Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 29

The presence of the narrator of story is questionable at the initial and final stage of story while in the middle of story, the narrator vanishes suddenly e.g.the narrator's introductory story of Roth's life in [...]

The Brothers Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm, were the first to put the age-old story of Cinderella to paper as a means of preserving the rich oral history of their German homeland in the early 1800s.

As a member of the jury sitting in on the trial of Montressor, I feel it is necessary for me to explain the reasons why the jury came to the conclusion it did.

She wants to run and hide, but realizes, as Arnold points out the weaknesses of her house, that there is nowhere for her to run.

In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the portrayal of the character Charlie Bucket is an allegorical representation of the 'good child' shown through his behavior before winning the golden ticket, through his behavior as [...]

She is the perfect Victorian example of what Edna is expected to be, but Edna is incapable of keeping up the act, which is all her marriage and family really are to her.

The first adventures of Lazarillo gave the Spanish word Lazarillo a meaning of being a 'guide' for a blind person and thus, named to the dog who guides, the perro lazarillo.

However, Queen Gertrude seems to be more on the inside of the plotting and scheming occurring within the castle than an innocent woman should have.

The Trojans were the ancestors of the Romans according to the Aeneid, and their enemies were the Greek forces who had besieged and sacked Troy; yet at the time the Aeneid was written, the Greeks [...]

Among these is the new emphasis on private piety that develops with mysticism; the new literacy of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that encouraged the recording of private ruminations, the autobiographical emphasis of authorship in [...]

In preparing for the performance, Hamlet provides the players with specific lines and actions to include within the overall play they are about to perform and gives them lengthy instructions as to the acting of [...]

The novel "My Year of Meats" by Ruth Ozeki is a satirical story combining fiction together with fact and seems to present the view of the meat industry in the USA.

One of the delights of the novel is that technology aids both the tracking of some characters and the evasion of tracking by the same characters.

One of the substantial topics that can be discussed in her novel is the effect of the unfortunate events in the characters' lives.

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.

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

Ana brings out the pains of living in exile in America for most of the Cubans, some of whom had a life in their former homes. A new beginning in Miami is the fate of [...]

Cohn states, that he is dissatisfied with his life in Paris, and he believes, that the change of the surrounding scenery would help him to fill the void that he feels in the life.

It was as if they were mindful of what had happened to the moth but in truth these creatures were simply taking a break.

This scene is the one where the narrator and the attorney were giving a lift to a hitchhiker. Two of us were driving the car to Las Vegas when I saw a boy standing in [...]

The speaker, out in a battle-worn, rented boat, catches the old fish and after examining the fish closely and sympathetically, in a spontaneous moment of recognition tosses the fish back into the water."The aesthetic nature [...]

As things progressed, after the incidents with Melanie at the university and he had to leave teaching for a while, he went to visit his daughter Lucy in the outskirts out of cape Town in [...]

Bradbury feared the demise of reading in favor of television, and the ultimate homogenization of culture as a result of being spoon fed ideas.

The conflict between his intention to leave the world and his desire to retain the memories of Murasaki is the key issue of the analysis.

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.

The lives of the Mother and daughter can be interpreted in terms of a river that has fully developed from the formation to the old stage.

Type: Lyric Rhyme Scheme: aababbcbccdcdddd-last two lines are the same Setting: In a sleigh in the middle of a winter's night, between the lake and the woods and not near the houses.

By the very act of passing over a indication of an event in American history, the story draws attention to it"."Rip returns to find people talking of the heroes of the late war, the new [...]

The pride of Oedipus is not unfounded, as he is very clever, but he fails to give credit to the gods and the people around him as if he is the only source of wisdom.

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.

When she closes the window as said "she got up hurriedly and went about closing the windows and doors", she illustrated the significance of her married life and that she was not willing to have [...]

Looking at the story from the point of view of Gender Criticism, it can be seen that the essence of the story is to reflect how badly women have been treated by men.

In noticing that the author is female, we begin to think that this is her story and that she has risen above the choices she was given after all, so it has a happy ending.

Overall it is worth mentioning that the play abounds in symbolic images, For example, it is quite possible for us to say to a certain degree Blanche Dubois represents the so-called old South whereas Stanley [...]

Throughout the story, she is described in unflattering and dominant terms such as 'hard,' 'cruel' or 'predatory.' From the beginning of the story, it is clear that Margot cannot stand the shame of her husband's [...]

The walnut tree, which is the center of discussion, symbolizes the merry fruitfulness of a time when the family was affluent. The poem symbolizes the walnut tree as a remembrance of the father.

The Romantic period in British Literature is grounded on the nexus of the Enlightenment's encouragement of commerce, rationale, and freedom and the Victorian understanding of industrialization and realm.

Oedipus at the middle of the story had the urge to free the citizens of Thebes from the threat of the Sphinx.

The formality in the frame stories throughout The Thousand nights and a one uses is due to many causes: the strength of convention, the narrative function of most of the stories, the element of doctrine [...]

The essay will provide a brief summary of the book followed by an analysis of the book on the basis of the social psychological theories in order to demonstrate how religion and religious beliefs influenced [...]

This is the main conflict of the story and it is my belief that she chose to be happy at her newfound freedom while grieving for her husband a little.

Despite her insistence on loathing the false leg and the thick glasses she depends on to see, in the end, Hulga finds she is literally left without a leg to stand on.

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.

Sophocles makes use of all these elements in the Oedipus Rex and the fact that the audience is aware of the myth of Oedipus foreshadows his fate in the beginning of the play.

The central theme of the story is the reflection of the biblical features on the characters' actions and morality. Parker, the protagonist of the story, depicts the features of the biblical concepts burning the tree [...]

The results of the work should also be considered important as it will try to explain the society in "The House of Bernarda Alba", and also Lorca's point of view.

Katie has a cynical view of the self-righteous concepts of Good News and David. She cannot abide by the concept of goodness which is prevalent in David and Good News.

The Handmaid's Tale is characterized as a feminist dystopia written in direct reaction to the growing political power of the American religious right in the 1980s.

Finally, as Dante and Virgil reach the most bitter, tormented place in the universe, the ninth circle of hell, they immediately depart after seeing Satan and the final circle of the underworld.

In Araby, the development of theme resembles the archetypal myth of the quest for a holy talisman such as Sir Galahad's quest for the Holy Grail, such as James Joyce's looking for the lost light [...]

Through this book, Kozol tries to reach out to the human conscience and in his thought-provoking style, takes the reader on a journey into the lives of the poorest of poor children, shedding light on [...]

Thesis Human existence and purpose of life were considered unimportant because the human soul had a divine nature, thus, they were afraid of death as an unknown state of human existence.

She was introduced to the library of her grandfather and thus developed a fondness for books. Thus it is no wonder that one of the major themes of Sor Juana's work is knowledge and, in [...]

His shift in language, from the discussion of Oliver and what he was doing and thinking to a consideration of what we must do, signifies the switch from the simple narration of the story to [...]

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 [...]

They made the readers become witnesses of the rights abuses under the rule of Pinochet, the transition to democracy made in Chile, and the democratic government's response to the rights abuses in the past.

Williams admits that she regrets her diminished status: the fading of her beauty and the increasing harshness of her tone of voice: "a little woman of great but confused vitality clinging frantically to another time [...]

In High School, my only claim to "literary acclaim" was a short poem that got published in the school paper, probably due to a lack of contributions from other students.

Finally, her description of the man she married as the model of her father indicates his deep cruelty because he has a "love of the rack and the screw".

A peculiar feature of the passage is that instead of revealing the distinctive features of African Americans, the author concentrates on the fact that the distinction between the races in the American society is dependent [...]

Fiction can possibly include the happenings of everyday life and is reliant on the person that narrates the happenings, the manner of its narration, and its composition.

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 [...]

There is no denying the importance of the fact that the whole fabric of Shakespeare's tragedy unfolds in Hamlet subjective perception and interpretation of his uncle and mother' treason.

The details of the incident were never looked into carefully, since at that time Thebes was besieged by the Sphinx a horrible creature with the appearance of a winged lion with the face and the [...]

The hesitancy and repetition of phrases, the parallels of contrast, express and enforce the strong bound between George and Nick. In the case of George and Nick they form the basis of their relationship.

For the past few centuries, the rise of various movements have marked a certain change in the ideas and philosophies of man regarding the true nature of his existence, the pronounced inequalities of not only [...]

The Age of Enlightenment centered on France and two of the major philosophers who contributed to this age of Enlightenment were Voltaire and Montesquieu. In the realm of politics, the government was the focus of [...]

In the present work, we will analyze this similarity and will seek for possible differences using particular parts of the great epic poem and the collection of novellas, namely, we will explore the fifth story [...]

This has the implication that the connections for such writing should be strong and should be in line with the ideas that have to be passed to the reader that is from the beginning to [...]

Before the first stanza, a flea has bitten the young man and then has jumped to the young woman and begun to bite her.

The novel shows the sea as a metaphor for the seducer and the gulf consciousness. The structure of the story or the plot was intricate and climactic.

The Souls of Black Folk is testimony to Du Bois' position as one of the leading scholars on race, religion in general, and the Black experience, in particular.

In the book, "The Song of Solomon" such an obsessive love is found in the passionate desire of Hagar and the friendly love of Guitar.

'Leaves of Grass' is a collection of Walt Whitman's poems to which he wrote a preface titled "Inscription: To the Reader at the Entrance of Leaves of Grass".

Broadly defined, the bildungsroman is "the novel of youth, the novel of education, of apprenticeship, of adolescence, of initiation, even the life-novel".

Thesis A central strand in this poem is the stress on the expressive and emotional side achieved through stylistic devices and vivid images of 'hips.' The main theme of the poem is freedom as a [...]

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.

The main accent of Empire of the Sun is Jim's growing and getting older from a boy to a man during the war.

But the problem is that her mental ill has put a veil on her and she is not longer Rose to anyone.

The rules in a conventional Chinese family are obligatory, where a wife has to be subservient to her husband, so also the children to their father, and each and every person including the husbands, wives [...]

The meanings in the glossary differed from those in the Through The Looking Glass, therefore, the translation read: "It was evening, and the smooth active badgers were scratching and boring holes in the hill-side, all [...]

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 reader gets to know her from the first pages of the novel. Thomas contributes to the feeling of something horrific vapouring in the air.

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 [...]

While Shelley's work concerns the fantastic events that took place in the time contemporary to the author, the setting of "Oryx and Crake" is a far future when, as the author predicts, the mankind will [...]

Takaki, who states that racial identity crisis is caused by the inability of a person to join two separate cultures and racial values.

A 10 year-old child, completely happy with the life, walks out of the house with the aunt to go to the store. Moreover, one of the actions of making a sacrifice was to spit on [...]

The stark contrast between the harsh reality and the peaceful setting of the novel makes the realization of rejection particularly striking. The novel starts with a strong plot line unraveling the drama between Gabriel Oak [...]

Instead of the character of Genie that comes from the lamp, my story features the character of Fairy Ostara, who fulfills the desires of the magic stick's owners.

Lack of directions and information that people with disabilities face when they find themselves in that condition is one of the problems that the author raises in the first part of her book.

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.

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 [...]

The latter is about a girl and her conflict with her family, which eventually leads her to leave her home and start living at the post office.

The titular bell jar In Sylvia Plath's eponymous novel is symbolic of Esther's condition because it serves as a metaphor for her depression.

It is possible that her condition is caused by psychosomatic, as a result of reading news about Kristallnacht, or the anti-Jewish pogroms also known as 'the Night of Broken Glass.' In the play, the author [...]

Despite differences in the interpretation of features text as a whole, the data remained of the most ancient Indian religious texts allows restoring some elements of mythology and cosmology of the Vedic Indians. Altogether, it [...]

The speaker starts the poem by stating a connection to the ancient rivers of the world, possibly meaning the time before Africans were brought to America as slaves and were living peacefully.

The culture of consumerism that was unravelling and the rising popularity of television led to the development of the marketing industry as people know it today.

Human intelligence that the gods give to the dogs does not make them happy but subjects them to continuous thoughtful considerations and emotional perception of the surrounding world that ultimately leads to suffering.

In other words, she is trying to claim that a man's struggles and duties are not as difficult as a woman's hardships.

The first chapter of the book addresses the issue of language in day-to-day conversations between white and black French people of the 1950s.

The outcome is attributed to the speaker's understanding of the media and the ability to play on the fears of the audience.

In both the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and their film adaptations, Sam Gamgee, the character, was a hobbit who becomes Frodo Baggins' close friend in his quest for the 'One Ring'.

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.

Thus, Enchi's representation draws on her experiences and suffering in a patriarchal Japanese society that emphasized paternalistic values to the disadvantage of women.

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.

Sea oak illustrates the Capitalist society showing the stark contrast between the rich and the poor, the working class, and the non-working class.

First, it dwells upon the gender differences that existed at the time of the play. The women in the play were united by the feeling of isolation and alienation from other women and from society [...]

The crash of the stock market that results in economic depression is a result of the sinful extravagance of the wealthy and can be related to this prophecy.

This could not hold because the League of Nations failed to prevent the most tragic war in the world that is, the Second World War.

The author used a flashback to build up the rest of the story in bringing out an element of discrimination which was directed to the Koreans by the Japanese.

He is on his way out of the alley to see Billy, his rooster, because he did not hear him crow.

The works of John Donne and works of other writers reflecting on Donne's works The writer was an English metaphysical poet; he wrote poems to address different issues in society like love, politics, and epigrams.

For example, he says the goal of Europe is to deliver good to the colonizers at the expense of the resources of the colonized class; Cesaire maintains that it only serves to decivilize the colonizers.

It is necessary to note that the idea of the triumph of the self is one of the last ideas that can appear in some readers' minds.

The mind of an imprisoned person will want to free itself in spite of the fact that it is tightly coupled to the body of the person.

However, the little girl defends the pig and states that it is unfair to kill it "just because it's smaller than the others".

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.

Although the theme of shame is central to both Anna Karenina and The Idiot, the nature of this feeling is explained differently: Tolstoy regards shame as the result of a person's actions, while Dostoevsky considers [...]

Preminger et al.claim that poetry is to be educative and pleasurable and both versions of "Romeo and Juliet" meet this criterion regardless of the fact that they had to appeal to the audience of a [...]