World Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 6

In Araby, the development of theme resembles the archetypal myth of the quest for a holy talisman such as Sir Galahad's quest for the Holy Grail, such as James Joyce's looking for the lost light [...]

To a great extent, it reflects the portrayal of the German social class structure and the bias and prejudices that were prevalent.

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 [...]

To gain an understanding of the story within a brief analysis, it is necessary to examine the story's plot, characterization, point of view, theme, symbols, and setting.

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 relates the story of his spiritual crisis in his work, A Confession."Do in the afterlife the freshness and life heartedness, the craving for love and strength of faith, ever return which we experience in [...]

Instead of the character of Genie that comes from the lamp, my story features the character of Fairy Ostara, who fulfills the desires of the magic stick's owners.

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 [...]

It is a mistake to think that it is enough to study the summary or read the review articles to paint the story of Cecilia and Claudio.

The main argument in Bettelheim's article is that "Cinderella" is "a story about the agonies and hopes which form the essential content of sibling rivalry".

The news spreads far and quickly, but the creature fails to live up to the expectations of the curious crowd and is soon forgotten. It is likely that the angel's stay was exactly as he [...]

Jingfang paints a dreadful picture of the future where social inequality has risen to the point where the society is split into three parts, and the differences among them are emphasized in the most vivid [...]

In contemporary literature, due to the development of different genres and literary schools, there may be observed a huge amount of different archetype prophetical characters. In childrens literature, the archetype of an orphan is very [...]

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.

As the morning seemingly approaches, the Rat is suddenly amazed by a sound of great beauty, a haunting piping."Such music I never dreamed of, and the call in it is stronger even than the music [...]

8 Tao's description of the Pokfulam district is probably the most poetic: views are "magnificent," the horizon is "endless," and boats in the harbor are "a delight to the eye as well as the mind".

The motif of a trick is also discussed in many versions of the tale with references to na ve Red Riding Hood's questions about the grandmother's appearance, with references to the Wolf's changes of clothes, [...]

The concept of the death of tragedy is taken from Nietzsche's book "The Birth of Tragedy" where he declared that God is dead.

Another instance in the epic, which portrays women as sexual objects, is the use of the women as sex tools in the temple. Women in Mesopotamian society had the duty of brewing wine for men [...]

The author uses Achilles as a bold character for building all the major themes in the poem; hence he is the most realistic character in The Iliad.

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 [...]

The fine weather portrays to us the mood and sense of happiness that the character is brimming with, as she is smugly satisfied with her existence. She is under the illusion that her life is [...]

One of the heroes succeeds in his undertaking, the other bitterly fails, and the outcome is shaped not so much by the unchangeable predestined fate as by the personal qualities of Odysseus and Creon.

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.

The soldiers must meet their responsibilities, perform tasks, and align them to the missions of the U.S.Army. The author argues that it is the duty of the soldiers to fulfill their obligations in the Army.

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.

Overall, it is possible to say that Diaz's account and The Broken Spears are more credible because the authors of these narratives had no incentive to justify their actions or conceal facts from the audience. [...]

The attention to the details of the escape, the description of the reactions of different workers, and the role of Sanguk on the island can make the answer to this question clearer and more interesting [...]

Antigone's conviction is that the dead deserve a decent burial in spite of the circumstances that led to their death while Creon's preoccupation is to enforce the laws of the land that disallow burial of [...]

The main strength is the author's detailed description that has the effect of making the reader feels a sense of presence and enabling him or her to connect with the characters in the book.

Among the benefits of flexible pedagogy and flexible bilingualism identified by the authors are ease of communication and preservation of culture, indiscrimination of a second language and simultaneous 'literacies' endorsement as students participating in bilingual [...]

In the tragedy, Orestes is listened to and Athena ensures the right of each party to talk. However, in the film, the people of Africa are not heard.

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.

Both Homeric Hymn to Demeter and Hymn to Aphrodite expose the outlook of ancient Greek on religious and psychological world of women, as well as on their attitude to marriage.

In order to bring the reader into the same level of understanding, the author has tackled the introductory topics on the bandwidth and radio systems and how the latter two concepts influenced the development of [...]

The learners of English as a second language have been greatly affected because of the discrimination faced from other individuals because of the difference in pronunciation.

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 [...]

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 eternal love between the gods and the characters from the story can be seen as the source of light, it is considered the most important part of the world.

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" [...]

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

For instance, one of the versions of the book is "a free adaptation" of the first voyage of Gulliver "with many departures from the original".

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.

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.

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 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 [...]

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.

In a story Angelic Butterfly, Levi shows the image of neoteny of the axolotl as the result of Nazi Professor Leeb's experiment of the transformation humans into the winged creatures similar to angels.

The author illustrates the disruption of peace by the arrival of white-men in the Igbo community. Nevertheless, the showing up of the white man and Christianity led to a change in this practice, the women [...]

First, when he bullies his wives and sons in the homestead, he reveals to the white man that, in Africa, a man is the head of the family. Finally, in committing suicide, Okwonko demonstrates to [...]

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.

Lantin's wife is initially described as virtuous and frugal, the epitome of what a wife should be according to societal expectations.

The book focuses on the experience of Offred, a Handmaid whose only purpose in society is to serve the couple she is attached to and give birth to a baby for her masters.

The literary device of characterization is employed by Thomas Mann in "Death in Venice" to illustrate the significant influence of artistic devotion on Gustav von Aschenbach."Important destinies must have passed through that head, which was [...]

This story is an example of avant-garde literature because of the story's absurdity and nonlinearity."Unborn" is a complex and challenging story that is hard to summarize in a few sentences. The purpose of this technique [...]

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.

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.

The narrator's identity is shaped by his emotions and his perceptions of his surroundings. This imagery, along with the narrator's emotions, leads him to his epiphany of love and longing.

However, I realized that I need to improve my writing ability, which is the capacity to process what I have seen, heard, and felt, follow the cause-and-effect relationships, and draw conclusions.

Defoe articulates the devastation from the plague based on the illustrations of the findings from the analysts and the medical practitioners.

The author's embrace of the scientific achievements of his time is evident in his emphasis on the fact that the aforementioned advancements were integral to the appreciation and understanding of new perspectives.

The similarities between the fictional world of the dystopia and the present realities are evident on a domestic and ideological level, including the ways of social control of thoughts and actions.

In the documentary film, Globalization is Good, directed by Charlotte Metcalf, the author argues the negativity of global capitalism's impact on the world.

Merlin is a central character in the mythology, with the ability to see into the past and the future, willing to offer advice and assistance but powerless to change the course of events.

One of the first stages in the main character's Eliezer transformation is his childhood and the desire to study Talmud and Kabbalah at a young age.

Thus, the use of dark imagery in Milton's work is implemented to heighten the contrast between light and darkness, good and evil.

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.

Due to their significance to the tribe, they had a dominant position and consequently perceived women who did not risk their lives as lower in status.

Therefore, the subordinate position of women in the novel is explained by the use of language techniques by Gilead, and their status was accepted by reshaping identities under this condition.

Ovid's Metamorphoses is a poem that stretches from the beginning of life to the narrator's present. Ovid's retelling of some of the world's most revered mythological stories is spirited and vivacious, with a specific focus [...]

The information I will need to conduct this research will include literary works from the 19th and 20th centuries, with the two main ones being "White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling and "To the Person [...]

This suggests that his link to his social community has indeed been severed, and he is incomplete with the absence of his racial identity. By changing and appreciating his identity, therefore, Lionel would understand the [...]

A Raisin in the Sun revolves around the life of an African American Family. The underlying cause of the conflict is $10000 that every member of the family in his/her own way.

The tension is not resolved because this exploration does not factor in the causes of the evil meaning that the reinforcement of the doctrinal message overrides critical thinking. In paradise, the issue of God's Justice [...]

According to Milton, this is against the freedom of the press that is espoused in the constitution and it is also dangerous for the potency of life that the books carry.

The first of the novels, Persepolis: The story of a childhood presents the growing up of an Islamic girl and her growth has been presented as important in the understanding of the notion regarding the [...]

The protagonist of the novel, captain Marlow, observes that the suffering of the native people under the yoke of bureaucratic officials is extremely tough.

In this context, a literary text becomes perceived as a narrative discourse or the description of a series of events to represent a certain story or a plot through accentuating actions performed by the characters [...]

The image of modern American society tries in vain to convey the prevalence of personality over social division. Americans' perception of financial status has been shaped for years by creating the notion of the "American [...]

Behind the actions of the characters, there is a core of all the actual thoughts and motives. In the German version written in the 19th century by the Brothers Grimm, she was a working child [...]

First of all, speaking about the message of the book, it should be stated that it is related to the family hardships that the members of despotic man's family can experience.

It is both a classic fairy tale known from the early childhood and the representation of the ideal and moral behavior to be an example for everyone.

However, the novel presents the most detailed, touching and thought-provoking description of all the saddest consequences the trauma of being a victim of an atomic explosion may leave in the life of any individual who [...]

Considering a loss as a chance to take a closer look at ourselves, Alvarez interprets the old idea of drinking the honey and throwing away the bee, applying it to people's subconscious and suggesting to [...]

Just like Ovid in his Metamorphoses, the main character in Big Fish sees the sense of his life in telling stories about people and events that can be changed to different forms.

Congo locates in the center of the continent and can be compared within the heart of Africa."The vision seemed to enter the house with me - the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient [...]

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 blindfolds enable the boys to hide the truth of their identity from themselves during the fight, but their identities are further warped into acceptance of white domination and black suppression as they scramble for [...]

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.

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.

This paper aims to compare and contrast the last canto of the Inferno and the last canto of the Paradise. In fact, the entire poem is written in this way and Dante is believed to [...]

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.

Shakespeare is a creator whose creativity was influenced by nature rather than nurture; one of the best examples of his creative process is the play "Romeo and Juliet" created in the period of Renaissance; Shakespeare's [...]

The purpose of this potion was to provide the scientist with a means of separating the good portion of his nature from the evil and it is successful, but the evil proves too strong and [...]

In the book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers" by Kwame Anthony Appiah, the author has categorically described the value of differing cultures and the methods which are primarily used to keep two varying [...]

One of the main peculiarities of the Muslim religion is the treatment of women. Fatima Mernissi wanted to tell the world about the real state of things in Muslim harem, about the real life of [...]

Among these is the new emphasis on private piety that develops with mysticism; the new literacy of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that encouraged the recording of private ruminations, the autobiographical emphasis of authorship in [...]

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 [...]

The two characters have been introduced, and even been compared in the beginning of the series, with Sherlock Holmes being given the superiority of observation, and Dr.

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Chueh-Hsin's younger brothers do not want to follow his example and try to break away from the influence of the family. He leaves the compound of his family to continue his rebel and to marry [...]

This way or another, we suppose that this was one of the author's main tasks to make the reader seek the answers he has put and we should admit that he managed to cope with [...]

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.

In Hinduism, the reward of a proper woman is rebirth as a man, ancient Chinese women were considered to be the property of their fathers or husbands and in Japan, women were dressing in men's [...]

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 revolt of Stephen Dedalus begins in Joyce's The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with his rejection of the blind religious attitude found existing in his family.

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.

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

Eve is the central character of the narrative in Genesis 1-3 and one of the central figures in the Bible. In this regard, understanding the development of Eve is essential, including the analysis of her [...]

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.

However, when the memories of his wife resurface, and he goes to the grave to pay his respects, he realizes that he feels no remorse.

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.

The following paper analyzes the motifs and themes contributing to the described effect in order to determine the ways in which the system supports harassment at the state level.