Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 52

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.

Anne tasted success with her book Interview with the Vampire in 1976 which was followed by The Feast of All Saints and Cry to Heaven.

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 [...]

One of the delights of the novel is that technology aids both the tracking of some characters and the evasion of tracking by the same characters.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

Out of his anger, he worries about the death of his father and the hasty marriage of his mother to his uncle.

However, the visible aspect of the story is racism and it covers the central theme of the text. The fundamentality of this story is a measure of human essence where the major character appears to [...]

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.

The work of art reflects the reality of life and hardship experienced by people: "The vision seemed to enter the house with me - the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the [...]

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 [...]

Another thing that could be said of him is that he knows his value and weight in society, a fact that is somewhat crucial to explain his relationship with his daughter and the expectations that [...]

The ‘Iliad’ is one of the most admired and well-known poems worldwide. Its main idea covers several essential themes, one of which is hospitality.

He was accused of corrupting the minds of the youths in Athens, creations of his deities, and not respecting the gods of the state.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

The speaker, out in a battle-worn, rented boat, catches the old fish and after examining the fish closely and sympathetically, in a spontaneous moment of recognition tosses the fish back into the water."The aesthetic nature [...]

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.

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.

Bernardo and Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" and the tradition of the American in Europe by D. The early versions of that story put Jig and the American man on the train for which they [...]

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 narrator admits from the very beginning of the story that he is nervous about having a blind man in his house, suggesting that he himself is actually quite blind to the reality of the [...]

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 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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 "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.

Tennessee Williams, a prominent playwright of his own epoch was born on 26 March 1911 in Columbus where he lived with his family consisting of his grandfather who was a religious man in the church, [...]

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 [...]

It also goes against some of society and the state's outlook and is opposed to statism and collectivism which is that of conforming to the community and national goals.

The way she reacts to the new situation enables the writer to show it as the emotional reaction of any girl placed in such a situation.

The stories My Mother's Gifts by Judith Claire and Fifteen by William Stafford have very much in common. The story My Mother's Gifts by Judith Claire abounds in different expressive means and stylistic devices.

Deckard's efforts have been constituted by the feeling of an 'emotion', the making of an intellectual connection, the speaking of an utterance, the passing on of a story in the real world beyond it, or [...]

By looking at poems such as "The Man-Moth," "The Fish," "Filling Station" and "Pink Dog," one can get a sense of how the use of adjectives within her poetry provides Bishop with the power to [...]

At the beginning of the story, as the Captain observes the "straight lines of the flat shore joined to the stable area", it is apparent that he is unable to properly understand where the sea [...]

The analysis of this genre focuses on the series of fiction works with the purpose of disclosure of unique qualities of fiction theory. The history of technology and science contributes to the formation of contextual [...]

They accomplish this through expensive and sometimes dangerous plastic surgery, but the image of the mask is more important to them than the true health of the individual.

The point about his defense is that he wanted to stick to the speech he had prepared and it was planned and was well prepared.

Occurring as it did from the middle of the 1700s to the middle of the 1800s, the Romantic Period was an age of tremendous change and upheaval.

But ahead of that, he distinguished that, as the first American novelist to got the prize from the end of World War II, he had a particular obligation to accept the modified situation of the [...]

In order to defend Henry, Shakespeare portrays that the stability and order of the kingdom partly depend on Henry's proving his qualities as a strong leader, drives home in realistic detail the disorderly "savagery" in [...]

In 1516 More completed his most well known and contentious work, Utopia, a work of fiction in which a imagined voyager, Raphael Hythloday, explains the political structures of the invented island nation of Utopia for [...]

The woman's role is depicted ever so poignantly in the works of Divakaruni and this also reflects the importance of reclaiming the understanding of the role of women in society.

Unfortunate for her Jonathan also aspired to be a successful writer and was in a way, jealous of Erica and her writing abilities.

A reorganization of the banking system, limitations on the stock market, an increase in the volume of bureaucracy, and the patronizing of social security were a few of the projects undertaken by his government to [...]

As literature in this way or another is a reflector of human life, dress and appearance fulfill here the same functions of presenting the characters or events, revealing the characters' inner worlds or the crucial [...]

Emilia Galotti is the central figure of the play with her parents Odoardo and Claudia. Emilia is the daughter of a respectable bourgeois officer Odoardo and has caught the eye of the womanizing Prince Gonzaga.

In Chapters I and II of his book "The Rings of Saturn", George Sebald provides readers with an insight into the essence of his apparent mental inadequacy, which prompts the author to take lengthy tours [...]

Bauby was absorbed by this idea, and after the stroke happened to him, he thought that the power of thought was so strong that his idea gave him the chance to write the desired book [...]

Though throughout the poem the name of the president is not mentioned it can be easily understood that it is mourning for a public figure as a lot of people "with a thousand voices rising [...]

Many critics have generalized the version of the "Invisible Man" as the most influential novel of the Post World War II and the greatest literary work highlighting the extraordinary way the invisible black man strives [...]

The specific inspirations for the Oceania society from "1984" were The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany with their inherent propaganda, betrayal of the ideals of the revolution, concentration camps and misinformation.

The point is that the jury, convicting the defendants does not even want to go into the details of this case. It seems, that for the overwhelming majority of people, this mans life is of [...]

Bradbury's vision of America and Americans assumes the form of the game of the possible because he wants it to be played out in reality.

The persona says that if the reader is happy, it is because the reader is outside and smiling and if he is sad, then he should get outside and smile.

Gloucester, in response to the attack on Edmond, promises to bring Edgar to justice, and also states that he is going to make Edmond his heir.

Cotton Mather however does not forget to mention the fact that devil exists and he works in collaboration with the witches and uses them to achieve his goals and objectives of seeing that the world [...]

Hence, the decision he takes could explore his temperament and hence reading the themes of exile and escape in Hemingway's Soldier's Home is an interesting study of these sensitive concepts as caricatured in the protagonist, [...]

Wilde's community, though apparently very customary and firm, is essentially quite worried about being destabilized by strangers: Lady Bracknell even evaluates Jack's being found in a purse with "the worst immoderation of the French Revolution" [...]

Analyzing and comparing "Ashes" by Sedaris and "Silent Dancing" by Cofer the reader is enabled to understand the course of relations in two different families and to undertake the idea of two different life paths [...]

In his book 'The sorrows of War' he depicts the social environment of Vietnam before, during the period of the war, and after the war.