Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 64

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“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

Chinese Novellas: The Role of Memory and Perception

This is one of the details that attract attention of the readers, and one can say that it is important for understanding the passage and the short story, in general.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 992

The Oppression of Social Groups in British Literature

In literature, writing back is a style where authors use their experiences and historical time lines to bring into light some of the cross cutting social issues within the context of the society of the [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Fiction Comparison
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2170

The Tale of Prodigal Daughter

The parents told her that they were ready to support her under the condition that she goes back to her family and apologise to the husband.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1082

The Creation Myth in Different Cultures

To understand the significance of the creation story for different cultures and explore the particular features of the myth, it is necessary to focus on the Mesopotamian myth known as the Enuma Elish, on the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1161

Family Supper and Naema

The means of narration within the story is one where the author attempts to convey to the reader the feelings of grief and despair felt by the unnamed narrator through a depiction of the events [...]
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  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 945

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 Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

He innovatively concentrated on the best techniques of governance and holding up to the noble principalities in the first eleven chapters of the book.
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 807

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

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

Folklore: “The Fallen Angel Cake”

Before the woman could notify the buyer about the blemish in the cake, the buyer acknowledged before a crowd that she had baked the beautiful cake.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 540

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

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

The Fall of the House of Usher

Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher is a short story which makes the reader feel fear, depression and guilt from the very first page and up to the final scene.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 585

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

Homer’s “The Iliad” History and Content

The review will take the form of an in depth analysis of part one of the whole poem before that, most imperatively, presents the plot of the poem including shading light into the flow.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1892

‘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

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

Evenin’ Air Blues

In this stanza, the words that carry the rhyme are "me", which is repeated three times, "be" repeated two times and "see"."Me" and "be" are used in an altering way to indicate how the speaker's [...]
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  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 825

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 White Noise by Don DeLillo

In this case, the visit to the supermarket reveals Jack's true nature as an American who is proud of his way of life, and the satisfaction he feels after buying goods from the supermarket.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 1527

King’s ‘The letter From Birmingham Jail’

He claims that since the clergy is not willing to listen to them and give them their rights, they have to show the importance of the matter by holding non-violent demonstrations.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1143

“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

“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

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

Is the literary expression of trauma gendered?

Drawing facts from the novel, Human Toll, the Western society presents men as the beneficiaries of the gender bias since the male folks engage the females in endless conflicts, and the women are the ones [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 828

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

“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

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

Analysis of Style and Response to Stephen Jay Gould

In the area of punctuation, Gould's punctuation style is characteristically useful in the breaking of his sentences down, as he does this to improve the comprehensibility of the ideas he is conveying.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1717

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

Conflict of the Sexes in Play “Medea” by Euripides

The man cannot understand that things mean nothing to a woman if her family is being destroyed. Thus, Jason's biggest mistake is that he thinks Medea simply wants to remain his only wife.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 560

Baoyu and the Green Delight

Despite the main aim of sending a boy to inspect the garden as a way to recollect himself after the loss of his best friend, sending Baoyu to the garden was also a means to [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1489

Aspect of Human Experience

Faulkner presents death in the story through death-haunted life of Emily. Emily also refuses to acknowledge the death of Homer, though she was responsible for his death.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 854

Introduction for a new edition of Patti Smith’s Just Kids

The validity of this suggestion can be illustrated in regards to a new edition of Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids, in which she provides readers with an insight onto different aspects of her early biography, [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 834

“Diet for a Warmer Planet” Julia Whitty

In the article "Diet for a Warmer Planet" Julia Whitty presents two specific ideas: that it is necessary to reduce the global carbon footprint made by humanity in order to prevent adverse climate change and [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 714

Birth by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

The reader is tempted to sympathize with Martin because of the tribulations he faces. The writer uses place to bring out the theme of contrast.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 856

Comments for Invisible Man

The fact that the author never expressly mentions the real name of the narrator, who is the main character in the story, can actually be perceived as a way in which the author portrays the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 582

Homeric Heroes: Ulysses and Gilgamesh

Then they would talk about their encounters with gods, Ulysses would tell how he met the god of the sea and how he was able to interact with him.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 860