Alternative Ending to the Picture of Dorian Gray (Chapter 20 Rewrite)
It was a lovely night, and he loved the soft touch of his silk scarf around his throat. As he…
Chaucer’s House of Fame Satirizes the Poets in Dante’s Inferno
In his poem, the House of Fame, Geoffrey Chaucer adopts several scenes from other poems of renowned poets and reworks them…
The Growing Pains of Great Expectations’ Pip and Wuthering Heights’ Cathy
One of the most pleasurable aspects of the novel is the possibility of witnessing the development and growth of the…
The Layers of Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
The short story “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway is a tale of a dangerous hunt…
Exploring “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road” by the Beatles
Persuasion is an art. Over the ages, human beings have attempted to develop, refine and perfect their ability to articulate…
The Taming of the Shrew’s Clothing Motif: Disguise, Social Class and Marriage
One of the main theatrical devices in almost any play is the clothing of the characters. The different types of…
The Place of Religion in Oedipus the King and the Canterbury Tales
Throughout history, religion has always taken a prominent role in people’s lives in Western culture to various degrees. However, even…
The Madwoman vs. the Goblin: Gilbert and Gubar’s Criticism of Christina Rossetti
The following excerpt is from one of the most constitutive texts of the 20th century, The Madwoman in the Attic, by Sandra…
The Canterbury Tales’ Relationships of the Wife of Bath and the Nun’s Priest
In both the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and the Nun’s Priest’s Tale from The Canterbury Tales, there are depictions of relationships…
Troilus’s Stages of Grief in the Texts of Chaucer and Shakespeare
The tragic love affair of Troilus and Cressida has been recounted and portrayed in the works of two of the…
Gwendolyn Brooks “The Sonnet-Ballad”: War’s Poignant Impact On the Rear
The poem “The Sonnet-Ballad” by Gwendolyn Brooks is a modern sonnet that incorporates some ballad elements. It presents the tragedy…
William Wordsworth’s Transformed Vision of Peele Castle In “Elegiac Stanzas”
The poem “Elegiac Stanzas” by William Wordsworth is, as its name implies, a melancholic poem. The speaker of the poem,…
The Thematic Similarities of Anne Bradstreet and Mary Cassatt
Throughout most of its history, Western society has been structured as a patriarchal system that is almost exclusively dominated by…
Traumatic and Anti-Patriotic Sentiments In Charles Sorley’s War Poetry
Charles Hamilton Sorley was only twenty years old when he died in 1915 during the First World War, and shortly…
The Different Portrayals of Arcita in the Works of Chaucer and Boccaccio
In his various works, it is very common for Geoffrey Chaucer to adopt and adapt the stories and characters of…