Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 4

The title reveals the main idea of the story, i.e, the lesson about injustice. Of course, it is necessary to point out that the style of the story is quite colloquial.

Robert Frost's figurative language, tone, imagery, and symbolism are poetic devices that highlight the speaker's emotion and ought to be analyzed for a deeper understanding of his literary work. The symbolism of life and death [...]

The abstracted and personified idea of "Mother Nature" has in the nineteenth century began to shift towards the image of a machine with fixed laws of motion.

However, the most common myth indicates that before creation of the heavens, the sea and the earth were made and whatever existed could only be described as lifeless, disorganized and shapeless matter.

The third level of darkness that comes out from the novel is that of the tendency of every human being to be evil.

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.

It needs to be studied and that is why the poet travels across the seas and decides to arrive at the "holy city of Byzantium": the holy city is a sort of paradise that the [...]

The novel is set during the 3rd year of the French and the Indian war. The Indians use the mountains, rivers, waterfall, rocks and caves to hide from the enemies.

Later, despite the grandmother's plea, she is still killed, true to the young girl's statement; the grandmother follows the rest in death.

It is through his adventures living as Tyler that the Narrator truly explores the dark side of his personality, living not by the laws of society but in direct contrast to them, until the Narrator [...]

The author's depiction of Ebro valley in this literary work is symbolic of a choice to have a child, and the dry, treeless land on the opposite side is representative of the life after abortion.

The subject of the present paper is argumentative analysis of poetry, hence one of the most famous Shakespeare's sonnets "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" will be subject to analysis and argumentative response [...]

From the novel, it is evident that humans drove the monster into a state of madness when they subjected it to hatred and rejection, and thus the monster's madness emerged due to the treatment it [...]

The opening of the poem "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin" contradicts the central message of how the poet feels and the conflict of being a black American.

The story is considered to be rather sophisticated in analysis and structure consisting of three volumes "the Fellowship of the Ring", "the Two Towers", and "The Return of the King".

Devoted to the description of the life of a human being, the book, though, manages to combine this description with the visions of nature of the jungle and the laws according to which animals live [...]

Paraphrase of the poem The first stanza is a question on the immortal hand that could make such a beautiful and fearful figure for the Tyger, the second stanza asks where the Tyger was created [...]

The Merchant of Venice is a play about a man who is wronged and almost destroyed by fortune, but then he realizes he has the power to influence his destiny.

The locals tried several times to save the sheep and the boy from the wolf, but the boy only laughed. When the wolf appears at the end of the story, no one believes the boy [...]

Bennet cares for her daughters and husband, despite the ways she chooses to show her thoughtfulness that is often improper or inconsiderate, which makes her a good wife and mother.

The poem is written in response to Homer's poem the Iliad, to show the heroic past as opposed to the unenthusiastic situation of the current society.

The love and passion that is expressed in the poem relates to the poet's homeland and not his wife. The poem captures Neruda's feelings in light of possible rejection by his homeland.

The main idea In the Land of the Free is a reflection of the experience of immigrants and the tough policies by the U.

First, Hughes claims that he developed the plot of this play, did some characterizations and dialogues, whereas Hurston was supposed to recreate the atmosphere of Southern life as the action of Mule Bone took place [...]

Margaret Atwood's book 'The Dancing Girls' is a collection of 16 short stories and the Dancing Girls is one of the stories and has given the name for the collection.

They are the symbolic image of Hamlet's father the ghost of the King, the flowers and Ophelia, the skull, and the grave of Yorick.

The prophetic dreams that both Gilgamesh and Enkidu have are used to show the weaknesses of man in front of destiny.

He supports his argument in the next paragraph, where he puts it across that they have been governed by a combination of unjust and just law whereby there is a need to separate the two.

To begin with, let us state that the story under consideration is the short story under the title "The Management of Grief" by Bharati Mukherjee.

The narrator emphasizes the fundamental opposition between fire and ice through the use of anaphora, that is, the repetition of the phrase "Some say" at the beginning of each of two lines.

The plot of the story is simple. The narrator of the story is a boy, Charlie.

Coelho demonstrates that while the love demanding the sacrifice of one's dream is not true, the genuine love serves as a stimulus for living out the Personal Legend and achieving the happiness.

Through his poems, Whitman gave a detailed account of the civilization era in the United States of America. Whitman used a variety of themes in his poems to discuss various issues that affected the society.

The characters from The Epic of Gilgamesh help to realize a true essence of heroism as a concept and accept heroes as ordinary people, who are able to develop good relations, set goals, and be [...]

The story is set during the roaring twenties, a period of significant social and cultural change, and it incorporates many of the author's personal experiences, feelings, and perceptions of the time.

The characters Mommy and Daddy are ignorant of Grandma and her needs, from her introduction to the stage to her eventual demise.

A deeper contemplation of the first few pages of the story reveals that Jiya is always afraid of the ocean since he understands the wrath of the storm and the changes it has brought in [...]

In this poem, McCrae addresses the subjects of war and death, expressing feelings of peace, remorse, and perseverance by altering the tone throughout the work.

He entombs the corpse in the basement of his house, and when the police unexpectedly show up at his house, he inadvertently leads them to the corpse.

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.

The title of the poem strikes people's attention and gives the understanding what is the main idea of the poem. The peculiarity of this phrase in this very poem is that the author wrote about [...]

In the words of her brother: "...in the eyes of others strangers she's terribly shy and lives in a world of her own and those things make her seem a little peculiar to people outside [...]

It is worth noting that, in the novel Maps by Nuruddin Farah, the writer examines the problems of national identity through a gender-oriented interpretation of the history of Somalia.

Henry Longfellow composed poems, the themes of which echoed with the principles and cornerstones of that time. These ideas are depicted in the works of Longfellow of the 1830s throughout the interaction of man and [...]

As the paper reveals, The Aeneid is a political epic that was written with a political agenda to justify the founding of the nation of Rome.

He also pretended to be a beggar to test the loyalty of others and to devise his plan of overthrowing the other suitors.

Wright, as she was sleep, the women in this play suspect that Mrs. Wright's death in Trifles are similar to those, which surrounded the murder of Mr.

The theme of loneliness and isolation is prevalent in the story, as the two main characters, Mrs. The emptiness is seen in the few bus passengers and the isolation of Eliot's beach.

She narrates how being in the forest to sway his love is more of a drama and effect that she needs to beg him to love her.

In this reaction paper to one of the most prominent Faulkner's works, I attempt to describe and analyze the strategies that the author used to make this conflict acute and sympathetic to the reader.

He is encouraged to enter school by his father, who promises to wait for him at the gate to take him home at the end of the day.

The story centers on the theft of a holy Muslim relic, which is characteristic of one of the main themes of postcolonial literature.

Providing the title for the work, Orwell seems to ask the questions about the differences in the regime of the Soviet Union and irrational rule of animals at the farm.

The relationship between the two characters is a depiction of the connection between the wartime generation and the post-war generation. He is faced with the dilemma of exposing her illiteracy to reduce her sentence.

This analysis would focus on the essay's Chapter 3 dedicated to fiestas in general and the Day of the Dead in particular, which reflect many national traits of Mexicans.

It is because in the past when Wordsworth was a boy, he was able to see the nature around him through the prism of innocence, but upon revisiting the Abbey, he grew older and became [...]

In the end, Cinderella marries the prince in the ultimate triumph of her pious beliefs and acts of good over evil, and she goes to the very top of the socio-economic ladder.

The character in the poem is complex as she struggles from childhood through adulthood to come to terms with the loose of her father at a young age.

In a nutshell, the complication is the internal fight, in the young woman's mind, as she wrestles between the Haitian culture and tradition that is against prostitution and her financial survival in the Haitian society [...]

Iago's reports and the loss of the handkerchief appear to Othello reliable proofs of Desdemona's unfaithfulness, and under the effect of anger the protagonist is both unable and unwilling to do further investigation.

The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller in 1953, is a play focusing on the topic of the Salem witch of the last decade of the 1600s in Massachusetts.

The play is based on both Miller's personal experiences and the theatrical traditions in which he was instructed in."Death of a salesman" revolves around the Loman family with Willy Loman, the father, who also works [...]

The participation of Japan in the World War II led to the introduction of new rules that threatened to upset the familiar Japanese culture.

The main characters in the novel are Kim, a Tibetan priest in search of a sacred watercourse; Mahbub Ali, a merchant in horses and a secret service agent; colonel Creighton, the administrator of the secret [...]

"Alibaba and the Forty Thieves" is one of the renowned and iconic tales of the Arabian Nights stories added to the collection by Antoine Galland.

The story of Ama Aidoo In the Cutting of a Drink tells about gender inequality, which is expressed in the clash between the typical values of rural residents and the values of people living in [...]

One of Anne Finch's poems, "The Introduction," talks about female writers of her time in the first twenty lines of her text.

Woodfield is in the stage of depression in his grief, he loses his son and suffers a stroke. Woodfield and his former boss are in the stages of depression and acceptance, where Woodfield feels restricted [...]

The anxiety inherent in a sketch - the feeling of being unsettled - leads Goldsmith to other stylistic choices, most notably the creation of illusions and the reliance upon sentiment, both of which smooth away [...]

It should be mentioned that the story is the discussion of the reaction to the event and the characteristics of one hour in the life of Louise Mallard.

In "The Road Not Taken", the poet uses a reflective tone to address the significance of the choices one makes in life. The "road" referred to by the speaker is the most prominent symbol in [...]

The intense training depicts the importance of reward to the tributes. Further, the society is in touch with the preparedness of their tributes via media.

When Michael returns to his office, he remains unsettled, and he decides to ask for the eviction file, but the real estate lawyer, Braden Chance refuses to give it to him.

This will be seen through an analysis of the other characters in the play and the values of ancient Greeks. Indeed this central character appears to be at odds with the inclinations of the other [...]

King Hamlet's ghost then informs prince Hamlet of the person who killed him; consequently, Hamlet accepts the ghost's demands, swears his accomplices to secrecy and reveals to them his intention of killing the king to [...]

As such, Walcott projects the theme of corruption by denoting the Spoiler's return in a suit as representative of the powerful people in society that have emerged from hell to bring terror to the Trinidadian [...]

Cory's swinging of his dad's bat is a symbolic action that represents his desire to fill his dad's shoes, despite the fact that he struggles and is not confident in his ability to do so.

Antonia Susan Byatt, in the story "The Thing in the Forest", provides her interpretation of the well-known scenario of encountering the symbolic monster.

In his essay "Nature" and "Divine School Address", Ralph Emerson opposes it as the perfect "City of God" to the City of Men or society.

The book covers the mid-life of David bringing to the fore the events which he has contributed to himself and some he has not that are set in motion and lead to his near-total destruction.

From the beginning of the story, the reader can feel that Mathilde is irritated with her appearance and distressed with "the poverty of her apartment" and the reality she has to live in.

The Pied Piper comes to the town symbolizing the shift from one season to another; in a broader sense, he can be the symbol of change and its acceptance.

Although he survives after the death of the mother, he is forced to lead a life full of hardship following an unexplained disappearance of the father.

In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, the main character, Nora is not an intellectual, and spends no time scouring books or libraries or trying to make sense of her situation.

The review of Book 1 of the poem will highlight the age of the poem. The mentioning of the pagan deities in the Bible, particularly in the Old Testament is likened by the poet to [...]

Both Marlow and Kurtz see the intended as the epitome of the naivete of women. According to Marlow, Kurtz is the "best of the best".

The feminist critique is an aspect that seeks to explore the topic of men domination in the social, economic, and political sectors.

This paper provides a discussion on changes in the young woman's character, addressing her salient traits that remain the same and outlining the differences in her personality across time and media.

In summation, it is safe to assume that Marvell uses hyperbole to show the almost endearing foolishness and irrationality of love.

The main character, Fanny Price, is in the middle of the social situation that dominates Austen's book. Fanny is a constant target of discrimination from several members of the Bertram family and this treatment can [...]

At the very beginning of the novel called The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the author explains the meaning of fuku "...generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and [...]

The first paragraph in the essay is critical as it introduces the reader to the subject of the work and the author's view on it.

The book is based on the story of a farmer and his family, who, due to the problematic nature of the head of the family, are forced to change their place of residence: "None of [...]

Harlem Renaissance also referred to as the New Negro Movement led to the evolvement of a new identity of the black culture between the the1920s and the early years of the 1930s.

The story 'The Tale of two Cities' written by Charles Dickens is considered to be dedicated to the disclosure of French Revolution period; it is the classic work representing the archetypal characters through the concepts [...]

The Vietnam War was perceived as injustice because of the discrepancy between the loose form it took and the form the soldiers had been trained to identify and label as such.

The tone of the poet is of despair and melancholy as he feels that the human life is tormented with miseries, and nature is incapable of offering any solution to man's problems.

The Vietnam War found a profound reflection in the literature and poetry of the country's citizens, affected by the continuous loss of lives and the division of the country into North and South Vietnam.

Many people acknowledge that William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is one of the most significant and powerful works of the 16th century.

By the end of the paper, the reader should be able to identify a strong correlation between Oedipus and the tragic hero outlined by Aristotle in the Poetics.

The role of Tea Cake remains to be crucial in the story as well as in the whole life of Janie as his passion, creativity, and desire to create the best living conditions promote safety [...]

This promise is immature; Walter knows very well that getting the money to invest in his business remains a point of contention, yet he promises Willy that he would take the money.

For instance, the allusion to the tree as the symbol of the cosmic object, which links the world of the living and the world of the dead, could be seen in the specified items.

The author personifies Imagination to describe best the state of mind that people experience when they are dreaming. Moreover, the poetess notes that Imagination can transfer people to places not available to the common mind.

Marco's and Raju's mother's characters are to be considered further in order to research the differences in western modernity and Indian traditional values.

The story is written from the perspectives of Emily and the community and combines the past and the future to depict power and love.

Although the plot is different in each of these poems, both Annabel Lee and The Raven share the themes of death and lost love, as well as the symbolic language.

If the formalist theory is applied to Jane Eyre, the main point of such analysis would be the form of the novel, its structure, and the imagery.

These led to the unresolved contradictions and persistence ideologies of racism, prejudice, violence and segregation, which led to limited opportunities for African-Americans as Frank Money shows in the novel.

Though Rose plays the role of a housewife and recognizes Troy's leading role in the family, she is not portrayed as a weak woman unable to oppose her husband.

An analysis of trends in tragedy from the time of Sophocles and Euripides to modern times is therefore important. This could explain the absence of features such as oracles and ghosts in modern tragedy.

This paper explores the theme of sense and sensibility, and the lack of it, in details and shows how each of the characters stands out in relation to the theme.

On the one hand, it depends on the person who is telling the story; on the other hand, it is determined by the level of the narrator's awareness.

The novel is split into six chapters with the first five chapters describing Arjie's relationships with various characters through which he understands his sexuality, the ethnic problem between the Tamil and Sinhalese people, and the [...]

In the novel Joseph is introduced as the sister of “the illustrious Pamela whose virtue is at present so famous”.

The novel demonstrates the importance of books and the threats of media by depicting changes that occurred in Montag's worldview throughout the plot.

The main character of the story, an old African-American woman is a symbol of all the oppressed members of the Black community that have suffered humiliation and prejudice.

This is where we learn of the magic power of the Monkey's Paw in granting wishes. In the first part of the story, Mr.

The public was becoming more and more involved in the debates being waged, particularly as newspapers and other periodicals became more prevalent with the introduction of the printing press, introducing and maintaining widespread discourse in [...]

Shakespeare's play The Tempest is a story of the magical loss and restoration of the man's power, wherein actions develop in the unchronological order, simultaneously showing past and present events.