Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 14

Allegorically, through the interactions of the characters, the play points out that only good deeds and God's grace are able to provide salvation to people.

Through his work, Berry illustrates the relationship between eating and the health of the environment - the health of the eater is part of the environment.

After spending some time in this neighborhood, Nick finally attends Gatsby's exuberant parties only to realize that Gatsby organizes these parties to impress Daisy, Nick's cousin, and wife to Tom.

Such loss of traditional humane values like empathy, love, respect, loyalty, and honesty has affected Franz Kafka who illustrated the metamorphosis or transformation of customary values on the example of the family of the Samsas."The [...]

He worked in the ministry of culture where he served as a director before terminating his service in the government when he headed the State Cinema Organization.

This paper explores the theme of sense and sensibility, and the lack of it, in details and shows how each of the characters stands out in relation to the theme.

The state's persecution of the church is seen through the suffering of the priest who has to overcome great challenges posed by the socialist State and the fascist Red Shirts, who violates the church through [...]

The phrase 'good man' and the theme of who a good man is, according to peoples' judgment in the play, stand abused.

Creativity in his works, Merchant of Venice and Hamlet, is portrayed by the manner he makes choice of characters, the way themes are tied up with stylistic language to reflect hidden meanings reflective of the [...]

In the London below, the speaking rats, the earls, and the monsters in sewers are further instances of mythology alluded to by Gaiman in this novel.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry, was the first who started writing in English, not in Latin, as writers and poets used to.

The next chapter of the book explores more on the main subtopics of the piece of writing. According to the author, the increasing depression amongst the people triggered the creation of a public warfare.

Here, the comedy of absurd is presented in the description of the state of poverty in the family of Okonkwo's father.

The focus of this paper is to analyze the article, A Romance to Kill For: Homicidal Complicity in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" published in the journal of Studies in Short Fiction in terms of [...]

The phrase "The personal is Political" establishes the notion that most problems that women are said to have are not their fault.

From this, the entire context of the poem becomes clear wherein it appears that the author wrote the poem as an appeal to his father who is near the death in that he wanted his [...]

It is expressed through the eyes of a young girl, the persona, who tries to grapple with the disturbing memories of her late father. The disillusionment on the part of the persona is begotten by [...]

The broad aftermath and the negative responses of the readers who did not see the line between fiction and reality prove that the plot of the short story The Lottery by Jackson reflects the real [...]

The title and the first stanza of the poem highlight the first symbol in the poem. Through the personification of the clouds, the speaker is able to express the extent or impact of his loneliness.

The Rocking-Horse Winner presents a society in search of love and luck and this is evident from a number of characters.

The character in the poem is complex as she struggles from childhood through adulthood to come to terms with the loose of her father at a young age.

The title reveals the main idea of the story, i.e, the lesson about injustice. Of course, it is necessary to point out that the style of the story is quite colloquial.

By the use of the technique of contrasting the characters and their opinions in the story, the author succeeds in demonstrating the significance of comprehending our present life in relation to the culture that our [...]

The line-length is also uneven, ranging from dimeter in the third and second lines of the middle stanza to as long as pentameter in the final two lines of the poem.

The novel is set during the 3rd year of the French and the Indian war. The Indians use the mountains, rivers, waterfall, rocks and caves to hide from the enemies.

The period was one of the turbulent and confusing times in the history of the U.S.as the British and the American politicians made drastic efforts to reach a compromise.

Thus, the underlying motif of the poem revolves around the formidable potency and tenacity of hope, even in the face of dire tribulations and trials.

"Children of the Sea" by Edwidge Danticat is an emotionally charged short story that delves into the complexities of identity, migration, and the profound connection between people and their homeland. As the story progresses, the [...]

Joseph Campbell's theory of the monomyth, often referred to as the hero's journey, provides a compelling framework for understanding the narrative structure of various stories.

The prophecies persistently come to reality in play, which confirms that fate is the actual force in the realm of the play.

The context of the story and the extra attention to the peculiarities of the written language of the diary further complicate the interpretation of the story.

In The Break, the characters undergo many changes in their lives that explicitly or implicitly affect them simultaneously. Meanwhile, the author explicitly uses flashbacks when referring to the character's relationship with the victim and each [...]

The production elements were compatible and coordinated, with the lighting and sound design contributing to the overall mood and atmosphere of the play.

This ghost will only talk to Hamlet, and when the time is right, he will share his side of the account with the prince.

Further, one of the patterns in the history of Daphne is the illustration of the conflict between the divine and the human.

The fact that testifies to the idea that Prometheus preferred people over Gods is the way the titan tricked the Gods over parts of the animals that had to be given to them in a [...]

The village of Sarafina may have been an attempt to create a utopia where people could live in peace and harmony with each other and the natural world.

Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey into Night ties itself back to Aristotle through the philosopher's understanding of tragedy. Therefore, Long Day's Journey into Night is linked to Aristotle by representing certain aspects of the [...]

The poem's magnitude of metaphors and symbolism does an excellent job of reflecting the poet's state of mind."Lady Lazarus" resembles the biblical story of Lazarus - the person whom Jesus famously resurrected.

An increase in the number of divorces and a decrease in the birth rate, a growth in crime in the sphere of family and household relations and in the risk of children's susceptibility to neuroses [...]

The prologue of the book is highly engaging, and I found quite a few of the comments to be intriguing. Essentially, it makes sense to claim that the statement alludes to the complicated realities of [...]

Gilman uses the speaker and his neighbors to illustrate the subject of change and creates a division between him as the modern mind and the neighbors as the traditional minds.

The theme of love and compassion is evident in the literature, and it shows the connectivity between all human beings. For instance, in this story, Hope's parents had friends living on the other side of [...]

The poem 'The Lamb' by William Blake is a short verse that describes the author's attitude towards the little lamb that metaphorically symbolizes everything in the world that is calm, humble, and inoffensive.

In conclusion, A Rose for Emily is an excellent example of the Southern Gothic genre. A Rose for Emily illustrates the Southern Gothic genre by reating it to Homer's murder.

Dana is noble and brave, so she fires and tries to reason with the boy. Dana is free, and slavery degrades her dignity, while Rufus is enslaved in his unhappiness and cruelty to men.

The declaration suggests that Conde believed the story of Tituba's maltreatment needed to be told to expose the truth she had been denied due to her skin color and gender.

The book describes the American soldiers during the Korean war, with some of the main struggles being not even the battles but events in between.

It is done by explaining each of the verse's lines and building the structured piece of literature from experiences from Native American history.

The Things They Carried is an extraordinarily comprehensive and graphic account of the Vietnam War that paints startlingly realistic imagery of the conflict.

The author personifies Imagination to describe best the state of mind that people experience when they are dreaming. Moreover, the poetess notes that Imagination can transfer people to places not available to the common mind.

In the same way, the greed and avarice of the old Alyona Ivanovna do not justify the commission of such a violent and severe crime.

The aviation theme is used to show the discrimination and oppression of black people, which has a profound impact on the main character.

The first paragraph in the essay is critical as it introduces the reader to the subject of the work and the author's view on it.

This paper will provide the analysis of Tubman's life to examine her impact on the abolition of slavery and her contribution to fighting for equal rights.

The poem is a part of Whitman's Leaves of Grass collection, where the writer shares feelings and observations about human nature, reactions, and emotions."Sometimes with one I love" reveals the harsh consequences of non-reciprocal love, [...]

In brief, the poem recounts the lyrical protagonist's disillusionment with the decline of Christian faith in the rise of scientific thought in society.

The man and the woman perceive the situation differently; for her, the topic of abortion is acute and worries her, while "he feels it as a simple, quick remedy to a removable annoyance".

Therefore, an analysis of "Address to two Hundred Million Fellow Countrywomen," discloses the nature of primary sources used by one of the historians to reveal the activities that lead to China's liberation. The source was [...]

At the heart of the book is the court case, which paints a vivid picture of how the various African people interacted with the British on the colonial Gold Coast in the 1870s.

These are the major aspects of the life of a fifth-grade girl and the main characters of the book. The book is a piece of realistic and contemporary fiction as it displays the daily experiences [...]

The two killers drive to the Clutter's home later in the night and kill the four family members in a theft attack.

In the first pages of The Souls of White Folk, the author reflects on the prospects of perceiving white skin color in the nineteenth century.

Being the representatives of different literary genres, the chosen stories contributes to the promotion of home as the only place for hope, safety, and empowerment.

This essay will examine the content and value of the poem in relation to the psychological, emotional, and literary elements used by the speaker to express the contrast between those living and the dead.

The day the explosion happened / there was a foreboding of an accident / and the sun was the foreteller. The poem's central topic is the explosion which happened in a coal mine."At noon there [...]

The main audience is the consumers and the occupational health officers so that they can liaise to improve the welfare of families and laborers of the company.

The name of the comedy is a pun - the word Earnest is consonant with the name Ernest, which has the semantic meaning of a serious, noble, and honest, which represents the two heroes of [...]

One of the masterpieces that caused political and public outcry was the novel The Red and the Black written by Stendhal, the famous French novelist of the 19th century.

The swaying and rocking of the written song is felt in the cadence of the poem. The sense of evil is to be of anger due to prejudice; he accepts that in the end.

The purpose of this paper is to find out what Willy believed to be the key to successful selling and to identify whether Willy fits the typical profile of a successful salesman as presented in [...]

The name also conveys the important idea that each person has one's mission on this earth, and Some's mission is to relate the message from his culture to the western world and to become a [...]

Life is both a scene of nothingness and one of infinity, and it is this duality that drives the characters in Beckett to desperation: "Endgame is a despairing study of despair".

Wright The unimportance of women in the play is a critical factor for the women should follow all the things that their men counterparts impose on them.

News about the death of her husband arises and owing to her heart problem, carefulness is vital for the one to deliver the news to her.

To illustrate, the theme of female subordination plays out in The Story of an Hour through Louise's confession that Brently's supposed death indicates freedom for the wife.

The Japanese people are well known for their martial arts and the writer describes his father as "the proud of the pure samurai blood that ran in the family".

The play within a play is one of many tactics Hamlet employs over the course of the play to delay the revenge and therefore avoid his own death.

In this respect, the author still resorts logic to explain the meaningless concepts and makes sense of the fictional world described as a new reality.

Sherman Alexie's essay What Sacagawea Means to Me challenges the readers to make a comparison of Sacagawea to Eve and the US to the Garden of Eden.

In this case, saying that she was in contact with Williams; showed that she was able to speak to the spirits of the dead.

The setting is the poverty-ridden streets of Chicago and a realistic peep into the lives of the two brothers Lafeyette and Pharaoh.

In fact, leading researchers across the globe are of the opinion that the New Testament was written on the basis of the Enuma Elis.

In this case, it is assumed that the ghosts are not real and are just figments of the governess's imagination and the 'evidence' she sees in the behavior of the children regarding the ghosts' existence [...]

The 16th century was a period of political conflict and corruption in England; the theme is presented through the statesman Thomas More who is considered to participate in the struggle between the state and the [...]

The story narrates the travails of a particular family through the entire process of the occupation of the country by the Japanese until the time they surrendered in 1945.

In the memoir "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" Bryson advances and proves the thesis about the necessity of childhood reminiscences in everyone's life.

The story is very intriguing and covers many aspects of human personality, Emily is the most important character in the story and she takes her revenge in the story by killing Homer.

The title of the story, The Wars, is not that simple and represents two different types of war, which are inherent to people: the war that happens on the battlefield, and the war that happens [...]

The higher a person's rank, the more he is expected to honor the code and the harder it is for him to conceive of someone else breaking it.

Both are realists, intelligent and intuitive, especially when it comes to unearthing the pretense and fakeness from the people and society around them, and they experience immense amounts of such shams the more they interact [...]

In the novel, we see April and Frank Wheeler as a youthful, presumably flourishing couple who lives a contented life with their two offspring in a well-to-do Connecticut neighborhood in the middle of the 1950s.

Rosario Ferre's and Bessie Head's works are dealing with many issues of racial and gender discrimination and racialism."The youngest doll" by Ferre and "Snapshot's of the wedding" by Head is opening to the reader a [...]

Iago's reports and the loss of the handkerchief appear to Othello reliable proofs of Desdemona's unfaithfulness, and under the effect of anger the protagonist is both unable and unwilling to do further investigation.

Of course, we find out that he does not want to talk to Oedipus, since he knows that the source of the pestilence is the king.

The author combined the "objective" prose and philosophical symbolism of Hemingway with the existentialistic prose of Camus and created one of his most famous story "No one Writes to the Colonel".

As she struggles between the strict social mores of her community and the desires of her heart, Lucy is influenced by both her own internal experiences and the external behaviors of those around her, finally [...]

This story is nothing short of a treasure in terms of the use of literary devices, and various other techniques employed by the writer to elevate this work to the status of one of the [...]

Borneman proposes readers an exiting and vivid description of the war of 1812 which led to consolidation of the nation and 'forged America's national identity.' Borneman analyzes the major events of the war and discusses [...]

The form of the play expresses its realism in the brevity of the play and in the naturalness of the lines.

It is clear that Brett and Jake's love is reciprocal when Jake tries to kiss Brett on the cab ride home: "'You must not.

The excellence of the sonnets is the excellence of parts. Although the sonnets proclaim his affection for the young man and his indulgence of him, they also disclose the attitudes which Shakespeare takes to both [...]

He was one of the founders of the China League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai. His contribution in the field of language and literature is enormous, thus, most of the commentators have viewed his greatness [...]

It was written after the Restoration, but the powerful voice of the poet declared that the spirit of the Revolution was not broken, that it still lived in the hearts of the people.

The comment presents an issue of Utopia, the controversy of More's discussion that affects the commonwealth of the state that will be analysed to argue that the statement is true.

However, in exploring Maggie Tulliver's character and peculiar experiences, Eliot attempts to convey her ideas about the place of a woman in society, giving the character a critical role to play in the novel.

The most universal, the most difficult, and the noblest work, one for all and at the same time unique in every family, is the creation of a human.

In this paper, special attention will be paid to Walt Whitman as one of major and the most effective anticipators of the modernism movement because of the chosen fearlessness, intents to promote equalities in everything, [...]

For that reason, Samba finishes his spiritual training and enters the school, and this is the point where the main conflict in the book starts to manifest itself.

Due to the fact that Cannery Row tells a story of different characters with a range of aspirations it can be argued that Steinbeck showcases various aspects of the human condition in his work by [...]

As a result, the reader perceives the woman's love as pure and platonic, focused more on the spiritual side of the matter.

In the center of the plot, there is a little girl Sophie who meets a giant and learns much about the new world that is unfamiliar to her.

In essence, Evelina is written on the borders of most other 18th century novels, which took the form of a letter. This is especially helpful when it comes to observing the sensibility of the men [...]

The story is written from the perspectives of Emily and the community and combines the past and the future to depict power and love.

Pip is the narrator in this context; he is telling the story of his encounter with Joe, an old friend, at a particular point in time.

As the paper unfolds, the treatment of the theme of alienation as per different writers will be looked into to establish whether there exists a common denominator in the treatment of the works or not.

While the possession of the ticket is meant to be a matter of lucky chance, Veruca gets one as a result of her father's enormous wealth and determination to provide her with it.

The reader is faced with a constant task of trying to feel in, the gaps in his mind about what the narrator might or should have said.

At the moment of the initially rehearsed interpretation of The Cherry Pickers, Gilbert was named the first Indigenous dramatist to have his play performed.

The issue of time and its preciousness is the key aspect of Jennifer Egan's book A Visit from the Goon Squad.