Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 17

The impact of the silence in this case, the suppression of detail about this element of the family reveals itself in the fate of the grandmother.

This highlights the theme of loyalty, as the soldiers are ready to obey orders well aware of the dangers involved. The author continues to explore the symbol of compliance and selflessness by explicating how soldiers [...]

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.

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. [...]

She stands with her culture, and when her daughter, Dee, announces her intention to change her name to Wangero, she tries to elaborate on the importance of the family name, especially in creating a stronger [...]

Through the lens of this novel, McCarthy exposes the relentless brutality of colonial conquest, the dispossession of land and identity, and the dire repercussions of human greed.

Therefore: Y-AXIS: Romeo's level of lovesickness. X-AXIS: Quotes from the play, separated by acts.

The ability of "wyrd" is to put a person in a situation where they can determine their future and even partially feel or foresee it.

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

The story's central irony is that the protagonist is not a good boy. A passage that depicts the author viewing the character as pretentious is the one discussing Jacob's desire to rescue a dog only [...]

Emerson sees the ultimate manifestations of beauty in "the frailest leaf, the mossy bark, the acorn's cup, the raindrop's arc, the swinging spider's silver line, the ruby of the drop of wine, the shining pebble [...]

Some of the most prominent themes in the story are the ideas of mutual forgiveness, people's motivation to be proactive and take risks, and their willingness to forgive and ask for forgiveness.

In the beginning, the readers are exposed to the horrifying experience of Melinda being raped by Andy Evans. The little girl feels alone and has no idea how to deal with her anguish or let [...]

The Shoelace and Waking in the Blue are similar based on designating the theme of madness by poets as the main speakers, considering the pessimistic and sarcastic tone, using understandable language, and specific stylistic techniques.

Most of the narrative is devoted to the narrator discussing the motives and behaviors of other characters, especially his mother and sister.

The novel's intended audience is young adults, which derives from the protagonist's age, the events and problems she has to face, and, most importantly, a lack of personal experience to deal with them at this [...]

In Becoming, Michelle Obama shares key takeaways from her life, including the importance of education, the power of resilience, and the journey of self-discovery.

In order to accentuate the serenity and carelessness of the setting, the author of To look out the window begins the work by emphasizing the simplicity of the young boy's life.

Shakespeare was regarded as the poet of nature, emphasizing the uniqueness and magnificence of humanity in all of his poems. The sonnet is centered around time and immortality as it asserts how the poet's beloved [...]

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 [...]

For example, the idea of prioritizing one's own benefits is discussed as the writer presents such characters as the miller and the reeve.

In the story, Jackson and Brody show that the people have long forgotten the reason they keep the ceremonial practice and they have a poor understanding of the details of the ritual.

The way that this gift contributes to the meaning of the novel as a whole is that it shows how money can trap people and promise them easy social mobility. This is why Dickens needs [...]

Franz Kafka's novel, "The Metamorphosis," is regarded as one of the most fascinating and absurdist works of literature and offers a complex philosophical and psychological examination of current circumstances.

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.

He does not seek to seize the treasure his intention is only to deprive the possessor of the treasure of pleasure. A cynic to the depths of his brain, he sees only the flipside in [...]

In my opinion, in both Walker's and Kincaid's stories, there are the three themes of mother-daughter relationships, economic struggles, and societal expectations. In the case of Girl, the conflict is based on the concerns the [...]

It appears that the black group keeps to itself and that the white group remains as a unit without a black girl amongst them.

Basically, Collins took the idea of a popular poem concept in which the narrator compared their beloved to different phenomena and transformed it into a humorous poem.

This is because it helps to outline the picture of what is happening more clearly for the reader and contributes to the formation of the general mood of the narrative.

The poem does not seem to address anyone in particular, but the "you" in it refers to the people who have oppressed and continue to discriminate against the speaker and the community she represents.

When they are presented with the monkey's paw, they ignore the warnings and refuse to get rid of the wish-granting item. The consequences of whishing on the monkey's paw do not hesitate to knock on [...]

Hossain's article explores the manifestations of the ideas of post-modernist feminism in the play through the analysis of the main character's development and the overall social order where women were subordinate to men.

The author discusses the belittling of black people and the preservation of white supremacy, describes how black citizens' inability to vote escalated into them being assaulted and murdered, and explains how law facilitated racial barriers.

Sherlock Holmes is a unique character whose actions are incomprehensible to others; he is brilliant and independent, and aspects of his personality develop with each crime. However, Sherlock Holmes is a peculiar man, and the [...]

He writes Maus, a nonfictional book, to describe the horror that the Jews were subjected to during the Holocaust through the narration of his father.

The first aspect of this poem is the focus on the conduct of the male characters from the perspective of honor.

Das represents a character that is easy to empathize with and relate to due to his kind nature. Failing miserably to notice the presence of alienation between him and his wife, as well as his [...]

The paper will include the explanation of the letters' primary function and the analysis of letters. Gardiner to Lizzy is significant in a way that it changes the latter's perception of Darcy.

George Orwell's Politics and the English Language is an essay in which the author has criticized certain techniques that make the language redundant, the message unclear, and people confused or manipulated into believing in insincere [...]

Personally, I had a clear image in my head when I read the poem; that is why using imagery shaped my understanding of the poem and the role of romance in it.

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

The segregation and prejudices attached to the black community by their counterparts impacted them negatively in regard to how society perceived the black people and consequently, how they felt about themselves.

This report attempts to understand the pressing issues of how to survive the pain of losing a loved one and in what period everything will return to normal based on the novel by Alice Sebold, [...]

To be classified as an Aristotelian tragedy, a film or story must be complex and include a situation in which a respectable person suffers a complete reversal of fortunes due to a fatal mistake and [...]

The stylistic device that the poet uses is the simile to associate a deferred dream with the traditional image of rotting meat. The first part is the dream's relation to a raisin and a rot.

At the same time, in Hemingway's story, the hot and dry plain and white hills are described to convey the tension of the situation.

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

A high level of creativity is utilized in the writing of the novel, and unless the reader is a writer, they may have little knowledge of the background of the novel.

As for my personal opinions on the reading, I think that "When I Was One-and-Twenty" accurately and truthfully reflects the aspirations of the young generation to which I belong.

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.

In the poem "Upon Burning of our House," she "shows her total belief in God, even in times of the destruction of their property".

Furthermore, from this story, the reader will learn about the special relationship of Navajo to the stars, the constellations of which provide the life principles and values of the people.

The poetry of the Beat Generation exuded of the ideal of the Beat Generation that was to "escape" in a "vision".

Each of the poem's stanzas demonstrates the gravity of the sour relationship between a father and his son. The complexity of the association between the father and the son is evident all through the poem.

In contrast, the villains are made to capture the fears, and challenges of the societies represented by these epics. The import of these three epics lies in their historicism.

In the Greek tradition, the women were the ones that were concerned with the issues of burial and she wants Ismene to help her to ensure that their brother is properly buried despite the objection [...]

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 [...]

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".

All through eternity Beauty unveils His exquisite form in the solitude of nothingness; He holds a mirror to His Face and beholds His own beauty.he is the knower and the known, the seer and the [...]

The cause of the fire remains unknown; however, several pre-requisites before the event were discovered during the investigation, such as inadequate fire alarm system in the school, absence of fire exit, and unpreparedness of the [...]

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.

Therefore, women in the novel have received a certain degree of power and equality when it comes to their relationships with men.

Reading this short story, the audience meets a young boy who desires to make a mash on a beautiful girl resorting to the use of lies and deceitfulness, but he soon realizes that such an [...]

Being unable to get out of there, the old woman is buried alive in metaphorical sense - she has no interest for life and the bath is like a grave for her soul.

The play raises the question of what stories will be remembered in the future and whether they have any chance of staying unchanged. Returning to the central conflict, it finally receives a resolution in the [...]

Orwell uses the details surrounding the shooting of the elephant to bring out the sarcasm of imperialism, and the vulnerability of the imperialists to the otherwise primitive locals that they purported to rule over and [...]

Although her daughter is returned to her, a part of her is lost because she has to spend part of her life in the underground as the mistress of the underground ruler.

In her article, The Illness of the Mourning & the Fantasy of the Exquisite Corpse Maria Torok observes the problems of introjection and incorporation.

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.

Myths are said to provide a framework of cultures in the society and are also said to educate people in the society so that they can have a means of coping with the traditions which [...]

Alongside tourism essays and reviews, with fast developing of technologies and telecommunication, a lot of TV and radio programmes are intended to present the information about the world's countries pointing out the advantages and disadvantages [...]

The objective of this story is to discuss the role of fantasy/escape as it has been applied in the story, "The Faery handbag".

Thousands of other people had also been affected by the test and they were all blaming the government of the US. Terry and her family had to bear the consequences of an irresponsible government.

The road was not easy for Wallace Stevens. Wallace Stevens nearly never changes the themes of his poems.

She does this by employing the first definition as it applies to the monster, but then employs the second definition to apply to the doctor, suggesting that the hidden monster is far worse than the [...]

The paper would look into the parameter of different aspects of the stories and compare the two, particularly on the theme of self-discovery.

Omura is a harbinger of the conflict in which Capitan Nathan Algren, the main character of the story will be involved.

Carlos Bulosan's novel America is in the heart is born from the hostile environment to which the writer was exposed, from his childhood years to the time the novel was published.

The beginning of the novel is not just the description of Lucy's first day on her new job, but the description of the changes, which she had suffered as a newcomer in the new country [...]

For example, in his article "Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day", Jack Slay suggests that it was namely due to Stevens' emotional coldness that the novel's main character had found himself unable to pursue a [...]

Being the brain and the intellectual reason of the family, the husband wisely guides the ship of his matrimonial unit through all the possible mishaps and traps and takes the necessary precautions in order to [...]

Anderson makes a conclusion that the poem is built on the ironic contrast between the unheroic Miniver as it is and his dreams of adventure, romance, and art associated with heroic figures of the Trojan [...]

Despite the fact that, throughout story's entirety, Cal is being presented to us as "progressive" educator, who seriously believed that endowing Donny with strongly defined sense of self-respect could have helped Daisy's son to straighten [...]

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.

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 other words, a new scientific solution of a genius can be appropriate only when the society draws to a head with a little bit mere understanding of the scientific flow at a definite epoch [...]

Nowadays, it is only the handful of uneducated Christian fundamentalists, who continue to refer to the Bible as the actual "word of God", due to the fact that Christianity had long ago lost its conceptual [...]

The present paper is intended to discuss and compare the ideas of women's position in Republican China as illustrated in the novel "Red Sorghum" by Mo Yan and the corresponding gender attitudes in the traditional [...]

Metamophically Rip's nagging wife is the British petticoat governor in the colonial era, and Rip's reunion with his family symbolizes the American Revolution. They both held to the belief that Rip's character was an antithesis [...]

Shakespeare employs the traditional view of the woman as a means of illustrating its more dangerous elements through his portrayal of Ophelia in her innocence, the ease with which others use her, and the suspicion [...]

The analysis of the poem The Flea should be viewed through the author's personal style of writing and world look. The style of the poem writing can be characterized as lyrical and romantic as the [...]

Hamlet kills numerous characters in the play and this goes to show his excessive pride or in other words his sin of pride.

The reader explores, again, that Fleur's character is surrounded with mystery, when she is violated by one of the players and Pauline is not able to help her even she knows what is happening.

By the very act of passing over a indication of an event in American history, the story draws attention to it"."Rip returns to find people talking of the heroes of the late war, the new [...]

The current paper is aimed at comparison of the works through three perspectives: the symbolism of the titles of the two novels, the way colonialism and racism are represented by the authors, and the way [...]

In Part I of his book "Exterminate All the Brutes", Sven Lindqvist embarks on a seemingly impossible task proving to readers that Europeans, who became the undisputed masters of the world by the end of [...]

In it she relates the story of Celie, a woman with a phenomenal rise from one oppressed and dependent and climaxes at the emancipated self at the end of the book.

This is the essence of Hamlet and what makes the sentiment so true to our time the inherent pain of life, a cosmic sense of injustice, and the karmic balance of natural order.

The name is derived from the Epiphany which is a feast day among Roman Catholics, celebrating the manifestation of Christ to the Wise Men of the East...the Magi's quest for the Christ-child like that of [...]

To the poet, nature is the best company and he loves to sit lonely in the lap of nature. Here, the poet used to enjoy the beauty of nature and contemplate the future of humanity.

But it is his marriage to Hera that made a great impact in the continuance of the Greek myth. In Greek mythology, Hebe is the personification of youth and immortality.

The Epic of Gilgamesh and the culture of the ancient Egypt have their own similarities and differences based on the historical events that took place in this cultures and the religious beliefs of the two [...]

The current research paper was written in order to analyze Antigone's courage in the context of the philosophy of Aristotle and overall ideals of the Ancient Greece.

Sophocles makes use of all these elements in the Oedipus Rex and the fact that the audience is aware of the myth of Oedipus foreshadows his fate in the beginning of the play.

However, if one arguing for the spiritual significance of Austen's novels is able to show that the development of Austen's plots, themes, and characters is related to Austen's religious beliefs and standards, he or she [...]

In the second half of the poem, the speaker revealed that hating her body was bought about by a man, "who plays the dual role of savior and destroyer in the woman's life".

The sea fell to Poseidon, the underworld to Hades, and Zeus became Lord of the Sky. Being the wife of Zeus and Queen of Olympus, Hera was powerful, but she exercised her power in subtle [...]

It is the age of change and social advances as well as the age of the strict social structure and a severe regard for the customs of the past.

Chueh-Hsin's younger brothers do not want to follow his example and try to break away from the influence of the family. He leaves the compound of his family to continue his rebel and to marry [...]

Fiction can possibly include the happenings of everyday life and is reliant on the person that narrates the happenings, the manner of its narration, and its composition.

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 [...]

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.

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.

The theme of sin is depicted through emotional sufferings and experience of the main heroes of the novel: Hester Prynne, her husband Roger Chillingworth and Hester's lover, Dimmesdale.

The narrator of the story is a boy who falls in love with his neighbor Mangan's sister. Eveline is the protagonist of this story who has to make the most important choice of her life.

But the problem is that her mental ill has put a veil on her and she is not longer Rose to anyone.

The poem is filled with bitterness for man and his feeble attempts to control the universe when all of the achievements are swamped out when the sun goes away."The bright sun was extinguished, and the [...]

Lack of directions and information that people with disabilities face when they find themselves in that condition is one of the problems that the author raises in the first part of her book.