Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 7

The women portrayed in the story are Rebekka, the wife of the farm owner Jacob Vaark, Florens, a black slave sold to the farmer, Lina, the Indigenous servant, and Sorrow, the woman with an unknown [...]

The main character of the poem is the prototype of Alfonso II, who has been the duke of Ferrara from 1559 to 1597. The main symbol, on which the contexture of the poem is based, [...]

In Part 4 of the book, Covey states that the individual needs to nourish himself in a holistic manner; physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

The main theme in the play is sustained in the play with the sons of Willy attaining their personality from their father.

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 [...]

The aim of the modernist writers was not only depiction of life "as it is", but search of solutions to dilemmas and problems of the society of the 20th century.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry, was the first who started writing in English, not in Latin, as writers and poets used to.

Even without the name of the main character, the audience can tell how she behaves and relates with others, which brings out the imbalance of power that exists between men and women particularly when it [...]

When Michael returns to his office, he remains unsettled, and he decides to ask for the eviction file, but the real estate lawyer, Braden Chance refuses to give it to him.

The paper will discuss the background of American Literature and how it has came about, the writing style of American authors and what makes the American text different and unique from other national literatures and [...]

In Spanish, the word "quinceanera" is used to refer to a celebration of the transformation of a girl into a woman where she matures and becomes responsible.

This will be seen through an analysis of the other characters in the play and the values of ancient Greeks. Indeed this central character appears to be at odds with the inclinations of the other [...]

However, one realizes that she is voiceless in the novel, which highlights the insignificance of role of women in Heart of Darkness.

The Source of all the Differences Although he does not categorically state it, it is evident from Moore's account of the two lives that the main point of divergence between him and the second Moore [...]

The Old Major's speech as portrayed in the narrative Animal Farm has myriad of similarities and differences to the speech given by Martin Luther King Jr.in his attempt to liberate the black race from discrimination.

This essay shall analyze the main scenes and the ending of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" This is why realism and real-life cruelty are the things, which are inherent to this story [...]

The book gives a story of a spider by the name Charlotte and her acquaintance with Wilbur, the piglet. Wilbur's purpose and his impact on the themes of the book Wilbur is the main character [...]

Of Cherokee descent, Harjo graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa and is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma.

Some of the most prominent themes in the story are the ideas of mutual forgiveness, people's motivation to be proactive and take risks, and their willingness to forgive and ask for forgiveness.

The theme of family and motherhood is captured across the stories as they involve single mothers determined to provide for their children and family members. Despite her misery, she still has to provide for her [...]

Song of Myself is a gem of a literary work by Walt Whitman that challenges the conservative society of America in the second half of the XIX century.

The locals tried several times to save the sheep and the boy from the wolf, but the boy only laughed. When the wolf appears at the end of the story, no one believes the boy [...]

The author's choice of a closed form and a traditional rhyme pattern adds to the meaning of the poem, in which the woman is trapped in established social norms.

Carol Dweck, the author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, believes that it can. The growth mindset is something that can be acquired, and it can improve one's quality of life.

Freedom is not that simple, thus Frederick Douglass saw fit to write The Heroic Slave in which he portrays this vision for freedom; the idea of becoming a free man, and using the struggle he [...]

The inevitability of destiny is the main idea of the play, and the last lines support that: nobody should name a mortal happy until this mortal faces everything that destiny has for them. The story [...]

In the first half of the novel, Turgenev demonstrates father son dynamic which exhibits the separation between the son and his father's world views.

Hence, Preston states the following: The constitution established Spain as a Parliamentary Monarchy, with the king as 'head of state and supreme commander in chief of the armed forces' and a symbol of the unity [...]

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the strategies that the author uses to depict the characters. According to the author, the conflict between the two characters was a result of the two being [...]

Although, the story of the 'Battle Royal' was first published as a short story by the English literary periodical Horizon and it was given the title of "The Invisible Man" in the October 1947 copy [...]

It would be correct to add though that Cleopatra is the dominating presence in the play, however, Cleopatra, Antony and Enobarbus have tragic elements of grandeur, nobility, fateful misjudgments and a fall from the heights [...]

Alfred Prufrock is picaresque due to the way it sounds and provides lines of changes appeared to the main character in the poem.

In the play The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams has written the story of the Wingfield family that lived in St Louis during the 1940s.

Metamophically Rip's nagging wife is the British petticoat governor in the colonial era, and Rip's reunion with his family symbolizes the American Revolution. They both held to the belief that Rip's character was an antithesis [...]

To be more specific, the consideration of actions and motivations of the protagonists of the stories so that to see what courage meant to them and to the authors.

Paul Lawrence Dunbar's poem "Ante-bellum Sermon" attempts to provide them with hope logically giving a Biblical example of historic events as a means of calling for a leader, physically by giving the words an easy [...]

The Aeneid is a struggle between the mortal and God in the pursuit of the mortal to set up a newfound land.

The gathering of the townsfolk to watch its installation showed me that this was a culture that was closely knit and knew how to share in the joy of one another, making it their own.

Using allusions, Atwood underlines that these stereotypes account for the unique association between characteristics of the American history and values, and can be seen as a set of unified factors that builds American culture and [...]

By the very act of passing over a indication of an event in American history, the story draws attention to it"."Rip returns to find people talking of the heroes of the late war, the new [...]

The focal point of the paper is to discuss four female characters in The Tale of Genji and focus on women's social role, level of education, how much independence they enjoyed, their emotions, their love [...]

The theme of his legends interpretation was to show the power of mythological heroes on the example of one of the most strong and powerful.

The narrator of Those winter Sundays is a son who recollects his memories about the father and a generation gap that existed between the father and son.

Who are you?" Emily Dickinson dons the mantle of the speaker in the poem and explores the various nuances involved in being the antithesis of a 'somebody', namely, a 'nobody'.

Thesis Statement: The homoerotic, or homosexual, nature of the plot in 'Death in Venice' by Thomas Mann is a fair representation of classical Greek homoeroticism and how homosexuality was viewed in a very conservative manner [...]

This paper provides a discussion on changes in the young woman's character, addressing her salient traits that remain the same and outlining the differences in her personality across time and media.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of "Two Kinds", and to discuss the causes of differences between mothers and daughters and the moment of the conflict resolution.

This paper will argue that, although the concepts of hypocrisy, lying, and acting are brought up directly only a few times in Hamlet, the manifestations thereof can be found throughout the poem, the Dutch prince [...]

The language used in the poem sound like, an adult is explaining the details of a model village to a child and the voices in the poem represent a village community.

The participation of Japan in the World War II led to the introduction of new rules that threatened to upset the familiar Japanese culture.

The fences that appear in the title, and often throughout the drama serve to represent some of the challenges the family faces.

This is evident from the novel's ending where the author gives a disclaimer against the story disappearing like the experiences of the slaves who perished during slavery."Beloved" is a postmodern novel that is able to [...]

When her aunt's life is strained by her career, she decides to take Heidi to live with her grandfather. However, her grandfather is too protective of the young Heidi, and he does not allow her [...]

The mysterious nature of the story comes to light when Jim decides to leave and Jelka is knitting, as it is unclear why she is acting in such a strange way, and the discovery that [...]

In the play, An Enemy of the People, Ibsen uses a realistic framework to articulate his ideas on the stage. The play A Taste of Honey is a representation of a Kitchen Sink realism play, [...]

They include Othello, who is the lead actor; Desdemona, Othello's wife; Cassio, Othello's lieutenant; and Iago a junior officer in the army.

Her assertion is that science is equal to power, the power to create. Frankenstein reads like a warning to the modern world about the dangers of science.

The tension in her relations with her parents contributes to the development of the necessity to prove that she is better than that, actually, that she is the best.

The Knight is the narrator of the first tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The Knight's character is the complete opposite of the knight in the Wife of Bath's Tale who rapes a girl.

The stories under analysis A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Revelation focus on the psychological and moral analysis of the main actors with regard to their perception and attitude to the external social [...]

The author presents the scenic elements of the forest and the village without ambiguity. The author resonates on the contradictory extremes of misguided attitude and false perception in the belief of 'a blackness power.' Besides, [...]

The first similarity between the 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and 'The story of an Hour is that the main characters in the stories are looking for freedom in vain.

It is a satirical play that highlights the life of Willy Loman, the main character, a traveling salesman who has worked for Wagner Company for thirty-four years and ends up a failure because it is [...]

The main purpose of the Gilgamesh myth is to illustrate the weakness of man in the face of destiny. By the time this dream appears in the story, the reader is already aware Enkidu is [...]

The television commercials glorify fast food, and Bich is under the impression that this is the hallmark of an American identity. Bich's identity crisis was not helped by the fact that she lacked a stable [...]

According to the Ceremony, the word story refers to factors that contribute to the identification of a story. That means how different people usually narrate the same story to her In the novel Ceremony, storytelling [...]

Melville in this novel brings out two strong opposing forces between the good and the evil and how the human race has continuously failed to make the right decision because of the fallen state of [...]

King of Thebes Creon is obligated to maintain the rules of the land because of his position of authority. Being an outsider and a woman, Antigone begins the play in a position of weakness.

The creature embodies the Romantic ideal of the sublime as a dual force of beauty and terror, symbolizing the power of nature and the unknown.

George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" is a quintessential exploration of transformation, identity, and class through the characterization of two main protagonists, Professor Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle.

Emerson sees the ultimate manifestations of beauty in "the frailest leaf, the mossy bark, the acorn's cup, the raindrop's arc, the swinging spider's silver line, the ruby of the drop of wine, the shining pebble [...]

In this aspect, an essential element in the description of the role of water is the mention of the water god Suijin. Water is described in the context of several generations and reflects people's life [...]

The poem is an example of realism, as it reveals the truth of war, describes events on the battlefields and indicates the consequences of armed conflicts. The image of the war and its consequences in [...]

The first story is of Nya, a girl from Sudan, and the second story is of Salva, a Sudanese boy. Man in the dorm of a civil war which is the cause of Salva's fleeing [...]

At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the women's issue was perhaps one of the most debated issues in British and American society.

The novel touches on the theme of opposition between fact and fancy and lastly, it dwells on the importance of femininity.

In the play A Raisin in the Sun, the playwriter uses art to fictionalize encounters of a delayed dream by a family; it is a supposition of the poem by Hughes.

The central topic of Sakyo Komatsu's "Take Your Choice" is the ability to choose one's own future. The topic that most strikes out to me is the power of choice.

The story begins with the excitement surrounding Nanga, a leader, and teacher who has become a man of the people and achieved unprecedented heights.

The photos symbolize their neighbor's, Kitty represents the couple's insatiable urge to act s others, and the locked doorknob symbolizes their inability to abandon their lifestyle.

At the beginning of the poem, Hughes describes the house where he first met his future wife. In "18 Rugby Street", he probably tries to explain the essence and the nature of the relationship between [...]

The main character of the story, who is unnamed throughout the whole narrative, lost his love because of her disease. The end of the story reveals her unfaithfulness, and it is not definite that the [...]

By describing the protagonist's challenges and his death at the end of the story, the writer emphasizes the power of nature and its indifference towards an individual's life.

In contrast, the villains are made to capture the fears, and challenges of the societies represented by these epics. The import of these three epics lies in their historicism.

In the first part of the book, Soseki tells readers about the circumstances that lead to the friendship between Sensei and the Student.

Since Basil is the one to introduce the audience to Dorian by describing him in detail, it is only natural to start the assessment of Dorian's relationships with other characters wit.

The revolutions of 1830 and 1848 showed that the medieval structure of the streets in Paris was playing one of the major roles in their success.

The poem is written in response to Homer's poem the Iliad, to show the heroic past as opposed to the unenthusiastic situation of the current society.

The opening of the third stanza suggests that the mother is already aware that the daughter is weary of her state.

Despite the fact that, throughout story's entirety, Cal is being presented to us as "progressive" educator, who seriously believed that endowing Donny with strongly defined sense of self-respect could have helped Daisy's son to straighten [...]

Tannen uses the traditional elements of the analytical writing that involve problem statement, illustration of the case and solutions to the problem.

It is necessary to underline the fact that in the modern world the concept of racial profiling is considered to be common rather than unheard or unknown; the essay under analysis allows evaluating the author's [...]

The main concept of the essay can be divided between the importance of the tales to raise the sense of pride in own history which recently has been weakened by the modern influence and the [...]

It was not Robert Frost's life being different which made him and his poetry, but rather, his reaction to life which was different, and his insight and ability to see things and communicate that to [...]

So the scope of influence of language is both verbal and intellectual. Therefore, the progress and continuity of language are linked to the continuity of literature.

When it comes to production and costume design "Memoirs of a Geisha" is one of the most beautiful-looking films in this modern age and time.

The turquoise pool rose up to meet us, its slide a silver afterthought down which we plunged, screaming, into a mirage of bubbles.

If the formalist theory is applied to Jane Eyre, the main point of such analysis would be the form of the novel, its structure, and the imagery.

The main theme of the poem is the variety of the world's elements, all of which have their meaning. The first stanza of the poem implies that the author is in the sixth grade.

The three features which are discussed in this respect are the division of the two societies into social strata, the use of state power and control over citizens, and the loss of people's individualities.

The poem is written as a couplet because most of the lines are of the same length that makes it melodic, pleasant to read, and easy to perceive.

As the paper reveals, The Aeneid is a political epic that was written with a political agenda to justify the founding of the nation of Rome.

When going over the reactions of the various individuals who wrote to the New Yorker regarding the story, their main reasoning for sending letters to the publication was simply due to the relative "strangeness" of [...]

The analysis of the overall philosophy of Burgess and the meaning of the novel reveals that the twenty-first chapter plays a crucial role in delivering the main message of the possibility of moral evolution and [...]

Though Rose plays the role of a housewife and recognizes Troy's leading role in the family, she is not portrayed as a weak woman unable to oppose her husband.

As the story opens, each person in the family is thinking of what to do with the money they are about to get from an insurance firm as compensation of Mr.

In addition to making him and his creature be isolated, Viktor does not accept the idea of duty and responsibility for his actions because of his inability to understand what it means to be responsible [...]

The tale is a fabliau as it involves a trick carefully crafted in the story to satirize realism in the medieval society.

She is committed to realize her dreams and goes to the law school in her adulthood. In the first chapter, she shows frustration in the leadership of the country and demonstrates her passion and vision [...]

It is important to note that Jamila's personal identity depends on the concept of liberty as the reaction to the attempts to discriminate immigrants in the British society, the attempts to impose the traditional vision [...]

Debusscher, in this respect states that, the mention of "a double life," could be the mask that Tom Wingfield wears to meet the world, in particular the "world of his mother and that of the [...]

Kambili has grown to being admirable and is viewing herself with much more respect and able to stand for what she believes in.she is empowered by the staying with her Aunt and her children.

They are an example of how married couples should be as Rama was an ideal husband to his wife and she was a faithful wife to him.

The poem is a simple and dramatic account of rich and famous Richard Cory who is adored and envied by the commoners.

From this, the entire context of the poem becomes clear wherein it appears that the author wrote the poem as an appeal to his father who is near the death in that he wanted his [...]

In the novel Black Rain, the author narrates the manner in which the life of Yasuko that was altered forever as a result of the Hiroshima bombing.

The presentation of the Ghost in the film builds the main theme of revenge and tragedy. Olivier shows that the Oedipus complex is a crucial aspect in understanding the play especially the character of Hamlet [...]

Though both books talk about the food industry and the ills that plague it, it is important to establish that, Eric Schlosser's aim of writing Fast Food Nation was to make the public know the [...]

First of all, she became attractive and gained the approval of her mother who was never satisfied with the appearance of her daughter and encourage her to lose weight: "For days her relatives and acquaintances [...]

The characters from The Epic of Gilgamesh help to realize a true essence of heroism as a concept and accept heroes as ordinary people, who are able to develop good relations, set goals, and be [...]