Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 48

Her two stories, "The Storm" and "The Story of an Hour" are discussed in this paper to see how well Kate achieves her creative intention."The Storm" is a short story, but it is packed with [...]

Accordingly, following the traditions of the old masterpieces of courtly romance, the authors of the 17th and 18th centuries created their works reflecting the same very important topics love and death, the struggle between men [...]

Penelope is believed to be the faithful wife of Ulysses and she stood really strong in his absence. She had a lot of persistence and composure, her image had been overshadowed because of Ulysses, and [...]

Poem: The Neighboring Procedure - A Priori Passage: If ha'apalah was catastrophic breakthrough now illegal immigration If the bodies of the exploding martyrs smell of musk If every breath of fresh air is a boarder [...]

She was born in Gambia and was made a slave at the age of seven in having been purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston where she learned to read and write and then developed [...]

The title of the book is in the context of the house that Esperanza lives in, which her family had shifted into at the beginning of the novel.

The present paper argues that whereas "Greasy Lake" and "Lord of the Flies" imply that a group of people turns into a cruel and blood-thirsty tribe in the absence of authority, "Lottery" and "On the [...]

Although she does not yet fully understand her thoughts, she is deeply aware of a change coming over her, causing her to openly and defiantly resist her husband's calls to her to come in from [...]

The general mood for this era at least for the creative minds that produce novels, poems, and other works of art can be summarized using the words of one commentator who pointed to the numbing [...]

It is also quite possible for us to say that there is a certain inconsistency in the actions of the chorus.

Under the direction of Alfonso Cuaron, the end product was that of a movie that, although immensely different in storytelling style than the book, produced the same storyline and effect upon the fans of the [...]

The book is of interest to the general reader and of immense help to those who seek to know of the history of childhood.

It stands to reason that to a certain degree, the works of this famous historian and poet take their origins in Homers Iliad and Odyssey, but the two authors do not share the same opinion [...]

Gries argues that the two countries that matter the most to China are the US and Japan and that the evolving Chinese nationalism is in response to its interaction with these two nations.

There can be no doubt as to the fact that Romantic writers and poets strongly opposed the ideals of the French Revolution; however, this was not due to these ideals' rational essence, but because, during [...]

The relationship of Death with this girl is extraordinary, and the story revolves around a trait in this girl which makes her a passionate book thief.

O'Neill depicts that one of the many sins these women committed is to have built up the image of prostitutes as romantic and sensational, instead of showing these women as they really are, unfortunate and [...]

In the preface to "Tartuffe", the author argues that the main task of comedy or art in general is to eradicate the vices of the society, including hypocrisy.

The protagonist of the "House of the Spirits", Clara, was a woman with a special gift and strong family values: "Clara lived in a universe of her own invention, protected from life's inclement weather, where [...]

Even though Cruz is finding it difficult to cope with life here, the more she stays here the more she get as adapted to this environment.

It is a fruit of the tree that is the poet's mind. There is always a great satisfaction in finding out the meaning of those poems, it's like you have climbed a tall tree and [...]

It is his memory of the nightmare that keeps him imprisoned, he appears in the camp again and again by the volition of his memory that is eager to play painful tricks with him.

Wright as she is both insane and in prison and thus still constrained, reflects the optimistic mood of the turn of the century literature as it hopes for changes in American society that will enable [...]

When facing the pure evil in the face of Arnold, Connie realizes that her absolute power over the boys is a trifle and in fact, she is weak enough to endure pressure as equally as [...]

In is obvious, then, that the church intervention into the black society contributes to improvement of the situation in the city and a better organization of the church where Youngblood philosophy was of great value.

As shown by the examples of Prometheus from Prometheus Bound, James Stark from Rebel without a Cause, and Barry from Barry Lyndon, being a hero and a villain is possible for one and the same [...]

Du Bois in the work "The Soul of Black Folk" asks the question, why black people are considered to be different, why they are treated differently as they are the same members of the society, [...]

In conclusion, it should be noted that the theme of the struggle between man and nature is a wonderful aesthetic approach.

The same symbols of drums, which are present in the poem, show the reader that the war spirit is discussed, which wants to fight, but some doubts limit it.

The poet confirms that death is "Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so". Donne refers to a world of privacy and solitude when it comes to the existence of the death.

Analyzing the attitude of the authors to education, it is necessary to state that in "Three Cups of Tea" education is the core of the book.

Thus, the myth is one of the literary genre which helped ancient people to understand and explain the structure and natural phenomena of the world, environment, people and other creatures around, the origins of everything [...]

Some poets use different stylistic devices to make their works more expressive and keep to a definite type of writing to stand out, whereas the others neglect all the rules of writing verses and rely [...]

She is moved by the plight of this woman to an extent that she decides to offer her a job in her shop.

We see family life depicted from the point of view of the head of the family, Larry by name. Groups and show the real state of things in the family, contempt of the son and [...]

Augustine, the film shows the perversion of free will and the fall to the inferior level of God's creation, Abelard would note that the true justice is executed in the film, whereas Heloise would focus [...]

However, the poem deals only with one speaker, there are actually two voices: the voice of the woman and the voice of the society.

The author of this book made specific research on the city structure and on the relationships between the social and economic position of people and the crime level from the point of view of safety [...]

The depiction of life of an individual and the common man was the main theme in works. His works form a link between Romanticism and the literature of the 20th century.

In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the relationship is not based on equality; men are not only considered superior to women, but the men, supported by patriarchal society, indulged in various forms of discrimination against women; on [...]

It's an indication of the misuse of the people by the leaders in a bid to bar them from enlightenment and also keep them in manipulative positions.

The story describes the process and results of the experiment, the knowledge acquired during the experiment and the aspects influencing the lives of the low-waged workers, their living conditions and methods of making money.

The character of Belisa Crepusculario is introduced in the first line of the short story because she is the main character and the action unfolds around the woman.

Hence, the poem provides a list of 'if' statement pertaining to the merits and the shortcoming of modern life. The poem present the concepts in the form of dependent propositions thus showing that everything in [...]

The conclusion of this paper can be formulated as follows - in their stories, both: Kafka and Marquez strived to present readers with a three-dimensional clue on particularities of their characters' behavior.

The main spheres where the author tries to involve the issue of science and our "inherited ways" of knowledge in the area of science are archeology, history, and music. John Broomfield suggests the nature and [...]

In the title, the fear for everything unknown and unexpected is put into the sounds of somebody, knocking at the door.

There is a certain rationale in this kind of suggestions after all, Medea had gone about expressing her contempt with women's lot on numerous occasions: "The man who was everything to me, my own husband, [...]

Instead of relying on the common sources of historical records of different people and events living in the time of the city's prosperity, the book analyzes the life of the city and its inhabitants from [...]

In the article, Halsall gives importance to the consideration of discussion between the leaders of the Federation of Malaysia, the Republic of Indonesia, and the Republic of the Philippines at the Conference of Ministers in [...]

The most appropriate theme for the modern world is the theme of the lack of adventures. The theme of adventures is one of the main ones in this book, as all the actions are related [...]

The list of contents of the book makes it clear from the very beginning that the structure of the book depends is based on the chronological description of the events that were the preconditions and [...]

First of all, it is the point of racial discrimination in the United States. The paradox is in the fact that the good intentions of the Founding Fathers turn into the enslavement policy and struggle [...]

Despite the distorted interpretation of gender in the patriarchal society, Chaucer's vision of women contradicts the orthodox view of the biological distinction of males and females as the justification for gender inequality.

In the tradition of classical dramaturgy of ancient Greeks, the concept of the pay and its representation was driven in terms of the natural play of actors and without decorations.

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis is a powerful novel that explores the life of a young college student, building on the nightlife that is almost the prerogative of the cities.

However, the autobiographical narration emphasizes the details of Arenas relations and his homosexual orientation whereas the movie is more focused on the representation of the political and cultural situation in the United States and Cuba [...]

There are special difficulties that stand in the way of a woman who wants to have independent, fulfilling life, which is the child care, that in some cases remain only woman shoulders, obtaining the desired [...]

In both short stories mentioned, the main female characters Georgiana and Beatrice fall victims to the men that possess full control of their life: Georgiana is convinced by her husband, a man of science, of [...]

This book was a long-expected one; and as the contemporary newspapers were writing before the official appearance of the book: "All signs indicate that "The Keys of the Kingdom", which depicts with such dramatic force [...]

The book by Nathaniel Hawthorne titled The Scarlet Letter is considered the best work of his not in vain the contents and the topics touched upon in it raise much profound thinking and reveal the [...]

The short stories Maus and Maus II by Art Spiegelman are the examples of the innovative, not traditional approach to the topic of the Holocaust.

There are a great number of different pieces of literature, which became to be the works representing significant value to the world of literature, literary critics and people fond of the enormous world created by [...]

In "Sure Thing" it can be said that the relationship between sexes is the basis of the play, where actions can be seen as one of the interpretations of the different versions of the lines.

The author reveals many contradictory data on the policy of segregation and apartheid in the USA since the emergence of slavery and up to the middle of the 20th century that did not eliminate the [...]

The novel begins with Taylor's departure from her native town, then she meets a woman who gives her a child; after that Taylor takes care of the child.

In order to spawn a good understanding of the current American politics in the schooling system, Lassiter compares Charlotte and Atlanta.

The development of imaginative literature may be characterized by the sequence of successive changes of the literary trends driven by the changes of social conditions and the change of topicality of the themes expressed in [...]

Thus, when a person has to face the choice of occupation, he/she may resort to famous literary works in order to find information about the demand for occupations in the course of history, the reasons [...]

The writer points out a very curious paradox; he says that France and other Western nations immensely shaped political thinking of the Vietnamese but these states did not give them any resources to sustain the [...]

The novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane considers the issue of women's work in the late 19th century United States, and the main focuses of the novel are the unprotected work [...]

This could be in the character's attitude the life and his constant discontent with the way he lives throughout the novel. His framed vision of life does not allow him to embrace the real material [...]

The voice of a girl in Plath's poem and the voice of a man in Browning's one dramatize the plots and the setting of both.

Consequently, the work is aimed at the analysis of the interconnection of the way of expression of the themes and content of the poems with the form and figurative language of the poetry.

It vividly discloses and illustrates the talent of the ancient Greek dramatist as the master of disclosure of the themes that have been topical in the course of development of human society and literature.

The works of American literature of the 19th century are closely connected with the religious aspects of Christianity, and the expression of Christian beliefs is a widespread aspect of the literature on the whole.

In the play Antigone, it is an interesting fact that the actions taken by Creon, the King of Thebes, is unsolicited by the citizens of Thebes but hardly anyone has the courage to utter it.

The topic of the poem is preserved from the very beginning till the end of the poem, from the image and observation of the cross to the story by the same cross.

The protagonist of the story is Delaney Mossbacher, who was lucky to be born in a good family, to receive a good education and to life a successful life with his wife.

The end of 1940s was a culmination for Carlos Fuentes, as the person of great nobility and great knowledge, so that to move the society in the flow of his talent.

With the help of locations, furniture, different subjects, which are rather important scenes of the play, the horrors of war, and importance of cooperation are emphasized.

The real punishment of the sinners in the life after starts in the second circle. Each head is said to consume the three known traitors in the history of the bible, one is Judas who [...]

Jorge Amado is one of the most outstanding examples of a writer who could make the traditional attitude toward things and people transformed in the literature manner of the Modernist trend. In The Miracle of [...]

The book widely emphasizes the issues of grief and this can be a major aspect as to why it is unfair not reading it in the first place.

And finally, I would like to state that this whole image of the tiger could be the embodiment of William Blake. In this very poem, the image is discrepant, it seems to possess all good [...]

The foremost psychological difference between men and women is that men are expected to be capable of suppressing their animalistic urges, to be able to act "as necessary", as opposed to women's tendency to act [...]

The focal point of this paper is to provide an analytical outline of the novel 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.

The beginning of the novel is not just the description of Lucy's first day on her new job, but the description of the changes, which she had suffered as a newcomer in the new country [...]

The poem starts with the description of how the two parked near the lake, the grass was white, and the moon was rising.

The sinister nature of the novel is inferred in the title which derives from the Hebrew word, Ba'al-zvuv which means god of the fly, host of the fly or literally the Lord of Flies a [...]

Considering the 2008 elections in particular, the Colbert Report served as accelerator of the people's self-awareness and patriotism; it aimed at revealing the truth to people in humorous ways in order to compensates the lack [...]

It is during the process of healing and coming into terms with the departure of the loved oppressor that one realizes the beauty of life, the sweetness of freedom and the core values of individual [...]

The concept of wisdom in its fullness is concerned to be the solely major point of the discussion in the book.

It is necessary to underline the fact that we could not perceive the morality as human qualities cultivation; the author stressed the idea of humanism, subjectivity and self-assertion to be the necessary components of the [...]

Odysseus was creative and capable of great endurance, and the gods paid heed to him, and it was due to his temper.

The most significant parts in the book, as for me, is the description of the acquaintance with T-34, the best tank of the World War II, and the parts, when Karl tells about the books, [...]

In other words, the set of the nine essays collected in the book present the views and reflection of the authors upon the impact of the world wars upon the particular representatives of the German [...]

This feature of the book is the beauty of the language of Kincaid and the ugliness of the truth that the author describes.

This is the reason, why Stephen is called "compelling character" Analyzing the plot of the story, first thing which attracts attention is the structure of the text. The whole novel is organized according to three [...]

The main topic of the play "The Taming of the Shrew" is the taming of the character in the play named Katherine.

This paper aims to compare and contrast the last canto of the Inferno and the last canto of the Paradise. In fact, the entire poem is written in this way and Dante is believed to [...]

On the island, Robinson did not forget the Word of God believing that it is the only way for the salvation of soul and mind.

Accordingly, this paper will identify some of the themes that are brought out in this book and the contribution of this book to my understanding of the topic of the Holocaust.

Through Prufrock, we see the bareness and the mental tension in the life of the modern man living in an urban area.

Inferno discloses the aspects of divine and religion retribution; the part is devoted to the depiction of the descent through the levels of the Hell.

In the Victorian age when middle-class women were expected to conform to perhaps the most oppressive rules ever imposed on women in Britain's history, there were still individual women who advocated the equality of the [...]

The presence of the evil eye in the loved old man is the catalyst that leads to the narrator's madness. As the narrator continues to stare at the eye revealed in the small light of [...]

A six-word fictional story is a work of fiction because it presents unreal facts, while a six-word memoir is a work of non-fiction which presents reality and is able to evoke a certain response in [...]

The poet repeats the snarling and rattling in the seventh line to foreshadow the violent death of the boy whose hand gets chopped off by the saw and he succumbs to subsequent loss of blood.

Providing some actions people do not always think about the consequences, but it usually appears so that they get what they deserve and the play of the ancient Greek author Sophocles "Oedipus the King" is [...]

This is the case with Charles Chestnutt's short story "The Wife of His Youth" in which the significant disruption of life experienced by the institution of slavery and the Civil War is illustrated through the [...]

In his novella The Man Who Was Almost a Man Richard Wright tells the story of a seventeen-year-old African-American adolescent, Dave Saunders, who has a strong desire to buy a gun to prove to everyone [...]

It is known that the plot of the drama is built around an awful tragedy in the life of the protagonist and his surrounding.

Second, Lewis' objectivity and consideration of the religion outside its rituals, to consider the moral principles and ethics involved on a greater level as applicable to humanity, encourage the non-Christian reader to follow Lewis wholly [...]

As the story progresses, the protagonist, Oedipus, evolves from his position as the egocentric king of Thebes and rapidly disintegrates into a victim of his own fate.

Thus, the paper deals with the explanation and evaluation of the current background maintained and provided in the bodies of both texts.

Being the brain and the intellectual reason of the family, the husband wisely guides the ship of his matrimonial unit through all the possible mishaps and traps and takes the necessary precautions in order to [...]

In the literary analysis of any work of art of the main focuses are usually done on the main characters of the work of art.

In the review article by Kazin, he states that Sir Spender in his journal brought about a collection of who's who in the literary world, but the book lacks "in malice as it is in [...]

The great issues of the day were the main focus of articles as well as the works of fiction that were becoming much more popular as the price of books fell."The Victorian novel, with its [...]