Literature Essays

Therefore, most of the problems he thought of concerned mainly the cold war, ego-centrism, McCarthyism, homosexuality, and America’s sense of consumerism. In this essay, I shall spot the light on this poem and see how the linguistic and stylistic devices reflect the whole message Ginsberg wants to convey to the Anglophone readership.

It must be said however that while A Rose for Emily is mostly concerned with the concept of time and change even in the realm of storytelling and narrative. Oates tale is far more concerned with blending fantasy with reality. Emily’s story follows the county as it goes through a crossroads and evolves as a community while respecting its traditions.

Robin Hood becomes a hero in many stories, books, films, plays, and even cartoons. One of the most controversial issues is related to the origin of Robin Hood as a hero. Many scholars have been studying this interesting historical figure. The answers concerning the origin of Robin Hood can be grouped into three categories. 

Fragile things need to be handled with gentle care. People make sure that they handle delicate fabric like satin or lace, chinaware and glassware, and babies with a soft touch and extreme caution. This goes the same with feelings, the heart and one of the most important things in whatever kind of relationship, trust.

Both the Norse and Greek creation myths tended to place emphasis on the same basic elements of life. In both groups, Fate played a strong role in their lives and was represented m each culture by three female deities that were considered only half-gods. The Norse referred to them as the Norns and gave each woman a unique name.

Figuratively speaking, Shakespeare substituted human subjection to the Church by subjection to the family feud. The main heroes had to follow this historical family feud and kill each other. They realized their wrong actions only after a tragic end. Deaths of five young representatives of these two families made their parents raise their heads and look in the sky with no fear

Though not a feature, the outcome or effect of a tragedy on the audience is the purgation of emotions, in the Aristotelian term, Katharsis. The term “Katharsis” has generated considerable debate among scholars. But the most acceptable meaning of Katharsis is to relieve oneself from the excesses of emotions like pity and fear. 

Literature has always spoken to the human soul, tempting it, soothing it, moulding it, affecting it, guiding it, fashion it. It has always been the helper of humankind. People of old times used to find panacea and contentment in it. Literature had and always will define the lifestyle of people in any nation at all. 

According to Aristotle, the hero is a nobleman but undergoes a downfall, which is exactly what happened to Othello. At the beginning of the play, Othello is a strong and astute character, with an intense love for Desdemona. He impresses her with his tales and sagas of adventure, thus winning her love.

Global warming and rise in the middle class population worldwide can make our planet unstable to live in. The world population is growing at a striking rate and in the middle of this century it is estimated to reach 9 billion. Most of this growth is going to happen in those developing countries which will be inefficient to sustain the growth and as such will create a situation where there will be fuel deficiency and extremism.

The Epic Gilgamesh is mainly based on the historical and ancient facts like the old stories and borrows examples from the bible while Summa theology utilizes the old facts from the Bible and other historical texts as well as modern philosophical and scientific facts. This shows that the epic uses ancient facts in its search for origins.

While today’s world has become increasingly complex, citizens need to equip themselves with basic literacy skills to ensure success in their profession. Also, illiteracy is a mark of a nation that neglects its obligation to improve its citizen’s way of living and opportunities. Literacy is essential as it ensures equal opportunities for all.

The sea acts as a metaphor, binding individual people (pebbles) together. Its receding waters create a universal comparison to Victorian society in which people were no longer united by one faith or even faith at all. The sea and pebbles could also represent being alone in a crowd. The poem consists of 3 sonnets, but the last five lines are 'washed away'.

As shown by these two epics, the genre of romanticism creates art and literature deeply built on suffering, pain, and self-pity. The sorrows of young Werther and Ourika primarily center itself on exploring characters' self-injury and delusion, most emanating from their depression from knowing who they are in the social stratification.

The first expression of symbolism that readers notice in “Good Country People” is in the naming of the characters. Character names have clear symbolic connotations. These characters Mrs. Freeman which is symbolism for free man. Mrs. Freeman works for Mrs. Hopewell, symbolism for hope well.

Greg meditates on his youthful movement experience that shows that he moved from the village to the city where he attends to several live performances, including a poet, Allen Ginsberg. Greg also became obsessed with the music "of the Dead (Sacks, 2012)." Despite being a person characterized by old age, he later learns ways of the new age, and by joining Hare Krishnas, his devotion deepens.

Tolstoy deftly uses metaphor to show the reprimanding mood the regiment commander is in and the respect and even fear that exists between commanding officers and their subordinates, first when he describes how he checks the troops before Kutuzov’s arrival. A captain who has been called out shows “the uneasiness of a schoolboy.

Hemingway intentionally leads the reader to believe that these are the ultimate outcomes of the stories, never permitting the weakness of grief to touch these characters despite their sudden and surprising losses.  Despite their silence, because of their silence, these women are allowed to walk in strength to better lives than those left behind in the stories of Hemingway.

She pities this woman more than she is allowed to pity herself because, of course, there is nothing wrong with her, and her husband takes care of her anyway. However, this strange creeping woman behind the paper is trapped in a way that brings the narrator’s heart, and woman can easily find the energy to work on this other woman’s behalf.

Her perspectives, expressed through her work, brought her to the limelight, though most of her these were not fully comprehended during her lifetime. The publication of her novel, Waterlilly, after her death, shed some light on her work. An analysis of the novel 'Waterlily' will not be appropriately carried out without a look at the biography.

Myths provide an insight into the origins of humanity; they educate humanity about the traditions and culture prevalent in that era.  These are not merely tales of some kings who fought on this planet but there is always a message for humanity.  The battle itself is a metaphor for the constant turmoil within human beings and the epics teach us to handle it.

Indeed, he indicates that there is no other way in which a man may become a Modern Man than to understand the vast relationship between the various functions of the single body with the various functions within the greater body of society. In contrast, both poets underscore the importance of the individual.

The influence of money in society converts man who in turn becomes a victim to sins during times of need. Money revolves around the world as a powerful force, which could change humanity from morality to immorality. “The Visit” by Friedrich is a fine illustration of the above theme demonstrating the influence of money in the present society.

In Dick's book, animals are bought and sold like the religion of Dick's creation. Dick was saying that we could have morality if we were special enough to afford it. When a salesman was showing Deckard a goat, the salesman says, "A goat is loyal. And it has a free natural soul which no cage can chain up". 

Ralph Walton is the ship captain that saves Victor at sea. He describes in a letter to his sister how Victor had suffered so much that it seems he cannot recover even in the company of loving friends. Love cannot eclipse sorrow as Victor ‘is generally melancholy and despairing, and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him.’

In sum, in the story’s framework desire is transformed into innumerable demands without ever exhausting itself, a phenomenon that has become the basis of the success of modern capitalism. The figure of the father is important but he was never around abandoned his family many years ago. By locating the daughter's struggle, Olsen signals that the women's struggle to subvert the "symbolic order".

The possibility of using critical approaches related to Formalism, New Criticism Myth and Archetypal Criticism, Feminism, Gender Studies, New Historicism/Cultural Materialism, and Post-Colonial Studies make these plays relevant in the mental and social spheres of human existence across time and space.

In the Known World, the evil presence of slavery seeps out in subtle and unforeseen ways. The recognition that free black citizens like Henry and Fern owned slaves does not detract from the horror of slavery. It shows instead the insidiousness of slavery itself. The novel proves to the reader that slavery was not the act of a single person.

This essay tells about Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, who had written the novel, "Things Fall Apart" based on the real happenings in his birthplace of Ogidi. So, the finer elements of those happenings like weather and gender identity were handled realistically throughout the novel, and this paper will look at those elements.

We go next to the various literary contexts encountered in Raymond Carver’s short story. Because not much happens in terms of plot development, the gist of the story consists of dialogue among the characters. The socializing that takes place centres on alcohol consumption which in this case is gin. Without gin, they are at a loss for words.

The explanation of what is good depends on the knowledge that a person has and the explanation of knowledge is given as smoothing which the philosophers possess. Since the philosophers know what is to know, they know the difference between good and bad and thus they are the only individuals who can know exactly what virtue is and what is just.

Over the water, running near. Even her source of information regarding the world outside her own walls is only brought to her second-hand, as it is seen through the window of her tower and reflected through the light of her mirror, ensuring she has no effect upon the world outside and rendering her totally barren in all things.

Through an understanding of the similar elements in the poems, a meaningful interpretation of the poems in the general framework of Dickinson poems and themes is possible. The similarities of the poems are more significant compared to the differences as they are valuable in a profound and overall appreciation of the Dickinson poems.

From Beowulf to Lord of the Rings, war is seen as the only means by which heroes can be made and bring out the nobility in man.  Accounts of war as they are written about in literature are often focused on the romantic image of the warrior hero, the high ideals of the men involved, and their complete commitment to the greater good of the world.

Thus, a reflective analysis of the language and the form of the poem, including rhyme, rhythm, metaphor, imagery, tone, word order, alliteration, and point of view, etc,  illustrates the characteristic features of romantic poetry and introduces the readers to the spirit of the period.

Ultimately, I feel this book was quite helpful in illuminating the problems in health communication between a minority culture such as the Hmong and the American system.  While it provided some potential means of addressing these issues, these solutions are not necessarily feasible within the already pressed-for-time medical community.

The German realist mode of Storm and Fontane concerns itself with the nature of Verga, the modern world of the French realists, and, crucially, the conflict between these two. In Storm’s The Dykemaster the conflict between the peasants and the modern irrigation techniques of the shunned engineer confronts nature with modernity in a series of dramatic scenes.

Gerard Manley Hopkins was a Catholic priest who wrote "The Wreck of the Deutschland" poem because it was an actual incident in history. He was so moved by it that he sat down and wrote the poem. The Deutschland was a ship that in 1875 crashed and sunk off the coast of Bremen. Five Catholic nuns were on board and died on the ship.

The story starts in the romantic environment of a happy family and ends in a tragic way with the demolition of the blissful domestic edifice. Now the protagonist has some questions for which she needs answers. Symbolically she rejects the deterministic existence and resolves to tread upon the path of free will in this world. 

This paper tells that the whole poem “To His Coy Mistress”  is a long argument that they don’t really have all the time in the world and she should give up her virginity to him while they are still young and able to enjoy it.  The poem is written from the point of view of a gentleman who is trying to persuade a woman to engage in sexual intercourse with him, although she is allegedly acting coy.

Neither one of these plays tries to provide answers to the issues of human brutality or social injustice. They just bring these issues to the limelight in innovative ways, forcing people to think about things they would much rather disregard. They force people to question the norms of their everyday lives.

The article ‘Television: yes, America has a class system’, tries to affirm the fact that class system does exist in America and backs this argument using the instances from various sitcoms aired on the television and the kind of response they got. The various classes which it identifies like working class, middle class, rich class, etc.

Artists pertaining to this norm-defying era (postmodernism) were the ones who did their utmost in ensuring that simple and not-that-literate common people develop an apt understanding of art. That was not the case in the bygone era where the dominant force constituted of accepted conventions, and art was beyond the comprehension of the general public.

We can see that the wife in the story has complicated emotions. She loves her husband, but at the same time expects her husband to be protective of her. She is content with her life but at this point in life, she feels that her husband has not met her expectations. A part of her favors the idea of non-violence but another part denies this explanation.

‘Horse latitude’, a contemporary poem by Paul Muldoon is a critique of the Iraq war (Muldoon, 2006). He (2006, p.42) wrote, “ every point was a point of no return, for those who had signed the covenant in blood” which represented equally well the dead millions of Iraq and the young American soldiers who lost their lives.

The first element is a memory. The poem is developed through an economy of words, starting with one line and ending abruptly with the next. The message, however, can be examined for a lot of elemental variations on themes on the issue of the memory. The first line shows the dog turning back, his bark coming from a stationary place.

These motifs could be recurring throughout the work and could be placed aptly. Starting from any physical objects to designs, paintings, figures, etc., motifs could take a different form. The novel, The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, written by Peter Handke, is about a former goalkeeper of a football team and his life after he is ejected from a game for foul play.

It is still important to attempt to describe Tao and have some value rather than to have no value at all. Thus it is more useful to render partial and limited understanding than to have no understanding at all. It can be considered that Lao Tzu wrote the Tao Te Ching with descriptions that have some merit rather than have it has no meaning at all.

The men only recover their control in sex over their wives only when Spartan and Athenians are reconciled. The gender balance is not permanently uneven and therefore, women like Lysistrata will go back to their place. This play can make us think that this particular war that took control could change history, but in the end, it is not possible.

On the other hand, disloyalty concerns acting in a way to contravene set conditions and people, go against their efforts, and will. Doing something that you know the other person would not like and opposing him or her in all his or her endeavors. William Shakespeare exposes the theme of loyalty and disloyalty in an attempt to develop the plot of his play Hamlet and to a considerable extent display the natural traits of his characters.