Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 26

8,616 samples

“The Addict” by Anne Sexton: Poem Analysis

In the poem "The Addict," Anne Sexton vividly describes the experiences and feelings of an addicted person who is not understood by other people and struggles with the addiction. Thus, the poem creates a vivid [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 146

Mood in Poe’s “The Masque of Red Death” Short Story

Edgar Alan Poe's short story The Masque of Red Death is a unique piece, allowing the reader to experience Gothic fiction and analyze death's inevitability through the author's allegoric instruments.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 389

Oedipus and Hamlet Characters’ Contrast and Comparison

The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast one of the main characters of literature - Oedipus and Hamlet, as well as to determine the qualities and skills of people which make them [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1108

Irving and Hawthorne: Shared Values

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.
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1674

Achilles’ Traits and Greeks’ Perception of Heroism

The character traits of Achilles reveal how the Greeks view heroism and outline their values such as fearlessness and fame. The Greeks acknowledged their desire for fame and honor, just like Achilles, who the Myrmidons [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 437

Analysis of “Mending Wall “by Robert Frost

The speaker communicates with the neighbor by continually questioning the legitimacy of the wall. First, the poem is written in the form of a short story where the speaker recounts one remarkable event in his [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 493

Tragedy in Sophocles’ “Antigone”

Reverting to the issue of who between the 2 is a tragic hero, it is important to note that the reason for the duo's demise has some moral and practical backing.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1158

“Antigone” by Sophocles Is a Play Without a Hero

It tells the story of the king Oedipus' daughter and her uncle Creon, the new king of the city of Thebes. The current essay represents the discussion of the characters of the famous play Antigone [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1464

Mythology: The Tragic Hero in Antigone

In the Greek tradition, the women were the ones that were concerned with the issues of burial and she wants Ismene to help her to ensure that their brother is properly buried despite the objection [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1130

Hero Image in Literature

Gilgamesh from the Epic of Gilgamesh, Achilles, and Agamemnon from The Iliad, and Beowulf from the epic Beowulf may serve as the best examples of epic characters, which represent the image of a hero properly [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1731

March Book 1 Overview and Analysis

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 [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 841

“Trifles” by Susan Glaspell

Wright's beloved canary, as well as in the county attorney's and the sheriff's behaviors, mocking the women for their concentration on "trifles".
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 391

Dante’s Circles of Hell: Sins and Punishments

In Dante's Inferno, the second circle of hell is dedicated to the deadly sin of lust, which is the final destination for the individuals who used to be lustful and adulterous during their life.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 322

How “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” Addresses Slavery

The insensitivity in this mistreatment and dehumanization of Black people is pervasive to the extent that Jim considers himself "property" and was proud to be worth a fortune if anyone was to sell him. To [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1409

Lisa Lowe’s “The Intimacies of Four Continents”

The interconnection between land, race, and labor across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas is shown to be a manifestation of the unique exchanges and interactions between these regions and Europe.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 366

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Ideas in “Infidel” Novel

The title of the book is indeed significant as it represents to the reader the whole spectrum of issues that the writer tries to reveal to the reader through her book.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 766

Discussion About Figurative Language

In The Veldt, the nursery is personified as it is given the characteristics of being a parent, and it performs all the duties of the house.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 13
  • Words: 1220

The Book “Stiff” by Mary Roach

The sensation made by this book is in the alternative perception of the life after death people have which contradicts the usual idea of what happens to us that used to dominate in the minds [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 806

A Cultural Analysis of John Updike’s A&P

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.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 581

Love Poetry of the Renaissance

The love poetry of the Renaissance is a genre that gave rise to a new style focusing on human feelings as the highest form of manifestation of spiritual experiences.
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 215

Explication of the Poem “Harlem”

To address the question posed in the poem, Hughes creates a set of similes that assist in seeking answers to the aforementioned question.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1357

“The Conference of Birds” by Peter Sis

The journey, which is depicted in the book, represents people's strong desire to investigate laws of nature that run the world and acquire the wisdom needed to improve life on the planet.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1102

“All Through Eternity” Poem by Rumi

All through eternity Beauty unveils His exquisite form in the solitude of nothingness; He holds a mirror to His Face and beholds His own beauty.he is the knower and the known, the seer and the [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 489

“The Giver” by Lois Lowry Analysis

Given a chance to choose a friend among the characters, I would go for Jonas because of his impressive concern for society.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 362

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”

Mallard, the protagonist of the story, learns that her husband died as a result of a train accident. Mallard understands that the rest of the life she has will be spent the way she wants.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 866

“Ebb” Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The speaker seems to be a woman who was abandoned by her partner, and the poem is a solitary reflection on the feelings of love and loneliness.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 560

From Riches to Rags: “Farm Girl” by Jessica Hemauer

The immigration and new way of life have posed new challenges to the family. Hemauer's purpose in this essay was to share the painful experience and struggle her family went through as immigrants.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 603

Critical Approach Analysis of “The Scarlet Letter”

Generally, such important themes as legalism, guilt, immorality, and sin related in the novel may be discussed through the prism of historicism, and even the very title of the novel featuring the word "scarlet" or [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1389

The Aeneid by Virgil Analysis

With the development of the poem's story plot, the reader follows Aeneas from his heroic fights in Troy to his final destination in the territory which is now known as the country of Italy, and [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 554

Guilt and Justice in Lord Byron’s Manfred

Neither the details of the tragedy nor the identity of Astarte are disclosed in the novel, but most scholars agree that the nature of the events, as well as the feelings of the protagonist, are [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 621

Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play Analysis

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 859

“Shooting an Elephant” by G. Orwell Review

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 [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 858

“Beowulf” by Seamus Heaney Review

Through the story telling of the poem it becomes evident that its main character is somehow corrupted by the glory, power and money he acquires for his acts of bravery; still, his main qualities are [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 499

The Horror Genre: Novels and Stories

This is an excellent feature of the story and a staple of an effective horror piece."'Horror is not a genre, like the mystery or science fiction or the western. This is the strength of the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1365

The Novel ‘Black Rain’ by Masuji Ibuse

However, the novel presents the most detailed, touching and thought-provoking description of all the saddest consequences the trauma of being a victim of an atomic explosion may leave in the life of any individual who [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 999

“The Love of a Good Woman” by Alice Munro

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 567

Word Craft in American Literature

It is possible to little the use of the words and still drives points home this is attained by incorporating sign language amid the use of words.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 616

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

Greek Manly Virtue in Epic Literature & Philosophy

Thus, the manly virtue of ancient Greeks was an attribute of the male and female parts of the society that was implemented since childhood and related to the norms of ethics and aesthetics.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2348

Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices

The play is narrated by two voices, the voice of the blind Captain Cat as they all inform the audience of the dreams and lives of people from a small town as viewed by the [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 573

Censorship on Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The main protagonist of the novel is Guy Montag, a fireman whose job like others, is to burn books without questioning the impact of his decision.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1153

“First They Killed My Father” by Loung Ung

These were people who had never moved to the city and had spent their lives in the village. They had starved and the family had had to stay for days without food.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2737

“Why I Live at the P.O” by Eudora Welty

The main character by the name "Sister" who is a first-person narrator, gives the story of her side of the family spat which served to her to leave the home of the family in which [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 567

Isak Dinesen’s “Out of Africa”

Considering the essence of art and literature, it is possible to say, that there is no objective reality in art, and even the most realistic description is in effect a look through the prism of [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 727

“Dereliction of Duty” by H.R.McMaster

The author points out that it was due to the foolishness and lies of President Johnson's government actions that the country got sucked in the unwinnable war.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1355

Magical Realism in “Tropic of Orange” by K. T. Yamashita

The extension of borders of the tropic, the contraposition between the life in LA and the life in Mexico, the change of events is a typical technique of Magical Realism, namely, hybridity that implies extensive [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 660

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Review

Congo locates in the center of the continent and can be compared within the heart of Africa."The vision seemed to enter the house with me - the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1951

“Orlando: A Biography” by Virginia Woolf

Going to the river Orlando found that the frost had broken and the ship was sailing away. Orlando surrenders to "the spirit of the age" and looks around for a spouse.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1145

Themes of Mortality and Growing Older in Poems

The poems inspire the readers, through the images of life, whether in old age or young, to not accept death as it is, but rather to challenge even in the last time minute.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1116

“Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall

The poem depicts the influence of the Civil Rights Movement on the social life of the population; the author tries to disclose the hopes of ordinary people leading to the great tragedy and mass death [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 898

Desdemona as a Symbol of Christian Virtues

She chooses to stay patient when the very light of her life, Othello, accuses her of being a woman of foul character and strikes her.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1256

Canadian Literature: George Ryga

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1297

The Mythical Villains: Gilgamesh, Ravana and Oedipus

Thus, the myth is one of the literary genre which helped ancient people to understand and explain the structure and natural phenomena of the world, environment, people and other creatures around, the origins of everything [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2012

The Theme of Love in the Old English Literature

The topic of the poem is preserved from the very beginning till the end of the poem, from the image and observation of the cross to the story by the same cross.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1184

Langston Hughes’s Fine Clothes to the Jew Poems

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 963

“The Wife of His Youth” Short Story by Chesnutt

This is the case with Charles Chestnutt's short story "The Wife of His Youth" in which the significant disruption of life experienced by the institution of slavery and the Civil War is illustrated through the [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 677

Family Relationships in Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper

Being the brain and the intellectual reason of the family, the husband wisely guides the ship of his matrimonial unit through all the possible mishaps and traps and takes the necessary precautions in order to [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1228

Hamlet’s Parental Relationships

The death of his father, the actions of his mother and his existing relationship with his uncle all have Hamlet confused regarding the true nature of the world.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1716

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

“The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell

Gladwell's main thesis pertains to the trends in society being understood in the same manner as researchers understand the spreading of viruses and to the fact that a surprisingly large variety of social phenomena can [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 595