World Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 5

The novel wraps the reader with the feeling of coldness that is both elegant and repellent. She had to stay with a husband she hated and in the society she hated.

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 [...]

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'.

Fiction can possibly include the happenings of everyday life and is reliant on the person that narrates the happenings, the manner of its narration, and its composition.

The utilization of children will reduce the number of "papists who, according to Swift, were "most perilous enemies" and also the "principal breeders of the nation".

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.

Thus, the goal of this paper is to study the phenomenon of DF based on the examples of Orwell's and Huxley's fiction and determine the presence of the themes that overlap with the contemporary social, [...]

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.

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 [...]

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

Nabokov and Poe use literary devices to create meaning, connect with the audience and deliver their message. The protagonists are different, with one of them being static, while another one changes.

"The Family Instructions of Mr. The author of "The Family Instructions of Mr.

However, despite the need to win the audience, Odysseus also uses rhetoric to establish his authority; in his storytelling, he is always somewhat distant from the listeners: "Odyssean charisma, in both the personal sense attached [...]

In the end, it could be said that both of these books show that home is a haven and safe place to return to.

Following the effects of the unrest of revolutions and the Stalin's regime, the 20th Century authors sought to address the suffering that the public experienced as well as the social ills fueled by the Communist [...]

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

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.

In this essay, I will discuss the way in which Marquez portrays female characters with the help of stereotypes that reflect the role of women in Colombia. The fictional town of Macondo is governed by [...]

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

It is rather peculiar that, instead of simply providing Cinderella with the dress, the crystal slippers and the carriage to get to the palace in, the fairy godmother turns the process of helping Cinderella into [...]

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.

The style of the essay is rather interesting and compelling, as it describes the life of a small girl but is written by an adult.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

In his endeavor to address the situation, as it stood on the ground, Moliere employed the motif of social masking as a strategic style that brought out the concerns of religious hypocrisy before the eyes [...]

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

Homer is regarded as a legendary Greek due to his great works of literature such as "The journey to the Land of the Dead".

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 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'.

Initially, Brown believed in Christianity but after the awful encounter with the wouldevil', he changes his perception on humanity and religious beliefs isolating all the people around him including his wife. Brown decides to meet [...]

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.

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.

At the moment, he is a father, so he has to care about the family and the child. In general, children's books devote more attention to fatherhood and the role of a father in the [...]

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

The story would lead the audience to the colonial period, then focus back on Kannujaq and his dogs at the end.

Cervantes was, of course, one of the first to notice the disparities between his Sancho and this unsavory imitation, and he defended his character in Don Quixote, Part I portrays master-knight relations between Don Quixote [...]

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.

Sui and Paul note that the life of a Latino woman is full of challenges, which are the consequences of some of the stereotypes.

On refusing marriage to the Roman prefect of the province, she was fed to Satan who came in the form of a dragon. By the time the wolf arrives, he cannot of course convince the [...]

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

This is the essence of Hamlet and what makes the sentiment so true to our time the inherent pain of life, a cosmic sense of injustice, and the karmic balance of natural order.

In this way the birthmark seems to be almost mocking his attempts at changing nature, which is representative of Georgiana's femininity, "Attempting an operation for the removal of the Birthmark.

When the vagabond who has come to wealth seeks the services of a Jew to sell his possessions and is cheated by him Grimmelshausen is of the very firm opinion that a person from the [...]

Pater uses descriptions of Leonardo's angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of the Christ to illustrate the early genius of the boy in Florence who seemed to instinctively resent the superficial miniature perfection of the masters of [...]

In the present work, we will analyze this similarity and will seek for possible differences using particular parts of the great epic poem and the collection of novellas, namely, we will explore the fifth story [...]

It is the story of the life of a man of great wisdom and spiritual strength in the early days of the colonization of Iceland.

It is equally important to stress that the issue of conformity is based on the person's ability and willingness to fit into a group or culture. One can argue that Ross's decision to join the [...]

Her husband told her that he had gotten her as a prize after defeating his enemy in the war. He said he had nothing to do with her because he could not imagine that Ravana [...]

Using the ingenuity of Fyodor Dostoevsky and his eternal masterpiece Crime and Punishment, the paper is going to prove the idea that the actual crime committed by Rodion Raskolnikov was the arrogance he had towards [...]

The letter from the mother of the adoptee brings the memory of the girl to life at her ancestral land. The author is extremely critical of the life she was subjected to while in Korea.

For instance, Jean Tarrou in Camus Albert's book The Plague happens to be a mysterious visitor who finds himself caught up in the town of Oran during the time of the plague.

The book 'English sorrows of young Werther' is about the individual and the subjectivity that results in doing so. This book was representative of a kind of revolution in literature owing to the prevalence of [...]

For instance, even though he is suffering from a liver disease, he does not gather the courage and energy to visit a doctor.

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

With the help of the two characters portrayed by the doctor, the writer of the novella brings out the element of duality.

For instance, we get the impression that the mother of the clerk notes that the clerk's wife is not compliant, and hence, she wants her to leave because she has gone against the designated behaviors [...]

Arguably, amid the discussion of the differences in the religions, Votaire supports the idea of religious tolerance. Secondly, the theme of politics is central to the letters of Votaire.

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' [...]

In the area of punctuation, Gould's punctuation style is characteristically useful in the breaking of his sentences down, as he does this to improve the comprehensibility of the ideas he is conveying.

The 'original' 2008 would represent the actual time when the poor scientist lived and did not know anything about the winning lottery numbers; on the other hand, the 'new' 2008 would represent a counterfactual time [...]

Though he does not say why he chose to particularly the seaside town of Dieppe, it is easier for the readers to see that he may have visited because of the connection that his country [...]

In the book, The Handmaid's Tale, the republic of Gilead presents a different environment with different rules from those of the former order before the conflict and establishment of a new order.

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.

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 theme of love and compassion is evident in the literature, and it shows the connectivity between all human beings. For instance, in this story, Hope's parents had friends living on the other side of [...]

Nora is in an intermediate position between a man and a tree, decorating the tree and allowing her husband to such behavior.

The overall scale of the conflict and the involvement of gods are the key characteristics making the "Iliad" an epic in its traditional sense.

This essay is based on Dante's Paradiso Canto 14 and its relation to politics, justice, and ethics in the community. Defiant members in the community tend to develop hardships when subjected to correction.

Ismael and Ali examine the author's humane message of the rights of people to live in peace from the perspective of the Holocaust.

The one similarity in all these three stories is the symbol of the water as the purification of the land from the evil and the resolution to a new generation to live without crime, harm, [...]

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 author used the principles of baptismal practices in the punishment description; this fact is connected with religious virtues and symbols Dante strived to illustrate; the depiction of the Satan appeared to be centralized in [...]

It is necessary to mention, that throughout the whole story Du Tenth has a low rank which is regarded as a commodity, the charge of her freedom is 300 and the price of herself is [...]

Therefore, all real emotional response is suppressed and the perfect regimentation of the way of life in the One State is supposed to overcome this fatal human flaw.

In the novel "From the Earth to the Moon" Jules Verne depicted science and basically applied science as an only engine of progress and social balance, which filled moral and ethical vacuum of individual of [...]

Marginal characters thus may be claimed to play a crucial role in literary work and in the first place of its conceptual realization.

In the second half of the poem, the speaker revealed that hating her body was bought about by a man, "who plays the dual role of savior and destroyer in the woman's life".

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 [...]

One son in particular, Edmund, allows the pain of being born a bastard and the rejection of his father to skew his view of the world and the intentions of his ambition.

Evaluating the murder of the children, the conclusion can be drawn that the females were thought to give the life and take it back.

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 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.

Up to that extent, the reader is already in a world that he or she has suspended reality. Up to this extent, the reader is already in a world that the unimaginable happens.

However, the author does not try to show that her despair is a sufficient reason for suicide. He is able to perceive the behavior of other people in a critical way.

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 [...]

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.

She refused and asked the brother not to force her into sex as it was against the beliefs of the Israelites but Amnon was adamant to Tamar's pleas.

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

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.

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 [...]

Wells, the stand of her "A Red Record" pamphlet is that of a rhetoric where the writer presents arguments and evidences of her cause to readers in such a way that she prevents her audience [...]

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 [...]

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

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.

The main plot of the fairy tale is that two scammers arrive in the capital of the emperor, who lavishly spends money on clothes to the detriment of state affairs.

It is noteworthy that the advice presented in the story is more likely to create the appearance of correct behavior than to form it.

The discussion below will be dedicated to identifying essential fantasy traits in The Aleph, appealing to the theoretical fundamentals of the genre and semantic peculiarities of the story.

“The Family Instructions of Mr. Yan” is an ancient Chinese book that talks about early family life. The main significance of the book is that it acts as a source of wisdom for various Chinese dynasties.

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 the state the US was at the time of its publishing, the national debt was a key factor in the lack of public infrastructure development.

His demand for sex in exchange for passage across the Piranha River is a clear instance of sexual coercion and exploitation.

In Chretien de Troyes' "Perceval, or The Story of the Grail," the protagonist, Perceval, receives instruction in chivalry from three different teachers: his mother, Gornemont, and the hermit.

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 the meantime, the example with the constantly triggering alarm showcases the element of dark humor that accompanies the death of the family's youngest member.

A kind of punishment towards this character is the eventual adultery on the part of his wife, as well as the physical trauma received by the carpenters in the final part of the story.

To determine the features of a literary work, it is essential to consider the events taking place in it and the features of the main characters and their character.

In The Break, the characters undergo many changes in their lives that explicitly or implicitly affect them simultaneously. Meanwhile, the author explicitly uses flashbacks when referring to the character's relationship with the victim and each [...]

The main theme of the Things Fall Apart is the confrontation of the old and the new world, and the eternal struggle of traditions with innovations, in which there are no winners.

Tolstoy's novel, "The Death of Ivan Ilych," is a meditation on life and morality, as seen through the eyes of a man who is nearing the end of his life.

It is a type of narrative storytelling that typically features a combination of prose and poetry. Uta Monogatari is a unique blend of prose and poetry in traditional Japanese literature.

Through these lines, Hawthorne conveys that perfection is unattainable and the futility of Aylmer's pursuit. Aylmer conveys that Georgiana's nearly perfect face is marred by the birthmark, reminding her of her mortality and his failure [...]

The proposed quote proves particularly relevant to Etsuko's eldest daughter, Keiko, as the object of the mother's memories of her deceased daughter.

The three main causes of the First World War were the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, European expansionism, and Serbian nationalism.

By concentrating on the fictional portrayal of these cycles of violence via the perspective of literary justice, this research will study and consider how childhood sexual abuse is depicted in modern fiction.

At the end of the day, the tired girl looked around her room: bare walls, several bags of garbage, all the furniture covered with a film, from which she freed only a bed and a [...]

In the end, the reader's opinions of the narrator will be influenced by their own experiences and viewpoints, the author's storytelling ability, and the topics and motifs of the story.

In "How to Mark a Book," Mortimer Adler argues that actively engaging with a text through the practice of annotating is essential for truly understanding and learning from a book.