Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 23

A 10 year-old child, completely happy with the life, walks out of the house with the aunt to go to the store. Moreover, one of the actions of making a sacrifice was to spit on [...]

The title captures the attention of the reader by arousing curiosity to find out about this road that is not taken, and ultimately, the poem addresses this issue by talking about the road and its [...]

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 [...]

This paper provides a discussion on changes in the young woman's character, addressing her salient traits that remain the same and outlining the differences in her personality across time and media.

In this paper, special attention will be paid to Walt Whitman as one of major and the most effective anticipators of the modernism movement because of the chosen fearlessness, intents to promote equalities in everything, [...]

One of the hooks the author uses to make the book unusual is the number of narrators and the organization of their accounts.

The titular bell jar In Sylvia Plath's eponymous novel is symbolic of Esther's condition because it serves as a metaphor for her depression.

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 [...]

The first task is the identification of the initial syllable followed by the production of a word or words with a similar syllable, which in this case is 'cl' in click and clack.

It is also critical to take into account the presence or absence of a person in a situation of the death of a loved one, and the very personality of the survivor.

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 [...]

While the play has comedic elements, the events that the characters of the play go through are highly tragic and ultimately lead to negative consequences for the majority of them.

Contrasting to other writers of the Romanticism period, she used the rat, the mushroom, the bat, the fly, the frog, the snake, and the stones as symbolic representations of nature.

The fact that the mother tries to teach her daughter suggests that she is not too bitter and disappointed in the girl.

The literary styles influence the interpretation of the poem by the target audience. In the poem "My Papa Waltz," the author has employed, vivid descriptions, figurative language, and unique poetic tones to communicate the meaning [...]

In contemporary literature, due to the development of different genres and literary schools, there may be observed a huge amount of different archetype prophetical characters. In childrens literature, the archetype of an orphan is very [...]

Two of Ponyboy's friends die, and he sees a lot of violence in the streets. He is still a part of the gang, and he thinks that violence is a part of their life.

The basic idea of a new approach to the structure and function of the language was that language is a system of signs which can be distinguished and studied separately, "Language is a system of [...]

One of the most common themes in Coelho's books is finding one's purpose in life and seeking after the attainment of ones dreams.'The Alchemist', 'The Witch of Portobello', 'The Zahir' and 'Brida' have this theme [...]

One may be tempted to think that she is a victim of Richard's folly, but she is sharply aware of her place.

His creation is gentle at the start, but after the people start to resent it because of its looks, the monster runs and hides from the society. When Victor refuses to create a spouse for [...]

The writer in the text uses authentic statements to show the reader that culture was supposed to be preserved in the family.

The novel explicates the pressure between colonial administrators and the African society amongst the railwaymen and the African community's resistance and struggles to free from the colonial power.

The author also ties the multicultural history of people comprising American diversity with a thorough analysis of the place they are at the time of writing his book.

It is even possible to notice that Mephistopheles tries to warn and make Faust refuse the deal as he is aware of the real situation and does not want him to make the same mistakes [...]

Swift does conduct some math to establish the number of miscarriages, deaths, and the number of children born in a year.

The reading of Gilman story's few initial lines suggests that the reason why the narrator and her husband John decided to spend the summer in a secluded mansion is that this was supposed to help [...]

Dante uses the perception of God on sin to depict his personal perception of punishment and the structures he envisions hell to have.

In The Iliad, the relations between two characters, Agamemnon and Apollo, as well as their motivation and passion help to underscore the theme of power and rage; the conflict between the characters is based on [...]

Although I have never been in a situation similar to Henrietta Lacks, I still had to deal with some aspects of the issue related to the patient's control over their body.

However, the little girl defends the pig and states that it is unfair to kill it "just because it's smaller than the others".

The opening and closing words in the three folktales are similar. Fantasy and royalty are also common elements of the characters used in the tales.

One of these metaphors can be seen in the third part of the story: "I see that woman's 'bite several mouthfuls out of you,' the laughter of those green faced, long toothed people and the [...]

In this way, Shasta's image can be regarded as a metaphor of time, and the hero's search for her can be seen as resistance against the course of time.

There is surprisingly little literature pertaining to the subject of the first years after the end of the war. As the name of the chapter suggests, it addresses the issue of vengeance that happened in [...]

Since these tales were adopted by many other groups of people that came from Africa and now live in different parts of the world, there are numerous versions of both the stories themselves and the [...]

It is imperative to consider Merriam-Webster's definition of a knight: "a man who is given special honor and the title of Sir by the king or queen of England", to understand the first component of [...]

The author focuses on the thoughts of the protagonist, Letty Mason, and shows the world through her eyes. Letty is a young woman that is not prepared to live in the harsh environment of her [...]

I cannot help but agree with this fact because this powerful combination of the novel and the movie helps to understand each character better, develop a personal attitude to the author of the novel, and [...]

Finally, this essay will try to persuade that the startling uniqueness of mind highlighted in the struggle to find the balance between "utopian possibility and dystopian reality" is what made it possible to render the [...]

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 [...]

The issue of time and its preciousness is the key aspect of Jennifer Egan's book A Visit from the Goon Squad.

Both the dominant role and the level of authority exercised by Yunior's father and his observations of the older boys' attitudes towards the girls share the same set of characteristics and thus can be linked [...]

As the story progresses, the author begins to create a mixture of facts and rumors; a mixture that is inevitable in any real-life investigation.

The structure of the tale, its manner of narration, and the minimal number of main characters are only some of the features that make "The Man in the Crowd" one of the most memorable short [...]

Transcendentalism was one of the brightest literary movements of the 19th century, in which a few people belonging to cultured and educated American society founded a movement that proclaimed the power and importance of the [...]

The purpose of this paper is to dwell upon the dynamics of humanization and dehumanization of people observed in the book by Levi and discuss the overall impressions of the story.

Thus, it is agreeable that Wendy's paper requires some polishing in order to bring out clarification on synthesis and analysis as well as inference of the plot.

Up to that extent, the reader is already in a world that he or she has suspended reality. Up to this extent, the reader is already in a world that the unimaginable happens.

Dina's experiences in Japan depicted in Geese contribute to the depiction of her life at Yale from Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, offering valuable insights into the development of her character and search for personal and national [...]

The Bell Jar is a story of the transformation of a young woman who despises the idea of being servile to men into a person who serves them in order to escape the psychiatric institution [...]

The masterpiece describes the life of Odysseus and his journey especially after the infamous fall of Troy. One outstanding fact about Odysseus is that he is the main hero of the epic.

At the center of this story is Tita, a young woman who is the last born in her family. This is a very unique way of championing the right of women.

Coincidentally, "The kettle on the boat" seems to communicate the same theme that Dipita illustrates in the "honor of a woman".

With Eliot's description of Prufrock's thoughts and consciousness, the reader observes that Prufrock's personality and character are a representation of what most people experience as they advance towards old age.

He studied in Ingolstadt where he discovered the secrets of life, which he uses to create a monster. He does this in secret since he is aware of the dangers of his experiment.

Poe's three works "The fall of the house of Usher", "the Raven" and "The Masque of the Red Death" describe his dedication to literature and his negative attitudes towards aristocracy.

In the initial edition, Whitman changed the first line to "the poem of the body", making it known that the intention was to appreciate the nature of the human body.

Rita uses the poems to outline her main challenges, which are reminiscent of the challenges, which faced aboriginals of her time. Rita uses the book to show her patience in an abusive marriage which she [...]

The poems "Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost and "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark" by Emily Dickinson depict the images of the night and darkness in different ways.

He speaks mostly from his point of view, but it can be argued that it is not the same person in all the parts of this poem. He kept losing the people that were close [...]

Considering the peculiarities of Beowulf, the paper aims at exploring particular themes such as family, fame and shame, changes and cycles, and the theme of religion present in the poem to show how the interpolated [...]

For instance, in the case of Oedipus Rex, the origin behind the tragedy can be traced to the belief of King Laius in the words of an oracle.

It is the fruitless reconciliation of the impulsive and sensitive to the society that makes Young Werther's journey so powerful. What is even more interesting is that this general tone is what led to the [...]

The article below defines the California Dream based on a number of essays and an extract from the Day of the Locust.

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 [...]

She was the daughter of Gaia, considered to be the first prophet and represents the earth, and Uranus. She was married to Zeus, Father of the Great Achilles and was the mother of the Titan.

The problem of non-adherence to the conventional role of a married woman becomes a paradigm for the analysis of the problems that are created in interrelated patterns.

Similar to Atwood's story, Di Prima's Revolutionary Letters allows the readers to go beyond the accepted paradigms in the pursuit of the truth and independence.

Thus, it is possible to state that the journey described in Izumi Kyoka's "The Holy Man of Mount Koya" can remind the elements of the journey presented in Matsuo Basho's "The Narrow Road to Oku" [...]

Although these sources demonstrate that travelling can enrich the inner world of a person and his/her understanding of other cultures, their arguments made by the authors significantly differ as to the role that travelling should [...]

The excerpt tells about the background of these events and explains how and why Jurgis has got to Chicago in the first place.

Given the supposed illiteracy of the people living in the bottom rail, their stories could only be told from the white masters' point of view.

The murder of John transformed Elisha's life to a murderer of masses when he gave up his life to the terrorist movement.

The following illustrates Creon's relationship to power, how he influenced the people he ruled, how he used his power as a leader of Thebes and the result of his ruling.

In addition to his limited understanding ability, her aunt's inadequate explanation of salvation also significantly contributed to Hughes's literal thoughts of the salvation process.

In the short story, Love, by Robert Olen Butler, the cultural expectation requiring women to be faithful to their husbands, and the cultural definition of beauty in the Vietnamese society, contributed to several conflicts between [...]

Borges suggests that reality is the creation of human brain: every person has this person's reality where the person is a creator and a creature, father and a son.

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 [...]

It is also necessary to note that the tradition of a lottery is highly overestimated by the people in the village, as it is described by Jackson in the story.

The unnamed narrator who is the protagonist of the story is an antihero because of some of his undesirable character traits.

If this poem were to be viewed as a reaction to the race riots of 1919, the "hogs" could be likened to African Americans, which hints at the "beasts" they were innately believed to be.

The "Symposium" is one example of Plato's dialogues that address the subject of love. The other character in the "Symposium" is Diotima, a sophistic prophetess who supposedly taught Socrates about the mysteries of love.

However, the truth of the matter was that they were engaged in the development of the first atomic bomb to be used in the world.

The soldiers must meet their responsibilities, perform tasks, and align them to the missions of the U.S.Army. The author argues that it is the duty of the soldiers to fulfill their obligations in the Army.

The advantage with this style in poetry is that the poet has the freedom to decide on the length of the verse in order to meet the thematic concerns of the poem.

Hansberry and Hughes introduce the same idea of a dream compared to a raisin dried up in the sun, but explain it in different ways in order to show how the interpretation of a thought [...]

The first eleventh chapters of the story introduce the main character, Captain Lee, and describe his relations with his friend, Park, the ways of how they achieve the current military positions, and the tasks they [...]

In her narrative "Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl," Harriet Jacobs attempts to describe the role of 'the home' in the lives of black slaves, their children and white masters in the American [...]

The question of the "right" beliefs and they ways of being the good and devoted believer keeps occurring in the novel when Hazel travels to Taulkinham, meets a prostitute, a young and lonely zoo guard, [...]

Antigone's conviction is that the dead deserve a decent burial in spite of the circumstances that led to their death while Creon's preoccupation is to enforce the laws of the land that disallow burial of [...]

Consequently, this resulted in Marie-Claire beginning to suspect that Conrad's strongly defined affiliation with the masculine virtues of rationalization and control was misleading.

Both stories, The Old Man and the Sea and Don Quixote have a number of common features as they are based on all those characteristics inherent to men who are challenged the world they live [...]

Kapstein has compiled his work in The Symbolism of the Wind and the Leaves in Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind, this paper examines this Kapstein's analysis, and the writer differs with Kapstein on some [...]

The public was becoming more and more involved in the debates being waged, particularly as newspapers and other periodicals became more prevalent with the introduction of the printing press, introducing and maintaining widespread discourse in [...]

This paper analyzes Moby Dick, a mysterious symbol of an embodied terror and the inevitable tragedy of humanity, discusses the main characters of the novel, and summarizes the plot of the story.

Therefore, it is crucial to get acquainted with the essence of the novel and analyze its main characters to genuinely comprehend Hinton's view on the challenges of the teenage age within the framework of this [...]

The girl believes that her eyes have turned blue, and she invents an imaginary friend who is always there and tells her that her eyes are the bluest in the world.

When teachers act oblivious to the norms and expectations of the students, is simply denying the experiences of the learners. Teachers have to engage the students in the cultural background of English language usage.

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 [...]

In this paper, I will show that in light of the deliberate choice of diction, the metaphorical significance of the funeral, the interaction of the content with structure and form, the utilization of personal voice [...]

The frozen in time quality of the setting, combined with the images of "coquettish decay," underscore Miss Emily Grierson's inability to free herself from the memory of her father and of the past.

In regards to the intended significance, Stopes, Belleforest, and Shakespeare report that Shakespeare designed the role of the ghost to appear to Hamlet relentlessly to enhance the melancholy motif of the play.

The suitors laughed and teased Telemachos of his struggles to defend the beggar. Odysseus simply examines the bow and one of the suitors mocks him saying he is a connoisseur.

The author begins his narration by explaining the origins of the Populist Movements, which according to his research, was stirred by the Farmers' Alliance in the Midwest and southern region during the 1870s and 1880s.

The first theme is the connection of writings of women on the subject of the First World War and the modernism theoretical constructs.

Lewis and first published in 1981 by Knopf, the book When Harlem was in Vogue is one of the few chronicles of the Harlem Renaissance.

Since Godfrey is furtively in, marriage that is unknown to his parents, Dunsey threatens to reveal this and as a way of settling down issues, he offers him 100 pounds to maintain the secret. Normally [...]

His poem "If" which was first published in 1910 remains one of the most expressive pieces written in a specific didactic manner which attracts the readers' attention by the currency of the depicted ideas."If" is [...]

Together with the regular rhyme scheme and the repetitive "o" sound in The Raven, the poet is able to heighten the melancholic atmosphere that is characteristic of gothic poems.

The ex priest of never tells lies inspires the kid to do the right at times when it is only the good that would save him while the judge from his introduction in the kid's [...]

The business world has been abuzz with this concept of "the bottom of the pyramid" given the sheer size of this market.

The sheer amount of views and in-text lifting from other authors lends the work a certain degree of veracity in terms of the accuracy of the arguments and how they conform to current methods of [...]

The author uses Yu Yuan to narrate the experience of POWs in the camps. However, Yu Yuan is informed by the doctor that he is among the POWs to be transferred to Koje Island where [...]

Among them are the rhymes, the rhythm of the words, the interpolation of a chorus, the increasing complexity of the lines as the poem progresses, and the vivid and horrifying imagery.

This paper will focus on the title of the story "The Things They Carried" and how it acts as a guide to the meaning of the story.

In addition, the reader would expect the narrator to provide a larger coverage of the scenes at the Shrine, the miracles of the Virgin and evidence of her work.

The short story was published as part of Maupassant's "Les Soirees de Medan" short story collection."Boule de Suif" was published in 1880, the period after the French were defeated in the Franco-Prussian War."Boule de Suif" [...]

At the start of the play, he was not aware that he had slept with his mother or that he had murdered his father.

The main conflict in the play is the murder of John Wright. Although the murder is not solved in the course of the play, some characters are able to develop.