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At first glance, Atwood’s totalitarian dystopia in The Handmaid’s Taleprojects a sense of nihilism in terms of female power, in its division of women into factions that reduce them to singular fu...

Both a simile and a metaphor are stylistic devices used in literature to describe something or someone.However, a simile likens one thing to another using "like" or "as". So, "fre...

In Plath's poetry, nature is presented in increasingly threatening ways. In 'Wuthering Heights', nature seems to 'funnel her heat away' and the grasses invite her to 'whiten' her bones 'among them', refle...

Contrary to the arguably shallow representation of women in the literature of Shakespeare's era (and even now), the women in Macbeth are power-hungry, calculating, and often the embodiment of everything a...

Williams explores identity primarily through the mental deterioration of the character 'Blanche' and her struggle to shed the life of the 'Southern Belle' and become a part of the Post-WW2, modern society...