Literature Essays

The book shades light on Saks’s struggle with hallucinations, delusions, and imagined voices as she struggled with mental illness but triumphing ultimately. The book provides insight into her battle through madness, an understanding of the illness which she fights and tries to accept as part of herself.

In this essay it is presented that a relationship always diffuses anxiety due to perception of either too high a distance or too much closeness in a relationship. Moreover, the level of anxiety in any one family will be strong-minded by the existing levels of outside stress, such as your close friends, your relatives, or your customers/workmates.

" Lenny shrugs and says, "Everybody's got to be someplace." This is an extract from, a novel made up of a collection of jokes, “Plato and a platypus walk into a bar” (Cathcart and Klein 6), in which Klein and Carthcart use Jokes to bring out philosophical concepts, existentialism explored humorously.

The reconciliation between the seemingly dichotomous Shen Te and Shui Ta is thus perhaps a critique of individualism which does not encompass fellow feeling. The presence of this doubling also presents to the readers/viewers a large array of futures for the play’s Setzuan.

The author suggests that the Election of 2008 is the first time Americans had an honest conversation about race since the Kerner Commission Report in 1968. This paper aims at discussing the book, From Black Power to Barack Obama by Peniel E. Joseph.

Particularly, such approach will focus on the aspect of violence in the plot of the said movie which will be framed based on Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” as a conceptual lens. His views will be used to expose issues or problems in the society and to help people better fathom the critical questioning embedded in The Hunger Games.

As this research aims to delve on the concepts of postmodern literature, this research discusses Julian Barnes’ Flaubert’s Parrot in the light of Postmodernist criticism of literature. Initially, this research proposes that Flaubert’s Parrot is a Postmodernist literature as expressed by its content, language structure, and the nature of its major themes.

Prior to discussing the distinguishing aspects which they have discussed in their book, it is crucial to identify their backgrounds, as that would help seek a deeper insight about their viewpoints. Keltner is a professor by profession, who has taught at the University of California, Berkeley.

Getttysburg Address, on the other hand, was a speech delivered by the US president, Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, Thursday, November. The core theme of the speech was hope that the dead Americans in the war did not die for nothing but to ensure a stable America with government for the people, of the people and by the people.

However, the economic disruptions as well as rapid technological innovations have led to tremendous changes in the society. It has been noted that libraries and museums are also compelled to revisit their own roles as well as responsibilities within these changing societies.

Most evidently, the quote “guys like us are the loneliest guys in the world” does not necessarily apply to George and Lennie for many reasons that are revealed through Steinbeck’s portrayal of their close connection.

Apollo gave Cassandra the power to see into the future, but with the stipulation that no one would believe her when she spoke about it. And, Apollo enlisted the magical sorceress Hecate to cast a spell on her so she would become pregnant, and with his child.

African women understood what freedom implied. They knew that being free from the clutches of abusive white men is genuine freedom; being allowed to look after and nurture their families away from violent owners and authorities. Freedom for these women implied having control over one’s own labor.

A Streetcar Named Desire opens with the arrival of Blanche DuBois, an emotionally shattered woman who has lost her inheritance, at the New Orleans home of her sister Stella and Stella's husband Stanley. She cannot come in terms with reality and she makes it clear right from the start that her actions are involuntary.

Dorris Kearns Goodwin, a well known historian and professor in Harvard University, had been accused of plagiarism for her novel “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys” which was released in 1987. It was found she had explicitly borrowed numerous sentences from Lynne Mc Taggart’s book “Kathleen Kennedy: Her life and times”.

stores of Outback Steakhouse following an Australian style theme with an adventurous outdoor facility for the customers. At the beginning the company is financed by friends and family for the partnership but later during the year 1990 friends of the three entrepreneurs approached for being the franchise of Outback Steakhouse and the company started expanding into the business with joint ventures and franchise scheme.

It has not just economic, but political and social dimensions to it as well. The term poverty is used in relative sense rather absolute. Attacking poverty requires a practical definition and a benchmark for measuring poverty. International organizations like United Nations (UN) have always been a key player in policy formation of poverty eradication.

Sexism on the other hand is another story of similar case, parallel to the aforementioned problem in controversy and passion spent for its fighting. A lot of literary works have been published in the past that expressed different thoughts and some have been rough, attacking mostly the colored people or the Blacks and women yet the events discussed in the literary pieces expose the truths observed in this matter.

World Literature. In the three books of Iliad (Troy), morality is intertwined with other themes. The research focuses on morality as the persuading of a person to act in a standard or required manner. The research centers on three morality concerns. The three books espouse the morality of feminism, leadership, and loyalty.

August Wilson's play “Fences” depicts the relationships of the characters involved in building the Maxson's backyard fence. It also serves as a metaphor for either the building or breaking of the relationships “encompassed” by this fence (Shannon 17). The fence here could also serve as a metaphor for the home.

In reference to her father whose presence in her life has caused Plath to bear certain unresolved domestic struggles, the poet necessitates having to execute around terms that relate to her ethnicity being of Austrian-German descent. The poem basically evokes emotion of regret toward living under rigid circumstances with the man to whom the author’s existence is indebted and the remorseful attitude worsens as she figures that Daddy’s traits resemble those of the man she later marries only to encounter attachment to the former setting Sylvia has become tired of dealing with.

Name Instructor’s name Course name Date of submission Critical essay From word “and was I not a lady once”, it is clear that the persona of the poem is a woman. Actually this woman from mentioning the word “tomb”, tend to be lamenting as a lamenting tone can be observed tough the words that are mentioned or uttered by the persona.

A Comparative Analysis of The Scarlet Letter and Uncle Tom’s Cabin Novels have been read by people for enjoyment and reflection regarding the realities of life. Authors take advantage of that opportunity to share their thoughts, ideals and values to the readers.

Jonathan Swift with his literary piece has brought the problems of the European society under the spotlight. In a Modest Proposal written in the Neo-classical period focuses on social challenges faced by the society. The story takes the audience back to a time when the problems of the society were beyond the control of people.

Indeed Foucauldian concepts of ‘sexuality’ and ‘confession’ can, greatly, assist any attempt to delve deep into Sumire’s psychology and sexual behavior. Foucault believes that sexuality holds the truth of one’s identity in secret, as he says “sex is what holds in darkness….

It is one of the principal challenges, especially when parents make efforts to be the best parents intending to bring the best out of their children. Parents bring into play many approaches while parenting. Some make the children intrepid and positive; while, some tend to make their personalities weaker.

Steinbeck infuses theme through various literary tools such characters, actions of the characters, setting, plot, etc. Dean Koontz defines theme as following: “Theme is a statement, or series of related observations, about some aspect of the human condition, interpreted from the unique viewpoint of the author.”

The author has clearly discussed the cultural restrictions and the discrimination that have highlighted the image of a woman in the society as a ‘minor creature.’ The title of the play clearly narrates the story that how women are perceived in a society by men and how their issues are considered as unimportant ones by the dominating figures of the society. The story of the play revolves around genders and their roles in a give sphere. Glaspell has raised some of the very important questions in the minds of the audience that make them to think how men and women are valued in our society. This play not only raises the question that how women are values on the basis of the gender roles in the society but this play also points out that knowledge and perspectives are taken into consideration by the people and the society at large.

The most resounding theme of the play is the impossibility of the American Dream, at least on Willy Loman’s part. The play is largely character-based, and this character is Willy Loman. Willy Loman is practically a loser. His name even implies it: Willy as in “Will he?

Complete Name: Professor: Course: Date of Submission: The general tone of angry social criticism is probably pretty obvious in William Blake’s “London” (p. 472). Pick out two or three specific lines or details and try to explain what they mean and how they work to help create the poem's overall effect.  As William Blake opens his poem “London” with “I wander thro’ each charter’d street; Near where the charter'd Thames does flow”, he means to reflect the state of misery which the city of London was confronted with in the 18th century.

Through historical narratives that supply adequate evidence to the white supremacy over the black inferiority which serves as the leading ground for the widely prevalent slave trade across several states in America, it would occur natural for a common critic to judge with readiness that, in general, white people are wicked whereas the black people constitute the oppressed and the morally deserving of equitable treatment.

This research aims to evaluate and present the role of women in The Rover by Aphra Behn. Through the characters of Helena and Florinda, Behn illustrates how women in eighteenth century Europe endured the restrictions of a severely patriarchal society, which denied them the right to make their own life decisions.

Singer is a moral philosopher who has served as the chair at Monash University and Princeton University and has lectured at the Oxford University on ethics and moral philosophy. He has published many texts on moral dilemma and ethics. In his article in the New York Times, he questions the charitable burden and false sense of ethics that normally respectable claim that they have.

The wise old people say that “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” (The author unknown). For me, the novel “Heart of Darkness” is a manifestation of this proverb. People often have the best intentions in their hearts; however, they are as well often not able to resist temptations that accompany these intentions.

War leaves in its wake casualties; some have wounds that they got as a result of the wars. Those who are not so fortunate die, either by directly being affected; like in the case of being in the battlefield, or indirectly; like becoming stressed up by losing a loved one and falling sick to the point of death.

Culture has been a dynamic way of expressing the dynamic ways in which humans can live. Events in history like the Slave Trade have given an idea of how this dynamism can be abused in some instances.

Both Ramayana and Shakuntala are great works of artistic and philosophical merit. Originally written in Sanskrit close to two millennia ago, their authorship and date of origin are both speculative and mythologized. Yet, these ambiguities do not detract from their unique contributions to Eastern philosophy and literature.

The novel may be described as typical because it talks about an issue common to Vietnam war movies, that is, American soldiers were sent to the battlefield without proper training. As expected, the characters suffer the common aftermaths of war such as fear, guilt and despair.

In this type of instruction, the teacher provides information to the students who basically listen to, and learn from what the teacher provides through discussion. In such situation, the students' role, which is often characterized by listening and thinking, is limited while the teacher's role is very significant, being the main source of knowledge or information.

His writing career mostly flourished in the English language. All his works were mostly intended to captivate the theme pertaining to the ill-effects of modernity and industrialization leading to the dehumanizing of values and degradation of emotional quotient in humans (Malcolm and Malcolm 185).

The importance of food in immigrant narratives cannot be ignored, most immigrant narratives focus on food making and native food places in diaspora to show the cultural identification of the individuals through the food.

According to the study, the Civil War represents a violent conflict in which blood was necessitated to be spilled, the civil rights movement represents a movement that is more or less been bloodless and has been able to be affected by dialogue and nonviolent opposition. The dissimilarities between how these particular conflicts have been able to be resolved are brief.

Death of a salesman’ is Arthur Miller’s depiction of the success myth which America was haunted at the time of Miller. Being a self deluded man, Miller presents a tragic hero who lives in the past and present.

Impacted by the technological advancement and education, a new black generation is getting ready to assert itself in every segment of human activity. Among the black intellectuals, writers and poets, several voices are being heard, not always agreeing with each other, but growing like octopus in all the directions.

Anything is possible with literature, and is limited only by the creativity of writers. Literature is a hallmark of civilization, which can be traced back to five thousand years ago, in the very ancient civilization of Sumeria with the first ever written surviving literary Epic of Gilgamesh, from which many portions of the Old Testament had been taken from.

Simply speaking, the Greek tragedies did not play a significant role in the rise of the English tragedy (Taplin 4). Yet, the tragedies of Seneca did influence the English tragedies to some extent (Boyle 142). And when it comes to the English tragedy plays, one simply cannot afford to ignore Shakespeare.

The thesis of this essay is on nationalism as a trend in developing American literature. It indicates how nationalism has played a big role in American literature. In addition, it outlines the significance of nationalism in American literature. Further, it involves factors that affect nationalism.

For instance, Tolstoy makes use of his works to share his ideas on life, especially the role of satisfaction in human life. Thesis statement: The analysis of the character Ivan Ilyich in the novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy proves that this character faces emotional trauma in his private circle, he tries to withstand the same by undergoing guilty consciousness, but self realization and reconciliation helps him to get transformed from a self-centered individual to an enlightened persona in the end.

The story, a sequel to Homer’s other epic Iliad, narrates the saga of the journey of Odysseus after the 10 year long war of Troy. It takes him another 10 years of perilous journey through hostile oceans and battles with several monsters, to finally get back to his family.

The protagonist and the antagonist characters often end up in cosmic conflict in which one party is agitating for a given issue which does not palatable to the other. While this tend to take shape in most instances in the play, the neutral characters helps the reader to understand the contention between the protagonist and the antagonist as well the voice of reasoning that either party should take (Sadowski 23).