Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 50

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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

Main Theme of “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller

The purpose of this paper is to find out what Willy believed to be the key to successful selling and to identify whether Willy fits the typical profile of a successful salesman as presented in [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 587

“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

Rappaccini’s Daughter’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

One of the examples of the American literary canon is Rappaccini's Daughter, since it is distinguished by its innovativeness, features of the narration, and themes, but has universal values at the same time.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 858

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

“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

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

“Library Ethics” by Jean L. Preer

Secondly, it is worth noting that the librarianship is quite a general issue to talk about and it goes without saying that that amount of books that has been given to the usage of a [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1143

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

Reasons of Success of Amateur Detective Fiction Authors

The essay will analyze the success of amateur detective fiction authors, paying special attention to the narrative voice and character, as well as the interest and complexity of solving a problem.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1035

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

Selfish Love in the Story Reunion by John Cheever

Although it is a short story the author managed to provide a clear understanding of how quickly the son got disappointed in his father and the feeling of excitement about the meeting changed to the [...]
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 584

Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” Review

The tension intensifies with every stanza till the third one from the end after which the narrator understands the senselessness of the situation in searching for the answers for his questions in the raven's "nevermore".
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1206

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

How The Necklace Story Relate to You?

Towards the end of the story, Mathilde Loise decides to tell the truth to Madame Forestier concerning the necklace and the misery that she had undergone.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 818

The Role of the Violin in the Chang’s “Hunger”

When he discovers that he cannot match the "expectations," he secludes himself violently and only emerges upon unraveling the potential of his daughter, Anna to play the violin.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1399

“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

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

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

“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

“Death and the King’s Horseman” by Soyinka

The foregoing discussion indicates Soyinka's portrayal of the confluence of Western and Yoruba values and interests through the experiences of Pilkings, Jane, Elesin, and Olunde.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 893

The Flood Interpretation in the World Literature

The one similarity in all these three stories is the symbol of the water as the purification of the land from the evil and the resolution to a new generation to live without crime, harm, [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 837

Religion in Real-World Colonialism and in the Sparrow

This paper is dedicated to the study of the role of religion in real-world colonialism and in the novel through manifestation of the connections between the history of Spanish colonization of Americas and the colonization [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1138

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

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: 7
  • 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

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky

For example, Ivan demonstrates his relationship with The Universe through his views that God's love is refuted by the unnecessary suffering that humans endure.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 581

Geisha’s Art in the ‘Memoirs of Geisha’ by Golden

The geisha is a unique phenomenon for the Asian culture as well as, of course, for the western one. Thereby, geisha is the men's friend and companion, and at the same time, a beautiful and [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 936

Comparative View: Role of Mothers in Women’s Writings

Even in the 20th century, it is not surprising to note that the roles that are assigned or predetermined to be played by women in society have remained the same with few women taking up [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2311

“The Lady and Her Five Suitors” Story

The woman decides to place a petition and hence dresses to her best and moves to the king's palace where she encounters four men who were the senior person in the state and were in [...]
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1003

Seamus Heaney and His Poetry

Without the experience of witnessing the aggression between the British and Irish, Heaney would not have been able to draw parallels between the girl in the poem and the women of Northern Ireland to create [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 969

Socrates’ Apology Critical Analysis

Socrates was only out to defend his philosophical views, not that he preferred death to life. These utterances are not from a soul convinced that death is better than life, if not so, he would [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 862

Women Emancipation in Keun’s and Schnitzler’s Works

Though she tries to find a decent job Doris is also illiterate, so, she has to withdraw her patron's attention from finding her mistakes and inserting commas by the means of her feminine charm.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1421

Medea’s Justification for Her Crime

Medea felt Jason had betrayed her love for him and due to her desperate situation she was depressed and her normal thinking was affected that she started thinking of how she would revenge the man [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 684

Two Articles on Digital Technologies

It is very interesting how the author outlines the attitudes of parents and their children, being raised in two different social groups, towards digital media.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 588

Analysis of Gwendonly Brooks’ Books

The African American are described to be living in distress and real poverty based on the description of the housing the environment and the lifestyle they lead.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 702

The Character of Gilgamesh in His Quest for Immortality

The main character's quest for immortality is analyzed through his way of life, the predetermined impossibility of achieving immortality, his journey to Uta-Napishtim, some of the challenges he has to pass to reach his aim, [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 854

14th Century Legacy in the Sonnets of Garcilaso

Eliot's theory of the impersonality of poetry: "The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1422

Muhammad Ali: “Redemption Song” Analysis

Even though most Americans consider him a traitor, he is regarded as one of the greatest boxers in the world."Redemption Song" by Mark Marqusee is a book that describes the cost of the choices that [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1635

Creation Myths in American Tradition

Some other Native American groups like the Hopi and the Zuni believed that the creation of the universe began from emergence from the earth.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1478

Christian Thought in Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

Stowe uses Eva, Tom, Uncle Tom, and Eliza to approach the theme of Christianity and fight the destructive nature of slavery Uncle Tom is depicted as a devoted Christian, he is promised freedom but maintains [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

Jeanette Walls’ “The Glass Castle” Book Response

All the events in the book are connected to the author herself and their entire family and those who happen to be born in poor backgrounds, whereby she is after informing the reader on the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 709

The Making of Americans Novel by Gertrude Stein

In this regard, Stein sets out to show the reader, through a series of her own repetitive technique of writing, that it is possible for them to see themselves in others and vice versa as [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 751

Greek Manly Virtue in Epic Literature & Philosophy

Thus, the manly virtue of ancient Greeks was an attribute of the male and female parts of the society that was implemented since childhood and related to the norms of ethics and aesthetics.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2348