pulp magazines, of the era ... mother ... take ... ironic ... character ... narration ...
Commentary "The Outsider" Albert Camus passage on page 106 - 107
... mother's funeral. This is important because it brings two ... air". It is clear that the motif of fire has returned to the scene, and just like in the first paragraph it is accompanied by water, as "he waves ... sadness for Meursault . Personally, I believed the story ...