Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 24

Cotton Mather however does not forget to mention the fact that devil exists and he works in collaboration with the witches and uses them to achieve his goals and objectives of seeing that the world [...]

Through female characters, Stowe argues that racial problems have deep historical roots that are closely connected with the period of slavery and dominance of "whites" and the low position of women in society and their [...]

This is the essence of Hamlet and what makes the sentiment so true to our time the inherent pain of life, a cosmic sense of injustice, and the karmic balance of natural order.

Secondly, this poem is relevant more to the youth as most of the characters are young, like Aeneas, who is being told about the history of the city by his mother, Venus.

Set in the cities of New York and Boston, "Death of a Salesman" the story happens during the 50s and 60s, the story reminds readers that there is more to life than just pursuing the [...]

Oedipus's urge to free the citizens of Thebes from the plague leads him to vow to do everything in his power to find the murderer of Laius.'The only way of deliverance from our plague is [...]

Sammy's decision to quit his job is therefore based both on his rejection of the conservative and restricting viewpoint of his manager as well as the free and nonconformist lechery of the butcher as he [...]

All for his association with a Black woman."Because I was used to white people by 1948" is a statement he made at the very beginning of the book. A racist who is a racist in [...]

Thesis The symbol of horse winner symbolizes the "desire" of a family to prosper and flourish, but at the same time, "desire" is a mirage that disappears and leaves nothing to the family.

Again, the original rhyme is lost, though much of the original character of the words are intact, due to the close resemblance of Latin and English in much of the inherited vocabulary from French, a [...]

Without the rest of the book it is simple: the turtle is uniquely suited to his environment as are all the seeds that grab at every passing creature.

Only in recent decades have U.S.historians begun seriously to evaluate the mobilization of women and to consider the ways in which relations between men and women changed in the era of the American Revolution.

In this example, death is in the middle of the circle, and is, hence in the power of the person because death settles on to impede, whether the person is pleased with it or not.

The only difference between the 'Oedipus' and 'Omen' is that of mode in which the crime is committed, or in other words, is the curse initiated.

A person is not only a part of nature and the social world but also pertains to the deepest bases of the Universe in its spiritual sense and the difference between Good and Evil.

The slaying is the catalyst to a downward spiral of events. Montgomery is forced to kill several of the beasts in self-defense.

In his role as the principal character in Albert Camus' novel The Stranger, Meursault is a threat to society that upholds the death penalty because he is looked upon as a bad and dangerous example [...]

The novel "The grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck is claimed to describe the lives of ordinary farm workers all over the United States of America who moved to California during the period of the [...]

The cruel persecution of minorities and the interference of the state in the individual's conscience became the key concerns of Miller's criticism of this people's actions and beliefs.

Today, the lines are blurred as to determine whether it should be an east or west conflict as it could also be any form of war against one ethnic group by a whole nation or [...]

The play revolves around the two opposing forces: truth and deceit, and we see a contrast between the importance of being true to one's self and the importance of being truthful with others.

To gain an understanding of the story within a brief analysis, it is necessary to examine the story's plot, characterization, point of view, theme, symbols, and setting.

When she answered in the affirmative, Jackie became sure that he was a terrible boy and a sinner who had broken all commandments all because of his old grandmother."I was scared to death of confession".

These are the problems we are going to discuss in the current essay, and we are going to address for help with it such masterpieces of literature as the play "Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark" [...]

In attempting to control the politics of the situation, the women take on the role of the men and effectively put the men in their place.

When David and Harriet went on holiday's with the children, usually Harriet's mother Dorothy looked after Ben, but one day she suggested that they send Ben to the institution, but Harriet was against the idea [...]

Auden's poem uses conventional structure in the form of a sonnet although the the rhymes are not as smooth and lyrical, but the substance of the poetry remains in the era of the 1930s.

The utilization of children will reduce the number of "papists who, according to Swift, were "most perilous enemies" and also the "principal breeders of the nation".

Thus, Lord Byron was involved in political struggle and considered one of the revolutionists of his time. Byron died of malaria in Greece while preparing to assist in the Greek war of independence against the [...]

Having already presented the boys as a group of older men in characteristic business behavior, this comparison serves to bring into focus the concept that while the speaker's son is ostensibly the 'king' of the [...]

This is Lakota territory that is being occupied and Marshall tells of what was in the balance that made the Lakota struggle hard to defend it.

Teiresias was from the city of Thebes and played a major role in the story of Oedipus; when Oedipus asked him how to lift the pestilence from Thebes, Teiresias replied that Oedipus was the cause [...]

Eve is the central character of the narrative in Genesis 1-3 and one of the central figures in the Bible. In this regard, understanding the development of Eve is essential, including the analysis of her [...]

In addition, the play skillfully captures the relationship between the main characters and the main theme of each act, which I intend to transmit to the audience.

It is equally important to stress that the issue of conformity is based on the person's ability and willingness to fit into a group or culture. One can argue that Ross's decision to join the [...]

It is possible to say that the character's aspiration for escaping Cape Breton and pursuing another path in life could symbolize a reduced significance of the mining industry at the national and the global scale, [...]

In his sonnet, Shakespeare reflects the theme of time by mentioning various seasons of the year and comparing them to a girl's age and appearance.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the prominent elements of fiction used in A Doll's House as the most vivid example of Ibsen's approach, analyze the applied dramatic techniques, and describe different layers [...]

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.

Happiness becomes accessible through product attainment, and even the opening of the story deals with the fact that the protagonist and his wife, Tom and Betsy Rath, want to live in a better house.

That seems to be the main purpose of the poem, to highlight the aspects of patriotism. It is speculated that the author chose to include this element as a way of distancing his persona from [...]

At the beginning of the story, we come across Ann as one of the protagonists in the story as she tries to order and give instructions for her son's birthday cake.

The story starts by raising the action with Mae believing that the thirteenth, which is a Friday, is a bad day and does not want to go to work.

He will have you lie on a grand couch, and will have you lie in the seat of ease, the seat at his left, so that the princes of the world kiss your feet.

Quotation: "The philosophical dimension of beauty does not depend on the limits of the physical world; true beauty far exceeds our earthly bounds". It is necessary to consider the beauty's "subtle qualities" such as "tone, [...]

However, Macbeth's wife is murdered and the news is broken to him, and he is drifted into a life of futility and remorsefulness.

What is of great interest to the author is the fact that she went above the expectation of many, even to the point of attaining classical education at Harvard. The author remains skeptical, and he [...]

From the title of the article to the use of graphic representation, such as the picture of the injured Feller's mother lying in the hospital bed, Henry strives, and quite sufficiently so, to show the [...]

The book "Goodbye to Berlin" was written prior to the Nazi uprisings; how was the book an indictment of this period of Western history, that is, the impending war?

There is the use of visual imagery in his work, and this was achieved through the use of contrast. At some point in the novel, Conrad's use of imagery appeared vague and confusing in that [...]

She starts by introducing herself and where she comes from and thus informing the reader that she has experience of whatever she is about to discuss. The theme is developed throughout the essay by a [...]

The encounter of the main character with a woman of his dream is an illustration of the customs existing in attitudes to appearance and charm, hence showing how dreadful the mistaking perception of some people [...]

Raphael Hythloday, in books one and two was of the view that the government and the state operate within an economy for the benefit of the societies, they are given power and authority to dictate [...]

2 The implication of social and political concerns through his beautiful and artist description of daily life inspires the readers to realize the real situation of the society throughout his poetic works.

This theme can be used to teach the topic of identity to high school students by elaborating that names often have origins that are deeply rooted in a particular culture and that a name can [...]

The place is one of the most powerful tools for creating an imaginary world of the stories, the essential components of which are space and time.

The dilemmas of the communication between the members of different classes and social strata become the most evident in the conflicts that are related directly to the relationships between the characters in the Wuthering Heights.

It is hypothesized that there are several symbols such as the attic, the topic of slavery, and the theme of womanhood that may define this book as one of the best representations of slavery and [...]

There is the West - the Great Nazi Reich, the East - the Pacific States, and the Center - the Neutral Zone (the States of the Rocky Mountains and most of the Midwest that was [...]

Pride and Prejudice is, first of all, a profoundly realistic representation of characters and tempers, albeit not of the English society as a whole, but of its privileged groups since the end of the 18th [...]

The pilgrimage is scary as the characters are squeezed in a reek and noise that torments them as they get to the lowest point of the center full of ice and there no signs of [...]

The queens in Hamlet and Macbeth play a pivotal role in the life of the heroes of the play. She is portrayed as a mother who, in her awareness of Hamlet's crisis, feels guilty and [...]

The representation of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror in The Scarlet Pimpernel is considered an accepted and popular view on these historical events in the majority of Western countries.

The social environment of England at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century was characterized by great attention to social class, citizens' jobs, and their reputation.

Besides, the complexity of society and the evolution of the approach to the traditional female role preconditioned the great importance given to this issue by various authors.

Poe uses a wide range of tools to create an uncomfortable mood, yet it is his ability to maintain the balance between reality and madness that shines through the whole story.

The main hero of the novel, a young man, named Megwadesk, is plagued by misfortune following him around, and struggles against it as his perceptions of right and wrong are shifting between Christianity, spiritualism, and [...]

Thus, through this poem, Mao Tse-tung describes the establishment of the Red Army in China; this poem can be considered as a 'hymn' of the revolution.

It also shows that Lennie and George were never going to escape the desperate circle of the routine of their lives."The deep green pool of the Salinas River" that is "still in the late afternoon" [...]

From both stories, it is evident that the journey of life requires people to be sympathetic and interact with each other.

The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the novel from several points of view. The character is a picture of savagery and primitivism.

On the other hand, it is important to understand that a number of people are aware of the plot and the worth of the story, and it is a real challenge to prove the chosen [...]

Frederick Douglass' "Learning to Read and Write" and Richard Wright's "The Library Card" are the stories of perseverance and resolve in overcoming the obstacles that prevented the marginalized black people from the most basic and [...]

Thomas More's "Utopia," also known as "On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia," and Michel de Montaigne's essay "Of Cannibals" are two of the more prominent works on [...]

For instance, Dimple's inability to adjust to her new life in America was an expression of her inability to adjust to the new culture.

This essay asserts that the role of the narrator in The Scarlet Letter functions more as social critic of the Puritanical values that founded the United States; the narrator of The Scarlet Letter represents Hawthorne's [...]

Due to the events of this quest for knowledge, Odin was always depicted as a one-eyed man. Odin was an excellent warrior and the god of violence and fury.

Shekiba is the victim of a society where women are judged almost exclusively on their worth as wives and mothers of sons and she was discriminated alongside her crippled father."The clan did not want to [...]

The idea of a person being in the center of the action and trying to overcome some problems connected with doom, fate and some other supernatural forces become peculiar to this kind of art.

Jean Racine is one of the greatest play writers of a classical French tragedy who lived and worked in times of French Enlightenment.

From this point, during the first stage of the fight, Brown followed the strategy of avoiding the risk in order to save the lives of the crew members, but then he accepted the risk.

Although Kim agreed to help Abdullah cross the Canadian border to escape from the FBI because of the tries to overcome biases and state justice, the woman decided to inform the police about the escape [...]

Henry IV Part One is a play about to the story of the heir of King Henry IV Prince Hal. The character of Prince Harry is central in the play Henry IV Part One.

Moreover, the actions of Colonel Brandon have to be evaluated, as he remains one of the main characters in the Sense and Sensibility.

After going through the summary of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, one of the main points that stands out clearly is that people in the novel are quick to judge others simply because they [...]

William Blake describes the peculiarities of their life with the help of Tom Dacre's words in the first stanza of the poem.

The first part is revealed in the very beginning of the play, more so, in the very setting of the play: "a small dirt yard, partially fenced".

The main problem is that Doc is unable to find his own happiness, and at the end, he is still a lonesome individual who has to seek consolation in music and art.

The autobiographical information of the author provides that the title of the novel was based on the abandoned wolf of the steppes.

It appears that the primary role of women in the play is for them to act as a basis on which men are evaluated.

Noteworthy, the relationship between Oscar and Ybon is used as an example of the relationships that occur between members of the South American immigrants in the US. Yet, he holds to the stereotypic belief that [...]

Toward the end of the novel, Bulawayo brings Darling, the protagonist, to the realization that America is not and can never be her home.

Bulawayo moves her protagonist; Darling, from Zimbabwe to America with the intention of addressing the ills done in both Africa and the western world.

The place of the story is at St. Roberta is the protagonist of the story.

The works of Walt Whitman embody the spirit of the social changes, love of labor and freedom, which reflect the moods of the American society of the XIX century.

It is in the mind of the narrator that we see a glimpse of the neighbor's beliefs and convictions about the wall.

It is significant that the life of people is not the center of the story, the moments and the feelings people experience there are really important in the writing.

In "The Swimmer" the reality paves the way towards surreal through the use of foreshadowing where there is a creation of the antagonistic world faced by Ned in every new swim.

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 old woman fails to accept her jilting by her lover to her death even though she prides in having been married and fend for her family all alone after facing the death of her [...]

The narrator appears surprised of the status of his friend's house, with the inside appearing as spooky as the compound of the house.

The reason is that the stories are accessible and parallel to the lives of immigrants around the globe. The use of dialogue and reflection shows that the author completed the story in a hurry to [...]

Every situation is individual and people and their actions are framed by the conditions and circumstances of their personal lives, as well as those of people in the close circle."The House on Mango Street" by [...]

The irony lies in the fact that, while longing to revive their Native identity, Henry and Lyman relied on the red convertible the by-product of the 'Faustian' nonspiritual/mechanistic genius.

Gandhi stated that he was sorry due to the Mob's ignorance and narrowness. Gandhi believed that it was not possible to change the convictions of a person by use of violence.

Since the purpose of the texts is clear, it is possible to go into some detail and analyse the differences among the three texts in question.

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 [...]

The husband does not expect such a response from the wife and rebukes Edna for neglecting children, a feat unheard in a perfect patriarchal society, where the woman is supposed to be submissive and attend [...]

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 [...]

The book is about the self and individuality of the people and how these have resulted to inequity in the society.

That is the point in the story, where the artist develops the character of the narrator, who is among the characters of the story, and more than that of the artist writing the story, thus [...]

It is important to note that Jamila's personal identity depends on the concept of liberty as the reaction to the attempts to discriminate immigrants in the British society, the attempts to impose the traditional vision [...]

As an apologetic for Le Guin's choices concerning the sexual landscape of the novel, Cornell's essay attempts to rout critics on two major problems readers encounter with the book; first, that the world of Winter, [...]

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 [...]

In its turn, this explains why, as opposed to what it happened to be the case with her mother, the Laura's sense of existential alienation has strongly defined tragic undertones to it.

For example, Sarty feels that he cannot keep hiding from the law and the wrath of his neighbors in the rest of his life.

The food motif is also manifested in the naming of other characters in the story. The food motif is very prominent in this story.

The character of Edward Cullen in particular can be considered as a representation of the obsession of society with presenting a facade of who they are in order to properly blend in with their social [...]

He innovatively concentrated on the best techniques of governance and holding up to the noble principalities in the first eleven chapters of the book.

In fact, the hard language in the narration and the twists and turns of the story make the man seem like a sideshow.