Literature Essays

The introduction of Buddha is another major change which takes place in the novel, Govinda and Siddhartha were intrigued upon hearing about this great man and wanted to meet him so they set out on an expedition to meet this great man which also meant that they part company with the Samanas after a gap of three long years

Mr Alistair is standing right next to him and seems very excited. The room is not too well illuminated. The setting is dark and ominous. Mr. Edmond: [Shaking his head with frustration and rising from his stool] Nothing Alistair! Nothing! I have a feeling it will be the

The author states that Tyler’s book confirms the imperative role that a parent should play, by motivating a child, executing appropriate disciplinary measures and establishing a positive relationship based on affection and trust, all in the effort of guaranteeing a smooth transition from childhood to adulthood.

The ideas of time travel have been adopted into the creative ideology of humanity. Charles Dickens introduced the idea of time travel in his famous tale “A Christmas Carol,” where Scrooge is forced to visit events that occurred in the past, present, and future; however, it was H.G. Wells’s novel “The Time Machine” that first introduced science and technology into the time travel equation.

In the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the main narrator is John Watson. The stories are frame narratives which are narrated from Watson’s perspective and they summarize the detective’s most interesting cases.

The poem begins with the indication of the siege and the destruction that had taken place in Troy which is considered to be the outcome of actions that were disloyal of “the knights that had knotted the nets of deceit” and the knights that were able to survive this go on to build the great empires that existed at the time.

This poem is directed to or written for a group of peers. It is not meant for age peers but for academic purposes. It is also going to be for those attending the same course but not because they are of the same age, as the expectations are of the

Eliezer suffered cruelty, tension, dread, and inhumanity at an incredibly young age, fifteen. The writer has written “Night” thoughtfully. To describe various kinds of emotions and inferences, he used effective symbols. Soup at many points in ‘Night’ symbolized hope, guilt, remorse, chaos and most importantly life.

In “A Rose for Emily”, the townspeople found Miss Emily Grierson as a dignified woman throughout. This is until the people in the community discovered involved in the murder of her lover, Homer Barron, and kept his

On his part, Oedipus can not come to his conscience and right senses to know the right action to take whenever there is a need to do so. Therefore, he acts blindly without knowing that he does not

The comparison of our current world is based on Frank Kafka and Andre Briton, who expressed themselves through personal experiences about the social, economic, and political dynamics in the world they lived in, and based on Gabriel Garcia who further diverged to take a swipe on the political class in describing his “space,” take different forms.

The similarity lies in the fact that before the transformation into an insect, the main characters, namely Gregor Samsa and Peter Parker were of no interest to the people who constantly surrounded them. The transformation into an insect radically changes their

The author of the play illustrates a black family experiences in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood. This reality as a vision getting higher in the sun regardless of all the societal prejudice and racism. The idea struggles not to dry out the heat of daily routine and accomplish its aspiration that made black Americans existence miserable.

With the help of some friends, Prospero was able to escape with his life and the life of his infant daughter in a small boat that was also provisioned with some food, freshwater, clothing, and Prospero’s treasured books, which gave him the power he now wields over the elemental spirit Ariel and others. 

But multiculturalism as we know it, indulges in stereotype, depends on it for a dash of colour and the flash of dance” (Bissoondath: 76). Restricting language only reinforces the stereotypes people have about other groups of people by eliminating it from the public dialog.

Values can apply to any aspect of life as well, such as feeling dedicated to the principles of beauty and art or to solid facts and figures of truth. These are the values compared in Emily Dickinson’s poem “I Died for Beauty” which was also strong in my own home growing up. In Dickinson’s poem, the narrator says she died for beauty but her graveyard neighbor died for truth.

Many Chinese stories have been known to have a special feature of ghost and its elements of horror and underlying themes of life after death. One of such series of ghost stories belongs to Pu Songling who wrote stories of the often recurring and frequent theme of a supernatural element either embodied in life after the death of the dead haunting the alive.  

While a writer’s background and the many ways in which his history can influence his works can prove to be a complicated meshing of factors, it is clear that Hawthorne’s past helped to form the basis for many of his stories. The focus will be on his unique role of the town of Salem and the self-imposed weight of Hawthorne’s ancestry.

The novel revolves around the fictional uprising of the white supremacist movement, originally referred to in the pages of history as the “race riots” which took place in 1898 at Wilmington in North Carolina. The complicated novel encapsulates myriad sub-plots to project the successful representation of a town that acts as a microcosm.

This is manifested in among others; the fact that Mayella had only three years of formal education while her other siblings had absolutely no formal education to talk about. More evidence of this state of affairs can be seen in Ewell’s “tradition of turning up for the first day of the first grade, and then never turning up again (Lee, 36)”.

The author states that reading the short story intently, we realize that there is more than the explicit rendering of Marie’s story that the story is in fact full of allegories that are subject to several interpretations. The allegory and symbolism in the story became obvious with the clay of which the short story was entitled.

The function of time is shown by the theme of fluid nature of time. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is a devised commentary on the fluid nature of time. The structure of the story moves from the present to the past and to what is

This paper posits the thesis that Franco’s defense of self and of women, in general, is motivated by self-preservation in the face of attacks to oneself and to one’s basic civil and human rights and on another level springs from an evolved feminist consciousness that understands the social and human dynamics that systematically oppress and marginalize women, and put them at a disadvantage in terms of human and civil rights alongside men.

The man was concerned by the fact that the baby was not being carried in her mum’s arms but was instead being wheeled on a

The author utilizes figurative language for instance “… black earth shining like metal…” (239).The author utilizes this to describe a given occurrence. The author breaks the monotony of narration with dialogue. His style

It is important to mention that Nabokov’s novel “Lolita” is considered to be a unique and majestic example of literature. Nabokov creates an incredible story that experiences huge critics and appreciation in different circles. Its central characters construct the story on their seduction and develop it on their unusual and disastrous passion.

Mao feels very sorry for President Wilson because he was not supported by his allies David Lloyd of England, George Clemenceau of France, Vittorio Orland of Italy and Makino Nobuaki of Japan. He felt betrayed by his loyal friends. In the meeting held in Paris where  President  Wilson went to advocate for the fourteen principles.

Henry David Thoreau was a writer and philosopher whose work has influenced his contemporaries and future generations of writers and artists, naturalists and environmentalists, philosophers and politicians. Thoreau was born and lived in Concord, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard and worked intermittently as a teacher and surveyor and in the family’s pencil manufacturing business.  

Whereas they traveled around the country physically, their readers are allowed to peep into their minds as well as the psychology of human mind through the author’s experiences. The readers of these two authors are continuously warned to be aware of the spiritual growth of the authors. But the spiritual growth is visible in their attachment to nature.

The author of the following paper gives detailed information about Wordsworth’s poetry which was a mode of communicating with his readers and enlightening them about his personal perspective about life. John Purkis says that he possesses, ‘…an eye and a heart that could intuitively penetrate living things to see one life in all.’

A. Philip Randolph. 1941. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which fought Discrimination. His threat to march on Washington to protest discriminatory treatment caused former President Franklin D. Roosevelt to react with new policies on job discrimination.

Since then, its monumental accomplishments and contributions have affected and changed the world forever.   One of the greatest monumental accomplishments of China is the “Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses.” It has been a wide reaching attraction and is currently

The book elaborately deals with the symbolic treatment of Hemingway. The story of The Old Man and the Sea is interesting and exciting at the same time while its symbolism is quite ‘meaningful and profound’ (Shams 93). It has also been

In the essay, Swift discusses some of the steps that can be employed to solve the problems of high demography and other socioeconomic challenges which were unique to Ireland during the 18th century.  Swift was going to issue a proposal that is outside the government’s existence and operation.

Genesis, Hebrew bible, Tanakh, The Holy Scriptures- all these books have several examples in that pointed out the different phases of the development of social structure. In this

The article was published in 2010 in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, thus giving it the credibility of reliability as well the sense of an assessed and analyzed article that meets the requisite standards for publication. The article has offered comprehensive coverage of the whole issue of solitary confinement of prisoners, targeting to advance a better argument.

The quotation is the crux of what this whole paper is about. Joseph Hall very aptly depicts that the formation of the reputation of a person is not an uncomplicated and elementary process; instead, it takes years and decades to build up an image or a reputation. Furthermore, the most major contribution in shaping reputation is the issues involved in the life of that certain person or myths affiliated with him or her.

The main theme within the narrative is internal conflict- Man versus himself. This is brought out in the scene where Amir witnesses his friend being bullied and

Literature often has many different approaches to the way in which meaning can be provided to the reader. As a function of these different approaches, it is oftentimes difficult to adequately understand the way in which a particular author, poet, or playwright tries to accomplish within a given work. Thus, the following discussion will engage the reader with an understanding of the play Picnic on the Battlefield.

A new agenda for pilgrimage studies is keen to portray that the power in a holy place is almost like a religious void with the ability to accommodate different meanings and practices bought o them by different groups. They can be viewed as places with different modes of authority and could become more visible in a space that is more ritually charged.

Jason Zinoman in his article “The Critique of Pure Horror” explores the reason for human pleasure behind being terrified and aghast. His analysis suggests that those notions, which are discarded by the society as acceptable become the entity of “horror” for people. It mainly contains the ideas, which are repressed or oppressed in a society.

Their love is unquenchable and remorseless. What matters most is their love and to remain in love eternally, nothing else on this planet matters. Catherine and Heathcliff are depicted as soul mates; Heathcliff calls Catherine in the story his

The author states that he was a bit confused because he was not sure whether his passions and aptitudes were in the same direction. While he had a perfect academic record in Science and Maths, his performance in Humanities subjects was not rated excellent, according to the school grades.

The Great Crash, 1929 is incredibly timely in light of the current global economic meltdown and although Galbraith provided strategic economic aims to ensure that an event like the Great Depression never occurs again, it is obvious that his forewarnings more than half a century ago have gone unheeded. 

Essentially, the story tells of Maya’s existence from the age of 3 when, with her 4-year-old brother, she was placed on a train with nametags and an address and shipped to her paternal grandmother’s home in the South to the age of 18 when she goes to sleep with her tiny son.

The genre of epics and classics deals with the theme of love, war, and adventure, derived from folklore and mythology. The epics like The Iliad by Homer, Aeneid by Virgil, and Epic of Gilgamesh revolve around the same theme. Here, the first part deals with the comparison of the central characters of The Iliad, and Aeneid to unearth similarity between the same.

Esta relación es dinámica, a menudo cambia con el tiempo y en el proceso de creación. El tiempo y la reflexión sobre la obra permite al autor ver su trabajo, el proceso de creación, y a menudo también a si mismo de una manera diferente.

This idea is sometimes lost by the reader as the many tales told by the individuals undertaking the journey are explored. This makes the story a frame story because it provides a main overarching story that links all the other stories together. This makes Chaucer’s stories similar to the stories created by Ovid and Dante because they also frame stories.

William Shakespeare is known for the ease with which he sought to circumvent water-tight divisions that had been established by the intelligentsia of the time that chose to work according to the principles of tragedy and comedy that were set down by Aristotle in The Poetics. The rules of comedy and tragedy began to get bent during the times of Shakespeare.

He asserts that theory of ideologies depend on the social formations which are linked to production and creation of social class. Thus, ideologies have history but ideology in general has no history because is it abstract and is defined in the form of consciousness