Literature Essays

Set against the backdrop of an ironic date in English and French history, with the famous Battle of Agincourt looming ahead of them, against long odds of winning and almost certain defeat, the valiant King Henry lauds his men on to fight not for themselves, but for the glory of being part of something larger than themselves.

Because of this, it might be supposed that literature from the time period always shows men to be right and women to follow them without any questions. However, in part due to the fact that women wrote many popular works of literature, that is not necessarily the case.

Among his popular plays is Othello, a play which he compiled and wrote in 1603. It was based on one of the Italian short stories, a Moorish captain. The play revolves around four major characters, who are Othello, who is the Venetian army General, Desdemona who is Othello’s wife, Cassio, Othello’s lieutenant, as well as, his trusted ensign, Iago.

Poetry as a form of literature has several features and components. One of such has to do with the reasons behind which a poet would choose a particular title, theme and poetic content. Whiles reading Iris by Mark Jarman, one gets a sense of strong purpose of writing for which the writer tries to use his work to address key social issues and premises.

One of these distinctive styles is the use of confessions by a narrator. This is characterized by the description of a narrator’s life by confessing inner feelings and attitudes. The reader is normally thrust into the personal world of the narrator. However, this style is more often than not unreliable.

There was an indication that as the poet has opted to leave the country to live and work in foreign land; she saw herself as someone detached, but still a significant part of the Philippines, through sharing similar biological roots, having shared similar cultural orientation; eaten similar food; and being familiar with the way of life.

Whoever came up with the choice theory did not stop to think about some of the things in life that we don’t get to choose but have a great impact on our lives. An example of such is our parents. A good example of how vital our relationship with our parents are is the play developed by William Shakespeare, namely Romeo and Juliet.

There is scarcity of food for the characters in both books. Hunger rips most of the characters of the two books of all pity and shame. For example, a man in Night kills his father in a fight over a piece of bread. Likewise, in The Shawl, Stella at one point felt like eating Magda thinking of her as Aryan.

The monster grows to despise itself and generates a lot of hatred toward its creator. In order to hurt him, the monster kills several people close to his creator, Victor, including his wife Elizabeth. The story is horrific in every sense of the word, and to have had such imaginations, Mary Shelley must have had various psychological issues.

The author presents an entirely different world in the isolated beach, which is greatly influenced by the presence of huge marijuana plantation. This sets the platform for discussions in this essay. The author of The Beach presents the drug, cannabis, as an enhancer for absurd experiments with identity.

From this research, it is clear that Tom’s guilt follows him wherever he goes, Guilt for leaving his sister behind, without any support. His conscience instead of his mother reprimands him now.  Conscience is something that cannot be deserted. No matter how much we advance, human emotions won’t evolve but remain the same.

Throughout life, we realize that many of the realities we come to face are very harsh. You can never know what to expect and because of this, you never know what you’ll end up being happy with. Many of us face unhappiness at different points in our life.

This research aims to evaluate and present the role of power in literature particularly in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. Generally in literature power is a theme that has negative connotations in the text as it appears to be a force of destruction. Howe and MacKendrick also state, ‘all power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely’

Both writers acknowledge the contributions of their roots and family ties in the process of learning to find remarkable essence in English and love of communicating effectively especially with their parents who occur to be the primary concern in their attempt to simplify approach in writing.

The author states that Momma refuses to retreat inside their Store and show cowardice and accept defeat. Momma reacts to the girls with cool poise and maturity, silently sending her message that she is stronger and better than them. This reaction diffuses the white girls’ nerves, making them aware of how stupid and ridiculous their behavior is.

 Poetry allows for a writer to examine themes through their emotional context in regard to topics that can be explored through the imagery that is evoked. In three poems that discuss the nature of human impact on the environment and within the environment, the negative role that humanity plays is revealed through the imagery of corruption, destruction, and decay.

The title of the novel is highly symbolic because besides representing the protagonist’s physical and spiritual isolation from the rest of the society it also suggests her confinement within a particular state of mind, which she could not overcome.

It was in the type of environment that Franz Kafka's seminal short story The Metamorphosis evolved. Published in 1915, The Metamorphosis – or Die Verwandlung in its original German – opens with the bald statement that “One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin” (Kafka, 1).

One thing that all these products have in common is that they are aimed at the aging population. For some reason, people are afraid of aging and they want to stay as young as they can for as long as they can. Many people purchase these anti-aging products or diet programs, try them out, and then leave them sit on a shelf collecting dust.

In the essays presented here from The Informed Argument, the five authors highlighted present the idea that intellectual property shared is intellectual property that is now collectively owned. While we should do our best to give credit where it is due and to be mindful to properly cite and give homage to the original author, it is often difficult to separate out which thoughts belong to the individual and which thoughts are now more collectively owned.

A Classic Way of Depicting Human Struggle There are many literary works that depict the struggle for life in the middle of the ocean. Each of them provides the author’s view of human sentiments, motives, and actions. However, most works, especially films, tend to overemphasize emotions or digress from the main theme, thus lose the very essence of the story, that is, to depict the human struggle that is not common to everyone because of the setting.

These include symbolism, foreshadowing, characterization, imagery, allegory and motifs. Symbolism is the most common method of expressing the theme of the story effectively. By using four different short stories, the following paragraphs show how the authors make use of symbolism to make the theme of story more appealing to the reader A clean well lighted place: The major theme of the story is the idea that life is nothing.

As you read along, an understanding about the book and its relevance to the real world, aside from the fact that it’s based on the true story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, will be achieved. The Pulitzer Prize-winner Beloved is written in bits and pieces and left for the reader to put together.

The books also differ in many other ways too: the books are set after different twentieth-century wars; one of the themes in Ceremony is Native American culture; in Grizzly Years the emphasis is on the culture of grizzly bears; and, Silko writes a fictional account while Peacock may (or may not) embellish the details some, his account is based on actual events.

The formal, witty and impersonal poems deliberately marked by a highly stylized rhetoric-elaborate wordplay, extended conceits, and intricate argument-¬seemed to signify the full fruition of the New Critical style. However, the popularity of Wilbur's poetry, has generally suffered-although his technical skill, unparalleled in twentieth century verse, continues to receive critical praise.

As the author of the text puts it, even in the high-tech twenty-first century, parents make use of these traditional tales to instill important lessons in their children – we have all, in part, learned decency from stories. "The Frog King", for example, teaches us that it is always worthwhile to keep our promises, even those made in haste.

The poem depicts how Clifton herself experiences the final stages of menstrual flow and personifies the last as a “girl” who is “splendid” in her “red dress” yet “never arrived” thirty eight years later. Marked by subsidence from the dynamic state of youth, the poet’s tone consoles the ensuing bleakness of the situation by justifying that at such point, somehow, there exists the absence of painstaking trouble in having to take care of periodic menstruation.

The short stories, just like any other written literature, embody different multiple themes. This essay will focus on two short stories by James Joyce, namely, ‘The Sisters’ and ‘The Dead’. Even though there are many different themes that can be identified in these two stories, this paper will only discuss how the theme of death functions in the two short stories.

According to the research findings, themes of feminism, social order, and race featured in many books by Kate Chopin, as she challenged the moral sense behind these societal impositions. The conflicting and ironic ways in which these themes revealed themselves to her main characters was also a Kate Chopin signature.

The epic poem narrates a story about ten years after the war where the Achaeans attacked a Trojan town and kidnapped two maidens namely chrysies and Braises. Chrysies is taken by Agamemnon the commander-in-chief of the Achaean army.

Achieving dreams becomes even more difficult if the dreamer is a single African-American mother living in America during 1960s. The newer version of the movie is closer to the original play written by Hansberry. Almost every individual has one or more passionate dreams in his/her life.

The author states that Dr. Faustus and The Shoemaker's Holiday utilized disguises in manifestly different ways. In Doctor Faustus, the use of disguise was more metaphorical and symbolic than literal, with the possible exception of Meph affecting a physical disguise at the first. The use of disguise was literal, and it was used as a way to secure love.

The context of the Vietnam War is central to Cao’s novel. The novel employs, at a structural level, many of the ideas of guerrilla warfare. Just as the Vietnamese oscillated between the roles of soldiers, farmers and parents during the war, the novel investigates the quotidian, social and historic contexts of the protagonists’ lives.

Over the years, men have been considered as stronger public speakers than women. This is attributed to the fact that all the key ingredients of effective public speaking seem to be disregarded when the “sexism” of public speaking is put into perspective.

The literary critics and thinkers also apply the same tradition, where they appear to be dividing the literary eras into categories, so that the literature produced at some particular period could be examined and analyzed by keeping in view their imperative characteristics.

Materialism is the preoccupation with material objects and comforts. It is placing an emphasis or stress upon the material world. It causes one to develop a disinterest in or total rejection of intellectual, spiritual or cultural values. It is an interest in and a desire for money and possessions, as opposed to ethical values and spirituality.

In order to become a master of love, Erich Fromm presents a secular point of view describing how humans should practice love in his book entitled “The Art of Loving”. In this book, Fromm presents love as a skill in which one can acquire it teaching and development.

A number of writers tried to bring English language to life by reciting examples of Early Modern, Middle, and Old English in their respective dialects. In the Early Languages Aloud and Alive: The language of Beowulf, Chaucer, and Shakespeare (1936), the author revises and discusses the evolution of morphology and syntax.

As much as some decisions may seem to have weight on either moral or immoral decisions, this book reveals that it is not always the views of society that properly define morality. In the novel, adventure of Huckleberry Finn, Huck makes three crucial decisions as follows; hiding the gold from the king and duke, assisting Jim to escape as he lied to hunters and lastly tearing the letter to Miss Watson that did concern him and Jim.

In the short story, Long Black Song, the blacks responded to the discrimination against them with so much hate for the whites. The contempt that resulted thereafter led to war and quite a number of people died. It is in these wars that Silas, the leading protagonist, is brought out for the first time. Silas is sad and very remorseful.

The author states that heroes of the epics are unique personalities. They possess the passions of humans but also have dignity of gods. They are mortal beings but their mortality is not common. Their power and bravery are proverbial as is the case with Achilles and Aeneas. The poets present them as the product of man-god relationship.

The author states that similar to Anne Bradstreet, John Winthrop presumes that existence is determined. Like Anne Bradstreet who believes God is preparing her for a better life, after the destruction of her residence, John Winthrop also believes that God exists among his people during their movement to America.

The father is seen as a provider as well as the protector of the child, and because of this, many cultures in the world have come to view the father as the leader of the family unit. However, with the advent of the modern world, the role of the father in the lives of his children has come to diminish, especially with the empowerment of women and their taking up of roles which were previously reserved for men.

The researcher states that the setting of the Grierson’s house demonstrates the closed nature of their family, which resulted in overarching pride. The community, based on the first-person plural viewpoint, sees the Griersons as a people of arrogance and pride. Emily’s house is described as being haughty.

Considering that Iran exercises power within the Muslim mandate of anti-west stereotype, should the US invade Iran or other Iran-like nations to establish friendly regimes? Depending on the scope of threat Iran can create through its Nuclear Program, possibility of international peace resides in USA’s exercise of diplomacy and finally war if diplomacy fails.

Love remains itched there permanently and even the cosmic power will not be able to erase it completely because it is the spark of the same cosmic power. William Shakespeare’s (1564-1616) sonnets have been read and debated as vibrations of love of his own life.

He was an African American poet whose first published book was titled Poems from Prison. In this are several poems in which he pours down his feelings about his experience of the eight years spend in prison, of the incidents took place. Later, he got another book published which also included the stories related to the inmates of the cell he had spent almost a decade in.

The schools and colleges are drastically reducing the class room time dedicated to the study of literature. The study of literature has been slipping owing to a more than average stress on the study of science, management and other applied disciplines, the ever burgeoning volume of state mandates that require the school and college curriculums to be crammed with science, mathematics and economics, the growing public perception that art may sound good, but is of minute importance, the shrinking education budgets and the expanding aversion on the part of the college and school students to actively engage in the studies of arts.

The essay shall seek to establish that Orwell’s story destabilizes oversimplified definitions of perpetrator and victim within the paradigm of colonialism, as the narrator, seemingly powerful is crippled under the expectations of the empire and the colonized are shown to be comprador participants in the larger oppressive network of imperialism.

The renaissance period, based on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, identifies aspects of love that though face challenges, the narrator is determined to achieve. The youth identifies love that should be immortal through eternal life and life that never leaves the youthful stage into elderly stages.