Literature Essays

Throughout the epic poem, Gilgamesh goes through a significant change of character that allows him to evolve, and by the end of the story Gilgamesh has grown into the true hero he was destined to be.

Gods and Goddesses are the ones who determine matters such as peace or violence, life or death, etc. In both “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey”, Goddesses play significant roles influencing Zeus, the God Supreme, to achieve his granting of their pleas.

According to the study conducted, Animal Farm, therefore, dramatizes Orwell’s summary of Burnham’s views of political history: that “history consists of a series of swindles, in which the masses are first lured into revolt by the promise of utopia, and then, when they have done their job, en­slaved over again by new masters”.

The author states that this poem also brings out the meandering course of grief that is reflected in Heaney’s as well as his parent’s reactions to their loss. The poem opens with a sense of waiting as the poet has been confined to the sick room, where he has nothing to do but count as each bell signals the end of a class.

The film itself is an adaptation of a novel of the same name written by Chuck Palahniuk, but the screen representation created by Fincher seem to take a slightly different direction than the novel itself. However, the basic premise of the story and the struggle remains true to the novel.

His ideas and philosophy have formed the basis for western philosophy. As his life, his death also has been much talked about because of his trial and execution. This paper is an attempt to answer the question: “Is Socrates guilty, or not?” When justice and truth are considered in law, it is important to look at the validity of the authority and the court.

The actual truths were hidden underneath the figurative language and abstract relations stated in the epic poem. Odysseus' life has the impression of complexity of circumstances surrounding him and the entanglement of social connections he has established made his journey increasingly appealing to the audience.

Dante Alighieri’s (1265-1321) Divine Comedy has been considered as the single most fundamental epic poem of Italian literature and the prominence of this illustrious piece has crossed the boundaries of the land, people, and literature to be known as one of the essential pieces of world literature.

The narrator’s logic goes through a process from observation to empathy and identification and then, finally, onto contemplation. Through the process of identifying with the porcupine, the narrator is able to gain perspective about her own life and eventual death, realizing that she, too, is merely part of a cyclic process.

This solid and well crafted story is both haunting and disconcerting as the reader witnesses how the narrator's selfishness and insecurity slowly leads to his ultimate demise and insanity. McEwan uses his reader's knowledge of culture and society to help showcase his narrator's masculinity throughout the piece.

The author states that an appointment in Samara is a story of a servant to saw Death while he went to a public market in Baghdad. Due to his fear, he went to his merchant and borrowed his horse so that he can go to Samara and escape from Mr. Death. The merchant lends him his horse and the servant went to Samara.

The novel ‘The Scarlet Letter” represents moral wisdom and reflects values and morals typical for the Puritans. Social and personal morals of people are depicted through emotional sufferings and experience of the main heroes of the novel: Hester Prynne, her husband Roger Chillingworth and Hester’s lover, Dimmesdale.

This essay explores the Maria Harris' "Fashion Me A People". Harris' book is not about designing or selecting published resource materials for religious education; instead, it is a description of her theory of religious education. She calls it a book about "curriculum in the church" because she conceives of "curriculum" as the whole of the church's life.

Rose Rubin and Kenneth Koelin examine how elderly households spend on necessities, compared with non elderly households. Using data from 1980-81 and 1989- 90 consumers expenditure survey, they examine expenditures for housing, food at home, and health care, as well as income, demographics, and receipt of cash assistance.

Winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946, Hermann Hesse is an explicitly holistic and dialectical writer who in his novels depicts the struggle for self-awareness of his characters. Through them he reaffirms the values of love, beauty, and integrity in the face of a world increasingly dominated by acquisitive and competitive norms.

He does not just draw spiritual or soulish sustenance from his surroundings, but also expresses the power of nature in terms of physical attributes. By combining the whole of human development within natural elements and the idea of Nature, Wordsworth stands as an icon of the Romantic Movement.

The poem also shows how the working class people are looked down with scorn and contempt by the dominant upper class society. The poem can also be read as a working class woman's attempt to establish herself as a writer against all kinds of suppression and oppression.

It is very easy to picture the scenes described, to feel the constant strife between mother and daughter as the mother pushes her daughter to be something better, while the daughter rebels, doubting her abilities and wanting only to “be herself,” not realizing that she does have it in her to be anything that she wants.

Additionally, Derrida's perspective as it relates to the meaning-making of Romeo and Juliet will be analyzed. The different languages of the theatre being used will be discussed. Finally, a synthesis of the discussion will be presented. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) created was a critic of literary texts, as well as philosophical ones.

The first idea introduced in the chapter is the abolition of the respirator. This metaphor can be sees as ceasing to breathe air, which will inevitably result in physical death. The spiritual death is depicted by Forster as "Beware of first-hand ideas". Imagination is the most non stimulating process.

They see freedom, or the lack thereof, in both similar and contrasting lights. Hannah Fosters “The Coquette” is a dramatic and tragic story of a woman who is torn between two men.The woman-Eliza Wharton-is based on a fictional account of the poet Elizabeth Whitman.

One of the most significant aspects of the novel is the effectiveness of the novelist in exploring crucial themes such as women in suppression and the various means by which they achieve agency. It is the quality of the themes dealt with in the novel which makes the piece one of the most powerful and most widely read novels in the recent times.

The ideas of ambition, deception, loyalty and retribution represented in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" were widely spread in medieval history. Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" has as well historical as psychological contexts. The novel takes us a good picture of customs spread in the 18th century in England.

The themes that run through in the veins of her works are usually feminism, masochism, government idiosyncrasies, morality and reflections on the history of her country as a US state. Her works are classified as belonging to the postmodern type and are characterized by the uses of parody and humor, interest in language and its implications, and interest in feminism.

In y Papa's Waltz a poem by Theodore Roethke, the narrator details the relationship between an inebriated father and his young son. Roethke ventures into the topics of child abuse and unconditional love. hose Winter Sunday written by Robert Hayden, is a reflection, by a grown child, on how he treated his father in his youth

However, is wilderness really what it seems to be now Or is this concept a modern world invention Cronon argues that it is. He shows how the priority was gradually shifted from utilizing the wasteland to preserving the wilderness. This transformation of thinking and attitude seems so astonishing that it's difficult to conceive of any visible reasons or sources for this.

In this day and age, Emily Dickinson is deemed to be one of America’s greatest poets. Her works are remarkably original, even by present standards. Her poems have captivated generations of readers, as she writes about a myriad of topics; from the lofty—love, emotion, death, immortality, to the more mundane—bees, trees, and domestic chores.

The devil has made its permanent home in the monster after his horrific deeds, but even now it  is clear that it was vengeance that drove him, and not wanton cruelty, because, after the death of Victor, the monster does not want to harm anyone further, resolves to destroy himself, and is never seen or heard of again.

Sometimes we think of Spinoza when we read this poem. We get the idea of dealing with a pantheist bard in the line of that philosopher, but Blake is not really a pantheist. Blake is a Bible believer and as such his poetic vision is rather the position of a universalist in the line of Johannes Scotus Erigena.

The essay gives detailed information about works of modern American literature. Among its masterpieces are “The Things They Carried” by Tim O'Brien, “That Evening Sun by William Faulkner, and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates. They have unique narrative styles and techniques.

The conclusion states that undoubtedly the poems clearly illustrate the eras in which they were written. Themes, craft, as well as points of view, reflect diverse periods the history of Australia. The enjoyable part of these poems is that they express different emotions and approach so efficiently to us nowadays when we need personal faithfulness, tribal unity, and economic certainty.

Thus, a reflective analysis of the language and the form of the poem, including rhyme, rhythm, metaphor, imagery, tone, word order, alliteration, and point of view etc, illustrates the characteristic features of romantic poetry and introduces the readers to the spirit of the period.

The narrator proves to be more than just a voice, however, he becomes a fully realized character distinct from his earlier incarnation. At the same time, his younger version offers insight into his older self, for, by his efforts to become an author, he reveals aspects that will haunt the narrator for the rest of his life.  

The idea that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is not only a creative fantasy without any scientific or historical sense is very interesting. This issue is increasingly important in this age of intensive scientific development and numerous approaches of the nature of life and death.

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies presents human society and human nature in highly negative and pessimistic terms. Human nature, within the context of this particular story, is incontrovertibly savage.  When social and legal controls are removed and humans are left to their own devices, they revert to their animalistic, bestial nature. 

By narrating and representing war trauma through personal memory and fiction, O'Brien is able to revisit and retell the war to achieve a potential redemption in reality. He also shows how soldiers are dehumanized during the Vietnam War and how they have become machines rather than actual human beings with a will of their own.

The Fomorians were not a people of people of peace, the land they lived in was harsh and cold, infested with the mischievous and often cruel fairy kind. From this, the Fomorians became a people of cruelty and violence, who sough only to further their enslavement of the Partholon and Nemod.

The researcher of the essay explores both the movie and the book by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. He provides a detailed analysis of what was similar or different in both creations in this essay. It is alo mentiones, that reading the novel excites the imagination and watching the film helps in reaching it.

Minorities can speak for a whole nation. This is evident in David Malouf’s novel, Remembering Babylon. The views expressed by the characters forever changed Australia’s social, political, and economic identity. They also reflect the positive and negative aspects of colonialism, nationalism, and the struggles of becoming a country.

One of Hamlet's first-act soliloquies (Act I, Scene V, 92-112) is a response to the shocking revelation made by the ghost of his father. This response offers insights into Hamlet's indecisiveness at the very onset of the play.  From his speech, we see Hamlet as one who is incapable of deciding the actions that he should take.  

Social convention has always demanded the periods of childhood and adolescence be a time of innocence and as such most parents attempt to shield their children from the harsher realities of life. A child who thinks or behaves like an adult, worries teachers and parents alike.

The author states that Bradbury seems to view the theatrical demonstrations of power in his book as a commentary not on official power, suggesting that people like spectacles and that the government is merely giving them what they want. Bradbury emphasizes the voluntary participation of the populace in the oppressive policies of the government.

We mostly do not know where the tales came from or who the audience was or is. The result is that we have hundreds of different versions of a given fairy tale which possesses varying authenticities, arising from different geographical environments. One vivid description though over half a century old, related to folklore research reads that (1) folklore study is like a desert journey, where the only landmarks are the bleached bones of earlier theories.

Holden has been made a symbol of American individualism of his time. Salinger used him as a mouthpiece to voice his contemporary society’s social issues like the gradual diminishing of the parental control in the family.

This dramatic monologue begins on a soothing, fanciful note, with the lady narrator walking around amid flowers in a garden (I walk down the garden paths, /And all the daffodils/Are blowing, and the bright blue squills.), but goes on to take a restless, almost seditious tone within the confines of the constricting brocade and the patterned garden paths (I walk down the patterned garden-paths

The author states that a superior and dominant gender, can reproduce by means of asexual reproduction, and which gender and the ways human practically does are perfectly reversed in the story such as men having long hair while women have their hair short, strong nature of women.

In "el burlador de Sevilla", Don Juan is presented as an excessive and libertine character that always follows the dictates of his own will and is completely fearless of human or divine justice. Regarding his social status, Don Juan is a notorious member of the aristocracy of the Seville.

One of the book’s main ideas is the collective responsibility of the village, signifying the nation’s role to the development of a dependent child. The idea here is that it takes more than a family to raise a child. Through her anecdotal illustrations, when she was breastfeeding Chelsea then, the child started foaming at the nose.

Evaluated from this point, the theme of education, which is a major theme of the novel, can be comprehended as the best example for the same idea. That is to say, the theme of education is strongly connected to the structure of the novel and the novelist aims at the education of the readers by proposing this theme and strategy.

Two short story classics, “Paul’s Case”, written by Willa Cather at the beginning of the twentieth century, and “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson in 1948, explore the effects of conforming to Society’s expectations. Both stories give examinations of the outcomes for individuals when expectations force unquestioned loyalty and obedience.