Literature Essays

The narration follows the life of the young Moying as she comes of age. As such, the author narrates begins the story from the character’s point of view. At the age of twelve, Moying describes

The western civilization has created a ‘we versus you‘ mindset which delineated the cultural gap between the two societies. Several studies by scholars examined the various kinds of discrimination based on race, religion or gender in the literary works of both past and present as well as in the attitudes of the writers themselves.

One night, five bikers walk into his bar; high on drugs, they rape a young girl who has walked in to get change for cigarettes. Hayes cannot do anything to stop the men. He calls the police when they leave, causing the men to be arrested and the woman to be taken to the hospital. Everyone commends him on doing the right thing.

The author states that this burden must be taken up because of a moral responsibility to help people. In reality, this morality was often distorted and led to negative consequences for everyone involved. Morel sees things differently. The black man's burden is the so-called help that people in Africa were receiving from Europeans.

The 20th century in the US witnessed more awareness regarding racial equity which was also reflected in poems by a new genre of African-American poets. Also, many barriers to women poets because of “masculinity complex” were removed. Dove, Sanchez, and Komunyakaa also write about aspirations of Blacks and racial slur they often faced.

In my opinion, I consider virtues like merciful, caring, considerate, sympathetic, loving, hospitable and generous as good, while each and every vice that leads to behaviors or actions that are contrary to these as evil. Such vices include rude, unruly, disrespectful,

The leadership exhibited by Hrothgar is idealized by Beowulf. Hrothgar is a noble king who is concerned about the peace and safety of his people. The character of Hrothgar remains relatively static throughout the play. He serves as a stable

She argues that it is invalid because pain makes the nerves more excited than joy, which awakens the thrill. The nature of man in Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther comes out from Young Werther when he is trying and, at the same time, happy when he sees the nature of some art pieces where he dabbles with painting and poetry.

Being the masterpiece of the same person, The Gattaca and Brave New World share certain similarities and other contradicting differences. (Wilson 01) The main character in Gattaca, Vincent has inner strength compared to John and Bernard who are the main characters in the book The Brave New World. These two characters had once never been happy with themselves for not being perfect.

Odyssey is a detailed narrative of the encounters and experiences of Odysseus in the journey back from Ithaca. Generally, in both the narratives, hospitality is portrayed as a norm, and a tradition demanded by gods, as alliances are formed, relationships are recounted and strengthened, as well as several cases where instigators are protected.

The main aspect of production that most plays lack is the linkage between theatre performance and reality. However, in most productions, there is a lack of connection between the play's performance and reality. People can only enjoy or appreciate the meaning of a certain play if there is a thin boundary between the play and reality.

O'Connor’s short story proves that pretension cannot save an individual from troubles in daily life. Besides, one must be aware of the fact that acting like a religious individual to fulfill one’s selfish motives cannot lead one towards redemption. The grandmother in the short story is the embodiment of selfishness, manipulation and pretension.

Chava’s uncle Beto, who is a guerrilla, does not want Chava to be recruited by the army but Kella thinks otherwise. Beto tells Chava how to listen to Venceremos, a banned guerrillas’ station, on the radio. Chava deliberately plays the banned song in front of the Salvadoran Army but the priest saves him. 

Reportedly, Ernest Hemingway achieves something very special by his unique approach that has not been successfully attempted by other authors. In “Soldier’s Home” he has chiseled the character of Krebs. This part of the story relates to Krebs after he has returned to his hometown from World War I. 

Generally speaking, Kenneth Goldsmith condemns the media for not taking it desired role to capture these illegal doings and also not to seclude the government is not taking action against the perpetrators. Killing by the black citizens is not a worrying issue because they consider them not human race.

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cycle of twenty novels; Les Rougon-Macquart, and the firstly literary works in the second empire establishment of Paris as the capital of modernity cum the centre of Zola’s narrative world. Conceived as a reflective representation of the uncontrollable evil ‘appetites’

He had no compelling reason to bode well as right then and there he lived in a universe of disarray, brought upon him by keeps an eye on

However, critics have also asserted that it is society that defines gender and gender roles, which makes fiction non-fictional. Society has stereotyped the female gender as weak and fragile. However, the truth is that gender can be better understood as fiction since writers have always brought forward gender stereotypes in a very lucid manner.

The author states that the speaker in the poem is a lady who exhibits two character disposition towards her father. The woman loves her father passionately and hates him with an opposite magnitude. As a child, the speaker perceived her father as a God. Her perception drew her to an obsessive need to love.

The main theme of the novel is this that if a person is under a delusion about him and overestimates his abilities and qualities at large, he has to pay ransom amount for this serious mistake committed on his part. In addition, childhood memories and the socialization process leaves an indelible impact on the personality of the individuals.

Mrs. Shimerda is new in America and has minimal knowledge of English while Emmaline Burden is American and is fully competent in English. Thus, Emmaline Burden is in a position to help Mrs. Shimerda financially and otherwise, and she does full justice to her position, though her efforts are least appreciated by Mrs. Shimerda.

N2 would have preferred that a good story would make sense. N1 defends himself by rationalizing that it is a good story. 2. In a similar way, N1 accuses N2 of having listened despite his objections. In this riposte, he sets forth a definition of

It points out the fact that if a dream or an aspiration is delayed or neglected it can have harmful and depressing effects. The poem centers on the dream of African-Americans specifically, as the writer has originally named it “Harlem”, which is the capital of the African Americans in the United States.

A lady can never forget her experiences at a place, an ugly place. She lived in the place for over a century. She is the longest-living person in the place. From the beginning to the end of time, she saw and experienced changes occurring in the place. The place was new to her, and ugly as well. The place was ugly because there were too many people in it.

He deceives Jane by growing closer to her and then asking to marry her while he still has a wife. The revelations about the strange creature in the attic explain why Mr Rochester is so angry and gloomy, but her existence causes Jane to reject Mr Rochester’s advances and this makes him even more bitter and angry than before.

This suggests that existence is not a linear space of time, or that essentially, time is consistent only for its ability to pass and to pass us by. Consequentially, there is no such thing as living in the present because the past is the equivalent of memory, whilst the future is but mere anticipation towards hope for what is to come.

Iago wants Othello to come to the idea himself, and so he makes sneaky suggestions, without giving away his true intentions. 5. Othello is quite an extreme character, and he is happy to love without suspicion,

Germany sought to conquer Europe; their – Pure Aryan race Ideal – taking them on conquest and the expansionist journey that involved both cleansing and extermination policies and practices. Class stratification, which was in favor of the elite Bourgeoisie class; this was against the Proletariat class (that composed of the majority worker population).

performed holy deeds and enjoyed tranquillity but he remained incapable of satisfying his discontent heart, evoking his Atman at his will and approaching his ultimate part. This failure leads him to rebel his Brahman ways and explore the world to answer a trail of ambiguous

The ocean symbolizes the world, which is empty, thus meaning that the world is empty of people who can love sincerely and whole-heartedly. The narrator is yearning for a few drops of water, but the ocean has none for him, meaning that there is not a small share of love for him in the whole wide world. This shows his loneliness and despair.

The theme represented by Stanley, who is Stella’s husband, is that of realism but showing some character traits which may be described as nascent though masculine, a character that is overwhelmingly irresistible to Stella. Blanche is Stella’s sister who under the circumstances of duress sold the family plantation, lived in Belle Reve where she took care of a generation of relatives.

fter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern leave to carry out the king’s mission, reminding him of his plan to observe the confrontation between Hamlet and Gertrude by hiding in her room. After promising the king to tell him all that he learnt, Polonius leaves the king. Claudius

This was a historic event since my uncle was honored with a farewell as he was moving out of the city with his family. This was a time of much sadness for both families since we had known them for quite a long period. The same was the case with them as they knew us and had been friends with us for unimaginable time.

Therefore, important authors of the time such as Elizabeth Gaskell adopted fiction as an avenue to delve into different aspects of society that until then was perceived as deplorable and taboo to highlight different social conditions including prostitution and drug addiction in her “condition-of-England novels”.

According to the research findings, it can, therefore, be said that both literary works have themes that illustrate the involvement of gods in the life of humans. The subject matter in both stories differs as the Epic of Gilgamesh expresses the exploits of a King who is in a position of power and highly regarded by all his subjects.

The result was the emergence of thousands of texts. As the movement grew, a new phase of poetry emerged around the thirteenth century. This time, the poems took the form of songs that were compiled in songbooks also known as the cancioneiros. The nature of these songs is that they would be introduced by a stringed instrument’s music, or they were done with the accompaniment of an instrument.

The novel Sanshiro was written during the Meiji era, the time when Japan was opening to the external world and starting its modernization. During this era, Tokyo was undergoing transformation; from Edo to an imperial capital “Teito”. The publishing of the novel Sanshiro took place in a buzzing environment.

Ovid’s was born in 43 BC at Sulmo. His full name was Pulius Ovidius Naso and his family was comfortably wealthy and of noble rank, and they had wanted him to pursue a legal or public office career. However, Ovid found that his true skills and interests were best suited for a career as a poet because he had received a good education.

Darl’s reaction to his institutionalization is in hindsight not a manifestation of insanity, but rather one of sanity,.  On his journey to the mental hospital via train to Jackson, Darl laughs at everything that catches his fancy.  He merely says, "Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes."(Faulkner, 2000 p. 244) Darl obviously feels liberated.  His laughter does not in any way signal that he is surrendering to insanity. 

The author states that wherever we go in public, there is a constant barrage of moving pictures that are trying to communicate something to us, often in a repetitious manner. Our “presence” in the world is shaped and constricted by these images. Sobchack inherits an argument made by Heidegger that technology is not merely used but also uses.

The character is one who has been kept for the reasons of reproduction and is a concubine. The story is in a setting which seen post the beginning of the period is called the Gilead period. The story revolves around the lives of the Handmaids and the trauma and troubles that they go through each day.

This story is about the transition that takes place in the girl’s personality. The girl is an escapist of sorts, who hangs around with her friends, whiling the time away and not giving much thought to her position. The girl’s impudence is quite evident from the start. When describing Miss Moore, Sylvia, uses a scornful tone.

Poems talk about many important historic personalities including Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. According to Alan R. Shru, “Though she was born during the Harlem Renaissance, Mari Evans’ poetry reveals little of the inclination toward compromise with while values and forms that were cherished by most black intellectuals of that period”

One achieves wisdom through the experiences of life. Both the characters from these book addresses, we as humans are inclined to question whether our consciousness or soul persists after death. Siddhartha realized that with experience of worldly deeds and Mizoguchi realized it when he burned down the temple and realized the importance of life.  

The author states that the first-draft writing process leads to clarity. First drafts are not supposed to be perfect. She stresses that not all writers are first-draft writers, which is interesting for novice writers. She relates to self-experience that make an amusing point about writing first drafts.

Although Sammy despises the job, he is a creative nineteen-year-old boy. Under the artificial light, his life was smooth and familiar as reflected by the store. But as the girls from the town in their bathing suits enter the store, disrupts his life in a manner he is compelled to leave his job which goes unnoticed by the expected admirers.

e other hand, the relatively modern work of Thomas Hardy, ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ links the classical type of tragedy with the modern era in the most efficient manner through primary focus on themes of character determined by fate as well as personality and tradition

In plate 14 of this poem, he says that the destruction of the creation is true and that the cherub with his flaming sword will be sent to destroy the world. This is

In a reflective analysis of the Epic of Gilgamesh, it becomes overtly evident that the work fits into the literary genre of an epic as it meets all the essential characteristics of the literary genre. Thus, this epic work in the form of a long narrative poem deals with an epic hero who searches for immortality.