Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 15

Art Spiegelman magnificently links the past and the present graphically to narrate his father's surviving the Holocaust and his relations with the father.

He feels that he is living two lives his real life and the other as a black man, struggling with a history of his own racial identity and the expectations of the society around him.

The structure of the poem is AABCCB. Edgar Allan Poe vastly uses metaphors and sight sensory in the poem.

Since Baglioni is perceived as a positive character throughout history, his deception and belief that he can decide other people's fate make the story even more sinister.

Another major difference between the book and the film is the pace of the narrative account. The reason why Tris Prior turns out to be a sympathetic and relatable champion in the Divergent is because [...]

Later, the entire family's death was caused because of the cat's sing following the car accident, which derived into the encounter of the Misfit.

The author's explanation of the present-day anomalies compared to the beast from the past and nature monsters reflects the societal anxiety and scientific progress by modern desires to enable created monsters to dominate the world.

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.

At the beginning of the "Greenleaf" short story, Mrs. Greenleaf's sons are the owner of the bull that scares Mrs.May.

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

This shows she was courageous and determined to bury her brother irrespective of the consequences. Antigone's mistake was disobeying the law and Creon's mistake was being arrogant even to his son.

Later in the play, the reader learns that this is a childhood trait and she cannot allow her husband to feel obligated to her.

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 [...]

The representation of women in the novel serves as a significant contribution to the description of social context, in which Juan and Marcela tried to live their way through humiliation and struggle.

Rainsford went through an internal conflict when he was in the ocean and had to keep stay focused by not panicking and realizing that his clothes were not helping his strokes and he 'wrestled out [...]

If Mary Shelley was for the idea of cloning technology, I think her novel would have ended up with Frankenstein creating a female companion for the monster to compliment the theme of love in the [...]

Consequently the idea of respect and submitting to patriarchy is even seen in the human level. This is a parable for women to behave and obey the rules of the patriarchal society.

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.

In the end, many of the characters' desires are shaped by social norms that are imposed on them, and while some characters choose to go along with society's expectations of them, others revolt and seek [...]

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and explain the poem's themes and what helps the writer deliver the message to the reader.

One of the main issues raised in the story is the indignation of the older woman by the behavior of her granddaughter who "is not like my daughter Natalie, or like me".

In order to make the statement of the right ethical standards more convincing, both writers describe the transgression of these rules by the main characters of the stories and the consequences of it.

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 journey is the starting point for a disenchanted reading of the Japanese colonialist era at the turn of the twentieth century.

This essay will discuss why the relationship between Othello and Desdemona was doomed from the start and how their tragic fate relates to the topic of jealousy.

As the author observes in his own words, most of the remarks from the aunt's side would be fraught with the authoritative term 'Do not' while nearly all the remarks by the children countered with [...]

Through the story telling of the poem it becomes evident that its main character is somehow corrupted by the glory, power and money he acquires for his acts of bravery; still, his main qualities are [...]

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".

Mitty also uses his authority as a commander to instruct his crew to an extent they term him as a man who fears nothing, not even hell, "The Old Man is not afraid of hell!" [...]

It is interesting not only because of the tension a reader feels reading the story, but the style and approach of the writer to deliver the plot.

Still, according to Ovid love is the eternal source of conflicts and is the strongest manifestation of a person, it is the essence of life and its pivot.

The very reason that made me write about this character was how he is depicted as a hero in the opening pages of the play, and only to learn how weak he is from his [...]

All in all, through the Song of Myself poem, Whitman presents a description of himself that demonstrates that the poet is intimately related to the concepts of life, death, and The Universe.

According to Chopin, a passionless marriage coupled with adultery is consequence-free and is as powerful as 'the storm' and that it can help maintain the union, nature, and happiness of the married couple, a view [...]

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.

Typically, 'the end of something means the onset of another.' Using this as a viewpoint that provides a lead to what Macbeth is all about, the fact that 'we will proceed no further in this [...]

At the same time, it is beyond doubt in the basement Macbeth's character is clean and as a soldier, he is true to his job and his king.

This passage is in the form of a dialogue between the two characters in the play. The above lines portray Othello as a victim of prejudice.

The theme of transformation that is reflected in title and can be observed throughout the whole play is connected with to the play dependence on water.

This is the individual we can identify as the poetic persona or the person who is doing the speaking in the poem.

Literature is one of the art forms invented by the humanity to reflect the phenomena of the objective reality. As contrasted to Twain's work, "The Law of Life" by London is a depiction of positive [...]

The poem depicts the influence of the Civil Rights Movement on the social life of the population; the author tries to disclose the hopes of ordinary people leading to the great tragedy and mass death [...]

Knowing that the monster intended to cause yet more destruction in the world and who the monster was likely to target, Frankenstein's deliberate refusal to do anything to help his creation comprises another instance of [...]

Much of the satire derives from these oppositions and from the fact that it is impossible to reliably describe the difference between doubles and opposites."The Nose" treats the seriousness of life with comicality; the author [...]

The theme of death is present throughout this poem with the first three stanzas repeating the words "when death comes" as many as four times. And in her opinion, the best way to avoid fearing [...]

Shakespeare changes the content of the traditional sonnet in this particular poem by placing the focus on the true permanence of the image rather than the physical 'permanence' of the woman herself.

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 [...]

Our task is to compare and contrast the poetry of Robert Frost with that of Dylan Thomas in terms of their themes, style, and use of imagistic elements.

The Poet is a co-tenant of Jeanne's in the apartment, where Jeanne receives customers, and who also owns the pussy cat that the woman wanted to strangle and kill.

She asserts that the man in the newspaper is a different man than the one she is married to because the one she is married to could never dream of being mentioned anywhere without having [...]

Ingersoll in his article "The Stigma of Femininity in James Joyce's "Eveline" and "The Boarding House" analyzes the image of Eveline from the point of view of feminity and oppression of women in those times [...]

Corn is the food for the cows, the pigs, lambs, the chicken, turkey, and fishes like the tilapia, catfish, and the salmon, which despite being a carnivore is nowadays being fed on corn to prevent [...]

In later years, a lot of his poems were directed through the style of using firm words to express his strong emotions and to depict the ideas of revealing and concealing the tone of his [...]

Even though the main plot of the story is centered on challenges threatening to sabotage the union Hero and Claudio, Beatrice along with Benedick with their constant verbal jousting finds itself quite an interesting counter-plot.

The way she reacts to the new situation enables the writer to show it as the emotional reaction of any girl placed in such a situation.

Even when she "found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars" she did not want to spend the money for nothing and started carefully making plans trying to figure out what the best way to [...]

It is necessary to mention, that throughout the whole story Du Tenth has a low rank which is regarded as a commodity, the charge of her freedom is 300 and the price of herself is [...]

In the second part of the poem, the poet asks the rose to remind his lady love that she is still young.

Through female characters, Stowe argues that racial problems have deep historical roots that are closely connected with the period of slavery and dominance of "whites" and the low position of women in society and their [...]

In noticing that the author is female, we begin to think that this is her story and that she has risen above the choices she was given after all, so it has a happy ending.

His sister Rose, the closest person in his life and the prototype of Laura in "The Glass Menagerie", actually suffered from epilepsy and underwent a prefrontal lobotomy in the mid-1930s, which has a clearly negative [...]

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 [...]

Looking for the interesting topics for the evaluative essay, one may suggest the list of the literary areas one is interested in: The World Literature's masterpieces of the nineteenth twentieth century; The Native American legends [...]

While he does not take any lengthy journeys outside of his familiar region, the narrator of "Shooting an Elephant" relates an incident in which he found himself forced to shoot an elephant by the limitations [...]

It is widely understood that Mary Shelley wrote for the female public, even though she originally wrote the novel on a wager among friends."She fitted character and plot to the tastes of the public, especially [...]

The story he tells us the story that discusses the German culture and societal class in the early 16th Century and provides a vivid account of the social interaction between the noble class, the army [...]

The essay will examine and discuss the usage of symbols and images about the actions and thoughts of the main characters and their meaning for the readers.

In this discourse two of his famous short stories, "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado" are studied in an attempt to better understand the use of symbolism, the literary tool of irony, and [...]

The play deals with the genius persons of the world and it relates genius convincingly with the world of madness. Then the development of schizophrenia in Nash, which is "a severe mental disorder that distorts [...]

She broke into the issue as a youthful woman in the 1860s with "Life in the Iron Mills," which established her as one of the founders of American Realism.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is Goethe's most famous work and considered by many to be one of the greatest plays of German literature is a tragic play and considered by many as the best-known [...]

The tone of the poem is calm and meditative and Wordsworth describes the "landscape" and compares it to the "quiet" of the sky: "The landscape with the quiet of the sky"..

In the literal sense, the poet's master is having control over him, and in the figurative sense, the Lord is both male and female.

In the short story, Faulkner portrays that the beginning of the 1900s was marked by great social and economic changes but many people fail to accommodate their life to new social relations and a new [...]

The sudden death of her mother in 1895 and the death of her half-sister Stella several years later led to Virginia's first nervous breakdown.

Answer: Hale comes to Salem with the intention of finding concrete proof of witchcraft and using it to condemn the people guilty of the crime.

The existing residential school system is one of the examples provided in the text as it contributes to the deterioration of the institution of family and the native culture of people.

Many people acknowledge that William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is one of the most significant and powerful works of the 16th century.

The power of horses describes the story of an Indian girl, Marlene, whose family has many horses, but they have to sell them.

Through exploring the characters' lives, the author reflects on the notions of drug use, hopelessness, and escape in the context of the black community.

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

The style in which Zadie Smith writes serves as a shorthand to introduce the reader to a situation that can be regarded as ethically or socially problematic and approached from the perspective of Zadie Smith's [...]

Bryan, I feel that I can relate to the main character's overall situation and the pressure he feels from family to succeed in a scholarly atmosphere.

The role of nature in the people's lives and the role of an individual in the natural world is one of the main themes in Whitman's poetry that is why Section 31 of "Song of [...]

Athena finds Telemachus to inform him that his father is back, and she directs him to Eumaeus' house, where he finds the vagabond.

In telling her story, Malala emphasizes the importance of education for girls, the differences in culture and religion she experienced growing in Pakistan, the dangers of being an education activist, and the beginnings of the [...]

This essay is very emblematic of Smith's work, which is perhaps the reason that she chose to open her book with it.

In this way, the woman shows that even though she accepts her role in the family and in society, she is not going to forget her own self and will stand her ground.

Trapped by the Indian culture into a marriage she objected, Jasvinder's sister had to endure the suffering without sympathy from the parents. The title of the book symbolizes the story of a girl who caused [...]

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 [...]

In his book, The Twenty Years' Crisis 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations, Edward Hallett Carr studies the political and economic factors that predisposed the creation of the conflict, at the same [...]

The only thing that was discovered is the meaning of the idiom "the hills like white elephants," which refers to something precious, but useless.

Thus, it is agreeable that Wendy's paper requires some polishing in order to bring out clarification on synthesis and analysis as well as inference of the plot.

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.

In spite of the fact that Butler rejected the idea that she intended to discuss the problem of the humans' enslavement in her work, it is impossible to ignore the accentuation of the issue of [...]

Pinter exemplifies the existential view of the absurd and the non-existence in The Dumb Waiter in the same manner as that employed in Waiting for Godot by Beckett.

Thus, this reflective treatise analyses the poem composed by Sappho on the significance of the era of composition and the bigger picture intended by the poet.

The present paper will focus on one of his poems, "The Rio Grande," where the author concentrates on an internal question of the balance between life and death, happiness and sorrow.

Due to the events of this quest for knowledge, Odin was always depicted as a one-eyed man. Odin was an excellent warrior and the god of violence and fury.

The story presents an example of Gowdy's innovative approach to modifying neo-gothic genre and addressing the forbidden issues, as she modifies the gothic elements and discredits the traditional stereotypes related to the dominating topic of [...]

The novel, Ragtime, underscores the theme of change through the main characters by being accurate about the history of the period.

However, in spite of the fact that the motivations of Medea and Antigone are considered to be the same, they choose different actions.

The names of places, characters, and events are the same in both the book and the movie. In contrast, in the movie, the story revolves around Bilbo and the dwarves.

What fascinated me about A Midsummer Night's Dream is the Shakespeare's portrayal of life on the verge of the real world and the world of magic and dreams in the forest with fairies.

As the title of the book suggests, the story is based on the enormous pearl Kino finds, and the events that took place as people tried to hunt Kino for possessing the pearl.

In the story The Birds, Du Maurier posits, "The birds had been more restless than ever this fall of the year". In addition, the story is more believable as compared to the movie.

In other words, the Underground Man cannot sustain a romantic relationship and thus he decides to buy love by engaging Lisa.

The book, being very sincere and straightforward, gives us one of the brightest and most detailed pictures about the horrors of the biggest military conflict in human history.

The author describes the Puritans not as a powerful religious society who disapproved and outlawed earthly pleasures but as people who actually were aroused by simple desires and fragility; therefore, according to Edmund Morgan, the [...]

The author enlightens the reader about the true and fictional stories of that time, points out the stereotypes and realities."Revolutionary Mothers" by Berkin demonstrates the silent, yet fierce power of women during the revolution, their [...]

Noteworthy, the relationship between Oscar and Ybon is used as an example of the relationships that occur between members of the South American immigrants in the US. Yet, he holds to the stereotypic belief that [...]

In connection to the previously discussed topic of the status of the female in the modern world, one can conclude that the world in which the public sphere of rationality and science becomes dominant naturally [...]

The story is a portrait of a middle-aged woman that Woolf paints utilizing Clarissa's thoughts and actions that eventually help her convert the ideology of life of the English middle class and describe the cultural [...]

Nisa is not only used as a part of the title of the book but is also the central character in the novel that the author uses to do her study.

The new stepsiblings are caught in the middle of the storm as they try to abandon a ship. In this context, the children are less inclined to kill each other, which is a good illustration [...]

Talking about the relationships between Americans and the Natives has never been easy, mostly because of the notorious historic events that took place during the colonization of America, and the following misunderstandings between the Native [...]

The reason for this is apparent as the novella's plot unravels, Ivan Ilych grows ever more aware of the fact that it was his willingness to conform to the society's standards of arespectability' that eventually [...]

Even though it might be true concerning the first element, since Connie and Arnold seem to be the only meaningful persons in the story, the situation is not straightforward when it comes to topics. It [...]

The plot of the novel immerses the readers into the 17th century to demonstrate the environment of the Puritan era in America.

In this essay, the summary of the narrative and description of the main characters and themes will be provided. The protagonist of the story, Janie Crawford, is a very na ve and dreamy girl who [...]