Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 22

Arguably, the initial character of Cal is used to predict the wrong future of Donny within the text, which provides the readers with an insight into the "wastage" of the young individual.

In the novel, the main character's ability to use a narrative form of the dominant culture and undermine it with her story shows how the structure of domination of one culture over the other can [...]

Anne Bradstreet wrote the poem entitled the flesh and the spirit and tried to compare the things of the world and the thing of the spirit.

For instance, in the case where both the mole and the rat make comments to the toad that are full of women critics.

Yeats successfully draws the minds of the readers of the reality of the aging population. In the poem, Eliot's is able to draw the conscious of the readers to imagine of the outlook of the [...]

As the representative of the Harlem Renaissance, the author describes the life of Harlem community after the Second World War and the civil rights movement.

In developing the plot of the story, the author foreshadows the story's ending by talking about the black box and the black dot at the end of the story, which symbolized the person to be [...]

The aim of this essay is to summarize the plot of A&P by John Updike and to discuss the main idea of the novel.

Therefore, the speaker has to take one of the roads and live with the consequences of taking that road. Furthermore, the speaker has no control of what may happen to his life in the path [...]

In the beginning of the story, the author mentions that it was her wish to hear that the family was less fortunate, instead of that they were doing well.

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 [...]

Good is usually thought to be the will of God and in this case the Franks are deemed to represent good since they are moved by the will of God while the Saracens are seen [...]

The fact that she was able to incorporate the elements of both the African and the European cultures made Karen Blixen to become a brave woman she had become.

Whence, the lamentation of his subjects and the appearance of Enkidu form the basis of the transformation of Gilgamesh especially his character.

In the Greek history, a story is told of a man, Achilles, who possessed characteristics that the Greek culture reserved to heroes.

Idleness is a vice that normally does not raise eyebrows because it predominates in the lives of people and often goes unsuspected.

Although both concerning the subject of war, the settings of the two poems are quite different."Dulce Et Decorum Est" is set in a trench of the First World War and dedicated to description of a [...]

Nathan the Wise is one of the best known plays by the German writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing that touches upon the religious issues, the conflicts, which may happen on the religious field and during the [...]

Set in turn of the century New Orleans, The Awakening details the futile attempts of the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, to realize a modicum of personal freedom amid the socially constrictive Victorian era, wherein the roles [...]

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 [...]

Thus, the theme of the story traces the definition of the nature of people and love and suggests that all humans, independent of their circumstances, have a choice in a moral dilemma.

The Merchant of Venice is a play about a man who is wronged and almost destroyed by fortune, but then he realizes he has the power to influence his destiny.

Written in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, the work conveys the brutality and bloodthirstiness of military actions as well as the mental state of soldiers.

Looking into the fish's eyes may be regarded as the poem's crucial and turning point and as the author's attempts to identify and compare the existence of the human and the fish.

In this aspect, an essential element in the description of the role of water is the mention of the water god Suijin. Water is described in the context of several generations and reflects people's life [...]

The greatest evil in the play, the catalyst for the tragedy to unfold, appears to be "the Devil," the avatar of which can be seen in Iago.

Knights were expected to have honor, courage, honesty, respect, selflessness, and several other qualities of how a perfect knight was considered, like Olivier and Roland in The Song of Roland.

The woman made the decision in her late twenties to spend a significant part of her time in the family house rather than stepping outside.

The supernatural was an aspect of the plot structure used to add tension and drama to the occurrences and situations and manifested in various ways. To conclude, the owl and raven were utilized as omens [...]

The poem's magnitude of metaphors and symbolism does an excellent job of reflecting the poet's state of mind."Lady Lazarus" resembles the biblical story of Lazarus - the person whom Jesus famously resurrected.

Bhardwaj's Maqbool is a great example of how the weather sets the tone for the story, it is not the backdrop in the film, but an active force expressing the psychological state of the characters.

Nancy's fear of the dark and the violence she associates with it makes her use the Compton children as her protection.

The narrative's main focus was on the family's relationships, trials, and the never-ending cycle of pain. The storyteller is Sonny's brother, and the setting occurred in a rural region of Harlem, New York, in the [...]

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 [...]

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.

Hetherington's "The Creator and Created Review of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" demonstrates that Shelley's religious views and lifestyle influence Frankenstein and that Mary's modernity may be replicated in chronicles to comprehend their meaning.

The key symbol of the writing is a lamb described by the poet. Ancient wallpaper is an object of historical significance, which reflects the fish's life essence.

These behaviors include understanding love and care, the role of parents, and fears of sharing affection. Victor believes that he should reflect his parents' love for him to the creature.

The first publications of Dickinson's poems began to appear only in the 1890s, after her death. Many of Dickinson's poems contain the motive of death and immortality, and the same plots permeate her letters to [...]

The creature can be compared to a baby who tries to examine the world it lives in, and its actions are just contractions to the cruelty of the world.

Kapasi, the driver who also performs the role of a tour guide for the Das family, is divulged more via his interlinkages with Mrs. Das and the story's indirect depiction of Mrs.Das.

Initially, in both stories, the authors emphasize the success linked to education and the necessity of school attendance. Back in time, education might create a delusion about one's intelligence, overstating the significance of existing knowledge [...]

Domestic and adventure fictions have several characteristics that distinguish them from other types of imaginative writing."One Crazy Summer" and "Hoot" are some of the most intriguing novels that show the features of domestic and adventure [...]

The author takes the readers into the poetic lifeline of exploration of fearing the unknown. The author personifies the snake by calling it a fellow, which gives the snake a weird humanistic quality.

When talking about the latter, it is possible to distinguish two dominant emotions that affect the communication between a woman and a man: attraction and repulsion.

In particular, Claudius and Scar represent villains under the guise of well-wishers, while Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Hamlet and hyenas from The Lion King appear worse than they seem.

The machine is a metaphor that represents those at the top of a hierarchy or the government who control people and run all the activities within the system.

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 [...]

At the beginning of the Overstory, Nick is profoundly connected to trees because his forefather had a chestnut farm. The veteran betrays Adams to protect Mimi and is subjected to a light sentence.

Moreover, Gilman has used ghosts as one of the supernatural forces to create the mood of the story and the theme of mental illnesses.

The poem is a part of Whitman's Leaves of Grass collection, where the writer shares feelings and observations about human nature, reactions, and emotions."Sometimes with one I love" reveals the harsh consequences of non-reciprocal love, [...]

Homer offers a variety of shades of religious consciousness, and many of the plot elements used by the author indicate a social interpretation of the divine cult and the introduction of human beliefs into the [...]

She symbolizes colonized Vietnam, and the main goal for her in life is to survive, but other people's opinions are also important.

A Raisin in the Sun revolves around the life of an African American Family. The underlying cause of the conflict is $10000 that every member of the family in his/her own way.

The incident changed Eliezer's attitude where the fulfillment of getting the bread at that particular period outweighed the life of his father.

The second stanza is more disturbing in nature and shows the narrator's fear and disgust of a place that aroused his interest in childhood.

In relation to this concept is the fact that Lennie and George's dreams inspire the duo to be mutually cooperative and loving as is evident through Gorge's action of covering up for Lennie's deficiencies when [...]

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 insensitivity in this mistreatment and dehumanization of Black people is pervasive to the extent that Jim considers himself "property" and was proud to be worth a fortune if anyone was to sell him. To [...]

Although the play had a religious connotation, it highlighted the government's failure and the inherent struggle by the people which aggravated the leaders, thus leaving the country and becoming a French citizen.

On the one hand, it represented a true social situation, and on the other hand, it helped to illustrate the life of Afro-American people at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The first stanza is devoted to comparing the former with the sky: "The Brain - is wider than the Sky ".

The key similarity of both stories can be seen in the fact that the authors wrote a tragedy for Hercules in order to explore the role of violence in his acts of heroism.

The disabilities of the younger brother do not prevent him from admiring the world, while the elder brother is inclined to show more pride, and these differences form the basis of the story.

The majority of the second chapter of the story is descriptive, and the author does an outstanding job of gradually setting up the affair.

Rosetti's lie has the character of misinterpretation and fantasy, Smith's has the form of concealment or white lies, and Askew's is presented in the form of allegory to different kinds of desserts.

The current paper observes two ancient texts, The Iliad and The Bhagavad-gita, to investigate the arguments of what the virtues of wars are.

The narrator's attempts to portray her mother as an active member of the community and tell the story through her eyes indicate a close connection between her and the storyteller.

In the same way, history and societies have belittled and violated the equal living of both women and minority groups. Gould talks about the nature of animals and insects and how their cruelty cannot be [...]

The poem, "The Bean Eaters" portrays the old couple's poor state they live in alongside how they are fighting to be alive despite all their difficulties. They are the remnants of their lives.

In The Dead, Gabriel Conroy as a nephew of his aunt that is known to handle every problem himself is presented as a character that is well cautious and possesses certain authority.

However, as the conversation between the American and the girl goes on, the reader learns the name of the female character.

The theme and problem of woman's rights looming over the society of that day is demonstrated as the main issue at the core of the story.

Although it is a short story the author managed to provide a clear understanding of how quickly the son got disappointed in his father and the feeling of excitement about the meeting changed to the [...]

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".

Othello, a husband to Desdemona realizes later that Desdemona was a faithful and loving woman. Othello is determined to kill her however her beauty and innocent appearance restrict Othello.

There are too many striking differences in the Western and Eastern literatures that it is highly difficult to comprehend the first of the second one by representatives of another culture.

The two poems "Child of the Americas" and "To live in the Borderlands means to you" are conservative in the way they express the cultural background of the persona.

The climax of the story is when Mrs. The epitome of the essay is when the French teacher insults him in French.

The lack of actual historical information is a testament to the treatment accorded to women in the 16th century and this is an element of modernity that Woolf uses; the oppression of women in the [...]

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 [...]

While he was there, he was able to accomplish many things that made him an outstanding character from the others such as he was the one who killed the second earl of Douglas in the [...]

Hephaestus was the son of Zeus and Hera, and was the god of the creative fire, and was the divine artisan who worked with metals.

In the poem, The Larynx Alice Jones tried to use a serious and at the same time informal tone in order to show all the significance and the necessity of the larynx.

Going to the river Orlando found that the frost had broken and the ship was sailing away. Orlando surrenders to "the spirit of the age" and looks around for a spouse.

Similar and different aspects in the real life and in the fictional world are not always easy to recognize, though it is possible to distinguish the real and invented aspects when at least one person [...]

The question is that the main hero can tell the truth of his heart by means of the charms of nature.

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.

But if they over dry, they will become hard to chew and lose all the nutrition, This warns us of the consequences that may befall us if we sit there and wait for conditions to [...]

The internal structure and the external form of this very poem are connected with the help of the context; at the same time, the external form facilitates the understanding of the contrast between two worlds.

The reading of Arthur Clarke's short story "Superiority" had brought me to the following set of conclusions, in regards to how story's motifs relate to particulars of my professional affiliation: The implementation of groundbreaking technologies [...]

However, there is no denying that human beings are not completely divine beings; there are animal instincts in us, like using the five senses to judge our environment and react to it; the desire to [...]

Driving to work involves the use of evolving technology as every car made today includes varying degrees of computerized information systems that inform the vehicle of important information everything from the need for an oil [...]

Her younger sister is also not in keeping with her expectations and is rather manipulative and irritating to her in view of her being a hypochondriac.

First, it is of the vital importance to pay extra attention to the author and particularly to the peculiarities of his or her character.

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.

As a result of his boasting, a great deal of what his family knows about Willy is based upon the image he feels he must portray of himself in order to bring himself in line [...]

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 [...]

This line also exposes her fear of social ridicule which is preventing her from doing all the things she would really like to do.

Her response is to try her best to make up for her crime by satisfying each and every demand of Beloved to the extent of literally enslaving herself to the girl.

The reference to the fact that the priest who lived in the house before them had left the furniture of the house to his sister, suggests that the family could have used the furniture had [...]

When he is presented in front of the bishop, he claims that it was a gift and asks him to be freed as he has promised to mend his ways.

This paper aims to discuss the first part of the poem, the Inferno in connection with the theory of open text, which was worked out of by Robert Barthes and Umberto Eco.

After reading William Shakespeare's play "Othello" ordinary readers, as well as literary critics, fail to come to a unanimous conclusion about intricate traces of Iago's character; some critics suggest that Iago is unique and the [...]

The poet's main aim, which is achieved due to the horrific imagery of the work, is to show the real nature of war, terrible horrors, and absurdity of pain that the soldiers suffered during a [...]

In the second story, the symbol of the past and something that had long gone is the woman's path that implies the historical events of the past the value of life.

In the first place, it is necessary to define the term "discourse" because of the multiplicity of existing definitions of the notion.

He and his family moved to Nook Farm in Hartford, Connecticut in the 1860s then to Fredonia, New York and Keokuk, Iowa.

While reading the first person narrative essay of Jane Goodall entitled "A Plea For The Chimpanzees", I came to the realization that Chimpanzees are so much like human beings that it is unfair to continue [...]

Depicting the victory of ethics over immorality, Sam Foster manages to express his idea of the possibility that the real estate business, and the human life on the whole, can be ethical in their essence.

The title of the story has a hidden meaning and symbolizes trye love and passion between Calixta and her lover. This tension between the individual and the nature can be destructive to originality, imagination and [...]

The author depicts the departure of the family from Korea to the territory of Manchuria, with the purpose to set a stable and happy life; the farther is to take a promising job being released [...]

The strengths of such friendships can be seen in the way Friar Laurence accepts and anticipates Romeo's actions, showing that he is ready to hear him as a friend not as a priest, "Doth couch [...]

On the other hand, the principles of new criticism do not consider such factors, limiting the area of analysis to the text itself, i.e.the verbal meaning of the words, the language, the structure, and the [...]

It is clear from the beginning of the story that McMurphy successfully feigns insanity to escape the hard work at the Pendleton Work Farm, "Do not overlook the possibility that this man might be feigning [...]

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.

He does this by allocating his land and property to his three daughters to the degree to which they are able to convince him that they love him.

Hot, Flat and Crowded is a much anticipated follow up to his earlier books and is a plea to the policymakers of the world to wake up to the reality of global warming and the [...]

She became a famous writer in Oakland and in this story, she narrates her experiences about the English she uses and about how the people around her influenced the way she conversed.

Imagine that the protagonist is one of the pilgrims in the story in search of the legendary gem along with the other pilgrims.