Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 23

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Animism and the Alphabet

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.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1246

The Hunger Games: Book Versus Movie

The film director, Gary Ross, presents the contents of the book in a film in concise way. This is in spite of the fact that the family relationship between Gale and Katniss is important.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 572

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: 692

The Nature of Disturbances in “Things Fall Apart”

The author illustrates the disruption of peace by the arrival of white-men in the Igbo community. Nevertheless, the showing up of the white man and Christianity led to a change in this practice, the women [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1382

“Tripp Lake” by Lauren Slater

Lauren is observed to be sympathetic, since she wished she could trade places with her mother, in order for her to achieve some more, since she felt that her mother was imposing the life that [...]
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 943

Human Connection Explored in Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” Poem

Thus, the term "mending wall" holds a metaphorical significance, representing the mending of relationships and the constant need for human connection. In conclusion, Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" is a thought-provoking exploration of human relationships, boundaries, [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 604

“Don Quixote” by Cervantes: Character Analysis

In the novel "Don Quixote," Miguel de Cervantes depicts two opposite characters of Alonso Quixano and Sancho Panza. Alonso and Sancho have opposite personalities, each representing a different kind of sense.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 949

“Woman at Point Zero”: Abuse Against Women

By further analyzing the statement and the book as a whole through the cultural rhetoric and trauma framework, it becomes apparent that she is a victim of systemic patriarchy.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2746

“The Giving Tree” Book by Shel Silverstein

The lessons in the book are represented through the tree's selflessness, and the book promotes diversity by showing that kindness and generosity are universal values.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 407

What is Kant’s “Copernican Revolution”

Therefore, by amending his philosophy on the role of the mind in how people experience the world, Kant took on empiricism and rationalism that downplayed the mind's role in how people experience events around them.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1140

The Short Story “A Painful Case” by James Joyce

Secondly, I wrote a list of questions regarding the characters in the reading. For the purpose of identifying themes in the short story, I developed specific questions to guide me in examining the major and [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 609

Silent Suffering and Racism in Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”

Right from the demise of the author's daughter to the appalling drug addiction by Sonny coupled with the dreadful murder of the narrator's cherished uncle, the theme of suffering controls the community in numerous ways.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1671

The Rules of Courtly Love in “Lanval”

Lanval is one of the stories to which the rules and nature of courtly love described by Capellanus are applicable. Thus, the character of the story is an example of a true lover who is [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 374

Deception in “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen

It is important to note that the topic of deception and self-deception in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" is of paramount criticality in order to understand the underlying message and characters' actions.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 280

Setting in the “Parable of the Sower”

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.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 399

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: 16
  • Words: 4372

“Dreams of Suicide” by William Meredith

However, due to the extensive use of literary elements, such as allusions and metaphors, discussion of the poem's use of imagery and symbolism can serve as a solid basis. Thus, "Dreams of Suicide" became a [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 283

The Incorporation of Feminism in Literature

By focusing on the character, the book portrays the demand for feminism in society to allow females to have the ability and potential to undertake some responsibilities persevered by their male counterparts. The belief in [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1476

The Novel “The Crying of Lot 49” by Thomas Pynchon

The author interprets it as a symbol of the destruction and degeneration of Western civilization, the deadening of the intellect, and the degradation of human relationships.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1434

“Waiting for the Barbarians” by J. M. Coetzee

Coetzee about the recount of the rebellion of the magistrate of an empire against the torture inflicted on the imperial administration that arrested the barbarians.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2868

Mayan and Egyptian Myth of Creation Comparison

As the creator of humans and gods, he had the initiative to bring order to earth and the heavens. Like other creations narratives, the Mayan initializes that in the beginning, the earth was void as [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1186

Miller’s Death of a Salesman vs. Wilson’s Fences

The two characters, Willy Lowman and Troy Maxon, can get a lot of challenges and fences in their quest to achieve the American Dream. One common idea in the two plays, Fences and the Death [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 638

Poverty in “A Modest Proposal” by Swift

The high number of children born to poor families presents significant problems for a country."A Modest Proposal" is a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift that proposes a solution to the challenge facing the kingdom.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1371

Internal Conflict in the “King of the Bingo Game”

For the protagonist to win the jackpot, he has to press a key linked to a spinning wheel. As the protagonist is standing on the stage, forcing the wheel to continue spinning, he discovers that [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 307

Finding Theme in Everyday Life

Identifying a theme of the writing is one of the essential skills, which can be applied not only to the literature analysis but to everyday life as well.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 316

Father-Son Theme in Li-Young Lee’s Poems

It is vibrant that the poet was raised in a fitted and joined atmosphere since he is not scared to show feelings, especially when inscription about his father.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 934

An Analysis “Harrison Bergeron”

Despite the fact that the author tries to portray an equal society, it is discriminatory since it ensures equality through suppression of citizens' rights, while the current American society espouses the equality of opportunity."Harrison Bergeron" [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 362

“Burning Chrome” Short Stories by William Gibson

The "Burning Chrome" by William Gibson is a collection of short stories addressing the origin and the future of modern computer technology and its efficacy in changing the lives of human beings.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 846

“18 Rugby Street” by Ted Hughes: Poem Analysis

At the beginning of the poem, Hughes describes the house where he first met his future wife. In "18 Rugby Street", he probably tries to explain the essence and the nature of the relationship between [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 176

The Significance of Myths Nowadays

To be honest, while identifying, researching, and developing the project, I discovered much information and realized the great significance of myths nowadays. Each step contributed to my understanding of the presence and significance of myths [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

Higher Law in The Antigone Play

Antigone strongly believes that the laws of Gods are higher than the laws of the state and that she does right by following the laws of the Gods.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 673

“Dare to Lead” by B. Brown

Dare to Lead refers to the works devoted to psychological issues and is intended to focus on delusions in respect of the modern workplace, finding the keys to true leadership.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 827

“Death and the King’s Horseman” by Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka's play Death and the King's Horseman relies on the real incident about the man who prepares to commit ritual suicide and accompany the deceased king to the afterlife. The connection between the world [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 632

“Pride and Prejudice”: Analysis of a Passage

The story, the characters, the setting, and even the speech of the characters make strong references to the environments of the beginning of the 19th century in England.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1397

Mothers and Daughters: “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid

It should be stressed the mother gives both positive and negative advice, but the girl's perspective and ideas are quite a few in the story, which can be interpreted as the overbearing of the mother [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 279

Man’s Search for Meaning Review

The main purpose of the book is in outlining Frankl's philosophy of Logotherapy, a process of finding meaning in human life.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1698

The Poem “Dead Doe” by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

The use of the specified literary device allows bringing a certain element of chaos into the poem, at the same time helping it to gain the reverberation needed for the lines to sound almost like [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 612

A Fable and Its Moral Teaching

Consequently, the cat and the crow agreed to be friends. One day, the cat and the rat worked in the garden.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 375

The Salient Traits of the Romantic Hero

Lord Byron was the one to create a perfect model of the romantic hero for his contemporaries and next centuries. And though the romantic hero is the caring one, Byron made his character a representation [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 554

Love in the “Metamorphoses” by Ovid

Still, according to Ovid love is the eternal source of conflicts and is the strongest manifestation of a person, it is the essence of life and its pivot.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1166

Analysis of Gwendonly Brooks’ Books

The African American are described to be living in distress and real poverty based on the description of the housing the environment and the lifestyle they lead.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 702

“Mirror” by Sylvia Plath

This illustrates that the author of the poem - who is a woman - does not know who she is and looks to external sources to define her.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 409

Morality in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland

The story presents a tale of the Wielands as a precautionary tale that is meant to cushion against taking hard stance in religious matters; Theodore Wieland's over-commitment to religion is presented in this book as [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1423

Two Visions of Benjamin Button Curious Case

There's no secret that nowadays film industry has become a powerful and influential money-making industry so, from my point of view, the contribution that the director of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has made [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1414

“Harem Years” Huda Sha’arawi’s Memoirs

In the age of 13 Huda was married to her cousin, Ali Shaarawi. In the beginning of the twentieth century Huda was eagerly trying to unite women of Egypt.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2210

John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet X”

The poet confirms that death is "Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so". Donne refers to a world of privacy and solitude when it comes to the existence of the death.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1142

“Technoculture” Concept in Modern Fiction

The first is changes in the scope and uniqueness of the main sectors technology, information, and industry. In sum, the term and concept of "technoculture" reflect the essence of modern society and its overdependence on [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 570

“Teenage Wasteland” Short Story by Anne Tyler

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 970

Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Followed the Petrarchan Ideal

Shakespeare changes the content of the traditional sonnet in this particular poem by placing the focus on the true permanence of the image rather than the physical 'permanence' of the woman herself.
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 987

“Dreams From My Father” by Barack Obama

The paper comprises the advantages and limitations of the author's flow of thought, his manner of own life details description, and the effects which are seen nowadays in the political career of the author.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1155

“Like Water for Chocolate” by Laura Esquivel

I agree with the review that this novel is a vivid example of Laura Esquivel's unique style of writing and extraordinary talent that becomes apparent through the choice of settings and objects, irony and symbolism. [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 639

“The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold

Susie is portrayed as displaying feminism in the true sense in her actions pertaining to the detailed account of her rape and murder, mostly from the female perspective and does not delve into the details [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1949

“Happy Endings” by M. Atwood

The same characters, used are piercing through the story, being a red line of it are used with a purpose, the author is to reveal only at the end of the story.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1586

Don Quixote and Hamlet: Comparative Analysis

It cannot escape our attention that Don Quixote's illusions are strongly associated with his commitment to "protect justice", therefore they cannot be discussed as "thing in itself", as it is the case with Hamlet's illusions, [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1554

Kate Chopin: “The Storm” in the 21st Century

When she closes the window as said "she got up hurriedly and went about closing the windows and doors", she illustrated the significance of her married life and that she was not willing to have [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1731

Discussion of the Play Wit by Margaret Edson

Wit starts with Vivian addressing the watchers: she is presently a patient in a central research clinic undergoing curing for sophisticated ovarian cancer, and she realizes that the prognosis is not consolatory."The Faerie Queene this [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1045

Analysis of The Naked Citadel by Susan Faludi

The cadets insist that this is an integral part of the Citadel, that promotes the lifestyle that they want the cadets to follow one of trust in one's fellow man and the sense that everyone [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 947

Blanche’s Drinking in Williams’ A Street Named Desire

Overall it is worth mentioning that the play abounds in symbolic images, For example, it is quite possible for us to say to a certain degree Blanche Dubois represents the so-called old South whereas Stanley [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 835

“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain

When the novel starts, Tom is appointed in and often the arranger of childhood tricks and make-believe games. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom's obsession with Rebecca Thatcher is obvious.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 482