Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 39

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“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini

The story begins when the narrator, Amir, is supposedly 38 years old, and the tale he tells is essentially a flashback over the events of his life that have brought him to this point.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2481

“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost

At the same time, the reader can develop a finer appreciation of how these elements are constructed to contribute to the final impact of the poem.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 621

Reading Short Stories and Gender Influences

The theme of the stories themselves also influences the pleasure of reading a short story. Even some women dislike the fact that they are women writers and try to dissociate themselves from other writers, a [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1101

“Tribe”, Short Story by Alan Elyshevitz

As for me, the main theme which the author persecutes in the story is the problem of racial peculiarities of American people and the Indians in particular.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 625

Themes in “The Wars” Novel by Timothy Findley

The title of the story, The Wars, is not that simple and represents two different types of war, which are inherent to people: the war that happens on the battlefield, and the war that happens [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1106

A Pair of Voices: Frost and Plath’s Poetry

The sonnet Acquainted with the Night is very sad and not like the usual you expect from Frost. In this poem, the night is decidedly scary and the darkness may be dangerous.
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1935

“Congo” Novel by Michael Crichton

The novel starts with the end of an expedition when people were attacked and killed by an unknown enemy, and the contact between the expedition and the outer world is lost.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 587

“Secret Sharer” by Joseph Conrad

This brief paper looks at the significance of the title in the light of the settings and the symbolism in the story.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 614

The Poem “The Flea” by John Donne

The analysis of the poem The Flea should be viewed through the author's personal style of writing and world look. The style of the poem writing can be characterized as lyrical and romantic as the [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1281

“I Heard a Fly Buzz- When I Died” by Emily Dickinson

The emphasis on the absence of any sounds in this room presents a depressing feeling of sadness that is visually interconnected between the absence of movements in the 'air' and the 'paralyzes of the protagonist.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 607

Love Concept: Modern & Postmodern American Literature

The depiction of the theme of love has always been vital regardless of the literary trend and modernism as well as postmodernism saw a number of literary works dedicated to immortal issues of love, death, [...]
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 934

Shylock in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

However, Shakespeare, being the absolute genius of an artist was able to conceptualize the basic norms of this sentiment and presented his villain of this play as a monster, for the jingoistic mass, and a [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1121

Franz Kafka: His Life and Novels

Kafka's writing was predominantly influenced by two factors the environment of the time and place in which he lived, and the events in his personal life.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1289

“Socrates’s Apology” by Plato

The point about his defense is that he wanted to stick to the speech he had prepared and it was planned and was well prepared.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 565

William Wordsworth: An Example of a Romantic

Occurring as it did from the middle of the 1700s to the middle of the 1800s, the Romantic Period was an age of tremendous change and upheaval.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 3047

A Writer’s Responsibility: Discussion

But ahead of that, he distinguished that, as the first American novelist to got the prize from the end of World War II, he had a particular obligation to accept the modified situation of the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1694

«Dancing Girls» by Margaret Atwood

The major topic of the analysis in this paper is the role of the secondary characters in the development of the theme of absence of perspectives in the life of ordinary people who came to [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 706

Heart of Darkness and Things Fall Apart: Narrative

In the same vein, Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness," written in 1899, is about the struggle of two civilized Europeans, Marlow and Kurtz, after they ventured in to the wouldarkness' of uncivilized Africa,' and [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1551

Poetry. “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes

The Harlem Renaissance, a period spanning roughly the decades of the 1920s and 1930s, is frequently referred to as a literary movement, but the movement also encompassed a great explosion of African-American expression in many [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 936

Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber by Borowski

The people utilized every means to survive and eventually get out of the streets of the Ghetto. The morale of the people disappeared and the consequent sense of cruelty and loss of hope existed in [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 834

The Poem “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe

The beginning of the poem reveals the narrator's feelings toward Annabel Lee, determining the theme and the mood of the verse: "a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee; [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 735

“Black Rain” the Novel by Masuji Ibuse

Taking it upon himself to complete Yasuko's recollections of the dark days, Shizuma must rewrite the journal to bring to the reader an unmistakable account of the injuries, the horrors and the victimization that was [...]
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 626

Physical Hunger in “Black Boy” by Richard Wright

This paper defines the term hunger, describes other forms of hunger, and finally tries to interpret Wrights form of physical hunger to find out if it is representative of something.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 637

Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” Review

He had made expeditions in Lithuania and in Russia, no knight of his degree so often; and many a time in Prussia he had sat at the head of the table alone all the knights [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1284

Sammy’s Wisdom: “A&P” by John Updike

Sammy's powers of observation and discrimination are clear enough in his description of the leader of the bevy the one he instantly realizes is the 'queen', or, as he later refers to her, "Queenie": She [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1549

“The Scarlet Letter”: A Darkened End

For both Hester and for the townspeople, the mere presence of this letter appearing this one time on her dress is enough to mark her as something different from the rest of them and secluded.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1297

Gilgamesh and Oedipus the King

In the case of Enkidu, he uses his strength to undermine all those going against his will and he is not putting in mind what the results will be to other in the society.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1266

Literature and Community Relations

Through "Sammy," the central character, the author is trying to show the kind of radical change that was happening in the society in the 60s.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 637

Goddess Movement and “Spiral Dance” by Starhawk

It is important that women recognize their importance as leaders in the preservation of freedom of choice and of the evolving dynamic of the interconnectedness of life. In a patriarchal society, the woman is subjugated [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 644

“Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides

Another problem tackles through the utilization of expressive means is the issue of gender in general and its social construction in particular.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1598

Tom Wolfe: What Is “The Right Stuff”

In this piece of Wolfe's, "the right stuff" as it is referred to is what Wolfe believes is morally correct or prudent in terms of what our children and people of the world in general [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 655

Desperation in ‘The Glass Menagerie’ by T. Williams

Williams admits that she regrets her diminished status: the fading of her beauty and the increasing harshness of her tone of voice: "a little woman of great but confused vitality clinging frantically to another time [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1150

Mythology in Humans Life Analysis

His pride in his role is evident in the words he speaks in which he seems to be almost condescending to them for appealing to other forces than himself in their burning of incense to [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2365

How Poe Builds Suspense?

The use of language and stylistic techniques enriches the suspense and horror of the actions being described. For instance, in The Masque of the Red Death, the prince is depicted as a madman who enjoys [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1760

Marriage in George Eliot’s Novel ‘Middlemarch’

Her "Mill on the Floss" vehemently reveals an indescribable conflict in Maggie's innocent mind; one the one side there was the matter of the Tulliver family's ego and prestige, and on the other side it [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1066

The Idea of Insanity in “Hamlet”

He is maybe a bit spoiled and used to getting his own way, but he knows he has a duty to the state and to his family and he knows he is destined to someday [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1353

“My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult: Book Analysis

Anna's ability not to be jealous of her mother's constant attention to Kate distinguishes the girl from other children. Anna realizes that her mother is extremely tired of the life that does not stop to [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 809

Kate Chopin’s Symbolism in Short Stories

The lightning becomes the conflict inside her and the beating of the rain on her roof is the beating of her heart as she finally expresses her passion with Alcee.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 991

Shakespeare: A Feminist Writer

A careful analysis of Lady Macbeth's intensely complicated character and her role in the play proves that Shakespeare is actually a feminist writer.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 968

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost: Advice for Life

As Bellah points out, the title of the poem is "The Road Not Taken" rather than "The Road Less Taken", which provides the first clue as to the author's original intentions and a different reading [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1961

Utopia by Sir Thomas More Review

The aim of the study is to relate the perennial appeal of the text to the particular point of view it presents on economics and political relations; on family life and social structure; on art [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1435

Romance in Ying-Ying’s and The Western Wing Stories

The Story of the Western Wing is a love comedy that depicted adventures and relations between Oriole and Zhang. Secret love and romantic relations between a young scholar, Zhang Sheng, and a daughter of a [...]
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1586

Eliot and Okigbo: A Comparison of Poets

Okigbo spoke the language of his people in Nigeria, and Eliot spoke American English. Okigbo learned English in school and university as the language of the colonial government of Nigeria at that time.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3364

“The Kingdom of Matthias” by Johnson and Wilentz

The historical developments of that epoch were deeply connected with the growth and formation of a market society that deeply affected the lives of ordinary men and women and played a great role in the [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1478

Women’s Role in World Literature of Enlightenment

In Hinduism, the reward of a proper woman is rebirth as a man, ancient Chinese women were considered to be the property of their fathers or husbands and in Japan, women were dressing in men's [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1447

Kate Chopin’s Feminist Short Stories and Novels

Two short stories were written by Chopin, A Story of One Hour and The Storm well as her brilliant novel Awakening should be regarded as one of the best examples of the feminist literature of [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 294

“The Once and Future King” by T. H. White

The books referred to were "book 1-The Sword in the Stone, book 2-The Queen of Air and Darkness, book 3-The Ill-Made Knight and book 4-The Candle in the Wind, The author Terence Hanbury White who [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1172

Shakespearean Macbeth as a Tragic Hero

In addition to fighting for his king, Macbeth is quickly and well rewarded for his efforts as King Duncan makes him the new Thane of Cawdor in addition to his already holding the title of [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1105

Family Relationship: Lawrence and Joyce

The revolt of Stephen Dedalus begins in Joyce's The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with his rejection of the blind religious attitude found existing in his family.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 960

Characters in “The Scarlet Letter” and “Hamlet” Film

Hester returns to Boston just before her death, in order to be buried in the same grave as Dimmesdale, with 'A' inscribed on their tombstone. Much to her son's anger and disgust, she marries Claudius [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 622

Analysis of King Lear and Paradise Lost

One son in particular, Edmund, allows the pain of being born a bastard and the rejection of his father to skew his view of the world and the intentions of his ambition.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2131

The One Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin

Those running away are not sure of where they are going as Le Guin put it at the end of the story "The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 781

Family Life in Harold Pinter’s “The Homecoming”

The third grotesque view occurs {while Ruth is later dressing upstairs ostensibly to go with Teddy back to America} when Max and the others, realizing that Teddy's marriage to Ruth is in shambles, begin discussing [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1129

Mrs. Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative of the Captivity

A peculiar feature of works of this type is that the main characters, women, are not treated as they should be: they see numerous deaths of their dearest people, they are deprived of the fulfillment [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 892

Shakespearean Sonnets from Critical Perspectives

The excellence of the sonnets is the excellence of parts. Although the sonnets proclaim his affection for the young man and his indulgence of him, they also disclose the attitudes which Shakespeare takes to both [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 21
  • Words: 5734

David Herbert Lawrence’s “Piano” Poem

The tonal quality of the woman's voice sends the speaker of the poem into a child-time memory that is not actually a single event, but a compilation of impressions throughout the Sundays of his childhood.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 855

“Learning Japanese” Narrative by Janice Lee

In order for the writer to familiarize the reader with the setting of the story, she has succeeded in inviting the reader to be part of the story by describing in detail the setting, from [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1043

James F. Perry Letter of 1832

Austin, the brother of his wife, were involved in Texas land distribution, and their participation is demonstrated by Perry's letter that refers to the purchasing of land, as well.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 551

“My Body Politic” by Simi Linton

Lack of directions and information that people with disabilities face when they find themselves in that condition is one of the problems that the author raises in the first part of her book.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 850

Nation’s Nature: David Hume vs James Beattie

It is essential to mention Hume's criticism of theories supporting the influence of physical causes, which is indirectly linked to the philosopher's intention to explain the rise and progress of the arts.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 551