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Land of the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this fictitious Houyhnhnms land featured in Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels is compared with eighteen cen...

Sensitive Heroes in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In six pages the sensitive heroes Stephen Daedalus in Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Marlow in Conrad's Heart of...

The Thematic Significance of Fire in British Literature

This paper addresses the various roles of fire in three British literary works, Blake's, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Bronte's...

Opposition in William Blake's Poems

all three in a way that is distinct from all other "political appropriations" of the myth (Schock 445). As a new heaven is...

Literature and Modernism

In six pages this paper examines 20th century modernist literature in a consideration of such concepts as impressionism, postmoder...

Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the values presented in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Daniel Defoe's Rob...

Food Symbolism in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines how food symbolism or anecdotal references provide satire on human suffering in Jonathan Swift's...

Facetious Alternative to 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper offers a facetious rebuttal to Swift's essay that advocates abortion over the 'trouble' of establishing m...

Poetic Analysis of 'The Lamb' by William Blake

In four pages this paper examines William Blake's intent and the thoughts he expresses in this poetic analysis of 'The Lamb.' The...

Analyzing Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, and William Blake Regarding Death and Family Relationships

In six pages this paper analyzes the ways in which children and parental relationships within the context of death are depicted in...

Child Neglect Theme in 'The Chimney Sweeper' by William Blake

That this was an accepted practice makes it no less a neglectful situation; in fact, it only serves to set up the child in a more ...

Romantic English Poet William Blake

This paper analyzes the Romantic aspects of William Blake's 19th century poetry in a discussion of Songs of Innocence poems 'The C...

Romantic Era Poetry and the Conflict of Man versus Nature

of what we have learned to accept in more recent times. That we are but one race of creatures that has existed for only a short t...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Dialect Forms

In six pages the various dialect types represented in this novel are examined. There is one other source used in the bibliography...

Explication of the Poem 'The Angel' by William Blake

In three pages an explication of William Blake's 1789 poem 'The Angel' is presented in three pages. There are no other sources li...

Themes of Empathy in Shelley, Conrad, and Borowski

This paper examines various human-rights themes seen in Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness,' and Borowski's 'Th...

Atavism Themes in Literature

In 5 pages the atavism themes of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and William Golding's Lord of the Flies are contrasted and comp...

Propaganda and Literature Relating to British Imperialism

... The English in the Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were as driven by ideological convictions, by a belief ...

'The Tyger' by William Blake

been requisite in order to create the gentle, trusting lamb. The narrator never states that the Tyger is evil, but he indic...

Language and Realism in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper discusses how dialect is used for the purposes of realism in this late 19th century American novel. Ther...

Theme of Romantic Love in the Poetry of Felicia Hemans and William Blake

In 10 pages the ways in which romantic love is expressed by each poet is examined in an analysis of William Blake's 'Marriage of H...

Humans, Animals, and Language

In five pages this paper discusses language in terms of origin and how it may be used by animals with dialects among the topics co...

'Outsider' and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

It is irrational to think that one is any larger than he/she should be or has a right to be. It is also irrational to think that ...

Enlightenment Representation in the Writings of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift

In 5 pages this paper discusses how the 18th century state of mind is reflected in Alexander Pope's 'Essay on Criticism' and 'Essa...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In eight pages this paper discusses Joseph Conrad's battles with depression and how this affected his novel Heart of Darkness. Ni...

Three Poems by William Blake

/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...

Human Condition as Described by Andrew Marvell and William Blake

In other words, if aging and death were not part of the human condition, that is, if there was time, her "coyness" (i.e. her modes...

Analyzing 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift

all. He knew that writing a political text lamenting the plight of the poor would generate little interest, so in "A Modest Propo...

Satire Types

such as "U.S. Urges Bin Laden To Form Nation It Can Attack" (12C). In fact, Bin Laden jokes are beginning to crop up and while peo...

Proverbs of Hell from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

aspects the sage old advice was right, - at least I like two out of three now. I mention this, because it seems for some, William...