Category: College Essays

In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Poe explores such topics as incest, terminal illness, mental breakdown, and death. As is typical of the gothic genre, the story is set in a dark, medieval castle, and uses a first-person narrator to introduce a sense of dread and terror in the reader. Visual and aural…(Continue Reading)

Gay and Lesbian studies focus its inquiries into two categories: the natural and unnatural behavior with respect to homosexual behavior, whereas Queer theory expands its focus to encompass any kind of sexual activity or identity that falls into normative and deviant categories. Questions asked in Gay and Lesbian studies expand its wide range of topics,…(Continue Reading)

I think this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside. The egg is glowing now, as if it had an energy of its own. To look at the egg gives me intense pleasure.(Atwood, 137) Tropology(Symbolism): The word “egg” is used to…(Continue Reading)

Samantha lives in the city of Winnipeg. She went to high school there. When she was in high school she fell in love with John, who belonged to a Philippine family. But Samantha is ”Christen”. Samantha knew this well her parents were not going to allow her to be in a relationship with someone who’s…(Continue Reading)

A dramatic monologue is defined as a poem written in the form of speech of an individual character to an imaginary audience. “Ulysses” and “My Last Duchess” are two poems that portray this. Both poems are similar in the way they are structured, but different in their subject. “Ulysses” is a poem about seeking knowledge…(Continue Reading)

The movie entitled Wag the Dog was directed by Barry Levinson in 1997 which was about the way in which media can divert the publics attention on the presidents sex scandal with a firefly girl. The characters of the movie do this by creating a fake war with the country Albania which was suggested by…(Continue Reading)

Many critics consider William Faulkner a modernist writer, citing the time period between the 1930s and 40s as the era in which he wrote himself into and out of modernism. Indeed, Faulkner’s novels during these years reflect many of the typical aspects of modernist literature, and it is incontrovertibly innovative and unique. However, Faulkner appears…(Continue Reading)

Work influenced by Paul Laurence Dunbar Many writers have written and demonstrated literary talents as a young age. Born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, Paul Laurence Dunbar was a newspaper editor and posted two of his poems in a local newspaper before graduating from high school. His classmate, Orville Light, has printed The Tattler, edited…(Continue Reading)