Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 49

It was the first time in the world literature when the hero of the narrating becomes the contemporary society. At the beginning of the work there is a description of the terrible disease of that [...]

The way Friar Laurence supported Romeo and Juliet to get Married, The way the Nurse is opposing in her regards of Romeo and Paris, When Friar Laurence clandestinely married them, the way the Nurse is [...]

Prowess, in its material meaning, is considered as necessary to the rise to power but foremost to the maintenance of the rule.

Harold Bloom stresses the responsibility the teacher of literature now has for a general moral pedagogy: "The teacher of literature now in America, far more than the teacher of history or philosophy or religion, is [...]

This is like the letter Burns sent to his father before being a poet and there he stood and proved to all that He is a great writer who strikes in every thing he writes. [...]

Oedipus, born to Laius and Jocasta, the king and queen of Thebes, is destined to "kill his father and mate with his mother".

The peculiar feature of the book is that in terms of the problem studied the author does not retrace the history of French Jewry, but mostly tracks the history of anti-Semitism.

It can be noticed that the demands of the modern man in searching for the object of his affection, in the future might be fulfilled in the form of the constructed female robots.

In Season of Migration to the North by Al-Tayeb Salih and in Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz male dominance is one of the main ideas.

In her novels Arabian Jazz and Crescent, the problem of remaking of identity of Arab Americans is depicted. It is important to mention that the problem of multiculturalism became a topical one in the end [...]

The international recognition that he was able to enjoy may be seen as the result of the quality of his literary endeavors and the style and effectiveness of his writing along with the universality and [...]

The theme of war in literature is a long-standing tradition that nearly always leads to a discourse about the ethics of violence and the effects it has on the people involved.

In the novel, we see April and Frank Wheeler as a youthful, presumably flourishing couple who lives a contented life with their two offspring in a well-to-do Connecticut neighborhood in the middle of the 1950s.

Dramatic irony is used by Shakespeare to unveil the personal failures of the characters to see the reality and the world around them because of narrow-mindedness and shortsightedness.

The overdetermination of trouble in Sinclair's narrative creates a jungle of disjunctions and contradictions, aptly represented by the novel's repeated images of bodily disintegration - of the loss of fingers, the loss of feet, the [...]

It is one of the main characteristics of the mockingbird includes its innocence and imitation of the songs of other birds in a loud voice.

The Jewish American experience is one of the key matters of the world Jewish community, as it is one of the largest Jewish communities in the world.

The Tralfamadorian subplot includes a vision of the end of the world and the perpetuation of war, but these seem distant threats compared with the miseries of battlefield.

Paulette Hansel got used to read her poems in public in order to transfer her emotions and the mood of her poems to the people for them to understand the real sense of her art.

In contrast to many children, Dillard lived in wealthy family and had an opportunity to visit a private school. In sum, the unique childhood experience had a great impact on Dillard and her life views.

In the New Jersey-based stories, the narrators, all of whom may or may not be Yunior, share Yunior's sensibility: the suspicious watchfulness and defensive stance, the blighted relationship with the father figure, and the uneasiness [...]

The novel was written only in some months; it is considered to be inferior to the brilliant author's novels of the 1920s. The novel appeared in 1935, in the period when the USA and the [...]

In the novel, the main character, Clare Kendry, defines herself in terms of her family; she is concerned solely with the welfare of her children and the degree to which her husband's infidelity threatens her [...]

One of the interesting structural points of the play is that narration in the play is being led by two voices: one presenting the listener with the real day life activities of the character and [...]

The Cripple of Inishmaan written by Martin McDonahg is a dark comedy, which connects the actual story to the real life filming of the documentary Man of Aran.

The novel starts with the end of an expedition when people were attacked and killed by an unknown enemy, and the contact between the expedition and the outer world is lost.

As a serving maid, she is able to take pride in her ability to support herself and becomes even more familiar with the necessity of a young girl to guard her chastity if she is [...]

Altogether Mann succeeds to convey his messages through the character of the boy, the artist, and the other objects in the story.

These soliloquies are dramatic and ironical, Harold Wilson submits, with an irony that is implicit and eloquent in the extravagances of Hamlet's rhetoric.

The three poems written by Langston Hughes, namely "Negro Speaking of the Rivers", "Democracy" and "The Negro Mother" show the depth of black people's sufferings and the immensity of their desire to obtain freedom and [...]

Masood skews the balance of this relationship when the grandfather speaks of his dislike of the man, in answer to the boy's question: "He is an indolent man, and I do not like such people".

Rosario Ferre's and Bessie Head's works are dealing with many issues of racial and gender discrimination and racialism."The youngest doll" by Ferre and "Snapshot's of the wedding" by Head is opening to the reader a [...]

Also, it is difficult for her to come to terms with the fact that her mother spends a lot of time with people on their deathbeds.

Robin Waterfield turned the author of the story into the hero and reflected the truth of the events, pitfalls of power, and flow of the history in his personality.

The story of the couple is presented through male and female perspectives: it is told by the male narrator in the Mandoline part which is Thomas's side and the second part Canary in Bloom is [...]

The novel follows Tita throughout the course of her life and shows how she is tormented by her mother. From Tita's birth, which took place on a table in the kitchen, to where she spends [...]

It should be borne in mind that Emma is a representative a certain society and to a certain extent, her actions are governed by the rules, established in this society, and she is not free [...]

This brief paper looks at the significance of the title in the light of the settings and the symbolism in the story.

However, his observations of the clientele help him shape a view of the others in the community, and sadly, it is not an image that appeals to him.

This contradiction is revealed in the play by confronting the principles of two characters, Creon who felt his powers and used them to the fullest possible extent and Antigone with her actions which were not [...]

Andre Dubus is the author of the short story "Killings" published in the year 1979; this short story was converted to a film in the year 2001 a Todd Fields Direction.

The work by Yuko to be considered in this paper is one of the brightest examples of her prose, and it can be observed by the readers that personal concern of the author about her [...]

Children's literature has long been a part of a child's early development and can trace its roots all the way back to the very first time in ancient history when a parent told a child [...]

First of all it is necessary to mention, that the historical period, Shakespeare lived and created in was featured by the bloom of the philosophical considerations on the matters of perfect community, and the attempts [...]

All his books invariably deal with plots in the nature of conspiracies in one way or the other and in this regard, his two novels, The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons are very [...]

The first is that both are in a way predictions about the future of mankind.'Single Minded' is about people wanting to live alone and '1984' about the state of society being policed by a dictatorial [...]

The environment is used to exemplify some of the character aspects of the main character; the Captain. Throughout the story Leggatt is described as the Captain's double; highlighting a shadier side of the Captain.

Due to the revolution created by his blatant disclosures in the novel, Ellis began to be considered as the voice of the young generation and literary critics started to refer to the book as representing [...]

The emphasis on the absence of any sounds in this room presents a depressing feeling of sadness that is visually interconnected between the absence of movements in the 'air' and the 'paralyzes of the protagonist.

Despite the fact that Ivan Ilych never turns to religion directly, or in any way applies for the absolution of his sins, it is given to him.

The narrative Incident of the Life of a Slave Girl depicts life troubles and hardships faced by a slave girl and her understanding of freedom and equality.

It is not easy to distinguish the most important aspects of Eudora Weltys life, because all of them are closely intertwined, though, while analyzing her stories one should pay attention to her family relationships, her [...]

In consequence, the book became a model source of reading that inspired people to further take on the issues of race in the USA and throughout the world.

Ingersoll in his article "The Stigma of Femininity in James Joyce's "Eveline" and "The Boarding House" analyzes the image of Eveline from the point of view of feminity and oppression of women in those times [...]

Eliot employs the so-called exhausted poetic mode for the purpose of showing the corruptive nature of adherence to social mimicry, which results in the spiritual blindness, the loss of the ability to the perceive the [...]

What Greene does not mention here is that Jesse is her adopted son from Bulgaria and so there is the added responsibility of setting an example of how to live in a society that is [...]

A person who is hesitant to read can never be a good writer, hence I have understood this important thing and I have been working upon it for quite some time now.

The story is not interesting to read and there is nothing left in the memory to share with others. The Beast in the Jungle is definitely not one of the stories to read twice.

A person who is not aware of the date when the story "Our America" was written, will think that Jose Marti wrote the story, which is a speech in its format, in the 21st century.

The women characters in the short story tell each other a series of tales, embedded within the story at different narratives, about the enticements and dangers they face when they were young.

Each morning it was the duty of the overseer to assign the daily work for the slaves and, when the task was completed, to inspect the fields to see that the work had been done [...]

Stevenson depicts a flaw of the main character through the theme of dual personality which is closely connected with the evolution process and the contemporary problem of unethical scientific researches.

Her monologue or probably it would be better to say defense speech is the bright example of the transition that we have already mentioned.

In the case of the interview of Uncle Bud, it is true that he is aged and is 84 years old. Both Colson and Andrews however agree that Conrad's book is a valuable resource for [...]

At the turn of twentieth century, more and more educated White people were finding themselves being deprived of psychological qualities that allowed their ancestors to build and to maintain civilization they were becoming increasingly incapable [...]

First of all, for the past 40 years the thematic orientation in the literature has changed in direction from the depiction of the real contradictions of social reality to the postmodern "collapse of big narrative" [...]

Cohn states, that he is dissatisfied with his life in Paris, and he believes, that the change of the surrounding scenery would help him to fill the void that he feels in the life.

In this essay, we are going to explore the following issues; first, whether, Oedipus can be perceived as a hero in the traditional meaning of this word, in other words, we have to answer the [...]

Our task is to show how this journey is viewed by some of the minor characters, how he or she perceives the notion of "American Dream", and how it reflects his world perception.

It is stated, that the poem is based on the paradoxes and opposites: The first and the foremost is the discrepancy between the urn with its frozen images, and the dynamics of the life, which [...]

Pond's poem consists of only two lines, which simply relate author's experience of being present in Metro at La Concorde, Paris, with utter exactness: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a [...]

In both poems, the concept of identity is emphasized by the authors as the core of their personality and a link with the past.

There is something in the symbolism of his career, and in the words with which it is memorialized, which is evocative of drama not upon the tragic stage but in the theories and speculations of [...]

This scene is the one where the narrator and the attorney were giving a lift to a hitchhiker. Two of us were driving the car to Las Vegas when I saw a boy standing in [...]

In the pages of history and numerous literary canons in American experience there lies a terrain of societal upheaval and unrest that addresses the questions of segregation and racist philosophy underlying the mainstream dynamics of [...]

It is one of the most poignant scenes of the modern stage, But there is another kind of music in The Glass Menagerie, as there is in most successful drama, and that is the underground [...]

The article related to this short story, "Looking at setting and Atmosphere" analyses and demonstrates the importance of minor details in a short story. The author of the article is right that the story is [...]

Martin Luther King Jr was a hero for he decided to fight for the rights of the black person in the American society.

However, Shakespeare, being the absolute genius of an artist was able to conceptualize the basic norms of this sentiment and presented his villain of this play as a monster, for the jingoistic mass, and a [...]

This statement will serve us as the main thesis for this paper, because in it, we will aim to prove that, even though Don Quixote and Orgon seem to be out of this world, it [...]

Realizing this is the origin of his own poems, Whitman may have extrapolated this concept to all poets in the above statement, suggesting that the origin of all poems is in the lives of the [...]

There can be no doubt as to the fact that Joseph Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness" and Francis Coppola's movie "Apocalypse Now" significantly differ from each other, in terms of plot's composition, geographical settings, and [...]

Because they are women, the men automatically assume that they are incapable of understanding the gravity of what has occurred just as the men have apparently ignored the possibility that it was Mrs.

The poet mocks this dream and criticizes the country for being a notion of hope that is fundamentally aligned towards the rich and not for the poor.

The novel is aimed at disclosure of the principal problems faced by the working class in the 1930s and showing how ordinary people had to struggle for their rights. The flow of events presented in [...]

As things progressed, after the incidents with Melanie at the university and he had to leave teaching for a while, he went to visit his daughter Lucy in the outskirts out of cape Town in [...]

It was through the literature that much of this expression came to the attention of the rest of the nation, enabling it to have the tremendous impact it did on its own as well as [...]

Given that the events are seen through the eyes of the young person, the major emphasis is placed upon the main character's perception of the violence and death taking place around him and gradual loss [...]

The novel demonstrates that one of the true insights of Communism is its understanding of the manner in which all human institutions and activities become perverted to the selfish use of particular groups.

Examining works such as the short stories "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "Ligeia" reveals much of Poe's character through the form of his anima.

Setting plays a very important role in the composition of the whole work of literature. In general, the setting is a background of the events in the writer's work.

The author, as a mother has put a lot of her own reflection and her soul into the novel, still giving her readers the opportunity to form their own opinion about the things in the [...]

This complexity comes even more difficult when the topic of race and identity is involved in literature."No Telephone to Heaven" by Michelle Cliff is the piece of literature dealing with this topic, and the present [...]

The book 'The Souls of Black Folk concentrates on the ideas of race and equality, the position of a black man in society, and his unique identity neglected by the white majority.

However, Okonkwo is helpless once he finds British colonization creeping in and destroying the traditional parameters of the village and their culture as a whole along with the ramification of their religion with the invasion [...]

The two characters have been introduced, and even been compared in the beginning of the series, with Sherlock Holmes being given the superiority of observation, and Dr.

Bradbury feared the demise of reading in favor of television, and the ultimate homogenization of culture as a result of being spoon fed ideas.

Next to the curriculum committee, the teachers and parents are responsible on the selection and decision of the study material. The characters in the story are country folks and the setting of the story is [...]

Shakespeare introduced a shift in focus from the traditional angelic woman, usually blond and 'bright as the sun', as she is replaced with a Dark Lady whose characteristics remain far from the chaste princess of [...]

In the story of the two women, Leonora and Florence are brought out to be strong as they control the dynamics of almost all the occurrence in the story.

The book goes on to detail how Leopold gradually takes the entire lot of the Congo population in his grip, by making it in the nature of his private fiefdom to keep them in a [...]

The Age of the Enlightenment adored the samples of the classical art, in which it has seen the embodiment of intelligence.

It was Wordsworth's belief that Nature has the power to subdue the human heart and to mould the moral life of man, thereby emphasizing the influence of natural objects upon a superstitious soul and the [...]

Certain connection between Miller's play "Crucible" and what was going on in the world during the Red Scare cannot be denied and by analyzing the play and the definite historical period one can find a [...]

Huxley has written in the introduction of his recent print of the book that much of the inspiration for the book was a result of his visit to the high technology Brunner and Mond plant [...]

Seneca describes the wedding in details and on this stage Medea already hates Creusa and Jason and starts thinking over her plans to take the revenge whereas in Euripides's Medea the scene with the wedding [...]

In following with the traditional ending of fairy tales as applied to Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, the moral of the story is that beauty holds more significance than a thing of character.

It acknowledged the interdependency of the masculine and the feminine or community values such as the earth and sky. Achebe's stories are also known to use proverbs that incorporate the values of the rural Igbo [...]

Despite the fact that Tesman tries his best to satisfy Hedda's desires to the best of his ability, she still thinks of him as not being quite worthy of her, because in Hedda's eyes, Tesman [...]

During the ancient times, the Greeks held festivals in honor of Dionysus who was referred to as the god of everything uncivilized where the Athenians tried to control the innate wildness of humanity.

In later years, a lot of his poems were directed through the style of using firm words to express his strong emotions and to depict the ideas of revealing and concealing the tone of his [...]

In "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber", Hemingway reveals his latent fear of strong women and being dominated as he depicts the story of a middle-aged man who is finally beginning to understand [...]

The first works of the author are devoted to the writer's life experience and disclose the events and facts which were familiar to her that is why many of these works are autobiographical.

The book is broken up into key lessons, each of which is a representation of a facet or a feature of President Abraham Lincoln's style of leadership.

An artist wants to express with the help of his or her art, the economic, political, social, cultural and religious or philosophical conditions of the moment of the creation of the art.

Even though the main plot of the story is centered on challenges threatening to sabotage the union Hero and Claudio, Beatrice along with Benedick with their constant verbal jousting finds itself quite an interesting counter-plot.

This appears to be the main motif of O'Brien's book and it is readers' existential mode that prompts them to look at "The Things They Carried" as literary piece that promotes an anti-war sentiment or [...]

Consequently, any effort to state the meaning of the poem appears to be heretical, as it is an affront to the honesty of the complex arrangement of sense within the literary creation.

For example in the chapter on the Great Gatisby she narrates the dreams of people in regard to the future, the dangers associated with fulfillment of such dreams, and the frustration resulting from the dreams [...]

Thus, it is evident from the arguments of the author believes in the thought process that though not in the usual pattern of the era Shakespeare constructed his works in the line of romantic nature [...]