Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 40

The theme of the struggle between a man and the sea as the power of nature can be traced even in the ancient literature, drawing on the example of Odysseus challenges and Poseidon, the formidable [...]

The choice of words in the second stanza, the second last line, which reads "glowing at dusk, a shrouded welcome" is a further confirmation of the sorrow in the mind of the narrator.

One of the most typical traits of romantic literature is the prevalence of emotions, setting the natural world above the created world, and the most important, freedom of an individual.

In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, the titular character begins plotting his revenge after he encounters the ghost of his father, who informs him of the murder as well as the culprits.

It is apparent that Dick draws parallels to the ships that traveled between Europe and America in the early days of the colonization.

The first few paragraphs of the story are dedicated specifically to painting the image of the old Afro-American woman in the mind of the reader by providing details on her appearance, closing, her manners of [...]

It is possible to say that the author significantly contributed to the development of the comprehension of the Vietnam War in the American literature.

In "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood," the author relies on such words as guilt, misery, crime, and sorrow to explain the negative side of the surrounding man-made world.

In the center of the plot, there is a little girl Sophie who meets a giant and learns much about the new world that is unfamiliar to her.

The adherers of the idea say that the fundamental system of values that were the basis for the development of the young state became irrelevant today.

The episode about the sons of Japetos is placed in the center of the story as the conquest of the supreme power of Zeus over the people and gods.

Jingfang paints a dreadful picture of the future where social inequality has risen to the point where the society is split into three parts, and the differences among them are emphasized in the most vivid [...]

The main goal of this paper is to analyze The Scarlet Letter to reveal the author's idea of the frustration of revenge and victory over shame.

From the point at which Zeus rescues his siblings from his father Cronus, however, O'Connor follows the original myths quite closely, describing the war between the Titans and the Olympians, Zeus's journey to find Cyclopes, [...]

This claim is informed by the fact that the book has the potential of confusing the average reader. The evidence that is used to back up this claim is Griffin's references of World War II.

In essence, Evelina is written on the borders of most other 18th century novels, which took the form of a letter. This is especially helpful when it comes to observing the sensibility of the men [...]

For instance, to allow the students to define the meaning of the word "ventriloquist" in the first sentence, it will be required to adopt the contextual approach.

The dramatic structure of this Victorian age drama involves the adaptation of the early Aristotelian primacy of the plot. In the conclusion, the play ends on the same tradition whereby all the conflicts are resolved, [...]

The burden of waiting feeds her fear, and Zoe suddenly understands that she is extremely uncomfortable due to the decision of her friend to refuse to take part in the race. In this passage, the [...]

What is the theme of MacDonald's "Gone Girl?" The story centers on a private detective who is intelligent and appears in the wrong place at the right time.

The first thing that has to be determined is the truth behind the claim that Hamlet saw the ghost of his departed father.

In particular, the writers explore the way in which the worldviews and moral principles of a person can be determined by the norms established in a particular community or a social group.

First, it dwells upon the gender differences that existed at the time of the play. The women in the play were united by the feeling of isolation and alienation from other women and from society [...]

In Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Cast of Amontillado" Montresor appears as a caring friend but that appearance is only used to mask the fact that Montresor is a mad man.

Intertwined throughout the story is the turbulent and pragmatic relationship between Art and his elderly father. This was the root of the overwrought relationship that existed between Vladek and his son because he held his [...]

The novel explicates the pressure between colonial administrators and the African society amongst the railwaymen and the African community's resistance and struggles to free from the colonial power.

By the end of the play, Marsha has stopped pretending in front of her husband and Wanda that she is fine.

As the paper unfolds, the treatment of the theme of alienation as per different writers will be looked into to establish whether there exists a common denominator in the treatment of the works or not.

These words from the song made me understood that the author of the story wanted to show that Connie and Arnold were created for each other and they had to be together even though Arnold [...]

Despite the common beliefs concerning the existence of ghosts, it seems that the ghost's presence is still supported by the testimonies of all characters in the story, including Horatio, Francisco, and the protagonist himself.

For example, he says the goal of Europe is to deliver good to the colonizers at the expense of the resources of the colonized class; Cesaire maintains that it only serves to decivilize the colonizers.

The case described by the author is a clear reflection of the situation where the two sides were not ready to compromise, which led to the tragedy.

In "Love Among the Ruins", Browning compares the past with the present giving love more weight than material things through the persona that he creates.

At the end of the story, a man offers to "take the bags over to the other side of the station", where no hope for childbirth and their relations is seen.

In The Iliad, the relations between two characters, Agamemnon and Apollo, as well as their motivation and passion help to underscore the theme of power and rage; the conflict between the characters is based on [...]

A major difference between poems and drama and the short story is that the first two have a predefined format of writing which includes the use of more dramatic words as compared to the short [...]

The book engages with its readers, inviting them to a journey of personal growth and the struggles that the lead character experiences in the process.

Nevertheless, Rama is regarded as a re-embodiment of divinity and a person of solemn responsibility; his wife is the representation of chastity and submission.

As the morning seemingly approaches, the Rat is suddenly amazed by a sound of great beauty, a haunting piping."Such music I never dreamed of, and the call in it is stronger even than the music [...]

In his book, Kozol presented the stories and events that were a part of his personal experiences and motivated him to focus on the research of the problems of institutional racism and the normalization of [...]

In particular, the author provided some statistical data about the rates of homelessness in the country, the number of people living in the streets, and their demographics.

The following paper analyzes the motifs and themes contributing to the described effect in order to determine the ways in which the system supports harassment at the state level.

8 Tao's description of the Pokfulam district is probably the most poetic: views are "magnificent," the horizon is "endless," and boats in the harbor are "a delight to the eye as well as the mind".

In the reading "The Train from Hate", John Hope Franklin gives a critical description of the problem of racial segregation in the American society.

The literary genre 'spy novel' emerged in Britain prior to the beginning of the WW1, which in turn explains why in a classical spy novel the protagonist's intelligence-gathering activities are usually described as nothing short [...]

The uniqueness of a real hero is in their heroism that can be controversial, flawed in nature and outcomes, and harder to detect in general.

Although Shakespeare wrote about the exquisite beauty of a young woman and compared her to a goddess, saying, "I grant I never saw a goddess go; my mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground," [...]

The pilgrimage is scary as the characters are squeezed in a reek and noise that torments them as they get to the lowest point of the center full of ice and there no signs of [...]

Finally, this essay will try to persuade that the startling uniqueness of mind highlighted in the struggle to find the balance between "utopian possibility and dystopian reality" is what made it possible to render the [...]

Thanks to the newly-attained DNA evidence that pointed at the unknown suspect present at the crime scene, in 2011 the West Memphis Three were able to sign the Alford plea that allowed them to maintain [...]

Out of a variety of the elements depicted in the story, the greatest impression is made by the conflict between the man and his wolf dog.

Speaking more precisely, the renovation of the soul and the renovation of nature go together in stressing the significance of the change. Mallard's life and the story in general.

The poem's unique touch is the characterization of death and the consequent relationship between this character and the speaker. The interaction between death the metaphor and death the symbol is one of the factors that [...]

The notion of "Taiwan literature" caused debates in the 1980s and 1990s concerning the term itself, its content, and the place of the phenomenon within world literature.

The author is talking about fate and magic at the same time, and also tries to show the way people surround mythical things with beliefs that make it easy for the believers of such things [...]

Both Jack's and Molly's parents are poor, and the children in the stories are forced to experience difficulties in finding food and trying to survive; therefore, the boy and the girl get into ogres' houses.

To begin with, he was one of the eleven children in the family of a church rector. He frequently had royal family members as visitors in his house on the Isle of Wight.

As the representative of literary realism, Henry James in his novel Daisy Miller uses a number of realistic features such as concentration on details, accent on reality instead of reflections and on characters instead of [...]

This paper explores the issue of how these people's ideas contributed to the shaping of the culture of that time. The literature portrayed the ways of life of the early dwellers of America, and it [...]

The Bell Jar is a story of the transformation of a young woman who despises the idea of being servile to men into a person who serves them in order to escape the psychiatric institution [...]

To transmit the message, Faulkner uses three binary oppositions: death life, the old the new, and the North the South. In this passage, Emily is compared to the soldiers who fell in the Civil War [...]

Thus, the primary objective of her journalism and fiction was to break the indifference of the society and to open people's eyes to the problems of those who are silently excluded from public life.

Although it is possible to perceive him as a bad person, the analysis of Christmas' character and the adverse episodes, in which he is represented as the main actor, reveal that he is not more [...]

He studied in Ingolstadt where he discovered the secrets of life, which he uses to create a monster. He does this in secret since he is aware of the dangers of his experiment.

The poem is about the bond between father and son. The poem expressed a son's desire to connect with his father.

From the very beginning of the story, Tod is not good at hockey, but in a process of training, he becomes a good player.

The central figure of any heroic epics is the character who represents the interests of his people and serves as the embodiment of the human qualities which are considered to be the best in their [...]

The most useful kind of isolation is the latter because not only does it allow one to come to terms with all the complexities that one has undergone in one's life but it also provides [...]

She tries to convince her husband John and one of her minders Jennie, to see the patterns she notices in the wallpaper of her upstairs room, which they, of course, cannot see: the narrator has [...]

The primary goal of compiling the stories was to invoke opposition and assist in the fight for the abolishment of slavery.

In its turn, this allows us to refer to The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa as a book of not only a great literary, but also a philosophical value, [...]

These cases explicate the fact that the institution of marriage is one of the contexts in which the rights of women are gravely abused in patriarchal societies. Women in patriarchal societies are also deprived of [...]

According to Ben Okri's novel, everything is interconnected in the world; each person is merely a link in the chain comprising of countless simultaneous pasts and futures.

Since the fact that the narrator is not in full control of the mind, this is made very apparent by the author, it could mean that Ligeia and Rowena are really the same people and [...]

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.

At the age of sixteen, the sage Vishwamitra sought the help of Rama and Lakshmana to fight the demons. Rama banishes Sita to the forest because of rumors of her impurity.

The characters of Enkidu and Gilgamesh, and in fact, all the characters of this poem, are not notable for logical or reasonable behavior that makes sense to modern readers.

Both writers show that it is extremely difficult for these women to get used to the role of drover's wife or a person who has to struggle against heavy odds in order to support the [...]

Resting on these facts, it is possible to analyze some works which belong to the same period of time in order to understand the main ideas of the epoch and the authors message to readers.

A notable distinction this particular rendition of the book to film/s is that, for the most part, the films stick closely to the book.

Walk Whitman was born in the first half of the 1800s and Robert Frost in the second. The use of figurative speech in poetry gives the poems a capacity to reach out to the hearts [...]

The author emphasizes the main idea of his short story which is the fear of changes in the first lines of his work with the help of concentrating on the description of the peculiarities of [...]

According to Poe Edgar Allan, the single effect has a vital role in writing short stories in which any element of a story have to focus on such an effect.

This paper examines the major tenets of the book and evaluates their significance to the history of Women in Canada. The writer introduces the book to readers by showing how women contributed to development in [...]

That is why Linda's monologue is important to demonstrate the other side of the problem and to draw the men's attention to the fact that Willy should be respected in spite of obstacles and conditions.

Similar to Atwood's story, Di Prima's Revolutionary Letters allows the readers to go beyond the accepted paradigms in the pursuit of the truth and independence.

Hence, the movie review interprets the performances of Fiona Shaw and Ben Whishaw in the third scene in the third act, where they act as King Richard II in the play, Richard II.

Thus, till the end of the whole poem, the main character is not able to embrace peace and forget about the guilt. Manfred is guilty and he is not able to get rid of tortures.

It appears that the suicide of the main character of the play "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller can be described within the framework suggested by Durkheim.

The difference is that the leader of the plan is much tougher physically and emotionally, and it is evident that he would not give up his values and morals.

The mother knew that the son was suffering because of the absence of the father, but she never communicated to the son effectively in order to fight this depression.

This is in spite of the fact that the boy's mother is yelling to Dana to "get her black hands off her son".

The theme of the poem is drinking alcohol and its justification. Clearly, there is a hint at the theme of the piece as the Greek writer focused on love and alcohol.

This difference in customs impacting behavior can be seen in the story "My Mother, the Crazy African" wherein Lin is ashamed of her mother who is thoroughly immersed in her Nigerian culture and background despite [...]

The following illustrates Creon's relationship to power, how he influenced the people he ruled, how he used his power as a leader of Thebes and the result of his ruling.

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 [...]

The main themes that are evident in his work are the themes of death and love. He speaks of a chilling wind from the sky that emerged resulting in the death of her wife.

Depicted lively in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Persepolis, the life journey of an social misfit can twist in a number of ways, making it obvious that, despite there is a [...]

In the short story, Love, by Robert Olen Butler, the cultural expectation requiring women to be faithful to their husbands, and the cultural definition of beauty in the Vietnamese society, contributed to several conflicts between [...]

Bich had a lot experiences throughout, one of the humiliation she experienced when she was at her friend's place Tara on the dinner table.

In the novel, the author illustrates that the value of human life is perceived with respect to mortality. He claims that Ivan always yearned for the death of his father.

At the moment, the author is a director of the University of Louisville in the department of liberal studies. In his scholarly work, he came to discover that some of the vessels that most people [...]

One of the heroes succeeds in his undertaking, the other bitterly fails, and the outcome is shaped not so much by the unchangeable predestined fate as by the personal qualities of Odysseus and Creon.

It seemed to suggest that when he was face-to-face with the war memorial, the author was transported back to the time of the conflict.

For instance, even though he is suffering from a liver disease, he does not gather the courage and energy to visit a doctor.

The realization of the narrator with regard to his brother's playing the piano begins when the duo are on their way to the club.

While Jig realizes that she is not ready for the "small operation" that the American suggest and insists, she is unable to express her concern and decision not to take the "small operation".

At the beginning of the novel, we meet Eliezer and his father, the main characters, the destinies of whom we will follow up to the end of the novel.

When we talk about the qualitative aspects of the Victorian era in Britain, the first thing that comes in mind, in this respect, is the fact that European intellectuals of the time were strongly influenced [...]

The autobiographical information of the author provides that the title of the novel was based on the abandoned wolf of the steppes.

One of the reasons for this is that in her novel Plath was able to show that, contrary to what used to be the psychiatric convention of the fifties, one's depression-triggering sense of inadequateness does [...]

The story 'Who's Irish' by Jen Gish is based on the events in the life of an elderly Chinese immigrant lady, and the struggle she undergoes as she tries to acclimatize herself to a radically [...]

Although Hughes in his "Negro" discusses race as the main source for the character's identity and attempts to accentuate the role of the black race for the whole world history, Shakespeare in Othello and Welty [...]

In spite of the fact that there are many symbols of different types in Poe's "The Raven", such symbols of darkness and depression as December, the raven, the Night's Plutonian shore, and the repetition of [...]

Mary Shelley's creation is often spoken about as a philosophical work telling about the influences of industrialization and technological progress on the society and the ideas about the values of life and death, the argument [...]

The place of the story is at St. Roberta is the protagonist of the story.

This, of course, does provide a certain rationale to the suggestion that Norris used to be fascinated with the ideas of Social Darwinism.

The first sign is his negation of the traditional for the man of his destiny title rabbi in his first dialogue with Salzman.

The advantage with this style in poetry is that the poet has the freedom to decide on the length of the verse in order to meet the thematic concerns of the poem.

The fact that Sonny was the black sheep of the family was obvious even in the story's opening paragraphs. The story unfolded without giving any clue that the black sheep of the family, the drug [...]