Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 26

One of the most interesting aspects of the story is how Granny Weatherall seemingly shifts from one train of thought to another in a haphazard fashion.

It is that the murder is a reason for the fifty-two years-old disappearance of the respected Fortunato, and the Montresor's guild is undeniable".

The figurative language closely intertwines the entire plot of the story of Andy and sets the overall tone of the novel.

The events of Tartuffe transpire over the course of one day, originating in the early morning and concluding in the late evening, with most of the situations happening at the house of the protagonist.

Antigone strongly believes that the laws of Gods are higher than the laws of the state and that she does right by following the laws of the Gods.

The novel is based on the life of John Lewis and opens with a group of African American protestors marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The police deny the demand of one [...]

On the first page of the story, the author uses several techniques to present his narrative to the reader. The first page also presents the reader with an exposition of the story, in which the [...]

In the first chapter of Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible," author Linda Williams reveals the concepts of "speaking sex" as a feature of pornography and the "knowledge-pleasure" sexuality represented in [...]

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.

It seems that the writer wants the nurses caring for her to remember that she is a person with a past, wants, and needs rather than a patient.

Robert Frost wrote "The Road Not Taken" at the beginning of the 1900s to underline the difficulty of choices that people have to make. Symbols make it possible to develop the reader's imagination, and alliteration [...]

In this respect, the title of the book fully indicates its reliability and straightforward character of it in terms of the contemporary social situation between minorities and the majority of the American nation.

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

The day the explosion happened / there was a foreboding of an accident / and the sun was the foreteller. The poem's central topic is the explosion which happened in a coal mine."At noon there [...]

The key similarity of both stories can be seen in the fact that the authors wrote a tragedy for Hercules in order to explore the role of violence in his acts of heroism.

The protagonist of the novel, captain Marlow, observes that the suffering of the native people under the yoke of bureaucratic officials is extremely tough.

The cause of the fire remains unknown; however, several pre-requisites before the event were discovered during the investigation, such as inadequate fire alarm system in the school, absence of fire exit, and unpreparedness of the [...]

A reader can feel the emotion of fear and uncertainty throughout the whole poem, as the writer enhances the feeling of anxiety with the symbol of tulips that torture the woman.

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

Reading the account of the history of the development of religious diversity in the United States, I also thought about the abundance of labor invested in this process.

That they remind each other of what they had agreed themselves and that they should be one common unit working in unity and that whatever they plan, they should do it with confidence, keen, and [...]

The poem, "The Bean Eaters" portrays the old couple's poor state they live in alongside how they are fighting to be alive despite all their difficulties. They are the remnants of their lives.

Williams to explain the results of the tests and give the list of the products she should not eat any longer.Mrs. WILLIAMS: Truly, darling, you know how I love you and I am trying to [...]

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.

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

It is both a classic fairy tale known from the early childhood and the representation of the ideal and moral behavior to be an example for everyone.

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 [...]

The governess is not scared of the ghosts, she is horrified by the fact of what they can do to the children.

It is also known that vampires typically rest during the day only to rise in the light of the moon. Thus, to my mind, the image of Poe's Ligeia is strongly associated with a vampire [...]

The play raises the question of what stories will be remembered in the future and whether they have any chance of staying unchanged. Returning to the central conflict, it finally receives a resolution in the [...]

Orwell uses the details surrounding the shooting of the elephant to bring out the sarcasm of imperialism, and the vulnerability of the imperialists to the otherwise primitive locals that they purported to rule over and [...]

Green Butler uses the character of the grandfather to develop the theme of gender roles within the culture. The character of the grandfather is extremely sound for the cultural beliefs the author conveyed through all [...]

On the day of the carnival Montresor goes looking for Fortunato and finds him a bit tipsy and it is then that he tells him of how he had acquired a rare kind of amontillado [...]

In the first song, Ludmila, the daughter of Prince Vladimir is getting married to Ruslan, and there is a big feast, and Ruslan's foes have attended too.

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.

News about the death of her husband arises and owing to her heart problem, carefulness is vital for the one to deliver the news to her.

Still, according to Ovid love is the eternal source of conflicts and is the strongest manifestation of a person, it is the essence of life and its pivot.

Nowadays the performance of this eighteenth century play requires the restrained and subtle play of actors; otherwise the humor may not be delivered to the audience to the full extent.

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

The writer uses first-person narration to illustrate how Ralph is writing a memoir in response to the muddled uproar that is rampant in the setting of the novel.

Alerts like this had been risen in this town early each morning for quite several days that had passed because at that time the B-29s were engaging in the utilization of Lake Biwa which is [...]

From the story it is clearly indicated that, Evan was very disappointed with what Redmor treated the people of this area; and decided to take a ravage especially because his friend Hank was shot.

Minister D walked in and saw the contents of the letter, produced another copy that almost looked like the stolen one, and placed it next to the important letter.

The concept of his role is to highlight the fact that it's never too late to do what you have always wanted to do.

The essential element of the book is the creation of the mythical element of a magical world and the classical theme of a tension between two abstract concepts good and evil.

In his journey through those worst performances on English women leading a few to suicide, he did not consider the situation and emotions of women he met.

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.

But if they over dry, they will become hard to chew and lose all the nutrition, This warns us of the consequences that may befall us if we sit there and wait for conditions to [...]

Published in 1958, the novel describes the life of a Nigerian village - Iguedo, at the advent of the white colonization in Nigeria.

The internal structure and the external form of this very poem are connected with the help of the context; at the same time, the external form facilitates the understanding of the contrast between two worlds.

Hemingway wrote 'Hills like White Elephants' in the third-person perspective that restricts the tale to the words and actions of the characters.

However, it is not the reaction of the children to the sociology lesson that is the most important, but the reaction of the reader instead.

The road was not easy for Wallace Stevens. Wallace Stevens nearly never changes the themes of his poems.

The poem The Weary Blues was written by Langston Hughes; the author devoted his work to the description of the music theme highlighting the role of blues and the uniqueness of this genre.

The thesis of this paper is in the form of an argument to convince the readers that Krebs's laziness comes from his inability to adapt himself to the changing patterns of life, which society imposes [...]

As shown by the examples of Prometheus from Prometheus Bound, James Stark from Rebel without a Cause, and Barry from Barry Lyndon, being a hero and a villain is possible for one and the same [...]

The poet confirms that death is "Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so". Donne refers to a world of privacy and solitude when it comes to the existence of the death.

In this way, Agamemnon presents imperfections in the family under consideration with the tragedy of this family rooting in the wife's unfaithfulness to her husband and the father's sacrificing his daughter in exchange for the [...]

In both short stories mentioned, the main female characters Georgiana and Beatrice fall victims to the men that possess full control of their life: Georgiana is convinced by her husband, a man of science, of [...]

Additionally, a certain pattern can be seen in alternating the rhyme of the last word in a line, where in the first two stanzas, the first and the third lines where unrhymed, while the second [...]

While reading the first person narrative essay of Jane Goodall entitled "A Plea For The Chimpanzees", I came to the realization that Chimpanzees are so much like human beings that it is unfair to continue [...]

One side of the debate believes that deafness is a disability, while their opponents claim that this is a sign of belonging to a distinct linguistic community which is marginalized not only in the United [...]

Rampersad, the biographer of Langston Hughes, says that Fine Clothes to the Jew is not a successful volume, though it is Hughes's greatest collection, which was published when the poet was at the height of [...]

Despite the fact that, throughout story's entirety, Cal is being presented to us as "progressive" educator, who seriously believed that endowing Donny with strongly defined sense of self-respect could have helped Daisy's son to straighten [...]

Tannen uses the traditional elements of the analytical writing that involve problem statement, illustration of the case and solutions to the problem.

Too shy to attend the business school her mother enrolled her in and without any friends of her own, Amanda decides marriage is the only answer for Laura and forces Tom to find a beau [...]

In the second and the third verse: "That from the nunnery2 Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind3" The author uses figurative language to describe his mistress, where by using such words as nunnery, chaste, [...]

The Grapes of Wrath begins by describing an occurrence of soil erosion in Dust Bowl Oklahoma that led to the destruction of crops, a decline in farming and farm produce and the migration of farmers [...]

In Homer's Odyssey, the noble nature of the hero is made clear in the way that his servants speak of him and strive to behave as he would expect.

The story narrates the travails of a particular family through the entire process of the occupation of the country by the Japanese until the time they surrendered in 1945.

'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens deals with "the aspirations and ambitions of the protagonist and narrator, Pip, to improve his status in life and create conditions for better living"..

The recurring themes of Night, by Elie Wiesel reflect the poignant feelings of disgust of writer against mankind and gradually his loss of faith in God, helplessness and hopelessness of a child who entirely disgusts [...]

Henry's story is that of a man stripped of his innocence and freedom only to have his mind destroyed by the war.

In sum, Gilman and Olsen demonstrate that the low social position of women in society deprives women of a chance to find happiness and maintain close relations with their families.

Even should this be the case, the restrictive way in which she is instructed to clean would serve as a viable justification for this unhappiness, not necessarily the physical labor of the maids themselves.

The novel starts with the end of an expedition when people were attacked and killed by an unknown enemy, and the contact between the expedition and the outer world is lost.

Masood skews the balance of this relationship when the grandfather speaks of his dislike of the man, in answer to the boy's question: "He is an indolent man, and I do not like such people".

The work by Yuko to be considered in this paper is one of the brightest examples of her prose, and it can be observed by the readers that personal concern of the author about her [...]

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.

Her monologue or probably it would be better to say defense speech is the bright example of the transition that we have already mentioned.

Bernardo and Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" and the tradition of the American in Europe by D. The early versions of that story put Jig and the American man on the train for which they [...]

At the very outset, it was clear to the soldiers that the war in Indochina was not being conducted in terms of the glory myths on which they had been raised. The second part of [...]

The narrator admits from the very beginning of the story that he is nervous about having a blind man in his house, suggesting that he himself is actually quite blind to the reality of the [...]

Perhaps the "evening" in the second line refers to the evening of life, considering that Prufrock is a middle aged man.

In later years, a lot of his poems were directed through the style of using firm words to express his strong emotions and to depict the ideas of revealing and concealing the tone of his [...]

An artist wants to express with the help of his or her art, the economic, political, social, cultural and religious or philosophical conditions of the moment of the creation of the art.

First of all, it is necessary to mention, that the poem "on the road" by Langston Hughes is the narration of the periods of the Great Depression.

The analysis of this genre focuses on the series of fiction works with the purpose of disclosure of unique qualities of fiction theory. The history of technology and science contributes to the formation of contextual [...]

Perhaps one of the contributing factors that made this piece entertaining is the characterization of the characters in it. The material inheritance is the piano that had been to the family of Berniece and Boy [...]

Even in his own home, he has taken up the habit of locking his bedroom doors "as if in a hotel" and he continues to follow the rules and regulations set forth by his father [...]

Wilde's community, though apparently very customary and firm, is essentially quite worried about being destabilized by strangers: Lady Bracknell even evaluates Jack's being found in a purse with "the worst immoderation of the French Revolution" [...]

Although the innocent black man is killed while attempting to break out of prison when he might have gone free had the case proceeded to a higher court, Atticus and the town's sheriff conjure a [...]

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.

One is gardens and flowers, and the other is the less concrete spiritual things, like the soul, the body, the mind, life, and death.

When the novel starts, Tom is appointed in and often the arranger of childhood tricks and make-believe games. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom's obsession with Rebecca Thatcher is obvious.

Taking it upon himself to complete Yasuko's recollections of the dark days, Shizuma must rewrite the journal to bring to the reader an unmistakable account of the injuries, the horrors and the victimization that was [...]

The character Prufrock in the poem "love song" represents the same emotions of Eliot. The emotionality and psychological masterwork of language is like magic in the poem.

Important is the fact that the death is personified in the poem and has the role of the gentleman. The death is presented as a powerful element of the poem and of the narrator's life [...]

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.

It is not difficult to realize that Hawthorne's intention in "Young Goodman Brown" is to force the reader to experience the temptations which Brown himself must endure and that he is made to see the [...]

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 [...]

At the beginning of the novel, Tom is a naughty boy, constantly getting into danger and running away from it, an instance when Tom flees the penalty of stealing jam.

The simple truths in the book were relevant to all generations and hence the book is of universal appeal."How to Win Friends and Influence People" tapped into the insatiable hunger for self-improvement and success in [...]

The tone of the poet is of despair and melancholy as he feels that the human life is tormented with miseries, and nature is incapable of offering any solution to man's problems.

The excellence of the sonnets is the excellence of parts. Although the sonnets proclaim his affection for the young man and his indulgence of him, they also disclose the attitudes which Shakespeare takes to both [...]

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 [...]

The tonal quality of the woman's voice sends the speaker of the poem into a child-time memory that is not actually a single event, but a compilation of impressions throughout the Sundays of his childhood.

Judging by the sentiments involved in the poem, the lover could be someone as remote from him as a woman he rode in a carriage once, or even a spectator who came to see one [...]

The comment presents an issue of Utopia, the controversy of More's discussion that affects the commonwealth of the state that will be analysed to argue that the statement is true.

In Dylan's song, the masters of war hide at the time "young people's blood / Flows out of their bodies / And is buried in the mud".

The essence of the poem revolves around the idea that life was not a crystal staircase for the main heroine, who is the speaker, and she warns her child about it.

The book's research problem is the intentional failure to recognize the role of Pueblos in the precipitation of the revolt and the ultimate triumph over the Spaniards in New Mexico.

The passage selected for close reading refers to the narrator's depiction of the time he met a young lady and did not dare speak to her despite being attracted to the girl.

The existing residential school system is one of the examples provided in the text as it contributes to the deterioration of the institution of family and the native culture of people.

The inciting incident of the series is a giant man breaking down the door and telling Harry about his horrible legacy.

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 [...]

While she succeeds in making her point and poking holes into the artistry of Mark Twain, I find her lacking in honesty on the moral issues raised in the novel and her comparisons between the [...]

By incorporating a range of symbols such as the main characters' clothes, their personal belongings, and attributes of their culture, the author conveys the conflict of belonging, sense of being lost, and the problem of [...]

The story is set near the Mississippi River, in the fertile lands of New Orleans. The Patton's love each other so much, and their affection is shown in the story.