… Be mine to read the visions old Which thy awak'ning bards have told, And, lest thou meet my blasted view, Hold each strange tale devoutly true. -William Collins, Ode to Fear What is Gothic Literature? During the last decades of the eighteenth…

… a time when women were to be seen and not heard, Adrienne Rich wrote about feminism and female strength. She was married and a closet lesbian but found courage in her poetry. "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" and "Diving into the Wreck" both talk about…

… surfaced. These governments, bent on cutting out their own piece of world power, did whatever it took to keep them above the rest of the world. One example of this is the rise of the Nazi party in Germany during the 1930's. Under Adolf Hitler…

… containing an interesting plot in which the reader can easily relate to. What was found to be most appealing was the concept of brotherhood displayed by each of the boys struggling to survive on the island with no resources except for each other. …

… Cuckoo's Nest was encouraged by his own life experiences to share with the world his extreme dislike towards a life of confinement. He illustrates his belief in anti-conformity through the life of Randall Patrick McMurphy, a patient who opposes the…

… prose narrative, often in extensive length and complexity. "It can provide a more faithful image of everyday reality than can be achieved by any other literary form" (Webster). Because novels are long, they can tell more richly detailed tales than can…

… can be found in many different styles and forms. Only a few people realize that these tales have been passed on year after year, century after century. The tales change and form similar but new ones as the year passes by. Each century opens a…

… you agree? The play to be focused on is King Lear. The focussing themes are family and parent- child relationships; authority and the state; and man versus nature. These are the key factors to be studied before coming to a conclusion as…

… Saussure's Structuralist theory of the sign? It must at first be stated that the term 'structuralism' is not only applicable to literature, but also philosophy and psychology, and many of the social sciences. It is important to acknowledge this…

… Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein' and P.B.Shelly's 'Alastor: Or the spirit of solitude'. The theme of suffering is best conveyed through the "solitary" aesthetic figure of the wanderer or vagrant. Romantic writers produced works revealing extremes…