Literature Essays

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.

One day, they’re snooping about the house and going through the attic to see if they can come across anything exciting.  They find an old manuscript which speaks of an ancient and magical chalice which belonged to King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.  The Drew children are determined to uncover the manuscript’s puzzles and find the chalice. 

After that, every day Ethan used to give the narrator a lift to and from the railway station. But one winter evening on the way home they found themselves in a hard storm. The weather was growing so bad that Ethan offered the narrator to stay at his farm for the night.

Popular literature has become the center of focus in many of the important and energetic debates and the poems of Allen Ginsberg offer an effective example of popular literature or the requisition of popular literature into more elite literary forms. To comprehend popular literature, one needs to realize what popular means as well as what literature means.

Aphra Behn was herself a marginal character. Her gender posed a great obstacle. (Owens & Goodman, 1996: 131). As her luck would have it, circumstances changed. 'It also seems to be the case that the changed moral climate of the Restoration brought about new social freedoms for some women, which we will look at more closely later.'(Owens & Goodman, 1996: 137).

According to the study, while Candide wants happiness for everyone Faust desires it for his own self.  He is striving to learn everything that can be known, away from righteous pursuits. In both the works, writers have satirized the church both the protagonists are seeking happiness but while Candide has moral reasons behind the idea, Faust has personal interests.

In this description, Hitler talks about how Aryan races being diluted. He uses examples from America and South America in order to demonstrate how Gremanic races have been mixed or diluted. He emphasizes on Aryan blood losing its main identity in this way.

It is interesting, in the light of 26 years of progress, to read S. Pollard's book (Pollard, 1981). This review will focus on his chapter 7, which concerns the economic history of Europe from 1870 to 1914. The period neatly brackets the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1, and the beginning of the "Great War" of 1914-1918.

These most important events, starting from the crisis of parliamentary democracies, the crisis of the Empire and World War I to Germany in the time of Hitler, the rise and fall of communism and the final transformation of democracy and victory of capitalism in Western Europe, are given chronologically.

Macbeth, arguably playwright William Shakespeare’s greatest work, was written in 1606 for the new king of England. He was James I of England as well as James VI of Scotland. It was in homage to him and his Scottish ancestors that Shakespeare penned this masterpiece of the stage. It is a tale of mystery and intrigue, with regicide at its heart.

Borges exposes in this way the relationship of author and audience. By using every stratagem available to him, Borges prevails upon the reader's confidence and shapes his thought so that by the end of the story the reader is happy to accept notions of causality that, if baldly narrated, would seem impossible, if not ridiculous.

It is operated on a daily bases by the Eden Project Limited - EPL, a company fully owned by the Eden Trust. Today Eden represents an international visitor destination, and a local educational facility. The Eden Project promotes public education and research in flora, fauna and other aspects of the natural environment.

They meet two rather odd characters, a master, and his slave. Oddly enough, the tramps are unsure as to why they are waiting only mentioning in passing that they were expecting " the kind of prayer." And yet, they wait, both not leaving the spot by the tree - even after news that Godot is not coming

As we approach these stories from this standpoint, we attempt to tease out the more esoteric lessons they communicate. In both The Necklace and The Lottery, there is situational irony. In The Necklace, there is situational irony when Madame Loisel thought that the event would be uplifting to her boring life and it ended in being a catastrophe.

The plot of the novel includes a conspiracy initiated by the Roman Catholic Church, in the attempt to hide and cover up in numerous ways the "true" story behind the identity of Jesus Christ.

Beyond this, new language is invented to justify the mechanisms of control. For example, Offred and the other handmaids are divested of their birth names and with that, a large portion of their identities. They are given instead names simply derived from the masters they come to serve; names that will change as their assignments as sexual surrogates change.

On the contrary, Frances de la Tour begins her review of the comedy with a confession that "to me A Midsummer Night's Dream is a nightmare journey into love and out of love. It's about passion and the pain of passion, rejected love and unrequited love." However, at one point all doubtlessly agree, that love is indeed the cornerstone, the binding element, and in a sense the main hero of the play present in almost every scene.

Lewis believes that not all Muslims are fundamentalists and not all fundamentalists are terrorists, however, most terrorists today are Muslims and are proud to be so. In simple words, Islam itself cannot be blamed for terrorism, but terrorism does exist within Islam which forces the religion to face morally necessary choices

The overall setting or the background of the novel is of pivotal relevance in comprehending the underlying themes of the play and the novelist connects the setting to the power of nature in transforming the characters of the story. All through the story, nature is presented as possessing an enormous curative power which helps the various characters regain the inner powers and strength.

On the other hand, pragmatism is defined as setting aside one idea to pursue a lesser, more achievable ideal, and involves pursuing practical approaches to problems. A pragmatist is said to be a person who is primarily concerned with the success or failure of his actions.

In the poems of Larkin and Duffy, they both utilized the perfect application of grandiose rhetoric in the presentation of their messages to the readers. Likely, it is through the use of this particular type of language that they were able to establish the type of poem that classifies their written work.

The author states that the three pieces are placed in different settings, with varied themes; Hughes warned of the potential for destruction if dreams were put aside; Walker showed differing views on culture and heritage, and Glaspell explored gender differences, moral choices and women’s rights.

In this paper, the poems “Perfect Dress” by Marisa de los Santos and “Beauty” by Tony Hoagland will be analyzed for their similarities and differences, specifically in language, theme, imagery, speaker, tone, construction. “Perfect Dress” is a poem that reflects the disposition of the speaker on how she sees herself as a woman and her desire to become beautiful in ways that she thought impossible for an ordinary girl like her.

The content, character, and language that is used by young adult authors make it easier for the youth to identify with these writings. This is because the issues that are presented in this literature are more realistic and more interesting to the teenager audience. The content of these books has led to them been criticized and challenged by society.

Most important leading character is of Carrie whose life got totally changed directly by city life and she indirectly changed lives of her admirers i.e. Drouet and Hurstwood. The environment at Chicago was based on people living with class differences.

If we think Woolf's literature from gender point of view we have to study "Room of One's Own." Gender inequality is the major issue in this essay. The writer stresses the harsh reality of the society that women are treated unequally and that is why they are unable to produce the noble and great things and thus cannot compete with men.

This short story is full of symbolism which forces readers to confront with and think over events depicted in the short story.In this story, "the yellow wallpaper" is both the surface and symbol. As the surface, it represents lunatic asylum where the main character is put.

The essay concludes with the statement that the treatise is an appeal to imagination rather than an apology for literature. This essay concentrates on the topic of imagination and provides a conclusion that imagination is the core of poetry. The essay provides a glimpse of Sidney's "Apology of Poetry", and talks about how Sidney stresses the need for imagination in literature, through his treatise.

According to his words which he said to Ulysses ,Achilles believes he has two options: he can either live a long, unremarkable life at home or else he can die young and gloriously as a mercenary warrior.

Essays discuss homophobia, everyday feminism, the portrayal of women in films, autobiography, and Black women writers. ‘Talking Back’ renders the readers with an intellectually appealing view of the world through the eyes of a mature black woman. According to her, in the ‘old school’, children were meant to be seen and not heard. 

Fitzgerald attempts to extract both a sense of imprisonment and preservation as a direct result of prosperity. Nevertheless, through evoking the historical sense of the roaring twenties, which included organized crime as a channel to disobey the laws and a rapid economic growth generating widespread wealth, Fitzgerald reveals various themes that stem from the decay of morals and values in a period of corruption.

In Boston it is defined as: A person's actual or perceived gender, as well as a person's gender identity, gender-related self-image, gender-related appearance, or gender-related expression whether or not that gender identity, gender-related self image, gender-related appearance, or gender-related expression is different from that traditionally associated with a person's sex at birth.

The insight of the author, how he probes the mindsets of the characters as for their reaction to many small and big challenges of life- this is the real art of writing! These interesting probes make an author great. It makes the reader nod in approval about the author's observations.

However, while any literary work may be enjoyed on an emotional level, the critical interpretation expressed in the statement gives pause for thought and requires deeper analysis. With that in mind, this essay will examine aspects of the book which might support the contentions, but will argue that the statement is an over-simplification which does not encompass the whole.

There is truly something more that is going on than what may first appear to the eye in this novel, and it should also be known that the power of this piece of literature truly has much less to do with that of the conflict of the great forces that generally typifies great works of literature, and rather has more to do with.

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.

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.