An Essay on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Women have always struggled for equal rights with men. The feminist movement commenced several centuries ago and lasts till our days. With the course of time women managed to prove that can be as good as men almost in all spheres of life. Due to all the efforts and social activity women altered the preconceive opinion towards themselves and achieved significant results. However, it was just several centuries ago that women were in absolutely different situation. In the nineteenth century women were considered to be born only for marriage but they did not have any choice even in that sphere. Most marriages were contracted regarding financial perspectives of the future family. Sometimes marriages were just a good bargain of two heads of family, and if men had the opportunity to choose, women had to be mute. Besides, they were deprived of any rights, they had to submit to men and if they dared to resist, it was considered inconceivable. Continue reading

“Colonial Discourse” Essay

Traditionally, the term ‘colonial discourse’ is associated with the epoch of colonialism when Great Britain as well as many other European countries attempted to establish their control over less developed countries of the world, especially in Africa, Asia and America. In the result of the colonization, the entire world had changed dramatically and such a notion as ‘colonial discourse’ naturally appeared. Basically, this term is applied to the works dedicated to the problem of colonialism and its effects on both colonizers and colonized. Continue reading

Essay on “The Secret Agent” by Joseph Conrad

Nowadays, the problem of terrorism is widely discussed in media as well as in literature. However, it is worthy of mention that this theme is actually not new and, probably one of the first book, dedicated to this problem is the novel by Joseph Conrad “The Secret Agent” which conveys a story of a man who obviously messed up and whose clandestine life eventually ended in a great tragedy that affected many other people surrounding him.
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Book Review Essay on “Train Time” by D’arcy Mcnickle

Nowadays more and more researchers become concerned in the life of Indians in modern America. They show deep interest in how Indians were forced to live in unwonted conditions and how they are steadily trying to survive. But what are the feelings of those Native Americans themselves? Researchers may write about pains and sorrows of the Indians and seem to be rather compassionate to their sufferings. But the most important matter is to hear the opinion of Indians themselves. Their problems often reveal in so-called Indian literature. My paper is devoted to the work of a prominent Native American writer D’Arcy McNickle who suffered from discrimination himself, and expressed it in his stories. Continue reading

Essay about Courtly Love in Stories and Poems Written by Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer is an English humanist, educated by life and searching for truth. He considered that a person born in noble family is not always noble in true meaning of this word. Person can be called noble by dids not by birth. Such views were common among humanists. Chaucer opened all ways to develop English literature, enriched it with literary language and views on life truth. That is why many of his successors enriched their own works with Chaucer’s lyrical moods. Chaucer was influenced by knight novels. It is said that he was the last medieval poet in England and the first poet of new times. Continue reading

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Book Report Essay on Night by Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel’s well-known book “La nuit” is based on personal sad experience. The book is autobiographic and written in French. Like most of his further books this one is intended for a wide range of readers. It reminds the reading public about all horrors of Nazi catastrophe. His honest narrative became one of the most famous books of this kind, as it is based on real facts, not just a research paper. Elie Wiesel himself was a victim of Auschwitz, and spent certain period in prisoner-of-war camp at the very end of the war. In his autobiographic work Wiesel mentions that in 1945 his foot was operated and he was ordered to have a rest for 2 weeks or so. Russians were supposed to release the prisoners soon and hospital patients had to choose whether to stay in the camp, be evacuated or released by Russians. Wiesel has chosen evacuation. Later he mentioned that his book had a special aim. He admitted that he was not only a writer, but a teacher. In this way he wanted students to understand human values and rights. He wanted people to feel the pain of his own experience and to prevent suffering of other people in future. Present youth should be given chance to protect the rights of unfairly accused or innocent people. However “Night” may seem to be a hard book, as it reveals a lot of painful events from Wiesel’s life. Continue reading

Essay on Motherhood in Women’s Literature

The development of the contemporary society is characterized by the growing impact of feminist movement which struggles for the equality of men and women. This struggle affects different spheres of life, including culture and art, in which literature plays an extremely important role. It is obvious that the contribution of women in literature is really great but they do not simply reveal their own vision of the world, its problems, complexity of human relations, etc. but they also use literature to show their unique female views and reveal the position of women in society to the extent that literature becomes a means of struggle for equality of men and women. This is why feminist and women literature is now particularly interesting for the research. Continue reading

Research Essay on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Biography and Literary Works

For several decades in different corners of our planet readers get acquainted with new Latin American prose with great enthusiasm. Recently it became a part of world literature and is appreciated by people of different nationalities. In Mexico Garcia Marquez is known as Gabo. Continue reading

Research Essay on Toni Morrison’s Biography

Toni Morrison is a famous Afro-American writer. Her nationality makes her exclusive among contemporary writers. Her real name is Cloy Anthony Jofford. She was born on the 10th of February in 1931 in the town of Lorain (state Ohio). She was born in a religious family of workers. Toni was the second child in her family and had three sisters. She studied humanitarian sciences at Harvard and Cornell universities during the years of 1955 – 1964. Despite all hardships she faced in her life she somehow managed to make a prominent academic career in a short period of time. After graduating from university she worked as a teacher in the University of Texas. Continue reading

Book Report Essay: Women in the Literary Works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Aurora Leigh” and John Stuart Mill’s “On the Subjection of Women”

Significant place in the literary heritage of any country is taken by works about women, their role and possibilities, about unequal political and social rights of men and women and about women’s desire to achieve the equality and possess the same rights as men do. The followers of such concepts, who are mostly women, have organized a movement, which later received the name “feminism”. The protests against restriction of female inheritance and participation in state affairs became constant concomitants of the development of feminist concepts. By the 19th century an organized feminist movement appeared as women started to realize that they were treated unfairly in comparison with men. Some men also joined the movement as they recognized that women should have possessed the same rights as men. They were Charles Fourier, John Stuart Mill and others. The concept of inequality between men and women has been widely discussed by many writers, who have devoted their poems, novels, essays and other literary works to this problem. Continue reading