Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 17

The poem is a rendition of the fall of man as written in the Bible The author's purpose, as stated in the book, is to expound on the conflict between man and God.

As highlighted in the in the introductory part, religion is one of the themes that stand out in the Life of Pi.

In his speech, he talks of the 'carnal, bloody and unnatural acts', basically he is referring to the killings that took place when his friend Hamlet tried to retaliate his father as well as the [...]

Given the fact that, as it was implied earlier, ever since it was first published in 1906, The Gift of the Magi never ceased appealing to readers, we can well assume that the themes and [...]

Globalization of the local is a concept developed by Thomas Friedman in his book "The World is Flat". In conclusion, the cases of Dell's supply chain and European Union are only two of many examples [...]

Philippe Diaz's documentary, The End of Poverty, is a piece that attempts to dissect the causes of the huge economic inequalities that exist between countries in the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.

Though the development of these themes is also a subject of other characters such as Chillingworth and Dimmesdale, Hester is outstandingly the central character since she makes the latter two behave in the manner they [...]

Wells, the stand of her "A Red Record" pamphlet is that of a rhetoric where the writer presents arguments and evidences of her cause to readers in such a way that she prevents her audience [...]

The unfortunate aspect of the story is that Connie plays up her attractiveness and plays the roll that other people want her to have, the one of a beautiful girl.

Concurring with the behavior of Misfit and Grandmother, O'Connor gives the elusive description of a good man relating it to gracility as a Christian value.

It is not easy to belief that Ram is uneducated and yet he can answer the questions and outdo educated people in the concert.

Basing on the several evident parameters, for instance, the character traits, the behavior of prince and princess, and gender distinctions amongst others, Fitzgerald's masterwork stands out as a variation and sophisticated version of the fairy [...]

This paper is an analysis of the poem to see its surrealistic qualities, to highlight the beautiful way in which the poet depicts the female body, and also to examine how various images used in [...]

Consequently, the fish appears as a courageous fighter who has been struggling for existence and is rewarded by the gift of life it that gets from the narrator in the end of the poem.

A person speaks to a pen or a writing material by way of magic and so does the writing material does to the recipient of the message.

Margery stands out as a sympathetic character to the extent that sees her rejection by the society in the country, which does not accommodate people with such magnitudes of ingeniousness, simplicity and honesty that she [...]

He chooses to stay on, despite his clear disapproval of the society around him Before his trip to the wilds, he becomes aware of the imminent threat of exile.

As is clear from the summary of Richard Wright's "Black Boy," Ella's hard work causes her to develop health problems leaving Richard with the option of looking for odd jobs to provide for the family. [...]

In the line "It's the kind of thing that shakes a person to their core and never quite leaves them," trauma is manifested by showing the impact of the disastrous event on the character.

The events of the Iliad occur on two different planes: the earthly one, beneath the city of Troy, and the heavenly one, atop Mount Olympus. The story is driven by forces beyond the control of [...]

The author uses Billie Jo's mother's absence and regrets Billie Jo to show how important the family unit is to the lives of people.

The striking of the clock to mark the beginning of the day and the crying of the newly born baby began concurrently.

The main plot of the fairy tale is that two scammers arrive in the capital of the emperor, who lavishly spends money on clothes to the detriment of state affairs.

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 [...]

The peculiarity of the topics raised, and the influence of the literary elements used on the narrative arouses interest in this story and is the justification for this research.

After reading the poem, a lot can be learned about Beowulf as a warrior and his challenges, as well as the historical and cultural context of the literature of that period.

With the aid of four short stories from Dubliners "The Sisters," "The Dead," "The Araby," and "An Encounter" the author intends to cover the aspect of Irish social identity and norms as being discovered through [...]

This is the task worthy of a hero because, in order to acquire the previous cedar logs for the monument, the characters would have to travel to the faraway forest guarded by the dreaded giant [...]

She is unhappy with her current lifestyle and constantly dreams of the riches and glamour that she feels her beauty deserves.

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.

Priam reminds Achilles that he is still a human, and Achilles urges the Trojan king not to give up under the misfortunes of war because that is also a part of human nature.

The idea that knowledge can be a curse is portrayed because the creature that the protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, has created relying on his knowledge harms himself and his family.

In the short story, Bartleby, The Scrivener: The Story of Wall Street, Herman Melville offers a glimpse into the life of one of the scriveners, Bartleby.

The text of this work demonstrates a short episode from the life of a mother, clearly showing the massive number of worries that women have to deal with every day.

A general image of Girl and the seriousness of its separate elements make the work closer to modernistic style. The first sign of modernism in the work is the seriousness of the story and its [...]

In the selected book, the reader realizes that Chanel Miller tries to be a good person despite the fact that she is a victim of rape.

On the first page of the story, the author uses several techniques to present his narrative to the reader. The first page also presents the reader with an exposition of the story, in which the [...]

The film parallels Hamlet as the main characters in the play and the film are both princes, and the antagonists are uncles who murder their brothers to gain power.

It seems that the writer wants the nurses caring for her to remember that she is a person with a past, wants, and needs rather than a patient.

The scene's underlying tension serves as a definitive source of Shakespeare's use of language to portray the specific mood, tone, and the character's intentions.

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.

Symbolism has been utilized in this poem."A Haunted House" being the title of the poem draws the attention of the reader to dreadful issues associated to the house.

The role of the setting is very important as far as it helps the writers to present their characters fully and pass the main idea to the reader.

It is both a classic fairy tale known from the early childhood and the representation of the ideal and moral behavior to be an example for everyone.

This paper will focus on the play's main points the author conveyed to the reader and the viewer and sociocultural issues of those times, just as those were represented 'in particular the uncommon length of [...]

For the sake of justice, it is to be mentioned that the book is a perfect implementation of a compelling narration due to its visual effects.

The next day roles are changed: the children with brown eyes have privileges, and the kids with blue are eyes are in the position of minority.

The Essay of Criticism is divided into three parts: the first examines the rules of taste, their relationship to nature, and the authority of classical authors.

The comic book "prisoners of the sun: the adventures of Tintin is one example of the comic books and is a result of many comic strips that have been brought together to create a book.

The fact that Japanese people idealize aesthetics explains the particulars of Japan's history and provides us with the insight onto why, after being thoroughly defeated during the course of WW2, Japan was able to quickly [...]

The main character of the novel Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky was influenced by the ideas of West European utilitarianism, based on the theories of correct actions and values."New, "strange, unfinished ideas' ' of Western [...]

The poem The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop reminded me that other animate creatures are able of feelings and have the right to live their lives on this planet.

The present paper is the combination of the summary of six books from Metamorphoses by Roman Poet Ovid, the set of questions to the text, and the expression of personal opinion on reading the books.

Somehow, I knew it was too late to help her."A perfect day for a car crash", I thought."It is a perfect day to do something good.

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.

This work also reflects the experience of the speaker and the stage he/she has to overcome thus showing the inevitability of the given situation, which is illustrated by the last line of the poem: "First [...]

The poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' written by Robert Frost, is considered to be one of the most prominent works of world literature; the poem is dedicated to the disclosure of nature [...]

In the play Antigone, it is an interesting fact that the actions taken by Creon, the King of Thebes, is unsolicited by the citizens of Thebes but hardly anyone has the courage to utter it.

The presence of the evil eye in the loved old man is the catalyst that leads to the narrator's madness. As the narrator continues to stare at the eye revealed in the small light of [...]

As he comes to understand the difference between his servant's and his family's views on life, Ivan begins to realize that he has lived a life of moral death, a life empty of everything save [...]

Nature is therefore described as the origin of language and the end of the same, where language is said to be born out of nature and to terminate in the same form, making nature a [...]

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 [...]

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the carnival elements in the play are widely discussed topics in the literary world. When analyzing the gradual development of the plot of the play A Midsummer Night's Dream [...]

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".

However, the existence of the canary is itself a mystery as no one can guarantee that anyone has actually seen the bird at all. The canary is a metaphor by itself, and it symbolized the [...]

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 [...]

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.

The following objects of the town get the author's description: the houses, the roads, the inhabitants, and the main one after which the town was called, the wall.

He in this way believes that Iago is an honest man and trusts him to an extent that, he leaves him with his wife and entrusts him to take care of his wife through the [...]

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, [...]

The Souls of Black Folk is testimony to Du Bois' position as one of the leading scholars on race, religion in general, and the Black experience, in particular.

Stradlater reveals to Holden that he has a date waiting and that he needs to shave. Stradley asks Holden to write an essay for him and informs him that the former is taking a girl [...]

There is no denying the importance of the fact that recent developments in literature paid more attention to experimental approach to literature avoiding strict schemata and such popular feature of traditional literature as climax or [...]

The tonal quality of the woman's voice sends the speaker of the poem into a child-time memory that is not actually a single event, but a compilation of impressions throughout the Sundays of his childhood.

The title captures the attention of the reader by arousing curiosity to find out about this road that is not taken, and ultimately, the poem addresses this issue by talking about the road and its [...]

At the beginning of the story, we come across Ann as one of the protagonists in the story as she tries to order and give instructions for her son's birthday cake.

According to the novel's plot, the narrator's family is among many Vietnamese immigrants who settle in a new country and are expected to adapt to the new environments with minimal resources.

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

He is guilty of murder because he killed the Arab, but this is not the only crime he is guilty of.

She also did not expect that her husband would be cruel to her after the revelation and this made her want to die because she truly loved him and she thought the same about her [...]

The book "Goodbye to Berlin" was written prior to the Nazi uprisings; how was the book an indictment of this period of Western history, that is, the impending war?

Raphael Hythloday, in books one and two was of the view that the government and the state operate within an economy for the benefit of the societies, they are given power and authority to dictate [...]

At the same time, the story draws a parallel to the uprising itself, with the tyranny of Rip's wife leading him to try and escape, only for this woman to disappear before his return.

In addition to the possibility to improve an understanding of the story, images help to define the level of relationship between a reader and an author.

Through the novel, it becomes evident that it is the government that poisoned rivers and initiated a series of acts of terrorism.

Pride and Prejudice is, first of all, a profoundly realistic representation of characters and tempers, albeit not of the English society as a whole, but of its privileged groups since the end of the 18th [...]

The usage of this vocabulary of this poem assists in seeing the controversial and confusing nature of love, and it creates a perception that beauty is not the definer of attraction while being close to [...]

The term "unreliable narrator" was first introduced by Wayne Booth who described the unreliability of a narrator as based on the differences between the views of the speaker in the story and the reader.

The kerosene fire that the firemen use is associated with the chaotic nature of fire and the firemen's desire to destroy.

As the authors explain, it was during her life in this farm that she heard amazing stories about her roots and the time line of her peoples.

Achebe's book centers on the life of a village 'superstar' by the name Okonkwo and the arrival of white missionaries at the fictional village of Umuofia.

In her short story "The Storm," the American author Kate Chopin portrays her ability to use metaphors in exploring several social and emotional issues affecting women in the 19th century.

The following paper will discuss the relationship and love between Mary and the doctor, where the former falls in love with the latter, although her love tragically proves incapable of saving Dr.

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 [...]

Coelho demonstrates that while the love demanding the sacrifice of one's dream is not true, the genuine love serves as a stimulus for living out the Personal Legend and achieving the happiness.

The life story of a young chimney sweeper is presented in the first stanza of the poem in the form of an emotional monologue.

For instance, when Achilles is given the special armor, he obtains a lot of knowledge about war and the vulnerabilities of the armor.

This thought is said to be a central one for the story, and it is represented in the title. In addition to that, it is impossible to ignore the fact that The Story of an [...]

The purpose of the essay is to summarize the story of The Call of the Wild, describe its characters and themes, express the opinion regarding the background story behind key characters' relationship, and get an [...]

The author uses the fate of one man, Ximen Qing and his household to describe the society in the 16th century.

One of the ways in which the snow is used to evoke this memory is the way she remembers the man.

Other than narrating the event on the battlefront, the book gives a picture of the backroom events that the leaders of the different countries were engaging in such as making appointments, which had a bearing [...]

The story was represented at the beginning of the eighteen century, the time when the traditions and societal values were of paramount importance and, therefore, the ideal of a person is the one endowed with [...]

To understand the significance of the creation story for different cultures and explore the particular features of the myth, it is necessary to focus on the Mesopotamian myth known as the Enuma Elish, on the [...]

However, he is now regarded as one of the influential figures in the history of both poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age since his works talk about the supremacy of the imagination over [...]

The description of the city shows that there was romance all over and even the cold in the city could not hold the love for her back.

The setting of Beaumont's Beauty and the Beast is the world of merchants and nobility. The heroine of the story, Beauty, the youngest of the six children, and the most "handsome" of the three sisters [...]

The poem is a simple and dramatic account of rich and famous Richard Cory who is adored and envied by the commoners.

The stories under analysis A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Revelation focus on the psychological and moral analysis of the main actors with regard to their perception and attitude to the external social [...]

The book notes that when the Jews were forced into the concentration camps, Elie and his family remained calm and obeyed every directive from their oppressors. The author attributed the enmity among the Jews to [...]

To my mind, one of the key themes of the play is considered to be absence of mutual respect and support."It is obvious throughout the script of the play that everyone has their own agenda [...]

To understand the meaning of the name for the person's identity and the meaning of the appearance and clothes for being recognized and accepted in society, it is necessary to analyze the relationship between Moll [...]

However, one of the major concerns of the play is the American system and capitalism, or rather the back side of it. Thus, the plot of the play helps the author to convey his idea [...]

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 [...]

It is necessary to point out that the theme about the spilled milk emerges in the very end of the poem.

In this paper, the two beginning verses of the poem will be analyzed in order to comprehend the motives of the author as well as the main messages sent from the end of the 16th [...]

In an analysis of Chekhov's first play the Seagull, Bloom views Chekhov's portrayal of the characters in the play as well as the overall script to be magnificently written the famous playwright.

Othello is not perfect either and the reason he acts the way he acts is that he is jealous; not that Desdemona cannot match his 'principles'.

While it is often times criticized as being akin to a form of self loathing what must be understood is that this form of poetry uses the pain of the writer in order to capture [...]