Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 17

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“Birds Without a Nest” by Matto de Turner

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.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 274

Lisa Lowe’s “The Intimacies of Four Continents”

The interconnection between land, race, and labor across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas is shown to be a manifestation of the unique exchanges and interactions between these regions and Europe.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 366

Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Scarlet Letter”

These lines are from the 'Forest Walk' chapter of the novel where Hester scolds her daughter, Pearl for questioning the burned "A" on the minister's chest.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 711

Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

The story focuses on the unification of the disparate chiefdoms of Mande and the decline of Ghana, as well as the development of trade routes.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1195

“The Most Dangerous Job” by Schlosser

The main audience is the consumers and the occupational health officers so that they can liaise to improve the welfare of families and laborers of the company.
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 562

“The Flowers of Evil” by Charles Baudelaire

In "The Swan" and "To a Passer-By", Baudelaire, the fl neur, shares his memories of the past and the realities of the mundane present to underline the beauty of the transience of life.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1587

“Ebb” Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The speaker seems to be a woman who was abandoned by her partner, and the poem is a solitary reflection on the feelings of love and loneliness.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 560

Critical Approach Analysis of “The Scarlet Letter”

Generally, such important themes as legalism, guilt, immorality, and sin related in the novel may be discussed through the prism of historicism, and even the very title of the novel featuring the word "scarlet" or [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1389

The Stranger: Analysis of the Story

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 792

Shakespeare’s Romeo as a Tragic Hero

Romeo and Juliet's love, no matter how strong, was not able to break the bounds of the rigid social order in the 13th-century Verona. In Romeo and Juliet, a slim chance to live and to [...]
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 597

Imagery and Theme in William Blake’s Poems

Through the years the author got the new vision of his poems what was expressed by the difference between the imagery of Introductions and the Song's of Nurse in the Songs of Innocence and Songs [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 648

“Beowulf” by Seamus Heaney Review

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 499

Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame”

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".
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 837

How The Necklace Story Relate to You?

Towards the end of the story, Mathilde Loise decides to tell the truth to Madame Forestier concerning the necklace and the misery that she had undergone.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 818

The Use of Allusion in “Drown” by Junot Diaz

Further, it will seek to show the evidence that Diaz Junot uses allusion in order to enable his readers to understand the characters better and have deeper insights into the reality of the Dominicans. Its [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 572

“Guadalupe X Three” by Denise Chavez

The second step in the block building approach to critical thinking is the importance of the study of the play and the impact on the readers.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 625

“Half and Half” by Amy Tan Review

To illustrate, Rose and Ted disregard their parents' race-based objections to the couple's proposed marriage, thus depicting fate and wrong decisions jointly facilitating the characters' downfall.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 627

“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe

The neighbors who heard the scuffle that ensued and went to the ladies house gave evidence to the police, and in as much as most of them agree on a great extent to the events [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1220

“Celia, a Slave” by Melton McLaurin

This paper will therefore analyze the history of the story based on McLaurin's book, give the moral anxieties it springs up, the reactions of various characters in the book and finally extrapolates on the inadequacies [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1870

“Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 898

“The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1123

“A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Juwett

Nature is full of mystery, diversity, richness, it is a human dwelling, but one of the burning problems is the place of a human in nature.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 625

Nella Larsen’s “Passing”: Character Comparison

Of these works, "Passing" is one of her novels that attracted the audience's special attention due to its touching upon the topic which will always be urgent- the racism."Passing" presents a race-based conflict of two [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 841

“The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell

Gladwell's main thesis pertains to the trends in society being understood in the same manner as researchers understand the spreading of viruses and to the fact that a surprisingly large variety of social phenomena can [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 595

“Give Me Liberty an American History” by Eric Foner

As regards, the neutralists, Eric Foner believes that these people harbored some doubts as to fighting against the British troops, On the one hand, they understood that the Colonies could do without the UK and [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 577

Lower-Class Life in Raymond Carver’s Works

As she tells her story, it becomes clear that she is in the lower class of workers because she is a waitress in a small diner and lives with the cook, Rudy.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1457

“In Time of Plague” by Thom Gunn

This paper will provide an explication of the poem, as well as a personal analysis regarding how it makes the writer feel, as well as his personal opinions of how the subject matter of the [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 947

Bertolt Brecht: Life and Works

He testified that he was not a member of the communist party and was allowed to return to Europe the next day. He did not like the bourgeois agenda and that was reflected in his [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1236

Blind in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” Book

The narrator admits from the very beginning of the story that he is nervous about having a blind man in his house, suggesting that he himself is actually quite blind to the reality of the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1008

“The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien

The story is considered to be rather sophisticated in analysis and structure consisting of three volumes "the Fellowship of the Ring", "the Two Towers", and "The Return of the King".
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1427

Analysis of Richard Corey By Edwin Arlington Robinson

However, as to the second point concerning the value of poverty, I have this to show."Beyond the value of poverty as a context for the development of humility and piety, I believe that Ignatius saw [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 866

“She Stoops to Conquer” by Oliver Goldsmith

The further development of the art of theatre took place in the Roman Empire that brought this art to a higher level of development and gave the basis for the history of the European medieval [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1056

Postmodern Age: Philip Larkin’s “Here”

The format of the poem also serves to create a sense of isolation and disconnection. The swerving described throughout the first stanza is adopted by the mind of the reader and is never fully brought [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 878

The Ladies of Frankenstein: The Gender in Literature

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1425

Kate Chopin’s Feminist Short Stories and Novels

Two short stories were written by Chopin, A Story of One Hour and The Storm well as her brilliant novel Awakening should be regarded as one of the best examples of the feminist literature of [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 294

Pablo Neruda, a Great Latin American Poet

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.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 958

Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat”

It is humanity and collaboration that are invincible to the cruelty of nature. To Crane, nature is the uncontrollable and powerful force that is indifferent to people.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 845

Gabriel Conroy’s Epiphany in “The Dead” by James Joyce

On the background of trivial worries, conversations, and desires, the main character acknowledges the relativeness of the meaning of life that is nothing more than a memory other people will have about an individual after [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 985

Buddhist Allegories in “The Monkey and the Monk”

The Monkey and the Monk is not an ordinary story with a list of characters with the ability to develop particular relationships, grow in their specific ways, and demonstrate necessary lessons to the reader.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1409

“The Other” in Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1112

Act One of “Broken Glass” Play by Arthur Miller

It is possible that her condition is caused by psychosomatic, as a result of reading news about Kristallnacht, or the anti-Jewish pogroms also known as 'the Night of Broken Glass.' In the play, the author [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 607

Humor in Zadie Smith’s Novels

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 [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2837

Act 1 Scene 2 of the “Hamlet” Play by Shakespeare

The use of honorifics, stichomythia, and imagery is discussed, as well as the aside, the motif of spying, and the overall mood of the scene will be discussed and evaluated. The overall mood of the [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 577

“Araby” a Short Story by James Joyce

This symbolizes the boy's world and how blind he is to the reality of the world. The young boy gets to realize that his actual world is very different from his na ve dreams and [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 853

Motherhood and Maternity: Gwen Harwood’s Poetry

The language used in many of her poems lacks a clear rhyme and at times is borderline prose, and yet still it manages to pluck at the strings located in a reader's heart, painting vivid [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 809

Gender Identity in “Room of One’s Own” and “Orlando”

The transgression from one style to the other, and through the process of breaking the convention Virginia Woolf, in her essay A Room of One's Own and parodic novel Orlando: An Autobiography, reinstates for her [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 40
  • Words: 11817

David Montgomery’s “The Fall of the House of Labor”

The book highlights the events that led to the formation of workers' unions and David Montgomery's contribution to the revolution. He also claimed that the existence of different classes of labor led to the downfall [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 848

“Harrison Bergeron” a Short Story by Kurt Vonnegut

He argues that egalitarianism calls for the suppression of the bright and hardworking in order for them to be equal with the rest; that it assigns much importance to peaceful living at the expense of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 796

“The Short Bus” by Jonathan Mooney

Although most of his meetings are beautiful and inspiring stories, some of the encounters represent the communicational issues that are inevitable in interaction with the people, who have been isolated from the society due to [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556

Dialogues in O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”

The dialogue aspect of A Good Man is Hard to Find is the story's key component for delivering the characters' thoughts, their personalities, their points of view on the events described in the story, and, [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 643

Themes and Experiences: “I Am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1117

Eileen Chang’s Literary Works and Their Influences

Some believe that the literature of the ordinary man should comprise of an unadorned and pure story of the life of the common people as opposed to that of the nobility.
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1417

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

“The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James

The theme of class and society is represented in the depiction of relationships between the servants, the governess, and the children.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2510

A Rose for Emily: A Short Story by William Faulkner

However, in the course of the third part of the story, Faulkner quickly shifts from Miss Emily and Homer conjuring up some form of a relationship to discussing her purchasing the poison.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1134

Existentialism in “Nausea” and “The Stranger”

In Nausea, the main character is a well-traveled 30-year-old man afflicted with intense feelings of the meaninglessness of his own being, an experience he dubs 'nausea.' The main character and narrator, Roquentin, is portrayed as [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1392

Unreliable Narrator: “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov

The separation of the author and the text and the presence of an unreliable narrator who is also the pedophiliac hero of the story put the readers in a dilemma, and they have to actively [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1980

Different Portrayal of Love in Shakespearean Sonnets

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 [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1379

Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Additionally, the poet's description of beauty, satirical approach to love, and the construction of gender roles reveal his interest in the issue of sexuality.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2243

“Shame” Autobiography by Jasvinder Sanghera

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 [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1805

“Histories” a Work by Herodotus

The monumental work of Herodotus, the Greek historian, titled The Histories, is considered to be one of the founding historical works in the world.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3057

Themes and Narration in “Black Boy” by Richard Wright

The events show that in the conditions of racism, the psychological deformation of a person occurs due to the formation of a feeling of inferiority in him or her and the cultivation of fear.
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  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1229

Edgar Poe’s Annabel Lee: Narrative Text Analysis

As death and mortality along with love make the key themes of the poem, it will be reasonable to suggest that the mood of the latter is quite dark, despite the lyrical tone and the [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 605

“The Hobbit”: Book vs. Movie

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.
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  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2495

The Twelfth Night by Shakespeare

The Twelfth Night, for instance, concentrates on such issues as love, friendship, relationships between the man and the woman as well as the distribution of gender roles in the society.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1935

John Donnes’ Poetry Literature Study

In the poem Death Be Not Proud, death assumes the role of a tyrant without real power. To the poet, death is a brief rest, and when we wake up we will live eternally and [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 677