Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 16

I think that the protagonist of this short story became mad because of loneliness and the inability to live an independent life.

The revelation of her husband's true character and perspective on life causes Nora's disillusionment with her relationship and the institution of marriage in general.

Imagery, similes, and alliteration are essential elements in Spencer's work that help him reach the reader and explain his concept of love.

Developing the gang slang in 1985, Burgess uses Latin and Greek to subtly underline the attempts of rebelliousness the gangs take in order to separate themselves from the government and its dull educational system.

The topic of religion is used in Joyce's work to reflect the duality of humans, as the narrator, in his most agitated state, is torn in two from the inner conflict.

Moreover, in the view of Dickinson and Donne, Death is not only the "hero" of their works but also the embodiment of a natural phenomenon or occasion.

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

At the beginning of the poem, the author writes about the alleged benefits of the relationship he offers to a woman while referring to its inevitability.

The source is effective such that it helps to extract the language used in Munro's story and establish how the language is expressively used based on the contexts.

Slavery is one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the world and the most striking manifestations of human discrimination.

My husband claims that he yearns to travel the world again as he used to in the past, but he is elderly.

The central figures of the myth are Amma, the Earth, the pale fox, the imperfect twins, and the perfect twins. The assertion illuminates the fact that human beings are imperfect due to the sinful act [...]

All children in the age bracket tend to like language presentation using images, diagrams, and illustrations to understand and relate to every theme in the stories.

For instance, rhyme refers to the recurrence of syllables in a poem and is not present in Whitman's verses. Both authors use figurative language to imply that their minds differ from the others, as Whitman [...]

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 book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas are both stories by John Boyne about Bruno, a nine-year-old boy narrating his experience in World War II [...]

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.

Eliezer is the narrator in the tale and experiences multiple challenges throughout the story. Faith, guilt and inaction, and inhumanity are some of the narratives themes that readers can analyze when focusing on the various [...]

Sonnet 71 is a love poem that carries the message that the lover should not mourn the eventual death of the speaker.

The Ghost in the play is charitable because it helps Hamlet to know the truth about the way his father died and to begin finding clues for the murder.

The story displays the teachings on the types of attitudes of women. This post discussed the story's central theme, audience, and relevancy in modern society.

The plot of the Lottery begins on the fateful day of June 27th where the young village boys are actively collecting stones and pilling them "Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix-The villagers pronounced his [...]

The ritual brings about all the members of the community together who participate in the ritual and the winner gets the prize of death.

The main goal that Kate Chopin wanted to convey in The Story of an Hour is the liberation of a woman from the limited marital role and gender persuasion of the women's place in the [...]

The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast one of the main characters of literature - Oedipus and Hamlet, as well as to determine the qualities and skills of people which make them [...]

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

As for the three criteria that allow evaluating works of art, they are the specificity, clarity, and sincerity of the feeling or emotion it conveys to people.

The last scene will take place on the lowest level, the garden, which will be transformed into a graveyard by the rising of gravestones and the projection of a mausoleum in the background of the [...]

Whether it be on her talks of achievement or the information that she can burn a cigarette in his attendance with no harming her image, it is obvious so as to what Selden and Lily [...]

Wright's beloved canary, as well as in the county attorney's and the sheriff's behaviors, mocking the women for their concentration on "trifles".

The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin published in 1899. The novel is an earlier work of feminism as it shows a woman’s search for identity by rejecting oppressive social norms.

In whole, the syntactical structure of the verse and its stanza forms do not coincide, as the final line of septet is logically connected with the first line of quatrain.

Dare to Lead refers to the works devoted to psychological issues and is intended to focus on delusions in respect of the modern workplace, finding the keys to true leadership.

Wole Soyinka's play Death and the King's Horseman relies on the real incident about the man who prepares to commit ritual suicide and accompany the deceased king to the afterlife. The connection between the world [...]

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.

In the works of this direction, there was a frequent change of scenery around, and the character, who most often was the author, traveled to different lands and told about the peculiarities of everyday life, [...]

When his mother gets insurance for ten thousand dollars after his father's death, he decides to take a risk and invest a part of the money in a liquor store.

In conclusion, the analysis will be followed by a note of critique about the potential of the novel in terms of the socio-cultural, ethical, and emotional education of the children.

The author intends to put himself and his companion to the test by traveling to six cities of the US in the conditions of uncertainty and social rejection.

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 the very first lines of the poem, the reader is able to see a negative tone that the author is using to warn his readers concerning the possible dangers of the absence of meaning [...]

Incident is one of the most famous poems by the prominent African-American poet and author Countee Cullen who is a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. The conflict described in the poem is one of [...]

That evening the stranger joins the rest of the camp at the campfire where he begins to narrate his story. At the beginning of the story, the stranger proclaims that, "...you are not the first [...]

Neither the details of the tragedy nor the identity of Astarte are disclosed in the novel, but most scholars agree that the nature of the events, as well as the feelings of the protagonist, are [...]

The interrelation of these parts makes the whole text a metaphysical work, and Paley uses it to comment on the state of literature and the definition of "short stories" that are often considered traditional.

The controversy between the adherence to the state law and the moral norms maintains the conflict between Antigone and Creon in Sophocles' play.

Due to the excessive focus on the role of white Americans in the liberation of African American slaves, the novel introduces a rather racist concept of an African American person.

The foremost feature of postmodernism - challenging Enlightenment - that arouses in the text is the attempt of the author to show the subconscious behavior of the characters.

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 [...]

Hence, Preston states the following: The constitution established Spain as a Parliamentary Monarchy, with the king as 'head of state and supreme commander in chief of the armed forces' and a symbol of the unity [...]

They worship photos of their "Imperial Majesties," and each offers total allegiance to their respective gods: Shinji to the army, and Reiko to Shinji.

The central theme of the novel is the journey of Shadow and the conflict between the new gods and the old gods.

As the story turns out to be, Michael, who is the main character in the story is being brought out as one of those Irish men who had come to America in pursuit of wealth [...]

As a result of working continuously in the steamboat on someone's payroll, the author is astonished at his failure to appreciate the marvelous qualities of the great river since he was being desensitized to its [...]

The play is narrated by two voices, the voice of the blind Captain Cat as they all inform the audience of the dreams and lives of people from a small town as viewed by the [...]

The story 'The Tale of two Cities' written by Charles Dickens is considered to be dedicated to the disclosure of French Revolution period; it is the classic work representing the archetypal characters through the concepts [...]

Considering the essence of art and literature, it is possible to say, that there is no objective reality in art, and even the most realistic description is in effect a look through the prism of [...]

The paper will examine how Naylor manages to achieve this through an analysis of the main idea, stylistic devices and classification of the piece.

The book helped me to understand that the process of winning money in business sphere can be successful not only in a case if someone has losses.

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.

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.

She seems very happy in front of her friends. She appears very romantic when she reached her lover, and she also becomes very serious in front of others.

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.

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 [...]

Peters reveals and enriches itself throughout the play: initially embodying the quality of obedience, with time she demonstrates the power of observance and attention to small things and consequently achieves a triumph over the male [...]

Brown is the consideration of a character in literature in the context of analyzing the works and literary techniques used by the novelists that were contemporary to Wolf.

The story justifies that he was rather a brave person who was not afraid to face the reality of being too much of a gambler to accept it.

Says William von Humboldt of the Agamemnon, and his remarks might be applied to the entire trilogy: "Among all the products of the Greek stage none can compare with it in tragic power; no other [...]

There is nothing ethical in Malcolm's urgings in his overt and covert 'call to arms' though he cleverly covers up by giving a choice of either using the 'Ballot' or the 'Bullet' when he actually [...]

This progression toward enlightenment can be most clearly seen by making a comparison between Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the situation in which the man and boy find themselves within McCarthy's novel, particularly in [...]

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.

Such is the case regarding Tom Robinson in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Cinna in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and Lennie in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.

It is necessary to underline the fact that in the modern world the concept of racial profiling is considered to be common rather than unheard or unknown; the essay under analysis allows evaluating the author's [...]

The poet addresses the reader, saying that if the reader had witnessed his father's removal of the splinter he would have thought he was planting something in the boy's hand, something that led to his [...]

The only thing which the author opposes to a happy life of a man is loneliness and its effects in various fields of a man's activity.

A sort of role reversal is evident in Shelley's Frankenstein with the monster as an antagonist and the human as a hero, as the creator of the monster possesses more actual traits of what is [...]

However, Queen Gertrude seems to be more on the inside of the plotting and scheming occurring within the castle than an innocent woman should have.

Feminism is a characteristic of most of her works; in this story the feministic voice is overt. And only here, in the middle of the story, the reader comes to understand that a tragedy happened.

In preparing for the performance, Hamlet provides the players with specific lines and actions to include within the overall play they are about to perform and gives them lengthy instructions as to the acting of [...]

Anne Frank has compiled several versions of her diary, and one of them was directed at the readers of the future who should know about all the misfortunes of civilians during the Nazi occupation of [...]

However, the visible aspect of the story is racism and it covers the central theme of the text. The fundamentality of this story is a measure of human essence where the major character appears to [...]

Both works have similar motifs and are using the same means of helping to deeper understanding the nature of the protagonists and the drama of the life them.

Each morning it was the duty of the overseer to assign the daily work for the slaves and, when the task was completed, to inspect the fields to see that the work had been done [...]

Kafka's writing was predominantly influenced by two factors the environment of the time and place in which he lived, and the events in his personal life.

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 [...]

The focal point of the paper is to discuss four female characters in The Tale of Genji and focus on women's social role, level of education, how much independence they enjoyed, their emotions, their love [...]

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 [...]

They both post-war kinds of literature of America represent the revolutionary transformation in the world view of the literary figure and the employment of the most modern tools of interpreting the war-affected world.

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 [...]

In defining the goals for the Dakotas in keeping the kinship rules, as stated by the author herself, "to keep the rules imposed by kinship for achieving civility, good manners, and a sense of responsibility [...]

Her father attempts to catch Susie's murderer and is crippled in the course of the investigation. The narrator is Susie Salmon, a 14-year-old girl from a usual family with the general expectations and dreams of [...]

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 [...]

Without the rest of the book it is simple: the turtle is uniquely suited to his environment as are all the seeds that grab at every passing creature.

The plot narrates the story about a rich man that commits suicide, and the feelings and considerations of the people in town that watch him in his everyday life.

In this example, death is in the middle of the circle, and is, hence in the power of the person because death settles on to impede, whether the person is pleased with it or not.

Finally, as Dante and Virgil reach the most bitter, tormented place in the universe, the ninth circle of hell, they immediately depart after seeing Satan and the final circle of the underworld.

We are not aware what happens at the moment of death or after it and seek to find the answers to the questions raised by Shelley in the poem "On Death".

The 'Heart of Darkness' is replete with symbolism, from the beginning till the end, and Conrad uses nature to symbolize every situation in the story.

Thesis the personal voice of Seth and poetic elements used by the author shape an atmosphere of solitude and loneliness and appeal to the emotions and feelings of readers.

In both poems, the main character is a black man named Shine who works in the boiler room of the Titanic and attempts to inform the captain of the impending disaster.

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 [...]

The simple truths in the book were relevant to all generations and hence the book is of universal appeal."How to Win Friends and Influence People" tapped into the insatiable hunger for self-improvement and success in [...]

Her immediate kin regarded her more as a burden and made her do all the hard work and she lived in a constant environment of scorn and hatred.

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 1920, he had written literary journal "Selva Austral" under the pen name of Pablo Neruda, which he took on in memory of the Czechoslovak poet Jan Neruda.

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.

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, [...]

The imagery effects of the poem offer deep grounds for the analysis of the house's inside, the woman's feelings, and the passerby's attitude toward her.

Apart from sharing similarities linked to their belonging to the movers and shakers, both Laertes and Hamlet face the same tragedy in life.

In his book, Madden follows the scope of traditional history and the traditional construction of crusades, which means that in his work, crusades are linked to Jerusalem and travels to the Holy Land.

It is possible to say that Murray's ideas presented in On the Equality of the Sexes are ahead of her time.

The first example of the subverted power dynamic is at the very beginning of the story. The writer shows that power comes at a certain price, and in the case of the main character, he [...]

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.

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.

Liberia descends to anarchy and lawlessness, and he runs for dear life and finds himself in a different country, thousands of miles from his.

The term is widely used when referring to the foreign policy that defined the interaction between Neville Chamberlain of Britain and Adolf Hitler of German.

Speaking about the main metaphor in the poem, it is the old age and the death of the main character. Looking at nature, it really seems to express the life cycle of a person when [...]

Nottage found her great-grandmother's picture in an old family house and wanted to learn more about what it was like to live in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century, but she had [...]

A child has an imaginative mind and creates a world, separate from the realities of his/her life, in the form of a make-believe play.