Literature Essays

According to the findings, it can, therefore, be said that the main character in the play is Mrs. Popov, a rich widow who has vowed never to remarry and live with the memories of her deceased husband. Another character is of Grigory S. Smirnov, a creditor of late Mr. Popov, who comes to the widow to claim his money. 

The author states that the opening of the poem is joyous and full of celebration because of the great Hrothgar. Although, the world seems perfect at this point, it is obvious that envy is not growing, “Nor far was that day/when father and son-in-law stood in feud /for warfare and hatred/that woke again /with envy and anger an evil spirit".

The poems are written in the fascinating poetic language of Homer, and they became the source of inspiration of many other ancient authors. The poems are also a good source of historical knowledge about the period described as there are not so many artefacts of that epoch were found.  Odysseus’ cunning nature is also reflected in The Odyssey, for example, when he thought a plan to escape from Cyclopes.     

Between Arthur Conan Doyle's stories of Sherlock Holmes pursing criminals through the back alleys of London and Dickens' stories of poor orphans struggling to survive, the image of Victorian England that is perhaps forever burned into the public consciousness is one of filth and unfairness.

In Book One’s The Searcher, after his father’s death, Patrick temporarily left the honest but dangerous profession of being a dynamiter and went to Ontario. He became an immigrant transplanted into the big city. He changed his profession to become a Searcher of missing persons, namely, the vanished millionaire called Ambrose Small.

What makes the lyrics even more powerful in this regard is the melody the song has. The guitar accompaniment has an enchanting effect. It charms one out of present realities into the realm of introspection. Emily Dickinson's poem, "I Reason the Earth is Short" (T.

The primary finding in this area as etched out by C. Winter, M. Lockwood and Morrison in their paper titled Value Based Segmentation of Community Stakeholders, demonstrates the fact that without the support of well defined partnerships, the government alone cannot do much.

This paper explores not only the face of homelessness but answers the question as to how people unknowingly end up in such a situation without rhyme or reason. The broader picture is presented as the main character states that she tries to support her community and country but she depends only and solely on God because it is implied that the country, or government, has failed her.

It does not allow the reader any space to entertain doubts regarding the message Dickens wanted to spell out regarding the society he was living in. Extreme contempt. He hated the hypocritical way the wealthy aristocracy imposed their attitude on those who were poor.

Despite promising to marry him, Kieu could not do that as her father was detained by local officials who started to torture him. Kieu asked her sister to marry Kim Trong and sold herself to Ma Giam-Sinh who was a wealthy merchant. She used the money to free her father (Mark W. McLeod, Thi Dieu Nguyen. 

Parents are often the link through which children perceive and understand the world. In the story, Atticus, as a significant parental figure, teaches his children the critical lessons of life which enables them to acquire proper qualities and become positive in life.

In an individual context, the feeling of not having any power over the social ambience in which one lives, over the people and groups that one comes across in one’s day to day life, over the events that collectively constitute an individual’s life, or over the varied aspects of one’s personal life could indeed turn out to be very disturbing and enervating.

The author explains that they adore them both. They just did not understand their differences. It was maybe differences of values. Besides, seldom was it physically manifested. After all the joy of material affluence bringing comfort clouts it all. Often, when grandma is around they were like the “seven dwarfs”.

Similarly, Chamoiseau is also a writer of great importance, having won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Texaco in 1992, which was then chosen as a New York Times book of the year. The writing style that Chamoiseau employs, offers in many cases, a sensitised depiction of his home country Martinique, its people and culture.

Carol hung up the phone and glanced at her watch. It was 3:30 and still no message from Jim. She knew he was probably on his way home from his small real estate business downtown. The rain had probably delayed him, or there may have been heavy traffic on I-34 due to construction and the weather.   

The article continues the idea stated in the previous article of the authors that new vehicle buyers who use the Internet pay 2.2% less for their car than those who do not. In this article authors calculated the average total Internet effect as 1.5% of the purchase price, or 22% of dealers' average gross profit margin.

The identical comic fools in the play Dromio of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus - the servants - are the ones who display most of the humour. Dromio of Syracuse's sense of humour is evident as he makes fun of a maid named Nell, and compares her to the globe.

Dr Rieux,who is revealed at the end of the novel to be the narrator and who is also the main protagonist in the novel,works along with the government and other citizens to take steps to defend against the worsening plague and the resulting social consequences.Reality changes dramatically for the citizens of Oran ,normally consumed with pursuing wealth and habitual pleasures ,when Death becomes omniprescent.The narrator contemplates, "C'est au moment du Malheur qu'on s'habitue a la verite,c'est a dire au silence"They are confronted with feeling of despair ,loneliness and profound self-contemplation .Camus weaves a fine web of diverse, life-like characters who react differently to the grueso

The famous tragedy by the Bard of Avon deals with the story of Macbeth who, insisted on by his wife Lady Macbeth and prognosticated by prophecy, commits regicide so as to achieve the crown. 

The author states that the title gives the reader a sense of foreboding by associating the seven sins with the original story of the seven dwarves. Beneath the vulgar tone of the poem is a story of a religious girl who flirts with sin and eventually returns to the church. The poem is broken into ten stanzas of four lines each.

The problem that arises in most assessments of political change in Africa is that they focus on the formal aspects of the political order, the structures of governance; the set of legal rules, political norms, and established institutions that together constitute the regime.

Moreover, they are not raised to be simple housewives but to be prim and proper. The play revolves around Amanda Wingfield, one who has been abandoned by her husband. The play depicts the dependency of women on men and the seemingly unjust and segregated roles of men and women.

This is a practice that has been felt worldwide as these religions spread to other continents. Most nations do not permit sex between unrelated individuals of the same sex above the local age of consent. Some jurisdictions further recognize equal rights, protections and privileges for the family structures of same-sex couples, including marriage.In addition, some nations and religions mandate that homosexual and bisexual people restrict themselves to heterosexual relationships or abstinence.

We will see how Anaya uses Doa Sebastiana to criticize the Catholic Church and convey moral values. While Baltazar, the poor woodcutter, hides in the mountain to eat a chicken that he has just stolen, Jesus and the Virgin Mary appear and ask him to share his food with them.

The author states that in the story, characters are presented through action: symbolism intensifies character and action. Steinbeck relies heavily on metaphorical language to convey personal and dream-like states of consciousness. For Steinbeck, the setting and landscape constitutes a vital aspect of the story.

The author states that Shakespeare uses the rapidity of time to also make a connection between the timing of how things happened, how quickly human life passes, how fast love can be lost, and the ironic timing of the two lovers’ deaths. Shakespeare uses timing throughout the play to create the concept of “star crossed lovers.”

This paper tells that as a pioneer in the genre of mystery, Poe wrote several important stories of mystery including “The Gold-Bug”, the three Dupin tales, “Thou Art The Man” and “The Oblong Box”. Poe has been a master in using the right tools and elements of writing a mystery story including a series of clues, a series of false clues, atmosphere, something to be solved etc.

The conclusion from this study states that the protagonist’s character can be discerned as a person who possesses necessary knowledge but is devoid of the merit of true wisdom, which preempts him from listening to reason. He lands himself in trouble due to his ignorance. Later on in the story, he emerges as a determined person who keeps fighting against all odds for his survival.

Science fiction as popular entertainment appeals to many ages and across many cultural boundaries. The process of writing and producing such mass entertainment is always a gamble. This essay seeks to assess the relative meanings of the type of ‘realism’ used in a science fiction series and will consider this contested term via thematic content.

All the things happening in the story are just glimpses of the real-life not just for the former rangers but also for the people surrounding them. Having the story as the main surface of Western history, we are given the picture of how the West and the Americans try to advance in different terms. This is also an obvious example of how the Americans try to look for the thrill.

Initially, he praised the rail transport system for helping industrialization, the modern marsh of his time, but then contradicted himself when he said that the rails also disrupted the peace and conservation of the countryside. His sharp observation that the ‘railways are trenches to drain our modern marsh’ has another ambiguous meaning.

The theme of travel, based on real journeys or imaginary ones, is one of the most popular in world literature. Travel symbolizes life paths, experience, and eternal knowledge. Travel is used as a canvas to describe deep personal feelings and life experience of a human. Both books ‘Monkey’ and “Gulliver's Travels” are based on the theme of travel.  

After departing from the college James did job as a school tutor and as a cricket journalist. He got an enthusiastic attention in politics and wrote a biography of the Trinidadian labor leader, Arthur Cipriani. James was a sturdy enthusiast of West Indian sovereignty.

Symbols in Beowulf were used to teach and entertain pagans while spreading the message that one should always do good to defeat evil.The heroic protagonist Beowulf was connected by relation or blood to many characters in this epic poem

According to Jervis Anderson's account, the working classes merely functioned as a literary topic and poetic subject for the black literati, virtually all of whom sprang from or were educated into the middle class. Similarly, David Levering Lewis declares that most Harlem artists were products of the 10,000 privileged Afro-Americans

According to the paper, by using examples from her own records and trying to help us to understand why she wrote the things she did, Didion really brings her message home. She struggles to remember what kind of person she was when she was younger and was visiting a certain city or state.

Furthermore, modern values allow the reader understand characters more profoundly, so that he/she even begins to live their lives and imagine him/herself in the setting the characters are prone to. "Gaskell's fourth novel, North and South,was also a social consciousness work, although less alarming than the first two.

Both works, as shall be argued, undertake a brutal deconstruction of human society with the explicated purpose of illustrating the extent to which the perversion of norms and nature have culminated in the isolation of man from his own social setting and, in the case of Gulliver, from his own human persona and self.

Aboriginal philosophy is a main component of a life in the Australian environment to ensure the continuation of the survival conditions. The author explains the traditional view of Australian people through the description of tabooed areas of experience in novels of the aboriginal writers.

Two Navajo tribal policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee work side by side to unravel a mysterious case. Jim Chee’s friend and co-worker Delbert Nez die in an apparent car burning. The actual cause of his death is senseless roadside shooting. The suspect is an elderly Navajo drunk man who has a lethal weapon.

The varying degrees of favoritism of this short story had to do with how Hemmingway often presented Women, not only in his literary work, but in his own life as well. His literary style had a prominent effect on the feminist movement.

Crimes are everywhere around the world but to identify and control them matters which the American government took the step towards. Not only American politicians but the authors and media players also participated to morally emphasis the citizens of the country for noticing and considering the crimes. 

Her letters demonstrate this preoccupation in her manner of addressing her daughter and in the concerns that she presents to her. In these four letters she brings out relations with her son, grandchild, neighbors, and the members of her high society. She appears to be at the hub of everything: the thread that holds together her family and the person that keeps them informed.

All dark deeds happen behind those doors—Medea plotting to kill Creon and his daughter and her own sons, and the actual murder of the two children happen there. The audience only hears the screams. This is not a new device thought of by the director of this play—this is as visualized by Euripides himself. 

The novel, while frequently taught in schools to thirteen and fourteen year olds is rarely to be found in sixth form or university syllabuses. Like the author, the book occupies an ambiguous place in the literary world. Yet its fame amongst the reading and, to an extent, the non-reading public is indisputable; the slogan, 'All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others', is one that has become part of the language.

However, this is dependent upon the macro-, meso-, and micro-cyclic training offered, which must coincide with the needs of the athlete by strengthening and conditioning them so they can increase performance, speed, and dexterity in various sports. A well–rounded training program is one which combines focus on the strengths of the athlete, specifically to maintain and build on their capacities while improving their weaknesses without hindering the overall performance (Pinchot et al., 2002).

Regardless of her feelings about her appearance, she is very good at selling shoes. Her customers likes her, and she takes much pride in getting the right shoe and right fit for her customers. Her hard work and ability gets her noticed by Mrs. Madeline Gladstone, the CEO and president of the company.

Both Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne use fear as a tool in their writing, yet they are not both writing in gothic tradition. While Poe uses symbolism, darkness, and death imagery to terrify the reader, Hawthorne chooses to use parable to educate the reader, with fear being merely an afterthought. In Poe’s “Ligeia”, death and darkness are used as the setting to create a scene of terror, after creating a scene of love for the lost “Ligeia”.

The author analyzes each novel and covers a number of interesting points such as: effective use of deception and disguise in"Benito Cereno" and the topic of "going against the grain" in the "Bartleby the Scrivener". In the end of the essay, the author concludes and analyzes the contribution of each novel in the international literature.

Men are considered significant and supreme; powerful and relevant. Women, even after women’s liberation and her rights to suffrage acknowledged, still echo their inner desire for significance and acceptance. Being “cool”, which connotes men’s composure just by simply being himself, is a word almost always attached to men.