Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 34

In particular, the writers explore the way in which the worldviews and moral principles of a person can be determined by the norms established in a particular community or a social group.

After high school, I decided to pursue theology in college, which, in my opinion, explains the mysteries that surround the origin of the universe, life's purpose, and mankind's destiny.

She also did not expect that her husband would be cruel to her after the revelation and this made her want to die because she truly loved him and she thought the same about her [...]

Yet, there are some distinctions Judy Brady believes that women are often viewed as unpaid house servants who have to take care of husbands' needs, whereas Glenn Sacks argues that gender roles begin to transform [...]

The analysis of the character Beccka is presented using several elements of literature to bring out the hidden traits of the young girl.

It is not a function of the legal system to be a tool in the hands of a tyrannical government, an instrument of intimidation and control.

In "Love Among the Ruins", Browning compares the past with the present giving love more weight than material things through the persona that he creates.

Raphael Hythloday, in books one and two was of the view that the government and the state operate within an economy for the benefit of the societies, they are given power and authority to dictate [...]

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.

A child has an imaginative mind and creates a world, separate from the realities of his/her life, in the form of a make-believe play.

Indeed, compared to the Greeks, who composed legends about the creation of the cosmos and the gods, the central place in Roman mythology is given to Rome itself and its heroic people and the specific [...]

From Offred's accounts of their time at the Center, Moira shows a strong will to survive by maintaining her composure and emotional strength while many of the women were devastated in the life of imprisonment [...]

Therefore, the dichotomy of violence and hope remains alive in a deliberate attempt by the author to show that conflict is a necessity for peace and stability.

The literary genre 'spy novel' emerged in Britain prior to the beginning of the WW1, which in turn explains why in a classical spy novel the protagonist's intelligence-gathering activities are usually described as nothing short [...]

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 [...]

Open Secrets by Alice Munro is the author's short story in the eighth book of stories, and can be regarded as a re-visitation of the physical and mental landscapes that have become the most praised [...]

Nevertheless, the streaming growth of the industrial revolution of the 19th century brought some significant changes to the understanding of social inequalities."The Semplica-Girl Diaries" is one of the chapters from the diary called Tenth of [...]

Although his participation is sometimes attributed to the author's fascination with dogs, Charley actually serves two functions in the novel: he is an important character that helps to highlight the author's point and a plot-forming [...]

The book is concerned with the topic of witch trials taking place in the city of Salem, the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1692-1693; it features a number of characters, some of whom depict the real [...]

The writer was ready to forget his lowly position in the society and narrate to the court how the emperor had pure intentions.

The plot of Beloved is rather complex due to the flashbacks that are revealed with the help of storytelling and provide the reader with the opportunity to go back in time for several decades.

The kerosene fire that the firemen use is associated with the chaotic nature of fire and the firemen's desire to destroy.

Characters used in the play such as the wealthy citizen, the prostitute, the fop, and the tricky servant clearly display a mockery completing the play as a comedy of restoration.

Transcendentalism was one of the brightest literary movements of the 19th century, in which a few people belonging to cultured and educated American society founded a movement that proclaimed the power and importance of the [...]

To transmit the message, Faulkner uses three binary oppositions: death life, the old the new, and the North the South. In this passage, Emily is compared to the soldiers who fell in the Civil War [...]

Thus, through this poem, Mao Tse-tung describes the establishment of the Red Army in China; this poem can be considered as a 'hymn' of the revolution.

It also shows that Lennie and George were never going to escape the desperate circle of the routine of their lives."The deep green pool of the Salinas River" that is "still in the late afternoon" [...]

In general, loyalty is considered to be a state or a feeling of devotion and faithfulness that is oriented to a particular person, a group of people, cause, or country, etc. Exclusionary one presupposes that [...]

For instance, the author ridicules this blind loyalty to Gradgrind's philosophy and outlines various ways it has affected the lives of his children and people that surround him.

Although it is possible to perceive him as a bad person, the analysis of Christmas' character and the adverse episodes, in which he is represented as the main actor, reveal that he is not more [...]

The poem is about the bond between father and son. The poem expressed a son's desire to connect with his father.

The setting of the novel takes place mainly in a fantastic kingdom, which is ruled by King Mildred, and partially in the Forest of Doom that is terrorized by a fierce dragon.

The central figure of any heroic epics is the character who represents the interests of his people and serves as the embodiment of the human qualities which are considered to be the best in their [...]

Morrison's fictional works are carefully crafted to enable the audience understand and question the standpoint of Afro-American feminism created in the writing. This kind of mystification, misrepresentation, and erasure stimulated black females to construct their [...]

On the example of the selected poem, the author's style will be discussed through the lens of her perception of the world. Further, the scheme of the poem will be considered.

This paper shows that the two novels by Mukherjee are about first-generation immigrants to America who are unable to adjust to the culture of the new land.

In spite of the fact that the theme of isolation is shown in both the poems, the idea of isolation is presented in Arnold's poem "Dover Beach" with the focus on the melancholic isolation of [...]

This is tangible evidence that could have assisted the prosecution and the eventual conviction of Mrs. Wright's guilt on the basis of evidence that they have.

At the same time, the tone of the poem is mystic and shows the awe towards the force and grandeur of nature.

A notable distinction this particular rendition of the book to film/s is that, for the most part, the films stick closely to the book.

When going over the reactions of the various individuals who wrote to the New Yorker regarding the story, their main reasoning for sending letters to the publication was simply due to the relative "strangeness" of [...]

From the beginning of the novel, Salander has outstanding characteristics that lead to the conclusion that she is an exceptional creature.

This work still remains one of the greatest works of literature and expresses the author's philosophy and criticisms of contemporary French society and politics through the characters of the poem.

In fact, naming and recognizing the difference, as well as acknowledging racial, class, and gender differences, is crucial for accepting the self and positioning in the world.

That is why Linda's monologue is important to demonstrate the other side of the problem and to draw the men's attention to the fact that Willy should be respected in spite of obstacles and conditions.

The novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel is a captivating chef-d'oeuvre that features three main parts, which follow the life of Pi and a tiger that is referred to as Richard Parker.

According to the method, the traits that are important for the survival of the organism are preserved and passed on to future generations, while the traits that are not important are eliminated together with the [...]

Throughout the chapters, Chua examines the most dominant cultures in history starting with the traditional empires of Persia and China and later the recent hyperpowers of the United States and England.

Thus, till the end of the whole poem, the main character is not able to embrace peace and forget about the guilt. Manfred is guilty and he is not able to get rid of tortures.

The difference is that the leader of the plan is much tougher physically and emotionally, and it is evident that he would not give up his values and morals.

It is also necessary to mention that Donne chooses a very specific realm of the spiritual to show the links between the idea of pure, platonic love and its ore down-to-earth equivalent.

This is in spite of the fact that the boy's mother is yelling to Dana to "get her black hands off her son".

Moreover, the actions of Colonel Brandon have to be evaluated, as he remains one of the main characters in the Sense and Sensibility.

The subject of the present paper is argumentative analysis of poetry, hence one of the most famous Shakespeare's sonnets "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" will be subject to analysis and argumentative response [...]

The closer he gets to the truth, the bitter the reality of his dreadful fate unveils. This is the mistake he made as this search made his life full of agony.

In most screens of the comics a reader can see only the characters and their voice balloons in the forefront, while the rest of the details are not emphasized, some of the lines are blurred, [...]

The realization of the narrator with regard to his brother's playing the piano begins when the duo are on their way to the club.

In particular, the author focuses on the life of a family that has to grapple with the effects of stigmatization and relocation.

In this essay, the author seeks to confirm that in the two books, the role of the devil is the same.

The soldiers must meet their responsibilities, perform tasks, and align them to the missions of the U.S.Army. The author argues that it is the duty of the soldiers to fulfill their obligations in the Army.

Despite losing his father in the hands of the Japanese invaders, Adam rises above ethnic discrimination to assist his friend, who is of Japanese descent.

The life story of a young chimney sweeper is presented in the first stanza of the poem in the form of an emotional monologue.

On the arrival of her sister- Dee, she was not coming in the courtyard to her mother to greet and welcome her sister.

At the end of the poem, the author talks of a car without one to drive it, and it gives a picture of loss of direction, which is still linked to the chaotic scene that [...]

For instance, we get the impression that the mother of the clerk notes that the clerk's wife is not compliant, and hence, she wants her to leave because she has gone against the designated behaviors [...]

According to the writer, Otto Frank did not want to change his life which was the cause of the horrible end for his family.

The fact that Hal obeys his father's call is important as it shows his obedience to his father. It can be noted that Hal's relationship with his father is strained in the beginning.

The issue of racism is prevailing in Gaines's novel A Lesson Before Dying, wherein the author casts a shadow on the generalized attitudes toward black people in the American South of the post-WWII period.

Overall, the protagonist of the book does not arouse sympathy because his actions were unreasoned, and he was unprepared for his adventure, which eventually caused him to die from poisoning in a forest.

The central theme in Anthem is individuality, rediscovered as the protagonist is rejected by his society and has to learn to think and act for himself.

In narrating this discussion, O'Connor sticks to the Universalist point of view to the first point of view, and from time to time sums up her general view of the points made by the two [...]

To emphasize the stop and to draw the readers' attention to it, Conroy uses the present tense, and the readers become involved in the situation because of observing it through the eyes of a boy [...]

The books "Dreams from my father" by Barack Obama and Frederick Douglass's "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave" provide some of the best examples of using personal narratives to portray the [...]

Every situation is individual and people and their actions are framed by the conditions and circumstances of their personal lives, as well as those of people in the close circle."The House on Mango Street" by [...]

Although the characters of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie are different in their perception of the world and their actions, all of them prefer the world of illusions instead of reality in order to cope [...]

These elements will be considered one at a time in a bid to prove the centrality of place for objective criticism of the novel Coming to Birth which will serve as my reference for the [...]

The bottom life of this book is that there are principles which are necessary for one to be able to match the challenges of life.

The Romantic era of art and literature is a movement which started in Europe at the end of the 18th century, peaking around the time between 1800 and 1840.

They do not necessarily have to be from noble family backgrounds as in the case of Aristotelian tragedies. If this play is, therefore, performed in accordance to the dictates of traditional drama, most of the [...]

It is critical to focus on the plot and the themes which are explored by the author. When the boy is almost about to faint, he thinks about the speckled trout because he initially came [...]

The works of Tony Morrison and other writers of the middle passage provide solid examples of the aspects that are carried by languages in the continuum of literature and linguistics.

Apollo is the son of the mighty Zeus and Leto. The strained relationship between Apollo and his father was to continue until Zeus turned Apollo's son into a constellation of stars.

This is one of the main issues that can be singled out since it is important for understanding the actions of the protagonist who wants to understand the reasons why she is reduced to the [...]

The first theme is the connection of writings of women on the subject of the First World War and the modernism theoretical constructs.

People developed interest of learning the language because of the need to understand the message that was in the plays. Adamson says that one of the most important contributions of Shakespeare in the development of [...]

One of the critical issues that I learnt from the book is the disorder that prevailed after the abortion of the Reconstruction and the subsequent quest for restoring order in the American society.

It should first be noted that Tipping the Velvet has the element of a picaresque novel which means that it describes the adventures of a character, who impersonates oneself as someone else and overcomes various [...]

However, Sammy, the protagonist of the story, is among the pioneer who manages to oppose to the constructed system and prove to himself that he is able to express personal views on societal culture.

The truth is founded by a reading of the root of the reality in question where in every case the ensuing fact is an occulted form of the reading.

The problem of civic participation has been already reviewed by researchers in public affairs field though Robert Putnam in the book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community brings the discussion on another [...]

In order for one to identify the theme of the story, there is a need to look beyond the plot. Also, frustration of the girl when she is in a dilemma on what to do [...]

In the tradition of hardboiled detective fiction, the character Easy Rawlins is clearly the same as that of Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald's characters but Rawlins differs from these earlier fictional detectives because at the [...]

A poem that deals with family relationships and explain the poem's meaning The poem is heavily based on the relationship between the narrator and Lenore with their affection being the subject of the whole poem.

For example, Sarty feels that he cannot keep hiding from the law and the wrath of his neighbors in the rest of his life.

Apart from the heavy use of epistolary genre, Davys creates the male character and assigns the quality of a modern gentleman to him for the purpose of promoting the theological perspective of the novel, as [...]

Both Homeric Hymn to Demeter and Hymn to Aphrodite expose the outlook of ancient Greek on religious and psychological world of women, as well as on their attitude to marriage.

Depicting the difficult times of the economic depression in 1893, the poem shows the plight of the commoners who could not afford to meat and had to be content eating bread.

To this end, the poem highlights how Moodie felt on her arrival to the country and her acceptance of the fact that she would succeed in Canada and that it was impossible to go back [...]

The review will take the form of an in depth analysis of part one of the whole poem before that, most imperatively, presents the plot of the poem including shading light into the flow.

One of the reasons why Franz Kafka is considered one of the 20th century's most prominent writers is that the reading of his masterpieces leaves very few doubts as to the fact that, while pursuing [...]

The authors managed to observe and expose the apparent follies and the corruption of the morals in the society for the period of the neoclassical era.

In spite of the predominance of this vision of the marriage and the woman's role in society, Jane Austen in her Pride and Prejudice proposes several possible variants of realizing the scenario of meeting the [...]

While in some scenes the lights are turned off, towards the end of the play the intensity of light increases especially when Nora is talking to her husband. This is escalated towards the end of [...]

There is also a profound difference in the plot and the setting of the story and the film. In both the film and the story, Ichabod Crane is the main character.

The main theme in the story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose is resistance and oppression. They depend on the accounts of Hans and Sophie Scholl and the letters they wrote.

There is a position that the writer's literary fame depended upon other French writers." They say that Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is a symbol of the realism movement."Flaubert's writing was meticulous and his styles have [...]

The Setting in Robinson Crusoe and Paradise Lost: The Town of Hull and Heaven as Harbingers of Disobedience, Defiance, and Revolt The setting at the beginning of Paradise Lost and Robinson Crusoe provide a fertile [...]

Unlike other types of calligraphy, the Chinese calligraphy is more of painting where characters are used as a tool of communication and to express what the artists' spiritual world is like.

Magic In the opening of the play Prospero is the one who, had conjured the storm in a desire to entice his, brother Antonio and the king of Naples, Alonso.

The first stanza of the song heaps a lot of praises on the girl's beauty and the extent of loneliness she is in.

Still others are very much convinced that whatever differences there may be in languages can easily be eliminated if translations are done without the use of idioms to make sure that the meaning of the [...]

The Open Boat begins with four men battling for their life in a lifeboat at a sea."These waves were of the hues of slate, save for the tops, which were foaming white and all of [...]

Laura like a good loving sister knowing too well the consequences that would befell one if he or she ate the forbidden fruits of the goblin men following the death of a girl from their [...]

Among the characters in this play include Claudius, hamlet, Gertrude, Polonius, Ophelia, Horatio, Laertes, Voltimand, Rosencrantz, Osric, ghost of Hamlet's father, Barnardo to mention but a few Mystery of death is one theme that clearly [...]

However close people can explore the life of the other and predict the deeds of the rest of the people, there will always be a certain element of secrecy about the other personality and the [...]

Variation in the expectations and delivery of love is the cause of hurt and mistrust. To her, love is pain and joy at the same time.

This arrangement contradicted their tradition in the sense that Rama was the one to assume power after his farther because he was the eldest son."Instead of being crowned king of Ayodhya, Rama was sent into [...]

Lewis's novel The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe had been written in time, before the very notion of rationale started to be criticized on the account of its 'euro-centric' soundness, as it is often [...]

Catullus belonged to a generation of poets who dubbed themselves the neoterics, normally translated as "the modems," a moniker derived from the Greek term "neoterikos," who borrowed heavily from the school of poetry that originated [...]

The disguising behavior brings a good deal of confusion in the love of Orsino and Viola, a conflict that continues in the rest of the story leading to sufferings of Malvolio who is tricked by [...]