Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 38

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The Role of Money and Class Division in Society

The image of modern American society tries in vain to convey the prevalence of personality over social division. Americans' perception of financial status has been shaped for years by creating the notion of the "American [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 591

“Under the Overpass” by M. Yankoski

The author intends to put himself and his companion to the test by traveling to six cities of the US in the conditions of uncertainty and social rejection.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1378

Analysis of Cinderella Story

Behind the actions of the characters, there is a core of all the actual thoughts and motives. In the German version written in the 19th century by the Brothers Grimm, she was a working child [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 635

Political Concerns in Greek Mythology

In other words, the ritual of killing the ruler to seize the throne is normal; it is the natural order of things for the Greeks and Romans.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1129

Genre Comparison Among Grade Levels

Each book has its synopsis which is very much reflective to different background orient, the first book which is a children book about the morals of friendship is much contrary, to the last book analyzed [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1298

Hooks’ “Inspired Eccentricity”: Relations With Mother

In summary, the eccentricity that existed between Hooks' grandparents and the mother was inspirational to her life. Truly, the eccentricity that Hooks's grandparents and the mother portrayed was inspirational to her entire life.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1159

Virginia Woolf and the Role of Women

In the same way, history and societies have belittled and violated the equal living of both women and minority groups. Gould talks about the nature of animals and insects and how their cruelty cannot be [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 841

“A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf

Symbolism has been utilized in this poem."A Haunted House" being the title of the poem draws the attention of the reader to dreadful issues associated to the house.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 470

“The Bean Eaters” by Gwendolyn Brooks

The poem, "The Bean Eaters" portrays the old couple's poor state they live in alongside how they are fighting to be alive despite all their difficulties. They are the remnants of their lives.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 477

“The Postmortal” by Drew Magary

The novel is written from the point of view of the main character, John Farrel, as he witnesses the impact that the cure is having on the planet globally and on the United States in [...]
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 842

From Riches to Rags: “Farm Girl” by Jessica Hemauer

The immigration and new way of life have posed new challenges to the family. Hemauer's purpose in this essay was to share the painful experience and struggle her family went through as immigrants.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 603

Satire and the Anti-war Movement

In "Slaughterhouse-five", his the most famous and popular work, Vonnegut resorts to the use of the sharpest satire in order to criticize all the sad consequences that war might have for the civilians along with [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 874

The Aeneid by Virgil Analysis

With the development of the poem's story plot, the reader follows Aeneas from his heroic fights in Troy to his final destination in the territory which is now known as the country of Italy, and [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 554

Critique of Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust Book “Night”

Like many books on the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel's Night is a dramatic picture of the horror times in the history of humankind and particularly in the history of the Jewish people.
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  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 692

Characters in O’Connor’s “Good Country People”

The main characters of the story observe and relate to others through judgment leading to their perceptions and blind belief in certain ideas to be fundamentally challenged.Mrs. The arrogance and judgment of Mrs.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 567

A Fable and Its Moral Teaching

Consequently, the cat and the crow agreed to be friends. One day, the cat and the rat worked in the garden.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 375

Gender Issue in Büchner’s Woyzeck

One of the reasons supporting this claim is the choice and use of characters in this play. The author uses a male to be the main character in the play.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1118

The Horror Genre: Novels and Stories

This is an excellent feature of the story and a staple of an effective horror piece."'Horror is not a genre, like the mystery or science fiction or the western. This is the strength of the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1365

Response to Poetry: My Papa’s Waltz

The melancholic and resentful tone in My Papa's Waltz is a striking message of the author to his own father. And the empty room is most likely a sign of passed away relatives.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 598

How The Necklace Story Relate to You?

Towards the end of the story, Mathilde Loise decides to tell the truth to Madame Forestier concerning the necklace and the misery that she had undergone.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 818

The Role of the Violin in the Chang’s “Hunger”

When he discovers that he cannot match the "expectations," he secludes himself violently and only emerges upon unraveling the potential of his daughter, Anna to play the violin.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1399

History and Social Context of Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz, the author of the much-acclaimed collection of short stories called Drown, published in 1996, was born on the 31st of December 1968 in, Dominican Republic.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 605

Can the Real Love Ever Be a Fallacy?

Considering the above realities, the following essay compares the loves depicted in two of the most amazing short stories of all time, namely Love is a Fallacy by Max Shulman and The Gift of the [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1091

When Butterflies Die: Alvarez and Her Idea of Death

Considering a loss as a chance to take a closer look at ourselves, Alvarez interprets the old idea of drinking the honey and throwing away the bee, applying it to people's subconscious and suggesting to [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1263

Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”

And Steinbeck offered his audience a clean view of the end when George made Lennie promise "to hide in the brush" if he gets in trouble again, as if it was an absolute fact to [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 614

“Death and the King’s Horseman” by Soyinka

The foregoing discussion indicates Soyinka's portrayal of the confluence of Western and Yoruba values and interests through the experiences of Pilkings, Jane, Elesin, and Olunde.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 893

“A Freeborn People” by David Underdown

"A Freeborn People" is a balanced examination of the ways in which the political cultures of the political elite and that of common people interacted in the 17th century England.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1296

Medea’s Justification for Her Crime

Medea felt Jason had betrayed her love for him and due to her desperate situation she was depressed and her normal thinking was affected that she started thinking of how she would revenge the man [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 684

Comic Books and Picture Books

The comic book "prisoners of the sun: the adventures of Tintin is one example of the comic books and is a result of many comic strips that have been brought together to create a book.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1210

Landscape Mapping in King Solomon’s Mines by Haggard

The abstraction of the female body is represented by a sign of a geometric sense of sexuality, which is a sign of male imperialism and domestication of a woman in a society that is rigid.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 570

Mark Twain’s Excerpt From “Life on the Mississippi”

As a result of working continuously in the steamboat on someone's payroll, the author is astonished at his failure to appreciate the marvelous qualities of the great river since he was being desensitized to its [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 846

“Children Need to Play, Not Compete” by Jessica Statsky

Teenagers in the present age find themselves in a tight situation with decision-making in that their school psychologists made them realize that being happy is based on the ability to make friends and the development [...]
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1558

The Issues of Miscegenation in Desiree’s Baby

From the beginning of the story, the reader anticipates the happy ending especially when the author describes the meeting of Desiree and Armand Aubigny who had fallen in love with each other at the first [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1335

Plath and Dickinson: Brilliant and Tragic

She was labeled as one "without hope" in terms of her perspective toward the possibility of a Christian Lord while she was in seminary school, a label she continued to wear throughout her life, even [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1880

Two Visions of Benjamin Button Curious Case

There's no secret that nowadays film industry has become a powerful and influential money-making industry so, from my point of view, the contribution that the director of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has made [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1414

Hemingway’s Santiago as an Everyman

Through the words of the old man Hemingway tries to bring to the world his conviction that it is the purpose of every man to struggle in life and never surrender: "A man can be [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 633

Themes of Mortality and Growing Older in Poems

The poems inspire the readers, through the images of life, whether in old age or young, to not accept death as it is, but rather to challenge even in the last time minute.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1116

The Short Story “Quan Loi” by Larry Burke

The main message of the author is that the emotional problems are caused by a silence which is crucial for understanding one facet of the soldiers' role conflict.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 605

Identity in African American Literature

The blindfolds enable the boys to hide the truth of their identity from themselves during the fight, but their identities are further warped into acceptance of white domination and black suppression as they scramble for [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1405

“The Boxers as Event, Experience and Myth” by Paul Cohen

The first part is mainly concentrated on the thorough chronological recollection of the events that preceded and followed the rebellion, the rise of Boxers and the role of Taipings in the life of China at [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1196

Chaucer’s Use of the Fabliau Genre

The most famous writers who compiled tales in this genre were Douin de Lavesne, Gauter le Leu, and Jean Bodel; some of the fabliaux were reworked by Geoffrey Chaucer in his collection of "Canterbury Tales" [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1111

Style of Writing Mary Flannery O’Connor

Like her Southern contemporaries, the South is the setting for O'Connor's text, the issue of race looms in the background, and her characters are typically morally flawed and/or grotesque."...anything that comes out of the South" [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1964

Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The conquest of Montezuma and his Aztecs by the Spaniards was a momentous event in history because it brought about the end of one of the richest and well-governed civilizations of the world.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1183

Analysis of “Araby” by James Joyce

The reference to the fact that the priest who lived in the house before them had left the furniture of the house to his sister, suggests that the family could have used the furniture had [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 836

Canadian Literature: George Ryga

Probably, the dramaturge chooses to develop the plot in this way because he wants to show that due to some reasons, the protagonist stands on a low step of social ladder, or probably, she is [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1297

Hesiod’s Views on Art and Poetry

It stands to reason that to a certain degree, the works of this famous historian and poet take their origins in Homers Iliad and Odyssey, but the two authors do not share the same opinion [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1117

“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak

The relationship of Death with this girl is extraordinary, and the story revolves around a trait in this girl which makes her a passionate book thief.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 617

Yasser Al Salman: Life and HR Activity

Yasser Al Salman is a member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, UK, American Society for Training and Development, USA, Society of Human Resources Management, USA, and Bahrain Society of Training & Development, Bahrain.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 566

John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet X”

The poet confirms that death is "Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so". Donne refers to a world of privacy and solitude when it comes to the existence of the death.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1142

“The Second Coming” a Poem by William Butler Yeats

The title "The Second Coming" is taken from the Christianity prophesy from the book of revelation that the world will end through a series of events and eventually Christ will come back to rule over [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1422

Geoffrey Chaucer: A Founder of English Literature as a Feminist

Despite the distorted interpretation of gender in the patriarchal society, Chaucer's vision of women contradicts the orthodox view of the biological distinction of males and females as the justification for gender inequality.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 896

US History in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The book by Nathaniel Hawthorne titled The Scarlet Letter is considered the best work of his not in vain the contents and the topics touched upon in it raise much profound thinking and reveal the [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1016

“White Supremacy” by George M. Fredrickson

The author reveals many contradictory data on the policy of segregation and apartheid in the USA since the emergence of slavery and up to the middle of the 20th century that did not eliminate the [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 687

The Theme of Love in the Old English Literature

The topic of the poem is preserved from the very beginning till the end of the poem, from the image and observation of the cross to the story by the same cross.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1184

“Divine Comedy” by Dante: Parallels and Contrasts

This paper aims to compare and contrast the last canto of the Inferno and the last canto of the Paradise. In fact, the entire poem is written in this way and Dante is believed to [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1104

Langston Hughes’s Fine Clothes to the Jew Poems

Rampersad, the biographer of Langston Hughes, says that Fine Clothes to the Jew is not a successful volume, though it is Hughes's greatest collection, which was published when the poet was at the height of [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 963

Amy Tan’s Story “Mother Tongue”

She became a famous writer in Oakland and in this story, she narrates her experiences about the English she uses and about how the people around her influenced the way she conversed.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1065

The Reason for Journeys in Literature

The purpose of this potion was to provide the scientist with a means of separating the good portion of his nature from the evil and it is successful, but the evil proves too strong and [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3399

Analysis of Rumi’s “Poem 14”

Therefore, during the course of working on this paper, we will refer to Rumi's Poem 14, and to his poetry in general, as to what it really is a poetic sublimation of Oriental soul's longing [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1981

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

In the book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers" by Kwame Anthony Appiah, the author has categorically described the value of differing cultures and the methods which are primarily used to keep two varying [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2309

John Updike and His Rabbit Series

He felt like a living dead, in a coffin still to be drained of his blood, and yet, he seeks spiritual answers and is interested in the "psychic underside of sexuality" as Boroff explicitly suggested.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1464

Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill as Myth Makers

Mythmaking in literature can be analyzed on the examples of famous poets such as Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill who managed to embody the mythological elements in their outstanding masterpieces.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2666

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

The character Pearl is considered a perfectionist, and when the father deserts the family, she is challenged in her attempt to hold the family together as strongly as it used to be.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 13
  • Words: 3652

“Ava’s Man” by Rick Bragg

The true story is about the family, which lived during the Great Depression on the South and who had to live a lot of times in order to find some source of income and be [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 635

Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega: Theme of Love

Laurencia, the object of the Commander's desire further makes clear to Mengo that in her understanding love is inseparable from honour and thus involves the lover's commitment to their own and their beau's reputation as [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1682