Writers Essays

Introduction The Castle is a book by Franz Kafka who was born in 1881 in Austria Hungary now Czech Republic. He mainly worked as an insurance officer, factor manager, a novelist and a short story writer. He is well known because of the books he wrote, The Trial, The Castle …

            This paper is a text analysis of George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man.” This play shall be examined on the following grounds: event, emotion, conflict, action, objective, need of the protagonist, relationships, circumstances, and environment, and character. To be able to accomplish such a huge task, this play …

Neo-Platonism is a collective designation for the philosophical and religious doctrines of a heterogeneous school of speculative thinkers who sought to develop and synthesize the metaphysical ideas of Plato. Such synthesis occurred especially in Alexandria and included Hellenistic Judaism, as exemplified by the Jewish-Hellenistic philosopher Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, as …

             Tell-Tale Heart revolves around madness and guilt revealing the “dark side” of human nature. The narrative is expertly told in the first-person point of view. It exemplifies Poe’s idea of creating a unity of effect in every work of literature. Tell-Tale Heart impresses the reader with a single dark …

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red, than her lips red:If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I have seen roses damasked, red and white,But no such roses see I in her cheeks;And in …

He is shown as the only black man in the ranch who no one cares about. Also because of his race he is prejudiced against for example by Curley’s wife. Steinbeck shows sympathy for crooks by portraying all the negativity in his life, for example the size of his room, …

How would you feel if you were thinking about your lost love and a raven appears and starts to talk to you, only saying nevermore? Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. When Edgar Allan Poe was only “2 years old, his mother passed away …

The four types of essay organizations discussed in the course reading are topic, time order, space order, and informative process. The characteristics that make these essays expository are a defined thesis in the introduction, evidence in each paragraph to support the thesis, information presented in a nonbiased opinion, and the …

Romanticism is the only literary movement exhibits a wide variety of art, literature and intellect in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This movement has been a topic of ample disagreements over its defining ideologies and aesthetics. It can best be described as a large network of sometimes competing philosophies, agendas, …

“The World of Doublespeak” from the book English 121 Readings was written by William Lutz. This essay defines what doublespeak is and gives examples of types of doublespeak. Lutz also explains why doublespeak is not an effective form of communication. Lutz defines doublespeak as “…language that pretends to communicate but …