Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 3

In the poem, irony is used to portray the wreckage and damage done in the city with repetition of lyrics from the song "White Christmas".

The story centers on the theft of a holy Muslim relic, which is characteristic of one of the main themes of postcolonial literature.

Being a home-owner is one of the aspects that determine status in the society and, consequently, stimulates people to preserve their status.

In this part, the stream of consciousness is used to tap the emotions of the reader about the tour to the western part of Ireland.

In Woolf's Professions for Women, the Angel in the House symbolizes the expectations of the society from what a woman should be; this Angel in the House got in the way of Woolf's writing and [...]

In her chapter, The Married Life, Pundita Ramabai Sarasvati illuminates the issues of child marriages and the violation of women's rights, exposing them to early traumatic experiences and constraining them in their independence and autonomy.

The title of the work, "Woman's Work," immediately leads the reader to think that the main topic will be the role of a woman and the labor that she invests daily for her family and [...]

He feels that he is living two lives his real life and the other as a black man, struggling with a history of his own racial identity and the expectations of the society around him.

The plot of the poem represents the expression of the world perception and the feelings of the child who has been injured by the soldier and has lost one eye.

He also pretended to be a beggar to test the loyalty of others and to devise his plan of overthrowing the other suitors.

She did not show her intentions to prevent the lottery's conduction but tried to avoid the ritual of stoning to death.

The first similarity between the 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and 'The story of an Hour is that the main characters in the stories are looking for freedom in vain.

Most prominently, this technique is used during the climactic confrontation between Jing-Mei and her mother, when the Jing-Mei's long-deceased sisters are mentioned. Over the course of the story, Jing-Mei's mother projecting her dreams on Jing-Mei [...]

Greg joined the cult in the 60s and was enchanted by the atmosphere, or as Sacks describes it the 'austere and charismatic figure of the Swami himself came like a revelation to Greg '.

I would like to finalize with Kaur's depiction of an immigrant, who is "a bridge between the last generation and the next one".

Additionally, the huckleberry is a shrub that grows in the northern part of the country. Additionally, the author showed the prevalence of gender-based violence in the period.

This paper examines romantic love as the source of joy and fulfillment in "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Love is the source of pain and suffering in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Her assertion is that science is equal to power, the power to create. Frankenstein reads like a warning to the modern world about the dangers of science.

The author describes the project, in which all the events of the Civil War are shown shortened to only one day.

The symbols used in the story and their meaning in the context of "Once Upon a Time" need to be discussed.

The younger one is in a hurry to go home, the older one hesitates, he clearly does not want to leave, although it is already deep night. There are no human meanings in the world: [...]

The main hero, Aeneas, is driven out of his home after the destruction of Troy and travels the world in his quest to reach Italy.

Although the story mostly belongs to the science fiction genre, its central scene is focused on horror, and more specifically, the horror of the unknown that is emblematic of the dark fantasy genre according to [...]

Thus, by contrasting Dick's nurturing in love and affection and the conditions of his blissful childhood and adolescence with the details of a horrible crime committed by him and his attitude to it, the author [...]

Written in the 1960s, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is an expansive, one-of-a-kind, and utterly honest depiction of a family life rife with disappointment. George and Martha's marriage defies the idealized American family.

The author expresses himself and justifies the choice using metaphors in the first two lines. In the last stanza, he posits that "I will be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages [...]

Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the personalities of Sierra and Robbie and present the major difference, similarity, and connection between them.

In the poem "telephone conversation", the writer uses humour to deflate as well as to intensify the pain he endures as a result of racial prejudices.

The opening page generally shows the life of the young girl who at the end of the book the reader expects a success story of the narrator.

It is worth mentioning that the nineteenth century was a period of intensive upheaval of American Indian tribes, which was caused by the danger of disappearance of oral traditions because of the fragmentation of Indian [...]

In the short story, Faulkner portrays that the beginning of the 1900s was marked by great social and economic changes but many people fail to accommodate their life to new social relations and a new [...]

When her husband returned home later and tried to cut the bread, the blood poured out of it, making the wife tell about the visit of her sister earlier that day.

The author expresses his affection to a person he does not name, yet it is suspected that the mysterious object of the poet's admiration who is mentioned in most of the other sonnets is a [...]

In the context of the "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", the pentangle brings together the influence of "the five virtues, the five wounds of Christ, the five senses, the five joys of Mary the [...]

In the poems Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, My Papa's Waltz, and The Negro Speaks of Rivers, the poets Dylan Thomas, Theodore Roethke and Langston Hughes employ the poetic device of imagistic [...]

Arguably, the central theme of the poem is the personal journey of self-discovery and the events that influence the decisions made on the way. Therefore, she managed to overcome the traumatic experience and return to [...]

For the love poetry of the Renaissance, attention to the human essence was riveted, and the soul was perceived as a receptacle of all emotions and experiences.

Water and fire are used by the author as symbols of destruction and purification respectively, which allows the readers to better understand the main characters in the context of the communist oppression.

At the same time, the story draws a parallel to the uprising itself, with the tyranny of Rip's wife leading him to try and escape, only for this woman to disappear before his return.

However, once the lover of the king's daughter is given the dreadful choice, the princess secretly interferes with the chance and gives the man a hint to open the door on the right.

Therefore, the flying island is an expression of the defection of the world of realness and also the transformation of the universe into a mechanically skilful living.

Although the dark and horrific motifs of Frankenstein may appear to contrast with the bright tones and subjects of such poetry, there is a clear connection, as established in the text, between the poetry of [...]

Thus, the speaker sees herself as a victim of the doctors just as the Jews were victims of the Nazi in the concentration camps. She used Jew Nazi illusion in the poem to pass her [...]

The opening of the poem "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin" contradicts the central message of how the poet feels and the conflict of being a black American.

This fact adds to the already uneasy perception of Jun's death and shows that the guilt is not only in the lack of connection but in the absence of attempts to support his cousin.

The character of the boy is obliquely revealed in the opening setting of the short story. The boy realizes that he put all his optimism and love in a world that is not real except [...]

An analysis of trends in tragedy from the time of Sophocles and Euripides to modern times is therefore important. This could explain the absence of features such as oracles and ghosts in modern tragedy.

It is ironic in the sense that Abner is punished for his injustices to the wealthy yet the justice system does not consider the social injustices of the rich society to the poor.

Perhaps that is clearly illustrated by the quote that presupposes that whoever can control the past, has power to control the future; while whoever has the ability to control the present, wields the right to [...]

One way it could be interpreted is as a list of "lessons" given by a mother to their young daughter, trying to teach her the skills she needs to function in the society of that [...]

Because of this, Amir is constantly trying to live up to or prove his father's expectations of him as a son, and he does it by turning to his father, the father.

The plot of the tragedy of Sophocles is built on a chain of accidents, which are in fact the fatal will of the powerful gods.

In this novel of manners, the author describes the character development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, and depicts the society of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century England with its values and flaws. One of the [...]

The final part of the play shows some sort of fight for the "bench domination" which is started by Jerry and when he takes knife out of his pocket and tries to stick it into [...]

The format of the poem also serves to create a sense of isolation and disconnection. The swerving described throughout the first stanza is adopted by the mind of the reader and is never fully brought [...]

Jimmy Cross, a lieutenant enlisted to take care of the other soldiers is the victim of the guilt burden. Collectively, these soldiers experienced different forms of emotional torture, which boiled down to emotional burdens as [...]

Alcott depicts the life of the teenagers and tells the story of how they marry to become wives and mothers. She captures what goes on in the mind of a woman and her ambitions.

This discussion looks at the poem' Ethics' by Linda Pasten and seeks to try and gain an in-depth understanding of the reason behind Linda Pasten writing of this poem as well as some of the [...]

Antonia Susan Byatt, in the story "The Thing in the Forest", provides her interpretation of the well-known scenario of encountering the symbolic monster.

The general tone of the poem is defined by the contrast of the beautiful and the ugly, the good and evil manifesting themselves through the experience of people at war.

The author's depiction of Ebro valley in this literary work is symbolic of a choice to have a child, and the dry, treeless land on the opposite side is representative of the life after abortion.

The advancement of art in the Greek cities cannot be compared to any in the other civilizations that existed at the time. Most of Sophocles' plays emphasize the tragedies of life and the pain inherent [...]

One of the major themes of the play is considered to be the characters' inability to meet reality, and the meaning of illusion for them.

The novel Brother by David Chariandy explores the concepts of brotherhood, discrimination, and internalized racism through the eyes of Michael and Francis. The theme of brotherhood is apparent through the relationship between Michael and Francis [...]

One of the prevalent techniques Hoagland uses throughout the poem to explain his point of view is the metaphor, precisely the extended metaphor.

Through reading and writing works of literature, people get to think about the world they live in, about the presuppositions and traditions we come to know, the wondrous and unexpected, as well as that which [...]

This scene of destruction indicates the spiritual devastation of the men, as the depiction of death and the afterlife connect with the Christian idea of the soul.

Wright, as she was sleep, the women in this play suspect that Mrs. Wright's death in Trifles are similar to those, which surrounded the murder of Mr.

It is stated that the pigs take over the management of the farm and begin making all of the decisions, such as when to harvest the crops and how to distribute the food.

The animosity Jack generates for his mother and the notion that he bans his mother from speaking in Chinese serve as a harsh recall of the family's pain.

Stating that the character of Goodman Brown is significantly more dimensional than it is represented in the surface in the story, Hurley asserts that young Goodman Brown's darkness hides within him, which makes the character [...]

Romantic literature is characterized by several key traits, such as a love of nature, an emphasis on the individual and spirituality, a celebration of solitude and sadness, an interest in the common man, an idealization [...]

Thus, the play Romeo and Juliet demonstrates that fate is the invisible, unavoidable force behind the entirety of the human experience.

The plot of the story follows the life and death of a Southern woman Emily Grierson, mostly in the period after the Civil War.

Judging by the way the short story handles the themes, plot, and literary tools, The Last Leaf is a literary masterpiece.

The persona of the poem is the wife or the lover of John Anderson. On the surface, the poem expresses the thoughts of a wife as she and her spouse near the end of their [...]

An important area of work is also the study in conversation with the grieving of the styles of coping behavior that can impede grief and those that can increase the effectiveness of adaptation to the [...]

What is first traced in the short story is the description of the gap in the working conditions of black and white people.

The purpose of the text is to show that the U.S.should seek alternative ways of tackling the problem since the billions of dollars it has been channeling to the country does not seem to do [...]

This is also a reflection of the impact of modern technology on the lives of the young as they grapple with new ways to survive and thrive in a world controlled by things that are [...]

Though it is hard to define one concrete thesis of Henry David Thoreau's Life without Principle, the point that this thesis somehow connected to money and its power in the world is evident."This world is [...]

The book gives a story of a spider by the name Charlotte and her acquaintance with Wilbur, the piglet. Wilbur's purpose and his impact on the themes of the book Wilbur is the main character [...]

The idea of friendship in The Kite Runner is considered to be one of the most important, particularly in terms of how friendship is appreciated by boys of different classes, how close the concepts of [...]

Paul D declared Sethe "the best thing" because he was just a "man" in terms of gender, and he could not claim his manhood without her.

The silence that the accusers in the Town Hall subject Claire to is deafening and a powerful ending to the story.

Barbara's Ehrenreich's text 'Serving in Florida' can be described as effective in terms of defining the main problems of the American poor through the prism of the personal experience of the author.

It is a horrifying story told from the point of view of a dying Negro slave, who is standing at the place where the first band of pilgrims landed in search of liberty.

In conclusion, it is critically important to understand the fact that Tom's behavior tendencies are not random and chaotic, but follow a specific set of rules.

Devoted to the description of the life of a human being, the book, though, manages to combine this description with the visions of nature of the jungle and the laws according to which animals live [...]

This follows the revelations of her background in the interview that ZZ Packer, just like the character Dina in the story, moved from a dominantly black neighborhood to a dominantly white university.

He then "started in the dubious business of money lending": reminiscent of the Merchant; Jewish moneylender and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.

Thus, although it was a beautiful experience to see the motherly love, it was devastating to see the discrimination and bias faced by the Native American community whose feelings and rights were violated by the [...]

At first glance, it may seem that this literary work describes the events of the future, in which people left the Earth to move to the moon.

The theme of morality and earnestness is the core element of this play. The author's use of the name Earnest is another way of conveying the issue of moral standards and behavior.

The tone of the poem is calm and meditative and Wordsworth describes the "landscape" and compares it to the "quiet" of the sky: "The landscape with the quiet of the sky"..

The prophetic dreams that both Gilgamesh and Enkidu have are used to show the weaknesses of man in front of destiny.

The love and passion that is expressed in the poem relates to the poet's homeland and not his wife. The poem captures Neruda's feelings in light of possible rejection by his homeland.

In the being of the play, we assume that Macbeth is akin to the king, a loyal soldier, and a person "full of the milk of human kindness".

The effects of this war persisted to the second half of the 1940-1950 decade, merging with the beginning of the Cold War.

It's ironic when Torvald says that he pretends Nora is in some kind of trouble, and he waits the time he can rescue her.

Like the narrator, a reader may think that the story presents a happy ending, as the young woman "went to join the kingdom of her beloved". The woman wants the girls to find the answer [...]

He wanted to talk about his perception of death and framed the poem in a way that seemed like he was talking to death.

According to the Ceremony, the word story refers to factors that contribute to the identification of a story. That means how different people usually narrate the same story to her In the novel Ceremony, storytelling [...]

One of the elements used in the poem is anaphora in the first three lines, starting with "If ever.."., making an accent on the beginning of the verse, attracting the attention of the audience.

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 [...]

The quote is indicative of the loneliness that Kurtz experiences and depicts the intensity of his emotions in being away from his homeland. The character of Kurtz conveys symbolism that is important in understanding his [...]

The major plot involves the courtship and love dilemmas of Duke Orsino, Lady Olivia, and Viola. In a conversation with the captain, she learns of the courtship between Orsino and Olivia.

It can be argued that the authors had technically juxtaposed tradition and change thus leaving it to the readers to point out the good and bad element of both the tradition and the change.

In her novel Home, however, Morrison argues that the history of race and racism in the United States complicates the concept of home.

A deeper contemplation of the first few pages of the story reveals that Jiya is always afraid of the ocean since he understands the wrath of the storm and the changes it has brought in [...]

In her book The Gift Is in the Making, Leanne Simpson collected a retelling of the legends and stories of the indigenous peoples of Anishinaabeg. The plot is designed to emphasize the importance of respect [...]

However, the speech styles employed by these two characters are not similar but differ from each other in that the style employed by Brutus is one of oration, stoic and is simple and direct to [...]

This was the period when immigration and the new urban geography of France became a burning issue in the public debate.

But in Whitman's poem, the completion of the physical journey to India is only a prelude to the spiritual pathway to India, the East, and, ultimately, to God.

The main conflict of the play is thoroughly intergenerational and lies in Willy's inability to accept the decision of his older son Biff, as the latter is willing to leave town to go to farmland [...]

Stella is a devoted wife struggling to make her marriage work, even though her husband Stanley, subjects her to a lot of pain and suffering.

The properties of Othello are given to Cassio who also assumes position that had been held by Othello The downfall of Othello is evidenced by death of his wife, loss of property and his own [...]

The main theme of the play revolves around the marriage between Thesus, the Duke of Athens, and the Queen of Amazons called Hippolyta, as well as the events that surround the married couple.

Although Algernon's view on love and marriage is not known during the conversation with his butler, we get to know his thoughts on the subject in a monologue where he claims that marriage is an [...]

Written in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, the work conveys the brutality and bloodthirstiness of military actions as well as the mental state of soldiers.