Literature Essays

Albert and Esene is a story written by Frances Khirallah Noble. It focuses on a couple of Arabic origin living in United States. Albert is husband to Esene. Albert’s family is made up of mother, father, and two sisters. The name of the mother is Hasna and the father is Nasef. His sisters are Amelia and Safiyah.

Use of stereotypical characters and relevance for today Introduction A stereotype is a typical psychological thought that a person adopts about another or an event. In most cases, the stereotypes are perceptions not often necessarily true about the victims of such thoughts.

The War of the Worlds is a scientific fiction novel that gives a narrative on invasion of the earth by the Martians that was written by H. G. Well’s in 1898. The world represented in the story is believable. This is due to the fact that the locales described in this story are real places in Britain.

As with so many forms of literature, the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins cannot fully be understood by merely a cursory review of his poetry. As with many of the most effective forms, the intent, meaning, and direction are oftentimes only able to be understood through a deeper and closer examination of the meanings that necessarily exist behind the overt meaning.

The American Dream is not merely about material and monetary wealth, but rather a dream of social order in which every person will be able to attain the fullest stature that they are innately capable of reaching, and that each man and women can be recognized by others for what he or she is, regardless of his or her fortuitous circumstances of birth or position”.

The poem therefore reveals a change in terms of its content and its style as far as time periods are concerned. This can also be seen in the rhyme and metre that the poet follows throughout the poem. The poem then is a parody of poetry itself and through this, the changing ideals of love in the twentieth century.

She is fond of watching the bees at work. The revelation that her father accidentally shoots her mother, during a fight, leaves deep impact on the mind of Lily. Lily goes into town along with Rosaleen and there a confrontation with racists lands her in jail.

Name: Tutor: Course: Date: The Haunted Beach: Romantic Poetry Introduction “The haunted beach” is a highly eerie poem, written by Mary Robinson, expressing the supernatural experiences of a shipwrecked mariner, who comes across a murdered man, with gashes all over his head.

However, at the end, Frederick Douglass embraces freedom and set his mind free. Supposing the book as a roadmap, the epiphanies represented as mile markers. These are the moments of understanding that Douglass had all through his journey towards freedom. These moments worked as a turning point in the life of Frederick Douglass and taught him how his life had been through and what he must have to learn along his way (Frederick Douglass Honor Society).

In the novel the author uses the hare, the cunning animal, and the bear, the lazy animal. In the tale, the hare uses their cunning abilities to get back their land form the bear and create a business from which they benefit from (Stevens, 1995). At the start of the tale the author describes the social status of the animals and the origin of their current status (Stevens, 1995).

The roots of evil are associated with the characters of evil doers and in most cases; evil doers are fond of evil actions. Evils actions and evil characters have a direct relationship and all the evils actions intend to harm the harmless. In the play, the evil actions of Minnie Wright led to the death of John.

Frankenstein is a fictitious novel that has the strong appeal of being scary and is one of the earliest works of horror fiction. Written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the idea of this book was born almost accidentally in 1816, when Ms Shelley was sitting with her friend Lord Byron in an attempt to write a better ghost story than him

Nevertheless, Fitzgerald appears to ridicule the American dream by portraying a fading American dream. The book begins by showing the characters in the novel very much determined and working hard to achieve the American dream. Because of hard work, the characters become wealthy and begin to live a lavish lifestyle (Lee 8).

The book shades light on Saks’s struggle with hallucinations, delusions, and imagined voices as she struggled with mental illness but triumphing ultimately. The book provides insight into her battle through madness, an understanding of the illness which she fights and tries to accept as part of herself.

In this essay it is presented that a relationship always diffuses anxiety due to perception of either too high a distance or too much closeness in a relationship. Moreover, the level of anxiety in any one family will be strong-minded by the existing levels of outside stress, such as your close friends, your relatives, or your customers/workmates.

It defines existentialism in the context of the book and then delves into an examination of the absurdity that the characterized the plot of the book and ultimately results into almost uncontainable anarchy that threatens destroy the society in its entirety. Individual’s starting point is characterized by a sense of disorientation.

The reconciliation between the seemingly dichotomous Shen Te and Shui Ta is thus perhaps a critique of individualism which does not encompass fellow feeling. The presence of this doubling also presents to the readers/viewers a large array of futures for the play’s Setzuan.

The author suggests that the Election of 2008 is the first time Americans had an honest conversation about race since the Kerner Commission Report in 1968. This paper aims at discussing the book, From Black Power to Barack Obama by Peniel E. Joseph.

As this research aims to delve on the concepts of postmodern literature, this research discusses Julian Barnes’ Flaubert’s Parrot in the light of Postmodernist criticism of literature. Initially, this research proposes that Flaubert’s Parrot is a Postmodernist literature as expressed by its content, language structure, and the nature of its major themes.

Prior to discussing the distinguishing aspects which they have discussed in their book, it is crucial to identify their backgrounds, as that would help seek a deeper insight about their viewpoints. Keltner is a professor by profession, who has taught at the University of California, Berkeley.

Getttysburg Address, on the other hand, was a speech delivered by the US president, Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, Thursday, November. The core theme of the speech was hope that the dead Americans in the war did not die for nothing but to ensure a stable America with government for the people, of the people and by the people.

However, the economic disruptions as well as rapid technological innovations have led to tremendous changes in the society. It has been noted that libraries and museums are also compelled to revisit their own roles as well as responsibilities within these changing societies.

The author of the novel relies on literary devices with the main focus on the movie is a metaphor. The storyline uses a lot of symbolism, such as dogs, to develop the story that will facilitate the development. The dogs are used both metaphorically and symbolically, highlighting both the lawlessness and the faithfulness offered by these creatures. 

Literature bears the reflection of age and society in which it is culminated and is expressed either implicitly or explicitly through those. The literary products many times fail to express the real content captivated within the piece and get expressed through the myriad layers of allegorical implications.

Most evidently, the quote “guys like us are the loneliest guys in the world” does not necessarily apply to George and Lennie for many reasons that are revealed through Steinbeck’s portrayal of their close connection.

Apollo gave Cassandra the power to see into the future, but with the stipulation that no one would believe her when she spoke about it. And, Apollo enlisted the magical sorceress Hecate to cast a spell on her so she would become pregnant, and with his child.

African women understood what freedom implied. They knew that being free from the clutches of abusive white men is genuine freedom; being allowed to look after and nurture their families away from violent owners and authorities. Freedom for these women implied having control over one’s own labor.

A Streetcar Named Desire opens with the arrival of Blanche DuBois, an emotionally shattered woman who has lost her inheritance, at the New Orleans home of her sister Stella and Stella's husband Stanley. She cannot come in terms with reality and she makes it clear right from the start that her actions are involuntary.

Dorris Kearns Goodwin, a well known historian and professor in Harvard University, had been accused of plagiarism for her novel “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys” which was released in 1987. It was found she had explicitly borrowed numerous sentences from Lynne Mc Taggart’s book “Kathleen Kennedy: Her life and times”.

stores of Outback Steakhouse following an Australian style theme with an adventurous outdoor facility for the customers. At the beginning the company is financed by friends and family for the partnership but later during the year 1990 friends of the three entrepreneurs approached for being the franchise of Outback Steakhouse and the company started expanding into the business with joint ventures and franchise scheme.

It has not just economic, but political and social dimensions to it as well. The term poverty is used in relative sense rather absolute. Attacking poverty requires a practical definition and a benchmark for measuring poverty. International organizations like United Nations (UN) have always been a key player in policy formation of poverty eradication.

Sexism on the other hand is another story of similar case, parallel to the aforementioned problem in controversy and passion spent for its fighting. A lot of literary works have been published in the past that expressed different thoughts and some have been rough, attacking mostly the colored people or the Blacks and women yet the events discussed in the literary pieces expose the truths observed in this matter.

World Literature. In the three books of Iliad (Troy), morality is intertwined with other themes. The research focuses on morality as the persuading of a person to act in a standard or required manner. The research centers on three morality concerns. The three books espouse the morality of feminism, leadership, and loyalty.

August Wilson's play “Fences” depicts the relationships of the characters involved in building the Maxson's backyard fence. It also serves as a metaphor for either the building or breaking of the relationships “encompassed” by this fence (Shannon 17). The fence here could also serve as a metaphor for the home.

In reference to her father whose presence in her life has caused Plath to bear certain unresolved domestic struggles, the poet necessitates having to execute around terms that relate to her ethnicity being of Austrian-German descent. The poem basically evokes emotion of regret toward living under rigid circumstances with the man to whom the author’s existence is indebted and the remorseful attitude worsens as she figures that Daddy’s traits resemble those of the man she later marries only to encounter attachment to the former setting Sylvia has become tired of dealing with.

Name Instructor’s name Course name Date of submission Critical essay From word “and was I not a lady once”, it is clear that the persona of the poem is a woman. Actually this woman from mentioning the word “tomb”, tend to be lamenting as a lamenting tone can be observed tough the words that are mentioned or uttered by the persona.

A Comparative Analysis of The Scarlet Letter and Uncle Tom’s Cabin Novels have been read by people for enjoyment and reflection regarding the realities of life. Authors take advantage of that opportunity to share their thoughts, ideals and values to the readers.

Jonathan Swift with his literary piece has brought the problems of the European society under the spotlight. In a Modest Proposal written in the Neo-classical period focuses on social challenges faced by the society. The story takes the audience back to a time when the problems of the society were beyond the control of people.

Indeed Foucauldian concepts of ‘sexuality’ and ‘confession’ can, greatly, assist any attempt to delve deep into Sumire’s psychology and sexual behavior. Foucault believes that sexuality holds the truth of one’s identity in secret, as he says “sex is what holds in darkness….

It is one of the principal challenges, especially when parents make efforts to be the best parents intending to bring the best out of their children. Parents bring into play many approaches while parenting. Some make the children intrepid and positive; while, some tend to make their personalities weaker.

Steinbeck infuses theme through various literary tools such characters, actions of the characters, setting, plot, etc. Dean Koontz defines theme as following: “Theme is a statement, or series of related observations, about some aspect of the human condition, interpreted from the unique viewpoint of the author.”

The author has clearly discussed the cultural restrictions and the discrimination that have highlighted the image of a woman in the society as a ‘minor creature.’ The title of the play clearly narrates the story that how women are perceived in a society by men and how their issues are considered as unimportant ones by the dominating figures of the society. The story of the play revolves around genders and their roles in a give sphere. Glaspell has raised some of the very important questions in the minds of the audience that make them to think how men and women are valued in our society. This play not only raises the question that how women are values on the basis of the gender roles in the society but this play also points out that knowledge and perspectives are taken into consideration by the people and the society at large.

The most resounding theme of the play is the impossibility of the American Dream, at least on Willy Loman’s part. The play is largely character-based, and this character is Willy Loman. Willy Loman is practically a loser. His name even implies it: Willy as in “Will he?

Complete Name: Professor: Course: Date of Submission: The general tone of angry social criticism is probably pretty obvious in William Blake’s “London” (p. 472). Pick out two or three specific lines or details and try to explain what they mean and how they work to help create the poem's overall effect.  As William Blake opens his poem “London” with “I wander thro’ each charter’d street; Near where the charter'd Thames does flow”, he means to reflect the state of misery which the city of London was confronted with in the 18th century.

Through historical narratives that supply adequate evidence to the white supremacy over the black inferiority which serves as the leading ground for the widely prevalent slave trade across several states in America, it would occur natural for a common critic to judge with readiness that, in general, white people are wicked whereas the black people constitute the oppressed and the morally deserving of equitable treatment.

This research aims to evaluate and present the role of women in The Rover by Aphra Behn. Through the characters of Helena and Florinda, Behn illustrates how women in eighteenth century Europe endured the restrictions of a severely patriarchal society, which denied them the right to make their own life decisions.

Singer is a moral philosopher who has served as the chair at Monash University and Princeton University and has lectured at the Oxford University on ethics and moral philosophy. He has published many texts on moral dilemma and ethics. In his article in the New York Times, he questions the charitable burden and false sense of ethics that normally respectable claim that they have.

The wise old people say that “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” (The author unknown). For me, the novel “Heart of Darkness” is a manifestation of this proverb. People often have the best intentions in their hearts; however, they are as well often not able to resist temptations that accompany these intentions.

War leaves in its wake casualties; some have wounds that they got as a result of the wars. Those who are not so fortunate die, either by directly being affected; like in the case of being in the battlefield, or indirectly; like becoming stressed up by losing a loved one and falling sick to the point of death.

Culture has been a dynamic way of expressing the dynamic ways in which humans can live. Events in history like the Slave Trade have given an idea of how this dynamism can be abused in some instances.