Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 34

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“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway Review

In A Clean Well-Lighted Place, the reader seems to be expected to read between the lines to understand the setting. It appears that the setting is a conservative Spanish-speaking country where it can get dusty [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 397

A Haiku: The Shape of Things to Come

Kacian's exploration of the intricacies of the evolution of haiku forms offers proof that the art form is uniquely placed to capture the interest of English poets and the imagination of audiences around the world.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1125

Analysis of Postwar and Postcolonial Literature

An analysis of Carlos Fuentes' "Aura" and James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son" reveals the significance of speaking out about the injustices that can exist in society.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 901

King Lear as a Depiction of Shakespeare’s Era

First of all, in order to depict the universality of the events, to show that this is not a particular case he describes but the characteristics of his epoque, Shakespeare doubled the plot, telling, in [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1921

Themes in “Dancing in the Dark” Novel by Phillip

By assuming a false identity and his character confirming some of the prejudices that White people held against black people, the author tries to show the dangers of self-invention.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 595

The “Dancing in the Dark” Novel by Caryl Phillip

The idea of performance can be a valuable paradigm for analyzing Dancing in the Dark in light of the obstacles that racism has put in the way of black Americans' quest for cultural and personal [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1458

Achilles’ Moral Ambiguity in “The Iliad” by Homer

Achilles begs his mother to approach Zeus and request that the deity punish the Greeks unless they accord him the respect he merits. Achilles then urged the remainder of the Greeks to leave Troy and [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 904

Why More People Do Not Leave Omelas in Le Guin’s Story

In conclusion, people do not leave Omelas en masse due to their complacency with the situation that is based on a utilitarian premise that they rationalize in their minds to the point of belief.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 578

Women in The Odyssey and The Epic of Gilgamesh

In particular, the women's power in the story was shown in their ability to influence significantly men, who were depicted as the wisest and most powerful beings.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 793

Gwendolyn Brooks’ Poetical Legacy

Here, like in "We Real Cool" the use of consonance and assonance is more visible. Gwendolyn Brooks uses dactyl, like in "Sadie and Maud" to deliver the confident, purposeful mood of the poem.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1720

Antigone Analysis: Antigone vs. Creon

In the tragedy, one can consider the collision of equally just principles: the interest of the state and the interest of the family, expressed through the feminine principle.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 864

Julia Serano’s “Trans Woman Manifesto”

The decision to show one's femininity in revealing clothes and photographs despite the dangers of Trans sexism is rather a sign of solidarity and courage against the same dangers.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 565

Transcendentalism of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Olfactory imagery is mostly used, which indicates the utilization of smells and fragrances. The author emphasizes that he is alone and has no company, which enables him to blend in with his surroundings.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 302

Imagining the Middle Ages with The Game of Thrones

While the "Song of the Ice and Fire" has various scenes and storylines, the scene at the Seven Kingdoms involving the death of King Robert is the most intriguing.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 647

Shakespeare’s Relevance Nowadays

Shakespeare's themes are eternal, and his accurate portrayal of people's motivations and feelings offers an understanding of human nature and behavior. Shakespeare created hundreds of new words, phrases, ideas, and grammatical structures for the English [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 337

“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley Review

The feelings conveyed in the book are incredibly gentle and pure, and the depictions of family life are of the most affable and straightforward, with a father who is alluring and deep.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 276

Antigone and Cordelia’s Stories

Cordelia and Antigone are faithful to their ideals to the last, a life in which their faith in justice and the sincerity of their intentions is violated is meaningless.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 661

The Story of the Garden of Eden: Reinventing Eden

The story of the Garden of Eden has, for centuries, shaped Western culture and influenced the American world. The narrative approach raises the question of the correspondence between stories and reality.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 900

The Role of Family in American Poems and Short Stories

For instance, in the poem, Those Winter Sundays, Hayden is seen reflecting on the parenting style of his father, especially how he provided for them. Similarly, in The Lottery, families are united in an effort [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 404

Impressions of “The Great Gatsby” by Fitzgerald

The contact between Gatsby and Nick is unique and consequently flavors the narrative. Global controversies such as depression are excluded from the narrative of hedonistic affluence and moral bankruptcy.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 269

The Role of Societal Issues in Children’s Literature

Consequently, some question the content of children's literature and the role of societal issues in it. Therefore, it can be debated that children's literature should be able to teach critical thinking by introducing social diversity [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556

Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Book

Despite the narrative's relatively basic style, the author succeeded in conveying important intellectual and social themes, such as the significance of reconciliation, the issue of generational differences and trustworthiness, and, obviously, the difficulty of evil [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 585

Suzan Lori Park’s “Topdog/Underdog” Play Review

This work was written in order to analyze the article and compare the opinions of the authors with the writer. The authors got to the conclusion that the competition between the two brothers was the [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 310

Survival and Memory in Music of the Ghosts by Ratner

When it comes to individual memory of Teera's childhood, the author explains the connection between her memories of her father and musical instruments: "Perhaps it's because as a child she grew up listening to her [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 302

Olivier vs. Roland in The Song of Roland

Knights were expected to have honor, courage, honesty, respect, selflessness, and several other qualities of how a perfect knight was considered, like Olivier and Roland in The Song of Roland.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 705

The “Moving In” Story by Emma McKenna

The text is dedicated to family problems: a lack of strong family ties in the author's life and how she found her family in her 30s.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 859

The Demeter and Persephone Stories

With the introduction of different cultural shifts and a variety of retellings, their origins change and alter, bringing new and interesting angles to existing stories.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 545

Rationality vs. Instinct in Bartleby by H. Melville

Bartleby is the central character of the narrator's story, who is expressing honesty to his true self, his instincts, and his desires rather than what reason and rationality demand.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 576

Power in Tim O’Brien’s and Dostoevsky’s Works

With this essay, the author intends to uncover the key ideas contained in Tim O'Brien's and Fyodor Dostoevsky's works while linking all of them to the hypothesis that power is the main source of corruption [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1685

The Reality of the Ready Player One Novel by Cline

The characters' avatars in Ready Player One demonstrate people's desires and insecurities that they cannot control in the real world. Ernest Cline has created a solution to classroom overcrowding, school bullying, and reality through the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 371

The Little Match Girl and The Little Mermaid Tales

In a sense, The Little Mermaid revises and changes the bits of The Little Match Girl, illustrating that even when everything seems perfect on the outside, happiness can still be shattered.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 842

Culture of Ancient Greece in The Odyssey by Homer

The Odyssey is one of the oldest and most well-known epics in the world. This can be attributed to Homer's ability to describe the culture and life of the people of the ancient era with [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 326

Cultural Competence Analysis in Literary Works

The lack of cultural awareness in society is widespread today because people do not take the time to learn and appreciate the background of the diverse people around them.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1658

The Origins of the Final Solution by Browning

The book is one of the three books produced to examine the establishment of the Nazi Jewish policy. The Origins of the Final Solution was drafted to serve the sole purpose of providing the detail [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 979

Relations in “Herland” Novel by Charlotte Gilman

In general, the new perspective on relations between males and females and a new form of marriage can be associated with the rise and spread of the ideas of feminism.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1687

The Significance of Time in Japanese Literature

One of the reasons why the theme of time is critical in the narrative is because the author intends to relate the events in the narrative to an actual historical period.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1671

The Novel “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison

Dandelions have a strong meaning to Pecola's view if the world and the way the world views her. She can feel her resemblance to the dandelions and they amount to her feelings about the people [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 371

Prometheus: The Protector and Benefactor of Mankind

The fact that testifies to the idea that Prometheus preferred people over Gods is the way the titan tricked the Gods over parts of the animals that had to be given to them in a [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 871

Sugar House & Slave: A Literary Duo

In the short story, The House Made of Sugar, the transformation is negatively characterized by a transphobic scope. However, some similarities are evident: just as the transformation in The House Made of Sugar permits characters [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Fiction Comparison
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 678

Exploring Junot Díaz’s Narrative Nonfiction

The goal of the text is to demonstrate the plight of migrants. The author of The Cheater's Guide to Love is the American-Dominican writer Junot D az, who was 44 years old at the time [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1199

The Significance of Plays for Audiences

Sophocles used the artistic technique of tragic irony in the play "Oedipus the King," the essence of which is that the audience understands the progress of events, but the characters do not.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 381

Digital Poetry: The Key Features

The textual circumstances of digital poetry are shifting due to rising degrees of interaction and the ongoing reduction of boundaries between digital forms of writing.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 175

Women and Odysseus’s Fate

Specifically, to save the hero from a horrible storm that destroys his ship and leaves him without the crew, Athena approaches Nausicaa, the Princess of Phaeacia, in her dream.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1600

Poems with Disabilities by Jim Ferris

This is good evidence for the argument of the need to eliminate the issue of ableism. Language evolves gradually, and countering the issue of ableism is a long-term goal.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579

Ideas of “A Good Man Is Easy to Find” by Vala

The article discusses how the writer develops the story's themes and how they reflect the author's life and philosophical views. The key concept presented in the article is the idea that Flannery O'Connor's stories share [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 288

Slavery in The Fires of Jubilee by Stephen Oates

Apart from the story being arranged in chapters, the layout and approach suggest that the author has described the area of events narrated and then given the narration.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 692

Silent Suffering and Racism in Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”

Right from the demise of the author's daughter to the appalling drug addiction by Sonny coupled with the dreadful murder of the narrator's cherished uncle, the theme of suffering controls the community in numerous ways.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1671

Criticism of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

In the story, Jackson and Brody show that the people have long forgotten the reason they keep the ceremonial practice and they have a poor understanding of the details of the ritual.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1247

Reading Journal on Gilman’s “Herland”

The primary protagonists and the culture they are discovering are the focus of Herland. The descriptions of the characters and their differences are provided from the perspective of the narrating character.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 562

“A World War II Story…” by Hillenbrand: A Review

The examination of Zamperini's life and the relationship with the family and colleagues attributed to the core thematic constructs; struggle, discipline, friendship, and determination.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2463

Response to Ernest Hemingway’s Writing

Hemingway showed that he appreciated the moments of crisis and clash with reality in his life: as frightening a bullfight in his story as the death of a loved one.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 403

Auston’s Letter Concerning Sarah Rosetta Wakeman

I purposefully selected a letter written by a man to introduce students to a perspective of a man of the 19th century on a woman who broke the constraints put on her by the society [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 316

Why to Read “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen

In addition to undermining the historical gender stereotypes, the novel portrays the importance of women's social status in the Victorian era and their dependence on their husbands' or parents' financial situation.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 315

Oasis Platform in “Ready Player One” by E. Clive

OASIS is a useful and productive escape from the harsh world that the characters in Ready Player One live in, while the current social media platform that could be compared to OASIS, Meta, is more [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 390

Stories Told From a Different Perspective

Stories told from different perspective help to understand that our points of view and the points of view of other characters, including the narrator, are how we see the world and events in it.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 287

Money as a Gift in “Great Expectations” by Dickens

The way that this gift contributes to the meaning of the novel as a whole is that it shows how money can trap people and promise them easy social mobility. This is why Dickens needs [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 367

Disappeared: Opinions on Dr. Matthew’s Book

The village of Sarafina may have been an attempt to create a utopia where people could live in peace and harmony with each other and the natural world.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 620