Literature Essays

Within this context, the contributions of the Western civilization to humanity, especially in the field of science and technology, are noteworthy. On the other side, most of the Asian nations were not aware of the importance of progress and hesitated to join the Western nations in the mass movement towards development.

Although most casual readers are familiar with Hamlet, Romeo, and Macbeth, perhaps a subtler, yet equally important character is Shakespeare’s Falstaff. Indeed, Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom even argued that Falstaff is Shakespeare’s most complex and witty character.

This is located in Chicago. While the family’s shift to a house which it owns signals an increase in the social status that it enjoyed in society, the same cannot be said about the protagonist. Estrangement from herself follows and the protagonist is unable to come to terms with her changing mental and physical self.

Walker's has based her poem in her learning of the human requirement and her obligation to bring awareness to social injustices. On the other hand, ‘Waltz with Bashi’r revisits this troubling episode of a massacre that left many people dead in Lebanon from the eyes of an ex-soldier.

At its core is a somber analysis of morality and existence that has profound implications even for the modern world. The work itself is divided into three canticas: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. The text advances through each of these sections or worlds, articulating the cumulative perspectives of Medieval Period culture on the afterlife.

Bibliographical sketch of Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker is a renowned African American writer, poet, novelist and activist. She is considered by many as a widely travelled, controversial and versatile writer of literature that mostly touches on the African American community.

The stories depict the Arabian culture and society and the lives of the Muslim people. In English the compilation of stories is known as the Arabian Nights. It has gained popularity all over the world and is one of the most widely read literature. The stories describe the extreme patriarchal society among the Arabs and the Muslims.

Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston in the year 1809, lived for only 40 years. But during those years, he earned a distinct reputation of being a multitalented writer. His oeuvre does not only include short stories, a novel, books on scientific theories, numerous essays, and book critics but also a distinct theme attached to each one of these kinds of literature.

Christian Smith explains that the morals of the human beings should be founded on factual issues irrelevant of their desires, needs, and preferences. He also recognizes that humans have the limitation of getting to the bottom truth and will in most cases be relying on the narratives to draw conclusions and to make informed choices thereof.

These chapters discuss the different levels of growth that occur in infants in the first two years of their life. Infant is a Latin-derived word that refers to any child who does not speak. During infancy, multiple growth processes take place rapidly.

When Jack decides to go on his own and become a hunter thus breaking away from the initial group who had survived the crash, many of the group members follow him. They do this not because they want to or because of the promises of meat made to them but because they are afraid of being outcasts which are considered a social punishment.

In his novel, Achebe admits, he strives for artistic excellence but also wants to give a message. People served their society by sustaining its values, so did the modern Ibo and then writing in English, should serve Ibo society. In Things Fall Apart, Achebe combines the Ibo oral tradition’s narrative style with the Western world’s traditional form.

As the parade trooped out of the church to proceed to the town hall for the festive banquet, the unexpected happened.  While walking in procession, Rev. Dimmesdale’s bodily conditioned worsened such that he had to be assisted. Reaching the scaffold where Hester and Pearl stood, the Reverend called for the three of them to ascend the scaffold.

12 Angry Men and The Lottery “12 Angry Men”, produced in 1957, is one of a kind movie through its thematic display of how stereotyping, prejudice, racism including other behaviours could hinder communication resulting to catastrophic results (Lumet). The movie emphasizes the importance of critical thinking by an individual instead of making decisions based on groups.

Research essay about Mary Rowlandson Mary Rowlandson was an Anglo American woman who was born in 1637. She was a captured by the Native Americans and her experiences with the Native Americans during the period of her capture were narrated by her in her book The Sovereignty and Goodness of God.

It is necessary to know that a form of bias creeps in within the related equations when the talk goes out loud regarding the race and ethnicity aspects. The utilitarianism point of view and John Rawls’ perspective has been touched upon here to give an incisive look into the topic at hand. Race and ethnicity debates bring prejudice to the fore within college and universities.

The language in her poem is so easy and flawless that her poems largely became famous in schools and colleges. She debated over various issues of everyday life in her poetry. The topics of her poetry vary from gender to violence, relationships to obsession.

Memory and History in Maus and Austerlitz: Recovering from Trauma through Remembering, Forgetting, and Sensemaking. Testimonials and autobiographies are some of the common ways of recording and sharing personal and collective histories. This essay believes that these forms have been entrenched into new ways of narratives, including the comics or commix and novel forms.

From this research, it is clear that with focus on the theme, the story uses non-traditional plot, characterization, and point of view to emphasize the idea that life is irreversible and a bullet in the brain is all it takes to put an end to everything that a person has including memories of the past, especially of love and beauty.

Lives of women like Yanique Guireau Dandin, Alerte Belence, Yolette Etienne, Vita Telcy, etc are recorded separately. Together, their stories reflect a long unvoiced history of Haitian women. The book also speaks about the reconstruction and transformation of power. The goal set by these women is “to take power in order to transform power”.

. In literature the most significant personification of fantastic is the gothic novel that has always represented a very interesting style to analyze and has always meant much for literature as an old style that underwent much development. “At the time of the Gothic birth, the novel itself was a still fairy new phenomenon” (Cooper 25).

The author thinks that “The Offshore Pirate” has the overtones of an adventurous fairy tale. Fitzgerald waxes lyrical on the beauty of the ocean, the sky and the bay, with descriptions of moonlight, stars, mermaids and gilded lakes. However, the beautiful setting serves as a background to highlight the author’s characterization of the two protagonists.

He worries mainly about his eldest son, Rudolph, who has fallen deeply in love with and married an American woman at an inadvisable time, and is now thinking of quitting the farm to get a job and earn more money. Rudolph’s wife is not used to the type of life Rosicky’s family is living in the country, so it appears that the couple is breaking apart due to unseen differences which are increasing day by day.

Lucille Clifton’s passion for poem writing began when she was ten years old, an interest she developed from her mother who was also a poet. With time, she learned to love and embrace the power that words carried.

His works are exemplary and despite them having an old time setting, their application streams to date. Twelfth Night, Richard 111 and King Lear are some of the plays which Shakespeare did to expose the societal ideologies of gender and sexual politics. As it shall be seen here below, gender had been intertwined with politics.

Different constraints like financial capability, present grades, and perceived as well as actual inadequacies deter a lot of students from pursuing college education and better career options. All around the world and even here in the US, there is a high school student wondering what he or she wants to do after getting their high school diploma.

Student’s Name: Instructor’s Name: Subject: Essay, English Literature (Classic and Modern) Date: Topic: Essay on The Left Hand of Darkness Sexuality and gender is the substantive theme in the novel The Left Hand of Darkness, and the title points out an ancillary subject matter.

Racism uniquely favors members of a certain race making them more desirable and superior while making others seem inferior. Racism is a global social issue that attracts the concern of various organizations and governments due to the adverse effects it has on humanity.

The Syrian wants to fight for liberation, and the price is not being able to see his wife and kids. Zuhdi cannot share his frustrations with his family, and so he lets them out on an Israeli ending up alone in prison and no one is to provide for his family. Wild Thorns shows that solving internal and external conflicts needs a delicate balance.  

This paper is aimed to compare and contrast Tagore’s “Punishment” with Huston’s “The Conscience of the Court” on the bases of its major characters, themes, use of symbolism and settings of both stories. Themes are the essential part of storytelling which highlights the context of the story. However, in these stories, themes are significantly similar.

The novel explicates how Richard spends his time after landing in Thailand. He receives a map from a wildly intoxicated traveller Daffy who commits suicide later in the same hotel at which Richard is staying. Later, together with two other people the protagonist of this novel engages in a search to find an untouched island according to directions in the map.

Examples of Language Diversity Worldwide 8 E. Promotion, Categories of Use 8 Works Cited 10 I. Introduction This paper discusses English language diversity as reflected throughout history and in different parts of the world. The undertaking involves investigating the subject along five different threads of discussion.

The power of music is undeniable in the film for in the manufacture of effective cinema productions, directors harness music to invoke a mood, instill characters with certain feelings and foreshadow future events. Located in Georgia, a place peopled with many ex-slaves and their offspring, one observes the repercussion of Jim Crow’s segregational laws.

He talks on either side of the argument the righteous and unpleasant sides and gives his opinion on the importance of the children having a form of entertainment. He starts by explaining the importance of games for children and their contribution to the mental development (Johnson, 459).

William Shakespeare wrote at a point of time when colonialism was at an early stage in the world. The European powers of Spain, Portugal and England were fighting to establish their supremacy over different parts of the world. The improved navies of these countries attempted to navigate around the world and discover new areas which could be exploited for the benefit of the homeland of the navigators.

Though it might be a very low-level job in a hospital, but it gave the author an opportunity to witness many things first hand, both the actions of doctors and caregivers as well as reactions and feelings of patients.

Half and Half, by Amy Tan, traces the life and experiences of Rose Hsu Jordan, a Chinese woman who migrated to America along with her family consisting of her parents and six siblings. She has a troubled past, having lost her smallest brother, Bing, to an accident in which he drowned in the sea.

Moreover, it also includes details of some of the data collection techniques. It also includes a summary of a previous project similar to this one. The entire assignment focuses on job satisfaction and the factors that affect job satisfaction and how. The graphical represtations and statistical interpretations used in this assignment will help in understanding the assignment in a better way.

Her current work under discussion came into limelight in the year 1973. The story revolves around a lady belonging to the ‘South’ and her two daughters. Based in the arena of the 60s and the 70s the story is an outcome of the emerging ‘Black’ socialist movements hat were all flared up in those years.

The need for Criminal Justice System Human civilizations have always been exposed to a range of crimes, a social evil which has plagued the societies since time immemorial. In order to counter such threats to societies and ensure a peaceful existence of communities, the establishment of an efficient criminal justice system is imperative.

The tone of the essay “My Escape from Slavery” is extremely matter-of-fact, which only acts to further draw the reader's attention to the cruelty of the acts being committed. The writing tone makes these actions and the unfair laws seem mundane, shocking the modern reader into the realization that at one time.

However, some critics discredit O’Connor’s religious explanation of her story, and instead, attempt to dismantle the grandmother’s character because of her imperfect and flawed nature. They fail to see her as an agent of grace or as a witness extending the message of salvation.

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman has been critically acclaimed for its many literary merits. Seen in different angles, the character of Willy Loman provides a view of the moral structure of the past society, thus it not surprising that a number of critics have been drawn to this concern, especially as regards the theme of suicide.

Did he use ideas from this play in later plays? Do you think the play has relevance to today’s society? 1. Origin William Shakespeare penned The Comedy of Errors in five acts and has been mentioned in Palladis Tamia by Francis Meres in 1598. Meres cites Shakespeare’s Errors along with other works and remarks that Shakespeare is already: “… among the most excellent in both tragedy and comedy for the stage” It can therefore be implied that this play was at least written even if it was not acted at this time.

“The Client”, a novel by John Grisham is prominently about a young boy, Mark Sway who saw a man “romey” commit suicide because he was keeping a secret. “Romey” was the lawyer of a Mafia member Barry Muldano also known as “The Blade” who had killed a U.S senator Boyd Boyette and hidden the body.

The poem ‘Song of Myself’ was written and published by Walt Whitman. The poem was first published in the 1855 edition of Whitman’s book ‘Leaves of Grass’. In the second edition of this book, Whitman renamed it (the book) as ‘Poem of Walt Whitman, an American’. So from the very beginning, Whitman’s attitude was to reflect on being an American.

The study of tragic hero probably begins with the world popular philosopher and thinker Aristotle and his concept of tragedy and tragic hero. For Aristotle, a tragedy is an essential tale of suffering and calamity conducting to the death of its hero.’ Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude.

An individual having characteristics of both male and female is said to be an androgynous person. The word androgyny comes from the Greek word androgynos which means “man-woman”. For humans, an androgynous individual is the one who does not fit clearly into either masculine or feminine characteristics of their society (Margaret, 56).

On festivals, mother used to put on a feathery hat and go to the house of prayer, and at home she would don her kerchief. During the New Year and the Day of Atonement, she kept the Kerchief on all day long; similarly on the morning of Hoshana Rabbah, and on the Tabernacles seventh day.

Within months of meeting one another at an office party, Harriet moves in with David and they immediately begin to plan the rest of their lives together. These plans include purchasing an old, beautiful Victorian home and having as many children as their income can handle.