Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 51

In 'A Bird in the house, for instance, we see Vanessa rebelling against her grandfather's dictatorship, and as a result, she is denied the freedom she is fighting for.

First and foremost, although it is a literary piece of work, it can be considered as a historical truth thanks to the author living at that particular period of time and claim that the given [...]

However, the existence of the canary is itself a mystery as no one can guarantee that anyone has actually seen the bird at all. The canary is a metaphor by itself, and it symbolized the [...]

The thrust of the paper is focused on taking a multidimensional exploration of the importance of the theme of sexuality threaded in the composition of the novel by Sheng.

After the death of his mother in 1907, Hitler moved to the city of Vienna, where he hoped to join the Art Academy.

He was referred to as the Eagle of the Mountains and had wanted to preserve the independence and strength of the Caucasus against Russia and had the support of the Sultan of Turkey in this [...]

The reign of the absurd has caused violence, and the setting of the story adds tremor and drama to it. War does not bring any good to people, and this is highlighted in the novel.

The style of the novel adds a sense of mystery to the story, which, combined with the representation of the various rituals and the extensive usage of the native language, makes the reading process more [...]

The book itself is the story about the characters that were created by the author of the book Thornton Burgess and that are the embodiments of the processes and things of nature, as well as [...]

The walnut tree, which is the center of discussion, symbolizes the merry fruitfulness of a time when the family was affluent. The poem symbolizes the walnut tree as a remembrance of the father.

In the essay, the focus has been on a comparative investigation into the power of the church through the 6th, 19th, and even the 20th century and the use of the novel A Connecticut Yankee [...]

People tend to think that the mother is the one who always worries about the children more while the father is believed to be the strongest member of the family who is not allowed to [...]

The chronology of Pop' action after he left the hut was in the following manner: Went to Judge Thatcher and threatened him to give up the money.

This abstract symbolizes the matter, that fate achieved the turning point, and the wind of change is blowing. The tears, which she rewards denote that these changes will be rather painful, and lots of effort [...]

It can be presumed that the three the madman, the ferryman, and her friend work according to the dictates of the baron.

This paper defines the term hunger, describes other forms of hunger, and finally tries to interpret Wrights form of physical hunger to find out if it is representative of something.

The central point of the story in concentrated on the concept of "pride" following the actions of Richard, the protagonist of the story.

Set in the cities of New York and Boston, "Death of a Salesman" the story happens during the 50s and 60s, the story reminds readers that there is more to life than just pursuing the [...]

The protagonist of the story is the man who "was a newcomer in the land, a chechaquo, and this was his first winter" and he is the prime tool at the hands of the writer [...]

The stories of King Arthur are to be read by all means, and this book should be part of the curriculum system.

He had made expeditions in Lithuania and in Russia, no knight of his degree so often; and many a time in Prussia he had sat at the head of the table alone all the knights [...]

Oedipus at the middle of the story had the urge to free the citizens of Thebes from the threat of the Sphinx.

The essay will provide a brief summary of the book followed by an analysis of the book on the basis of the social psychological theories in order to demonstrate how religion and religious beliefs influenced [...]

Sammy's decision to quit his job is therefore based both on his rejection of the conservative and restricting viewpoint of his manager as well as the free and nonconformist lechery of the butcher as he [...]

The historical genre of the book was used by the author in order to mix legends with the real facts from the history of Great Britain.

In "The Storm", the major part of the story is the activities of Calixta and Alcee, the main protagonist, and one of her neighbors who was caught out when the storm arrived, which are described [...]

The first book that has been taken under consideration goes by the name of The Figaro Trilogy and is a compilation of numerous works by the author namely Beaumarchais.

In such an arrangement, there is a tendency to have the opinion that the development of one individual is a benchmark for the development of another, which eventually leads to laxity among some individuals.

It is not a surprise that such a person is confined by the norms and expectations of society and looks for a way to break free.

If we match this to the last line of the poem, we see that he is "clinging" to his father's shirt as his father waltzes him off to bed.

Isaacs explains his belief that this portrayal of the American soldier in Vietnam is detrimental, saying that this contributed to the sense of much of the American public that the soldiers were responsible for the [...]

Related to this she bleaching is a submission to the fact that she feels inferior to White people because of the color of her skin.

Moody, intimately entailed in the civil rights movement in the first half of the 1960s, created a memorable image of the inequities and aggression that featured southern community.

However, his job required him to support the imperialist rule and even as he knew the reasons for the British occupation, he also knows that by treating the people the way they did, the Brits [...]

Jonathan Swift, the author of the famous Gulliver Travels, takes a dig at the Irish and British Bureaucracy in his masterful satire, 'A Modest Proposal,' which in the true sense is a mockery of the [...]

The basic theme of the novel is Ibo culture which is to be changed because of the pressure on the part of the external forces. The introduction of the protagonist of the story Okonkwo is [...]

Due to his heroic attribute he comes across a numinous phenomenon and in this case he prays to Shamash and divine assistance to overcome the challenges that he is journey to attaining an immortal life.

Sammy's powers of observation and discrimination are clear enough in his description of the leader of the bevy the one he instantly realizes is the 'queen', or, as he later refers to her, "Queenie": She [...]

Gertrude as Queen is the lead female character opposite Hamlet in the book of the same name. Beatrice has long served as Dante's inspirational muse and in the Divine Comedy it is no different, Beatrice [...]

All for his association with a Black woman."Because I was used to white people by 1948" is a statement he made at the very beginning of the book. A racist who is a racist in [...]

Even though McKenzie raises important aspects of multiculturalism in the article "The Menace of Multiculturalism", he fails to defend his position because there is a lack of logic and coherency in the presented arguments.

They were Creators, who lived lives of spiritual waste, because they were so rich in spirituality-which is the basis of Art-that the strain of enduring their unused and unwanted talent drove them insane. Women, for [...]

This is the main conflict of the story and it is my belief that she chose to be happy at her newfound freedom while grieving for her husband a little.

Pudd'nhead Wilson is the ironic tale of a man who is born a slave but brought up as the heir to wealthy estate, thanks to a switch made while the babies were still in the [...]

In this paper, I am going to analyze the use of the above mentioned writing techniques by the famous writer and scientist Eric Schlosser who wrote the preview in Sinclair's book "The Jungle by Upton [...]

In his book "The Unredeemed Captive," author John Putnam Demos depicts a fascinating contest of cultures, featuring the English Puritan Protestants of New England, the Roman Catholics of France and the Native Americans against the [...]

It takes a short time to relax with the switching of scenes, but it is eerie to watch the scene unfold and realize that you could have been in the same situation.

Through the dynamic of science itself, a new world-view - a new picture of the nature of the universe - is emerging from the present cultural confusion and is showing the first signs of solid [...]

by Joyce Kilmer I think that I will never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth's flowing breast; A tree that looks at God [...]

Despite her insistence on loathing the false leg and the thick glasses she depends on to see, in the end, Hulga finds she is literally left without a leg to stand on.

Throughout the two stories, Byron's journey to realize is that of self-reflection, thinking, and apprehension, while Nea's journey is that of striving and pushing hard to change the things how they were.

When the Argonauts land at Lemnos and meet the women of the island, Queen Hypsipyle convinces the men to mate with the women so that they can repopulate the island, omitting the fact that the [...]

This paper takes a look at Wayne Johnston's The Colony of Unrequited Dreams in order to examine the use of dialogism in it. The net result is that a believable and vibrant Newfoundland emerges from [...]

The change in the woman's organ may be considered a form of mutilation but since it was done for the husband-to-be and in a western context, it was not seen so by Ensler.

Thesis The symbol of horse winner symbolizes the "desire" of a family to prosper and flourish, but at the same time, "desire" is a mirage that disappears and leaves nothing to the family.

For both Hester and for the townspeople, the mere presence of this letter appearing this one time on her dress is enough to mark her as something different from the rest of them and secluded.

Her devotion to the Church and her fervent prayers attract the attention of the nuns who ask her to become a nun and enter the sisterhood.

In this way the birthmark seems to be almost mocking his attempts at changing nature, which is representative of Georgiana's femininity, "Attempting an operation for the removal of the Birthmark.

First of all it is necessary to emphasize, that the novel is written in the epistolary genre, and it is aimed to highlight the protagonist's sorrows.

In the case of Enkidu, he uses his strength to undermine all those going against his will and he is not putting in mind what the results will be to other in the society.

It is a voice that is recognizable with loss and the sequences of the original world, a voice that is both attractive and reliable.

Sophocles makes use of all these elements in the Oedipus Rex and the fact that the audience is aware of the myth of Oedipus foreshadows his fate in the beginning of the play.

Again, the original rhyme is lost, though much of the original character of the words are intact, due to the close resemblance of Latin and English in much of the inherited vocabulary from French, a [...]

The difficulty of this evolution is conveyed in the fabric of the narrative, in an ambiguous dependence on the pronoun "he" that occasionally confuses Sarty with his father, mirroring the process by which people are [...]

When Alexander the Great died, Aristotle fled to Chalcis, where he died the following year at the age of about 62 William Shakespeare was a strong adherent of Aristotle in his writings.

Through "Sammy," the central character, the author is trying to show the kind of radical change that was happening in the society in the 60s.

Sometimes it is immense fun to read other's writings."The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write, a man will turn over half a library to make one book".

He went to a boarding school where he went through one of the most difficult and unhappy phases of his life. He also contributed a lot in the theory of elections.

As she began to no longer "fit in" the description of the perfect child, she began to "fit in" the description of a social problem instead.

However, if one arguing for the spiritual significance of Austen's novels is able to show that the development of Austen's plots, themes, and characters is related to Austen's religious beliefs and standards, he or she [...]

The tribesmen did not want to give up the new trading society to fight for their independence, that I why they had accepted the confines of the white man's rule.

A contemporary "realistic" novel, Simpleton provides the essence of the society of the Thirty Years' War, primarily describing the social communication of the peasantry with the nobility and the army, and also, both groups' interaction [...]

Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said: You have a great big nose and fat legs. In the casket displayed on satin she lay with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty [...]

Thousands of years ago people knew that the Earth is flat, hundred years ago people knew that the Earth is the center of the Universe, at present, people think that they may be not the [...]

Through the eyes of a schizophrenic patient of the hospital named Chief Bromdens, the author traces the development of friendship between McMurphy and some of the people undergoing treatment, as well as shows the opposition [...]

The novel suggests closure through its exploration of the tragedy of Pecola, mediated within the frame of the Dick-and-Jane story, and its evocation of the marigold symbol to signify Claudia's passage from ignorance to knowledge.

The novel gained attention because of its style of being a novel within a novel Another reason it was famous was the use of an omniscient narrator that spoke to the readers directly to discuss [...]

It is important that women recognize their importance as leaders in the preservation of freedom of choice and of the evolving dynamic of the interconnectedness of life. In a patriarchal society, the woman is subjugated [...]

Katie has a cynical view of the self-righteous concepts of Good News and David. She cannot abide by the concept of goodness which is prevalent in David and Good News.

Without the rest of the book it is simple: the turtle is uniquely suited to his environment as are all the seeds that grab at every passing creature.

This story is a part of many that form the book. The play of culture is a part of the character's mind and is reflected in the environment around him as well as the reactions [...]

Other female writers such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman in "The Yellow Wallpaper", wrote more specifically about the female problem from the other side of the equation what happens when a woman finds herself unable to [...]

It seems the love he contains in his heart is not enough for him to forgive and forget what has happened.

Only in recent decades have U.S.historians begun seriously to evaluate the mobilization of women and to consider the ways in which relations between men and women changed in the era of the American Revolution.

Although the specific elements of the religion of the mostly pagan society of the composer of Beowulf around 1000 AD is fundamentally different from the Christian religion of Alfred Lord Tennyson who wrote Morte D'Arthur [...]

It is widely understood that Mary Shelley wrote for the female public, even though she originally wrote the novel on a wager among friends."She fitted character and plot to the tastes of the public, especially [...]

Verloc is a particularly unique spy character because he fails where the traditional spy succeeds, and lacks the strength and wit of the spy we are familiar with.

The novel also shows that the character, Venichka, was well educated and very religious but because of the society, he was forced to drink to exploit his creativity. The book encourages drinking in the society [...]

The cruelty of the revolution and the Taliban regime brought not only a lot of changes and sufferings to people's lives but also provided the literature world with significant masterpieces filled with pain and difficulties [...]

The critics of such book as "Animal Dreams" by Barbara Kingsolver have different opinions on the idea of the theme of this story and on the analysis of its characters, probably, because of the events, [...]

But essays like those covering Russia, the 1848 revolutions, German Romanticism, and Russian populism, although brightly weaven, they are of historical interest than relevant to the contemporary metastable angst condition.

In conclusion, due to the fact that slaves are treated inhumanly and because slavery makes Southern white society savage, cruel, greedy, and lazy, we feel that it should be abolished.

Social oppression of Hamlet as the talented representative of descending class undeceives that there is not only a death that menacing to Hamlet, but also social injustice, "the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's [...]

The family adjusted to the codes of conduct in the camp, and Tom even managed to find a job picking fruits at a local farm.

In Bacchae, the denying of the irrational as Pentheus did leads to the demise of personality and society since denying the irrational is denying life itself and encircling it in the 'second nature' which leads [...]

Another problem tackles through the utilization of expressive means is the issue of gender in general and its social construction in particular.

In the book, 'Confessions' Rousseau unfolds his life story beginning with a description of his family and the impact of his mother's death at his birth.

Different and sometimes opposite currents within modernism itself make it difficult to create a comprehensive picture of this literary phenomenon in this essay that is why we are going to draw our attention to the [...]

When the vagabond who has come to wealth seeks the services of a Jew to sell his possessions and is cheated by him Grimmelshausen is of the very firm opinion that a person from the [...]

The story he tells us the story that discusses the German culture and societal class in the early 16th Century and provides a vivid account of the social interaction between the noble class, the army [...]

This poem, like most of the Cummings' other poems, exists, quite meaningfully exists, in both form and content. Indeed, the form both encapsulates and expounds the meaning of the poem.

The Divine Comedy, written by Italian writer Dante Alighieri between approximately 1308 and his death in 1321, is commonly regarded as the most well-known epic poem of Italian literature and is seen as one of [...]

The Handmaid's Tale is characterized as a feminist dystopia written in direct reaction to the growing political power of the American religious right in the 1980s.

In this piece of Wolfe's, "the right stuff" as it is referred to is what Wolfe believes is morally correct or prudent in terms of what our children and people of the world in general [...]

In asking her to perform this task, she places the white woman in a position of servitude that is assigned to African-Americans.

Memory knots, as the term, have been employed to refer to sites of humanity, sites in time, and sites of physical matter or geography.

In Containing Women: Reproductive Discourse in the 1980s by Valerie Hartouni's the idea of importance of metaphorical link between the heart of the would-be mother and her child is the leading one: "Situated in opposition [...]

In case of the abovementioned Swift's work it is the problem of poverty and other social problems of Ireland of the 18th century.

In this example, death is in the middle of the circle, and is, hence in the power of the person because death settles on to impede, whether the person is pleased with it or not.

Finally, as Dante and Virgil reach the most bitter, tormented place in the universe, the ninth circle of hell, they immediately depart after seeing Satan and the final circle of the underworld.

Through this book, Kozol tries to reach out to the human conscience and in his thought-provoking style, takes the reader on a journey into the lives of the poorest of poor children, shedding light on [...]

The second part is the answer of Thei to her concern and the reaction of the virgin. The second part ends with the words of the virgin that she is not like Thei and is [...]

Borneman proposes readers an exiting and vivid description of the war of 1812 which led to consolidation of the nation and 'forged America's national identity.' Borneman analyzes the major events of the war and discusses [...]

The main difference lies in the characters of Odysseus and the cursed girl "Sadako" in 'Ring.' Odysseus, after going through a hardship of ten years, still opt a normal human life and rejected the idea [...]

To a great extent, it reflects the portrayal of the German social class structure and the bias and prejudices that were prevalent.

In today's literature, it is possible to observe the artistic, historical, social, and political value of literary work in connection with the social and political conditions of the definite epoch.

Thus, the tragic hero should combine the following characteristics: He should cause emotional attachment; The audience should fear for the fate of the hero; A tragic hero should cause pity in the audience.

The sea fell to Poseidon, the underworld to Hades, and Zeus became Lord of the Sky. Being the wife of Zeus and Queen of Olympus, Hera was powerful, but she exercised her power in subtle [...]

She was introduced to the library of her grandfather and thus developed a fondness for books. Thus it is no wonder that one of the major themes of Sor Juana's work is knowledge and, in [...]

The 'Theme of this book could be suitably applied in the modern days, where there is a serious drift/immigration to The West and European countries in the quest for a greener pasture.