World Literature Essay Examples and Topics

After reaching the palace, the prince invited her to the next ball in which Cinderella lost her glass slipper. The story begins with the birth of Cinderella which is followed by the death of her [...]

The multinationals had influenced the governments of these countries to the extent that the tyrant, who ruled in those days, suppressed workers strikes using government bodies such as the military and the police in favor [...]

The form and setting of the story are in a bar, which again is symbolic to the main character, the man with the scar.

The main character of the story, Mathilde Loisel, and her husband had no financial possessions; she lacked clothing and jewelry. Once, Mathilde and her husband have decided to go to a ball to enjoy the [...]

The analysis of Kafka's Metamorphosis based on Psychoanalysis highlights the main themes of the Superego-Id changes in the main character's psyche, the repressed desires mirrored in the character's behaviors, and the Oedipal complex present in [...]

However, the actual name of the wife remains unknown to the reader throughout the story. Latin takes the risk of cheating on his husband to obtain a decent life and jewels.

The period of the story is unrealistic because the narrator enters school as a young boy and leaves as an old man but the brief period captures the changes that occur in a person's life.

In particular, the tale introduces a vivid comparison between the emotions of animals and those of humans. In the story, Walker pays attention to the eyes of the animal, noting, "...

By using the two supernatural characters, the writer identifies the misperception of the old man in the town and ridicules the society's appreciation of the simpler supernatural explanation of the spider-girl.

Overall, the analysis of The Tin Drum novel suggests a conclusion that the symbols of the red and white drum, Oscar's ability to control growing, and his strange life course reflect the events of German [...]

These qualities are present in different degrees in both Gilgamesh and Odysseus, and they share the ideals and values of the people in their communities.

In her book The Gift Is in the Making, Leanne Simpson collected a retelling of the legends and stories of the indigenous peoples of Anishinaabeg. The plot is designed to emphasize the importance of respect [...]

They started to discuss other anti-social people, and this is how Burkin began the narration about Byelikov, a teacher of Greek and the main character of the story.

The symbols used in the story and their meaning in the context of "Once Upon a Time" need to be discussed.

The paper aims to analyze the themes explored by Orhan Pamuk in this novel and discuss how his ideas can be related to the works of other Turkish writers and the place of this work [...]

The animosity Jack generates for his mother and the notion that he bans his mother from speaking in Chinese serve as a harsh recall of the family's pain.

In the 14th century poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the character of a knight Sir Gawain is a perfect example of the chivalric behavior of a Middle Age knight.

But at the same time, it is possible to assume that this a tradition that was instilled in the society where the ruler of the land chooses his wife and this becomes a form of [...]

The future is uncertain to Eveline but very hopeful, she ought to embrace the future and break the chain of problems in her family.

The character of the boy is obliquely revealed in the opening setting of the short story. The boy realizes that he put all his optimism and love in a world that is not real except [...]

The author is going to look at some of the major similarities and differences between the three versions of the story.

She wants to depict the difference between the appearance of a beautiful woman in her culture's point of view and that the western. It is not a matter to the Muslim women as it is [...]

The author adopts a five-point plot sequence to expose his readers to the tension the characters experience in their situation and the weight of the choices they are about to make on their conscience.

To achieve his purpose, Nabokov's directs his article to students or learners and authors of different books. He uses a serious tone and applies an instructor's attitude to achieve his purpose.

For several years, the marriage is not accepted by the boy's father but eventually, the tough father-in-law has to bend before the power of the very love he defied in terms of his son's marriage [...]

Adua, the character in the novel, is a reflection of Igiaba. The political condition in the country forced Adua and her family to flee.

In A Doll's House, one of the outstanding depictions of this way of thinking was seen at the end of the play; in other words, the overall plot of the story has been used to [...]

The main significance of this story is to demonstrate the importance of the role a custodian has in a medical center, a hospital.

This was the period when immigration and the new urban geography of France became a burning issue in the public debate.

In the line "It's the kind of thing that shakes a person to their core and never quite leaves them," trauma is manifested by showing the impact of the disastrous event on the character.

The power blackouts lasted until six in the morning, affecting the hours of the most significant movement in the city between the time people left their offices and the transportation in buses and subways.

The first literary device to highlight is the dialogue between the protagonist and the blind man. During this time, the protagonist paints a cathedral according to his perception of the world.

The author depicts the departure of the family from Korea to the territory of Manchuria, with the purpose to set a stable and happy life; the farther is to take a promising job being released [...]

Unlike the prologue, which basically foreshadows the story, chapter 1 foreshadows only the synthesis of races, which the author refers to as "mixing".

Through reading and writing works of literature, people get to think about the world they live in, about the presuppositions and traditions we come to know, the wondrous and unexpected, as well as that which [...]

This article was able to prove the main argument that a woman is an "other"; however de Beauvoir was unable to win a decisive victory because in order for this statement to be accepted as [...]

Etgar Keret's short writing "The Story about a Bus Driver who wanted to be God" is a very simple piece about a man, who is a bus driver and his specialty is that he never [...]

In the end, Cinderella marries the prince in the ultimate triumph of her pious beliefs and acts of good over evil, and she goes to the very top of the socio-economic ladder.

The complexity of the structure of The Narrow Road of the Interior emphasizes the specific manner of writing of Matsuo Basho.

It can be concluded that the mysterious woman is a symbol of slavery and the issues it causes for society, in this case, the rotting of people from within.

The author uses the fate of one man, Ximen Qing and his household to describe the society in the 16th century.

She also states that women struggle to attain beauty because of folly, and friendship entirely depends on the foolish belief that friends' characters are the best in the world.

The lived experiences of Asian-American women take a special place within the body of the literature as their identities find themselves at the intersection of race and gender.

It is impossible not to agree that he reached considerable success in his endeavors."The Two-Sen Copper Coin" is a shining example of Ranpo's ability to tell a story in an exciting and intriguing way, intermingling [...]

At the beginning of the story Tuta receives the invitation, and according to his reaction, it could be implied that Tuta does not belong to the class that is supposed to be invited to the [...]

From the beginning of the story, the reader can feel that Mathilde is irritated with her appearance and distressed with "the poverty of her apartment" and the reality she has to live in.

He seems to suggest that it is in the nature of women to impress all men irrespective of their social standings.

Stating that the character of Goodman Brown is significantly more dimensional than it is represented in the surface in the story, Hurley asserts that young Goodman Brown's darkness hides within him, which makes the character [...]

Mother of the Spirits The Mother of the spirits can be viewed as personification by the clan of Umofia and the Mother of Egwugwu.

A 10 year-old child, completely happy with the life, walks out of the house with the aunt to go to the store. Moreover, one of the actions of making a sacrifice was to spit on [...]

Raising the issues of de-colonization and the consequences of the political and cultural dependence of the colonized territories, the postcolonial writers criticize the racist inclinations of colonizers and the colonial rule in general.

It's ironic when Torvald says that he pretends Nora is in some kind of trouble, and he waits the time he can rescue her.

The focus of this paper is to analyze the juxtaposition and symbolism used by James Joyce in "The Dead" to convey deeper themes and meanings."The Dead" is a short story written in 1914 and included [...]

Stories told from different perspective help to understand that our points of view and the points of view of other characters, including the narrator, are how we see the world and events in it.

Romantic literature is characterized by several key traits, such as a love of nature, an emphasis on the individual and spirituality, a celebration of solitude and sadness, an interest in the common man, an idealization [...]

Of course, she is not a mortal woman as she is a nymph and is beyond the laws of human society. Of course, the woman is meant to be devoted to her husband and her [...]

The depiction of empathy as the feeling characteristic of humans only and thus distinguishing them from other living beings can be regarded as the major underpinning of the whole plot of the book under consideration.

He feels that he is living two lives his real life and the other as a black man, struggling with a history of his own racial identity and the expectations of the society around him.

These sections are titled in such a way not by chance as they help for people to understand themselves, to identify themselves in the world, the sections of the book help to relate people to [...]

Did the experience of the earthquake and the following rejection of religion make her accept the fact that it is impossible to prevent bad things from happening?

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.

The main themes of this story are wealth, the pursuit of social status, and the illusions that people use to achieve them.

In conclusion, it is critically important to understand the fact that Tom's behavior tendencies are not random and chaotic, but follow a specific set of rules.

However, in a quick and dramatic twist of events, he is soon established as the cock of the walk in the rural area of Qinghe.

Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe is not just the discussion of a simple story about a man who has decided to sell his soul to the devil and has managed to save at the [...]

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 novel Brother by David Chariandy explores the concepts of brotherhood, discrimination, and internalized racism through the eyes of Michael and Francis. The theme of brotherhood is apparent through the relationship between Michael and Francis [...]

The ghosts in the story symbolize the cultural identity of the migrants in the new country. Thus, the ghost as a symbol of cultural identity shows that immigrants need elements of their native culture in [...]

Sometimes it seems difficult to have a brother, but I understood that my situation is similar to the situation of the main character of Alice Munro's story Boys and Girls.

The theme of the story Araby reveals the hero's psychological state from the way of love to despair and bitter realities and shows boy's findings about the difference between real and imagined life around him.

It should be noted that Karim was able to "cross the color line"; in other words, he was able to settle in the area in which only white people were allowed to live.

Her loyalty is seen in the book again, when she is abducted by the demonic Ravana, who is king of Lanka, to avenge his demon sister's disfiguring.

The idea of friendship in The Kite Runner is considered to be one of the most important, particularly in terms of how friendship is appreciated by boys of different classes, how close the concepts of [...]

In order to accentuate the serenity and carelessness of the setting, the author of To look out the window begins the work by emphasizing the simplicity of the young boy's life.

The short story "The orphan and the elk dog" tells about Long Arrow, who is a young boy. This essay explores how the author of "The orphan and the elk dog" uses literary elements to [...]

Carlos Bulosan's novel America is in the heart is born from the hostile environment to which the writer was exposed, from his childhood years to the time the novel was published.

The girl is in love with the idea of being a part of the carnival, but her parents do not allow her to participate.

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

This paper is an analysis of the poem to see its surrealistic qualities, to highlight the beautiful way in which the poet depicts the female body, and also to examine how various images used in [...]

With the support of his wife Nancy, this energetic and modern man decides to transform the school into a modern one by planting beautiful gardens on the fields and closing a path that villagers use [...]

Heart of Darkness perhaps utilizes the importance of women and the role they played in the modernism period. Women have assumed the traditional role of men in the society of being the breadwinners of the [...]

The book narrates the story of a married woman with a desire to live luxuriously despite their lack of wealth. The end of the whole story is almost ironic, leaving a reader wanting to know [...]

Espinosa discovers through the archive readings that Gutres are prone to "the rigid fanaticism of the Calvinist and the superstitions of the pampa Indian".

The American Dream plays a role of motivation in Eilis and Tony's ambitions and hard work. This aspect shows the role played by the American dream to work hard and live a wonderful life in [...]

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 [...]

She is less concerned with beauty or class and ends up pregnant and eloping with a soldier, Pepe Carreon, to the joy of her parents.

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

Eveline's story is an irony, this is because at the beginning of the story Eveline seems to be having a flashback of the people who have already gone to the East, and inwardly she develops [...]

The relationship between the two characters is a depiction of the connection between the wartime generation and the post-war generation. He is faced with the dilemma of exposing her illiteracy to reduce her sentence.

When Gregor turns into the creature, he does not care about that in the slightest; on the other hand, he cannot reconcile himself with the fact that he will miss his train and will not [...]

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.

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 [...]

One of the masterpieces that caused political and public outcry was the novel The Red and the Black written by Stendhal, the famous French novelist of the 19th century.

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.

We see family life depicted from the point of view of the head of the family, Larry by name. Groups and show the real state of things in the family, contempt of the son and [...]

By representing the lives of the "in-between" East African Asians in modern Kenya, Vassanji succeeds in "spanning the literary record" of the Mau Mau rebellion.

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

The connection between Noah and his mother will be examined to see how the intricacies and constraints of that relationship shaped Noah's character and his vision of the world.

At the same time, in Hemingway's story, the hot and dry plain and white hills are described to convey the tension of the situation.

Al-Khansa is considered one of the greatest Arabic poetesses of the classical period. To a large extent, the death of her most beloved brother Sakhr defined Al-Khansa's poetic style known as ritha, or mourning elegy.

It is true that a short story like this, requires a lot of control on the part of the writer, and the writer controlled the entire narration with elements of several symbolisms and figures of [...]

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.

The mental condition of the main character of the book is the main point of this paper's concern. The main character's moral state is determined by her aspiration to the ideals of the colonial system, [...]

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.

Grace In A Good Man is Hard to Find, O'Connor explores the theme of grace through her two characters: Misfit and Grandmother.

This arrangement contradicted their tradition in the sense that Rama was the one to assume power after his farther because he was the eldest son."Instead of being crowned king of Ayodhya, Rama was sent into [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

At this point, new subjects emerged and he chose to write about them in the spirit of a poet who was out to criticize.

According to Kant's Moral Theory, the act of killing Richard is morally right since Matt's intention was to get justice for the murder of his son. Even though is aware of the guilt of Richard, [...]

The principal purpose of the deployment of metaphors and figurative language in the work of literature is to emphasize the emotional intensity of the characters' experiences.

The justification for this is that the girl's mother had eaten a Rapunzel from the witch's farm. Her long hair is a symbol of a bond that links her to the outside world and from [...]

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.

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

The parents and grandparents as well the predecessors on the whole are the bearers of people's identity and genealogical background. The points intend a reader to pay attention to those times when a man is [...]

The stories tend to explore the delicate issues of cultural diversity and cultural assimilation of the characters in the stories which she shares up to the present.

What the author sets out to do is to expound on the intensity of imperialism in the story. There are several themes in the novel, but the central questions that the article seeks to addresses [...]

When her husband returned home later and tried to cut the bread, the blood poured out of it, making the wife tell about the visit of her sister earlier that day.