Essays on Toad

Literature is the reflection of the contemporary society. Early 20th century was generally known as the modernist era in art and literature. The contemporary society was majorly affected by the fatality of World War I and World War II. During the period, the whole generation had become very pessimistic about everything. They were trying to find the meaning of life and their existence due to the political situations and horrified incidents such as holocaust, concentration camps, and the drop of nuclear bombs on Japan. The feeling of nothingness, futility is very strong in contemporary English literature. The literature of ...

Milton's Satan is perhaps one of the most hotly discussed literary characters, as generations of critics over the last three hundred years have kept the battle over the issue of the primacy of Satan in Paradise Lost not only alive but also enduringly animated. It appears as if every generation has found its own reading and interpretation of this highly complex character created by Milton. The critical pendulum swings from one extreme to another: While some hail Satan as the hero of the epic, some find him a lowly creature worse than a worm (Vijayasree, 68). Milton presents Satan ...

When traveling, people often include famous museums in their itinerary as this is a great way to get familiar with the history and culture of the country. Moreover, they get to see famous artwork and exhibits that cannot be seen anywhere else under one roof. Museums are undoubtedly the storehouse of a history and culture of a county. I was fortunate to make a visit to the famous Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). I learned about the current collection galleries and temporary exhibitions and the special offers and discounts going on at the website of LACMA (LACMA ...

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The existence of Cane toads in Australia has become a pertinent issue to the question of whether it propagates or impedes sustainability in the country. Various suggestions and views have been expressed from different quotas by the relevant theorists, researchers, and academicians. As such, it evokes various sustainability issues, including diversity, population increase, and predation among other aspects in the country. This paper will discuss the Cane Toads in relation to its advantages and shortcomings in the country’s sustainability quest. Evidently, the main focus of this discussion will be centered in Australia due to that fact that Cane Toads ...

Exhibiting an understanding of "Slipstream" literature as part of this course requires using three particular stories incorporating subjective selections from the three pieces exemplifying the thesis as follows. These three stories include Jeffrey Ford's "Bright Morning", Benjamin Rosenbloom's "Biographical Notes to a Discourse 'On the Nature of Causality, with Airplanes'", and Howard Waldrop's "The Lions Are Asleep This Night". The following discourse explores and defines a personal and subjective understanding of Slipstream as literature asking the reader to look at the world in a strangely different and often possibly legitimate manner through the eyes of the authors - whether the reader agrees ...

Toads was written by Philip Larkin and published in 1955. It’s a lyric poem with nine stanzas, each consisting of four lines. The emotions and subjects displayed in this poem are wit, humour, depression, manners and custom, work, intellect, conformity, pleasure and frogs. The poem is an analogy used by the poet to depict how the labor and hard work of people, which they do to afford the pleasures of life, itself ruins all the pleasures. Philip Larkin as a poet is very precise in his writing, his tone and words bring out the sense of the poem very clearly. ...

In his novel, The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame tells the story of a group of forestry animals who embark on a number of adventures together. Throughout the novel, Grahame presents his characters as following their instincts which, as animals, one would assume are carefully attuned to their environment and survival. However, animals or not, the characters are heavily anthropomorphised which removes any immediate suggestion that the characters rely upon their animal instincts. Equally, the behaviour which could be described as instinctive often either displays a sense of wisdom or it induces a feeling of unhappiness. The purpose of this essay is ...