Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 15

The whole poem is based on the mending of a wall that divides the land of the poet and his neighbor.

Concerning the Su family, the sense of shame is noticeable even back in the childhood years of Mr.and Mrs.Su. Although both families are feeling ashamed, lacking love, and Fongs do not show any signs of [...]

Corresponding tendencies in the drama are shown in the writings of Ibsen, Hamptman and Galsworthy."In the United States, Wolfe, Hemingway and Faulkner are among the leading representatives of the modern school of realism"..

Racial discrimination is the main theme of the book, strongly reflecting the situation that prevailed during the 1950s in the United States, a time when the story's Younger family lived in Chicago's South Side ghetto.

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

It begins with supernatural such as the presence of the ghost and Hamlet attempting to glance into Claudius' soul, to the mystery of the crime and the need for revenge. The masterful use of style, [...]

One of the most remarkable plays by Guan Han-qing is Rescuing One of the Girls in which he celebrates the life and realities as faced by the courtesan community and the commodification of human relations."A [...]

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.

In this part of the play, it is clear that Jack is not ready to hide his feelings and is happy to share them with someone who, in his opinion, can understand him.

Upon considering the main characters in the short story "War" by Luigi Pirandello, I feel that I identify with the least is the mother of the boy being sent off to war.

Although he has a company that makes his life easier, such as Lilia's family, where he goes to watch the news and have supper, he still feels lonely and detached. Lilia's family has lived in [...]

Given the nature of family structure and power, it is not surprising that Merricat wanted to rid herself of the oppressive traditions that her family held.

Although the theme of shame is central to both Anna Karenina and The Idiot, the nature of this feeling is explained differently: Tolstoy regards shame as the result of a person's actions, while Dostoevsky considers [...]

The author contrasts the outer higher aspirations of the middle and higher class to the actual deception of moral code and vanity endorsed by it.

This essay aims to explore the elements of defamiliarization that are evident in the two works and to summarize the points to show how the use of this technique differs in the stories.

This paper seeks to illustrate the influence alcohol has on a person and the effects it has on the family involved based on the essay Under the Influence.

The imagery of the ocean wave ushering in the infant on the wooden floor shows the narrative's fantastic element: "Tita was literally washed into the world on a great tide of tears that spilled over [...]

In the essay, " Laughter", Henri Bergson argues that comedy is the involuntary element which lacks of elasticity, through absentmindedness and a kind of physical obstinacy, as a result, in fact, of rigidity or of [...]

The policy of the management to make the current workers in charge of assignments that were usually not their responsibility had led to the dissatisfaction with the service not only of the clients but of [...]

The events of World War I and Hemmingway's personal experiences seemed to have an impact on his writings as he sought to establish himself alongside great writers in the Lost Generation, thus portraying his sensitivity.

One of the most appealing aspects of William Faulkner's short story A Rose for Emily is that the readers' exposure to the main character of Emily Grierson provides them with a better understanding of what [...]

The idea of a person being in the center of the action and trying to overcome some problems connected with doom, fate and some other supernatural forces become peculiar to this kind of art.

The young narrator takes note of the fact that a tamed elephant is a revered asset in the country because it helps natives perform many difficult tasks.

Stella is a devoted wife struggling to make her marriage work, even though her husband Stanley, subjects her to a lot of pain and suffering.

This is in spite of the fact that the boy's mother is yelling to Dana to "get her black hands off her son".

The author uses Achilles as a bold character for building all the major themes in the poem; hence he is the most realistic character in The Iliad.

In spite of the fact that there are many symbols of different types in Poe's "The Raven", such symbols of darkness and depression as December, the raven, the Night's Plutonian shore, and the repetition of [...]

The works of Walt Whitman embody the spirit of the social changes, love of labor and freedom, which reflect the moods of the American society of the XIX century.

In addition to making him and his creature be isolated, Viktor does not accept the idea of duty and responsibility for his actions because of his inability to understand what it means to be responsible [...]

Soon after that, the Nazis sent them to Auschwitz, but, because of the hardships of the way, only Eliezer and his father arrived there alive. That is how the author's attitude to and relations with [...]

In this paper, I will show that in light of the deliberate choice of diction, the metaphorical significance of the funeral, the interaction of the content with structure and form, the utilization of personal voice [...]

In this poem, the poet has used imagery to narrate his poem and depict the theme; a lot of imagery has been used in the entire poem from the first stanza to the last one.

In the play, An Enemy of the People, Ibsen uses a realistic framework to articulate his ideas on the stage. The play A Taste of Honey is a representation of a Kitchen Sink realism play, [...]

A density of narrative elements used in the play creates dynamics between the character and the plot, motif and problem by including techniques implied by the sources.

At the end of the play, Othello's realizes that his naivety and lack of confidences in his wife' innocence and fidelity.

Debusscher, in this respect states that, the mention of "a double life," could be the mask that Tom Wingfield wears to meet the world, in particular the "world of his mother and that of the [...]

The business world has been abuzz with this concept of "the bottom of the pyramid" given the sheer size of this market.

To this end, the poem highlights how Moodie felt on her arrival to the country and her acceptance of the fact that she would succeed in Canada and that it was impossible to go back [...]

Enkidu, another man who is also depicted in the Epic of Gilgamesh as having a power in terms of how he treated his companions, meets King Gilgamesh in some of the scenes in the epic [...]

He discusses societal disapproval as well as foolish consistency as the main obstacles to self reliance and trust in one's self.

The rest of the book consists of chapters of the novel along with journal notes that record the events of the journey and make comments on the novel. The Journal of Albion Moonlight is, on [...]

This metaphor is necessary to show that the feeling of guilt distorts his perception of reality. This is one of the details that can be distinguished.

As the reader explores the idea of divinity throughout most of the Greek mythologies and epics, it becomes clear that there is a strong connection between the people of Greece and their gods thus making [...]

In Romeo and Juliet, the development of characters eventually led to the tragedy of the main characters. The love of Romeo and Juliet is a remarkable love as they have to undergo many obstacles to [...]

It is a book with a story that has lasted for ages due to its major themes such as the relation between father and son, the role of women, the significance of hospitality and the [...]

The narrative "Girl" is a piece written by Jamaica Kincaid concerning a mother's attempt to teach her daughter about a woman's role in society.

Evidently, the annual lottery conducted by the village is not a typical lottery in the sense that, the person running the lottery is also a participant.Mr.

The events tied to Jamie's from the beginning are constructed to suggest a unifying factor; and how she relates with other characters in the novel.

She has failed to recognize that she is the driver of her own life, and blame should not be put on man. Therefore, she is not able to work her creativity and ends up drawing [...]

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

In the opening chapters of the novel, the author introduces the initial situation by illustrating the life of Esther, a college student, working as an intern at a women's magazine in New York together with [...]

In a family set up, the idea of filial piety relates to the obligation of subordination of the members of the family to the head of the family.

He had a very strong army because of his courage, influence and prowess and managed to defeat the ruler and hence he was made the ruler of the Empire.

In this play, I identify with Bill because he is nervous and ends up saying the wrong things as he tries to impress Betty.

As is clear from the analysis essay on "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", this poem shows the theme of a man's longing to escape into nature for peace and reconnection.

Given the fact that he was the one in charge of the other soldiers' well-being, he felt he could have done something to prevent Lavender's death.

The characterization of the key players in the murder serves to underscore the idea that personal responsibility and societal obligations play a crucial role in determining the outcome of a crime.

The eventual fate of the rabbits serves as a metaphor for Robert's character, as their deaths reflect the loss of Robert's own moral values and the abandonment of his faith in humanity.

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

In the first part, the reader becomes acquainted with the harsh reality of Afghanistan's culture and the struggles of women and children.

At the same time, Emily Dickinson demonstrates death as an inevitable occurrence and highlights the uncertainties surrounding it in her poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death".

Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese migrant in the United States, was considered a rebel in the world of Arabic literature. The diversity of Gibran's educational background is reflected through the marriage of English and Arabic [...]

The author's mood changes the plot, and the choice of characters and setting contribute to a better understanding of the message.

Merlin is a central character in the mythology, with the ability to see into the past and the future, willing to offer advice and assistance but powerless to change the course of events.

In The Necklace, De Maupassant raised several contemporary issues at once: the conflict of desires and opportunities, the discrepancy between the spiritual organization of a person and the social conditions of their existence.

In order to fully grasp the meaning of a formal poem, it is necessary to analyze and understand its rules; there is no such restriction with free verse.

The characters in the story, the objects, and the figures used make up the universe of the literary work. This is achieved through the use of symbols conveying the writer's idea and revealing the essence [...]

While attempting to provide a voice to his protagonist, Mark Twain employed his "vernacular of the people" when writing Huck Finn to give a voice to an illiterate, impoverished white youngster in the American hinterlands [...]

The watch symbolizes Jim's links to the family he was born and raised in, the family he abandons to begin a fresh home with Della his companion.

The two stories "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe and "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry's story explores the positive aspects of these concepts, Poe delves into more negative, darker dimensions through [...]

A," the reader has the opportunity to observe just one morning in the life of the protagonist, a man named Jake.

India of The Ministry of the Future adopted a radical mitigation program about climate change, the initial and most provocative element of which is a project to saturate the nation's skies.

For Shelley and Keats, poetry is a product of a free and inconstant flow of imagination inspired by sensuous and aesthetic experiences. This stance is reflected in Shelley's essay "A Defence of Poetry", Keats's letters, [...]

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

The surrounding atmosphere and cultural specificities influence the characters' personalities throughout the story and change their attitude towards the particular minorities and races.

He incessantly faces one problem after another in the course of his life Petunia and Vernon consider Harry's magic a threat and decide not to tell him about his magical powers.

Her biography slightly resembles the story of Louise Mallard, who was also processing the alleged death of a husband. To begin with, in The Story of an Hour, the protagonist Mrs.

The purpose of his style, ornate and yet concise, of the grotesque characters, the growing tension in the narrative is "the greatest possible effect on his readers".

The major theme of both poems is the victimization of people of color."Stop and Frisk" explores the incident of being physically targeted by the police.

The source of the conflict and the main cause of the woman's unfortunate fate is not so much the mental illness itself but, rather, the refusal to recognize it as such.

The lived experiences of Asian-American women take a special place within the body of the literature as their identities find themselves at the intersection of race and gender.

The love poetry of the Renaissance is a genre that gave rise to a new style focusing on human feelings as the highest form of manifestation of spiritual experiences.

The analysis of the book demonstrates that lack of family bonding, increased exposure to violence, availability of drugs, and increased tolerance to delinquency can lead to participation in gang activity.

The two literary works under consideration are the poem The Everlasting Regret by Bai Juyi-Yi and the play The Autumn of the Lustrous Emperor of Tang: Rain on the Wutong Tree by the famous Chinese [...]

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the strategies that the author uses to depict the characters. According to the author, the conflict between the two characters was a result of the two being [...]

Although, the story of the 'Battle Royal' was first published as a short story by the English literary periodical Horizon and it was given the title of "The Invisible Man" in the October 1947 copy [...]

The main character by the name "Sister" who is a first-person narrator, gives the story of her side of the family spat which served to her to leave the home of the family in which [...]

The theme discussed in the story is the way identity is protected by Indigenous peoples in the territories of the USA and Canada and the ways governmental impositions restrict it.

Hughes also demonstrates that he has a much higher understanding of human nature in his descriptions of the people of the church and his slight addition of sarcasm within the essay.

On refusing marriage to the Roman prefect of the province, she was fed to Satan who came in the form of a dragon. By the time the wolf arrives, he cannot of course convince the [...]

Nabokov's novels have a tendency of over exaggeration of the plot within the novel which escalates the tension in the readers and helps in "construction and deconstruction" of the novel.

The central concept of the novel is dedicated to the symbolization of 'absurd' as the key element accompanying a person's life and impacting the formation of human behavior and actions in society.

He was the son of a farmer His family fled Israel's war of independence in 1948 and spent a year as refugees in Lebanon, before returning to Israel.

The conclusion of this paper can be formulated as follows - in their stories, both: Kafka and Marquez strived to present readers with a three-dimensional clue on particularities of their characters' behavior.

'Stylistic' is one of the most widely accepted literary terms in linguistics and it is the study of differences of language whose properties locate that language in various contexts. After detailed analysis of the story, [...]

The Feminist Movement, also called the Women's Movement and the Women's Liberation Movement, includes a series of efforts by women in the world to fight for the restoration of gender equality.

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.

One of the main peculiarities of the Muslim religion is the treatment of women. Fatima Mernissi wanted to tell the world about the real state of things in Muslim harem, about the real life of [...]

Though the language of the story is quite simple the writer managed to reveal the crucial philosophical and social points, such as the importance of forgiveness, the problem of generation gap and trust, and, of [...]

The ways in which fairy tales were compiled and presented have changed with the course of time, so have the topics and morals of the tales, but the essence of these literary pieces ha remained [...]

The birthmark of Chikako which Kikuji glimpsed in his infancy is at once a symbol of the ugliness of the body and of human desire, of demoniac frustration and of man's obsession with life.

In other words, the play is about the Victorian morality and the constraints it imposes on the society. The play is also a double-edged criticism of the conventional preoccupations of the middle and upper middle [...]

Thesis: Edna's journey to the end of the sea at the end of the novel can be interpreted in two ways: the simplistic one being that Edna commits suicide and a deeper interpretation being it's [...]

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 [...]

The major topic of the analysis in this paper is the role of the secondary characters in the development of the theme of absence of perspectives in the life of ordinary people who came to [...]

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.

As Ben-Zvi asserts, "the concerns of the women are considered little or silly and insignificant and this is the most important reason for the men's comments about them.

The protagonist of the story is the man who "was a newcomer in the land, a chechaquo, and this was his first winter" and he is the prime tool at the hands of the writer [...]

The narrator of Those winter Sundays is a son who recollects his memories about the father and a generation gap that existed between the father and son.

In this novel, the author tried to show the whole tragedy and futility of war. Dalloway", Virginia Woolf tried to show the world through the eyes of different characters: those, who were in some way [...]

The results of the work should also be considered important as it will try to explain the society in "The House of Bernarda Alba", and also Lorca's point of view.

The mental condition of the main character of the book is the main point of this paper's concern. The main character's moral state is determined by her aspiration to the ideals of the colonial system, [...]

It is important to note the fact that culture-based poverty due to discrimination of the past or political ineffectiveness of the nation can have a profound ramification in the lives of its victims.

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, [...]

The thesis of the paper is that the notion of "the other" in The Metamorphosis is represented not so much through the opposition between the character and other characters as though the opposition between his [...]

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

Burgess, which is the name of the main character, plays a trick with the citizens of Hadleburg, involving them in lies, thus ruining the virtuous reputation of the town.

In the poem "Up the Wall," Bruce Dawe narrates about the depressing existence of a housewife who is talking to his husband.

In defense of his decision to remarry, Jason states that it would be better for all parties, including Medea and the children.

The analysis of the character Beccka is presented using several elements of literature to bring out the hidden traits of the young girl.