World Literature Essay Examples and Topics

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 [...]

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

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, "...

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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 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 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 [...]

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.

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 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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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.

The symbol of a chessboard in this novel is evident in character Maneck. In the novel, Maneck is seen jumping ahead of a train with the chessboard, possibly destroying it.

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

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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.

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 [...]

In the short story "The Guest" by Albert Camus, the theme of self-determination is represented in the actions of the two main characters, Daru and the Arab.

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.

The old and the new, the Christianity and Islam, the East and the West are shown closely interconnected for example in the description of the two ancient cemeteries in Istanbul and in the development of [...]

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?

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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

That evening the stranger joins the rest of the camp at the campfire where he begins to narrate his story. At the beginning of the story, the stranger proclaims that, "...you are not the first [...]

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

Taking into consideration that loyalty is one of the common features for both Hassan and Amir, their differences, which consist in family and origin as well as their attitudes to life, friendship, and respect, make [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 [...]

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.

Through this, she gained wisdom and proper methods of delivering the message to the world. The reason attributed to this is that one's status is a result of his past thoughts and feelings.

To reproduce the horror that grips the main character and the results of the experiment conducted by Crake, the author uses a high number of imageries.

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.

The author starts with citing the physical changes in the village, which provides the reader with insights enough to note that the village, representing the whole Egyptian community, was benefitting from the revolutions in the [...]

Success in the critical discourse analysis rests on the platform of the relevance and effectiveness of the contribution of analysis in creating change.

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

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 [...]

With the evolution of language and the written word, the capacity of people to create stories also changed and developed, being responsible for the creation of new literary genres, traditions and customs.

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.

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 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 author uses numerous contradictions to demonstrate the complexity of the images and feelings of the main heroes. Such abundance of appropriate literacy devices helped the author to create a vivid and refined text of [...]

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.

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.

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

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

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 [...]

In other words, subjectivity is one of the major characteristics of the reality as it is up to the human brain to provide the objects and the surrounding reality with meaning.

Coelho demonstrates that while the love demanding the sacrifice of one's dream is not true, the genuine love serves as a stimulus for living out the Personal Legend and achieving the happiness.

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 [...]

Thus, it can be stated that the persona of the poem is a confident and peaceful person which is aware of the fact that other people will live and the world will still exist after [...]

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.

Achebe's book centers on the life of a village 'superstar' by the name Okonkwo and the arrival of white missionaries at the fictional village of Umuofia.

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

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 [...]

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 story is set in the 1890s. In the meantime, Mina is writing to her friend.

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 [...]

While in some scenes the lights are turned off, towards the end of the play the intensity of light increases especially when Nora is talking to her husband. This is escalated towards the end of [...]

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

His works are especially noted for the use of moral allegories tinted with Puritan inspiration and sharing the features of the great Romantic Movement, more specifically with the Dark Romanticism. Loss of innocence is the [...]

Solitude is the main theme of the novel, and Jose Arcadio Buendia, the founder of Macondo, is the first great solitary.

The Christianity practiced by the black slaves is represented as the Christianity that is inexistence of purity, complete in peace in it, and also it serves as the full representation of the nature of Christ [...]

The main idea In the Land of the Free is a reflection of the experience of immigrants and the tough policies by the U.

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 [...]

It traces the developments in the boy's life and the changes and compromises he makes in his life. He is the father to the main character, a scholarly samurai, and a journalist.

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

Amir does not get the issue of redemption and he thinks the only way to it is by paying for it through suffering.

In spite of the fact that he was one of the greatest men in Umuofia and a leader of his community he was hence not given the burial ceremony that he deserved as an Umuofian [...]

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 [...]

Robert Munsch's book A Promise is a Promise is a children's book intended to appeal to young children at the younger end of the 6-8 year old age group or even younger.

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

Equally, the history of the Arabic poetry can shed more light into the principles upheld by the past Arab poets, the themes they sang, the images they invented, and the convention they observed. In the [...]

This can be attributed to the creation of stories, festivals and other artistic genres by members of the community in a bid to celebrate the humankind over the years.

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 [...]

Religion is one of the emerging issues in the modern era and forms the backbone of most literary works. According to Joyce, the current era is the type that compels people to know more about [...]

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.

Much of the satire derives from these oppositions and from the fact that it is impossible to reliably describe the difference between doubles and opposites."The Nose" treats the seriousness of life with comicality; the author [...]

The mechanism of oppression in Gregor's case is the bureaucracy in which he is forced to work a meaningless life that contributes nothing to his dreams or aspirations, but instead merely makes of him a [...]

The thesis explores Lurie's perspective change through his sexual and platonic relationships, prejudice regarding apartheid ideologies, and the relevance of his association with dogs.

Here Pope states the epic question or the primary concern of the poem: how a "well -bread lord could assault a gentle belle?" and in return how a "gentle belle" could reject a lord?

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.

One of the greatest tragedies of Sophocles, Oedipus the King touches upon a deep psychological theme of the parents-son relations which lately was called the Oedipus complex and the theme of faith as a main [...]

Franz Kafka's novel, "The Metamorphosis," is regarded as one of the most fascinating and absurdist works of literature and offers a complex philosophical and psychological examination of current circumstances.

The main character and the narrator Kambili, is virtually silent in the presence of her father, she can hardly express her views, knowing that it may result in a fit of her father's anger.

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 [...]

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 influence of Tamer and his family, coupled with her experience as a member of the mosque, begin to replace Najwa's family by proxy.

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

Using the device of a journal kept by the narrator which has been recovered and is being read by someone else, the author has made this book a revelation of his innermost self and a [...]

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

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a story that comprises of the themes of Christianity and magic as they both play an important role in the story.

The plot of the story is simple. The narrator of the story is a boy, Charlie.

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

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

With the aid of four short stories from Dubliners "The Sisters," "The Dead," "The Araby," and "An Encounter" the author intends to cover the aspect of Irish social identity and norms as being discovered through [...]