The importance of Siegried Sassoon's letter in 'Regeneration', by Pat Barker
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
First of all it's important to know that this letter has actually been written by the real Sassoon. He was a poet and even if his first poems were kind of romantic, he is mostly famous for his poems about war. In these war poems, he describes the horror and the barbarism of war with gruesome...
Prometheus unbound - Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1920 - Act I
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
In Act I of Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound", the story begins with the introduction of the mentally and physically tortured Prometheus bound to a rock. The reason for his confinement is revealed to be punishment for teaching the secret of fire to humanity, and defying...
Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer, 14th century - The hypocrisy of men in society
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, "The Wife of Bath" is powerful and beautifully expressed work. In the tale, the Wife of Bath describes her five marriages while criticizing the hypocrisy and irrationality of men. She forces us to realize that men subdue their women and leave them little room to...
Canterbury Tales, The Miller's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer, 14th century
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
People who are gullible are often taken advantage of by the people whom they respect. When a person admires somebody, it is very likely that he or she can be easily misled into doing something that they would otherwise never do. In Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale", we are introduced to an...
Theory of evolution and the beak of the finch - Jonathan Weiner, 1995
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
When we imagine the process of evolution, we tend to picture it as an extremely slow, gradual process. It takes millions of years for some frog to change colors and camouflage to its surroundings, and it takes just as long for a fish to improve its structure and achieve the maneuverability...
A Temporary Matter - Jhumpa Lahiri, 1998
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
In the story "A Temporary Matter", by Jhumpa Lahiri, we are introduced to a married couple in the process of grieving over their still-born baby. As the couple tries to recover from this disappointment, their behaviors and attitudes change significantly. They stop associating with their friends,...
On the Road - Jack Kerouac, 1957
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
"On the Road", by Jack Kerouac, is a powerful novel about a group of friends who travel throughout the United States and go through various adventures. They represent a group of people who are always on the move, never willing to commit to anything, and live life with passion and recklessness. In...
Macbeth, William Shakespeare, 1623 - A patriotic greed
Book review - 1 pages - Literature
Patriotism is the unrivaled love for one's country. In Macbeth (hereinafter referred to as "the Play"), personal influence is always stronger than patriotism. Although Macbeth and Banquo was loyal in fighting off the rebellion, patriotism no longer exists. Without the unity of war, there is...
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...
