Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 65

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

The struggle between the individual and the society is one of the main themes in The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.

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 [...]

Even though these son's relation to father is explained through the whole chapter, the main purpose of the discussion is the attempt of James Baldwin to understand the role of black people in formation of [...]

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.

The main tragedy is that they did not show similar respect to the dignity and life of other people. The problem is that the world described by the author is full of hostility and violence [...]

In fact, the way of life in the world is substantial and the meaning of life is exposed through events that are being experienced at that particular time.

The appreciation for nature among the Japanese features in the poems through the constant mention of the four seasons that carry along with them the beauty of nature.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

The book dwells upon the journey of a Hispanic boy to the USA. Of course, the loss of mother is one of the hardest traumas.

The American society in The Age of Innocence and Manhattan Transfer reflect these changes, and the society is divided in issues concerning the new changes; there is a conflict in the society.

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 [...]

Waters chose to write on the Victorian era because she felt the power structure in this era oppressed the gay and lesbian members of the community.

If the feminists of the first wave concentrated on their legal rights and freedoms, the feminists of the second wave accentuated their roles in the society as individuals who are equal with men in their [...]

One of the central themes in this play is the life of little people and "the tension between little people and big issues".

In the process, Rohan's trauma turns him wild that he engages his father in a physical fight and exchange of insults.

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 [...]

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.

While the focus of the book was the Kapyong battle, a tiny collection of hills to the Northeastern part of Seoul, Bjarnason deemed it necessary to explain the circumstances that triggered Canada's involvement in the [...]

Therefore, a critical analysis of the story enlightens the contemporary society on the aspect of hospitality in relation to the people of Greece.

Many scientists and scholars tried to view the problem of the connection between Frankenstein and science from the perspective of the feminist vision as the novel is written by a woman.

Generally, the main idea of the play is considered to be the impact of people's actions on their future."The ghost of Hamlet's father does urge him to action".

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 [...]

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.

The authors emphasize on the role of fathers in the family and especially, in the building of character in their children.

The imagery of the poem, its language, and structure are the main elements that help the author to convey his meaning and feelings for Lucy. One of the things that catch the attention of the [...]

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 [...]

The poem narrates the encounter of the speaker with a phantom on the shores of Lake Ontario who demands that; "Chant me the poem...that comes from the soul of America, /chant me the carol of [...]

The book "In the realm of dying emperor" tries to put forth the significance of the death of Emperor Hirohito who died of cancer.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

As the representative of the Harlem Renaissance, the author describes the life of Harlem community after the Second World War and the civil rights movement.

From the provided excerpt, it is evident that Tilney invited Catherine to spend several weeks with her and she was to stay in Northanger Abbey.

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.

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 [...]

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.

The book uses the state "trembled" to represent two meanings: first is the threat posed by the unified city workers who went on a strike against the state machinery through their refusal to continue normal [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

On the other hand, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" revolves around a man, who is uncomfortable with his life and thus, keeps on escaping to a world of fantasy.

One of the things that Burke seems not to appreciate is the fact that freedom and liberty are not a one-time achievement.

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.

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.

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.

Having stayed in china for a long period, Craig wanted to bring to focus the culture and the lifestyle of the Chinese.

The events that take place in Athens are symbolic in the sense that they represent the sequence of events during the day whereas the events in the forest represent the dream like circumstances.

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 [...]

Answering the question why Dorian Gray was motivated to adopt his life philosophy and to lead a double life it is possible to look at the facts.

The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa is a book that takes us through a family in Africa, the joys and the struggles they had to go [...]

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 [...]

In the texts of the Iliad Achilles is depicted as a great warrior possessing all the marks of a grand fighter by proving his might it the Achaean army. Patroclus death puts Achilles in a [...]

Nevertheless, the influence of the church in controlling the production and dissemination of knowledge continued to be strong. One of the characters in the work, Sloth, is resentful because the medieval Christians were supposed to [...]

The poet's vision in the modernist age was extremely beneficial despite secluding him from the scientific concerns of the day or the society.

Mailer as the main protagonist of The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer and Wittman Ah Sing as the main protagonist of Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston represent the ambiguous [...]

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 [...]

It is, therefore, through political consciousness and positive reconstruction of her identity that she is able to act upon the oppressive constraints.

Since colonialism is mostly accompanied by the subordination of the history of one people to another's, and the slow obliteration of the culture of the colonized, the post-colonial therefore is mostly occupied with the proactive [...]

In addition, what determines the production of goods most is the organizational structure as opposed to the question of whether the producer is from the private or public sector.

The different themes and characters issued and depicted in the book can be applied in management to provide a basic guideline in terms of the principles of management and the current growth being experienced around [...]

Additionally, stating that he is a camera, which is only recording and reproducing, but not thinking and interpreting, the author pursues the goal of affecting the readers' minds and making his text to seem more [...]

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.

Going by the words of Hopkins "science of fiction is a genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science and technology of the future- these stories involve partially true-partially fictions laws or [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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.

In the book, William Apes has set the story in the 1800s a period marred by mass murder of Native Americans by the whites in the name of Christianity and in the quest of land.

Although the government is unable to curb corruption and inequality in the society, it does not keenly solve the problem about Taiping movement but rather resorts to killing the supporters of the movement.

Over 60000 British men were killed during the war and the author depicts vividly in a grotesque picture the emotional and physical effects of the war on the soldiers leading to disillusionment in the war.

He is relaxed in the whole play and has a good sense of humor. The last and final actor in the play is a lady who comes from the same place as the trainer of [...]

Patti never thought of disclosing to anybody the change that had occurred in her relationship with Robert but she discovered that it was important for her to find something different.

This essay seeks to argue that Finkel, in his story, is telling the truth and to this end, a critical evaluation of the elements that define a war story shall be carried out before an [...]

The main theme in the story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose is resistance and oppression. They depend on the accounts of Hans and Sophie Scholl and the letters they wrote.

In an attempt to seal the gap that these researchers have created in the Canadian history, Srigley focuses on the lives of young women during the Great Depression era. Men's reaction to the phenomenon was [...]

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 [...]

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.

In addition, the setting of the poem symbolizes the social injustices and oppressive nature of the people who promote Christianity in the region.

The elusive coalition between Enkidu and Gilgamesh, their fateful destinies and eventual epiphanies broaden the societal apprehension of the elements/value of friendship as expounded in the next discussion.

There is a position that the writer's literary fame depended upon other French writers." They say that Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is a symbol of the realism movement."Flaubert's writing was meticulous and his styles have [...]

The key purpose of the author in writing this book is to inform the public that change is inevitable. The lack of growth in a rapidly changing environment leads to loss of jobs and opportunities [...]

Completed only by the end of the novel, the ceremony as one of Native American rituals enables the main protagonist and his people to restore their national identity and save the Native Americans' community.

The story throws us to different times: the 'present' moment of the execution, the past that led to the execution and most notably, to an 'imagined present'.

None the less the Homeric world gives a glimpse of the noble men and women who live within that society, they appreciate and acknowledge the little favors and hospitality extended to them and in some [...]

This form of literature can be in form of folktales, music, sayings, and proverbs depicting the culture and livelihoods of the society. Of particular interest to this essay is the level of violence depicted in [...]

In a family it is expected that the older generation should take care of the young one but in the case of Lil' Bit her uncle preys on her sexually and even proposes to marry [...]

Henry James in his work "The Art of Fiction" and Joseph Conrad in his "The Task of the Artist" touched upon the problem of measuring the aesthetic value of a work of fiction by certain [...]

In Proulx's The Shipping News, death is the end of Quoyle's silence and the beginning of his voiced, well-articulated future. Wavey is a point of connection between Quoyle and the new place he is in.

A good example of a typical fallacy in the text is the metaphor that links the homeless people to the homeless animals, in the given case, the squirrels in the park.

One of the deadly sins, according to Dante, is gluttony and in the Third Circle of "Inferno" "Gluttons are punished". In conclusion, it is possible to state that Dante, just as the majority of poets [...]

In a nutshell, it can be argued that the definition of a man or a woman is different and not the same as in earlier days.

In this paper, I will aim to explore the legitimacy of an earlier suggestion in regards to how the deployment of a literary irony had helped Shirley Jackson and Nathaniel Hawthorne to emphasize the philosophic [...]

In these chapters, the author addresses the issues of emergence of capitalism and construction of market institutions, as well as explores the notion of freedom of the individual in a complex society.

History as a Novel/ The Novel as History is a subtitle of the book which proves that Mailer intentionally mixed the two genres for enriching the content of his work and experimenting with the manner [...]

The fight ends Lama's quest as he finds the river of the Arrow and Kim hands the secret documents to authorities.

However, these immigrants have had to bear the brunt of rejection and cultural shock in the land of opportunities. Nonetheless, the story is different with their children, who have to try hard to achieve divided [...]

This piece of work will give a review of the novel in regard to what the story is about and the various perspectives that can be derived from the author's arguments.

This is the difference in the connotation meaning of the language used in everyday life and at work. The connotation of the language used at work is the desire to impress others and to make [...]

The first letter starts by setting pace for the interest Voltaire had on religion and he writes, "I was of opinion that the doctrine and history of so extraordinary a people were worthy the attention [...]

However, Don Quixote's knight-errant, Sancho Panza, has a more realistic approach to the world and life, and acts as Don Quixote's voice of reason and has a stabilising effect on the maniacal Quixote.

Some of them included: the role of the church and the state, the importance of human rights and the role of a representative government.

Some of the features in the novel attributed to the line and the American exceptional and democratic ideology at home and abroad are tackled in this paper with an aim of unearthing the reason of [...]

Catfish and Mandala is a smooth mix of travelogue and memoir: Pham merges stories of his family's escape and settlement in America with steep mountain climbs on his bike, the reunion with several family members [...]

An interpretation of the ending of the play is given with the impact that is felt as a result of the play is brought light.

The book contains two essays which include "My Dungeon Shook-Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary Emancipation" which discusses the central role of race in American history written in the form of a [...]

The bulk of the story is set in South America and the origin of the slave trade in the African continent.

In the last part of the book, the federation warships come to the moon. This is evident in the book as the people on the moon are being controlled by the governments of the earth.

They learnt the important lesson that, the rich do not work for money; no, money works for them by employing other people to work for them In Chapter 2, the author explains the importance of [...]

However, it is important that if the children and adolescents are going to be affected, it should stand out as a positive influence making gender one of the timeless societal problems that should be approached [...]

The Hong Kong International Literary Festival sessions for children's books are therefore an appropriate avenue for the introduction of the inspirational story of Rick Hansen depicted in the book, Boy in Motion, to the Asian [...]

Helen is genuinely willing to help poor people and she even offers money to the Basts, but she is so generous because she has never had to earn her living.