Literature Essays

The play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare is supposed to have been written in the first decade of 1600 and it was printed for the first time in 1623 (Clarke and Wright, V). From the angle of new historicism, the conventional history involved is read between the lines so that facts hidden by class, gender, and power equations emerge providing a fresh picture of the whole events.

Heritage and cultural memory are concepts expressed primarily within the concept of culture as ‘ways of life’. While various human populations identify particular traditions and items or artifacts as ‘heritage’, and while they think about heritage to mirror some kind of cultural memory, the strength of the relationship between heritage and cultural memory becomes apparent.

Heritage and cultural memory are concepts expressed primarily within the concept of culture as ‘ways of life’. While various human populations identify particular traditions and items or artifacts as ‘heritage, and while they think about heritage to mirror some kind of cultural memory, the strength of the relationship between heritage and cultural memory becomes apparent.

Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon is a detective story that explores the dishonest world of greed and murder. The lack of moral determination of the characters led them to deplorable acts which are filled with lies and deception just for their own personal gain. They have no regard for the feelings of other people and are even willing to forsake the lives of people around them in order to get what they want.

Comics journalism is a form of journalism, which covers non-fiction and news events, using frameworks of comics, which is a combination of images and drawings. The main discussed ideas in the writing history of Joe Sacco include structures, mixed speech bubbles, and plain text. It allows a person to narrate an event with the use of visual stories, which are comics.

This essay concerns itself with a balance between realism and idealism in the plays of Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams. This essay explores the extent to which any attempt at leaving realism, for purpose of following idealism would most definitely lead to the destruction of the individual under consideration.

American literature is very rich and covers a myriad of issues that affect American people’s lives from the foundation of the nation and the preceding colonies. The issues pertaining to the colonization of the Americas by Britain to the formation of New England and consequently the revolutionary war leading to American independence are entailed in artworks such as poetry, novels, books and narratives.

“On the Road,” “Things Fall Apart,” and “Pride and Prejudice” use friendship as a method for portraying and developing the characterization of the Protagonist. There are clear ties within all three books, and the author’s use of the main characters to exemplify or change the vision that is practical or expected during the period and time that the novels were published.

Generally speaking, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is an image of the current culture. Throughout his literary profession, Truman Capote has remained to be among the most American’s colorful and controversial authors, merging literary mastermind with an affinity for the impressive world of higher society. 

For the articulation of this particular aspect, the poem is not a watertight compartment. It is the free flow of spontaneous feelings of the poet and as such other categories of spaces like domestic spaces, punitive spaces, public spaces, etc. are interlinked and they will have a bearing on each other.

Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s alter ego is the main protagonist of the novel “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, a character that is sensitive and dynamic in their mental projections. It is this journey of the sensitive guy through a troubled youth and political times, that we get to discern in the book.

"Yang Taizhen rumored" writes Yang's life story, the emperor, the princess fell in love with life and death was soul-stirring. Yang Shou's word Yuhuan, formerly princess, after the return of Emperor Xuanzong, was canonized as the imperial concubine. Xuanzong loved anomaly. The royal brothers and sisters are given, young rights one hand.

Yang Shou was believed to be the concubine of imperial China. Xuanzong fancied controversy. The household of the prince was guaranteed some special rights. The brothers and sisters of the emperor were also guaranteed certain rights by the emperor. Xuanzong raised a formidable army after the fall of Tongguan.

Havelock’s definition of the oral mind does not discuss things in terms of absolute binaries – good and bad, man and women, day and night; rather, the oral mind is that which blurs boundaries and creates spectrums of acceptability because it realizes that the purpose of communication is not in defining what it is, but what it does.

This paper tells that Finkelstein claims, on his webpage, that The Holocaust Industry “marked the beginning of the end” of his academic career. The outrage it evoked from what he calls “the Jewish-Holocaust-Israel establishment” resulted in losing his assistant professorship at Hunter College in New York City and in his unsuccessful bid for tenure at DePaul University in Chicago. 

He says that rational decision making consumes time. Owing to his habit of taking too much time for making decisions, some people consider him lazy. His indecisiveness has been criticized the most in his presidential campaign. Critics have interpreted his openness and the lack of objectivity of opinion in various matters as self-suspicion.

A number of characters by these two writers have been involved in unfruitful relationships that resulted in children born out of wedlock. Tess’s relationship with Alec is not as expected since he sees her as an object of sex. This is the reason he ignores Tess’s feelings and opts to rape her in the woods claiming that women are supposed to submit to all that men want.

This is a period that emphasized the interconnectedness of human culture as people from different regions of the world increasingly interacted. The interactions in this era were made possible by superior naval technology that England had achieved at the time therefore facilitating explorations and discoveries of new worlds.

The unexpected death of my grandmother had a great impact on me because I was very close to her, but I failed to communicate this properly to a single person. I tried my best to talk about this to my close friends, but they would immediately change the topic for something more interesting to them, but utterly trivial in my viewpoint.

The author of the paper states that the chief character in the novel - Winston Smith - is a 39-year-old, physically weak person, who uncannily resembles the author Orwell himself in terms of physical attributes. Appropriate to a totalitarian political system there is only one Party in Oceania, in complete control of the ruling oligarchy.

The originality of presentation and the lively imaginative technique is driven from the exact choice of words. To be simple, it is the construction that counts in this poem for the contribution of the effectiveness of the meaning. As a whole, the carefully arranged poetical forms contribute more to the grandeur of this work.  

The relationship between the two is described in very natural, sensual language: “Gerald glanced at him, and saw him, his suave, golden colored body with the black hair growing fine and freely, like tendrils, and his limbs like smooth plant-stems” (137). He was so healthy and well-made, why did he make one ashamed, why did he feel repelled? 

Hamlet’s adherence to the patriarchal ideals is supported throughout the play by the appearance of his father’s ghost. The prince is plagued by indecision about the way in which to be sure about how his father was wronged and how to go about his plans

Basically, the meaning of literature varies according to how it is being used or described by a person. It symbolizes many things and has something to do with the personality of the person who made it. Literature can be regarded as the masterpiece of its owner and can be part of the history for the recognition that it gains just like the known literary pieces today that are made by the famous writers.

And as Scout has learned, planted by her father and watered by her experiences, the only time that you will be able to see the good in people is when you look at the world through their eyes. Through this, you will learn that people are not inherently good nor evil. That both, evil and goodness, exist within us 

This paper tells that sonnets of William Shakespeare are extremely popular and represent the many phases of life, written by the poet at different times and in different moods. As Collier and Cook remark that “It is evident that the sonnets were written at very different periods of Shakespeare’s life…some in youth…some when he was hopeful…and some when he was desponding….”  

Beccaria begins the brief but insightful chapter with the following: “If the interpretation of laws is an evil, another evil, evidently, is the obscurity that makes interpretation necessary.” (Beccaria, p 17)  Analyzed, this means that laws, as guidelines by which a society lives, must be understood and not the provenance of a few.

Black people living in Northern cities also had to deal with a great deal of racism and lack of opportunity.  Even though these conditions are not as recognized today because they never became a part of an official law, boundaries set on black people in the North could be just as harsh as those set upon them in the South. 

Through one’s own suffering one learns the suffering of others. It is the death of his daughter Grace that connected him to the misery of his brother. And he felt love for his brother. His past love revives and he extends the hand of love to his younger brother. The story depicts all the shades of a brotherly relationship

The narrator of this essay also aims to tell about Sir Philip Sidney, who was born in 1554 and lived until 1586. He was very well educated in the lifestyles and changing attitudes of England’s upper classes. He was educated in the traditional way of the elite class and studied for some years at Christ Church, Oxford but left before earning a degree.

The protagonist also realizes that he should not be there, though he is convinced that the owner of the woods is nowhere to be seen, nor to witness the man so close to his property. He stays for a moment to watch the snow turn the woods icy and white, but he eventually coaxes himself to continue on with his journey.

Total inaction can never contribute to the freedom of humankind and it is against the process of evolution of humanity. But his firm conviction stands—an active person with a totally fixed mind—one that is not open to different possibilities—is even more dangerous than an inactive person whose mind moves and changes.

The author explains that the Muslims of India established a nationalist movement because of various tensions occurred between Hindus and Muslim, including that of 1905-1911 in Bengal. Muslims feared that they would be ruled by the majority Hindus. Therefore, few Muslim delegates in the Indian National Congress left and formed The All India Muslim League.

Redburn leaves the United States a nostalgic, potentially violent boy, but returns a man shaped by the maturing, enlightening, and disciplining forces of life. After working on the ship Highlander, assimilating into the crew, and experiencing the world through living rather than imagining, Redburn alters his Romantic mindset.

There is no doubt Sylvia Plath was writing about her own father, who died when she was ten years old. It is not a case of fiction. And perhaps her choice of language indicates she wanted to create a young girl’s impressions, caught the awe and confusion of having a German father in middle America during the war years.

No man is safe; the honor of women is not safe. The criminality of all sorts and harassing the innocent is the way of life for many groups of thugs. Urrea writes, “If you are not Mexican, you can’t pass as tijuanense, a local, and tough guys find you out. Salvadorans and Guatemalans are routinely beaten up and robbed.

Comic reading has been a favorite past time for the many from a wide range of age brackets. The influence started in Japan, famed for their Manga series where it does not only exhibit stories based on childish preferences. The influx of modern technology opened a door for a widespread influence brought about by manga.

The personal life and works of Shakespeare catch the attention of several original and fresh studies. In a reflective analysis of the personal life and works of Shakespeare, it becomes lucid that several of his writings bear witness to the experiences and incidents of the writer’s personal life and his celebrated play Hamlet.

Aside from spectacle, the lyrics and music of show tunes hold within them the fabric of the play. After the audience leaves the theatre, they will not recall much of the dialogue, but they will hum the songs. A true form of tragedy, Aristotle opines, is the imitation of the action, not that of persons or characters

According to the research findings, it can, therefore, be said that the Iraqi people still live in fear. The capital city of Baghdad has been wracked by violence since 2003 and tens of thousands of people have been injured or killed, and this has made the expectation of a random and unpredictable death a fact that Iraqi’s now have to live with.

The researcher states that the author of the novel tries to amend the image of the runaway slave and the concept of considering black slaves as inhuman through the relationship between the characters of Huck Finn and Jim. Author has touched every important aspect in a human life as loyalty, companionship, punishment, greed, education and control.

According to the findings, it can, therefore, be said that most of Chaucer’s female characters play either on the line of male expectation or on the line of debauchery and immorality. But these transgressions are strictly defined by the male standard of morality and male ethics of chastity that is assigned to women.

These universal issues of human life are beautifully presented in the epic through the transformations of its main characters: Gilgamesh and Enkidu, who could be understood as symbolizing the contradictions of life from which the meaning of life is realized. Actually, it was to foil Gilgamesh that the gods created Enkidu.

One of the main components is decidedly dignity, a virtue he qualifies with numerous examples. As his journey stretches to a world beyond the only world he has ever known, Stevens begins to question his ideas about ‘greatness’ and what constitutes a fulfilling life. Professionalism in the face of any situation is the embodiment of dignity.

The substance of this prose assesses the depiction of the English society in the novels Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding and Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone by J.K. Rowling. Both novels belong to entirely different genres but they all revolve around the same setting that is the English society and highlight the aspects of the society.

The author states that Robert Frost was the most highly esteemed American poet of the 20th century. He had received 44 honorary degrees and a host of government tributes, such as birthday greetings from the Senate, a gold medal from Congress, an appointment as honorary consultant to the Library of Congress.

The reader realizes that magical realism is not simply magic, but it forms the part of life and human experience. Also in the Native American tradition, as seen in Monkey Beach authors depict their deep religious heritage in literature, inserting religious beliefs, rites, and supernatural occurrences.

According to the paper, the play is part of Wilde's carefully cultivated persona as a dandy, creating a tone of studied triviality which was lapped up by an audience “engaged in a continuous search for bigger and better thrills”. However, in spite of contemporary reviews condemning the play as “barren and delusive”.

Also, the literature of many independent nations which were part of the Soviet Union or Russia historically also fall under the broad head of the term ‘Russian Literature’. Before the onset of the nineteenth century, the seeds of the Russian literature were sown and harvested by the renowned playwrights and poets like Alexander Blok and others.

The repetitive elements in the settings plot and cast of Hughes work bring to life a systematic and organized system of repression, exploitation and hatred that was not superficial and skin deep, but rather seeped into the bones and marrow of a society bent upon putting barriers between one man and the other on the basis of the color of one’s skin.