Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 21

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“The Twenty Years’ Crisis 1919-1939” by E. Carr

In his book, The Twenty Years' Crisis 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations, Edward Hallett Carr studies the political and economic factors that predisposed the creation of the conflict, at the same [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 15
  • Words: 3861

“Jack and the Beanstalk” and “Molly Whuppie” Tales

Both Jack's and Molly's parents are poor, and the children in the stories are forced to experience difficulties in finding food and trying to survive; therefore, the boy and the girl get into ogres' houses.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 859

“The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros

The vignettes presented in The House on Mango Street describe the daily experiences of Esperanza, and they demonstrate the particular features of the Mexican Americans' life in a low-income neighborhood.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 589

Walt Whitman’s and Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

In particular, Walt Whitman focuses on the experiences of a free individual who cannot be restricted by the conventions established the society. In turn, it is important to show how this person differs from the [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 881

Tao Qian’s and LI Qingzhao’s Poems Comparison

Thesis Statement: The use of song lyric and art collection in Li Qingzhao's work portrays the disillusionment associated with the Song Dynasty while Tao Qian's dianyuan style depicts the disunion and desire for freedom during [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1427

Family Values Comparison: The Aeneid and the Holy Bible

It starts by showing God's creation of the universe and all the living things including man and how Adam and eve disobeyed God by eating fruits from the tree that God had warned them not [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2559

Henri Bergson’s Idea of the “Laughter”

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1164

George Orwell’s Views on the Euphemism

Orwell believes that insincerity is an obstacle to the use of clear language. In the short essay, Orwell believes that this poor use of euphemisms is curable if society makes it unfashionable to use pretentious [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 620

Robert Frost and Walt Whitman: Poems Comparison

Walk Whitman was born in the first half of the 1800s and Robert Frost in the second. The use of figurative speech in poetry gives the poems a capacity to reach out to the hearts [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 600

Medea and Antigone: Literature Comparison

However, in spite of the fact that the motivations of Medea and Antigone are considered to be the same, they choose different actions.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1127

Short Story’s Elements and Character Development

According to Poe Edgar Allan, the single effect has a vital role in writing short stories in which any element of a story have to focus on such an effect.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1112

The Metaphor of the Storm in Kate Chopin’s Story

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.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1184

Survival of the Fittest in Yann Martel’s “Life of Pi”

According to the method, the traits that are important for the survival of the organism are preserved and passed on to future generations, while the traits that are not important are eliminated together with the [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 20
  • Words: 5592

“Anacreontics, Drinking” by Abraham Cowley

The theme of the poem is drinking alcohol and its justification. Clearly, there is a hint at the theme of the piece as the Greek writer focused on love and alcohol.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1101

‘The Puritans and Sex’ by Edmund S. Morgan

The author describes the Puritans not as a powerful religious society who disapproved and outlawed earthly pleasures but as people who actually were aroused by simple desires and fragility; therefore, according to Edmund Morgan, the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 553

“Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin

In this story, the author examines the theme of race and identity by hiding Desiree's identity. In the story, it is evident that knowing one's identity and origin helps a person connect with the society.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1503

Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire

Overall, it is possible to say that Diaz's account and The Broken Spears are more credible because the authors of these narratives had no incentive to justify their actions or conceal facts from the audience. [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 822

Literature Analysis of Charlotte Mew Poems

Being different in their structure and stylistic devices, these three poems, however, are devoted to the exploration of the motif of death, destruction, and renewal which are integral parts of the war. It is devoted [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1124

Mahmoud Darwish: Narratives of Exile and Diaspora in the Poetry

Darwish's poetry is a narration of the entire story concerning the Palestinian misfortunes while in the Lebanese Diaspora. In 1982, when Lebanon was invaded by the Israeli, the Palestinian refugees were enforced to abandon their [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 822

“Breath, Eyes, Memory” by Edwidge Danticat

From the novel, a reader is able to see the difference in culture between Sophie and her mother. The bravery and struggles of the Haitian women are passed down to Sophie through the love they [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 918

Shakespeare and Honor in his History Plays

As such, the theme of honor should be explained in the framework of the play Richard III and actions and motivations of its characters with regard to the historic background of the play.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2204

The Downfall of Pentheus: The Clash of a Monarch and a God

Although it is traditionally considered that the key reason behind Pentheus's death was his denial of Dionysos as a god, it can also be argued that Pentheus's non-acceptance of Dionysos was only the factor, while [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1138

Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility

Macpherson asserts, In any erotic rivalry, the bond that links the two rivals is as intense and potent as the bond that links either of the rivals to the beloved.the bonds of "rivalry" and "love," [...]
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  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2389

Comparing Silverstein and Greenfield

There is a fear of the unknown that is prevalent in children as portrayed by some of the poems by the two poets.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 624

Accent Discrimination and the Harmful Effects

The learners of English as a second language have been greatly affected because of the discrimination faced from other individuals because of the difference in pronunciation.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 846

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

The return to the lighthouse is used to show the change of characters that was realized after the death of Mrs.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1566

Catullus Poems 5, 58, 75 and 87

Catullus belonged to a generation of poets who dubbed themselves the neoterics, normally translated as "the modems," a moniker derived from the Greek term "neoterikos," who borrowed heavily from the school of poetry that originated [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 970

Babylon Revisited & The Great Gatsby: Motifs & Themes

When he pleads his case to the guardians of Honoria, his sister-in-law Marion, and her husband, he continually evades his escapades of the past and recounts his hard work and sincerity of the present.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1319

The Gift of the Magi

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1649

The book Nickel and Dimed

The protagonist's encounters as well as that of the rest of her colleagues indicate that social mobility is locked out to many in the lowest stratum of the working population.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1094

Importance of the Book “The Odyssey” by Homer

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 866

Night by Elie Wiesel

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 [...]
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1089

Thought Response: The Saints and the Roughnecks

The society's view of the Saints and the Roughnecks is quite different. The basis for individual participation in criminal groups and the crime committed is a product of a learning environment.
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  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 596

Phyllis Roth on the Themes in Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”

The research focuses on the summary of Phyllis Roth's critical analysis of the Bram Stoker's Dracula novel. The writer uses the quotes to show proof of the author's understanding of the Bram Stoker's Dracula novel.
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  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1450

The Dutchman by Leroi Jones

She is obviously referring to the fact that Clay is a black man trying to behave as if he is a white man.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 2201

Aristotelian Tragedy Definition

Aristotle stated that "Tragedy, then, is a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in it, and of some amplitude; in language enriched by a variety of artistic devices appropriate to the [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 602

The Epic of Gilgamesh Poem Analysis

Whence, the lamentation of his subjects and the appearance of Enkidu form the basis of the transformation of Gilgamesh especially his character.
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  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1108

Sammy’s Heroism in “A&P” by John Updike

At the beginning of the story, Sammy seems like a thoughtless sexist who only admires girls because he has nothing to do, but as the story develops the readers is able to see beyond Sammy's [...]
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 596

Mythological and Modern-Day Heroes

Myths and other forms of literature were the tools that the community used to pass the deeds of the heroes from one generation to the other.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 780

Harry Houdini

The living conditions in the country were hard and the father decided to immigrate to the United States in 1876 in search of a better livelihood for the family.
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1113

Young Goodman Brown- Nathaniel Hawthorne

The duration from 1850 to 1853 was the most fruitful since he wrote The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1488

Charles Bukowski: A View from the Gutter

One of the most consistent criticisms hurled Bukowski's way, and one of the justifications for his bad reputation, appears as the observation that his work appeals to those who do not understand, or value, the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1733

Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal”

The white man is willing to let the black man in to his space but not to benefit the black man but to humiliate him.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 743

Elements of Modern Fiction

Time and realism is a crucial element of modern literature."Time, in Modernist literature, may take the reader through a day in the life of a narrator, whereas in Realism, the reader is taken into a [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 551

Literature and the Community

On the other hand, the essay analyzes the 'Lesson', which is a story written by Toni Cade Bambara with the aim of showing how individuals and societies affect each other in the context of literature.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 706

Novella “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver

Prior to advancing any hypothesis about this issue, it is crucially important to understand the functions of the story-teller in any work of literature and discuss the personality of the narrator, who embodies certain stereotypes [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1108

A Simple Story by S.Y. Agnon

He significantly influenced the development of Hebrew literature by means of the frequent usage of literary techniques. These techniques assist in helping the reader to comprehend the atmosphere of the story and enter the characters' [...]
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 577

The Great Gatsby

All these characteristics of America during 1920 are evident and inherent in the main character, Jay Gatsby, in the novel The Great Gatsby. This is one of the themes in the novel The Great Gatsby.
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 701

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

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.
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  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 1416

The “Borders” Story by Thomas King

Most of the narrative is devoted to the narrator discussing the motives and behaviors of other characters, especially his mother and sister.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 405

Shakespeare’s Relevance Nowadays

Shakespeare's themes are eternal, and his accurate portrayal of people's motivations and feelings offers an understanding of human nature and behavior. Shakespeare created hundreds of new words, phrases, ideas, and grammatical structures for the English [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 337

The Book “Night” by Elie Wiesel

The book is a powerful testimony to the horrors of the holocaust and how people can lose their humanity and innocence.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 856

The Tales of the Merchant and the Demon

For instance, the Tales of the Merchant and the Demon is the first story narrated by Shahrazad to introduce specific ideas.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 292

The “Sing, Unburied, Sing” Novel by Jesmin Ward

An increase in the number of divorces and a decrease in the birth rate, a growth in crime in the sphere of family and household relations and in the risk of children's susceptibility to neuroses [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1694

Trauma Presented in The Last House on Needless Street by Ward

The defining feature of such a novel is the transformation of the self ignited by an external, often terrifying experience that illuminates the process of coming to terms with the dynamics of memory that inform [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 4372

“The Lamb” Poem by William Blake

The poem 'The Lamb' by William Blake is a short verse that describes the author's attitude towards the little lamb that metaphorically symbolizes everything in the world that is calm, humble, and inoffensive.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 640

The Works of William Shakespeare

The writer reflects in his work issues such as the rush to liberation from the shackles of the Middle Ages, the widening of the horizons of the earth and the boundaries of human thought, the [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 866

Mythology. Dogon: The First Words

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2204

Modernism in “Girl” Short Story by Jamaica Kincaid

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 592

“To Build a Fire” and “White Snow” by Jack London

In order to analyze how patterns in writing occurs, I take the example of Jack London and the following paragraph will analyze the two short stories written by the author, 'To Build a Fire' and [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 639

“The Innocent Man” by John Grisham

He gives a transparent picture of the legal system and reflects how the judicial systems are so unfair to the poor and the middle-level people in the United States.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 883