Literature Essays

Rding Lolit in Thrn provids stirring tstmnt to th powr of Wstrn litrtur to cultivt dmocrtic chng nd opn-minddnss. And in my essay I would like to narrate why she moved to write these memoirs. First of all, it is because Nfisi's uniqu prspctiv on hr studnts' plight, th ongoing struggl of Irnin citizns, nd hr country's violnt trnsformtion into n Islmic stt intrstd her so much in currnt intrntionl vnts.

The author of the paper states that this story could have had a very different, although admittedly less moving, conclusion had Mathilde simply admitted the truth to her friend right away. But, as foolish as Mathilde behaves, it is not easy to be certain that in her place I would have acted differently.

But such is the indeterminate subjectivity of both films-the contradictoriness of their characters, their unresolved ethical dilemmas, their wryly tragicomic representation of conflicted histories and divided allegiances-that they end up striking an ironic attitude to their own radicalism.

Imagination, combined with the clever and powerful use of language and rhythm, shapes them into beautiful expressions of art. The past merges with the present to transform notions of the future, both for the author and the reader, that become, stanza after stanza, critical pieces of opinion and food for the soul.

In practical realm, quantitative methods use questionnaires, surveys, and statistical studies, while qualitative methods presuppose participant observants, focus groups, and similar means of gathering of data (Lindholm-Romantschuk 1998, pp. 25-27). On ground of this, we can see that there is a multitude of practical methods used for research of social life.

So runs Colmer's assessment of George in E.M. Forster's novel 'A Room with a View' and there certainly is some truth in such an outright critical dismissal. To say the least, George Emerson, as Forster portrays him, does not appear to be a powerful enough character to bear the burden of symbolism placed on him and thereby becomes a victim of it.

Pip visits the eccentric Miss Havisham and her adopted child Estella for the first time in chapter eight. In chapter 29, as an adult, he makes yet another visit to the estate. Dickens sets up the chapters scene by scene: both entail Pip's arrival to the estate, his wanderings inside Miss Havisham's home, his encounter with Estella (and therefore his perception of her), and his concluding thoughts in each chapter.

Mary Ann's mother was Christina Evans (nee Pearson) a farmer's daughter, and her father-Robert Evans. She had four siblings-two brothers and two sisters. Of these, a brother and a sister much older, were from her father's previous marriage. Robert Evans was the manager of Arbury Hall Estate in Warwickshire.

This book, by Harvard University Associate Professor Scott Snook, a retired Colonel in the United States Armed Forces, deals in depth with one such inadvertent fratricide involving the shootdown of two helicopters by air force jets. With almost twenty years in uniform and a Harvard Ph.D.

In the first stanza of the poem Dickinson says, "One needs not be a Chamber - To be haunted - The brain has corridors - surpassing - material place" (Dickinson). Dickinson is using imagery in this stanza to compare the internal confrontation between "the social self" and "the poetic self" to the haunting of a house.

The author states that Romeo and Juliet meet by accident, and it is love at first sight. Accidents follow in quick succession; Juliet is forced to accept Paris as her fiancée; Romeo and Juliet marry in secret; Mercutio and Tybalt are killed; the Prince banishes Romeo, and the lover messages become lost.

Elizabeth Gaskell's language is as fresh and relevant to the modern reader as it was to the Victorians. With short, simple sentences, she portrays a truthful and sympathetic picture of Charlotte Bronte. This is not to say it is boring or prosaic. The descriptive passages all contain strong poetic elements which bring them to life.

She wanted to stop just being her husband's plaything or her father's "little doll".Her character showed how women were expected to be dutiful to men and that men had power that could destroy both them and the women they dominated. In Act 1, Nora appeared playful, manipulative and materialistic with regard to money.

Egeus says Lysander wins Hermia's heart with all these tokens and it is an unfair advantage over Demetrius, who has never had a chance to woo Hermia. (Act 1, Scene 1). 2. The sort of entertainment Puck describes in Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 47-57, is not the sort of comic entertainment provided by this play.  

Marquita, read ‘The Thought Fox’ by Ted Hughes because this is where the idea for this poem came from. You can find it on the internet or in the Norton Anthology of Poetry. You can explain the origins of the poem to your teacher, once you know it. This poem is a METAPHOR, like his, for the act of creation and how it can be lonely and difficult.

Shakespeare provides insight in how true love would withstand everything, even certain doom. Again, Shakespeare offers a grain of truth in his words. He speaks of true love as though it were living, breathing, no matter that it is emotion. Shakespeare paints the picture that love makes time stand still, no matter how brief the time may be.

Let us refer to one of his best works 'The Cherry Orchard', which has been written in the very end of his life. Karlinsky in the book 'Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentary' writes: "The reading public is aware that his days are numbered, and every new work is received with a sort of tender gratitude, with the realization that it was written with the remainder of his dwindling strength"1.

The first publication of The Malleus Maleficarum or with the translation to English "The Hammer of Witches" was in 1487. Beginning on the 15th Century, it has been very well known as being the primary reference for the hysteria of witchunt for about a couple of centuries.

The author states that the ironic lesson that is learned from reading The Metamorphosis is that Gregor Samsa undergoes a metamorphosis in the physical sense only; philosophically Gregor had always been a bug and becoming one physically has no effect on his enjoyment of life. Gregor sticks stubbornly to the very same conformist mindset.

The circumstances in which he wrote the book were not particularly favourable and the book was misunderstood with the ongoing conflicts and prevailing confusion of the day. He was well aware that he was plunging into a controversial subject which might be attacked by many and would give him a bad name.

The author states that John Updike portrays Sammy, the narrator of "A & P", as a nineteen-year-old cashier at the local A & P in a coastal town near Boston. Sammy, thru the use of daring means, fruitlessly attempts to win the attention of a beautiful girl. The narrator of "Araby" depicted by James Joyce, also, conveys his first failed love.

We read that Gregor was not surprised to see his own transformation. Kafka’s purpose was to include absurdity as a normal way of life, to open our eyes to the responses of Gregor’s predicament.

"Septimus Warren Smith, aged about thirty, pale-faced, beak-nosed, wearing brown shoes and a shabby overcoat, with hazel eyes which had that look of apprehension in them which makes complete strangers apprehensive too"(14). This is our lingering impression of Septimus in Mrs. Dalloway.

Millay succeeds through juxtaposing the actions of Penelope and Ulysses against her own, seeming more mundane, but in reality similar actions in the present day. She shows that ancient myths are so evocative because they take the actions of ordinary people and make them something profound (Milford, 2002).

The author states that Orwell’s vision of women was limited, thinking of Julia as the forbidden, fun and sexually active, pretty but not so smart girl; while only mothers were honorable and cause for admiration. Orwell’s famous line: “You’re Only a Rebel from the Waist Downwards” can be thoroughly discussed.

Both of them form the very important literary tradition of the black woman’s discourse who were denied a voice and who have risen through generations and proclaiming their political rights but also questioning the female identity under male-centered power structures and in contrast to the white feminist

However, maintaining those connections with one's roots in the South, often meant having to tolerate a world notorious for Jim Crowe laws and racial segregation which endured until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. During this time, racial divides permeated all sectors of American society, but these divisions were most acute in the rural South where the oppression of social norms, laws, and customs further separated African-Americans from the American Dream.

The author states that Socrates described Meroe, the witch to Apuleius. This woman loved somebody deeply. But unfortunately, her man loved somebody else besides her. With just one word, Meroe turned his man into a beaver. She also changed one of his neighbors into a frog. One of the advocates of the court spoke bad things against her.

She was born on the Isle of Wight. After she attended the Holland Park School, a comprehensive school in London (she had failed the Eleven Plus examination), she read history at St Anne's College, Oxford, but dropped out before completing her degree. She then went into journalism, working for many years at The Guardian before joining the BBC where she was social affairs editor (1988-1995).

In order to continue the discussion on hyperreality it is important to first understand the concept and tenets of reality. According to the Oxford English Dictionary reality can be defined as something being real and having an actual existence" and supplements this with a definition of real as "having objective existence," and finally to exist as having "place in the domain of reality." (Ozford English Dictionary, 1989)

However the diamonds are equally a nuisance and a blessing. J. Sorie Conteh's debut novel is about how the craving for great wealth can cause corruption and eventually collapse. Particularly when it comes to focus on the ways that the diviner's role changed, the novel presents a simulating present-day appearance of Gibao, an individual who construes wealth in the fields of diamonds of Sierra Leone, West Africa.

The stories presented the status of women during the time of the writers. A lot of changes occurred since then and women are not given more responsibilities and roles that make them feel important in the development of society. Emily is the protagonist while her father and the townsmen are the antagonists. 

 These were commonly associated with women who would use laments to express feelings of abandonment, sorrow, and loneliness. Greek women from the ancient period are known for their fondness for laments. This was seen as a powerful source of expression and since women had little control over other things apart from expression.

His anti-war views were reflected in his poems. The horrible sights of the war were depicted in his poems bringing forth the reality of war and its terrifying effects on human lives. His poem Repression of War deals with the theme of memories of war. He wants to forget the horrible sights he witnessed on the war field but in spite of his persistent efforts these memories haunt him.

The book covers the universal truth of morality, and while we are all different, we must follow our own conscience in every act we carry out. The story explained how Louis Slotin, who worked on creating the atomic bomb in 1945 and 1946, died as a result of an accident while experimenting with plutonium.  

This report will begin with the statement that Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility broaches a number of human failings with a gentle but firm admonishment.  Despite the story’s close adherence to acceptable social behavior, both its inception and its execution reveal a much more revolutionary nature.

It's no surprise that many of his story protagonists had a close resemblance to actual characters he met during those real-life experiences in which he gathered content for his plot development. In the case of Nick Adams, the main character of Hemingway's short story, In Another Country, this real-life resemblance grew incidentally, out of his own identity.

The author states that Conkin is not very fond of Roosevelt and throughout the whole book echoes failures of his administration to address the various problems that plagued pre-World War II America. The first chapter of the book is dedicated to Roosevelt and his personality, as the foremost character shaping the events during the Depression years.

Although Sammy's choice to rebel and quit his job at the grocery store might seem to be the primary purpose of the tale, the setting is the real key to understanding what is actually going on inside the little neighborhood grocery. The theme of "A&P" has to do with how Americans make choices that affect their entire lives based on false promises made to them by an economic system that is based upon turning every idea, object and person into a commodity that can be bought and transformed into a status symbol.

Could their support result in other result than tragedy What kind of persons were Friar Lawrence and the Nurse and what role did they play in such tragic end of the play The Nurse loved Juliet and was truly devoted to her. But in spite of that she didn't think of possible consequences of Romeo and Juliet secret marriage.

In spite of their southern locale, Chopin’s stories rarely deal with racial relations between whites and blacks. One important exception is “Desiree’s Baby” (1892). Desiree Valmonde, who was originally a founding, marries Armand Aubigny, a plantation owner who is proud of his aristocratic heritage but very much in love with Desiree.

The conventional wisdom regarding tragedy is that it is a so-called tragic flaw in the hero that brings about his downfall, but when looked at more closely, every bad decision that Oedipus makes, including murdering his father and marrying his mother, can really be traced back to the act of a lowly shepherd.

In ancient times, painters, sculptures and musicians were given the same reverence as were magicians, which was not entirely misplaced because in so many ways art reaches beyond the mundane into the filed of the extraordinary. Art, in any form, has the power to bestow upon us deep insight, to open our eyes so that the world gains a new and intriguing perspective, to draw us to a halt and throws us into deep meditation.

She considered her father as her world. Emily's father was of the opinion that that none of the boys living in the town were of her match. This story is about a young lady who considered her father as everything in her life. It further tells about the feelings of the town's people towards her and her father.

The paper discusses this issue in terms of appropriation and originality, first putting forward a thesis, which is then defended/attacked with reference to examples from the text. It will be argued that the novella Wide Sargasso Sea does stand up as an independent, legitimate, work of art, despite having its basis in Bronte’s Jane Eyre. 

This is the story of what happens when an angel comes to town. But while it is subtitled ''A Tale for Children,'' it is by no means a simple story. The setting is no ordinary town, and its visitor is no ordinary angel—indeed, he seems very ordinary and human, despite his extraordinary appearance.

The precision of the analogy of the objects and their meanings makes reading the story a worthwhile experience. When Theo chose his eyesight over his life, he must have thought and considered it a million times before coming up with a decision. Prolonging one's life without seeing a thing may sound more depressing than seeing and yet knowing that it will not be long before you are gone forever.

Among these is The Cruell Shrow by Arthur Hilliarg which was published in 1673. It is among the Roxburghe Ballads and one of the admired anti-marriage literary pieces. However, nothing much has been written about Hilliarg. Hilliarg's work opened my eyes to the misery of a man who has been unfortunate to have ever married a nagging wife.

The researcher states that the combination of the words “fat” and “happy” arouses interest in the reader and exposes, with the use of irony and cause and effect arguments, a glaring logical fallacy that the author goes on to demolish: fat people give the impression they are happy but they are not, because they believe the wrong notions people have about being fat.

The character of Creon in Antigone can be analyzed in relation to the classical concepts of arete, hubris, ate and nemesis. Creon pretends to be a man of arête (one who has reached the pinnacle of human virtue), but he only reveals his extreme hubris (excessive pride or arrogance expressed in acts and words).