Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 63

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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

The Representation of Irish Nationalism

In contrast, Joyce's "The Dead" criticizes the cultural imperialism that threatens the harmony of the Irish and the revival of the Irish language and culture.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1737

Philip Roth the Human Stain: The Great American Novel

He is said to be the first and only Jew to have made to the level of becoming a dean in Athena faculty and to be allowed to join the teaching staff in classic department [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 16
  • Words: 4393

Kate Chopin’s Private Papers

One more fact from the biography of this woman seems peculiar and deserves attention is the fact that after the death of her husband, Dr.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 557

Splitting an Entity in Pieces: Family by J. California Cooper

California Cooper manages to convey the importance of the family ties and emphasizes that in the hardest times when slavery came to reign in the country and people, could be sold and bought, family relationships [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 842

Depiction of Race in Early American Writing

The use of the term Native American, whether in the open or in private mirrors the ancient and modern systems of ethnic classification in the American society.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1764

Analysis of Two Anne Frank’s Entries

The writings of Anne Frank in her book dedicated to the Holocaust and called The Diary of a Young Girl should be considered as the greatest masterpiece of that period.
  • Subjects: Historical Fiction Comparison
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1018

Limits of desire in the literature of sixteenth Century

The theorized analysis of desire in different works of literature was first witnessed in the sixteenth century. The 16th century literature centered on the theme of desire, and the most written desire was ideal love.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1685

The Individual, Faith, and Society

Hobbes managed to overcome all the political and social havocs that affected his life and which were the major things that shaped the way he was thinking.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1699

The peculiarities of Karim Amir’s identity

It can seem that Karim does not proud of the fact that he was born and brought up as the Englishmen, but the development of the situation supports the progress of the inner conflict because [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 15
  • Words: 4124

Stream of Consciousness: Mary the Measurable Woman

You luck that you cannot have your own man."Hey Mary come and let's dance to the music. You have to understand that men are polygamous in nature and cannot be tamed like a bird in [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 572

Critical Review: Czechs in British Literature

The article has a systemic representation of the events that occurred in the field of literature. The author points out that location of Bohemia in Czech was described in literature.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 763

Northrop Frye Theories on Literature

Paul in the book of Romans says that Adam was a typology of Christ and that Christian baptism in the New Testament is represented by the salvation of mankind in the flood of Noah.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2377

Revision and reversionary in The Empire Writes Back

Revision is given a pivotal emphasis in the influential work of Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back, in which they remark that the " arevisioning' of received tropes and modes...and the rereading of [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2924

Los Pichiciegos by Enrique Fogwill

In that regard, Fogwill's approach to the presentation of the plot of the novel in the form of the collection of the testimonials of the real participants of the events is meaningful.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2503

Man, the State and War by Kenneth Waltz

The sheer amount of views and in-text lifting from other authors lends the work a certain degree of veracity in terms of the accuracy of the arguments and how they conform to current methods of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 860

Historical Trends, Decline, and Revival of Civic Participation

The problem of civic participation has been already reviewed by researchers in public affairs field though Robert Putnam in the book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community brings the discussion on another [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1133

Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

As a young boy, Voltaire received his education at the Jesuit school between the years 1704 and 1711. As a result, Voltaire was arrested severally and imprisoned by the authorities.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 446

Journal for Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers

Through the voice of the main protagonist named Richard Powers, the author raises important problems of body-mind duality, the possibility of investigating consciousness and the links between art and politics.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 902

The Journey of One Buddhist Nun: Even Against the Wind

The behaviors of her father contributed greatly to her resentment of men, this is because her father was greatly opposed to her will of being a nun because he wanted her to grow into a [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 713

Asymmetries because of cognitive limitations

On the contrary, the absence of adult-like recital in comprehension explains the lack of adequate cognitive resources in children, which are imperative in executing computations hence, leading to comprehension.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 640

Stream of Consciousness

It is important to note that stream of consciousness is a major contributor to excellent delivery of thoughts and ideas in literature.
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  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1412

“Virgin Suicides” by Jeffrey Eugenides

The boys were fascinated and infatuated with the girls and it was after 20 years that they told the story and tried to understand why the girls committed suicide. The reputation of the suburban was [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 862

Apprentice writing should not use emotive style

It relegates the piece of work to the level of dialogue, where a speaker is allowed to use personal pronouns, as this informality therefore makes a piece of writing lack the necessary academic formality.
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 840

Twenty Five Years of Folklore in the West

For instance, in Texas, the state's folklore society contributed immensely to the growth of modern folklore literature in the mid west.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 823

Gender roles in the Wind in the Willows

For instance, in the case where both the mole and the rat make comments to the toad that are full of women critics.
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1568

Brandt (2005) and Bisaillon (2007) Writing

Writing for a living is a serious issue: on the one hand, it helps to improve the quality and efficiency of the writing tasks and, consequentially, speed up the economic and social progress.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 669

The Darwinism theory in the text The Island of Dr Moreau

This simply means that the present existing organisms descended from somewhere and therefore there is a difference between the organisms that existed millions of years ago and those that are in existence as of now.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 723

Love Is An Art

It is obvious that the attraction between the narrators and the girls is orchestrated by love. It is a love that does not dwell on trivial shortcomings of the five girls.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1933

Children’s Literature Selection- Charlotte’s Web

Furthermore, it confirms that friends are very important in life and help students to commit to their friendships. Characters are also important in this book, for instance, Charlotte is found to be kind and selfless.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 503

Desiree’s Baby Analysis

The story of a quarter-black baby born in a young family of Desiree (a deserted child adopted by the family of Valmonde, and Armand Aubigny, the son of reputable aristocrats, slave-owners, shows how deprived both [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 999

Herland by Charlotte Gilman

This female sex only society resulted in a culture of peace among the inhabitants, the women had a good social order and they followed the laws set to the latter.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1957

Novel Analysis: “War Trash” by Ha Jin

The author uses Yu Yuan to narrate the experience of POWs in the camps. However, Yu Yuan is informed by the doctor that he is among the POWs to be transferred to Koje Island where [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 3179

Gatsby & Jean Valjean

He is a mysterious person, and no one exactly knows his origins and the ways he used to acquire his fortune.
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1259

Dystopian Social Contract

The Hunger Games series 1 is a science-fiction drama that delineates the situation of enslavement among the citizens of Panem to the governing class that reside in a city called Capitol.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1170

The comics of Urbano Gomez

Urbano Gomez's was caught playing "...husband and wife with his cousin Hiccups behind the school lavatories". Although we sympathize him for his fate, the cause of his expulsion from the school is a comical matter.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 642

Maupassant’s Short Story Comparison

The short story was published as part of Maupassant's "Les Soirees de Medan" short story collection."Boule de Suif" was published in 1880, the period after the French were defeated in the Franco-Prussian War."Boule de Suif" [...]
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  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 861

Harlem Renaissance Poets Overview

The poet describes how the musician sways to the rhythm of the blues and the emotional uplifting he gets out of the experience.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1088

Sonnets 29 and 73 by Shakespeare

It will not be much of an exaggeration to suggest that the main theme, explored in the Sonnet 29, has to do with the sensation of frustration that people get to experience, after having realized [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1023

Human Nature: Comparative Analysis

In his view, legitimate authority should be derived from the people since the powers of the monarchs are always destructive because they are used in a way that is inconsistent with the demands of the [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 836

Tartuffe and the Misanthrope

In the beginning of the play he openly complains to his friend Philinte about the level of corruption in the French society.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1088

Why Do People Swear?

Thus, the study of swearing ought to be understood in terms of the origin and historical development or adoption of the words and the expressions.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 839

Burning: Poetry Explication

One of the details that attract the attention of the readers is that the writer does not following a specific musical pattern while writing this poem.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 585

Elizabethan View of Machiavelli as ‘Evil’

Arguably, the sociopolitical and religious system of governance in Britain at the time was threatened by Machiavelli's Ideas of freedom from religious dictatorship and injustice in the society.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 837

Infanticide in Ancient Greece

In most ancient societies, children were the property of the parents, and those children who the parents deemed unfit were killed or sold into slavery.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 873

Three Aspects of Humanness in Literature

One of the most difficult questions is, of course, what it is to be a human. These works contain the answer to one of the most important questions for the humanity.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 604

Children Literature Analysis: The Concept of Death

To enable the children understand the issue of death, various aspects are used by the author so as to generate the feeling surrounding the concept of death and to ensure the young people understand the [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1137

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and His Literary Contribution

Most scholars are skeptical about the magnanimity of Sarmiento's contribution to literature but it is often agreed that his works are an accurate reflection of the social and political situations in the 1800s' Argentina.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1145

Voltaire’s Attitude toward Religion

Hence, Voltaire notes that it is ignorance to die and support wars for the sake of a benevolent god because wars are only dangerous to society and individuals.
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 581

The Moths and the Woman Warrior

How the authors understand the ways in which racism has influence the levels of poverty of the books' characters Based on the two books content, it is apparent that the authors understand the manner in [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 13
  • Words: 3550

Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together

The author is a trained psychologist and she employs her vocation in her analysis of the relationship between the inanimate computers and human beings.
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  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1412

Steinbeck and Babb: Shaping American Literature

In the two books, Steinbeck and Babb wrote about the plight of migrants in Oklahoma and California. On the other hand, Steinbeck argued that the system forced the migrants to live in miserable conditions.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 542

Christian Pacifism in the Modern World

At a personal level in the life of a Christian, engaging in war or acts of violence in order to resolve emerging conflicts is not part of the biblical doctrine.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 941

Examination: “The Accomplish’d Rake” by Mary Davys

Apart from the heavy use of epistolary genre, Davys creates the male character and assigns the quality of a modern gentleman to him for the purpose of promoting the theological perspective of the novel, as [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1705

Alienation in Douglas Coupland’s “Player One”

It is needless to mention of course, that the earlier mentioned issue fits rather well within the methodological framework of the Massey Lectures, as such that are supposed to serve the purpose of enlightening listeners [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1602

“World on Fire” by Amy Chua

In the book, Amy Chua discusses the phenomenon of "market dominant minorities, which are believed to be the Jews in Russia, whites in Zimbabwe, Indians in Fiji and East Africa, and the Chinese community in [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2198