Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 14

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Hamlet and Forgiveness: A Personal Reflection

Some of the most prominent themes in the story are the ideas of mutual forgiveness, people's motivation to be proactive and take risks, and their willingness to forgive and ask for forgiveness.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 607

“A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park

The first story is of Nya, a girl from Sudan, and the second story is of Salva, a Sudanese boy. Man in the dorm of a civil war which is the cause of Salva's fleeing [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 601

Interpretation of “The Mill on the Floss” by George Eliot

Literary works are essential sources of information that can help in building values and determining what is really important in a person's life."The mill on the floss" by George Eliot is a novel that presents [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1190

The “Thunderhead” Novel by Neal Shusterman

The present essay is dedicated to the analysis of the second book of the series, Thunderhead. It thinks about it in the following manner: "when the brutality of the dance overwhelms the beauty.the future is [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1182

The Truth in Chekhov’s “Lady with the Dog”

Chekhov continues to develop the image of a "man in a case," that is, a constant change from the case of family life to the case of secret meetings with women.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 786

Langston Hughes’s Poem “Mother to Son”

He changed his attitude toward education entirely, and I realized that the usefulness of my help to him was primarily in motivation, which he had lacked before.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 836

Analysis of “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich

The formalism of the poem conceals considerable problematic aspects while revealing the theme of Jennifer's torments in marriage. There is a direct relationship between insurrection and oppression, the individual and the societal, the intimate and [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 291

Themes of M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang

What is more, he is not satisfied with all aspects of the love story that happened years ago, and Gallimard desperately attempts to alter the events in his imagination.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 290

The Five Standard Types of Creation Myths

The third theory of the world's creation concerns the appearance of the world is connected with world parents for whom the world is the child.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 398

Carnival Season in Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”

In this monograph, the author explores the depiction of madness in literary works and specifically Poe's "The cask of amontillado". This article in a scholarly journal analyzes the protagonist of Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 669

Concept of Power in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”

While The government is the system that makes laws and ensures that they are followed, it is the person who wields power who is responsible for the equality and impartiality of its enforcement.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 825

“At the Cadian Ball” and “The Storm” by Kate Chopin

The name The Storm symbolizes some of the characters' lives, and Calixta and Alcee end up marrying other people. Therefore, the two storybooks are related in the sense that one is the continuation of the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 866

“The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara

The way a black child is struggling to get the most basic needs in the US. In the story, the twelve-year-old child is not afraid of mistreatment by the people when they realize she is [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1182

The Short Story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury

The wife stays at home with the offspring, Peter and Wendy, while the husband is at work; it accounts for the difference in their perception of the nursery's home effect.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 304

Why “Othello” by William Shakespeare Is a Tragedy

To be classified as an Aristotelian tragedy, a film or story must be complex and include a situation in which a respectable person suffers a complete reversal of fortunes due to a fatal mistake and [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 921

The Things They Carried

Therefore, the Lieutenant relives this experience in his imagination, unable to escape these thoughts as a way of dealing with the difficulties and emotional burden of the war.
  • Subjects: Historical Fiction Comparison
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 879

The Story of Oedipus as a Tragic Hero

He, as Oedipus, felt unique and able to do what he wanted, which gave him a false idea of his position in the world. The character is not aware of his vices, which lead him [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1213

Mothers and Daughters: “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid

It should be stressed the mother gives both positive and negative advice, but the girl's perspective and ideas are quite a few in the story, which can be interpreted as the overbearing of the mother [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 279

“Friend of My Youth” by Alice Munro

The narrator's attempts to portray her mother as an active member of the community and tell the story through her eyes indicate a close connection between her and the storyteller.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 330

“The Age of Innocence” Novel by Edith Wharton

In The Age of Innocence the institute of family is considered to be the keeping of order by the society. One of the main aims of the people is to protect this cell of the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 825

Who Is Charles Dickens?

In 1837, he made his debut as a novelist and released "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club". Constant quarrels with his wife and illnesses of his eight children led to the fact that he [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 334

Psychological Strategies to Understand Literature

This approach explores the motivations of a writer, his characters, and that of the audience, drawing on Sigmund Freud's theories and other psychoanalytic theories to understand fully the meaning conveyed in such text. The characters [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

Formalist Strategies in Literary Criticism

If we analyze the approach of a formalist critic we would see that this form of criticism is more dependent on imageries presented in the text rather than the basics of the literature.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

American Literature and Community

This piece of literary work is written at the period of the end of the civil war in America, and the south's era of greatness is coming to an end. This is a reflection of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 960

‘All My Sons’ by Arthur Miller

In this case, Jim was responsible to his family and also to the whole society in terms of medicines but not for material gain.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1193

“Red Harvest” by Dashiell Hammett

Red Harvest was the first detective story written by Hammett and the first crime fiction that created a new sub-genre in a crime fiction literature.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1475

Plath and Dickinson: Brilliant and Tragic

She was labeled as one "without hope" in terms of her perspective toward the possibility of a Christian Lord while she was in seminary school, a label she continued to wear throughout her life, even [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1880

Ironic Elements in Metamorphoses by Ovid

As implied by the title, the poems are about various changes in the society of the author. Irony is used where the meaning of a statement or a phrase in literary work is different from [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1695

“A Red, Red Rose” Poem by Robert Burns

Additionally, a certain pattern can be seen in alternating the rhyme of the last word in a line, where in the first two stanzas, the first and the third lines where unrhymed, while the second [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 937

“Teenage Wasteland” Short Story by Anne Tyler

Despite the fact that, throughout story's entirety, Cal is being presented to us as "progressive" educator, who seriously believed that endowing Donny with strongly defined sense of self-respect could have helped Daisy's son to straighten [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 970

Gary Nash’s Book “The Urban Crucible”

Gary Nash is incensed by the lack of focus on the colonial urban centers in American history and the lack of interest or discussion of the issue of the class by the past renown historians [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1866

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

In the second and the third verse: "That from the nunnery2 Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind3" The author uses figurative language to describe his mistress, where by using such words as nunnery, chaste, [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 553

“The Native Problem” by Robert Sheckley

Despite the fact that formally speaking, Robert Sheckley's short story "The Native Problem" belongs to the genre of science fiction, its clearly defined satirical overtones, associated with the notion of "White men's burden", point out [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 631

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

The story relates to the past and the present and has intricate and complex impact on the courtroom trial of the murder case of Kabuo Miyamoto.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1461

“The Leviathan” by Thomas Hobbes

In his famous work "The Leviathan", Thomas Hobbes refers to the natural mode of people's existence as "war of everybody against everybody", while suggesting that such war comes as a result of individuals taking a [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 959

Little Red Riding Hood Revisited by Russell Baker

It is important to stress that Baker filled his new version of the story with a number of professions being popular and respected by modern generation."The purpose of this enlarged viewing capability," said the wolf, [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 810

“A Chinese Banquet” Poem by Kitty Tsui

It would have required many years of study for her to become a poet in Hong Kong as she would have had little access to the English publishing world and none to the Chinese unless [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 775

“The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold

Susie is portrayed as displaying feminism in the true sense in her actions pertaining to the detailed account of her rape and murder, mostly from the female perspective and does not delve into the details [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1949

Comparing Dr. Faustus and Hamlet

Hamlet kills numerous characters in the play and this goes to show his excessive pride or in other words his sin of pride.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 783

“On the Sidewalk Bleeding” Story by Evan Hunter

Later they found a drunker who said that he had not even thought that the boy had been dying. Angela and Freddie said that the thought about the chance to be accused of the death [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 546

Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives (1890) Analysis

Particularly within the last several decades of the 19th century, land speculation and the lack of any coherent urban policies have led to unchecked growth and urban sprawl, resulting in the loss of thousands of [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 836

“The Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thesis: The poem is about the wanderings of the ancient mariner who is permanently traumatized and alienated by his killing of the albatross and his experiences lead him to the spiritual realization that all creatures [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2447

Torture in Shakespeare’s Literature

In its most common use, the word torture refers to "the use of physical or mental pain, often to obtain information, to punish a person, or to control the members of a group to which [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 780

The Role of Teachers in “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse

Vasudeva, the ferryman and the river act as the best teachers for Siddhartha in his pursuit for enlightenment; however, one cannot undermine the role played by his own father, the Samanas, Kamala, Kamaswami and Buddha [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1982

The Theme of Death in the World of Literature

Important is the fact that the death is personified in the poem and has the role of the gentleman. The death is presented as a powerful element of the poem and of the narrator's life [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2578

Shakespeare’s Othello: A Tragic Hero

When Alexander the Great died, Aristotle fled to Chalcis, where he died the following year at the age of about 62 William Shakespeare was a strong adherent of Aristotle in his writings.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2137

Disintegration for Modernist Writers

Different and sometimes opposite currents within modernism itself make it difficult to create a comprehensive picture of this literary phenomenon in this essay that is why we are going to draw our attention to the [...]
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1930

Dangerous Women in the 19th-Century English Literature

By analyzing the characters of Maggie Tulliver and Lady Audley and identifying similarities and differences between them, the present paper will aim to explain what it meant to be a dangerous woman in the 19th [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2752

John Keats’ Comparison of Odes

Finding a paradox in nearly all that he finds, it is as if Keats examines both sides of every coin using the urn as a base of perfection and the mortal desires of man and [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1427

Family Life in Harold Pinter’s “The Homecoming”

The third grotesque view occurs {while Ruth is later dressing upstairs ostensibly to go with Teddy back to America} when Max and the others, realizing that Teddy's marriage to Ruth is in shambles, begin discussing [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1129

History of Asia. Lu Xun’s “My View On Chastity”

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1571

Eve’s Character in the Bible

Eve is the central character of the narrative in Genesis 1-3 and one of the central figures in the Bible. In this regard, understanding the development of Eve is essential, including the analysis of her [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1182

The Concept and History of Dystopian Fiction

Thus, the goal of this paper is to study the phenomenon of DF based on the examples of Orwell's and Huxley's fiction and determine the presence of the themes that overlap with the contemporary social, [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3367

Feudalism in Europe in the “Beowulf” Poem

The Old English epic poem Beowulf presents a good illustration of the relations and obligations of lords and vassals. God defines the rights and obligations in feudal society.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 194

“The Monster” Story Analysis

The identity of the character is not clear, and although the writer tries to engage the reader into understanding the uniqueness of the featured characters, there is still some aspect of ambiguity, which makes the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 573

Gender Roles in “Bridge to Terabithia” by Paterson

The theme of gender roles is consistently present in the novel, starting with character origins and becoming the central concept as they mature to defy archetypal perceptions of feminine and masculine expectations in order to [...]
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  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1448

Consumerism in the 1960s in “A&;P“ by John Updike

He also shows the way people responded to the opportunities and challenges of the new times. The girls seem to rebel against the system and conventions of the society, as they dare come into the [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1131

The Sonnet: My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun

Despite the fact that the usual approach to analyzing poems and sonnets is to divide literary devices and assess their value, it is proposed to use the structuralist approach and analyze Sonnet 130 as a [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1650

Virginia Woolf’s Book “Three Guineas”

The motif of guineas represented the money in the hands of a woman as well as a symbol of power since education was only available to the rich and powerful.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1385

“Lusus Naturae” by Margaret Atwood

It turns out that a family is ready to kill their blood and flesh in order to show society that they are one of them and that they are not on the side of something [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 562

The Damned Human Race by Mark Twain

This is a clear indication of the great distinction that exists between the higher animals and man. Despite the negative attributes of a man, he is also religious.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 417