World Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 11

The man cannot understand that things mean nothing to a woman if her family is being destroyed. Thus, Jason's biggest mistake is that he thinks Medea simply wants to remain his only wife.

Despite the main aim of sending a boy to inspect the garden as a way to recollect himself after the loss of his best friend, sending Baoyu to the garden was also a means to [...]

However, the authors insist that it is the corporate control that is threatening the running out of water."Corporate control of the world's water resources and distribution systems is a threat to the well-being of humans [...]

Going by the words of Hopkins "science of fiction is a genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science and technology of the future- these stories involve partially true-partially fictions laws or [...]

The validity of this suggestion can be illustrated in regards to a new edition of Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids, in which she provides readers with an insight onto different aspects of her early biography, [...]

In the article "Diet for a Warmer Planet" Julia Whitty presents two specific ideas: that it is necessary to reduce the global carbon footprint made by humanity in order to prevent adverse climate change and [...]

Although the government is unable to curb corruption and inequality in the society, it does not keenly solve the problem about Taiping movement but rather resorts to killing the supporters of the movement.

In an attempt to seal the gap that these researchers have created in the Canadian history, Srigley focuses on the lives of young women during the Great Depression era. Men's reaction to the phenomenon was [...]

This form of literature can be in form of folktales, music, sayings, and proverbs depicting the culture and livelihoods of the society. Of particular interest to this essay is the level of violence depicted in [...]

The bulk of the story is set in South America and the origin of the slave trade in the African continent.

It is important to note that the idea of the differences in culture between the East and the West can be traced back to the early Roman times in which there was an increasing opinion [...]

The book is a collection of first hand evidence that reveal the environmental and health dangers that some common items can expose users to.

Therefore froggin' is part and parcel of the people of Cajun to the extent that they have set aside a day to celebrate frogs which is a part of tender diet as illustrated above.

The Umuofia society is religious as it is characterized by the worship of Chuckwu the chief the god, spirits and the ancestors.

Despite the film revolving around sexual relations, Aristophanes has generally succeeded in bringing out the absurd nature of war, both to men and women.

Therefore, the fact that the man wastes all his lifetime and wealth waiting for his chance to access the law reveals the dissatisfaction of the judicature as a branch of justice in the society.

Mohammed Ayoob is a professor of International Relations from Michigan State University and the author of one of the most interesting and worthwhile book about the Islamic world The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion [...]

There are many elements of literature, which make the work really successful and captivating for the reader, and in this story, the author uses almost each part of literature in a proper way and creates [...]

It gives a chance for the author to compare and contrast many elements of the book including his external state as a character in the book and the stream of conscious in his narration.

This study argues that Achebe's portrayal of women in his books was influenced by changes in society, which started of having little regard for the real value of women to a time when women were [...]

The story is told from the first person singular, thus giving the readers a chance to see everything with the eyes of the narrator.

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.

Of his works, The Divine Comedy is the greatest literary statement in the medieval periods of the Europeans. The book, The New Life, is almost full of poems of his praises to her.

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.

One of the most important details is that the rulers of the prison camp deliberately made people hostile to one another.

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.

Given the fact that, as it was implied earlier, ever since it was first published in 1906, The Gift of the Magi never ceased appealing to readers, we can well assume that the themes and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The author discusses all operations and activities that take place in the warehouse, and inventory control businesses. Similarly, the author of the book looks at the errors made in warehouses and in inventory control businesses.

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 [...]

People in the countryside are aware of the fact that the river drowns those who are wicked and immoral. In Mo Yan's Red Sorghum, peasantry is associated with interruption of the original landscape that was [...]

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.

The intertextual dialogue between the short story Afra by Emilia Pardo Bazan and the zarzuela La Bruja which is reflected in the parallelism of the principal characters, the similarities of setting and plot lines helps [...]

Even at the helm of his success, he still remembered how he suffered when his playmate said his father was an agbala.

The choice of settings as "THE PIT, typical of hell........the Ultima Thule of all their punishments", shows the pervading elements of gothic literature.

In addition, the interest and fascination of the Jewish history is trigged by Hans Breuer. This can be edified by the fact that he is a journalist in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in [...]

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".

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.

First and foremost, the Satman Jews must be mentioned, mainly because of the impact that they have had on the development of the Jewish culture, as well as on the world perception of the latter.

The final chip in the portrait of the "civilized" citizens of the Empire, the process of the Magistrate incarceration, does not seem to add much to the portrayal of the tortures; however, it adds a [...]

The literature ranges from the ancient hereditary court archives to the fictional novels that were prevalent during the Ming Dynasty. The ubiquity associated with the authorities implied that the audiences had to react positively to [...]

It discusses both the pain that a mismatch in sexual desire between a husband and a wife can create, and the power of a crush of one woman for another.

The animals believed in the concept of equality and democracy. This discussion highlights some of the factors that influenced the social life of the animals within the farm.

Although Connie is a likeable character in the sense that she has packaged herself in a manner that creates curiosity to the reader, she is an epitome of irresponsible children.

It is a myth because most of the people who tend to believe it think that it is unfair to be biased on wealthy people.

Further, it links the same to the beliefs and values of the people of the state of Texas. It has not been able to address some of the aspects that encompass the Texas Death lore.

The poet uses a lot of personification in the poem in order to deflect attention away from the victim to the forces that caused this tragedy.

The folklore depictions of 'woman cat' and 'witch in the form of a cat' mirrors the folkloric grouping of cats with people as well as the grouping of people and cats. The story of Valerie [...]

The authors have provided a commendable insight into the religious landscape in the US. This is a charming and dependable book which offers a wide-ranging evaluation of the transformations and the function of religion in [...]

Irrespective of a writing style, authors share baseline ideas on the society and often form the alternative voice of reasoning into what is occurring in a society.

The book is based on the theme and symbolism of irony and shows instances, which women in the Victorian era suffered in the hands of their husbands as well as in-laws.

At the end of the 19th century the American society was involved in the process of changing the social principles, breaking stereotypes, and creating new revolutionary visions of the peculiarities of the social development.

Oskar Wilde's fairy tales The Happy Prince and The Nightingale and the Rose reveal moral and ethical dilemmas that the protagonists encounter in their search for the truth and love.

I have just completed reading the manuscript for the book titled We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and would like to recommend that the book should be published for a number of reasons. In conclusion, the book [...]

However, the fact is both Oedipus and Claudius managed to get the post of kingship after killing the former kings leaving the seats vacant. In conclusion, both Oedipus and King Claudius attained their crown after [...]

The theme of multicultural is examined through the analysis of the Tale of Genji as well as the analysis of the theme through elaboration and analysis of four aspects from the tale.

This paper will explicate the character "Hester" by analyzing her characters as well as pointing out metaphors and similes pertaining to her in the novel. The author states that "Hester is like a big monster" [...]

This hopelessness that has been impeded on her makes her aware of her future in the world and provokes her to build a wall around her.

As the novel tells us the story of a child who lived alone in a desert, we can see the results of lonely life together with the illness and in a close connection with the [...]

Here, Destro interprets it to mean what we were to subject Faust to was not the standard morality but that of the superman: "In reality, the law that Faust follows is not that of morality [...]

The author of the book presents his hero in two ways: on the one hand, he depicts the boy, who is full of hopes and expectations; on the other hand, he shows the boy whose [...]

The main character of the first part is the Monkey King. The main question the author possesses in the tales of the novel is What Are Your Efforts to Succeed?

The second chapter of this book covers a period that is considered central and significant in unraveling the events that led to the Reconquest.

When they went to Africa, the whites found Africans a little too awkward in culture and the fact that they managed to manipulate them in their own continent was a proof enough that their way [...]

Though put in the beautiful Garden of Eden with one clear instruction not to eat from fruit tree in the middle of the garden, Satan, the leader of the banished and rebel angels, endures a [...]

Students find the book resourceful, but it's actually the teachers who benefit the most from it as it highlights issues necessary in children literature, and how best to introduce it to elementary education students. She [...]

The other aspect that is used to express the nature of the human race is the issue of the poetic metaphysics and how this influenced the issue and practice of poetry and the role that [...]

The death of Addie is also one of the dark and disturbing components of the narration. The end of the story illustrates that the entire piece has been a flashback since it talks about the [...]

Hardboiled fiction writing was popularized by Dashiell Hammett with his character Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, over the course of time in the late 1930s Raymond Chandler refined hardboiled writing through his Philip Marlowe [...]

The group was involved in the distribution of leaflets that encouraged people to oppose the regime of Adolf Hitler. For instance, in 1945, there was the prosecution of one of the key members of the [...]

Analytically, the perpetrators of the white rose group express the theme of courage. Highlighting the theme of courage, the authors display ways in which the youths use to enhance exemplary leadership and freedom in their [...]

The book brings into light the culture of these people, who are mainly located in the mountainside of the Peoples' Republic of China.

But this did not change the faith he had in God and he continued believing that God was going to safe them. He believed that the Jews were faithful to God but his understanding was [...]

His curiosity to know the content of the bottle overrules him and decides to hide as he makes his way after of the house.

Scott Korb is an author with a lot of interest in imaginative and factual history such that he is able to help the reader of the book "Life in year one: what the world was [...]

Written by Jung Chang, the book focuses on the lifestyle of three women to give a detailed description of the traditional practices and political progression of the Chinese people.

The writer gives us the low point of the political struggle involving the Japanese and the Chinese citizens by telling a story of a Chinese who had been arrested and killed for committing an 'economic [...]

The story commences by painting a picture of exhausted workers shouting and banging the main gate of the factory as they awaited the evening bell to end their shift.

At the beginning of the poem, one can see Kim Trong as an ideal of a man according to the norms and principles of the Vietnamese society: Kim Trong, a scion of the noblest stock.

The fact that she was able to incorporate the elements of both the African and the European cultures made Karen Blixen to become a brave woman she had become.

The phrase 'to kill a mocking bird' stands out as a metaphor in the book To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

The outline of the book describes the lifeline of the author that starts from her youth up to her adult life.

They pressurized the youth to take part in the war and this was very wrong, as the role of parents is always to guide and help young people.

According to Proust this portrays the oppression of the poor by the rich in the society because as it occurs later that, the producer of the television show did not have the money to give [...]

From her perspective we learn of how the locals felt about the American involvement in the war, we learn that she hated the Americans with a passion for the killings and bombings they did to [...]

The idea that she attended a great proportion of soldiers depicted her caring nature, which is important in life. She is a great peacemaker and ready to intervene in the fight, despite the challenges.

The authors use the words 'to obey' to emphasize the fault of the little girl's mother and her way of girls' upbringing.

Many factors have been considered to determine the depth of literature that the child is exposed to with much of this being centered on age and what the adults perceive the child to be.

The fact that as of today, the dogmas of political correctness are being forcibly imposed upon people in Western countries, created additional preconditions for the growing number of citizens to refer to the very process [...]

In this respect, the Book II written by Herodotus can be considered a good documentary evidence of the process of embalming though morality of this process can be questioned by the contemporary audience taking into [...]

It is evident in the story that it is Gregor who woks to take care of his family and therefore the rest of the family members did not.

Merusault the narrator in the novel The Stranger tells the story from a rather detached and unemotional tone the revolutionary concerns of the post war period of apparent random violence devoid of strings of morality [...]

The review focuses on the socialization involved in the acquisition of the two languages. Parents are actively involved in the development of language and education.

The paper shows how satire is used in the novel and how it helps in the development of the plot of the story.

Atl is among the few people to overcome the plague and as a result his sick father initiates and hands him the leadership of the tribe.

There is lack of the exclusivities in teaching methods and literature learning in current American literature. There is an overwhelming change over the confined nature of past-institutionalized form of study where the teachers in the [...]

He had a very strong army because of his courage, influence and prowess and managed to defeat the ruler and hence he was made the ruler of the Empire.

The unceasing string of comparisons is cleaving the poem, picturing the natural beauty of a woman as the beauty of the world at dawn, comparing the marvelous sight with the wonders of the nature which [...]

In 1931, she collaborated with Langston Hughes in the production of the play "Mule Bone," which was never published because of the tension between the two writers, and in 1934, she authored her first novel, [...]

All of these comedies feature the absence of a well-structured plot, the plenty of plot-unrelated self-referrals, on the part of the characters, and the inclusion of a number of primitively humorous gags.

On the other hand, the essay analyzes the 'Lesson', which is a story written by Toni Cade Bambara with the aim of showing how individuals and societies affect each other in the context of literature.

Because of these, he warns that chances of children forming the characters of the described fathers in the books are high, as most of them love reading such books.

Today, with the growing popularity of such fantasy works as The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Porter series, the genre as well as the aspects of courage has grown to be popular all [...]

In addition, this work will give examples and discuss the societal criticism of the Latin-American society arising from the mythical and magical realism presentation in the novel as in accordance to the given guidelines of [...]

However, the boy's intelligence is noted at this moment when he religiously turns his attention to floating orange peels beside the ocean liner, saying he saw the floating peels because he had a personal understanding [...]

Having being deported to space, he decided to visit the earth to determine the progress of God's experiment. In the third letter, Clemens criticizes the current Bible as lacking the originality of the earlier Bibles.

The influence of the Lautreamont's work is really great; his idea of terrible and misunderstood human being, Maldoror, turned out to be a real shock during the times of its creation, and has even the [...]

Lois-Ann Yamanaka, the author of the novel, presents a wonderful story about one family, Ogatas, the members of which try to survive in these terrible conditions and not lose their dignity and lives in Kaunakakai.

The themes of sexuality and race inequality turn out to be one of the major ones in Cleven's story; the author makes a wonderful attempt to use irony in order to represent the ideas, send [...]

In a step-by-step comparison of such elements of the tales as the leads, the plot, the settings and the supporting characters, the difference between the original tale, the Grimm's' version, the Slavonic and the African [...]

The repression that blacks suffered from under the rule of the white race generated discontent among the black and Creole racial groups residing on the island.

The tales touch on various topics such as corruption and marriage, and they also unveil the immoral nature of the clergy in the modern Catholic churches.

She is often at the death's doors, but she manages to stay alive "to spite them" as she is "consumed by the desire to survive the tragedy". In spite of her lasting imprisonment and all [...]

In his advocacy for the 'overman', Zarathustra makes it clear that God is already dead and the only state within which humans should aspire to achieve is the 'overman'.

Klein believes marketing analysts concoct the perceived value of their products in their offices and sell them to the masses. The importance of this state of affairs in export processing zones like China is indicative [...]

As it has been stated above, the key topic that the authors of the book focus on is the ways in which religion shapes the contemporary society and the changes that religion brings.

These are the crashing down of religious adherence in the 1960s, the rise of religious rights and evangelism in the 1970s and the relaxed manner of practicing religion by the young generation of the 1990s.

Eve is weak, and the ability of the devil to trick her into committing sin makes her impure. The main contrasting character of Sita is the inability to heed her husband's requests.

To some extent, it must be admitted, each of the books suggests the ideas of feminism in their embryo, of course, yet there can be no doubt that Doll House is one of the books [...]