Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 67

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Perspectives: Woman at point Zero

In the opening scene of the play, Medea is beating herself over the loss and present to console her is an elderly nurse.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 563

Something happened here: Thematic analysis

Though he does not say why he chose to particularly the seaside town of Dieppe, it is easier for the readers to see that he may have visited because of the connection that his country [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1101

Drama: Susan Glaspell’s Trifle’s

In the play, we also get to know the character traits of the Wright's from other characters.Mr. This makes Minnie Foster a key suspect in the murder case i.e.she might have killed her husband to [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 643

“The Tale of the Heike”

It discusses the stories of 12th century and the main focus is the transition of Chinese and the Japanese. This is the initial stage that the belief of the Japanese is portrayed.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 531

“Araby” by James Joyce

The description of the city shows that there was romance all over and even the cold in the city could not hold the love for her back.
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  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 564

Catullus’ Lyric Poem and His Obsession with Lesbia

He used different methods to break her spell the first time he tried to convince himself that there is nothing good that will come out of his love for her and he said: Leisure, Catullus.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 662

The Journal of Albion Moonlight

The rest of the book consists of chapters of the novel along with journal notes that record the events of the journey and make comments on the novel. The Journal of Albion Moonlight is, on [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1241

What Can Lawyers Learn From ‘Othello’?

Shakespeare has employed one of the literature elements by using major characters like, Othello, a hero and the head of armies, Desdemona, Othello's covert wife, Michael Cassio, Othello's deputy, Lago, ranked below the lieutenant, among [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 692

Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Instead of listening to the perspectives of other workers, the author herself gave up her middle-class comforts and assumed the role of a minimum-wage worker in America to experience the daily hardships they go through.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 803

Depression due to Repression in The Yellow Wallpaper

By the end of the same century, the patriarchal view of women as 'natural born housewives' and the objects of men's sexual desire, had lost the remains of its former validity.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1817

Humiliation of Iago (Othello)

In order to identify the actual reasons for Iago's hatred to Desdemona and Othello, the author makes use of his own approach in analyzing the play through the prism of motives, plots, themes, and character [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 589

The souls of the black folk

World War 1 and the social and cultural changes in the United States accelerated the growth and popularity of the alliance during the start of the 20th century.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1699

Language and Identity: Communication and Representation Sources

Since the concept of identity has been traditionally considered abstract and more often collective, the present stage of socio-linguistic study marks the revelation of individual identities and group identity features in a separate individual clearly, [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 588

The Cherry Orchard: Response

Firs, as one of the main characters depicts various stages of the play's development, his fate is associated with the fate of the orchard and the attitude of people to his is almost the same [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 817

The Ascent of Money

In addition, the author associates the control of the world financial system as a continuing part of the evolution of money.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1083

The Poet in Love, the Poet in Pain

The major theme of the poem is unhappy love and the way to love. One of the major symbols in the poem is the symbol of the play, called 'love'.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1094

An Occurrence at Owl Creek

The author uniquely uses the nature of time to narrate a story from a present time to that of the past.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 583

A Streetcar Named Desire

A mentally stronger person, Stella is capable of surviving in the world that she and her husband live in and, more to the point, sacrificing the truth to preserve that world, even at the cost [...]
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1733

“Farm Girl” and Child Development

The style of the essay is rather interesting and compelling, as it describes the life of a small girl but is written by an adult.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 542

A Play “Medea” by Euripides

Not only has there been a gender difference between men and women in life and social environment, but extreme discrimination and external conditions of the world and governmental ruling added to the role division.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 550

Book Report: Who moved my cheese?

Symbolism relating to the maze and the cheese in the story is what helps the author to present his message in the entire book.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’: Chapter 18 Analysis

This paper takes a critical look at the inclusion of chapter 18 in the publication entitled 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley and its significance in enabling a better understanding of the drama in the chapter. It [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 588

How Language Can Be Used or Abused in Persuasion

Through this analysis, the techniques used by authors and speakers to control the effects of the message they are delivering, the pros and cons of these kinds of techniques, and the meaning of these messages [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1363

Jeff Henderson’s Life After Prison

This is one of the problems that the author is forced to encounter. This is one of the reasons they were reluctant to deal with him.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 372

A Taste of Blackberries: Short Stories Comparison

On the one hand, there is a clear indication that blackberries as a symbol are used in the same way in both texts; in fact, the same words are used to describe the process of [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 627

Jeff Henderson and his Family Environment

Apart from that, it is important to mention that his parents failed to safeguard Jeff against risks that one could face in the neighborhood.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 333

Jeff Henderson’s Life Journey

In particular, the writer shows that in the course of his life, he reached the state of moral degradation, recognized the causes his downfall, and profoundly changed many of his worldviews.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1625

“Kokoro” a Novel Written by Soseki

There is also contradiction in the way that narrator and his father feel in regard to graduation. After Sensei learns that K is also in love with daughter of the widow, he proposes to her.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 818

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

It focuses on the personal characteristics of the presidents and aligns it to the public lives the men have led. There are many events that are described, relating to both public and private lives of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1094

House of Refugee vs. Life-Saving Station: In Search for a Shelter

It is quite remarkable that the difference between the two houses comes into the limelight as the correspondent, who clearly incorporates the elements of media as the author perceived it, cunning, two-faced and at the [...]
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  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 588

Illness of the Mind

This also comes from the fact that Bartleby think very highly of himself, and being the person that he is, others must understand him and love him as he is."Torquemada at the Stake" is also [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 586

The Handmaid’s Tale

In the book, The Handmaid's Tale, the republic of Gilead presents a different environment with different rules from those of the former order before the conflict and establishment of a new order.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1467

Gender Issues and Post-Colonialist Mood in Supernova

Dewi, however, does not interpret the given statement as the fact that knowledge is the source of power and power is the source of knowledge. The depth and palette of emotions that a single phrase [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 911

Iris and the Sky Myth

The myth offers intrinsically narrates the war that Iris had with the sky due to the pride of Iris. The "Iris and Sky" myth fits in the etiological theme of the classical mythology.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

The Star: A Universe with an Unneeded and Heedless Deity

Clarke, in his 1955 short story "The Star", proposes an immensely plausible explanation for the appearance of an unusually bright and light in the sky near the time of the birth of Jesus in Palestine.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1206

“Outlaw Platoon” by Sean Parnell

The author begins by explaining how he became the commander of the infantry platoon at the age of twenty-four. From the book, it is notable that the author displayed and lived most of the army [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 581

A Portrait of the Artist as a Yong Man

One of the motifs is the defiance of religion and the moral understanding of the world. A rather crucial motif is the development of the individuality and understanding of the surrounding world.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 586

“Harrison Bergeron” and Real Life

In a world where people are held back because of their talents, and their intelligence is marred by the social rules of all people being the same, Harrison refuses to succumb to the pressure and [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 549

Living in the Tenth Century:

Living in the Tenth Century, a book by Heinrich Fithtenau, presents an interesting view of life in Europe in the tenth century.
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1003

Twelve Years a Slave

He is the son of Mintus, who was a slave under the Northup family. The initial chapters of this publication discuss the history of the Northup's and the author's marriage to Anne.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 863

A heroine meets an anti-heroine: Eloisa vs. Belinda

Despite the fact that the characters of Eloise and Belinda are traditionally interpreted as the exact opposite of each other, i.e, a heroine and an anti-heroine, they, in fact, share quite a number of similarities. [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 861

Writers who predicted the future

Years ago, in a meeting of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, George Scithers, the longtime editor of Asimov's Magazine, and grand old man of SF editing generally, gave a most reassuring piece of advice to [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 965

James Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Yong Man”

It serves as the key to the whole story as everything that takes place is seen from Stephen's point of view, so his perception and understanding of the surrounding social and personal environment is instrumental [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 569

“Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett

It would be possible to assume that this is a part of the truth that the two men are experiencing. The suspension in a place that is not real, and is still physically felt by [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

Edward William Lane’s Views on the Orients

He argued that the Egyptian attire, just like that of many other orients in the Middle East, was full of respect as opposed to that of people from the Western culture.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1354

Narrating the Poetry: “The Iliad” by Homer

The poem seeks to illustrate on the battles between Agamemnon the King and the warriors Achilles. The Iliad story begins at almost the end of the Trojan War during besiege by the Greeks.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 823

The Comparison of the Characters of Eleonora and Tia Roma

In spite of the fact that the characters of Eleonora and Tia Roma can be discussed as different in relation to the authors' descriptions, these characters act and behave as the agents of knowledge rather [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1354

“Isis in Darkness” by Margaret Atwood

The eternal love between the gods and the characters from the story can be seen as the source of light, it is considered the most important part of the world.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 585

Spirit in the Dark: Langston Hughes

In my opinion, when one is going through the dark times in life, they feel determined to let out what he or she holds back in the heart. He wrote about the desperation that the [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 685

Exposing the Truth Value in Drama

The extent of a truth in logic is elucidated by the 'truth' value of a logical statement. The final statement is delivered to the reader by the late Takehiko's ghost and this is facilitated by [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 842

Zaabalawi is a symbol

Symbolism is used in this scene because the protagonist visited the Birgawi residence, a symbol that he is found in places of despair and ruin.
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  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 644

Epiphany of a Character From Assigned Readings

Enkidu is Gilgamesh's closest friend and just before his death, "he has a revelation on the punishment he and Gilgamesh are to undergo after their death.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 509

Synesthesia in A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman

Dillard has described Ackerman's work in A Natural History of the Senses and Synesthesia as "a history of her extraordinary enthusiasms," one that continues in the vein of the poet's "effort to draw scientific and [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1372

No Matter What the Beginning Is, the End Will Be the Same

The author introduces the story to the reader with a description of an ideal life story to which everybody aspires, but the successive several stories are not so happy, though the author offers the readers [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1387

Response to A Gesture Life

It is the desire to fit in the culture that is particularly traumatic for Hata, as one can see from the review of the work.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 759

Response to The Accidental Asian

The book of Eric Liu The Accidental American is a very bright and thought-provoking reflection of the second-generation Chinese American who lives in the USA, has a good job, and does not understand his own [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 670

Bastard Out of Carolina

As aforementioned, Alison uses Bone and the people around her to exploit the issues of gender, race, sexuality and class in a clamorous manner.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1459

In What Way Is The Catcher in the Rye an Iconic Work

We, however, do not subscribe to such point of view, because there are good reasons to believe that the actual explanation as to this novel's iconic status is the fact that in The Catcher in [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 3874

The Significance of Souls of Black Folks

This mixture of scientific approach and emotionality of a representative of the suppressed part of society reveals the tragedy of African Americans living in the beginning of the twentieth century.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1635

Plato’s Story of the Cave

In the Plato's allegory of 'The Cave,' the prisoners believe that the shadows projected by the light of the fire behind them on to the wall are a reality.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2240

Trifles by Susan Glaspell: Play Analysis

The characters look at the murder differently and this discussion will focus on the development in terms of roundness and flatness of the characters and the degree to which the characters are stereotypes.Mrs.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 987

Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas

In the book "Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas", the author takes his readers through their experience in the chase of the American Dream.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1080

Gothic Literature

The choice of settings as "THE PIT, typical of hell........the Ultima Thule of all their punishments", shows the pervading elements of gothic literature.
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 637

Do we Have Meaning?

In Frankl's view, only the inmates who identified a meaning in their being and pursued to realize it were able to carry on the cruelty, dejection and detrimental surroundings of the encampments.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1620

Education in “The History Boys” by Alan Bennett

The author, Alan Bennet has demonstrated his expertise in play writing through the interesting and fascinating nature of the play. The development and nature of the play, "The History Boys" is really admirable and eye [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 658

Women writing in India

It can be argued that the authors had technically juxtaposed tradition and change thus leaving it to the readers to point out the good and bad element of both the tradition and the change.
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1386

Haven character analysis report of Ruth Gruber

This paper will analyze the character of Ruth Gruber by focusing on two themes: the idea of inspiration and hope restoration and the notion of truth telling according to the book "Haven: The Dramatic Story [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1180

“The Nature Principle” by Richard Louv

The main theme of the book is the importance of nature to the life and well-being of man. To explain the nature principle, Louv says, "The Nature Principle is about the power of living in [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1088

About the victims in three novels

In essence, the novel is full of victims of circumstances utilized to construct the author's story. In this case, the victim is used to exemplify Dimitrios' activities.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 838

The Violent Bear It Away

The title of the novel is derived from the book of Mathew 11:12 in the bible, where John the Baptist quotes "the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away".
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1095

How and Why Indigenous Literature Approaches Decolonization

That is to say, indigenous literature is communal since it attempts to heal psychological wounds caused among the natives in the process of colonization, and the main goal of communalism is to heal native communities [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2454

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

She is fortunate to have been adopted by a nice family after her mother dies, as it is with the second family that she learns to read and write.
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 909

Shared Identity: Fostering a Strong Nationality

Through a shared language people form an identity, and in a country they feel a sense of nationalism. Therefore, the quest for a shared identity can become a source of strife and division in a [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 605

Trifles: A Play in One Act

If this is possible in the setting of the play, what important hints to the truth are we, the viewers, missing and overlooking in everyday life?
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 544

Concept of Representation of Marriage

According to Louise, her marriage is fulfilling, yet emotionally, she is in a cage of inherent oppression. Moreover, Bertha alludes to the fact that she has never loved her husband in the romantic way except [...]
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  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1113

Schlepping through the Alps

The book's title is "Schlepping through the Alps" in reference to the Austrian Alps. The subtitle quips that the author's journey is a "search for the Jewish past with the last wandering shepherd".
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 848

Religion in American Poetry

This is one of the main issues that should be considered. This is one of the main elements that the poet emphasizes in his work.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 540

Birthed in the Same Year

Indeed, in the following chapters, the discussion of the relationship between the two is discussed in the context of the tension created by the controversy.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2704