Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 39

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.

Imagery in the rhyme appears when the poet describes the obsessiveness of the current leadership regime when watching and manipulating the world.

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 [...]

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.

Robert Joseph Pershing Foster, George Swanson Starling, and Ida Mae Brandon Gladney are three people who decided to move to a liberal state and were forced to deal with the challenges of living in the [...]

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.

The poem is imbued with a melancholy mood, which is stated in the first lines of the work. This is the main point of the poem.

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.

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 [...]

Howe calls one of the distinguishing features of modernist literature its complexity and the depth of the author's thought, presenting the challenge to the reader.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In the tale, the author highlights various aspects of his life, including his father, his family, and his plans for the future.

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 [...]

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.

The girl's fears and doubts contrast with the man's confidence and reassurance attempts, resulting in a substantial dramatic context behind the casual conversation.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Another concept discussed by both Loewen and Gonzales is the idea about the roots of domination of Europe and the West in the modern world.

That is, it is the application of a character's image in one line to represent another. Wright's instability, which is evident through her sewing, leads the women and the audience to believe that Mrs.

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 [...]

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.

In this story, the protagonist, whose wife was Ligeia, tells of the happiness he found in his marriage to her before her untimely death.

She argues that what individuals truly mean by the phrase "good men" is the opposite of what they actually mean in her powerful masterpiece, A Good Man is Hard to Find.

The next aspect that is also of profound importance for creating a positive impression of the play is the stage and the props.

By depicting the eventual failure of the people who were turned to the path of crime, Boyle emphasizes the importance of cooperation between an individual and the community.

A story with an open ending allows a reader to draw their own conclusions on the subject of the character's future and the meaning of the plot.

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.

The theme of a sense of non-belonging of intellectuals in a rural setting is unfolded in the main characters of Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome and Flannery O'Connor's short story Good Country People.

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 [...]

It could be stated that Peace Shall Destroy Many portrays ruralism in a society that denies change through the use of the German language, and The Good Earth depicts it through longing for the land.

This indicates Holden's growth as future situations indicate he is aware of his age and does not perceive issues as a child, returning to school after the escapade.

However, Frankenstein by Shelley and Gulliver's Travels by Swift conveyed the message for the future generation and humankind's development by applying the elements of the past and present.

On a personal encounter with the imaginary Horseman, Ichabod is scared to death, and after the Horseman throws his head at him, he disappears from the town forever.

At the same time, the motives of Tom and George's behavior differ due to their backgrounds, origins, and belonging to different social classes.

In his novel, under the title Peace Shall Destroy Many, Rudy Wiebe creates a controversial depiction of the life of the Mennonite community inhabiting the countryside in Canada in 1944.

Thus, the main feature of the play "Everyman" is that the main protagonist has no name and is not a specific character. The main protagonist in "Oedipus the King" is Oedipus himself, who is the [...]

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.

The events illustrated in stories of the science fiction genre occur in a world that is in many ways different from reality.

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.

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.

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 [...]

The nature of family in both works shows how reality changes the identity of the characters. The author of the play uses the trajectory of Oedipus to show the relationship between reality and identity.

O'Connor's use of disruption and distortion to reconfigure ethical-religious forms of being in the world is illuminated by the Levinasian themes of alterity, anarchy, and the absolute.

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.

The weight of the writer's depression and frustration is rather well visible in the story, as it explores the feelings and concerns of a young man who is faced with a hard dilemma.

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 [...]

Defoe articulates the devastation from the plague based on the illustrations of the findings from the analysts and the medical practitioners.

The grandmother persuades the family to take a detour to an old farm, but they crash the vehicle on the route and get trapped on a remote road.

In the Stalinist USSR and Nazi Germany, the personal will of the people was suppressed, and submission to the tyrant's will was the key to physical survival.

The purpose of the paper is to compare the use of symbolic roles of blood in the former and the wreath as the symbol of love and admiration in the latter.

Thus, this work will study the similarities between the visions of the authors of these literary works and their view of society.

Lastly, Winston Smith is not a hero, and individuals should not emulate and admire him as he is quick to surrender, indiscreet, and promotes the wealth of the ruling class.

Being a tragedy, the story narrates the challenges two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, go through due to the enmity between their respective families. For example, the story of Juliet and Romeo presents a romantic and [...]

In the present paper, the summary of the work is presented, as well as its application to the modern world's developments.

This statement is the case for The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo because the author managed to make the novel teach the readers an important lesson.

The figure of speech "tapping" in her novel "A Small Place" speaks to the colonial rule over Antigua and how it creates a longing for freedom.

However, by the end of the story, it is easy to comprehend that Neddy does not have close people. Neddy is alone and lonely, a common theme for this and The Hills Like Elephants story.

The author's embrace of the scientific achievements of his time is evident in his emphasis on the fact that the aforementioned advancements were integral to the appreciation and understanding of new perspectives.

A distinctive feature of Northanger Abbey can be called that the work plays a significant role in the love of the main character to read.

The first couple is Claudio, a lord and close friend of Prince of Aragon Don Pedro, and Hero, daughter of Leonato, governor of Messina. Don John, the brother of Don Pedro, plays a prominent role [...]

Odysseus is the forefather of his land and family, and he overcomes all difficulties on his way home, which is truly admirable.

Odysseus has expressed acts of devotion and loyalty in the manner of how he is devoted to his wife and how one is trapped on the island with an astonishing level of a goddess.

The first major literary criticism is the media, where the writings of Lavin were deemed apolitical, which resulted in her troublesome banishment from the Irish literary heritage.

In "The Veldt," George and Lydia suffer terrible repercussions from the delegating of parenting duties to the house, which offers all the living luxuries at the expense of the organic relationship between parent and kid.

Achebe chose to write about the traditions and values of the Igbo people to show that they had their own rich culture before the British came. The novel is about the Igbo people, their way [...]

The issue of stratification only progresses with time and divides people into social groups from which it is difficult to get out.

For instance, when the maid, Lily, opens the door for Gabriel at the start of the short tale, classism becomes immediately clear and is the first element that a reader notices.

One of the characters that can be interesting to examine in a more broad way is Telemachus. It works well to tie in a sense of loss and longing for a father with Telemachus, allowing [...]

The second poem contains the lines "In vain we come to this place, We come to live on earth," the message of which lies in the insignificance of the physical life of the body with [...]

Linda Hasselstrom's "A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun" exposes the sound reasoning of the author on the safety of possessing a firearm on deserted roads and in the presence of abusive men.

Thus, despite this mutual awareness of individuality and connectedness with nature, a state of calm and patience is necessary to be an individual."There is Another Sky" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson where the [...]

This is necessary to feed more meaning to the language used and contributes to the ability of rhetoric in interpersonal communication. Human interaction is a continuous communication and going back and forth in the rhetoric [...]

The sizes and types of farming in the US smaller farms could be evaluated to determine the potential of these entities.

This makes "Coming off Age in Mississippi" an excellent choice for students interested in learning about the history of the Civil Rights Movement and literature that can be enjoyed on its own."Coming off Age in [...]

The tragedy affected the whole country, from Ukraine in the West to Kazakhstan in the East. The propaganda of the Soviet Union widely celebrated collectivization and Stalin's actions before and at the time of Kopelev's [...]

The third condition is where members should have the freedom to exit or associate with a group; for instance, the case of intercultural marriage. Gender is one of the main fields that have created major [...]

The themes of creation and vengeance are illustrated to give a clear perspective of Mary's main aim in writing her book.

The similarities between the fictional world of the dystopia and the present realities are evident on a domestic and ideological level, including the ways of social control of thoughts and actions.

A virtuoso command of the English language and an understanding of how to portray teenagers plausibly from their psychology allowed the author to reach the hearts of millions of children worldwide.

The authors were able to integrate and discuss the features of the issue of pollution in terms of socioeconomic variables as a notable part of the book and its elaborations.

To analyze works of literature, it is necessary to define two main aspects of the piece, namely the problem and the form of expression.

The author does not directly mention whether the couple or the parent had opted for abortion but relating to how society handles unwanted pregnancy, the thought must have crossed people's minds, and that is how [...]

Considering that this character is not a person but a spirit, one should consider character traits and external features in revealing the character in the staged play.

However, David Lewis argues that it is possible to conceive of time travel in a manner that does not break the rule of logic. The reason why Niffenegger's depiction of time travel is coherent lies [...]

The repetition of the words "carry" and "white" is used to heighten the essays' emotional tone and demonstrate the gravity of racism and stereotypes.

Othello is apprehended, thanks to Emilia, Iago's wife, and revealed as the mastermind behind the killings of Desdemona and Roderigo. The audience is introduced to Satan as he awakens in a pool of fire in [...]

The love story of Romeo and Juliet is well known to most people, but one might forget that Romeo was initially not in love with Juliet; he met her later.

In The Odyssey, the epic hero's journey is followed, while in The Song of Roland and Epic of Gilgamesh, the authors praise the bravery of a military leader and the king, respectively.

Francesca and Paolo are portrayed as two lovers who are doomed to the Secor Hell because of their adulterous affairs. Therefore, Francesca and Paolo are to be blamed for the dreadful event of their decision, [...]

The narrative's main focus was on the family's relationships, trials, and the never-ending cycle of pain. The storyteller is Sonny's brother, and the setting occurred in a rural region of Harlem, New York, in the [...]

The book helped me grow as a person, which I see as the most valuable contribution of literature in general, and our humanities course in particular.

Whereas in "The song of Roland," women are portrayed as the foil for the male characters' development, "The Arabian Nights" demonstrate women's resilience and resourcefulness while being held in thrall of patriarchy.

The verse reveals the cycle of reality through the metaphor of a plant's metamorphosis into an amphibian, not without a sad strangeness in the author's soul.

A special role here is played by the color of the car, which Henry now associates with the pain and difficulty of the war and the emotions that he had to go through.

In addition to motherly love, the fundamental themes of the haunting narrative and the elemental tale are the child's innocence, the child's father's humiliation and remorse, and motherly love.

In this instance, justice saved the innocent son from the evil act of transformation to a bull that the old man's wife did.

The narrative of Joseph and Potiphar's Wife comes from a religious standpoint and portrays the actions of Joseph, a worker at Potiphar's household.

Optimism is the order that can be reflected in the desire and will to work in spite of all difficulties and chaos.

Even in perspective, it is impossible to talk about the genius of a writer who does not have their ideas and opinions and only rethinks other people's thoughts.

More's idea of a utopia is a communal society that allows all members to contribute and benefit from the environment and social activities.

The stories written by Constance Woolson Fenimore, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Jaqueline Bishop highlight the harmful gender roles and discrimination that still remains a major topic for disputes and illustrate the fate of oppressed women.

Zadie objects to the feeling of pride among writers if they want to be successful. According to Zadie, pride tends to derail the progress of most writers.

Equiano participated in the abolitionist movement, which had a significant impact on the formation of the self-consciousness of the peoples of Africa and helped in the mutual enrichment of Europeans, Africans, and Americans.

I agree with the argument that Grendel's point of view does not make him a one-dimensional monster because, throughout the novel, it allows us to get a sense of his self-image.

Thus, in "Farewell to Arms" by Hemingway, the brutality of war influenced the change in the hero's views, and his opinion was formed by the senselessness of war, which are essential foundations for the prevention [...]

Within the report, the following are discussed in depth to bring the shadow of literature in Russia: the intentions behind the creation of this form of art, things that the authors of these kinds of [...]

Chekhov continues to develop the image of a "man in a case," that is, a constant change from the case of family life to the case of secret meetings with women.

A similar point was made in Swift's work, in the part where the author tries to reassure the reader that children under the age of 12 are not a saleable commodity to eat.

In the novel, there are at least two features of Romanticism that are not discussed in the overview: the illustration of grotesque and the theme of individual versus society.