Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 62

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The Accidental Bricoleurs’ by Rob Horning

Despite apparently democratizing style and empowering consumers, fast fashion in some ways, constitutes a dream sector for those eager to condemn contemporary capitalism, as the companies heighten some of their current contradictions almost systematically: the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579

The Secret by Rhoda Byrne

The bottom life of this book is that there are principles which are necessary for one to be able to match the challenges of life.
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1366

Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

Dylan is a white kid living in the midst of a black community in Brooklyn and just like the other children in the neighborhood he attends the public schools.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1283

“Breath, Eyes, Memory” by Edwidge Danticat

From the novel, a reader is able to see the difference in culture between Sophie and her mother. The bravery and struggles of the Haitian women are passed down to Sophie through the love they [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 918

Broca’s Area and Language Comprehension

This paper will therefore dwell upon the role of Broca's area in language comprehension as well as other critical human capabilities Paul Broca was the first person to establish that the posterior section of the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1651

“The Cave of Salamanca” by Miguel de Cervantes

The Cave of Salamanca by Miguel de Cervantes is focused on one specific family with its peculiarities, but considering the situation, it is possible to state that the problems and sins which occur in the [...]
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 826

Review: “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi

It is necessary to state that this department is opposed to the inclusion of this book in the seventh grade curriculum and argues that these students are not old enough to understand this book according [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1190

Summary: “Shinto: The Way Home” by Thomas Kasulis

Shinto has been the major force throughout the history of the country and remains the same in the present day; it can be said, it has had its dominant presence in the Japanese culture.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 577

Native American Multicultural Literature

When the old medicine man recognizes that he fails in his attempt to cure him, he attributes his failure to the coming of the white man.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2867

Effects of Transnational Organized Crime on Foreign Politics

In particular, he discusses the features of criminals, who engage in human trafficking, which is one of the types of transnational organized crimes. Review of Literature Shows that transnational organized crime is the new threat [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1934

The Social Life of Information

The authors point out that it is easier for employees to share information. The authors bring out the complex nature of information age, but emphasize that it is important for individuals to acquire basic technological [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 595

“After Bin Laden” by Abdel Bari Atwan

The overall argument of the book "After Bin Laden" is that the organization has greatly spread, internationally and that the death of Osama Bin Laden will not be the end of the fight.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1412

Arab American Literature Analysis: Diana Abu-Jaber

The effect of a mosaic society is that the cultures of the groups in that society tend to fade with practices that are more acceptable across the board remaining firm as the only ways the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 20
  • Words: 5549

Jurgis and His Family in “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair

To maintain income flow, Sinclair describes the inhuman and horrendous conditions of each member of the family have to endure."From the nature of disease affecting a laborer, it was easy for Jurgis to tell the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1326

Reflection on Wise Blood

The car is used symbolically to show the transitions Haze is going through in his life. This is symbolic because they are some of the main characters who help to advance the plot in the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 567

The Plum and the Golden Vase

The birthday of Ximen Qing is to start the following day to which he invites Pan Jinlian and Wu Song to a night the two will never forget.Int.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 976

Comparing an Enemy of the People and Glengarry Glen Ross

All the drama in this play revolves around Dr Stockman who does the right thing and speaks the truth in concern of the intolerances in the society."Glengarry Glen Ross" by David Mamet is written into [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2585

Falling Angels by Tracy Chaveliar

Tracy chevalier in her novel discusses a theme with a great effect to the society, which is the status of the female individual. Tracy Chevalier in this novel is concerned with the continuing change in [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2047

“The Crazy Horse and Custer” Book

The major subject of the book is to demonstrate the wounds of the impacts of war, and the cultural differences of Americans and Indians.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1423

Shakespeare and Honor in his History Plays

As such, the theme of honor should be explained in the framework of the play Richard III and actions and motivations of its characters with regard to the historic background of the play.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2204

“The Ocean” by George Gordon Byron

In this poem, the poet has used imagery to narrate his poem and depict the theme; a lot of imagery has been used in the entire poem from the first stanza to the last one.
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1422

Mahatma Gandhi: What One Should Know

Gandhi stated that he was sorry due to the Mob's ignorance and narrowness. Gandhi believed that it was not possible to change the convictions of a person by use of violence.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 864

Brecht’s views on Drama

They do not necessarily have to be from noble family backgrounds as in the case of Aristotelian tragedies. If this play is, therefore, performed in accordance to the dictates of traditional drama, most of the [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 563

Dramatic Comedy: The Hairy Ape

This essay will be researching the relationship between the play and its genre by means of comparing the points of view of great thinkers of the past and their ideas about comedy and tragedy genres.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 603

The Value of Source Study of Hamlet by Shakespeare

In regards to the intended significance, Stopes, Belleforest, and Shakespeare report that Shakespeare designed the role of the ghost to appear to Hamlet relentlessly to enhance the melancholy motif of the play.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 15
  • Words: 4187

Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary

The author makes it known to the audience that the character is essential to the story, and that arouses a sense of curiosity in the readers.
  • 3
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 896

Phillis Wheatley’s Neoclassicism

The works of Tony Morrison and other writers of the middle passage provide solid examples of the aspects that are carried by languages in the continuum of literature and linguistics.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 850

The Warning Effects of Catastrophe Narratives

In this paper, the author analyzes the usefulness of catastrophe narratives as far as alerting the public about the possibilities of environmental destructions is concerned. The events depicted in the texts take into account the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1407

Thomas Nashe’s View on Shakespearian Language

Thomas Nashe uses the example of the animal kingdom and the living order of the animals, to demonstrate how a failure in leadership has resulted to a disorganized form of living in the universe.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1457

Problem of Racial Slurs in Australia

In fact, the impact of the social factors on the evolution of the pejorative terms, which the residents of Australia use in order to insult the indigenous inhabitants of the state, is evident; the significance [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 13
  • Words: 3585

Evaluation of Novels ‘Every day’ and ‘I am Malala’

Characteristics of Young Adult Literature and Literary Genres in the Novel Some of the young adult characteristics, literature, and literary genres that the novel employs include the use of personal experiences and the tender age [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1772

“New World Babel” by Edward Gray

He traces the journey of their notion of these languages from as early as the pre-Enlightenment period to the modern period. This move was driven by the belief that the native languages represented the fundamental [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 867

Realism and the Unreal in “The Female American” by Winkfield

The novel also introduces several facts that are difficult to place in the eighteenth century society including the roles of female missionaries in the spread of Christianity and the heroine who alters the fate of [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1385

“In the Time of the Butterflies” by Julia Alvarez

She is committed to realize her dreams and goes to the law school in her adulthood. In the first chapter, she shows frustration in the leadership of the country and demonstrates her passion and vision [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 896

Summary of the Novella Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

The book is concerned with the life of the protagonist which is also his path to enlightenment. Siddhartha loves his father, he also learns about physical love and has a chance to understand what the [...]
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 496

Tough Choices: A Memoir

At a given point in her career, she dropped out to use the remaining part of her studies to set up her businesses.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 598

Greek Tale: Greek Tale and the Trojan War

Apollo is the son of the mighty Zeus and Leto. The strained relationship between Apollo and his father was to continue until Zeus turned Apollo's son into a constellation of stars.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1121

“The Populist Vision” by Charles Postel

The author begins his narration by explaining the origins of the Populist Movements, which according to his research, was stirred by the Farmers' Alliance in the Midwest and southern region during the 1870s and 1880s.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 899

The Harry Potter Series

Thus, in his article "Cryptozoology and the Paranormal in Harry Potter: Truth and Belief at the Borders of Consensus", Peter Dendle discusses the role of the paranormal in the books.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1110

The Search for Order by Robert H. Wiebe

One of the critical issues that I learnt from the book is the disorder that prevailed after the abortion of the Reconstruction and the subsequent quest for restoring order in the American society.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 842

A Dystopian State: Astutopia

The education system reinforces the essence of the dungeons, and the aim is to instill fear within the children so they can adhere to laid down teachings and doctrines.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 908

Literacy Linguistic Usage

Finally, it is vital to apply the findings on the relationships between language and identity in the practical sphere of learning and teaching languages.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1038

Lireture Analysis: Charles Dickens

The two pieces of work that will be the main area of concern in this analysis are 'A Tale of Two Cities' and 'Oliver Twist'. He speculated about the nature of messages that he sent [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1960

Magical Realism: Garcia Marquez

Magical realism is explained as the desire of the author to show the ordinary life of people with the instances of unreal, fantastic events.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 554

Faust: modern myth about Faust and Mephistopheles

The moral of the story is whether it is good to get desired knowledge without God's support or not, whether it is good to go in contradiction to the God's will and rules.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1378

Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King

So, Alberta is considered to be the so-called symbolic character, as she is a reflection of all complicated issues in the novel.
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 835

Nazi Regime in «Maus» by Art Spiegelman

The author describes the life of his father Vladek Spiegelman before the Nazi occupation of Poland, during the Second World War, and the later influence of the Holocaust experiences on his personality.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 841

The Problem of Single Mothers in Dominican Republic

For example, a child brought up by a single mother tends to relate with women in a more comfortable manner than the ones brought up by the two parents. In this light, a father has [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1115

The Analysis of the passage from Sartre’s Nausea

One should note that Antoine Roquentin, who is the main character, is obsessed with the search of the meaning that the surrounding world should have. This is one of the main issues that Sartre examines [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 562

Bamako: Movie Concept and Theme

In the tragedy, Orestes is listened to and Athena ensures the right of each party to talk. However, in the film, the people of Africa are not heard.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 825

“The Golden Ass” by Lucius Apuleius

There is another major theme that connects both thinkers in their views and it is the unexplained nature of love. Humanity is not the one that created love; people are simply the receivers and givers.
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1700

Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al-Aswany

First, the reader is introduced to Hatim as he is walking into Chez Nous, a famous club occupying one of the larger rooms in the lower floor of the Yacoubian building.
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1102

Socio-economic Issues in The Time Machine

At the same time, in spite of the seeming dominance of the Eloi, their actual hierarchy gradually switched during the evolution process, as the Morlocks hunt for the Eloi at night and eat them.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 834

The Handmaid’s Tale vs. The Country Between Us

This essay will discuss two works that eloquently illustrate the dangers of totalitarianism, namely, the novel The Handmaid's Tale written by Margaret Atwood and the book of poetry The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2215

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone: Bynum Walker

In addition, Bynum's singing through the play provides a clear picture of his spiritual and cultural relationship with his African heritage.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

“Ragged Dick” by Horatio Alger

As the young Dick strives in his street life, he is swallowed into the life of common ragamuffins in New York.
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  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 648

“Humor and Laughter” by Attardo

Since then up to now, a synthesis of the different elements of humor and laughter lacks thereby, triggering the relevance of evaluating the maturation of the field.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1493

The Scar of Colonialism and Ongoing Post-Colonialism

Travel The travel denoted in all the three works of Kincaid, and Desai, are typical of expatriation where the two women in Kincaid's texts travel to foreign lands as a result of heightened resistance to [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 15
  • Words: 4565

Conflict in The Age of Innocence and Manhattan Transfer

Gray gives the history of the literature of America, and he highlights the conflicts featured in this literature. Harry introduces the concerns of Poe's literature, and he shows that Poe deals with the conflicts in [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 340

The Colorful Story of the Three Little Pigs

This is done by the wolf to portray the misunderstanding between him and the little pigs. One day, a fox visits the first little pig and destroys the straw house and eats the little pig.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2850

A Week Later’ by Sharon Olds

This makes the reader want to balance the feelings of the persona by using the things discussed in the poem. The persona is saying that her heart is 'strictured'; this shows that she has not [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1220

Arthur Nortje and His Way

Grant Farred is of the opinion that "Securing an ideological space for coloureds within the ranks of the disenfranchised and crafting an artistic vocabulary that can engage the problematic of racial ambiguity and ambivalent political [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1135

The age of ‘the black stars’

The authors organized the book as a collection of stories in which they depicted the personalities of the black stars with paying attention to their successes and role in the development of the movement.
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1127

Measuring the Communication Competency of EFL Learners

The major features of these types of tests are that they objectively measure the speaking abilities and competency of the examinee, they have a high statistical reliability, speaking tests allow for the standardization of the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3280

The Book American Dream by Jason DeParle

From the name of the book, it is clear that the cardinal theme of the book is the American dream. This is contrary to the fact that she was pregnant and in a crack house.
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1236

Shakespeare “Richard II” and “Henry IV”

However, despite all the pomp depicted by the King in the play there are numerous occasions in the play that the author uses to point to the aspect of divine right as held by the [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Fiction Comparison
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 2044

Manliness in Shakespeare’s plays

The theme of manhood and violence in the play points to a greater ethical and political problem as to whether or not the use of violence to achieve peaceful ends preoccupied Elizabethan writers.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1989

Poem Research and Analysis: Dressmaker

By looking at this poem from this perspective, one can better understand this literary work and the message that the writer wanted to convey.eireann Lorsung wants the readers to be interested both in the subject [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 608
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