Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 23

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“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost creates a very vivid and realistic picture of the forest. The first line familiarizes the reader with the fact that the area is known to the person stopping. This could mean that it is either a friend or someone they simply know of. It is […]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 896

“A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf

Symbolism has been utilized in this poem."A Haunted House" being the title of the poem draws the attention of the reader to dreadful issues associated to the house.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 470

Indian Epic Literature: Virata Parva and Bhagavad Gita

But, though she was, as I said, a woman, devoted to her husbands, it is difficult to say, that she was a "submissive acquiescence to the whims" of her husbands, as Sutherland describes another heroin [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1393

Feminism in Mourning Dove’s “Cogewea, the Half-Blood”

The patriarchal practices embraced by the Indian community and the subsequent system of governance humiliated the writer; hence, the use of Cogewea in the passage was aimed to imply the abilities that were bestowed upon [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1108

Langston Hughes and His Poems

The swaying and rocking of the written song is felt in the cadence of the poem. The sense of evil is to be of anger due to prejudice; he accepts that in the end.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1352

Story of a Woman: “Becoming” by Michelle Obama

This book is not only a political source of information with several complex terms and ideas, but a story of a woman and a mother in her attempts to find out the voice.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 299

“Three Men in a Room” by Seymour Lachman

In his book Three Men in a Room, the author describes the situation and the problems which take place in statehouses throughout the country.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1127

“Being There” by Jerzy Kosinski

Since the purpose of this paper is to unveil the theme and the thesis Kosinski wanted to convey to the reader I am going to unearth the slightest details of the book's and movie's plot.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1486

Dante’s Poem “The Divine Comedy ”

The Divine Comedy presents three aspects of objective reality such as personal drama of the poet, the story of humanity and the structure of the universe.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 915

Three Short Stories Comparison

For example, the author begins the story by introducing readers to the forlorn lady who sits helplessly in a house that is closed shut. The author does not however present the answer to this query, [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1216

Literature as an Agent of Change and Progress

From the same story, the writer makes use of spoken language, often the one used by the communities dwelling in the south to assist the learner understand the type of race and the customs of [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 956

Comic Books and Picture Books

The comic book "prisoners of the sun: the adventures of Tintin is one example of the comic books and is a result of many comic strips that have been brought together to create a book.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1210

Landscape Mapping in King Solomon’s Mines by Haggard

The abstraction of the female body is represented by a sign of a geometric sense of sexuality, which is a sign of male imperialism and domestication of a woman in a society that is rigid.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 570

“Woman at Point Zero” by Saadawi

She commences by describing the barbaric act of clitoridectomy that Firdaus went through and the persistent abuse of her mother by her father. This indicates that she feels bound and stuck to the memories of [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1225

“McDonaldization of Society” by Ritzer

This paper will discuss the four characteristics that define McDonaldization of society according to Ritzer the author of the book "McDonaldization of Society".
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 607

“Myhtologies” by Roland Barthes

Therefore, I propose to discuss and analyze in this paper, in light of Barthes's book Mythologies, his approach to bourgeois discourse and his understanding of myth as a language-object or meta-language."Myth is a type of [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 638

Relationships Between American Literature and American Society

Therefore this paper will look at the American literature from the time of colonization by the Europeans, and how various events social and historical have shaped the American literature, making it unique among other literal [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1277

Racial Prejudices in the Novel Little Bee by Cleave

This scientist regarded the western civilization to be the third and highest stage in the hierarchy of the world civilizations, preceded by the stages of savagery and barbarism.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2049

Tim Burton Interpretation of “Alice in Wonderland”

For example, in his article Dodgson's Dark Conceit: Evoking the Allegorical Lineage of Alice, Andrew Wheat suggest that in Carroll's novel, the character of Alice is being presented as the challenger of 'undeniable truths', as [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 13
  • Words: 3660

Odysseus Adventures and Fate

The main character of the epic poem Odyssey is Odysseus, the ruler of Ithaca and the brave warrior who is ready to do everything possible and impossible to return home to his wife Penelope and [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2197

Valentino Achak Deng. “What Is What” Novel by Dave Eggers

The theme is very intricate and it finds its realization in different aspects of the book, such as the authorship the author's tone that can be perceived while reading, the genre, the choice of the [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1830

Mystery in “Trifles” Play by Susan Glaspell

But the gentlemen who are actually supposed to find out the motive and solve the case are not able to succeed in reaching the depth of the matter, as they lack the sympathetic view which [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1455

Applying Intentional Fallacy to Shakespeare’s Sonnets

However, as a reaction against the extreme subjectivity of the Romantics and the social emphasis of the Victorian Age, literary criticism under the label of 'New Criticism' or the Formalists took the shape of a [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1413

“Riding the Bus with My Sister” by Rachel Simon

Rachel's quest to learn more about her sister's disability is one of the most compelling parts in the book. It was a brilliant idea for Rachel to accompany her sister on the buses because it [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 950

John Donne’s Poetry Relate to the Culture

Donne's poems, especially religious ones, reveal the struggle in the mind of English people during the 16th and 17th centuries, before taking orders in the Anglican Church.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1061

Ironic Elements in Metamorphoses by Ovid

As implied by the title, the poems are about various changes in the society of the author. Irony is used where the meaning of a statement or a phrase in literary work is different from [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1695

“On the Art of Life and Vice Versa” by Michael Kimmelman

The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa is a powerful little book about arts. It is intentional of Kimmelman to make the reader trace the art to less promising circumstances a [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1598

A Perspective on Philip Roth’s ‘The Human Stain’

Roth uses the "first person voice of the writer Nathan Zuckerman to tell the story of Coleman Silk, a black man who passes for a Jew ", a professor of classics and dean of faculty [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1506

Chaucer’s Use of the Fabliau Genre

The most famous writers who compiled tales in this genre were Douin de Lavesne, Gauter le Leu, and Jean Bodel; some of the fabliaux were reworked by Geoffrey Chaucer in his collection of "Canterbury Tales" [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1111

Emersonian Idealism Main Characteristics

Emerson's outlook embraced an idealistic view of the world together with the key role of nature in it, and the ultimate objective of one's life was seen in cognition and understanding of the world with [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 948

“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

“The Keys of the Kingdom” by Archibald Joseph Cronin

This book was a long-expected one; and as the contemporary newspapers were writing before the official appearance of the book: "All signs indicate that "The Keys of the Kingdom", which depicts with such dramatic force [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1224

Style in “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad

Set in deepest and darkest Africa, the pace and narration is quite compelling and bears a richly descriptive and evocative style - a style that is needed to consider not an image of Africa, but [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1734

N. Hawthorne’s and Mark Twain’s Novels Compared

The works of American literature of the 19th century are closely connected with the religious aspects of Christianity, and the expression of Christian beliefs is a widespread aspect of the literature on the whole.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1820

Analysis of Themes of Slavery in Literature

The paper will be concentrated on the analysis of the works 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano' by Olaudah Equiano, 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' by Frederick Douglass, and 'Incidents [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 879

The Book Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

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 [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1651

Nella Larsen’s “Passing”: Character Comparison

Of these works, "Passing" is one of her novels that attracted the audience's special attention due to its touching upon the topic which will always be urgent- the racism."Passing" presents a race-based conflict of two [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 841

People Get What Deserve. “Oedipus the King” Play

Providing some actions people do not always think about the consequences, but it usually appears so that they get what they deserve and the play of the ancient Greek author Sophocles "Oedipus the King" is [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 573

Analisis “Moby Dick” of Herman Melville

The author, describing whales and hunting on whales, all methods of dealing with meat and processing the dead bodies of whales after hunting still depicts whales not only as objects for hunting, though he is, [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 771

Amy Tan’s Story “Mother Tongue”

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.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1065

“In Another Country” by Ernest Hemmingway

The age of comic books that started in the 1930s brought a new breed of heroes that were the ingenious combination of the Hemmingway hero and the classical Greek Demigods; The Superheroes.
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1600

“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by C. S. Lewis

Though the language of the story is quite simple the writer managed to reveal the crucial philosophical and social points, such as the importance of forgiveness, the problem of generation gap and trust, and, of [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 832

Carnival in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the carnival elements in the play are widely discussed topics in the literary world. When analyzing the gradual development of the plot of the play A Midsummer Night's Dream [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1671

John Krakauer’s “Into the Wild”

The main point of the novel is that there is a certain, indescribable element that draws us out into the wild and out of the confines of society.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 643

“The Two Sisters” by Pauline Johnson

The main concept of the essay can be divided between the importance of the tales to raise the sense of pride in own history which recently has been weakened by the modern influence and the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 908

Moliere’s Schemes and Counterschemes in “The Miser”

However, in plays such as "The Miser," he also demonstrates he had a fine sense of the comic and had justly earned his contemporary reputation as France's jester."The Miser" is considered to be a romantic [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1368

Aeneid, an Epic Poem by Virgil

The Trojans were the ancestors of the Romans according to the Aeneid, and their enemies were the Greek forces who had besieged and sacked Troy; yet at the time the Aeneid was written, the Greeks [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2677

Dramatic Irony in Shakespeare’s Henriad

Dramatic irony is used by Shakespeare to unveil the personal failures of the characters to see the reality and the world around them because of narrow-mindedness and shortsightedness.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1886

“Thomas and Beulah” Poetry Book by Rita Dove

The story of the couple is presented through male and female perspectives: it is told by the male narrator in the Mandoline part which is Thomas's side and the second part Canary in Bloom is [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 924

“Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton

The women characters in the short story tell each other a series of tales, embedded within the story at different narratives, about the enticements and dangers they face when they were young.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 560

“Night” by Elie Wiesel: Holocaust and Genocide

Given that the events are seen through the eyes of the young person, the major emphasis is placed upon the main character's perception of the violence and death taking place around him and gradual loss [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 954

“Allegory of the Cave” by Plato

As Plato was a disciple of Socrates and the source of much of the information we have regarding much of what this man had to say, Socrates' concept of ethics is relevant to an understanding [...]
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  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2807

Beatrice From Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”

Even though the main plot of the story is centered on challenges threatening to sabotage the union Hero and Claudio, Beatrice along with Benedick with their constant verbal jousting finds itself quite an interesting counter-plot.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

“The Telephone” by Anwar Accawi

The gathering of the townsfolk to watch its installation showed me that this was a culture that was closely knit and knew how to share in the joy of one another, making it their own.
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 926

“Legend of Good Women” by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Legend of Good Women written by Geoffrey Chaucer is considered to be a significant poem having the dream vision form; it is a kind of testament to female disparate views being prevalent at the [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 814

“Masks” the Novel by Fumiko Enchi

The novel wraps the reader with the feeling of coldness that is both elegant and repellent. She had to stay with a husband she hated and in the society she hated.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1424

“Hatchet” the Novel by Gary Paulsen

Gary Paulsen's works are different from other novels designed to appeal to young adults because of his ability to celebrate the natural terrain and the interactions of the characters with nature. The identification with the [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 1636

Erica Jong: An American Novelist

Unfortunate for her Jonathan also aspired to be a successful writer and was in a way, jealous of Erica and her writing abilities.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2346

The Poem “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe

The beginning of the poem reveals the narrator's feelings toward Annabel Lee, determining the theme and the mood of the verse: "a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee; [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 735

“The Black Walnut Tree” by Mary Oliver

The walnut tree, which is the center of discussion, symbolizes the merry fruitfulness of a time when the family was affluent. The poem symbolizes the walnut tree as a remembrance of the father.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 761

“War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy

Looking for the interesting topics for the evaluative essay, one may suggest the list of the literary areas one is interested in: The World Literature's masterpieces of the nineteenth twentieth century; The Native American legends [...]
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1033

“The Scarlet Letter”: A Darkened End

For both Hester and for the townspeople, the mere presence of this letter appearing this one time on her dress is enough to mark her as something different from the rest of them and secluded.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1297

Marked With D’, an Adaptation of ‘Pat-a-Cake’

The first two lines of the poem reveal the picture of an actual corpse being burned in the process and providing the readers with ideas regarding the subject of the poem; namely, Harrison's father the [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 920

Character Analysis of “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare

The unplanned overnight stay of King Duncan and his entourage at Macbeth's castle precipitates Macbeth's first fateful decision: to murder King Duncan and clear the way for the witches' prophecy to come true.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2165

Disintegration for Modernist Writers

Different and sometimes opposite currents within modernism itself make it difficult to create a comprehensive picture of this literary phenomenon in this essay that is why we are going to draw our attention to the [...]
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1930

“Much Ado About Nothing” and “The Book of Ruth”

The difference between the two women appears to be that while Ruth is an active maker and creator of her destiny, Hero more passively suffers her misfortunes and allows other people to devise schemes that [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1807

“The Taming of the Shrew”: Petruchio and Katherina

The play The Taming of the Shrew was written at a time of renewed interest in marriage, in the way relations between the sexes were being redrawn by the consequences of the Reformation and by [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1143