Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 26

The Scarlet Letter depicts the supposed sin committed by Hester Prynne as an act against the social and religious standards of the time.

In the play "The Crucible", Artur Miller raises the topic of Salem witch accusations taking place in Massachusetts during the end of the seventeenth century.

Who are You?" is a short lyric poem written by Emily Dickinson and first published in 1891 in the Poems of the 2nd Series. In this poem, the speaker is a kind of "nobody" who [...]

The first part is the legend of Beowulf and Grendel; the second is about Beowulf and the dragon. He is ready to sacrifice himself and his courage for the sake of justice.

The book is about war, and in the poem, the main character is the soldier repeating the theme of the book, and in whose case medals and other awards are meaningless if he loses his [...]

My husband claims that he yearns to travel the world again as he used to in the past, but he is elderly.

All children in the age bracket tend to like language presentation using images, diagrams, and illustrations to understand and relate to every theme in the stories.

In "The School" by Donald Barthelme, the reader is exposed to the idea that death always surrounds people to the point where it ceases to be a tragedy and becomes a normal part of life.

Moreover, Gilman has used ghosts as one of the supernatural forces to create the mood of the story and the theme of mental illnesses.

Hector's behavior is often contradictory since the motives for his actions are either a thirst for glory, which is typical of an epic hero), or an understanding of the duty to the fatherland and the [...]

The irony of the story is that there is no longer a watch that could be used with the chain, and there is no longer beautiful hair to brush with a set of luxurious combs.

The text begins with the description of the realities of society living in the time of famine. Since small children are not capable of work, they only constitute the source of expenditures to families and [...]

The author highlights the severe inequality in his story by restricting the number of female characters and limiting the development of Cunegonde, the Old Woman, and Paquette as active participants in society.

On balance, the discursive nature of the poem lends itself to a discovery guided by the author via repetition and comparison, and the air of playfulness pervades the first part of it.

Eliot was known to have been a fanatic of Dante, and the meaning of the epigraph indicates that the poem is something that the world was not meant to hear, but it emerged anyway.

Carol Berkins also shows what happened after the war, more so where the women were not given equal rights as their husbands during the drafting of the constitution.

The text addresses the issues of the men's and women's functions in ancient China, as well as the topic of childbirth.

Although the plot mostly narrates several weeks in the last year of the war, The Iliad has various allusions to the many Greek legends about the siege and the astonishing exploits of ancient heroes.

The Ghost in the play is charitable because it helps Hamlet to know the truth about the way his father died and to begin finding clues for the murder.

He incessantly faces one problem after another in the course of his life Petunia and Vernon consider Harry's magic a threat and decide not to tell him about his magical powers.

The poem impugns the immortality of the soul, and this makes it revolutionary by the standards of that time."The Road Not Taken" depicts the challenges faced by any individual who must make a choice.

This essay is going to review gender and love and sexuality as the key themes that intertwined with Nel and Sula's friendship, while also explaining how these influenced each of the two main characters. On [...]

The focus on the fine details of the novel and how Capote structured the character of Holly Golightly is one of the article's strengths.

Harry and his wife, Helen, are stranded in Mount Kilimanjaro and their interactions reveal that their rocky relationship is a result of a mixture of frustration, incorrect decisions, getting married for wrong reasons, and unreciprocated [...]

The extermination of the Roma was part of the general policy of the National Socialists to destroy political opponents, homosexual people, terminally and mentally ill, drug addicts, and Jews.

Nevertheless, an in-depth analysis of symbolism shows that the weather is the most dominant symbol in the story, and every scene is described in a given type of weather.

The authors of the articles address the problems of values, identity, and the use of mimesis in the literature of the prominent English playwright, poet, and author.

In their respective pieces, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "The Scarlet Letter," Irving and Hawthorne reflect on the events from this perspective, and it leads to the similarity of values incorporated in their narratives.

Furthermore, from this story, the reader will learn about the special relationship of Navajo to the stars, the constellations of which provide the life principles and values of the people.

The power of imagery in the poem reaches its peak at the end when the reader sees the contrast between two settings of the poem: Tom's dream and reality.

It turns out that Desiree and the child are not white, and Armand becomes angry and shameful. Society constantly treats her as a girl, and she is not always able to talk about her feelings [...]

As three girls in swimsuits enter the grocery, Sammy starts ogling at them; however, as the manager leaves an unpleasant remark about the girls and forces them to leave, Sammy takes the side of the [...]

The purpose of his style, ornate and yet concise, of the grotesque characters, the growing tension in the narrative is "the greatest possible effect on his readers".

The writer puts forth the information concerning the state of the transparency of the Pakistani Government and the corruption claims that warranted her father's death. The writer's mother is instrumental in her journey of faith [...]

In spite of the fact that Sammy is the protagonist of the short story, John Updike does not appear to favor his personality.

Ismael and Ali examine the author's humane message of the rights of people to live in peace from the perspective of the Holocaust.

For instance, in the seventh stanza of the poem, the author appeals to the reader by encouraging them to rediscover their fascination with a blackbird instead of drowning in dreams of a "golden bird".

The literature also reveals to the audience a gender picture of the world - the statuses of men and women at a certain period of time, their behaviors, stereotypes, and potential conflicts.

To prove his point, the old man tells the narrator and the readers the amusing and scary story of the vineyard.

The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin published in 1899. The novel is an earlier work of feminism as it shows a woman’s search for identity by rejecting oppressive social norms.

The film parallels Hamlet as the main characters in the play and the film are both princes, and the antagonists are uncles who murder their brothers to gain power.

At the end of the story, the legend of the Phoenix is told. Beatty is the antagonist of the story and a proponent of the current rule.

To begin with, the most vivid example of the food implication in the relevant novels is, certainly, the symbol of a family unity and common leisure.

On the one hand, it represented a true social situation, and on the other hand, it helped to illustrate the life of Afro-American people at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The book was the last published during the author's lifetime, and some critics believe that it was his reflection on the topics of death and the meaning of life.

It is a fundamental theory defining society, and with the theme continuing throughout the book, the reader reconceptualizes their place and purpose in the community.

The literature portrays the actual happenings in the society in an educative and corrective manner that is acceptable to both sides of the victim and perpetrator of injustices.

He gives a transparent picture of the legal system and reflects how the judicial systems are so unfair to the poor and the middle-level people in the United States.

Bratton and his fellows at the NYPD employed computer mapping to identify areas that experienced high crime levels, and then made use of all resources available in the police to fight these crimes.

From the discovery of the impending danger of the destruction of earth through a Supernova, the group of scientists decides to build a vault resembling Pluto which would protect them from the Supernova.

For example, Hamlet believed that his mother was loyal to his father and to the kingdom, but he felt unhappy with how events unfolded when grieving.

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 [...]

The rising consumerism at the time had robbed people of the ability to reason out and realize that their lives were more than the goods that they could purchase and consume.

The first stanza is devoted to comparing the former with the sky: "The Brain - is wider than the Sky ".

The scene's underlying tension serves as a definitive source of Shakespeare's use of language to portray the specific mood, tone, and the character's intentions.

The author intends to put himself and his companion to the test by traveling to six cities of the US in the conditions of uncertainty and social rejection.

Therefore, women in the novel have received a certain degree of power and equality when it comes to their relationships with men.

In other words, the ritual of killing the ruler to seize the throne is normal; it is the natural order of things for the Greeks and Romans.

In summary, the eccentricity that existed between Hooks' grandparents and the mother was inspirational to her life. Truly, the eccentricity that Hooks's grandparents and the mother portrayed was inspirational to her entire life.

In the same way, history and societies have belittled and violated the equal living of both women and minority groups. Gould talks about the nature of animals and insects and how their cruelty cannot be [...]

“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 […]

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.

The play consists of a number of interviews of the participants of the accident happened in the Crown Heights. The subject matter of Fires in the Mirror is the conflict between the Jewish community and [...]

Generally, after the evaluation of the piece of literature under consideration, it appears that the theme of impossibility of communication along with isolation and loneliness is one of the central themes in it, and it [...]

First of all, speaking about the message of the book, it should be stated that it is related to the family hardships that the members of despotic man's family can experience.

The very first and the strangest thing to me was the very fact that Kabuo was suspected of killing a man, and this man was not just a mere man.

As a journalist and a columnist, the author employs a style that appears to be a paradox to bring out the characteristics of the American nation.

The poem shows the poet's appreciation of life in Bristol by praising love and relationships but criticizing how people express love and the tendency to ignore the transient nature of life and love.

This work seeks to outline the role of women in the development of the plot of the book and in relation to the social issues affecting women in contemporary society.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the main characters of this book, define the types of obsessive love proposed by the author and evaluate the knowledge this book can give to its readers.

The purpose of the presented study is to discuss the perception of moral and ethical aspects in the field of scientific discoveries by Frankenstein.

Incident is one of the most famous poems by the prominent African-American poet and author Countee Cullen who is a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. The conflict described in the poem is one of [...]

While the nature of the phenomenon will be described in detail on the following pages, the abstract under analysis states a number of reasons as to why the author decided to address the issue in [...]

The major theme threading the stories' plots is the certainty of death and the need to accept its inevitability. In addition to the theme and mood, the narrations share the idea of unity and the [...]

The author underlines the challenges a woman encounters in her life in an African country and the importance of her ability to withstand them employing the strength of a character.

As the author observes in his own words, most of the remarks from the aunt's side would be fraught with the authoritative term 'Do not' while nearly all the remarks by the children countered with [...]

One of the reasons supporting this claim is the choice and use of characters in this play. The author uses a male to be the main character in the play.

In her article, The Illness of the Mourning & the Fantasy of the Exquisite Corpse Maria Torok observes the problems of introjection and incorporation.

The first part is about three boys who find a dead body in a car inside a river found locally in their area, they fear breaking the story to the people, and one boy after [...]

Keeping Cool in Middle School" describes the life of the girl in the Middle School. Agnes Parker is glad to be in the Middle School.

And Steinbeck offered his audience a clean view of the end when George made Lennie promise "to hide in the brush" if he gets in trouble again, as if it was an absolute fact to [...]

To illustrate, The Story of an Hour narrative is based on the supposed death of Brentley Mallard - the husband to Louise Mallard - thus reflecting a number of real life deaths that characterized Chopin's [...]

Through the Inferno poem, Dante Alighieri describes an allegorical journey to demonstrate the fates of various people in the underworld. The betrayers are immersed in ice.

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.

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, [...]

However, the narrator's use of silence not only makes the audience take notice of her memoir but to presents the selfless nature that engenders the true identity of the characters.

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.

The outstanding similarity of the narratives is the theme of love that is evident from the beginning to the end of the two stories.

Just like Ovid in his Metamorphoses, the main character in Big Fish sees the sense of his life in telling stories about people and events that can be changed to different forms.

The story takes the reader through an intriguing encounter of human beings with a variety of extraterrestrial beings with the aim of outlining the theme of life.

Sherman Alexie's essay What Sacagawea Means to Me challenges the readers to make a comparison of Sacagawea to Eve and the US to the Garden of Eden.

One of the features of comedy of identity is the existent of a plot that is based on dialogue and not actions.

Despite this fact, both King and Thoreau had a common goal to expose the unjust laws that govern a society of civil resistance to unjust laws It should be stressed that both King and Thoreau [...]

From the beginning of the story, the reader anticipates the happy ending especially when the author describes the meeting of Desiree and Armand Aubigny who had fallen in love with each other at the first [...]

The first and the most evident similarity of the works mentioned above is the authors' intent to rise above the earthly, primitive understanding of life and death and to show their personal perception of these [...]

The author starts her narration with reminding about the Bonnard's painting, The Bathroom, and then keeps the line of matching the matters of art to the story of her mother's life and finding expressive analogies.

James Joyce is considered to be one of the most outstanding writers of the Modernist literature which occupies period from the beginning of the XXth century to the end of World War II.

However, the tragedy of Mitty is in the fact that he encounters misunderstanding and gross indifference on the part of his wife.

Given the fact that Keats belongs to the Romanticist era that ushered in the enlightenment period, it is not surprising that most of his poetry tends to cross the borders of physical reality.

The girl was influenced by the adults' views and shared their opinion concerning the place of the woman in the society.

This begs the question, whether a human or the whole society has a right to take the function of God and to punish the sin.

A topic of color is prominent for both authors; however, these two poets deserve to be considered not only the voice of the American citizens of color but the voice of the whole diverse and [...]

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 [...]

Through the words of the old man Hemingway tries to bring to the world his conviction that it is the purpose of every man to struggle in life and never surrender: "A man can be [...]

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 [...]

The poem The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop reminded me that other animate creatures are able of feelings and have the right to live their lives on this planet.

Sometimes the image is used so clearly and appropriately that the reader experiences the same feelings as the author; this means that the purpose of the poem is reached.

His greatest objective is to carry out the spreading of the revolution and to bring in the improvement of the general welfare of all the animals on the farm.

Although this could be a great sense of enthusiasm and optimism in achieving a goal, Ralph goes into this with the aim of getting a lot of money in a short period of time.

One of the suggestions that dominate Poe's talent in writing "The Raven" was the succession of terrible events the author encountered in his life.

Zeus' opponent, Cyniscus, succeeds in setting traps for the god and becomes the unquestionable winner of the argument due to his eloquence and because of Zeus' wrong conduct and the disadvantageous position he adopts in [...]

The villains in both "Othello" and "The Crucible" are unique in their proficiency in the use of language for manipulating others and their ability to use the current setting for achieving their goals; Abigail is [...]

The Novel, Unpardonable Sin written by Hawthorne is a detailed criticism of the way of life of the Puritan. The various examples of Jesus in His dealing with those who commit sin is relevant as [...]

When he is presented in front of the bishop, he claims that it was a gift and asks him to be freed as he has promised to mend his ways.

Probably, the dramaturge chooses to develop the plot in this way because he wants to show that due to some reasons, the protagonist stands on a low step of social ladder, or probably, she is [...]

It stands to reason that to a certain degree, the works of this famous historian and poet take their origins in Homers Iliad and Odyssey, but the two authors do not share the same opinion [...]

Yasser Al Salman is a member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, UK, American Society for Training and Development, USA, Society of Human Resources Management, USA, and Bahrain Society of Training & Development, Bahrain.

The character of Belisa Crepusculario is introduced in the first line of the short story because she is the main character and the action unfolds around the woman.

The conclusion of this paper can be formulated as follows - in their stories, both: Kafka and Marquez strived to present readers with a three-dimensional clue on particularities of their characters' behavior.

The main spheres where the author tries to involve the issue of science and our "inherited ways" of knowledge in the area of science are archeology, history, and music. John Broomfield suggests the nature and [...]