World Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 2

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.

In the tale, the author highlights various aspects of his life, including his father, his family, and his plans for the future.

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 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 [...]

Feminism is a characteristic of most of her works; in this story the feministic voice is overt. And only here, in the middle of the story, the reader comes to understand that a tragedy happened.

The second story "Material" "opens at a point in time near the end of the action, and the narrator, who is at the centre of the action, moves frequently and easily between present and past, [...]

The way she reacts to the new situation enables the writer to show it as the emotional reaction of any girl placed in such a situation.

Sacrificing oneself for the benefit of the whole society is one of the main archetypes of the past. Reading Sophocles' Oedipus the King, it is possible to find the examples when Oedipus is referred to [...]

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

He began to feel the loss and gripped with fear of losing his father, the forthcoming experiences and need for protection; he clings to his father.

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 Epic of Sundiata is told from the point of view of the griot both a storyteller and the keeper of history.

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.

In the example of the Samsas', the author depicts how perceptions and feelings of family members change, revealing the illusory character of seemingly unshaken family bonds and relations within society at large.

In her article, The Illness of the Mourning & the Fantasy of the Exquisite Corpse Maria Torok observes the problems of introjection and incorporation.

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.

There is no denying the importance of the fact that recent developments in literature paid more attention to experimental approach to literature avoiding strict schemata and such popular feature of traditional literature as climax or [...]

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 [...]

This is one of the main problems that should be considered since it can throw light on the identity of many women. This is one of the main points that can be made.

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.

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 [...]

For instance, the Tales of the Merchant and the Demon is the first story narrated by Shahrazad to introduce specific ideas.

This is the best description of the person vs.society conflict; it allows the reader to understand, analyze the handmaid's feelings and emotions, and come to a logical definition of the subject of this confrontation.

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 [...]

The analysis of the story "The Gift" is to be concentrated on the identification of the key concepts, elements and stylistic devices, used in the author's writing for the successful representation of the main idea.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

He is encouraged to enter school by his father, who promises to wait for him at the gate to take him home at the end of the day.

He was one of the founders of the China League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai. His contribution in the field of language and literature is enormous, thus, most of the commentators have viewed his greatness [...]

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

Upon considering the main characters in the short story "War" by Luigi Pirandello, I feel that I identify with the least is the mother of the boy being sent off to war.

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.

The work validates the status of Muhammad as the spiritual leader of Muslims. The work refers to the account of the birth of Muhammad.

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

The author, Marlowe, in his quest for studying the most ambitious individuals, encountered the Renaissance "overreacher", thus, sharing his views on heroism and the power of will with his readers, at the same time, chronicling [...]

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 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.

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

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 [...]

Thus, the novel is built on the juxtaposition of concepts, ideas, and concepts, thanks to which the reader can fully understand the main character's perception of the concepts of masculinity and patriarchy.

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.

Human experimentation is a violation of integrity and scientific norms, notwithstanding the fact that Dr. To conclude, the topics of science and integrity in Dr.

She is unhappy with her current lifestyle and constantly dreams of the riches and glamour that she feels her beauty deserves.

The story displays the teachings on the types of attitudes of women. This post discussed the story's central theme, audience, and relevancy in modern society.

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 [...]

The author combines the subjective and objective perception of the tribe so that the reader has the entire image and adds the spiritual part, where the feeling of a union with nature and its importance [...]

Leda's personality is shaped by her childhood traumas and relationship with her mother that influence her own experience of motherhood and her relations with her daughters and other people.

The mother of the future writer was a childhood friend of Gustave Flaubert, who began to actively engage in the life of Maupassant when he entered the school in Rouen.

The subject matter of the book is Hispanic culture and traditions, particularly the cuisine and the family traditions in Mexico. They have a special term "machismo" which is associated with the responsibility of a man [...]

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.

The ways in which fairy tales were compiled and presented have changed with the course of time, so have the topics and morals of the tales, but the essence of these literary pieces ha remained [...]

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.

Moreover, the picture and the spoken text enclosed in it form an organic semantic unity."Persepolis" is a story of an Iranian girl who grew up in a liberal, rich, and even aristocratic family: on the [...]

The imagery of the ocean wave ushering in the infant on the wooden floor shows the narrative's fantastic element: "Tita was literally washed into the world on a great tide of tears that spilled over [...]

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.

An example is that, as she fails to recite her poem in church, she notes that her dress is probably a handout from a white woman.

The phrase 'good man' and the theme of who a good man is, according to peoples' judgment in the play, stand abused.

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 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 [...]

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

The striking of the clock to mark the beginning of the day and the crying of the newly born baby began concurrently.

This ghost will only talk to Hamlet, and when the time is right, he will share his side of the account with the prince.

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.

First, it is "the love of the body" that men admire and desire the most, which is not continuous, as well as implies disgrace for a woman; second, it is "the love of souls" that [...]

Throughout the novel, Montag goes through the stages of conflict and denial and ultimately sets out to free himself and others from the oppression.

Being unable to get out of there, the old woman is buried alive in metaphorical sense - she has no interest for life and the bath is like a grave for her soul.

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 [...]

If we analyze the approach of a formalist critic we would see that this form of criticism is more dependent on imageries presented in the text rather than the basics of the literature.

This is a novel with a story of the authentic journey from the remote areas to the city of Johannesburg and the religious journey through the unfriendly culture.Rev.

The fact that Japanese people idealize aesthetics explains the particulars of Japan's history and provides us with the insight onto why, after being thoroughly defeated during the course of WW2, Japan was able to quickly [...]

A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms is a comic satire that allows Swift to explore the subject of intolerance and thereby to convey a statement in support of his own relativistic philosophy.

Imagine that the protagonist is one of the pilgrims in the story in search of the legendary gem along with the other pilgrims.

The present paper is intended to discuss and compare the ideas of women's position in Republican China as illustrated in the novel "Red Sorghum" by Mo Yan and the corresponding gender attitudes in the traditional [...]

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.

The chief events of his life were his unfortunate love for Lesbia, the death of his dearly loved brother, his journey to Bithynia, and his hostility to Caesar and his henchmen. Salty and subversive, Catullus [...]

Important is the fact that the death is personified in the poem and has the role of the gentleman. The death is presented as a powerful element of the poem and of the narrator's life [...]

As the auction proceeds, the reader follows the heartbreaking events of the book. Boys hunt down a pig and place its head on a stick as an 'offering' to the 'beast'.

What is the theme of MacDonald's "Gone Girl?" The story centers on a private detective who is intelligent and appears in the wrong place at the right time.

The encounter of the main character with a woman of his dream is an illustration of the customs existing in attitudes to appearance and charm, hence showing how dreadful the mistaking perception of some people [...]

In telling her story, Malala emphasizes the importance of education for girls, the differences in culture and religion she experienced growing in Pakistan, the dangers of being an education activist, and the beginnings of the [...]

Therefore, the use of point of view as a literary device enables the reader to understand and analyze the thought process of one person, Olaf, while remaining unaware of the intentions of Jim.

When asked about his impulsiveness and regular reference to the Vietnamese war, he responded, "The war had its ups and downs.

The story presents an example of Gowdy's innovative approach to modifying neo-gothic genre and addressing the forbidden issues, as she modifies the gothic elements and discredits the traditional stereotypes related to the dominating topic of [...]

The aim of this essay is to analyze whether the chapters 16/17 of the novel prove the idea that the chapters of Therese Raquin can be viewed as the case studies in physiology.

One example of this can be seen in the case of the story "Evermore" where the main character of the story is sad about the death of her brother and the fact that many people [...]

Hence, Voltaire notes that it is ignorance to die and support wars for the sake of a benevolent god because wars are only dangerous to society and individuals.

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 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.

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 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 author describes the monster as a yellow-faced creature of enormous stature, with watery eyes and a black mouth, which, in the tradition of literary Gothicism, is intended to instill fear in the reader.

The characterization of the key players in the murder serves to underscore the idea that personal responsibility and societal obligations play a crucial role in determining the outcome of a crime.

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.

In the same way, the greed and avarice of the old Alyona Ivanovna do not justify the commission of such a violent and severe crime.

It is also likely that the relationship between Eliot's mother and her neighbors is sour. Sen is a responsible person and knows how to take care of children.

Therefore, people should give in to their yearnings to gain a true understanding of the human experience, appreciate their role in the universe and see through the smokescreen created by traditional religious doctrine.

It should be stressed the mother gives both positive and negative advice, but the girl's perspective and ideas are quite a few in the story, which can be interpreted as the overbearing of the mother [...]

The narrator's attempts to portray her mother as an active member of the community and tell the story through her eyes indicate a close connection between her and the storyteller.

He dared to make this dangerous travel in order not to be swallowed by an insatiable mouth of war when it knocked on Ishmael's door for the second time."They had run so far away from [...]

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.

Vasudeva, the ferryman and the river act as the best teachers for Siddhartha in his pursuit for enlightenment; however, one cannot undermine the role played by his own father, the Samanas, Kamala, Kamaswami and Buddha [...]

The "Bandersnatch" sounds conformable to a name for a monster, so the word "frumious" probably characterizes it as furious and fuming, therefore "Bandersnatch" may be a name for a dragon. These words are appropriate, as [...]

In both poems, the main character is a black man named Shine who works in the boiler room of the Titanic and attempts to inform the captain of the impending disaster.

When she answered in the affirmative, Jackie became sure that he was a terrible boy and a sinner who had broken all commandments all because of his old grandmother."I was scared to death of confession".

The Mill on the Floss tells the story of Maggie Tulliver, the daughter of a miller in Victorian England, and reflects the values of society.

The major characters in the fiction are the Ridiculous Man, a little girl whom he meets on the way home before seeing the dream, and a being that takes him from the grave to space [...]

Describing the character in the most different and peculiar ways, the group both focused on the general idea of the story and its interpretation, as well as on their vision of the character and the [...]

As the poem begins, Achilles is not ready to take orders from Agamemnon, the king of the Greeks, and he is agitated at losing argument to the king.

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 [...]

If this poem were to be viewed as a reaction to the race riots of 1919, the "hogs" could be likened to African Americans, which hints at the "beasts" they were innately believed to be.

In our criticism of Cinderella, we asked the questions: "What is the disposition of gender in this artifact?" And, "How does the disposition of gender affect the behavior of children under the age of ten?" [...]

He is against the footpath and in the spirit of converting the school, which he considers backward he wants the path closed.

On post colonialism, Judith Wight talks of how both the whites and the black natives have lost in terms of culture and property then she proposes forgiveness and unity of the two groups as the [...]

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.

Through the persona's address to the brother, the poet manages to illustrate the paradoxical nature of violence, both sudden and slow mental effects on the persona, and the immediate people close to the brother.

From this background, this paper discusses the theme of acclimation from the point of view of Liu's disagreement with the notion of Asian-American identity and his narration of the hypocrisy of race.

The author of this novel was more of a naturalist than of a realist, and she was very bold in writing this book because, during her time, it was unthinkable for a woman to be [...]

The character of Olivia, the protagonist of The Woman of Colour, is innovative for the literary process of the Regency epoch in the British Empire, posing many hitherto unasked philosophical problems.

This is reflected in the works of Ibsen, Tagore, and Ichiyo, who each focus on the individual's journey of self-exploration and the obstacles they must overcome to find their place in the world.