Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 54

In the literary analysis of any work of art of the main focuses are usually done on the main characters of the work of art.

In the review article by Kazin, he states that Sir Spender in his journal brought about a collection of who's who in the literary world, but the book lacks "in malice as it is in [...]

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 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.

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.

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 [...]

Much in the same way that the human experience is characterized by mood shifts of good and bad days, Emily Dickinson's poetry captures the feelings of every day life, both mundane and fantastic; her poetry, [...]

The author, describing whales and hunting on whales, all methods of dealing with meat and processing the dead bodies of whales after hunting still depicts whales not only as objects for hunting, though he is, [...]

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 [...]

There are a number of reasons why Whitman's poetry might have been different from what had been introduced in academic circles to that point these having to do with the time in which he lived, [...]

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 [...]

She imagines that if she could have gained the attention of Jim O'Connor in high school, her life would be much different.

In narrating his good fortune he writes "It was my good fortune to be deported to Auschwitz only in 1944", and explains that when he reached Auschwitz "the German Government had decided, owing to the [...]

This myth attempts to explain the origin of the land or the earth by the Seneca people, and like many other myths on the issue of the originality of land, these people held to the [...]

The thanksgiving dinner for the family reunion is also one case in point that represents religious as well as social morals for the Clutter family.Mr.

Frederick Douglass is the writer of the slavery origin, who managed to get an education and to tell the whole world about the life of slaves, about their suffering and abjection, which they have to [...]

In addition, the writer emphasizes that one of the main reasons for the migration strategy is the striving of men and women to be equal.

The author wants the reader to feel the wild beauty of the land. He suggests that the House of Representatives regards the Alaska landscape as a source of income, while he stresses the fragility of [...]

During the Elizabethan age, the theme of moving away from home was a topic both in plays and travel writings. Their writings valorized this movement away from home and home country in the light of [...]

The concept of leadership has been discussed and interpreted in the works of world-famous writers thousands of times the whole of humanity has been always interested in the issues of successful leadership and the ways [...]

The Garden of Eden theory is dedicated to the analysis of gender roles and reflections based on mythological presentation; the image of male and female is disclosed through Adam and Eve, being the principal mythological [...]

As Stella entered the cave, her flashlight's beam fell on a splatter of blood, and the scarlet stain gleamed against the backdrop of moss that covered the wall like a green carpet.

During the first half of the 19th century the governess became an important figure, both in literature and in life, because they were part of a small group of women who were middle-class, independent, educated [...]

It goes without saying that the main topic to be explored in the course of comparison is the impact of science on human life and its part in the overall course of events described. The [...]

The attentive reader will understand the purpose of such repetition: the author wanted to create a sense of the endlessness of the line and the thought.

It is not by a mere accident that the word "strange" is being prominently incorporated into the name of Stevenson's novel Victorian mentality perceived the notion of "strangeness" as the synonym to the notion of [...]

The Grapes of Wrath begins by describing an occurrence of soil erosion in Dust Bowl Oklahoma that led to the destruction of crops, a decline in farming and farm produce and the migration of farmers [...]

Tita's love survives in sacrifices which she believes is the human exposure to contingency, Tita believes that it is the passion for her love that opens to her every door of possibility to meet Pedro.

Additionally, a neurosis of Raskolnikov is that he has a tendency to simplify everything - even to the extent of his crime, which he compares to "physical derangement" and "piece of dry bread".

This was the third summer after the outbreak of the Civil War and the fight would come to be known as the Battle of Gettysburg as also the bloodiest and fiercest battle fought in America.

The character of Ophelia is responsible for projecting an aura of guilt and deception to the role of women in 'Hamlet.' She is not treacherous or complicated, but instead weak and insensibly dependent on the [...]

The story relates to the past and the present and has intricate and complex impact on the courtroom trial of the murder case of Kabuo Miyamoto.

After reading this text I strongly felt the necessity to communicate with the nature, as it is an integral part of any of us!

Price's story is somewhat of a historical account of Martinique to the present time from the 1920s, while it is a leading example of how philosophical inquires can be applied to the field of anthropology.

Rather than focusing on the words of the poem itself, Leavis sees the significance of "The Wasteland" as residing principally in the disorganization of the poem.

Through the story, the writer explains the tragic life of the Professor and how she recalls the story of her life which she spent without anybody to care and love for.

Robert Frost, the author of the poem 'Design,' strived to raise the question of the nature of God on the basis of naturalistic rebuttal and effects description.

Such is the case regarding Tom Robinson in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Cinna in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and Lennie in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.

The history of Haiti, the political consequences of colonialism and the condition of women are the common themes in her stories.

The essay that we are going to analyse here, "Perfect Aggression", has as primary intention to show that aggression is more than that.in the lines and pages to come we will try to critically evaluate [...]

If one analyzes the various stages of English language and literature, it is clear that many English poets have influenced the growth of language.

The question of animals' rights can hardly be taken seriously in modern society; the world of literature represented a clear philosophical and theoretical view on the role of wild and domestic creatures in human life. [...]

The paper comprises the advantages and limitations of the author's flow of thought, his manner of own life details description, and the effects which are seen nowadays in the political career of the author.

The author of "The Firm" and further "The Client" achieved crucial popularity due to the grave and direct ideas in another novel titled "The Pelican Brief".

To understand how these concepts have changed over time, it is helpful to trace the relationship between the self and the supernatural as it is revealed in the great works of history, such as Sophocles' [...]

While "Ten, Nine, Eight" relaxes children with the predictable pattern of the story, "Where The Wild Things Are" elicits many emotions that may both excite and frighten children before they settle down to a "feel [...]

Of these, he would be able to study the things in the sky and the sky itself more easily at night, looking at the light of the stars and the moon, than during the day, [...]

The importance of literature in our lives is impossible to exaggerate, partly because it represents the accumulated knowledge of the best minds of mankind through the whole course of human history, partly because it is [...]

While in all of these cases the deaths are tragic and involve the protagonist, the reader is never left to side with the protagonist in the justification for their actions.

To say that "All conflict in literature is, in its simplest form, a struggle between good and evil" is to describe a specific type of literature such as fairy tales, but in the short story [...]

The House on Mango Street is a work of fiction, but the author breaks the conventional rules of form and plot.

The theme of the story is to present the character of a "lady" and her behavior in society, her actions, and justifications for them.

In this way, Thoreau uses intimacy with the landscape to talk about larger ideas that continue to apply to the modern world and thus links the landscape of his experiment with the "continuing narrative of [...]

This discussion will look at pre-Islamic poetry, its history, some of the famous people who were skilled at the art of oral poetry, analyze the poetry, oral poetry competitions used in the city of Medina, [...]

In his poem "Dream Deferred," Hughes provides a succinct description of the constrained self that is thus equally applicable to the position of women as expressed by Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" and [...]

The novel became very popular and created the idiom of monkey wrench in referring to the sabotage activities that damaged machines and led to violence in America in order to protect natural habitat and conserve [...]

It is the story of the unfulfilled promise Sergeant X gave to Esme and failed to fulfil it because of the mental illness.

Washington gave an order to read it to soldiers to support their fighting spirit In 1787 Thomas Paine came to France, in 1791 he published the first part of the work "Rights of Man", in [...]

It follows the story of the narrator Dante and his friendship with his schoolmate Johnno in Brisbane in the 1940s and 50s.

The writings of Williams and Gandhi are so divergent that it clearly points to the chasm in perceptions of a western mind and an eastern construct.

The texts under consideration picture the events of different periods of time and have absolutely different settings, but both Frankenstein and Blade Runner express the desire of a human to have powers of God.

Poems about love are the most influential, reading them you feel as if also in love and your heart may be filled with warm feelings."The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is the poem by Christopher [...]

In so doing, he renders meaning to the traditional African way of life and he also dignifies the people of the continent.

One of the books that raised his popularity in America as well as among other readers of the world was his collection of books published under the Rabbit series.

It was also Poe, as the master of the form, who illustrated the tremendous degree to which symbols might be employed in the telling of a story to heighten the intended effect of the author.

The idea of physical expression of the imperfections of the human nature and spirit is widely represented and deeply studied, and the idea that a man is able to create something perfect while he himself [...]

Copernicus concerned the motion of the earth as physical reality and mentioned in De revolutionibus that "If any motion is related to the earth, that motion ought to illustrate in all the bodies outside the [...]

To begin with, the credibility of the sources chosen for the comparative analysis in this work is asses in different ways by scholars and the ordinary readers.

For instance, one of the works of the 19th-century literature, "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" by Stephen Crane, focuses on the relationship between marital responsibility and maturation of boy-men and shows the triumph of [...]

He says that there is no justice in reference to poor people in the government, as "doing the best you could make no difference to government; hard-luck stories did not go when it comes to [...]

The dysfunction of the relationships in this sense is more evident in the book as the imagery is more indicative of the concept of dysfunction, however in the movie this takes on a more personal [...]

The author's aim is to make people know and think, and whether they agree or not it is the problem of these people."Walden" by Henry David Thoreau is the piece of work where the author [...]

Racial segregation is a core factor which intended many famous American writers, playwrights, social figures in the first half of the twentieth century to show the real state of things in the "democratic and free" [...]

Afghanistan has not produced a lot of books in the past and it was an achievement for Khlaed Hosseini to be able to come up with a best seller in a western setting.

The language was different, the time was different, and so it is impossible to compare the impression which creates "Hamlet" on the modern viewer and Elizabethan one if the modern viewer does not take into [...]

In particular, we may analyze such novellas as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Fall of the House of Usher.

The works studied each portrays some aspect of love, and while many of these aspects are different in the stories, both the main underlying principles with regards to love seem to be the same while [...]

Thus, our definition of the most important difference between the characters of Janie and Emma will sound as follows: whereas, Janie never ceased to be a woman in both: the physiological and psychological context of [...]

The present paper argues that the so-called love juice exists in the real-life: in particular, the effect of love, at first sight, the love madness created by celebrities wearing beautiful clothes, using make-up and fragrances [...]

In a conversation with Elizabeth sometime before the proposal, Charlotte explains that she sees little point in getting to know a prospective mate, saying that "happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance....it is [...]

The major topic of this work is the ecological awareness of the Australian writers and poets as expressed in the paradoxical relations between the fast and comprehensive urbanization of Australia in the late 19th century [...]

The presence of the narrator of story is questionable at the initial and final stage of story while in the middle of story, the narrator vanishes suddenly e.g.the narrator's introductory story of Roth's life in [...]

The recurring themes of Night, by Elie Wiesel reflect the poignant feelings of disgust of writer against mankind and gradually his loss of faith in God, helplessness and hopelessness of a child who entirely disgusts [...]

Since the publication of Darwin's science of evolution, mankind has been attempting to solve one of the major problems of our age where will this sort of evolution lead the human race and what implications [...]

Thus, pride is Speaking on the matter of women, mentioned in the verses, the following quote should be mentioned: 'Twixt Reno and Savena to say 'sipa; And if thereof thou wishest pledge or proof, Bring [...]

In sum, Gilman and Olsen demonstrate that the low social position of women in society deprives women of a chance to find happiness and maintain close relations with their families.

The main character of the poem contemplates the idea of death and religion. She says that "death is the mother of beauty" and that a change of the seasons, a change of the living to [...]

Although both Washington and Du Bois felt it was vital that a black man have a decent education and worked diligently to advance the cause, they disagreed rather strongly on the type of education that [...]

The Brothers Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm, were the first to put the age-old story of Cinderella to paper as a means of preserving the rich oral history of their German homeland in the early 1800s.

She is a flawed character who identifies herself only through her physical deformities, her glasses and her artificial leg, but remains ignorant of self until she is forced to confront the truth.

The narration style in the both novels is different, wherein "Moby Dick" the merging of the narration and the main character of the novel is achieved during the first person narration in which there are [...]

As a member of the jury sitting in on the trial of Montressor, I feel it is necessary for me to explain the reasons why the jury came to the conclusion it did.

Many critics argue that Shakespeare was neither a poet, playwright or actor and that he wrote none of the plays that have famously been attributed to him.

Against the background of buying and selling of slaves, the hard work they are forced to do, the inhuman, degrading treatment meted out to them, and the riches made from them by most of the [...]

I included it because it fits both his poetry and what he did for most of his working like: worked in the Houston Department of Corrections, beginning as a parole officer and retiring from the [...]

It seemed to me also that I saw Maigret, in the afternoon, heading peacefully towards his usual cafe, where he found his partners for a game of belote.

She wants to run and hide, but realizes, as Arnold points out the weaknesses of her house, that there is nowhere for her to run.

In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the portrayal of the character Charlie Bucket is an allegorical representation of the 'good child' shown through his behavior before winning the golden ticket, through his behavior as [...]

The complexity of the metonym is introduced in the concept that one must also be aware of the various elements that are important characteristics of the tree at this particular time in its development and [...]

Abel's feelings are in large part due to the Indians' belief that the image of the eagle clutching a serpent in its claws is the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl's icon that rivals the Christian cross.

The first adventures of Lazarillo gave the Spanish word Lazarillo a meaning of being a 'guide' for a blind person and thus, named to the dog who guides, the perro lazarillo.

Analyzing the "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz, it is necessary to review and describe such issues as the authority and power in the Dominican Republic's history and how this history [...]

When pogroms and other anti-Semitic actions all through Latin America shattered the hope of assimilation and social acceptance by many Jews, the concept of a Jewish homeland, phrased in the form of nationalism current at [...]

It was the first time in the world literature when the hero of the narrating becomes the contemporary society. At the beginning of the work there is a description of the terrible disease of that [...]

Prowess, in its material meaning, is considered as necessary to the rise to power but foremost to the maintenance of the rule.

While the book "Dancing Girls" is exploring the emotional state of the foreigner as an aspect of loneliness in the strange land, also it explores the dreams, the objectives of people, who came to the [...]

Harold Bloom stresses the responsibility the teacher of literature now has for a general moral pedagogy: "The teacher of literature now in America, far more than the teacher of history or philosophy or religion, is [...]

The peculiar feature of the book is that in terms of the problem studied the author does not retrace the history of French Jewry, but mostly tracks the history of anti-Semitism.

It can be noticed that the demands of the modern man in searching for the object of his affection, in the future might be fulfilled in the form of the constructed female robots.

In The Bourne Identity, a man who has lost all memory of who he is slowly beginning to track the clues of his former life and, in the process, begins to suspect that he may [...]

In her novels Arabian Jazz and Crescent, the problem of remaking of identity of Arab Americans is depicted. It is important to mention that the problem of multiculturalism became a topical one in the end [...]

The international recognition that he was able to enjoy may be seen as the result of the quality of his literary endeavors and the style and effectiveness of his writing along with the universality and [...]

The theme of war in literature is a long-standing tradition that nearly always leads to a discourse about the ethics of violence and the effects it has on the people involved.

The overdetermination of trouble in Sinclair's narrative creates a jungle of disjunctions and contradictions, aptly represented by the novel's repeated images of bodily disintegration - of the loss of fingers, the loss of feet, the [...]