Literature Essays

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.

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 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 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.

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.

Point of view makes a large contribution to the overall meaning in John Updike's "A&P" and James Joyce's "Araby." Both stories deal with a moment in childhood that changes the way the narrator sees the world. In the case of "A&P," a 19 year old male quits his job to defend the honor of a girl he does not even know.

'Japan through the Looking Glass' is especially important since it addresses as well as provides answers for the questions and doubts and vague ideas about the culture and civilization of Japan. Alan Macfarlane in his book has described the country of Japan to be an 'enchanted' world.

The book report gives detailed information about such unique phenomenon of Irish literature, as dreaming and mythologizing. The researcher of this paper aims to analyze the history of its beginnings and that is it often used by Irish writers based on three literary works of W.B. Yeast, Brian Friel and Michael Longley.

He also notes the need to continuously innovate in one's particular approach to teaching as the generations of children differ from each other thus intending to show how diverse the subject presentations maybe. In huge classes, Musser tries to point out that the need to balance out the teaching style in mathematics is necessary so as to assure that the students are able to grasp the idea of the subject matter in a much easier and effective manner that would work for the majority of the population of young learners making up the class.

There is a power dimension within the global scope that wrests its control over the Indonesian environment, from multinational corporations vying for profit and thick-skinned environmentalists adamant over its protection, both however could also provide a negative and a positive effect in Indonesia and its people.

Giving so much importance to race distracts us from what we really need to work on: becoming better human and humane beings. "There were two worlds bursting inside me trying to get out. I had to find out more about who I was, and in order to find out who I was, I had to find out who my mother was" (McBride, 266).

There are certain similarities as well as contrasts observed in both the works. "Pride and Prejudice" is essentially a romantic novel, with the key theme being marriage. In fact, the author's intention as to the content of the novel is made clear in the first sentence:

The conclusion from this study states that in 1984, Orwell returned to topics he had treated in other works--imperialism, class, poverty, morality, freedom, and language--in the context of a drab future dystopia, a hopelessly wrong society, where the greatest heresy is the expression of common sense.

Mary’s narrative is a first person narrative of the Indian Wars, which lasted from 1675 – 1699. This is one of the famous original narratives of early American history. Mary was a strong Christian whose faith never faltered. The social-political climate was one of change.

The author, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, is occupying the position of senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. In addition to this, he has also been selected as the "chief prosecuting attorney of the Riverkeeper and also the acting president of the Waterkeeper Alliance.

Observably, the English Only policy has taken a toll on the pride and identity of several cultural clusters, isolating them from their roots and from their clans. Being castigated for using their ancestral language which is frequently brought down in their own minds, these people have acknowledged the prevailing society’s unfair verdict 

None of the people whom Rasselas have encountered during his journey is able to keep it for a long time: the happiness of the wise man lasts till the death of his daughter, the adherents of pastoral life feel happy until they meet a person who comes off better than they, etc. Therefore, the prince obviously fails to find the true happiness 

“But no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box” says Shirley Jackson in her short story, “The Lottery”, indicating the point of the macabre story. The story is set in an ordinary American village of three hundred inhabitants, who are apparently friendly to each other.

The author states that in King Lear, he has created some of the most Machiavellian characters in his gallery of masterpieces: Goneril, Regan, the utterly villainous Edmund. All of them are monsters in their own right, but what is remarkable is that they all start out as normal people with whom the audience could have some degree of sympathy.

Although motivated by quite disparate circumstances,the effects of both these phenomena have shed light on the cultural aspects of the land.In spite of the harmful effects of the education of Africans in the languages and ideas of colonial nations which destroyed the traditional culture of the land,the recent developments in researches of the traditional culture of Africa have greatly contributed to the rich heritage of its traditions.

The book describes on the socio-mental life of women in the society. The life of women is edited in the book by conducting face-to-face interviews and seminars from those women who had personally experienced such hardships in their life.. Moreover the fact that makes this book more peculiar is that, interviews are taken more from women those are presently under conviction and in Jail.

In the background of the ‘Theory of Knowledge’, one can assume that truth is contextual and the process of contextualization is the basic activity in the process of finding truths of ideas and things. Only human beings who are able to think and reflect on the reality of things can determine the truth and falsity of ideas and things.