Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 47

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Significance of Poetry: Personal Experience

Written language is one of the most diverse and significant tools of communication that we have at the present. This type of medium is the most artistic branch of the written word.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 616

Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

That is the primary contribution of Arthur Pettit in his critical essay of the opera of Mark Twain. The role of literature criticism is to attract our attention to such viewpoints that authors have encoded [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 551

“American Son” Novel by Brian Roley

Facing all the variety of challenges connected with the integrating into the new society, the book's main characters strive very hard to overcome all the obstacles on their way to success in the conditions of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1946

The Art of Being Concise

One of the most famous phrases about writing belongs to the third president of the United States and the author of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 555

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

However, the play causes people to reconsider the role of Judas in the death of Jesus and look at the matter from the different side.
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 642

“Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller – Review

The purpose of this paper is to describe the type of sales the main character was occupied with, to analyze social and economic peculiarities of the described period of time and to find out why [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 639

Childhood Comparison in Andersen Stories

The purpose of this paper is to discuss two stories to find the main differences, which have a greater impact on the attitude of the main characters towards their childhood.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 861

Commercial and Literary Fiction Analysis

The marshal is illustrated as a positive person."He, the town policeman of Yellow Sky, was a man known, liked, and feared in his community".
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 939

Characters in O’Connor’s “Good Country People”

The main characters of the story observe and relate to others through judgment leading to their perceptions and blind belief in certain ideas to be fundamentally challenged.Mrs. The arrogance and judgment of Mrs.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 567

“Sense and Sensibility” Novel by Jane Austen

Henry Dashwood at the beginning of the story, his wife and their three daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret stay with little money and nowhere to live, for everything was inherited by their half-brother, Mr.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play Analysis

The play raises the question of what stories will be remembered in the future and whether they have any chance of staying unchanged. Returning to the central conflict, it finally receives a resolution in the [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 859

Interpreting “The Yellow Wallpaper”

The theme and problem of woman's rights looming over the society of that day is demonstrated as the main issue at the core of the story.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1420

How to Read a Poem Correctly

As Blue remarks, the best way to understand the essence of the poem is to read it with the same attention one typically gives to strangers' dialogue that one is trying to eavesdrop on.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 380

Review of Literary Analysis

The analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper focuses on the feminist perspective, underlining various symbolisms, social subtexts, and emotional tensions that the story is meant to relay to the reader in the context of feminine literature, [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 399

Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament

Frustrated by the dullness of the school curriculum, grey walls, and inability to show his eccentric personality, the boy finds his only pleasure in the work of an usher in a fancy concert hall.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 359

“Yellow Wallpaper” – A Creepy Shade of Yellow

A simultaneously heavy and light-hearted style of the writing is a significant part of the narrative, which demonstrates the sharp contrast between the perception of the main heroine and the rest of the characters.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 374

Special Bierce’s Style of Narration

The last seconds of his life are passing away, and the inevitability of fate is felt in the following words: "Striking through the thought of his dear ones was a sound which he could neither [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 352

Sarah Jewett’s “A White Heron”

In a tale about a young girl meeting a hunter, the author touches upon the subjects of the relationship of humans and nature, the feelings of attraction, and moral judgment.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 403

A Fable and Its Moral Teaching

Consequently, the cat and the crow agreed to be friends. One day, the cat and the rat worked in the garden.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 375

Why Americans Are So Unhappy?

According to the commentaries of both Eric Weiner and Juliet Schor, happiness may be so elusive. In summary, the aspects of pathos in this paper according to Eric Weiner and Juliet Schor have been included.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 874

P. Ackerman on Nonviolence in “A Force More Powerful”

In the book entitled, 'A force more powerful: a century of nonviolence conflict,' the author emphasizes the theme of nonviolence, and how the concept was applied in offering resistance to the oppressive regime in Poland [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1126

John Donne’s and Emily Dickinson’s Poetry on Death

However, in the poem Death be not Proud, John Donne's somber narration describes death as a temporary sleep; and Emily Dickinson's poem, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, describes a journey symbolically in the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1097

Saki “The Mouse” and “The Storyteller” Differences

As the author observes in his own words, most of the remarks from the aunt's side would be fraught with the authoritative term 'Do not' while nearly all the remarks by the children countered with [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 690

Events That Have Made America What It Is Today

The second notable event identified by the author is the Dred Scott decision in 1857 that wrecked the economic status in America and accelerated a war.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1456

Gender Issue in Büchner’s Woyzeck

One of the reasons supporting this claim is the choice and use of characters in this play. The author uses a male to be the main character in the play.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1118

“The Female Quixote” by Charlotte Lenox

The greatest challenge that Arabella is faced to because of her Romance beliefs is inability to have normal relationships with the man who loves her and wants to marry her.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 562

The Horror Genre: Novels and Stories

This is an excellent feature of the story and a staple of an effective horror piece."'Horror is not a genre, like the mystery or science fiction or the western. This is the strength of the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1365

Response to Poetry: My Papa’s Waltz

The melancholic and resentful tone in My Papa's Waltz is a striking message of the author to his own father. And the empty room is most likely a sign of passed away relatives.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 598

War Story: Pressfield’s Tides of War

As for the warfare of the ancient world, the armor of the ancient soldiers is made of hides and skins with wooden shields.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1264

The Novel ‘Black Rain’ by Masuji Ibuse

However, the novel presents the most detailed, touching and thought-provoking description of all the saddest consequences the trauma of being a victim of an atomic explosion may leave in the life of any individual who [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 999

Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame”

Life is both a scene of nothingness and one of infinity, and it is this duality that drives the characters in Beckett to desperation: "Endgame is a despairing study of despair".
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 837

Study of ‘The Inward Morning’ and ‘Narrow Road’

Both pieces of literature depict the themes of journey and wilderness, and for this reason, this research will carry out an analysis of the two genres of writing and make a comparison.'The inward morning' presents [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1133

“Since Cleopatra Died” by Neil Powell

Therefore, the misuse of tense and context in Shakespeare can drastically change the meaning of any of his plays, even among the characters in the plays themselves.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 583

The Use of Allusion in “Drown” by Junot Diaz

Further, it will seek to show the evidence that Diaz Junot uses allusion in order to enable his readers to understand the characters better and have deeper insights into the reality of the Dominicans. Its [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 572

History and Social Context of Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz, the author of the much-acclaimed collection of short stories called Drown, published in 1996, was born on the 31st of December 1968 in, Dominican Republic.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 605

How to Be a Literary Critic

In order to be completely unbiased, it is important to choose different theories and approaches in order to study the nature of literature and exercise the literary theory correctly.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 302

The Motif of the “Black Boy” by Richard Wright

This essay will reveal the motif of one close read paragraph by Richard Wright from Black Boy, the language, and the way he conveyed the following idea Richard has been a real inventor, thirsty for [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 563

The Salient Traits of the Romantic Hero

Lord Byron was the one to create a perfect model of the romantic hero for his contemporaries and next centuries. And though the romantic hero is the caring one, Byron made his character a representation [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 554

“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood

In interpreting the book, the main area of discussion will be supporting the meanings of the work whereas in evaluating the book, the focus will be coming up with the literary merit of the book [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1235

Can the Real Love Ever Be a Fallacy?

Considering the above realities, the following essay compares the loves depicted in two of the most amazing short stories of all time, namely Love is a Fallacy by Max Shulman and The Gift of the [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1091

When Butterflies Die: Alvarez and Her Idea of Death

Considering a loss as a chance to take a closer look at ourselves, Alvarez interprets the old idea of drinking the honey and throwing away the bee, applying it to people's subconscious and suggesting to [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1263

Word Craft in American Literature

It is possible to little the use of the words and still drives points home this is attained by incorporating sign language amid the use of words.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 616

‘Lies My Teacher Told Me’ by Loewen

According to Loewen, it is the presentation of the subject that does not illuminate the past with the present, hence the past loses its relevance for the present situation, as far as the students are [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1110

“Of Wolves and Men” by Lopez Barry & Lopez Barry Holstun

An individual needs to understand that the word landscape does not only refer to having the knowledge of names and identity of everything in the landscape but also perceiving the relationship between different elements in [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 578

“Guadalupe X Three” by Denise Chavez

The second step in the block building approach to critical thinking is the importance of the study of the play and the impact on the readers.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 625

Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”

And Steinbeck offered his audience a clean view of the end when George made Lennie promise "to hide in the brush" if he gets in trouble again, as if it was an absolute fact to [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 614

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” Criticism

To illustrate, The Story of an Hour narrative is based on the supposed death of Brentley Mallard - the husband to Louise Mallard - thus reflecting a number of real life deaths that characterized Chopin's [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1412

“Three Men in a Room” by Seymour Lachman

In his book Three Men in a Room, the author describes the situation and the problems which take place in statehouses throughout the country.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1127

“The Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler

In his books he examines how the developments of the modern technologies influence on the social, political and economical state of the countries.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

Dante’s Poem “The Divine Comedy ”

The Divine Comedy presents three aspects of objective reality such as personal drama of the poet, the story of humanity and the structure of the universe.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 915

The Medieval Portrayals of Women in Literary Works

This essay will link the Koran, the poem of Cid and Dante's inferno to Augustine's Confessions while comparing and contrasting the medieval literary images of, as well as attitudes towards women.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 895

John Donne’s Poetic Cycle of Holy Sonnets

Reading the sonnet, one may clearly feel a strong subjective connection between the main character of the Sonnet I and the author; the speaker, if not entirely represents the author, is still very close to [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 630

“A Freeborn People” by David Underdown

"A Freeborn People" is a balanced examination of the ways in which the political cultures of the political elite and that of common people interacted in the 17th century England.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1296

Mythology: Term Definition

The early inhabitants of America, like other ancient groups, derived their own legendary stories on creation of the universe, the people and the locality together with their heroes and their deities in the universe.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2297

Place of Culture in the Development of World Literature

There are too many striking differences in the Western and Eastern literatures that it is highly difficult to comprehend the first of the second one by representatives of another culture.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556

Classic Tragedies: Term Definition

In the genre of literature, the word tragedy can be loosely applied to mean any serious and dignified drama that gives a description of the conflict that is existent between the protagonist and a superior [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1908

Novels of Chocolet by Joanne Harris

The work is concerned with the depicting of the importance of the food for self-affirmation in Chocolat and the self-cognition in Edible Woman.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 821

Tragic Dramatic Literature

Tragic drama may be defined as a simulation of reality which appears to be somber, with an immerse magnitude, which is expressed to induce a sense of fear or pity with an embellishment of the [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 986

Myths: a Very Big Impact in the Lives of Human Beings

Myths are said to provide a framework of cultures in the society and are also said to educate people in the society so that they can have a means of coping with the traditions which [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1438