European Literature Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (9,457) essays
European Literature essays:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde protrays the culture of the Victorian Era.
... the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought, and through history, the Victorian Era has been one of the most influential times in English history. In the book "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ...
Life After Death: The Renaissance Era.
... The Renaissance Era "All this meant change, and was therefore resented by the medieval mind." -William Manchester Medieval Europe was a time when nobles ruled and knights battling to the death were Saturday evening entertainment. This era ...
"Night Fears", by L.P. Hartley and "A Superstitious Mans Story" by Thomas Hardy.
... the author L.P. Hartley. It would of have been in between World War 1 and World War 2. The readers back then would of have been more immune to violence and horror than the audience of the Superstitious Man's Story, because the readers would of have observed the horror a nightmare of World War 1 ...
"Animal Farm" by Mr. George Orwell.
... and write a scathing attack on the Russian government because, at the time, Russia had just helped defeat Germany in the war. As it was, Orwell found it hard to get someone to publish Animal Farm because of the pro-Russian sentiments felt by the people of the day. Orwell uses allegory, or the use of ...
"The Crucible" by Joseph Conrad.
... the case with a group of young girls lead by Abigail Williams and Tituba, who secretly dance "like heathen in the forest" (1 10) and "conjure upShdeadShspirits" (1 16), all tell-tale elements of witchery. Soon enough however, rumors spread and "the ...
Research Article on George Orwell
... the Russian Revolution. By the end of the book the pigs disobey the laws of "Animal Farm", but as they do so, they change the laws to fit their needs. Animal Farm is a spiritual parody of the Communist Manifesto (Calder 5-20) Animal Farm was followed by Orwell's eighth and ...
Americanisms in England.
... English locutions that had begun to get a foothold in the United States. Such exchanges are made frequently and often very quickly, and though the guardians of English, still attack every new Americanism vigorously, even when, as in the case of scientist, it is obviously sound, or, as in the case of ...
Conrad's view's of imperialism as expressed in Heart of Darkness. AP literature essay
... of this behavior is fiction? Avrom Fleishman writes that in his other works, Conrad consistently demonstrates how Europeans in their contact with natives show an emergence of "submerged barbarism" and that "whites become more savage than the savages," (Fleishman 157). This pattern of ...
George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four".
... histories changed, all to benefit the Party. Using technology such as telescreens and hidden microphones, which blanket Oceania, they further their control by monitoring its inhabitants at all times. In addition to all of this, they have the audacity to edit the English language, removing and ...
Essay discussing the validity of critics as well as Oscar Wilde in defense of his literary work "A Portrait of Dorian Gray."
... of the steady horse guiding the critic, it seems increasingly prevalent that malevolence was present. Napoleon was accurate in his depiction of the force of the press, but should the bias of the critic be more feared than the paper itself? Through the Gazette's fuzzy logic and ...