Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 46

The inclusion of the novel in classroom studies in the early 1960s especially 1963, spurred criticisms due to the issues of contention addressed by the novel.

The discourse of otherness in the black literature demonstrates the alienation of the Black youth from the American way of life.

Hamlet is pretending to be mad and this pretense is the one that shapes the scene and the rest of the play.

A romantic legendry on the other hand deals with the love story of the legend, where in such a story, all the actions of the legendry done in the form of romance are all recorded.

There are four most remarkable ridiculous plot points in the story; they can be observed in the relationships between Masha and Kulygin, the situation when Irina philosophizes on the sense of life, the character of [...]

The main distinction of Oedipus from other characters of Greek plays is that he is not complex; most of his feelings and qualities lie on the surface and he is not afraid of displaying them.

Four types of love, eros, storge, phileo, and agape love, can be found in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, of which storge love can be distinguished best of all, while eros is almost completely [...]

This paper will discuss the four characteristics that define McDonaldization of society according to Ritzer the author of the book "McDonaldization of Society".

One of the features of comedy of identity is the existent of a plot that is based on dialogue and not actions.

The core concept of revenge in Hamlet, Shakespeare's play, is the hesitation of the main character and his doubt moral and philosophical maxims in the whole world; the main idea of the play may be [...]

In this particular part of the series of plays he wrote on the history surrounding Henry IV, Shakespeare introduces the audience to the Henry IV as a King who has acquired the throne through unjust [...]

Dionysus is viewed as apposite in character to Apollo; he is a god that is described to be slow to anger and always willing to help those that are in need. He is willing to [...]

The typologies and archetypal elements utilized in the format of the narrative allot it the status of a myth. Nonetheless, the importance of such myths, stories created around the lives of divinity and heroes affords [...]

The first chapter of the work is devoted to the description of the narrator's first impression of military Spain and his entering the POUM unit.

According to the Greek creation story, there was an existence of a man known as Zeus who had children by the names Prometheus and Epimetheus.

The power of this image lies in the dual nature of the image: a long and painful process of drying and an eventual concentration of the sweetness.

Despite this fact, both King and Thoreau had a common goal to expose the unjust laws that govern a society of civil resistance to unjust laws It should be stressed that both King and Thoreau [...]

Since the beginning of his speech, David Foster Wallace indicates that the speech is going to be informal and tries to break the ice between the audience and himself by using such words as "bullshitty" [...]

In fact, the only happy ending is found in the first part of the story where John and Mary live their life to the fullest.

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 [...]

The "discerning Eye" that sees through society's "Madness" is certainly the poet's and, implicitly, belongs to certain other naysayers as well."I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" articulates a state of consciousness that follows the [...]

The focal point of this paper is to present a symbolic criticism of the play "Fences" by August Wilson with a special emphasis on the significance of Gabriel in the play.

In this case, Jim was responsible to his family and also to the whole society in terms of medicines but not for material gain.

Following Tolle's advice, the readers may learn to recognize the inner voice of their ego and start to control it, to solve the problems with the self-identification, get rid of the masks and establish the [...]

The first and the most evident similarity of the works mentioned above is the authors' intent to rise above the earthly, primitive understanding of life and death and to show their personal perception of these [...]

It appears that Blake had a different perspective on the notion of divine law and order, as compared to that of Milton's.

We live in a time when the majority of citizens in Western countries think of the concept of cultural and scientific progress as something that is being objectively predetermined, in the historical context of this [...]

Hughes grandmother died when he was still in his early teens and he had to move in with his mother, who by that time hade got a new husband.

The author starts her narration with reminding about the Bonnard's painting, The Bathroom, and then keeps the line of matching the matters of art to the story of her mother's life and finding expressive analogies.

In his assertion, Brook refutes the possibility of creating a literary work of the Ming Dynasty especially concerning the economic chronological record of events.

It can be seen from the book that, the Qianlong Emperor's involvement of these cases with the matters of dissent and agitation, resulted to the extreme utilization of imperial authority to act against these cases.

The usage of magic facilitates the understanding of the real world through its separation from illusive pictures. In his novel, the total deconstruction of political power is observed.

According to Dawley in class in community, wrote of the tremendous changes in the life of the shoemaker 'S" as the shoemaking industry moved from a cottage industry to the factory system.

He competes to the villain of the novel, U Po Kyin, for an entrance card to the Club. He was thinking of the plot in 1928 and the book was printed for the first time [...]

Both Glass Menagerie and Endgame resort to anti-realistic devices, such as play of words, linguistic gaps and silence, reduced mobility of the characters, detaching the audience attention from the objectivism of reality in order to [...]

Therefore, I propose to discuss and analyze in this paper, in light of Barthes's book Mythologies, his approach to bourgeois discourse and his understanding of myth as a language-object or meta-language."Myth is a type of [...]

In modern literature there are a lot works, which depict different cities and historical monuments, but Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino is an example of the works, which deal with the description of nonexistent cities.

Loewen states that these differences give the students the opportunity to analyze the facts themselves and find out the reasons of such differences."Then students are challenged to discuss events and processes in the past that [...]

Scout does not realize the severity of many of the events of the book as they are taking place, and as such she is an innocent.

On top of that, Rilke states that criticism should not interfere into the work of art, the embodiment of the author's life experiment, as it destroys the perception of the work of literature, nurtured by [...]

Considering the essence of art and literature, it is possible to say, that there is no objective reality in art, and even the most realistic description is in effect a look through the prism of [...]

The fact that something wrong and evil will form part of Blanche's life is depicted in the beginning of the work by the mysterious expressions that compound the descriptions of Elysian Fields.

He thinks that the law is a joke. He was the gang leader of the Socs.

The essay intends to look at the life of Oedipus who is the main character of the book and how the gods were responsible for his downfall after the struggle he had gone through to [...]

The author points out that it was due to the foolishness and lies of President Johnson's government actions that the country got sucked in the unwinnable war.

The poems The Painter's Song and Full Moon are the brightest examples of modern English poetry, which demonstrate to the reader all the beauty of the verse and involve in the atmosphere described in the [...]

He is glad that she is willing to listen to his words of sorrow. The boy in Araby is miserable because he does not know how he can express his feelings to Mongol's sister.

However, the tragedy of Mitty is in the fact that he encounters misunderstanding and gross indifference on the part of his wife.

Thus, the author always sought to forewarn the youngsters of the negative results of their thoughtless actions and tried to motivate them to gain education and become successful in life.

The extension of borders of the tropic, the contraposition between the life in LA and the life in Mexico, the change of events is a typical technique of Magical Realism, namely, hybridity that implies extensive [...]

After his most convenient avenue of informing the masses about the dangers in the spa is disrupted by the mayor, the doctor decides to hold a public meeting to inform the people of the dangers [...]

Oedipus consults the servant who was sent to abandon him as a child and it is revealed that he was the child of Laius and Jocasta.

It is not but before the first few lines of each piece in which the author establishes a personal foundation for the rest of the article to be built on.

The book helped me to understand that the process of winning money in business sphere can be successful not only in a case if someone has losses.

This scientist regarded the western civilization to be the third and highest stage in the hierarchy of the world civilizations, preceded by the stages of savagery and barbarism.

This mindset is what assisted as the cornerstone for young men to reprimand dolls in the earlier periods. Why Boys Do not Play with Dolls is concentrated on the stereotypes of males and females.

He dared to make this dangerous travel in order not to be swallowed by an insatiable mouth of war when it knocked on Ishmael's door for the second time."They had run so far away from [...]

Hem and Haw somehow did not notice that the supply of cheese was slowly dwindling, until one day, when they arrived at Station C, they found out that all the cheese was gone.

In his novel, Wells addresses the resistance of the Muslim world, the destruction of Buddhism, the opposition of the Catholic Church. This wave of air revived in London appears to the power that is obsessed [...]

Although Muir shows his pessimistic view, in the beginning, he changes it in the second part of the poem, giving the reader a sense of relief.

From the beginning of the story, he managed to set the readers against the king, which makes the majority of them support the daughters in the conflict between them and the king, the conflict that, [...]

Congo locates in the center of the continent and can be compared within the heart of Africa."The vision seemed to enter the house with me - the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient [...]

The nature of changes can be traced in Othello who is treated as a person with different color of skin as well as Edna who is not accepted by the Creole community; Gregor Samsa is [...]

Given the fact that Keats belongs to the Romanticist era that ushered in the enlightenment period, it is not surprising that most of his poetry tends to cross the borders of physical reality.

Life of Cleopatra is still one of the most captivating subjects in a world's history. In the introduction to Cleopatra the author designates the main thesis of his work.

In this paper I am going to compare and contrast three versions of the creation of the world: the Greek one presented in the first chapter of Ovid's Metamorphoses and two Indian myths of the [...]

In his reasoning, he builds a logical sequence, which causes a chain reaction of violence: experiencing violence from the side of the colonizer, the colonized are forced to show counter-violence. As a rule, the actions [...]

Looking at the morbidly Catholic state of mind that is the necessary reason sustaining the short stories of Flannery O'Connor, it is necessary to pay attention to the special techniques that compose her style of [...]

The main character of the tragedy is Hamlet, a young man who comes to know about the real reasons of his father's death from the ghost that claims to be the spirit of his father. [...]

In the novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the author depicts one day from the life of prisoners in one of Stalinist camps and emphasizes the importance of [...]

The book describes the Creation of the World and continues to the time of Julius Caesar and is considered as a mythic-historical document.

Red Harvest was the first detective story written by Hammett and the first crime fiction that created a new sub-genre in a crime fiction literature.

But the mismatch of the real-life and the world of the primer becomes obvious to the reader from the first pages of the novel.

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 [...]

The girl was influenced by the adults' views and shared their opinion concerning the place of the woman in the society.

In the book, Bernays explains how he employed propaganda to manipulate the public when he was the head of the United States Department of public information during world war I.

It must be stressed that The Story of the Stone is regarded to be one of the Four Great Classical Chinese Novels.

In the poem, The Larynx Alice Jones tried to use a serious and at the same time informal tone in order to show all the significance and the necessity of the larynx.

A topic of color is prominent for both authors; however, these two poets deserve to be considered not only the voice of the American citizens of color but the voice of the whole diverse and [...]

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 [...]

The power that the people have on their rulers is minimal and this is one of the factors that have impeded the development of the values of self governance in this country.

The author considers the life chances of generations of Mexican-Americans, who remain after a near-century of legal freedom the most obvious and, in view of the very considerable number of Mexican-Americans political refugees in the [...]

However, it is this kind of utopian society that existed in Jerusalem that shaped the views that this author had. The story of the island of utopia is a satire on the complicated society that [...]

The theme of insiders and outsiders and their effect on life of children is very popular and one of the most interesting and controversial in modern and classical literature.

In it Rosenblatt says that the whole of a written text is a combination of what the writer produces and what the readers infers.

The main character of the epic poem Odyssey is Odysseus, the ruler of Ithaca and the brave warrior who is ready to do everything possible and impossible to return home to his wife Penelope and [...]

Similar and different aspects in the real life and in the fictional world are not always easy to recognize, though it is possible to distinguish the real and invented aspects when at least one person [...]

The interactions of the characters, in that regard, are neither sufficient to explain the purpose of the author, nor to connect it to the purpose of the story.

It is similar to the "ubuntu" concept, kept by the African nationalities, and implies focus on "what you have" instead of "what you want".

Dickinson experienced a great amount of attachment towards the Civil War and her expression for the cause had been expressed through the expression of death in its spiritual and eternal nature.

The soldier is torn out of his "mother's sleep" that is the state of peace and he faces the reality of war in the belly of his fighter jet aircraft.

Alongside tourism essays and reviews, with fast developing of technologies and telecommunication, a lot of TV and radio programmes are intended to present the information about the world's countries pointing out the advantages and disadvantages [...]

The clock can be considered an integral part of the story as it leads the readers all the way till the end of the day in the abandoned house.

Before analyzing the works in terms of their belonging to Puritanism I believe it's important to identify the main characteristics of Puritan style and intentions and aims the authors put forward to transfer their message [...]

In the novel "The Adventures of Huck Finn", the writer portrayed the theme of 'racism and slavery' in South America during the end of civil war.

The objective of this paper is to address a brief cultural historical context as it provides a history of the country that the stories take place.

The theme is very intricate and it finds its realization in different aspects of the book, such as the authorship the author's tone that can be perceived while reading, the genre, the choice of the [...]

This implies that he had started valuing the presence of other people in his life and the aversions that he had towards his parents started to wither after realizing that he had to share his [...]

Instead, the role of the mother of the nation was widely discussed as the aim and goal of American women. In fact, the tone of the excerpt from Goethe translated as "The Sphere of Woman", [...]

This was when he was only seven and a trip to the shop was like a tour around half of the world for him.

The main character of Hemingway's book The Old Man and the Sea is a person with great experience in life and in his work but he does not seem to be lucky; this is where [...]

The book explains the poor conditions of the less fortunate people in the slums, and how they are neglected by the rich.

It tells a story using symbols and metaphor and the moment the reader starts the process of imagination, the poem will speak to the reader and it only after it speaks to the reader that [...]

As if supporting the general trend of the time towards emancipation of women, men take advantage of the situation and load the woman with both the housework and the role of the main breadwinner in [...]

To the amazement of the boy, Sheila agrees to keep him company to the dance. The evening before the dance, this boy cleans his canoe that he plans to use to take them to the [...]

He starts by briefly retelling the main events of Othello and proceeds to state that modern critics' main concern is about the subjects of race and gender in their analyses of the play.

Sometimes the image is used so clearly and appropriately that the reader experiences the same feelings as the author; this means that the purpose of the poem is reached.

But if they over dry, they will become hard to chew and lose all the nutrition, This warns us of the consequences that may befall us if we sit there and wait for conditions to [...]

This paper will examine the issue in highlighting the theme that the main purpose of the book was to let the world know of its callousness and lack of precaution while the horrible and immoral [...]

Published in 1958, the novel describes the life of a Nigerian village - Iguedo, at the advent of the white colonization in Nigeria.

The author raised a great number of disputable issues concerning the economic situation in the coal-mining region; the life of ordinary miners is intertwined with riots, sabotages, and accidents. The action of the story takes [...]

In that regard, such distinction led to that love relationships were held in secret, and considering the origins of the lovers in both tales, it can be stated that the finale of these love stories [...]

In the light of this statement, it should be emphasized that the real value of dramatic literature study is the research of the tendencies of the literary and theater development through the time.

Hughes also demonstrates that he has a much higher understanding of human nature in his descriptions of the people of the church and his slight addition of sarcasm within the essay.

This paper will therefore analyze the history of the story based on McLaurin's book, give the moral anxieties it springs up, the reactions of various characters in the book and finally extrapolates on the inadequacies [...]

Although this could be a great sense of enthusiasm and optimism in achieving a goal, Ralph goes into this with the aim of getting a lot of money in a short period of time.

In Kipphardt's play, it is possible to pursue the development of Oppenheimer's outlook on the value of the invention of the nuclear weapon.

The agony and the ecstasy is the work of Irving Stone who is an American author. The cardinal instead fails to suggest a specific topic for his work and even after months of waiting for [...]

However, this does not mean that the notion of decadence had ceased to represent a conceptual significance as Mann's novel implies, it is only the matter of time for an individual who decides to embrace [...]

This purpose of this study is to point out the features of three stories Cinderella, The Three Little Pigs and Red Riding Hood in their relation to one another and to previous and current generations.