Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 9

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

In this part, the stream of consciousness is used to tap the emotions of the reader about the tour to the western part of Ireland.

However, once the lover of the king's daughter is given the dreadful choice, the princess secretly interferes with the chance and gives the man a hint to open the door on the right.

Providing the title for the work, Orwell seems to ask the questions about the differences in the regime of the Soviet Union and irrational rule of animals at the farm.

The main themes that are evident in his work are the themes of death and love. He speaks of a chilling wind from the sky that emerged resulting in the death of her wife.

In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, the main character, Nora is not an intellectual, and spends no time scouring books or libraries or trying to make sense of her situation.

It is devoted to the period of the Greek-Trojan War and narrates about the heroic battles between the Greeks and the Trojans.

Other than narrating the event on the battlefront, the book gives a picture of the backroom events that the leaders of the different countries were engaging in such as making appointments, which had a bearing [...]

Although he uses the aspect of foreshadowing to relate to the tragic end of the story, the final paragraph comes as a shock to the reader.

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

However, the narrator's developing madness can also act as the symbolical depiction of the effects of the men's dominance on women and the female suppression in the 19th-century society."The Yellow Wallpaper" was first published in [...]

In the flashback, the reader is made to understand that the narrators' wife and the blind man met when the wife of the narrator worked for the blind man as his reader.

There are characters used by the writer and the reason she used them as well as the themes, which the writer of Stroke of good fortune tries to bring out in the book.

Further, the paper shall attempt to compare and contrast the main characters of the story, that is, the old man, the younger and the older waiter.

From the beginning, as the author narrates the story in the setting of World War 1, the reader is shown the horrors and trauma of war.

The way to Rainy Mountain is not a simple description of how the Kiowa people developed, learnt, and protected their knowledge. They got one simple right to live and be the people of Kiowa.

One of the most obvious symbols presented in the novel is a large birthmark on the forehead of one of the story's protagonists - Sula Peace.

Right from the demise of the author's daughter to the appalling drug addiction by Sonny coupled with the dreadful murder of the narrator's cherished uncle, the theme of suffering controls the community in numerous ways.

Her analogy sets the setting for her narrative framework, which portrays the English colonists as God's anointed and the Native Americans as the scourge sent by God to torment the English in order to lead [...]

In this quatrain, by describing the distancing kite, the poetess is alluding to the idea of childhood distancing itself from people as life goes on.

Maugham's dedication to the topic and material of his writing and his ability to find a way through otherwise pessimistic situations appear to be motivating to the author of the essay.W.

Coetzee about the recount of the rebellion of the magistrate of an empire against the torture inflicted on the imperial administration that arrested the barbarians.

For the period of the play, the theme of inequality is generally relevant and is reflected a greater extent in Shakespeare's works.

A writer's ingenuity appears in many forms, be it a word choice or a particular grammatical structure, but "tone" is a device that is liable for depicting and illustrating a writer's attitude to a situation [...]

For instance, the speaker starts to establish a feeling of funeral service in her brain, and this later becomes bombarded with numerous thoughts, which makes her have a confused mind.

As for the irony, the author uses this device to draw the readers' attention to the injustice of the situation described in the poem.

Both The Veldt and The Lottery are stories that dive deep into the topic of human nature, traditionalism vs.modernization, and the notion of family that can have various meanings and aspects.

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 author identifies the decaying symbolism of the house in the text through the author's constant mentions of dust, which fills the Griersons' mansion: "faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils".

Reading this short story, the audience meets a young boy who desires to make a mash on a beautiful girl resorting to the use of lies and deceitfulness, but he soon realizes that such an [...]

Teenagers in the present age find themselves in a tight situation with decision-making in that their school psychologists made them realize that being happy is based on the ability to make friends and the development [...]

But obviously, for Aunt Jane, in her old age, even the joy of interacting with children to pass her time was not an option.

So, Pushkin tried to define the initial reasons of this phenomenon in the character of Onegin: shallow education, the imitation of European culture, conditionality and prejudice of life of the epoch, and laziness. Onegin is [...]

The plot narrates the story about a rich man that commits suicide, and the feelings and considerations of the people in town that watch him in his everyday life.

Despite the description of a being created by Frankenstein as a wretch and the evil that he commits, he causes the feeling of sympathy.

Parris is described as a man in his forties and the author adds that there is "very little good to be said for him". The land is not very fertile and the town is surrounded [...]

It requires the readers to be critical in their analysis of the literature to be in a position to understand the message that the writer is trying to put across.

By focusing on relationships, the author of the play highlights the impact of deception to unity, love and happiness. Due to the constant practice of deceit among the characters, Claudio believes that Don Pedro is [...]

Therefore, the speaker has to take one of the roads and live with the consequences of taking that road. Furthermore, the speaker has no control of what may happen to his life in the path [...]

The grief that Hamlet feels at the death of his father is tempered by a Claudius's statement to him that grief is 'unmanly.' He also associates women with deception beginning with his mother with whom [...]

In fact, Penelope should be considered a hero as she manages to rule the kingdom, she is ready to sacrifice her entire life for the sake of her son, Telemachus, and she manages to remain [...]

By focusing on the viewpoint of his mother and his brother Robby, John Edgar Wideman was trying to show the feeling that he went through in his life.

In this autobiography, Equiano is very definite in his mission to convince his readers of the existence of the slave trade in the 17th century, including the predicament and lifestyle of most of the slaves.

The main themes of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird cover both adult and children's concerns, including the dignity of human life, the importance of truth, the rights of people to be different, the need [...]

From the very first lines of the story, the readers can observe the way the narrator perceives the surrounding world and the people.

The tone in "To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time" and in "To His Coy Mistress" is the same as the narrators move from persuasion to warning their subjects.

The final indication of the writer is that, the historical destruction of the Island is a prospect for the future of the whole world.

The main characters in the novel are Kim, a Tibetan priest in search of a sacred watercourse; Mahbub Ali, a merchant in horses and a secret service agent; colonel Creighton, the administrator of the secret [...]

Realizing that person is not in a contest with the outside world or other people, nothing can be stolen from an individual until they allow evil to control life.

Nagai Kafu's "A Strange Tale from the East of the River" is a beautiful story that depicts Tokyo in the early twentieth century.

In terms of the usage of figurative language, it is feasible to state that a combination of symbolism and metaphor is used in the poem's concluding lines.

The supernatural was an aspect of the plot structure used to add tension and drama to the occurrences and situations and manifested in various ways. To conclude, the owl and raven were utilized as omens [...]

Ward's "Men We Reaped" is a synthesis of significant social problems, from the fragility of African-American men and family responsibility to the difficulties of living simultaneously in the black and white worlds."Men We Reaped" is [...]

"Alibaba and the Forty Thieves" is one of the renowned and iconic tales of the Arabian Nights stories added to the collection by Antoine Galland.

The poem 'The Lamb' by William Blake is a short verse that describes the author's attitude towards the little lamb that metaphorically symbolizes everything in the world that is calm, humble, and inoffensive.

The author reveals the peculiarities of the soul of a sinful man who admits his mistakes to demonstrate that redemption is the only way to restore the connection with God and find happiness.

Ovid's Metamorphoses is a poem that stretches from the beginning of life to the narrator's present. Ovid's retelling of some of the world's most revered mythological stories is spirited and vivacious, with a specific focus [...]

In the play "The Crucible", Artur Miller raises the topic of Salem witch accusations taking place in Massachusetts during the end of the seventeenth century.

There is an abundance of books that offer the safe escape into a fictional world and teach their readers that there are no unsolvable problems.

Introduction The play of William Shakespeare Twelfth Nightis one of his most performed pieces. The romantic comedy tells the story of a woman who disguises herself as a man and thus changes the foundations of gender roles and romantic relationships. The central themes explored in the piece are love, disguise and deception, and gender confusion. […]

The distinct feature of this story, as well as other Rifaat's writings, is the fact that the author does not oppose the Muslim traditions of marriage and patriarchy.

The pen and the arm are included in the description, hence the mention of the snout and the clothing. Billy Collins' "Budapest" is a representation of his creative process and the forces involved in it.

As he comes to understand the difference between his servant's and his family's views on life, Ivan begins to realize that he has lived a life of moral death, a life empty of everything save [...]

In this case, it is assumed that the ghosts are not real and are just figments of the governess's imagination and the 'evidence' she sees in the behavior of the children regarding the ghosts' existence [...]

In the end, the good doctor loses his life in abandoning himself to the strength of the monstrous evil portion of his being thus fulfilling the promise of the doppelganger.

The poem "Sylvia's Death" by Anne Sexton is devoted, as the title suggests, to the death of poet Sylvia Plath. The poem itself is like a monologue or a short speech devoted to Sylvia and [...]

The reason for such attitude can be found in the patriarchal culture and the dominant role of free adult males in the Greek and Roman social life. However, this was not the only, and probably [...]

He is guilty of murder because he killed the Arab, but this is not the only crime he is guilty of.

Important to note, the personalities of the characters, the environment, and the events that the characters find themselves in highlight the various cultural elements of Paris.

He studied philosophy at the university so that after obtaining a degree he explored the concepts of existentialism in the middle of the 1930s and examined the principles of the absurdity of human existence several [...]

For example, The Catcher in the Rye is a book that appeals to the majority of adults while the representatives of the younger generation often turn out to be not able to come to the [...]

He speaks mostly from his point of view, but it can be argued that it is not the same person in all the parts of this poem. He kept losing the people that were close [...]

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.

Luella Bates Washington Jones acts positively in changing the behavior of Roger. Luella Bates Washington Jones is very successful in changing the behavior of Roger.

The idea that the speaker of the poem is the author becomes obvious with the following line, "And I will stand here like a shadow".

One of the central themes in The Trial is the theme of bureaucracy, law, and an individual's utter powerlessness against them.

The style is quite appropriate in the poem as it is used deliberately to advance the poet's motive. Whitman's use of symbolism is also notable in redefining the self to the modern times.

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 [...]

The state's persecution of the church is seen through the suffering of the priest who has to overcome great challenges posed by the socialist State and the fascist Red Shirts, who violates the church through [...]

The contraries used by the poet in "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" are the backbone of this poem. The structure of "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" is the first feature of the contraries [...]

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 [...]

In a bid to deliver the message of the poem, the author uses various interesting tools. The content of the poem is interesting as the author narrows down to the concept of old age.

As the narration progresses, fear arises in the reader or viewer, and finally, something horrific happens."The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Cask of the Amontillado" share all of the features above, as [...]

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 [...]

The author tries to achieve this purpose by describing the main character's relations with his family and his friends, on the one hand, and his servant Gerasim, on the other.

It can therefore be justly concluded that Susan Glespell's 'Trifle' is indeed a feminist work and seeks to engage in feminist objectives through the plot and the characters.

The author uses Billie Jo's mother's absence and regrets Billie Jo to show how important the family unit is to the lives of people.

Based on the analysis of the poem and the idea of a speech act, one can say that the first part of the poem is the addressee, the beatniks, including the author himself.

The poem's magnitude of metaphors and symbolism does an excellent job of reflecting the poet's state of mind."Lady Lazarus" resembles the biblical story of Lazarus - the person whom Jesus famously resurrected.

Kapasi, the driver who also performs the role of a tour guide for the Das family, is divulged more via his interlinkages with Mrs. Das and the story's indirect depiction of Mrs.Das.

In particular, one of the prominent settlers was William Bradford, who sailed to North America on the Mayflower in 1620 and established and governed Plymouth Colony.

This shows she was courageous and determined to bury her brother irrespective of the consequences. Antigone's mistake was disobeying the law and Creon's mistake was being arrogant even to his son.

The central attention of the poem is about the rawness of humanity, the violence, bleakness and suffering in the state of being human.

At the same time, the author calls it the metropolis of the Third World with all the poverty, homeless people, and immigrants, who struggle every single day to survive in the city that wants to [...]

The author intends to put himself and his companion to the test by traveling to six cities of the US in the conditions of uncertainty and social rejection.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the main characters of this book, define the types of obsessive love proposed by the author and evaluate the knowledge this book can give to its readers.

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 [...]

Generally, such important themes as legalism, guilt, immorality, and sin related in the novel may be discussed through the prism of historicism, and even the very title of the novel featuring the word "scarlet" or [...]

This essay will discuss why the relationship between Othello and Desdemona was doomed from the start and how their tragic fate relates to the topic of jealousy.

This was the period when Marlow came to understand that the manager was deadly against Kurtz and wanted to get rid of him.

This paper will focus on the play's main points the author conveyed to the reader and the viewer and sociocultural issues of those times, just as those were represented 'in particular the uncommon length of [...]

The respiration and heartbeat of the baby that has been metaphorically compared to a timepiece, begins with a slap on the foot soles by the midwife.

The title "The Second Coming" is taken from the Christianity prophesy from the book of revelation that the world will end through a series of events and eventually Christ will come back to rule over [...]

However, Queen Gertrude seems to be more on the inside of the plotting and scheming occurring within the castle than an innocent woman should have.

Willy has a distorted vision of the American Dream, and he has such blind faith in this inaccurate vision that it leads to his mental disturbance when he is not able to accept how the [...]

In this regard, in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the relationship of inward emotions and outward actions is relevant in fully conveying the interplay of themes in this tragedy.

The poems "The Tiger" and 'The Lamb" discuss the meaning of human existence and freedom, liberty and relations with the world around us.

Besides all differences between the three sons of Ephraim Cabot, the owner of a large and prosperous farm in New England, they have much in common, and this is hatred, resentment, and envy for their [...]

The anxiety inherent in a sketch - the feeling of being unsettled - leads Goldsmith to other stylistic choices, most notably the creation of illusions and the reliance upon sentiment, both of which smooth away [...]

The poem under study entitled My Last Duchess has been written in the form of single stanza, where satire and irony determine the theme and mood of the poem.

Hawthorne uses the symbol of the birthmark as a way of illustrating science's approach to the aberrations of nature as a problem that needs to be fixed.

The short story contains a number of characteristics of Realism, such as the representation of real life, a focus on ordinary people, middle-class characters, interacting within themes of society and social classes.

In this part of the play, it is clear that Jack is not ready to hide his feelings and is happy to share them with someone who, in his opinion, can understand him.

The transgression from one style to the other, and through the process of breaking the convention Virginia Woolf, in her essay A Room of One's Own and parodic novel Orlando: An Autobiography, reinstates for her [...]

Though the poems are apparently dissimilar, the tone of the narrators, their description of the object of their obsession, and the treatment of the female body suggest a connection that previously was unobserved.

The validity of this suggestion can be well illustrated, in regards to the Sonnet 116, in which the poet exposes readers to his highly idealistic view on the significance of love.

The policy of the management to make the current workers in charge of assignments that were usually not their responsibility had led to the dissatisfaction with the service not only of the clients but of [...]

It is important to note that the artist does want to change his life, but he is not active enough. He tries to escape from the world, and his own world absorbs him.

In other words, the Underground Man cannot sustain a romantic relationship and thus he decides to buy love by engaging Lisa.