Literature Essays

Hardy even towers over the rest in terms of output. While most carved their names in stone on the basis of one or two opuses - Homer with The Iliad, Chaucer with The Canterbury Tales, Jonson with Five Plays, James with The Ambassadors, Scott with The Heart of Midlothian, Stevenson with Treasure Island and Robinson's Crusoe and Austen's six major novels - Hardy's prodigious talent spread throughout the whole range of literary creation .

Among the literary genre, poetry expresses the best ideas like the importance of freedom, equal rights, independence of peoples or peace, poems sometimes becoming real manifests.What marks Nancy Morejon's life and poetry is the Cuban revolution.

According to the study The Awakening, in other words, has been interpreted as a precursor to the feminist movement’s call for equality.  Some of these interpretations, such as that forwarded by the American literature professor, Katherine Kearns, maintain that to accurately understand this novel in these terms, it is necessary to focus on symbols.

The author states that it is a poignant story about a couple who love and adore each other and the story is set in a simple yet traditional background, where Jim, Della’s husband goes out to work and earn a living, whilst Della plays the homely wife, looking after the house and cooking in the kitchen for Jim, her husband.

It's obvious that the settlement where the story unfolds isn't very big, and that there are no asphalt roads there. The dwellers of the town or village also know each other, and it is small so that one of the protagonists accidentally finds himself near the house of the woman he liked very much when the storm is coming

The story starts when Japanese Prime minister invades Korea. Koreans resisted but lacked resources. To pool funds, they enacted a law which enabled the people to buy their way to the imperial academy. And of course many were enticed by this offer. Instead of taking exams, all the wealthy families would do was to pay up.

(Helen Maria Williams). The poet has made good use of figures of speech and poetic effects to bring home the needs for the revolution along with expressions of sadness the revolution has caused. The brutality of the causes of the revolution is matched with the malevolence of the results of the revolution.

Largely ignored during his lifetime, the works of Edgar Allan Poe continue on as masterpieces of the short story genre more than a hundred years since their publication. Poe was a pioneer of modern psychological fiction, detective stories, and science fiction. As a result, his “stories appear astonishingly modern to the contemporary reader”

Thus, the reviewer concentrates on giving the exact details of the elements that really make the well-written book by Krakauer and he offers his main argument in a logical way which tells why he considers the book as a superior product.

 A hero or heroine is an eminent character archetype that quintessentially embodies key traits valued by its originating culture. The hero commonly possesses superhuman capabilities or idealized character traits which enable him or her to perform extraordinary, beneficial deeds (i.e., a "heroic deed") for which he or she is famous.

Early in his career, he was able to elevate the level of discourse on black America without the loss of dignity suffered by begging or pandering. Hughes had the ability to write about black without speaking of race and talk about poverty without mentioning class. He has at times been revered as an important American artist.  

Since its independence, America has been Utopia to many and Dystopia to many. Sometimes it is vehemently deplored for the underlying realities of its myth of success and development. If it is true that literature is the reflection of society, then the American novels of the 1960’s are the evidence of it.

It would be very useful for 12th-grade students to discuss the source of misunderstanding between Larry and his father because this problem often occurs in many families. It’s not easy to overcome misunderstanding between father and son, and Frank O'Connor's story "My Oedipus Complex" could help in it.

It is tenaciously and persistently present throughout "A Rose for Emily," and stubbornly resists being swept away or cast aside by the New South. Miss Emily is the personification of the Old South and emerges as a tragic figure, largely because of her inability to interact with the present or to confront reality.  

The period of "Renaissance" began in Italy and then spread to Europe by the 16th century. "Renaissance" characteristics, such as individualism, love of nature, and secularism or the concentration of human interest upon the affairs of this world, are to be found in broad reaches of the Middle Ages.

In this way he catered to the audience expectation that a film noir has deeper levels of meaning than just the various plot conventions and rather foreboding characterizations that it is known for. In A Touch of Evil, we see evidence of this implied audience through the fact that there is more than one protagonist who dictates plot direction throughout the plot narrative.

The paper brings out a message that people are not always what they seem on the outside and on first encounters. One such significant character in the play is the protagonist, Nora. Initially, she is introduced in the play as a somewhat childish and submissive wife of the Helmer household.

Desdemona chooses to marry Othello, a highly respected general in Venice. It is a decision made out of free will. A decision that eventually inspires Iago to sow the seeds of doubt in Othello’s mind. By making this choice, it could be said Desdemona unwittingly becomes the agent of her own destruction.  

According to the paper, Achebe uses lesser symbols and images like foils alongside the dominant ones to weave the textual web so as to produce emotional and artistic effects. For example, Okonkwo's successful transformation through personal achievements, from the son of one of the lords of the clan is praised proverbially.

He does not, in general, care - or need to care - what his writings will deliver to his audience; for him, it is being true to himself in his pursuit of the truth that matters. And what is the result. Various portrayals of the truth of the universe, each different from the other yet each (for the most part) consistent in themselves, and all removed from life and experience as we know it on a day-to-day basis.

Self-obsessed in both the manner he addresses people and the actions he ascribes to himself, Zeno frankly admits to including other characters only in how much they reflect what he was thinking or doing. Not even his long-dead father escapes such limitation, as Zeno decides he will "only go into my father's story as far as it helps me to recollect my own" (34).

For business reporting, Auletta's narrative is exemplary, though it does slow down the pace of the book. It recounts details gathered from interviews with key characters in the story. The paper then discusses the main theme of the book, which revolves around lust for greed and glory and how it spells the doom of Lehman Brothers.

In this book, he has used the theme of ‘metafiction’, which is an act of writing about writing (for example – memories of the writer). It tells the readers that the stories, which are in the fictional form, can sometimes be more realistic. These stories are partly fictional and partly based on his real-life experiences.  

Hemingway has given so vivid, almost unbearable impressions of human temperament under the pressure of war to his readers. It was in his novel “The Sun Also Rises” that the “lost generation” could feel and relive their destiny. Many authors have tried to write about the death of love in World War I but only Hemingway achieved ultimate perfection. 

The paper is written from the first person so it adds dramatization to the narration. In its narrative structure, the passage begins as a testimonial to divine power and rule of the king, kingship and war victories. The second part of the passage reflects courage and self-determination as the important elements of the narration.

The researcher proves that the journeys undertaken by Gilgamesh and Beowulf are not only personal journeys of self-discovery, but journeys that establish the values of their cultures. While their personal adventures and situations are unique, the travels of Beowulf and Gilgamesh are representative of each human’s quest to find purpose in life.

For Paul, it was that old man’s fault that he had all these tragedies befalling him. He stopped walking and talked to the officer that was in the forestation of the reformatory premises.Paul’s heart beat faster while sitting in the waiting area after the officer had escorted him to the place. It was a commingle of emotions he had inside him.

It's easier to conclude that the man has suicidal tendencies to start with since he decided to go on in a journey that would put him in harm's way. Also, the end of the story which shows that he decided to stop fighting and suddenly had the desire to die

As reviewed by The Atlantic, How to Lie With Statistics is, “a pleasantly subversive little book, guaranteed to undermine your faith in the almighty statistic.”  Truly,  the book even though a bit dated, having been written in 1954 is timeless.  A classic that persists to chase away false beliefs and enlighten those who are statistically naive.

It may also be viewed as a collective term for the remarkable variety of competing groups, movements, and schools in literature, art, and music throughout Europe over the same period: Symbolism, Decadence, Cubism, Expressionism, Imagism, Vorticism, Surrealism and so on.

The story is a touching memoir of a woman's unforgettable journey from Hong Kong to Harvard who found herself caught between two increasingly different worlds. It reveals the uncertainty and tension as she balances herself between two different worlds: at school with her American companions, and at home with her Chinese family.

Virgil's character is seen by many as indispensable to the philosophical development of Inferno. It is the purpose of this paper to discuss and analyze the significance of Virgil in the story. Dante's Virgil takes much inspiration from the real life Roman poet of the same name.

From the beginning Mary Shelly was an avid reader of the works of her mother and father works. From there she progressed to the voracious reading of contemporary Gothic novels.

One certainly cannot say he is dispassionate, but the quiet competency that he brings to creating the wall of bricks is downright eerie. There is no question that Zaroff is a particularly cruel type; the hunter who kills purely for sport and not because he has to eat or even really cares about showing off his game.

The author explains that Olivia is born of an American mother and Chinese father. At the age of six, she comes to know of her so-long undisclosed Chinese sister. Her father’s death-bed wish is to get his elder daughter, Kwan, over to America. After the father’s death, the 18-year old Kwan joins the reluctant American step-family.

The Waste Land by T.S Eliot is one of the most influential modern poems of the 20th century. Although known for its satire and prophecy, it seems to suggest meaninglessness in life, existence and fall of civilization. The waste land is characteristically unconventional and controversial following none of the defined poetic styles and the subject matter seems to have transcended cultures and limits of time and place.

Every story features many characters, an assortment of plots with fascinating exaggerated interactions. Two of the stories in Canterbury Tales are "The Knight's Tale" and "The Wife of Bath's Tale", which engross different sort of passion and relationships based on graciousness, vigor, respect.

The most obvious discrepancy is the age difference: for Hamlet to fit into his period role he could have ranged from the age of 13 to possibly as old as 21. Gibson, to be generous, is at least 28.

The side effect of this is that man is losing the connection with nature, which for many of us is a kind of a lost paradise, and perhaps that is why technological progress alone seems to do little in terms of increasing happiness of people. Not surprisingly then that the motif of human connection with nature can be found in many works of art. 

Cole is a transitory character and his position is very difficult. He has lived all his life with his grandfather in a peaceful world governed by the rules of nature, and suddenly his grandfather dies. This is how the novel begins. This death is a metaphor for the Western collapse, for the destruction of a whole system. 

Although Shylock is presented as an aggressively ruthless character, like all of Shakespeare's protagonists, he is not clear-cut, straightforward or one-dimensional. Shakespeare rarely painted his characters as absolute gods or devils but depicted them as complex with contradictory and conflicting qualities.

O'Connor 's use of religion in the story points to her opinions that religion can become a devious tool in the hands of those who use it only for their own selfish means.Throughout the story, the grandmother is described as a pessimistic, selfish, and devious woman

The author states that there are many important issues that are brought to attention within this literary work, and this work is actually considered to be one of the most overt and influential in the world in regards to Arab culture. In order to be able to gain a better perspective on this book overall, there are several factors.

The readers nowadays say, that Rowling's style of writing is changing from book to book, that the topics discussed in those teenage fairy tales become more and more serious from book to book. For to evaluate this statement we decided to choose the comparison and contrast of two Rowling's books, the first and the fourth in the series, which are "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", as the topic of this essay.

The author states that the first period, imperialism, does not simply reflect the nature of US foreign policy towards Latin America but is expressive of the dominant nature of international relations. Covering the 1790’s to the 1930s, this was a period in world history that witnessed the rise of multinational empires.

By taking a closer look at Carter's story in comparison with the original fairy tale, one can see how gender roles as well as the reversal of gender roles has an overall affect on the classic fairy tale. Therefore, by taking a closer look at Carter's story, the reader can gain a better understanding of Carter's approach overall.

“The noblest poem that ever was wrote in any language or in any age” [Sir John Denham Cited Wedgwood, 46] John Milton’s Paradise Lost essentially belongs to the genre of epic poetry. Yet in retelling the biblical myth of God and Satan, Satan’s enticement of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

This is how the monster sums up his situation at the end of the tale, the word “abortion” spelling out the rejection faced by an unwanted child, better dead than alive, which tormented him to acts of unspeakable cruelty. His inhuman appearance was not gained through a life of heinous deeds, it was how he was made by his human creator.

.Both poems were chosen because they seemed so powerful and dealt with a topic (death) that most people do not talk about. Both authors speak English but different versions of English.

Many modern and leftist critics, including the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe find the novel to be upholding imperialism and racism in a very subtle and hidden way. Heart of Darkness, a story the reader presumes to be have happened in the Congo as depicted by Marlow from a barge on the Thames.