Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 24

It should first be noted that Tipping the Velvet has the element of a picaresque novel which means that it describes the adventures of a character, who impersonates oneself as someone else and overcomes various [...]

At the same time, in spite of the seeming dominance of the Eloi, their actual hierarchy gradually switched during the evolution process, as the Morlocks hunt for the Eloi at night and eat them.

Travel The travel denoted in all the three works of Kincaid, and Desai, are typical of expatriation where the two women in Kincaid's texts travel to foreign lands as a result of heightened resistance to [...]

However, despite all the pomp depicted by the King in the play there are numerous occasions in the play that the author uses to point to the aspect of divine right as held by the [...]

Similarly, in the story of the prodigal son, the younger son did not appreciate the life that his father provided him.

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 [...]

This simply means that the present existing organisms descended from somewhere and therefore there is a difference between the organisms that existed millions of years ago and those that are in existence as of now.

The linguistic skills and the position on the board of the characters speak lucidly of their characters in the play. In the second Act, the burglary occurs, and the repercussion is chaos in the office.

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 article "Gender, Race, and the Regulation of Native Identity in Canada and the United States: An Overview" by Bonita Lawrence talks about the Native people, the way the laws and relationships between the modern [...]

Thus, this reflective treatise analyzes the three poems "How the Plague was ceased in Rome", "The Three Messengers of Death" and "John Audelay's Number 51" on the message of the poems, language, themes.

Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher is a short story which makes the reader feel fear, depression and guilt from the very first page and up to the final scene.

Although the tone of the poem is satirical, irony comes in the fact that he is the embodiment of perfection and happiness, but is it normal?

In a family it is expected that the older generation should take care of the young one but in the case of Lil' Bit her uncle preys on her sexually and even proposes to marry [...]

The novel Kim tells the story of a young orphaned Irish boy, Kim, living in the streets of Lahore in India during the British occupation of the country.

The first stanza of the song heaps a lot of praises on the girl's beauty and the extent of loneliness she is in.

It should be stated that even though most of the scholars point to the fact that Shakespeare was not the author of the plays, I would like to contradict this opinion and prove that Shakespeare's [...]

Variation in the expectations and delivery of love is the cause of hurt and mistrust. To her, love is pain and joy at the same time.

The writer uses a lot of colloquial language, low diction and concrete words in the plot and this use of the informal language, as well as phrasing assist in bringing out and explaining the personality [...]

The important role of this approach is in the fact that the reader receives the opportunity to understand that the narrator lacks self-awareness, and he is rather 'blind' while discussing himself and other people with [...]

It is a poem about the supernatural more than about a hero, which is the first difference between the current poem and 'The Odyssey'.'Divine Comedy' has 14, 233 lines, the number that is almost equal [...]

Symbolism is used in this scene because the protagonist visited the Birgawi residence, a symbol that he is found in places of despair and ruin.

Meanwhile Caesar's son, Octavius, the heir to the throne, decides to avenge for his father's killing which leads to the deaths of the chief conspirators, Cassius and finally Brutus.

When Literature Meets Jurisdiction: The Mother, the Father and the Child As it has been mentioned above, the play incorporates the elements of a moral dilemma concerning who the parent of a child should be [...]

The writers came up with books and articles that tried to warn the society about the effects of their actions, while others tried to educate the society on what it needed to do to better [...]

The term flogging in the book simply describes the system of canning, stroking, or fondling as a form of prison punishment imposed to prisoners.

It turns out that the only pure love Dorian experiences is love to art, not to a woman. Dorian is deprived of the ability to love a woman.

He is so annoyed that he would like to go out and show her that he is not the hairy ape that she called him.

On the one hand, the characters realize that they only have their lives to control and it becomes apparent that they could attempt to make the best out of it.

The theme of multicultural is examined through the analysis of the Tale of Genji as well as the analysis of the theme through elaboration and analysis of four aspects from the tale.

In the story it is discovered that the creature does not understand the language spoken by the locals although it was suspected to be Latin, this gives a political dimension to it and as highlighted [...]

The reading of a short story Jackals and Arabs leaves no doubt as to the fact that this story's foremost thematic element is being of clearly surreal nature.

She is obviously referring to the fact that Clay is a black man trying to behave as if he is a white man.

Rudyard Kipling's chef-d'oeuvre novel, "Kim", traces the life of an Irish orphan, Kim, who lives a near vagabond existence in the streets of India during the time of the conflict between the British and Russian [...]

In addition, the author uses the second section to teach the audience about the history of India as a British territory. In the final part of the novel, Kim's secures a job as an intelligence [...]

The book describes the lives of three people: the narrator, her mother and her grandmother. At the time of her death, the author's grandmother talked about Cultural Revolution.

The futility of the life Watanabe has lived is explored through the relationship he has with his son when he finds out that he is suffering from cancer.

While the symbolism employed in both stories indicates the cardinal intention of the author was to illuminate the shortcomings of the society and in particular the ruling class.

Being a member of the Theatricalists who disapproved the ideas of realists, Luigi intentionally alters the plot structure, the portrayal of the characters, the thematic development, the language as well as the portrayal of spectacle [...]

The outline of the book describes the lifeline of the author that starts from her youth up to her adult life.

However, the poem about the author's love to her husband can be contrasted to the "The Flesh and the Spirit" where human existence is contrasted to the love of God.

In the opening chapters of the novel, the author introduces the initial situation by illustrating the life of Esther, a college student, working as an intern at a women's magazine in New York together with [...]

The following is the thesis statement for this comparative poem analysis: Langston's and Nikki's poems are differently similar as they address identical theme of race in different structures and expressions I Too Langston wrote this [...]

Without any prompting, the thin man lets the reader and the fat man know that he has now been promoted to the 8th grade, which is a big feat according to him.

In other words, Satan's attitude to people is explained with the peculiarities of his position, supernatural power and corresponding perspective on human society.

In a family set up, the idea of filial piety relates to the obligation of subordination of the members of the family to the head of the family.

There are animals which represent the poor people while the pigs and dogs represent the administrators of the leader. The pigs and dogs are given power to rule the animals by Jones who is the [...]

Prior to writing the popular plays, Wilde had authored numerous essays and he concealed his real identity in most of them.

The subject of the majority of books is the biography of Joan of Ark. She is a national heroin of France and one of the main saints of the Catholic Church.

To the untrained reader, the first layer of the narrative would appear downright illogical due to its extensive interweaving with the world of magic and ghosts.

In the story, he is seen to be everyone's favorite friend and is portrayed as being the closest friend to Winnie-the-Pooh.

This statement of Maggie's inner power provokes her mother to exercise her authority and stop Dee from plundering the house which she has never respected, loved or devoted her effort to.

The title of the book is derived from the heading of one of the poems that were composed by Jane Kenyon in her poetic life.

Prior to advancing any hypothesis about this issue, it is crucially important to understand the functions of the story-teller in any work of literature and discuss the personality of the narrator, who embodies certain stereotypes [...]

Hamlet is a son to the former King and a nephew to the current King Claudius These two characters seem indispensable throughout and serve as informants of Claudius. In the play, they fit in as [...]

The picture of the place is only constructed in the mind. The author starts the description of the place in the title.

It is based on this account that it can be determined that one of the prevailing elements in the story is the application of authority and its ability to create power.

In whole, the main characters, the setting, the murder, the climax and the denouement are closely interconnected and wrapped up with distracting event to always keep the reader in suspense.

According to the author, the king is "given such glory of war, such honor of combat, that all his kin obey him gladly till great grow his band of youthful comrades".the character of the king [...]

The beginning and the end justify the title for the rest of the story is nothing like the fairy tale and lays out the daily trials of simple folks.

The two characters had to overcome several obstacles in a manner that led many of their followers to respect and honor them, and their royal positions Othello can be considered to be a black member [...]

The theme of family and motherhood is captured across the stories as they involve single mothers determined to provide for their children and family members. Despite her misery, she still has to provide for her [...]

The idea that was most interesting for me to discover emphasized the place that this story took in the history of children's literature.

The name The Storm symbolizes some of the characters' lives, and Calixta and Alcee end up marrying other people. Therefore, the two storybooks are related in the sense that one is the continuation of the [...]

The segregation and prejudices attached to the black community by their counterparts impacted them negatively in regard to how society perceived the black people and consequently, how they felt about themselves.

Chapters 1 and 2 in Maria Edgeworth's The Limerick Gloves introduce the readers to the central conflict between the Irish and English cultures shown in the relationship between Brian O'Neill and Phoebe Hill.

Despite this, her husband also takes the side of the brothers and transfers all his money as an inheritance to his daughter and not to Regina. Regina's opposition to the commonwealth of her brothers, her [...]

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 [...]

Job's friends tell him that sins caused his sufferings; yet, he refuses to accept it and claims that God still cares for him.

Iacocca's ability to work with a team or to listen as much as he talked was the key to his leadership agenda.

The main idea of this story is to showcase the horror of abduction, manipulation as a consequence of parental neglect, and favoritism.

The aim of the paper is to analyze the attitude of Benjy and Quentin towards Caddy and analyze the language and style Faulkner uses for describing their obsession.

The author's main aim was not only to describe the childhood and adventures of the young couple but to convey the first experience of love.

Medea felt Jason had betrayed her love for him and due to her desperate situation she was depressed and her normal thinking was affected that she started thinking of how she would revenge the man [...]

The theme of transformation that is reflected in title and can be observed throughout the whole play is connected with to the play dependence on water.

Thus the works of literature do not give the readers an image of the tidy government clerk or a young man in the way we got used to; the authors tend to give unnecessary descriptions [...]

Although, many poets are concerned with transformation, in the case of Adrienne Rich, one of the brightest and influential poetesses of the second half of the twentieth century, this transformation included many elements in her [...]

It tells the story of a young man Changez through a series of deviously and intricately crafted monologues where the protagonist narrates the story of his life to an ominously jumpy American who he happens [...]

A person who is not aware of the date when the story "Our America" was written, will think that Jose Marti wrote the story, which is a speech in its format, in the 21st century.

Consequently, any effort to state the meaning of the poem appears to be heretical, as it is an affront to the honesty of the complex arrangement of sense within the literary creation.

The play 'The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams focuses on the life of Amanda along with her son Tom, and "weakling" daughter Laura during the year 1937 at St.

Hosseini's natures, Mariam and Laila, are memorable; their sympathy for each other and love for their children is overwhelming."A Thousand Splendid Suns" narrates the story of two women against the backdrop of the previous forty [...]

The theme of the poem is about the manifestation and display of his grief and his obsession with the loss of his partner.

Huck fears his father and apparently never knew his mother; a homeless waif, he sleeps on doorsteps or in hogsheads; he is troubled by no ambition and steers clear of Sunday school; his life is [...]

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".

Through exploring the characters' lives, the author reflects on the notions of drug use, hopelessness, and escape in the context of the black community.

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a novel telling the story of Esperanza, a young Latina who moves to Chicago and grows up in a community of Puerto Ricans and Chicanos.

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.

In the end, he comes to the conclusion that this obscurity is the reason people do not want to die and prefer to lead the lives full of suffering.

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 [...]

To begin with, he was one of the eleven children in the family of a church rector. He frequently had royal family members as visitors in his house on the Isle of Wight.

For this assignment, I have chosen the following fictional accounts of the US: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and The Return of Mr.

There are a lot of different interpretations of Frost's "The Road Not Taken" that it is easy to appear in the situation that one cannot understand what the poems are about.

The contemporary discussion of this novel is often tied to the question of racism; nevertheless, I am convinced that this book can be of great interest to modern readers, and I would like to discuss [...]

Another ironic thing in the book is the character of the person who is described as being a pioneer in the atomic bomb.

He discusses societal disapproval as well as foolish consistency as the main obstacles to self reliance and trust in one's self.

Through a shared language people form an identity, and in a country they feel a sense of nationalism. Therefore, the quest for a shared identity can become a source of strife and division in a [...]

When examining the novel, it becomes clear that the writing style and the way in which the author delves into the Puritan way of life seemingly shows the double standards that existed at the time.

This paper offers a brief analysis of appeal of logos as expressed in Dahl's 'Lamb to the Slaughter.' A perfect appeal of logos in Roald Dahl's 'Lamb to the Slaughter' is well expressed by Mary [...]

In a bid to deliver the message of the poem, the author uses various interesting tools. The content of the poem is interesting as the author narrows down to the concept of old age.

In this paper, I will aim to confirm the soundness of namely Walker's suggestion, while pointing out to the fact that, by the end of Angelou's novel, Maya did not only become fully self-aware individual, [...]

This happens when it influences the plot, the characterization in the play, and the play's mood, on top of expressing themes that could be termed to be the main themes.

A Rose for Emily is the story that is characterized by numerous critical opinions: readers found the story interesting, unusual, and educative; and critics tried to admit as many negative or weak points as possible [...]

He is not only responsible for his family and each member but he should also care about his clan and the reputation of this clan.

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 [...]

In the story, Huong becomes a refuge because of war in Vietnam and therefore finds herself in Australia as her second home.

Baldwin draws attention to the uncomfortable fuzziness between the desire and perception of righteousness and the likelihood and actuality of life heading toward eternal damnation to examine themes relating to sexuality. The concepts of domestic [...]

The social and economic changes in the 19-th century, the growth of the British Empire, and the author's personal experience are significant in conveying the story.

While the chapter follows the narrative of Amy's letters to the family, the author had fewer opportunities to place valuable symbols in the text.

In "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson exposes the pitfalls of conformity and mindless adherence to authority. Concerns from the post-World War II era are reflected in "The Lottery's" depictions of conformity and unthinking adherence to authority.

Franz Kafka's biography, connection to fellow modernists in other disciplines, the critical acclaim of his works, and his culture demonstrate that he was an impactful person and the void he left remains fallow.

The narrator's identity is shaped by his emotions and his perceptions of his surroundings. This imagery, along with the narrator's emotions, leads him to his epiphany of love and longing.

The death of Ivan Ilyich touches upon the topic of the existential wandering of the person. Author similar concept of being in the works of Tolstoy and Heidegger is the concept of the ultimate loneliness.

Death never hears Donne, but his aim is to show that death is only an event. Donne uses it to analyze the differences between the conception of death and the rest.

The eventual fate of the rabbits serves as a metaphor for Robert's character, as their deaths reflect the loss of Robert's own moral values and the abandonment of his faith in humanity.

First, Shakespeare's work is universal and timeless. Relatable characters and themes weave the stories in Shakespeare's plays.

From this perspective, the case of Gatsby's mansion is a symbolic call for leaving behind the anachronistic ideas of aristocracy and embracing American ideals.

This paper aims to compare the aspects of symbolism in Othello and The Rape of the Lock. The lock in the poem "The Rape of the Lock" is more than just a coiled strand of [...]

Despite coming from different backgrounds and are placed in different settings, Phoenix Jackson and Mrs. Though Phoenix Jackson and Mrs.

Emerson argued that American intellectuals should create their unique style of scholarship and literature, while Whitman celebrated the beauty and diversity of America in his poetry.