Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 36

Two of Ponyboy's friends die, and he sees a lot of violence in the streets. He is still a part of the gang, and he thinks that violence is a part of their life.

However, Macbeth's wife is murdered and the news is broken to him, and he is drifted into a life of futility and remorsefulness.

Most of the women in Midaq Alley support the community life, the way it is in the traditional setting. Women in the Alley hated her because of her lust for money.

Lord Krishna is believed to be the inspiration behind the book known as the Gospel of the Lord. From this knowledge, the history of the Gita, the purpose of yoga, and a guru becomes significant [...]

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.

In the myths, she is described as the goddess of virginity, the moon, the hunter, childbirth, and caretaker of the natural environment.

Each of the paragraphs presented in the paper is the consideration of the separate symbol and the reference of this symbol to the theme of the discussion.

This concerns what she refers to as "having doubts" in her conversation with Sister James at the last act of the play "Doubt" by John Patrick Shanley.

And that is where I wanted to be, at home. I understood that she was the dearest person in my life and I behaved as a stupid thing.

However, if given the chance to revise the paper it would be better to write more about the multiple purposes and different meanings of the "storm" because there seems to be more about it other [...]

Describing the character in the most different and peculiar ways, the group both focused on the general idea of the story and its interpretation, as well as on their vision of the character and the [...]

In addition to the possibility to improve an understanding of the story, images help to define the level of relationship between a reader and an author.

The place is one of the most powerful tools for creating an imaginary world of the stories, the essential components of which are space and time.

In this essay, we will examine the setting of the story, the behavior of Juror Eight, and the arguments he used to sway the other jurors to his side.

The confrontation between the Grandmother and Misfit has many direct allusions to Christianity such as that the criminal plays the role of the Devil's advocate.

Both the dominant role and the level of authority exercised by Yunior's father and his observations of the older boys' attitudes towards the girls share the same set of characteristics and thus can be linked [...]

Besides, the complexity of society and the evolution of the approach to the traditional female role preconditioned the great importance given to this issue by various authors.

The following is an incisive study on the work of Kesey "The day when superman died" it is giving an insight into the symbolism, which Kesey has used to depict the theme of the story [...]

The consistency of the three works in addressing power struggles within the family as a social unit is a lesson to the society of the urgent need to restructure the family as the basic social [...]

When asked about his impulsiveness and regular reference to the Vietnamese war, he responded, "The war had its ups and downs.

The character of Macbeth is used by Shakespeare to illustrate a man who lacks the strength of moral fiber under the affection of guilt and ambition.

The provided passage is taken from Mein Kampf, the most known work of Adolf Hitler, the infamous leader of the NSDAP since 1921 and the F hrer of Nazi Germany in 1934-1945.

With the help of relationships between Iago and Othello, Shakespeare conveyed the idea that good and evil have to coexist for the sake of the world balance.

One of the most significant figures among the range of the animals inhabiting the land of fantasy is a dragon, the symbol of wisdom and power.

The title and the opening lines very much portray the matters that went on in the village, making it the bulk of the story.

Thus, in the case of "the lottery" it can be seen that it is a form of protest against the practice of blindly following "tradition" without taking into consideration the full logic of the actions [...]

Moreover, the reader can understand the attitude with references to the changes in the poem's tone which is melancholic in the first lines and rather optimistic in the ending lines in order to represent my [...]

However, in spite of the fact that the motivations of Medea and Antigone are considered to be the same, they choose different actions.

Although Kim agreed to help Abdullah cross the Canadian border to escape from the FBI because of the tries to overcome biases and state justice, the woman decided to inform the police about the escape [...]

In turn, it could be assumed that the vehement feeling of connection to the particular culture influences perceptions and identity of an individual about the place of his/her culture in the world due to the [...]

The fine weather portrays to us the mood and sense of happiness that the character is brimming with, as she is smugly satisfied with her existence. She is under the illusion that her life is [...]

As it has been mentioned, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien is full of different symbols which help understand the full meaning of the story along with the significance of the title and its [...]

For instance, Jean Tarrou in Camus Albert's book The Plague happens to be a mysterious visitor who finds himself caught up in the town of Oran during the time of the plague.

The short stories The North Wind and the Sun by Aesop and The Dead Men's Path by Chinua Achebe show that persuasion and peaceful measures can be more effective than inducement and force.

It appears that the primary role of women in the play is for them to act as a basis on which men are evaluated.

The expected conclusion of the paper is that ghosts do not exist, and ghost stories are only meant to mislead people.

Thus, the poets question on the role of the "sphinx of cement and aluminum" in the life of people makes people think of numerous issues.

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

The poem is a classical piece of the hurt and anguish that black Americans experienced towards the start of the 20th century.

With the help of the two characters portrayed by the doctor, the writer of the novella brings out the element of duality.

Arguably, the initial character of Cal is used to predict the wrong future of Donny within the text, which provides the readers with an insight into the "wastage" of the young individual.

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

In the beginning, Jimmy is painted as an indecisive person who has to deal with the pressure of war in Vietnam and nonreciprocating love from Martha.

It is significant that the life of people is not the center of the story, the moments and the feelings people experience there are really important in the writing.

With his arguments, the author has created a new topic of debate with a notion that quality is deeply rooted in the hands of managers in a business setting. First, he assumes that quality is [...]

The irony lies in the fact that, while longing to revive their Native identity, Henry and Lyman relied on the red convertible the by-product of the 'Faustian' nonspiritual/mechanistic genius.

Dylan is a white kid living in the midst of a black community in Brooklyn and just like the other children in the neighborhood he attends the public schools.

It seems that this poem reflects some of the issues that could be relevant to the life and work of Emily Dickenson.

The suitors laughed and teased Telemachos of his struggles to defend the beggar. Odysseus simply examines the bow and one of the suitors mocks him saying he is a connoisseur.

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 [...]

In addition, Bynum's singing through the play provides a clear picture of his spiritual and cultural relationship with his African heritage.

This is done by the wolf to portray the misunderstanding between him and the little pigs. One day, a fox visits the first little pig and destroys the straw house and eats the little pig.

International student prospectuses were the only materials used in the research, and a brief analysis of the procedures followed in the conducting of the study was performed.

In addition, the reader would expect the narrator to provide a larger coverage of the scenes at the Shrine, the miracles of the Virgin and evidence of her work.

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

Despite the fact that the church does not qualify to be folklore, the sentiments, attitudes and belief systems of the people towards the church are folklore.

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.

One of the reasons why many critics refer to Sherman Alexie's novel Reservation Blues as such that constitutes a particularly high literary value is that in it, Alexie was able to provide readers with the [...]

This is exactly the reason why, even though that as recently as during the course of the fifties, the idea that one should be willing to sacrifice its life for the sake of a 'nation' [...]

In the Story "The man to send rain clouds" by Silko, the central conflict is lack of rain or drought. Culturally the two believed that when the old man dies, he is capable of sending [...]

When reading through the early chapters of the book I could not help but think that this work was a way in which the author was trying to develop a sense of closure with his [...]

In summary, it can be deduced that a game of chance such as lottery creates uncertainty and anxiety to the participants.

In her novel Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid created the character who in many details reflects her own personal experience."The Tongue" is the most provocative because of its open frankness part of the novel.

Auden uses the motifs of mourning and the loss of the sense of life after the lover's death for representing the idea similar to that developed in Bradstreet's poem.

In the end of the poem the reader becomes sure that there is nothing to be afraid of the planet will regenerate.

The book tells women's magazines off for not making enough efforts to lessen the force of the myth, in spite of the fact that they are one of the important fundamental tools for transforming the [...]

The description of the city shows that there was romance all over and even the cold in the city could not hold the love for her back.

In the "Two Kinds" there is some love between the mother and daughter. This love is depicted in the way the mother prevails upon her daughter to succeed in her studies.

First, it is important to consider the major theme of the poem to be able to analyze the significance of the style.

On the one hand, there is a clear indication that blackberries as a symbol are used in the same way in both texts; in fact, the same words are used to describe the process of [...]

Norton is "blind" as he cannot see the real side of the life of the Afro-Americans in the United States. In spite of the fact that Mr.

Symbolism is used in this scene because the protagonist visited the Birgawi residence, a symbol that he is found in places of despair and ruin.

The title of the book refers to the river in which bodies and murder weapons are dumped. One of the main themes of this book is the connection between the past and the present.

In an attempt to free her, she rips apart the wallpaper and locks herself in the bedroom. The husband locks her wife in a room because of his beliefs that she needed a rest break.

As the narration continues and Katrina is wooed by Crane, Irving interrupts and expresses his imagination about the challenging and admirable nature of women.

Oskar Wilde's fairy tales The Happy Prince and The Nightingale and the Rose reveal moral and ethical dilemmas that the protagonists encounter in their search for the truth and love.

The vernacular dialect or language which is the mother tongue of such societies is usually widespread and is considered to have low prestige and is classified by the scholars as the L variant, endoglossia or [...]

And if one was to consider the idea of the immortality of the human soul, the possibility of the afterlife and the certitude of our physical death, life becomes an affair of profound perplexity; and [...]

One good example of a character that manifested change in the face of danger is the character that can be found in Shirley Jackson's The Lottery. It was the most important event in the calendar [...]

She faces all the following problems due to her race: her being a slave is wholly attributable to her being black; Dr.

The poem not only depicts the scenery and the natural world in the border of the mountain but also describes the river that flows from its summit.

In the first stanza, the departure of the lover marks the end of their love, while the second stanza uses the dropping of sand as symbolic to the passing of time in an hour glass.

However, the persona is proud of the father and the grandfather's commitment and vows to work s hard as his forefathers.

It will include all the different situations that Abner and his family find themselves, the emotional problems that stoke different characters, mostly due to Abner's conduct, the implications of Abner's behavior, and the effects they [...]

For instance, the journey of Odysseus back to Ithaca feature him as an important figure to Calypso therefore helping in building up the story as his return remains the center of all agony that begets [...]

Whence, the lamentation of his subjects and the appearance of Enkidu form the basis of the transformation of Gilgamesh especially his character.

In essay "Joyas Voladoras" by Brian Doyle speaks of hummingbirds and hearts, the life of whales and the life of man, it also speaks of life, death and the experiences in between.

In "Play-by-Play", the omniscient narrator poses rhetorical questions as the narrator watches a group of men playing softball and analyses the secrete sexual thoughts and desires of the women nearby, as they secretly admire the [...]

Othello, an eloquent and physically fit person is considered as the protagonist and hero of the play; however, in spite of his elevated status, he is nonetheless an easy prey to insecurities due to his [...]

Iago's paranoia is tremendous to an extent that his insanity is portrayed when he deludes Othello to kill his own wife.

In the poem itself there are actually two voices, that of Soledad and another that asks her who she seeks and tells her to clean her body, as such it can be assumed that this [...]

Without any prompting, the thin man lets the reader and the fat man know that he has now been promoted to the 8th grade, which is a big feat according to him.

The poet has used poetic form and diction to bring out the tone and theme of the poem. The heading in itself is a metaphor as well as it has been used symbolically.

The story has been presented in various ways to capture the attention of the audience and to make it interesting. It was unexpected that the action of the mother in law would lead to the [...]

Othello is not perfect either and the reason he acts the way he acts is that he is jealous; not that Desdemona cannot match his 'principles'.

In the story, Enkidu who was created to be wild is meant to counteract the oppression of King Gilgamesh on the inhabitants of the Uruk territory.

In both The Minister's Black veil and The Birthmark, Hawthorne's use symbolism of symbolism is conspicuous. Hawthorne's use of symbolism comes out clearly in The Minister's Black Veil and The Birthmark.

In chapter 2 of this book, Takaki brings out the contradiction in the America society right from the onset in the section he calls the 'The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom', this scholar brings out [...]

Hamlet is a son to the former King and a nephew to the current King Claudius These two characters seem indispensable throughout and serve as informants of Claudius. In the play, they fit in as [...]

This occurs as a result of the mysterious death of his father which occurred in a manner that is consistent with the story of the Sandman, a bedtime story that he used to be told [...]

In the account, Coetzee enters the mind of his main character, the twice-divorced scholar, David Lurie, telling the story of the experiences that the character goes through.

Inventions such as the steam engine, the telegram, photography, the telephone and the Trans Atlantic cable, the airplane, electricity, gas lighting and the electric bulb provided industries with a basis as to how to model [...]

When one delves into the depths of "The Yellow Wallpaper," one finds a critique of the concept of marriage. Marriage, as it is presented in the narrative, is a conduit for the propagation of patriarchal [...]

The theme chosen by the author is revealed in each part of the story and allows us to understand the significance and relevance of this issue in today's society.

In particular, the author discusses various aspects of Black Americans in the first and second chapters, which made me stop and think about what happens in the book. In general, reading "The Souls of Black [...]

The context of reforms provides a powerful image in the world, and the word hand is used to express needed reforms.

The choice to relocate from her hometown posed problems and opportunities for Burns as she started on a new episode in her writing profession.

The poem uncovers the far-reaching emotional consequences of abortion with unshakeable emotional baggage supported through vivid imagery, repetition, and introspective reflections from the speaker, all conveying a sense of profound guilt and loss.

By providing readers with a nuanced portrayal of the implications of sacrifice, the authors challenge their readers to consider the moral implications of their actions.

The characters in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" demonstrate that this problem is common and everyone is guilty of something.

Thus, the most compelling aspects of the book are the language employed by the author and the plot twists, which allow it to grab the reader's attention and make the scenes in the work more [...]

Love is a strong feeling filled with tenderness, the heartfelt affection of a man and a woman, which Aparna and her husband lack.

Children reading the book can imagine themselves in Ramona's situation and feel connected to her struggles and triumphs. The author's language in the book is concise and easy to understand.

The Family under the Bridge is a children's novel that seeks to highlight the plight of homelessness and poverty. In The Family under the Bridge, the author generally intends to captivate and educate the audience [...]

At the beginning of the play, Jack is told that the cucumber sandwiches are reserved for Algernon's aunt, while the butter sandwiches are meant for Gwendolen.

Specifically, the trope of a troubled teen, as well as that of one of a teenage outsider, is rendered in the novel thoroughly.

Thus, the research delves into the historical context of the time when the short story was written to show the extent of the marginalization of women in the psychological field during the nineteenth century.

The book narrates the story of a married woman with a desire to live luxuriously despite their lack of wealth. The end of the whole story is almost ironic, leaving a reader wanting to know [...]

In "The Chrysanthemums," Elisa experiences a similar sense of obligation to her house and garden. While Jim and Elisa share a feeling of obligation to their society, their deeds and the results of those deeds [...]

The short story "The Storm" by Kate Chopin is one of the examples of how people remain dependent on the weather and react to the changes they cannot resist.