Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 64

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Faulkner and Material Culture

The essays give a deeper meaning between the things that Faulkner borrowed from the real world and merged with the things that he espoused in his way of life.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1098

Prosperity and Social Justice

The short story was also the subject of debate when it was first written because it failed to fit in any particular genre at the time."The Yellow Wallpaper" was mostly considered a horror story when [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 622

The Beggar King of Ithaca

When it comes down to a physical fight, Odysseus has all might to win but his wisdom and graces serve as a conscious and willing determination to be morally correct and he acts as a [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 586

The Travel of Sir John Mandeville

Despite the fact that the narration does not contain any information about the author, it still manages to convey the world reminding of the remarkable journeys of Christopher Columbus, Jonathan Swift, and Sir Thomas More. [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 540

Religion in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower

Thus, it will only be logical to conclude this paper by reinstating once again that there is indeed a good rationale in referring to Butler's Parable of the Sower, as an intellectually enlightening novel.
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1651

The Literary Renaissance: The Many Faces of Modernism

London nails down the major problems of the post-war U.S.society: "This tower [.] represented [.] the serenity of nature amid the struggles of the individual nature in the wind, and nature in the vision of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 609

Learning Styles and Education Environment

However, it is emerging that differences in student characteristics may be a significant contributor to the perceived inadequacy of online learning.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 549

“Musee des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden

Bearing these images in mind this paper seeks to proof that humans have conditioned themselves to disregard the suffering that seems always to surround them as the surface meaning of the poem in relation to [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 853

The Achievement of Desire

This is a one sentence summary of Rodriguez's career who managed to achieve much by means of reading and education in general, but at the same time he has lost his family having created a [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 553

The Monstrosity and Revelation

Overall, it is possible to argue that the each of the protagonists has a very complex inner world, but it is revealed only to the readers, but to other people.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1114

Götz and Meyer, written by David Albahari

Through the humor and empathy implemented in the novel, the characters that embody two Nazi soldiers are given human faces instead of the sole image of a murderer.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1686

A Rose for Emily and The Guest

After such an examination, a comparison will be done with the character of the Arab with the climax of the examination of the character culminating in the scene involving the 1,000 francs and the decision [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1367

The Comparison of Gilgamesh and Odysseus

This paper is aimed at discussing the journeys undertaken by the main characters; in particular one should focus on their motives of the protagonists and the way in which both Gilgamesh and Odysseus were transformed [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 560

Why is it an Enjoyable Story?

It is also important that a story create a picture in the mind of the reader. One reading this story would have a clear picture of the environment.
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

Frederick Douglass’s poem

Apparently, by doing it, Douglass strived to emphasize the hypocritical ways of Southern slave-owning Bible-thumpers, who used to be thoroughly comfortable with indulging in two mutually incompatible activities, at the same time treating Black slaves [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 419

The Problem of People’s ‘Dangerous Evolutionary Baggage’

If the notion of 'evolutionary baggage' can be explained with references to the concepts of the development of the world and progress of a man in it, in order to understand its wouldangerous' character, it [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 562

Comparison of Antigone With Griselda

Additionally their roles in the society including the chores assumed in this context depicted various similarities in the entire contexts. Nonetheless, the depiction of women is still ideal in this context.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1896

Literary Analysis of “Sean”

In "Sean," the author uses an urban setting to show how race is "constructed" by people and places that surround the characters. Here, the author uses the circumstances surrounding Sean and the narrator to show [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 563

The Enormous Radio

The short story gathered the attention of the public that made it to be among The Enormous Radio and Other Stories collections.
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 574

Language Policy and Cantonese Speaker

Since, over the last few decades, the impact of the Cantonese language in China has increased, sinking the significance of the traditional Chinese, or Putonghua, the Chinese government decided to reestablish the Putonghua language as [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 876

‘From Within and Without’ a World of Utopia

In this regard, the almost Marxist twist which I employed in the narrative depicts the dystopian world in line with the Marxist critical assessment of capitalism that points out the ever decreasing "unlimited faith in [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1242

Significance and Role of Yugen in Waka and Renga Poetry

In this respect, specific attention is given to the poem 273 where the natural imagery is used to render the depth of grief and sorrow experienced by the residents of Fukakusa Village: "Daylight fades away [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 825

Alpha Behn, Her Life and Works

This occurred in the late seventeen century and summarily she was quoted to have harbored the ambitions of becoming a Catholic nun in her teenage age.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1422

Treatment of Women by Shakespeare and Sophocles

Othello disregards the explanation that Desdemona has in regard to the accusation of being unfaithful and kills her.'She's, like a liar, gone to burning hell, Shakespeare 28.' After Othello killed Desdemona, he believed more in [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1895

Our Man in Havana

This is exactly the reason why, even though that as recently as during the course of the fifties, the idea that one should be willing to sacrifice its life for the sake of a 'nation' [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2499

Shakespeare’s Play A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The synthesis of old and new traditions in play writing contributes to the development of new genres that Shakespeare makes use of to reflect the historic and cultural context of his epoch.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1100

A Review of “Lyrics Abbey” by Leila Aboulela

The author focuses on the life of a well-to-do Sudanese family and the way in which these people are affected by the political transformation of the society.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1105

Subversive Literature/ Dystopia in science fiction novels

In the endeavor to place a case in support of this line of argument, the paper considers the key traits of dystopian literature then showing how Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep possesses them in [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2204

Reflective Entry: “Push” by Sapphire

Precious examines the situation of her family, and she says that her family is invisible to the world. Precious believes that the sketch is that of her and her family, and she is much troubled.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 588

Review on Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

To discuss the peculiarities of describing the concept of childhood in the novel, it is necessary to focus on the actual substance of childhood as it is and on the impacts of childhood on the [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1099

“The Blind Owl” and “The underground Man”

In the contemporary society, introduction of literature research has extensively increased the volume of literature in every topic of interest a researcher may be interested in especially in use of tools of expression such as [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 803

J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye

The reason is that the face value of the content impairs the ability of the reader to dig deep into the book and unravel some disturbing traits about Holden.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2147

Analysis of “Enrique’s Journey” Book

The method of survival reflects their determination to succeed in life through doing the small jobs and in the end improve the economy of the country.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 578

The Narrative Voices in Stoker’s and Carter’s Works

Interestingly, even though there is a narrator in the story, it is still intimate as the story is full of remarks and ideas which belong to the girl's mind. It is even possible to state [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1980

Orientalism in Ozymandias and Alastor: When Exotics Meets Wisdom

The Asian world has always been a mystery for the Western civilization; the former lives according its own laws which the European culture conceive completely, envisions the world, its origins and the way its elements [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1344

The role of faith in “Hey Nostradamus!”

While Coupland uses Cheryl, Jason, Allison, Heather and Reg to bring into the novel a four unique viewpoints on faith and spirituality, such a diverse exploration of faith helps the reader to gain a deeper [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1656

“The End of the Free Market” by Ian Bremmer

It also enables governments to protect the economic activities that take place in their countries as well as the choice of the consumers from the adverse effects of the international market.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2171

The Impact of the Ways Gender Is Constructed in the Briar Rose

Representation of the king as an overprotective father and benevolent king, the thirteenth wise woman who has turned the curse to blessing by revealing the princess from her farther care and allowing her to become [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 585

Night by Ellie Wiesel

The paper summarizes the reasoning of the writer and goes a notch higher to analyze some of the themes in order to establish the relevance of the book to the modern political environment.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1417

Comparing Silverstein and Greenfield

There is a fear of the unknown that is prevalent in children as portrayed by some of the poems by the two poets.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 624

Interpretive Statement on “At That Moment”

His shooting was meet with disbelief as 'pounding thunder' describes how the whole place was quite as Malcolm's journey to the dead began to the extent that the poet uses exaggeration to explain that even [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 673

Different Approaches to the Theme of Death

Facts and Reality In the first place, it is necessary to focus on the major similarities within poets' approach to the theme, i.e.the three major peculiarities of the Asian poetry. The reader understands that the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 845

Achilles Armour

Achilles's armor is considered as one of the best and the most powerful, that is why it is not a surprise that Ajax and Odysseus wanted to have it after Achilles's death.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 555

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

The check is on life insurance and is to be given to Lena due to the death of her husband. Wilter asks for the insurance money in order for him to work with it and [...]
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 843

Marriage in “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen

In spite of the predominance of this vision of the marriage and the woman's role in society, Jane Austen in her Pride and Prejudice proposes several possible variants of realizing the scenario of meeting the [...]
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  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 595

African American Literature and Parody

The pleasure of parody's irony comes not from humor in particular but from the degree of engagement of the reader in the intertextual bouncing between complicity and distance.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2735

Jean-Paul Sartre and Jules Ferry

One of the critical arguments put forward by Sartre is that many nations colonized by Europeans could see that the colonizers failed to live up to the ideals of humanism that they often proclaimed.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1084

Jane Austen and Convention of the Gothic

The writer defied conventions of gothic novels by starting with a naive character, and then developed and nurtured her to the woman that she becomes at the end of the novel.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2018

Marriage in Early Modern Europe

In the story called Women on the Margins, the recognized author Davis explores the three lives of seventeenth century women. Overall, all the women to a less or more extent were under the influence of [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 565

“Hope’s Boy The memoir” by Andrew Bridge

The memoir "Hope's Boy" portrays the childhood experiences of Bridge which depicts the U. The anger of his childhood leads to the belief that there is a hope that the future can be better.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 825

The Book of Revelation and the “Pearl” Poem

It is possible to trace several parallels between the poem and the Book of Revelation: numerical symbolism, the idea of people's resignation and the idea of revelation.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1126

Memoirs Of A Sleep-Walker

One such use of the word is found in the line "...my condition, the savage rushed from his covert in order to complete his work" is used in the sense that depicts the enemy who [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1788

Fantasy in Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase

The penultimate figure in the chain prior to the reunion of the protagonist and the rat himself is the sheep man, who is a dwarf like figure in a dirty sheepskin.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1956

“Beauty and politics” Arthur Danto

Danto examines the work of Georg Hegel and concludes that beauty is actually appropriate especially when celebrating the loss of life for it reminds the bereaved of that pain as part of human experience.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 666

Sex and Death in Stoker’s Dracula

By presenting the portrayal of Mina as the one belonging to the New Women generation, the author provides an example of the Victorian woman that is capable of resisting the devil's seduction.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 820

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

The story dissects the existence of duality within the life of a person or basically the duality of human nature. The modern world is faced with the challenge of regulating the work of scientists.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1924

Triumph at Kapyong: Canada’s pivotal battle in Korea

It briefly sets the stage of the story or event by indicating that the event centered on the battle of Kapyong and goes to great lengths in describing the details of the events that led [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1350

The Main Actor Creon in “Antigone“ by Sophocles

Throughout the play, there are hints that Creon who defends his actions as doing them in line with the interests of the people and the gods that he is doing the exact opposed and in [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 597
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