Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 52

The Protagonist plays a major part to achieve the goals of the story while the antagonist is an adversary who struggles against the efforts of the protagonist.

Positive attitude towards the challenges of life and the real joy found in the numerous adventures of the book's characters are the things that Elizabeth Enright wants every person to have, and in this paper [...]

The theme of death and decay is constant throughout the story and the reader is reminded of it at every stage of Aschenbach's journey to his ultimate death.

However, it is not the reaction of the children to the sociology lesson that is the most important, but the reaction of the reader instead.

The important literary device used to depict Holden confronting the pressure of the society and the corruption of the adult world is characterization, as the main character calls people he meets "phony" and refers to [...]

The constitution was drafted by the framers in such a manner that only White men who owned acres of land and property would be given the right to voice their opinion and decide the functioning [...]

The so-called "White man's burden" of spreading the light of civilization to people that were never able to evolve beyond the Stone Age, over the course of millennia, is now being referred to as the [...]

They illustrate the inhumane nature of the people who keep the captives and the conflicting cultures of the two groups. The turn of effects and the life of the captives are unique.

His collection of poems "The Mills of the Kavanaughs" was written under the influence of Robert Frost and Robert Browning. The poem is mixed with images of death and a young boy's love for his [...]

For the purpose, evaluation would be made in the context of utilization of events, time and culture of the book and compare it to today's society, culture and racial attitudes.

As a result of his boasting, a great deal of what his family knows about Willy is based upon the image he feels he must portray of himself in order to bring himself in line [...]

She does this by employing the first definition as it applies to the monster, but then employs the second definition to apply to the doctor, suggesting that the hidden monster is far worse than the [...]

The woman named Felice, takes Cleofilas with her to San Antonio which aptly proves to Cleofilas that it is not necessary for a woman to have a man to survive in life, "...she did not [...]

Dobby embodies the new era of house-elves, those who have a sense of self-respect and demands that his rights be recognized by those who wish to have him in their service.

From the play's very beginning, Shakespeare establishes Henry V as responsible ruler of his subjects, who does not only impose law on others but also lives up to the requirements of the same law.

The metaphysical conceits of the different writers of the time had a great influence in the religious belief of the people and the same affected their social life.

This paper discusses the similarities and differences of the themes of conformity and rebellion in Auden's poem 'The Unknown citizen' and 'The Market Economy' by Marge Piercy.

Her response is to try her best to make up for her crime by satisfying each and every demand of Beloved to the extent of literally enslaving herself to the girl.

Initially, it seems to them that this is just some see animal or even whale though later they understand that this is the body of a human being.

A significant point, that should be pointed out, is that senex is living in the suburbs of Rome, and Demea is the farmer from Athens.

The protagonist of the story, Jack Hawthorne, is considered to be the example of the person seeking consolation in horn music because of the brother's death; the death is showed as the way to something [...]

The poem The Weary Blues was written by Langston Hughes; the author devoted his work to the description of the music theme highlighting the role of blues and the uniqueness of this genre.

When he is presented in front of the bishop, he claims that it was a gift and asks him to be freed as he has promised to mend his ways.

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 [...]

The major qualities of her work reflect the life and the social world. Richalife vitamins are the tickets to a new life that Stacey cannot comprehend and accept.

Omura is a harbinger of the conflict in which Capitan Nathan Algren, the main character of the story will be involved.

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 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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

The narrative description of the elegy expresses the narrator's undying love for 'Annabel Lee' detailing a love which had originated many a year ago in the unidentified 'kingdom by the sea'.

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.

This work also reflects the experience of the speaker and the stage he/she has to overcome thus showing the inevitability of the given situation, which is illustrated by the last line of the poem: "First [...]

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 [...]

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 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.

Gregor is flabbergasted by his family's hypocrisy and is sad to see that he has wasted his life for the happiness and affluence of his 'so-called' family.

This paper aims to discuss the first part of the poem, the Inferno in connection with the theory of open text, which was worked out of by Robert Barthes and Umberto Eco.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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, [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

After reading William Shakespeare's play "Othello" ordinary readers, as well as literary critics, fail to come to a unanimous conclusion about intricate traces of Iago's character; some critics suggest that Iago is unique and the [...]

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 poet's main aim, which is achieved due to the horrific imagery of the work, is to show the real nature of war, terrible horrors, and absurdity of pain that the soldiers suffered during a [...]

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.

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 [...]

The poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' written by Robert Frost, is considered to be one of the most prominent works of world literature; the poem is dedicated to the disclosure of nature [...]

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 [...]

In the second story, the symbol of the past and something that had long gone is the woman's path that implies the historical events of the past the value of life.

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.

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 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.

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 [...]

In the first place, it is necessary to define the term "discourse" because of the multiplicity of existing definitions of the notion.

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 [...]

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.

I believe one of the main characters of the novel "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee, Henry gives a full explanation to the issue of the cost of being a spy.

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

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

The main theme of the novel, in terms of cultural subjugation and introduction of western traditional values to replace contemporary African cultures are discussed during the course of this novel. This perhaps is the mainstay [...]

While reading the first person narrative essay of Jane Goodall entitled "A Plea For The Chimpanzees", I came to the realization that Chimpanzees are so much like human beings that it is unfair to continue [...]

One side of the debate believes that deafness is a disability, while their opponents claim that this is a sign of belonging to a distinct linguistic community which is marginalized not only in the United [...]

Depicting the victory of ethics over immorality, Sam Foster manages to express his idea of the possibility that the real estate business, and the human life on the whole, can be ethical in their essence.

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.

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 [...]

The flood stories in the Babylonian text 'The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI' and the Hebrew text 'Genesis 6-9' have been targets of international attention due to a controversy created by enemies of Christianity, namely, [...]

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 [...]

Rampersad, the biographer of Langston Hughes, says that Fine Clothes to the Jew is not a successful volume, though it is Hughes's greatest collection, which was published when the poet was at the height of [...]

The thing that impressed me most of all about the short story is the overall impression of doom and guilt, which is created with the help of the details, that may seem unimportant at first [...]

The atmosphere of fear and poverty forced the families to break the rules and to overcome the frontier in the pursuit of welfare.

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

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.

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 [...]

The novel 'The Third Life of Grange Copeland' by Alice Walker is dedicated to the highlight of economical and racist oppression suffered by the society; it is a set of lives depicting gradual formation of [...]

As the military conflict drains the country economically and males are not able to support their families as the main breadwinners, the woman faces the challenge of providing for herself, her children and often her [...]

In 95c, the author assumes that Sophists are also not qualified to teach virtue, due to the fact that one of the respected philosophers is quite critical about those who make some promises and believes [...]

The other side of her personality is the merciful woman. What seems to be motivating the grandmother is her role and responsibility as a grandmother.

The author manages to accomplish his task of reaching the reader's soul due to resorting to one of the central themes of his poetic works: the theme of nature and the relationship of a man [...]

Various attempts by April throughout the novel reveals her desperateness as a teenager to fulfill the criteria set by white, however, as an adult, April feels and experiences the endeavor to observe the creation of [...]

The story is Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk is summarized just as easy as the main events of the story consist mostly of Josephine singing to people until it fulfils them, and then [...]

The homeless elite is not mentioned and it seems that under the name of wouldispossessed' and 'poor' the authors have tried to curtail all inequalities into a political power governed for and by women.

Dante shows the growing toward Christianity of the world population by means of Statius; he stressed that religion was perceived without any political power in the center of it, describing "the corruption of church and [...]

The cross on the grave is the symbol of the ending of people's sinning life on the earth. And everybody's life is also connected with the cross as the symbol of releasing from the death.

He does this by allocating his land and property to his three daughters to the degree to which they are able to convince him that they love him.

Meaning that man goes back in time by sending a copy of himself into the past which then becomes a reality due to the reassembly of the person's body in the past.

In the book "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadiman, the author shows such cultural dilemmas by telling the story of the struggles of Hmong family and the girl Lia Lee, [...]

Before discussing the role of King Arthur in "The History of the Britons ", it is necessary to give some background about the author of this tale.

Victor Frankenstein, the main character of the story, intentionally adopts the position of God in his attempt to overcome the forces of life and death and place them directly in the hands of man.

He tries to explain through the symbolic representation of the glowering sun in the month of May, that love is a feeling which is sure to get affected by the sun's rays through skin burn [...]

The novel, The Well of Loneliness and Portnoy's Complaint describe that parents and society, in general, have a great impact on the sexual orientation and sexual development of children.

Hot, Flat and Crowded is a much anticipated follow up to his earlier books and is a plea to the policymakers of the world to wake up to the reality of global warming and the [...]

Imagine that the protagonist is one of the pilgrims in the story in search of the legendary gem along with the other pilgrims.

For Othello, the doubt and suspicion growing in his mind regarding a possible relationship between Cassio and Desdemona were started with Desdemona's father at the beginning of the play. For Othello, his greatest weakness is [...]

Shakespeare is a creator whose creativity was influenced by nature rather than nurture; one of the best examples of his creative process is the play "Romeo and Juliet" created in the period of Renaissance; Shakespeare's [...]