Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 53

The scene with the leaving bus that is the beginning of the "One Day in December" perfectly emphasizes the potential of this story to become a successful movie.

However, as time progresses, the relevance of the story may become outdated, beginning a discussion on its presence in the Americana literary canon."Good Country People" deserves continuous recognition in the canon due to its brilliant [...]

Despite the presence of many opportunities and positive dreams and goals, most of them fail to be realized due to misleading values and aims set by surrounding society; this idea is present in almost all [...]

Instead of the character of Genie that comes from the lamp, my story features the character of Fairy Ostara, who fulfills the desires of the magic stick's owners.

The latter form of storytelling focuses on causing the emotion of fear among the readers or viewers, whereas suspense builds a certain amount of anticipation and full engagement in the story.

The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast how Medea and Socrates respond to injustice or unfair accusations. The following section discusses how Medea and Socrates respond or react to adversity by comparing [...]

The Samuel Eliot Morison Prize-winning author John Keegan focuses on the description of the battles Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, their characteristics, and impact in his 2004 non-fiction book The Face of the Battle.

As he says in the author's note of his book, his purpose was to provide evidence about the last days of Marie Antoinette's imprisonment. In the book, the author describes the seventy-six days of Marie [...]

The story is mostly descriptive and the speaker starts by narrating the "appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise on a summer's morning". The drunken, the dissipated, and the wretched have [...]

Thus, the goal of this paper is to study the phenomenon of DF based on the examples of Orwell's and Huxley's fiction and determine the presence of the themes that overlap with the contemporary social, [...]

It is humanity and collaboration that are invincible to the cruelty of nature. To Crane, nature is the uncontrollable and powerful force that is indifferent to people.

He cannot alter his nature, his passion, and because of that, he tries to fool himself and the people around him with a mask to hide his true identity.

In addition, the play skillfully captures the relationship between the main characters and the main theme of each act, which I intend to transmit to the audience.

In conclusion, The Archbishop's Vampires is a vivid example of scientific narratives because of its dualistic goals that include giving a thorough description of a phenomenon and intriguing the reader through telling an amusing story.

One of the most vivid examples of the dualistic narration is the phenomenon of the ghost ship that arrives at Wismar populated only by rats and dead people.

The first dominant quality of nomadic narratives is the autobiographical nature of the story. In conclusion, the story is a nomadic narrative as it is told by a traveler describing his autobiography.

The plot of the story is unique, while the character of Hedwig and her life story emphasize the difficulties that people can go through.

In " The Aeneid," Virgil tells of the adventures of the hero of the Trojan war, Aeneas, who was destined by the gods to stay alive after the destruction of Troy to come to Italy [...]

The purpose of this paper is to explain why Monkey is an allegory of Buddhist teachings in the selected novel. The reader also observed that Tripitaka is a representation of the physical outcomes and experiences [...]

Considering this, the present paper will analyze the validity of the given statement by drawing on the experiences of characters in Lord of the Flies and evaluating the conditions in which they lived.

In the first chapter Guy Montag, the protagonist finds himself in a position that allows him to recognize the lack of genuine happiness in his life, viewing those around him as uncompassionate and disinterested shades.

However, what the reader should acknowledge is that the author manages to present a wholesome and clear image of the issues and occurrences that defined the United States throughout the 1920s.

However, in exploring Maggie Tulliver's character and peculiar experiences, Eliot attempts to convey her ideas about the place of a woman in society, giving the character a critical role to play in the novel.

Through the character of Aslan, the lion, the author explains the Christian ideas and teaches the readers that humility and sincerity are better than all the wealth of the world.

It is true that Lord Thomas's choice of his future wife is based on the financial stability of the Brown Girl and not on his feelings to her.

Moreover, the picture and the spoken text enclosed in it form an organic semantic unity."Persepolis" is a story of an Iranian girl who grew up in a liberal, rich, and even aristocratic family: on the [...]

The most universal, the most difficult, and the noblest work, one for all and at the same time unique in every family, is the creation of a human.

The book's research problem is the intentional failure to recognize the role of Pueblos in the precipitation of the revolt and the ultimate triumph over the Spaniards in New Mexico.

At the same time, Gladwell argues that, when applied to the areas such as business and economy, the blink may save the world due to the opportunities that it provides.

Answer: Hale comes to Salem with the intention of finding concrete proof of witchcraft and using it to condemn the people guilty of the crime.

In this paper, special attention will be paid to Walt Whitman as one of major and the most effective anticipators of the modernism movement because of the chosen fearlessness, intents to promote equalities in everything, [...]

One of the hooks the author uses to make the book unusual is the number of narrators and the organization of their accounts.

It is equally important to stress that the issue of conformity is based on the person's ability and willingness to fit into a group or culture. One can argue that Ross's decision to join the [...]

The latter is about a girl and her conflict with her family, which eventually leads her to leave her home and start living at the post office.

The inciting incident of the series is a giant man breaking down the door and telling Harry about his horrible legacy.

Apart from sharing similarities linked to their belonging to the movers and shakers, both Laertes and Hamlet face the same tragedy in life.

Based on Alexie's short story evaluated in this paper, as well as the general theme of his book, there are several key criteria to evaluate the existing conditions of Indians with: Drugs and alcohol usage;

In "Babushka Baba Yaga" this is translated through the transition from a positive change in the main character, while in the other book the author introduces hardships of life to illustrate the need to be [...]

In his book, Madden follows the scope of traditional history and the traditional construction of crusades, which means that in his work, crusades are linked to Jerusalem and travels to the Holy Land.

In retrospect, the cultural context of the play was that of a period of transition from the Victorian values to the new ones and the desperate search of the ideas that could constitute a new [...]

In The Monkey & the Monk: an Abridgment of the Journey to the West, the Monkey is one of the main protagonists of the book, as is apparent from its title.

The Monkey and the Monk is not an ordinary story with a list of characters with the ability to develop particular relationships, grow in their specific ways, and demonstrate necessary lessons to the reader.

The titular bell jar In Sylvia Plath's eponymous novel is symbolic of Esther's condition because it serves as a metaphor for her depression.

The story is a critique of control in marriages and dominant attitudes towards women in the society of the 19th century.

It is a mistake to think that it is enough to study the summary or read the review articles to paint the story of Cecilia and Claudio.

The story, as a monument to aestheticism, however, is supportive of the idea of individuality and shows not the Victorian disciplining of evil, but the aesthetic punishment of likelihood.

The indigenous population of Inuit that inhabits the Arctic territories of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland has been historically subjected to neglect and disregard from the majority of nations that came to explore their lands.

Grahl suffered from anorexia in his youth, and the book is a memoir-like account of the event, serving to open the door to the psychology of the disease in the male populace a vulnerable population [...]

Maika, a teenage girl from the world in the state of war, is different from other characters of the book due to some of her physical features and an unconquerable will.

In the US, the concept of blackness is the key idea that defines the social, political, and cultural position of African-Americans, both in past and present periods of history.

The unusual character of these events resulted in the creation of the book Into the Wild by Krakauer, who tried to repeat the same way and explain the main causes of the main character's actions.

The work is truly unique as the author used it as a tool for declining the view of the history of Western civilizations.

The author allows the reader to look at the invasion of Manchuria, World War II, and the Pacific conflict from the point of view of the Japanese and American governments, generals, ordinary soldiers, and citizens.

The first chapter of the book is highly significant for the overall understanding of the book's message as it provides the context in which the rest of the narration should be perceived.

It is possible to say that the character's aspiration for escaping Cape Breton and pursuing another path in life could symbolize a reduced significance of the mining industry at the national and the global scale, [...]

This final phase of The Chauffeurs of Madrid reiterates that Hipolito is what a modern man should be in the face of war, according to Hemingway.

The first task is the identification of the initial syllable followed by the production of a word or words with a similar syllable, which in this case is 'cl' in click and clack.

The main theme in this poem is grief and the pain that the bereaved experience after losing a loved one. In this case, the poet talks of the death of one's mother and the ensuing [...]

The general impression of Emily Dickinson's poems is that they are very economical with words and the message being conveyed. The general impression of these poems is that the writer feels oppressed and discriminated against [...]

The choice of words in the second stanza, the second last line, which reads "glowing at dusk, a shrouded welcome" is a further confirmation of the sorrow in the mind of the narrator.

One of the most typical traits of romantic literature is the prevalence of emotions, setting the natural world above the created world, and the most important, freedom of an individual.

In conclusion, Bonnin's "Impressions of an Indian Childhood" belongs to the canon of a college survey course of American writers for a number of reasons.

Despite differences in the interpretation of features text as a whole, the data remained of the most ancient Indian religious texts allows restoring some elements of mythology and cosmology of the Vedic Indians. Altogether, it [...]

The main characters in Karen Russel's story The Bog Girl are situated on a mythical island somewhere in Northern Europe, where peat cut out of the bogs is the main source of fuel.

To some extent, the protagonist's life and memories are shaped by the city of Beijing and her gender, and the novelist uses some problems peculiar to geographic locations and gender socialization to present the woman's [...]

The speaker starts the poem by stating a connection to the ancient rivers of the world, possibly meaning the time before Africans were brought to America as slaves and were living peacefully.

Such a dominant ideology, perceived as the dream-goal for the majority of the US citizens in the 1920s, was a special modification of the "American dream" in the era of post-war economic "prosperity".

The culture of consumerism that was unravelling and the rising popularity of television led to the development of the marketing industry as people know it today.

This paper is discussing the character of the relationship between mama and her son Walter together with the problems which are brought up in the interaction of these two characters in the play.

In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, the titular character begins plotting his revenge after he encounters the ghost of his father, who informs him of the murder as well as the culprits.

First of all, it is the mystery of a man who wants to preserve the nature of Miami and area, save it from being destroyed by tourists and other people who disrespect it.

Human intelligence that the gods give to the dogs does not make them happy but subjects them to continuous thoughtful considerations and emotional perception of the surrounding world that ultimately leads to suffering.

For example, it relates to Ralegh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," which is a response to Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love".

This is a story about the issues of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the civil war. The comments of 'Anonymous' published as a response to the review of Jill Dolan, demonstrate the [...]

In his sonnet, Shakespeare reflects the theme of time by mentioning various seasons of the year and comparing them to a girl's age and appearance.

It is also critical to take into account the presence or absence of a person in a situation of the death of a loved one, and the very personality of the survivor.

Judging by the conversation of the King with a lady Camae, the King indeed is presented as a human being who had feelings, fears, and emotions.

With the help of her mistress who tried to raise Catherine's self-respect "with fine clothes and flattery," the character changed her manner of dressing.

Marquez introduces the symbol of an angel to show the ugly sights of society - people in the ordinary village where the angel lands do not understand, mistreat and misuse him.

It is valid to say that Braddon represented Lady Audley this way to highlight the subordinate role of a woman in the 19th century and also challenge it.

The situation is indicative of the overall condition of a significant part of humanity, and the boy's foremost desire is to escape the situation.

Both Count Orlok and the Other Mother possess the ability to mimic normal people but still are have more powers than these people, yet the disturbing relatability of Beldam's motives and the terrifying goal of [...]

The first few paragraphs of the story are dedicated specifically to painting the image of the old Afro-American woman in the mind of the reader by providing details on her appearance, closing, her manners of [...]

Since the first stages of the evolution of the civilized world, there have always been multiple debates about the just character of regulations that are taken as basic ones for the life of particular communities.

In other words, she is trying to claim that a man's struggles and duties are not as difficult as a woman's hardships.

The topic of family dynamics is necessary and relevant to modern relationships between parents and children. In turn, the poem by Hughes focuses on the metaphor of stairways as a symbol of her difficult life [...]

The style in which Zadie Smith writes serves as a shorthand to introduce the reader to a situation that can be regarded as ethically or socially problematic and approached from the perspective of Zadie Smith's [...]

It is possible to say that the author significantly contributed to the development of the comprehension of the Vietnam War in the American literature.

While the play has comedic elements, the events that the characters of the play go through are highly tragic and ultimately lead to negative consequences for the majority of them.

The mother is declaring bankruptcy, and as her life falls apart, she tells stories of her life and discusses the meaning of the American dream in the modern context with allusions to the Oregon Trail [...]

In "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood," the author relies on such words as guilt, misery, crime, and sorrow to explain the negative side of the surrounding man-made world.

The central argument of both of these pieces is the problem of inequality, each of the stories covering a different aspect of it.

Additionally, the main form of psychological imprisonment was the character's obedience to her husband who did not believe in her sickness and did not allow her to think that it was something more than a [...]

The main role of a 19th-century woman was a loving nurturer, serving the needs of her family and obedient to her husband/father.

I believe that the fairy tale form of the story is a special technique that allows the author to present the terrible events of the Holocaust in a non-standard light.

Burgess, which is the name of the main character, plays a trick with the citizens of Hadleburg, involving them in lies, thus ruining the virtuous reputation of the town.

As I read the texts, the regular language used in the two texts is evidence that the writers sought to make their texts easy to understand for both the middle-class Americans and the aristocrats.

The episode about the sons of Japetos is placed in the center of the story as the conquest of the supreme power of Zeus over the people and gods.

The first chapter of the book addresses the issue of language in day-to-day conversations between white and black French people of the 1950s.

Happiness becomes accessible through product attainment, and even the opening of the story deals with the fact that the protagonist and his wife, Tom and Betsy Rath, want to live in a better house.

Jingfang paints a dreadful picture of the future where social inequality has risen to the point where the society is split into three parts, and the differences among them are emphasized in the most vivid [...]

The book is aimed to serve as a bridge for further studies of the Chinese alphabet, as it explains the background and logic behind the construction of the letters and demonstrates its evolution from a [...]

In some ways, this scene represents the conflict between Hamlet and the society he lives in, as no one is capable of understanding his concerns.

The fact that the mother tries to teach her daughter suggests that she is not too bitter and disappointed in the girl.

In his most famous play, A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler, Ibsen concentrated on the roles of women in the family and society.

The structure of the poem is meant to be disjointed as symbolism for the broken psychological state of the soldiers, which "began to trudge" and "limped on".

The main goal of this paper is to analyze The Scarlet Letter to reveal the author's idea of the frustration of revenge and victory over shame.

It touches on numerous subjects, such as the opposition of communal values to those of the individual, criticizes dogmatic views and perceptions of God, and promotes art as one of the truest ways of worshipping [...]

The story of the poetic love of Rustam to a beautiful Tahmina and the betrayal of the insidious and envious Shah of Cavus create an atmosphere of tragedy and inevitability.

Moreover, the 20th and the 21st century are characterized by the emergence of numerous conflicts that altered the world and resulted in the appearance of shifts in people's mentalities.

The outcome is attributed to the speaker's understanding of the media and the ability to play on the fears of the audience.

While she succeeds in making her point and poking holes into the artistry of Mark Twain, I find her lacking in honesty on the moral issues raised in the novel and her comparisons between the [...]

Through this book, the reader is brought to the realization of the role that the white man played in the destruction of the bonds which existed in the African culture.

One of the most evident features of the society described in both works is the growing disparity between the poor and the wealthy.

In Shakespeare's play, the motif of discrimination is explored in conjunction with Othello's dark skin color, something that caused the "noble Moore" to be treated with suspicion by other characters throughout the play.

According to the novel's plot, the narrator's family is among many Vietnamese immigrants who settle in a new country and are expected to adapt to the new environments with minimal resources.

Homer is the first teller of the ancient myth about the Trojan war to both attract sympathy for the Trojans and warn against the flaws of such a government.

Bassett is mostly an offstage character, and when on stage, he exists as Dr. Pride is one of the elements in the narrative and appears as social behavior in today's society.

There is also animation in the story where Brewster, a place, is given the human ability to wait on people. There is also the use of figurative language in the narrative.

The Battle Royal is a non-fictional work of Ralph Ellison and talks of the black people fighting for their freedom in the Whites' society. Furthermore, a good life is also embedded in hard work and [...]