World Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 4

The following illustrates Creon's relationship to power, how he influenced the people he ruled, how he used his power as a leader of Thebes and the result of his ruling.

The specifics of the concept of the devilish which has been spoken in Baudelaire's poem The Litanies of Satan and in his narrative story called The Generous Gambler provides a deep insight on his idea [...]

In their imagination, if this man had lived in their village, he would have the house with "the widest doors, the highest ceiling, and the strongest floor" and "his wife would have been the happiest [...]

In the book, Natsume Soseki brings out the upheaval of the Meiji period as he relates to the tales of a stray cat probing deeper into the lives of human beings and fellow cats living [...]

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.

The scars in Walcott's Omeros represent the wounds left by the slavemanship in the Caribbean combination of black and white skins of the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.

Of course, one of the simplest and quickest ways for the authorities to calm down the rebels is to proclaim the existence of heresy and provide inquisition with powers to control the society.

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

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.

The foremost feature of postmodernism - challenging Enlightenment - that arouses in the text is the attempt of the author to show the subconscious behavior of the characters.

Gregor is flabbergasted by his family's hypocrisy and is sad to see that he has wasted his life for the happiness and affluence of his 'so-called' family.

The author of "The Firm" and further "The Client" achieved crucial popularity due to the grave and direct ideas in another novel titled "The Pelican Brief".

The present paper argues that whereas Arnold Friend is portrayed by Oates as a "superhuman" copy of Carl Schmid, the murderer, and the situation with Connie is partially sketched from the case of Alleen Rowe, [...]

In the essay, " Laughter", Henri Bergson argues that comedy is the involuntary element which lacks of elasticity, through absentmindedness and a kind of physical obstinacy, as a result, in fact, of rigidity or of [...]

As described by Arnold van Gennep in "The rites of Passage," the concept of the rites of passage is a ritual event used to signify the process of transition of a person from one social [...]

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.

We further analyze the individuals and how their actions and activities affect the society's social culture in relation to the post-colonial society of today.

The authors managed to observe and expose the apparent follies and the corruption of the morals in the society for the period of the neoclassical era.

Walter Cruttenden is the author of the 340-page book, Lost Star of Myth and Time, which is a grand synthesis of the world history that occurred over the past 14000 years.

Therefore, in the future, he is like to live in the outside world rather than in the inside one. Therefore, Lam wants to start a new life in the US and forgets his roots, which [...]

The Tale of Kieu is full of characters, producing long-lasting impressions upon the reader and Dam Tien is one of them, even despite the fact that its role is only supplementary.

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.

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 [...]

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 is a distinguishing feature of the two stories because, in the first, the sheep seem to be left out of the story, and the pig takes all the central place.

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 [...]

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

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.

The theme of the unsavory and detestable features of the Dutch national character resurfaces most often in Part III of the book, which ends with Gulliver's experiences in Japan.

One of the characteristics of the Latin American boom authors is the creation of fictional scenarios. El Aleph combines the features of realism and fiction or magical realism which is a trait of the movement.

One of the advantages of the novel is that it strives to give one a perception of a better world. They no longer implied that everyone could access the resources they needed without fear of [...]

The white men tried to spread the gospel but "the arrival of the missionaries had caused a considerable stir in the village..."..

To show how powerful Chielo was Chinua Achebe says, 'As soon as the priestess stepped into this ring of hills, her voice was not only doubled in strength but was thrown back on all sides.' [...]

The objective of this paper is to address a brief cultural historical context as it provides a history of the country that the stories take place.

The question is that the main hero can tell the truth of his heart by means of the charms of nature.

Probably, the dramaturge chooses to develop the plot in this way because he wants to show that due to some reasons, the protagonist stands on a low step of social ladder, or probably, she is [...]

The conclusion of this paper can be formulated as follows - in their stories, both: Kafka and Marquez strived to present readers with a three-dimensional clue on particularities of their characters' behavior.

For Othello, the doubt and suspicion growing in his mind regarding a possible relationship between Cassio and Desdemona were started with Desdemona's father at the beginning of the play. For Othello, his greatest weakness is [...]

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 [...]

Particularly within the last several decades of the 19th century, land speculation and the lack of any coherent urban policies have led to unchecked growth and urban sprawl, resulting in the loss of thousands of [...]

In the case of Enkidu, he uses his strength to undermine all those going against his will and he is not putting in mind what the results will be to other in the society.

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?

A balance between good and evil is the main theme of this story with its focus on character development, both within the characters of the larger text as well as with Fenoglio and the characters [...]

The outbreak of civil war in Lebanon in 1958 resulted in her being dispatched to live with her mother's parents in Chile.

It is essential to mention Hume's criticism of theories supporting the influence of physical causes, which is indirectly linked to the philosopher's intention to explain the rise and progress of the arts.

The first dominant quality of nomadic narratives is the autobiographical nature of the story. In conclusion, the story is a nomadic narrative as it is told by a traveler describing his autobiography.

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

The process of uprooting himself from China and rerooting himself in the US is hypothetically completed in his case by the first thing he does when he arrives at the school.

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.

Most of the women in Midaq Alley support the community life, the way it is in the traditional setting. Women in the Alley hated her because of her lust for money.

The novel explicates the pressure between colonial administrators and the African society amongst the railwaymen and the African community's resistance and struggles to free from the colonial power.

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 section of the short story upon which this commentary focuses starts in the third paragraph and ends in the middle of the story.

The Epic of Gilgamesh enables the reader to identify the cardinal virtues that could be valued in the ancient world. The author of this poem highlights the importance of fortitude through the words of Enkidu [...]

Darwish's poetry is a narration of the entire story concerning the Palestinian misfortunes while in the Lebanese Diaspora. In 1982, when Lebanon was invaded by the Israeli, the Palestinian refugees were enforced to abandon their [...]

This is one of the main issues that can be singled out since it is important for understanding the actions of the protagonist who wants to understand the reasons why she is reduced to the [...]

In the comedy, there is an emphasis on adjustment of the play to match cultural beliefs of the target audience so that the comedy becomes relevant to the society.

This is exactly the reason why, even though that as recently as during the course of the fifties, the idea that one should be willing to sacrifice its life for the sake of a 'nation' [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ha Jin is a Chinese novelist currently living in the US and the author of the book Saboteur, Saboteur is about a young man, Mr.

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.

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

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 [...]

According to Flanagan, "...because it reveals the unpleasant truth that life presents a series of choices, each of which precludes a host of other attractive possibilities is that when a mother works, something is lost".

In addition, the clash of Alphas and Betas is drastic some strive for recognition and living in a fake world, while others try to preserve their human nature.

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.

It is the first time the author combines the concepts of joy and sincerity of Mathilde's feelings together in "The Necklace;" this scene also creates a drastic contrast with the beginning of the short story, [...]

The author's explanation of the present-day anomalies compared to the beast from the past and nature monsters reflects the societal anxiety and scientific progress by modern desires to enable created monsters to dominate the world.

In the first third of the novel, Keita Ali is a young enthusiastic black man, who sees running as a way to get rich and escape poverty. She is introduced to the reader as a [...]

The lack of love and all the consequence of it transcends the entire novel: "I did not love her. She was not feminine but desirable for the opposite sex because she learned to accept the [...]

It is a fundamental theory defining society, and with the theme continuing throughout the book, the reader reconceptualizes their place and purpose in the community.

This paper aims to discuss the first part of the poem, the Inferno in connection with the theory of open text, which was worked out of by Robert Barthes and Umberto Eco.

The major topic of the analysis in this paper is the role of the secondary characters in the development of the theme of absence of perspectives in the life of ordinary people who came to [...]

In the same vein, Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness," written in 1899, is about the struggle of two civilized Europeans, Marlow and Kurtz, after they ventured in to the wouldarkness' of uncivilized Africa,' and [...]

This story is nothing short of a treasure in terms of the use of literary devices, and various other techniques employed by the writer to elevate this work to the status of one of the [...]

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 character of the boy is determined by his connection with the world of magic and the Neverland island in particular.

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.

This paper shows that the two novels by Mukherjee are about first-generation immigrants to America who are unable to adjust to the culture of the new land.

Consequently, this resulted in Marie-Claire beginning to suspect that Conrad's strongly defined affiliation with the masculine virtues of rationalization and control was misleading.

The researcher stresses that people should try to minimize the negative effects of climate change in order to enable humanity to adapt to the changing environment in a more effective way.

The gluttony level will be harsher than the previous two levels and this means that the level of torture subjected to the culprits will also be higher.

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

Unfortunately, his wife Rebecca overheard the conversation and since he loved Jacob more, he advised his beloved son to lie to his father that he was Esau.

In the novel "Don Quixote," Miguel de Cervantes depicts two opposite characters of Alonso Quixano and Sancho Panza. Alonso and Sancho have opposite personalities, each representing a different kind of sense.

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.

Secondly, I wrote a list of questions regarding the characters in the reading. For the purpose of identifying themes in the short story, I developed specific questions to guide me in examining the major and [...]

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

Achebe chose to write about the traditions and values of the Igbo people to show that they had their own rich culture before the British came. The novel is about the Igbo people, their way [...]

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

Chekhov continues to develop the image of a "man in a case," that is, a constant change from the case of family life to the case of secret meetings with women.

The fundamental issue in the story is the clash between people that want to live within the code of morality and others for whom good and evil have no meaning.

The creature can be compared to a baby who tries to examine the world it lives in, and its actions are just contractions to the cruelty of the world.

When talking about the latter, it is possible to distinguish two dominant emotions that affect the communication between a woman and a man: attraction and repulsion.

One of the notable trickster examples in the works of Shakespeare is Ariel from The Tempest, whose main ability to morph makes him one of the core characters.

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.

They are written in a simple language, and they are usually direct to the point. As a result, the audience develops a satisfaction with a narration that takes the readers to the fantasy world, making [...]

This is elucidated at the start of the novel by the notion that Donald Duk hates his name because of being Chinese.

The tales of the Grimm brothers hold a very special place in the pantheon of the world's renowned collections of stories for kids.

Among the examples of this phenomenon in Arabic literature are Naguib Mahfouz's "Midaq Alley" and Ahlam Mostaghanemi's "Memory in the flesh", where authors depict the hardships that Arab people have to face because of the [...]

In this regard, the aim of literary dystopias is to caution and warn society against the blind following of ideologies that lead to the breakdown of social order.

The central concept of the novel is dedicated to the symbolization of 'absurd' as the key element accompanying a person's life and impacting the formation of human behavior and actions in society.

In the book "Because of Winn Dixie", Kate DiCamillo focuses on a ten-year-old girl India Opal Buloni and her friend, a dog named Winn Dixie.

As shown by the examples of Prometheus from Prometheus Bound, James Stark from Rebel without a Cause, and Barry from Barry Lyndon, being a hero and a villain is possible for one and the same [...]

The paper will be concentrated on the analysis of the works 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano' by Olaudah Equiano, 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' by Frederick Douglass, and 'Incidents [...]

The foremost psychological difference between men and women is that men are expected to be capable of suppressing their animalistic urges, to be able to act "as necessary", as opposed to women's tendency to act [...]

The main theme of the novel, in terms of cultural subjugation and introduction of western traditional values to replace contemporary African cultures are discussed during the course of this novel. This perhaps is the mainstay [...]

This is the reason, why Stephen is called "compelling character" Analyzing the plot of the story, first thing which attracts attention is the structure of the text. The whole novel is organized according to three [...]

Meaning that man goes back in time by sending a copy of himself into the past which then becomes a reality due to the reassembly of the person's body in the past.

She prevents the girl from attending the Festival, forcing her to do her household chores instead, and the African Cinderella is saved by a frog who repays her kindness to him in the past by [...]

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 [...]

The honesty in which the poems of Semezdin Mehmedinovic were written might lay in the fact that for the whole period of the Serbian nationalistic siege he remained a citizen of Sarajevo.

This is illustrated through the fingerprint evidence proving one man is 'black' and the other is 'white' despite the relative sameness of their actual skin tone, the restoration of societal perceptions of the black man [...]

The latter form of storytelling focuses on causing the emotion of fear among the readers or viewers, whereas suspense builds a certain amount of anticipation and full engagement in the story.

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 book was written during the pre-colonial time and the author portrayed the western practices as of value to the people in the village.

The opening and closing words in the three folktales are similar. Fantasy and royalty are also common elements of the characters used in the tales.

Although Changez appreciates the opportunities that the United States have opened in front of him, as time passes, he starts experiencing love-hate emotions toward the country and its culture due to the social pressure, the [...]