Literature Essays

On the whole the story beautifully exhibits the patriarchal system of the village and the brutality it thrusts on the people. With this small introduction, I would like to focus on the character of Tess Hutchinson in this paper.

The author states that Aylmer’s obsession with the flaw, that he believed to be a “symbol of his wife’s liability to sin, sorrow, decay, and death,” eventually drove Georgiana to agree with his perception, and towards insanity. Before they married, she had been content with her beauty, both physical and spiritual.

She said that this writing used the gothic's "paraphernalia of claustrophobic castles, villainous dominating men, and beleaguered heroines to thematize women's sense of isolation and imprisonment within a domestic ideology fast becoming hegemonic by the end of the eighteenth century."It was Anne Radcliffe who managed to make the gothic novel acceptable by society. Ironically, a sudden degradation of its fame followed. Radcliffe was very successful and this called on many imitators. Most of them were lowly, thus the genre started to be viewed generally as inferior.

The trouble with Utopian socialism is that it does not involve itself with how to get there, believing that the influence of its own vision is enough, or with whom the mediator of the struggle for socialism might be, and, rather than deriving its principal from censure of existing situations, it pulls out its vision expedient from the creator’s own psyche.

The main feature of Virginia Woolf's novels is that she could characterize persons of the opposite sex as convincingly as those of her own. Mrs. Woolf classified authors according to the androgyneity. The novel Orlando had many interpretations. It is not only a fantasy. The technique of the expression of its thought is functional.

The laws enacted by the Parliament in all the countries will not bring equality to women. The change has to be achieved within-by both men and women, mostly by men! My simple question is how can you give equal rights to women' God has created her, given her the status of more equal.

For Elliot, "living with music" meant simply that life was impossible without it. Perhaps my initial assumption about the role of music in Elliot's life was born of my own life with music. Whereas music is an important element in my own life and history, it is hardly so essential that its absence would render my life devoid of meaning.

All stories lead to a moral. Huckleberry Finn realizes the worth of every individual, whether he was a slave or a free soul. The racist and religious themes also give morals. It tells them that slavery is not something which should be encouraged. Emma realizes that it is not necessary that whatever she does, it will turn out to be the best

For modern people living 21st century and considering the romantic charm of the Taj Mahal it seems easy to label these women as unthinking, vapid creatures, given only various forms of pleasure methods, living exclusively to please and satisfy their men. We must look beyond the mirror adorned harem rooms, or beyond the baths where those women amused themselves, or miniature paintings that show life of harem in an opium haze, jewels, wine and gestures of love.

On another level, Morrison's novels attempt to provide the very kind of identity the loss of which they bemoan: through her work, Morrison is trying to continue in literary form the oral tradition of tale-telling and narrative songs which she feels modern black Americans have lost - she said in an interview,

The author of the paper goes further comparing other critics in stressing Othello's vulnerability, and totally ignores Emilia's role in the play. In some way he summarizes the critical debate between those who see Desdemona as saint and those who see her as slut. He contrasts the genuine intimacy of the women with the hypocritical friendship of the men.

Author of the Book, Never Eat Alone Keith Ferrazzi is originator and CEO of the teaching and consulting corporation Ferrazzi Greenlight and a donor to Inc., The Wall Street Journal, and also at Harvard Business Review. Previously in his profession, he was CMO of Deloitte Consulting and at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, and also CEO of YaYa Media.

Today's tragic hero can be male or female, come from any stratum of society, can hold any job, literally be anyone. Along with these admirable amendments to the rules, however, have come other differences in defining that a tragic hero is. In contemporary popular drama, by which is typically meant film, the tragic hero-or heroine-has generally been downgraded to mean the "good guy" who dies in the end.

This story vividly depicts inner state of the characters during wartime and their living essentials such as fear, kindness, love, and uncertainty. These things are so important for them as ammunition during wartime, because they help the main heroes to overcome depression and difficulties they face with.

The protagonist of the fictional story, the Ex-Colored Man, is given the ultimate choice in the story to either embrace his black heritage and culture by expressing himself through the African-American musical genre ragtime or to live indistinctly as an average middle-class white man.

These poems have been illustrative of the satirical merit of the poet. The critics of Swift have always been in praise for the prominence of the satire of Swift. It is most significant to note satire in Swift was the most favourite tool in the hands of the artist and various characteristic features of his satire make it most recognised in literature.

Originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review in May 1949 Albert Einstein's essay "Why Socialism" presents a set of social and political claims. The major argument of the article concerns the fact that specific combination of personal and social strivings determines the degree of an individual inner equilibrium and his integration into society.

The character of the Common Man serves many purposes. He is a narrator, actor, and commentator, explaining the historical context and setting the scene. By standing outside the action, then taking up roles within it, he states what the author believes; that no matter how ordinary or insignificant he may seem, his involvement is unavoidable. 

Julia is one of the key characters in 1984. It stands for the opposite of a "brotherly", anti-sexual, entirely repressed society. At first "sight", or if you read superficially, Julia would seem like a very lighthearted person, a woman who goes with the flow and just cares about having fun and fulfilling her own sexual desires

Thesis. Jay Gatsby idealizes romance because it reminds him youth, his true feelings free from cupidity and greediness. Love to Daisy helps him to recreate his past and symbolizes realization of his secret dreams. Love of Daisy is the only thing he cannot possess, for this reason it becomes so desirable and attractive.

One critical perspective treats the prince as a tragic hero having three prominent characteristics: a will power that surpasses average human beings, an extraordinarily intense power of feeling, and an unusually high level of intelligence.

Dee’s were a façade, an accessory to her image and with her, the useful everyday things and their true meaning would lose their value eventually.  She was too materialistic to appreciate the importance of the items.  Mama resolved that conflict by putting her beliefs into practice and took the right and just course of action.   

Since the start of industrialization process managers are searching for ways that can help employees produce more. Initially the focus was on the physical work of the employees but with the passage of time management started to focus on the other factors as well.

It is in fact an unknown substance with still an unknown range of effects which could be as mild as nausea or to the most severe which is death. At present, the government is moving towards banning these substances which are easily available through the internet under the guise of plant food or household cleaning products.

Emma’s childlike attitudes and behaviours are the products of her upbringing and situation in life. Growing up without a mother, Emma has no boundaries and accountability. The only person who could provide that authority, Mrs. Weston, is so mild that she hardly restrained Emma.

One of the prevailing themes in the Iliad is the quest for honor and glory. Based on the narrative, a hero is roughly defined by how he performs in battle and upholds his greatness. Honor and glory takes precedence over all other virtues--the characters' disposition dictate that even death is inconsequential as compared to those.

The author states that not heeding the advice of experienced men and above all underestimating the extreme forces of nature and a lone man’s vulnerability in the face of the Alaskan winter, the traveler’s bravado costs him his life. The traveler checks himself from panicking and running around like a headless chicken.

The history of water deficiency in New York City has been systematically researched, documented and presented - and most of all, the dry nature of the topic never bothers the reader.

For the "When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant. They might mean simply a few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane Austin; a tribute to the Brontes and a sketch of Haworth Parsonage under snow .

Ishiguro’s main protagonist, Stevens, in The Remains Of the Day speaks in the first person narrative because he wants to present directly the thoughts and stream of consciousness effectively to the readers.

Near the end of the play, Iago retreats into himself as he is threatened and damned by those who have been left alive. It is almost as if his mission has been accomplished and so he has little care for what happens to his physical body. This is embodied within his promise to “never speak a word” from that point on in his life.

The Beat Within is for and about incarcerated juveniles, calling itself "A weekly publication of writing and art from the inside". Both magazines make injustice the main issue but in very different ways. The Mother Jones covers are similar to mainstream magazines in cover content; each issue has a new drawing/photograph similar to those found on the covers of The New Yorker, Time, or Life.

Stephanie who is in a grave need for money opens up talks with a close relative Vinnie for employment in his bail bonds industry, conversely Stephanie has no certification at all, but still while carrying out her duties, she land Joe Morelli as the first client.

Tracy Kidder, known best for his Pulitzer Prize winning book, "The Soul of a New Machine", is a former servant of the US Army and holds a degree in MFA from University of Iowa. He has been a noted writer among the critics right from his first book, "The Road to Yuba City".

A much admired production of the time, in which Shakespeare, as usual, has shown the uncanny ability of writing the plays with absolute awareness of social, cultural and mainly political pulse of the country. Hermia and Helena, the childhood friends, have a sisterly bond till they grow up and fall in love.

In the novel, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë introduces readers to Jane, its narrator and protagonist, on a ‘drear November day’, which Jane describes as a ‘leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning’, where ‘the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating’.

It briefly depicts some of these parameters with illustrations, finally advocating the transformation of other unions into learning organisations in the name of their defined aspirations. But does this beautiful concoction satisfy the common criteria of integrity, practical reasoning, clarity and intelligibility of language; of sequential illustrations that readily bear on the conceptions that prompted them, and of such incontestability as should readily recommend the learning organization as a model into which other organisations should necessarily transform Are its results and conclusions fully or partially coincidental with their texts of reference Or do they diverge from them, not justi

Set mainly in Kerala, India, in the 1960s, "The God of Small Things" is about two children, the two-egg twins Estha (brother) and Rahel (sister), and the shocking consequences of the death-by-drowning of Sophie Mol, their English cousin.

The author states that the instruction material should be presented in terms that are not just familiar to the student but which allow him/her to constructively utilize their pre-existing linguistic tools and knowledge for the more effective absorption of the new. The primary obstacle to effective L2 learning is learner psychology.

The author states that Dover Beach is also representative of the patriarchal ideology of the era. The poem is addressed to the poet’s partner. It is said that the poem was written during their honeymoon at Dover Beach. However, the poem does not inculcate the thoughts or expressions, ideas or emotions of the partner.

In this article, I will focus on the argument about Tolstoy's alleged misogyny through his work Anna Karenina. After having read the novel Anna Karenina, I have yet to agree that Tolstoy is a misogynist because of certain elements in the novel that makes me think otherwise.

His narrative tries to explain why he thinks Africa is dark. The darkness alludes to the skin color of the Africans, the dark mysteries of the natives, the land and the unknown. This essay explores how the Africans were depicted in the short novel, Heart of Darkness.

The tales provided comic relief, laughter, and witty reprieve while commenting upon the sexual morality, or moral quality of her characters. Navarre used humor to construct and comment upon the different comical, moral situations that perplex humans when they get involved in situations that compromise their sexual moralities.

A man needs minimum of two gallons of water to survive here for a day. Luis Alberto Urrea tells a real story of 26 people who get lost in this track while attempting to cross over to the United States illegally in May 2001. Only twelve of them survived. The story is painful and raises issues of life in poverty and human rights.

The protagonist of the short story, Miss Emily Grierson, "is certainly strange by any average reader's standards and a character analysis of Emily could go in any number of directions. It is nearly impossible not to examine her in a psychological as well as contextual light." (Wright) As the story progresses, her unpredictable and distinctive behavior becomes absolutely peculiar, and the readers as well as the townspeople in the story fail to explain the strange behavior of the character.

During the time in which the engage in recreation took put society frowned winning women asserting themselves Women were hypothetical to play a role in which they support their husbands, took mind of their children, and complete sure the whole thing was ideal around the house.

Not only is Bayardo a typical male of the time, but also the twin brothers of Angela; who just to live up to the standard social order, were ready to kill Santiago for having disgraced their sister. The women were bounded on all sides by traditions and were expected only to get married and have families.

When she came to the supposed land of milk and honey, she finds that her daughter although somewhat lonesome is unexpectedly looking forward to a life that is completely alien to her.

It is such a solace that two great books emerge seeking to assist companies and business leaders not only to survive, but more importantly, to endure in their chosen industry. Jim Collins' Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leapand Other's Don't, and The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al Ries and Laura Ries are books with different topics and are far from being related to each other.

Shawn refers to her as the scab, and does not like her. She has a little child, who is likely mistreated and under-cared. Other minor characters in the chapter include Bill and Karen, Shawn's managers, and Mark the new rookie employee.From Shawn's viewpoint Beady's new girlfriend starts to make a nuisance of herself.