Macbeth, William Shakespeare, 1623 - Freewill, in Macbeth: the destiny to choose
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
Every piece of life seems to be interconnected. They can be the pieces to a puzzle, or they can be a perception of a whole. In both cases, life is a culmination of one's actions. In Macbeth (hereinafter referred to as "the Play"), a predetermined path seems to be set for Macbeth. From the...
Cane by Jean Toomer
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
Double consciousness is defined as a concept that describes an individual as having an identity divided into several parts. This makes it difficult for an individual to have a sole unified identity. As such, a person with double consciousness may be considered to have two thoughts, two souls or...
How role of Jakes, as the narrator, informs his character - Interpreting Natives, Abbort Porter
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
Abbotts defines interpretation as a compound of ideas and judgment. In an attempt to understand the idea of Abbotts of an implied author as well as his narrating ideas, this paper discusses the way the role of Jakes as the narrator informs his character. The paper also brings out what he reveals...
Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Notes (1863); Mary Chesnut, A Diary From Dixie (1861-65)
Book review - 8 pages - Literature
The Civil War is just the most important thing in American cultural and social history—as well as political and military history, of course—since the War of Independence from Great Britain. It is, quite simply, fundamental to America's identity and sensibility, and it remains so to this...
Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 & Milton's when I consider how my light is spent
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
The poetic work Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 and John Milton's When I Consider How my light is Spent, are two sonnets from different periods. The Shakespearean represents the Elizabethan period or the period between 1558 and 1603. On the other hand, the John Milton's work represent the early...
Oryx and Clarke - Margaret Atwood : A world without love
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
Love is everything. The whole world is based around love; being in love, ending love and making love. Without it, life as known would be completely different. Groups and relationships now are made from love and passion for one another or a specific thing, that's what we live for. Everything...
The Power in The tragedy of Macbeth, Vol. 2 - Shakespeare
Book review - 1 pages - Literature
Gender roles have been a common theme in several renderings of literature. Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, provides an example. Shakespeare's take on gender is a unique one, revealed through the women in Macbeth. Women share a strong relationship with power in society according to the female...
Life in The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Book review - 1 pages - Literature
Literature is one of the most renowned forms of expression. Only a few works have been deemed timeless. Nathaniel Hawthorne provides one with The Scarlet Letter. Several elements of the book leave the reader pondering the meaning. The symbols and their representation provide an example. Life is...
The symbols in Susan Glaspell's Trifles
Book review - 1 pages - Literature
Authors use an array of literary elements to convey messages. One tool alone can bear numerous meanings. Susan Glaspell's Trifles provides an exemplary example of the use of multiple literary elements to convey various messages. The story's plot progresses seamlessly through the use of such...
Dada versus Futurism, A Comparison of Tone and Purpose
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
Accompanying great movements are differing points of view. The variances allow the rare chance for comparison among two essentially different movements. Tristan Tzara and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti provide the perfect example of the opportunity for comparison with their respective manifestos....
Women on the Edge of Time: A Literary Analysis
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
Women on the Edge of Time can be referred as a feminist utopia though it presents the reader with the literary choice to question the society capabilities of embracing utopia. After a thorough analysis, the individual reader realizes the role of the human race in changing the future of the...
Racism book review - Brym & Lie, 2013
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
The society dictates social interactions among its members. For example, some cultures eat snakes while this is totally unacceptable in other cultures. Other aspects of cultural interaction include nature of interactions between two people from different races (Brym & Lie, 2013). For example,...
Book Review - Onward: Starbucks fought for life devoid of losing its soul
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
Brand management is a very effective tool of creating sustenance in business (Scarborough et al., 2009). Dominant brands are one of the main reasons why there are monopolies in so many sectors. The popularity of brands is also an explanation to the rise of corporations that control the biggest...
Just How Are We Stupid? - Book review
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
Democracy is a structure of government in which all citizens of a nation determine public policies, laws and actions of the state in unity. All citizens are expected to be involved in all issues pertaining to the wellbeing of the country. This essay is a preview of the book just How Are we...
A Close Reading of Flight by Patterns by Sherman Alexei
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
Flight Patterns is a short story written by Sherman Alexei; I selected this story because it captures and discusses the issues affecting the current American society in a unique writing style that captivates the reader. Sherman brings into light the socio-political issues affecting the society in...
Book review: American Africans in Ghana: Black era Expatriates and the legal civil Rights Era
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
The book; American African in Ghana was written Kevin Gaines and published by Chapel Hill publishers, at the University of North Carolina. The book emphasizes on the interconnections between the African studies and African American studies by introducing, in its broad chapters the context of...
A different mirror- book review
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
The historical mirror can guide the living, helping them realize their past and present being. The book ‘a different mirror' presents a view of America's many cultures through the eyes of the minority who migrated to America aiming at getting a better life, the immigrants later got short...
The Tao of Leadership: An Analysis by Chrys Brobbey
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
“The Tao of Leadership” is composed of passages that relate to leadership in the Tao Te Ching, attributed to Lao-Tzu, who is believed to have lived in China sometime between 570 B.C. and 490 B.C. In his introduction, John Heider describes his book as one of China's best books of...
Things Fall Apart
Book review - 1 pages - Literature
Chinua Achebe presents a powerful and thought-provoking account of the native tribes of Nigeria over the course of several years and the startling events that come about as a result of a perpetually changing world. It is the story of Okonkwo, a fierce warrior-like clan member, and his children,...
"So Long a Letter" by Mariama Ba
Book review - 1 pages - Literature
So Long a Letter is the powerful and highly thought-provoking novel by Mariama Bâ. The novel is written as a series of letters from the narrator, Ramatoulaye, to her old friend Aissatou. In these letters Ramatoulaye reflects upon her sorrowful past, her present, and her uncertain future. As the...
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
This book, as the title suggests, deals with American foreign policy since 1938. It is concerned with the more prominent features of the American foreign policy, as well as events that gave rise to changes in it. More specifically, it covers “The Twisting Path to War” in its opening...
Ivan Turgenev's novel - Fathers and Sons
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
The rise of the Russian intelligentsia is accurately depicted through the characters of Ivan Turgenev's novel, Fathers and Sons. The story Fathers and Sons takes place in 1859, two years before the emancipation of the serfs. The novel takes a look at a pair of families, one of moderate wealth...
Paper about the major themes of the book "The Canterbury Tales"
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
Written in the late 14th century, during a period in history when England was experiencing a political and social turmoil, the Canterbury Tales are Geoffrey Chaucer's most celebrated literary work. At that time, a schism was beginning to develop with the Christian church. The significance of...
With their backs against fort walls a soldier's-eye, view of the siege of Zeelandia
Book review - 25 pages - Literature
On February 17th, 1662, in the stifling, humid chill of Formosa's cold season, they marched. Despite being deathly sick, injured, partially starved and otherwise exhausted, the 400 to 500 men of the Dutch East India Company remaining in the garrison of Fort Zeelandia marched to the beat of...
In the Merchant of Venice, do you consider Shylock to be a villain or a victim?
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
One area that I need to look at before I discuss this question is whether Shakespeare himself was anti-Semitic or that he was influenced when writing The Merchant of Venice by the attitudes of Christians to Jewish people at the time. At the time that Shakespeare was writing Britain was a...
Compare the Presentation of School Life in "The Pieces of Silver" and "The Winter Oak". How do Sealy and Nagibin suggest to you that the schools in these stories are out of touch with the needs of their pupils?
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
“The Winter Oak” and “The Pieces of Silver” are both set within a school and both of the boys come from poor backgrounds. Some of the ideas in the stories are similar. Both refer to the teacher learning a lesson, or a system which the teachers uphold is challenged or defeated...
Explication of "The Winter Evening Settles Down"
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
T.S. Eliot's poem, “The Winter Evening Settles Down”, tells about the time period of which the poem was written in 1917. During this time, World War I was occurring, there was an early economic depression that preceded the Great Depression of the late 1920s into the 1930s, and it was a...
"Disillusionment of Ten O' Clock" Explication
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
In Wallace Stevens' free-verse poem, “Disillusionment of Ten O' Clock,” he presents the reader with an aggregation of vivid and descriptive words that help illuminate the theme, or the idea, of the poem. Stevens uses his literary work in a way that affects the person reading it and most...
William Blake's "The Tyger"
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
In William Blake's “The Tyger,” he questions, multiple times throughout, how the tiger was created - ultimately, it is up to the reader to draw his or own conclusion. Blake's questioning of who created the tiger and how the tiger was created is the central theme of this poem. As a...
Examination of the my lai massacre- one of the most infamous events of the vietnam war review of the book "my lai: a brief history with documents" (james stuart olson, randy roberts) - published: 21/05/2012
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
This report will analyze the book “My Lai” by the historians Olson and Roberts. To look at the different issues that surrounded the My Lai massacre, it is necessary to look at the specific situation of the area at the time. The Vietminh emerged in 1941 with the aim of obtaining...
