Literature Essays

She speaks of the “tyranny of man” and is concerned that men keep women from being educated, saying that they “try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood” (4.7-8). Wollstonecraft disagrees with the arguments that have attempted to prove that women are indeed the weaker sex.

The author states that at a party organized by the Capulets, the scion of the Montague family, Romeo crashes in and falls head-over-heels in love with Juliet, who happens to be the daughter of the Capulets. She too loves Romeo and professes her forbidden love to the stars and the night at the window sill of her room, when Romeo hears it.

The author states that Shakespeare describes that the death of Ophelia is heavy for her relatives and Hamlet. The passage has an important meaning for the whole play unveiling traditions and values of the society and confrontations between Hamlet and Laertes. The passage opens with a conversation between Laertes.

The experiences of the author, Kuzwayo, are directly and rather simply stated in a particularly nonliteral style, allowing the reader to be able to really put themselves in her place and understand about her life, and the history of her and of South Africa as a whole.

The author has rightly presented that Poe ended the poem not only because he didn’t want it to be exceeded, but because his symbolic imagination was exhausted and he couldn’t say anything more. In conclusion, it is needed to say that “The Raven” is very peculiar and unique poem which touched eternal problems of death, beauty, sorrow, and consciousness.

A character called Hollingsworth is a monomaniacal philanthropist and a confirmed misogynist whose sole intention is to use the farm for reforming criminals; Zenobia – another interesting character of exotic origin who also happens to be a passionate feminist and perceives Hollingworth’s misogyny as irresistible.

Dr Thomas has also authored a book ‘With Fire and Sword: Arkansas, 1861 – 1874’, published in 2003 by the University of Arkansas Press. His doctoral thesis on Lakeport Plantation is also likely to be converted into a book.

The author states that The Lottery is a gruesome depiction of modern life. It is a story that affords an uncomfortable and unforgettable shock of recognition, which makes it a stand out piece of literature. In the story, the villagers are caught in a social trap (which could have been avoided with enough motivation).

The author of the paper states that the main characters address such universal virtues as equality and faith and give an insight look into the spiritual world of every person. Religious context and unique storytelling bring freedom and innovation to the narration through illusion and syncretism.

The paper reflects on how gender stereotypes of the day imposed an unspoken form of societal pressure on women and challenge our moral fiber in the context of the evil husband’s death. Was Delia responsible for her husband’s death, in light of the prevailing circumstances? And did her action/inaction reek of immorality?

He specifically makes mention of a young couple, barely eighteen years of age who engage in an interlocking embrace in the glare of public view and kiss each other passionately, quite oblivious of the hustle and bustle around them and are only aware of each other and no one else.

The majority consensus on Lawrence seems to be that he was a man much influenced and driven by his own experiences and the relationships he had with family, friends, and environment. However, like all great writers who inspire debate, there is a minority who believe that critics have paid too little attention to Lawrence’s own advice to ‘trust not the author but the tale itself’.

This paper illustrates that Frost wants to suggest that at first glance a poem might be a source of ‘delight’ but through analyzing and decoding its symbols, it can turn into ‘wisdom’. The author uses a comparison to explain the changeable state of a poem. It can be like ‘love’ that changes in time:”no one can really hold that the ecstasy should be static”.

The author states that foregrounding, which “refers to a form of textual patterning which is motivated specifically for literary-aesthetic purposes,” contributes greatly to the appreciation of the poem “in Just” by E.E. Cummings. Lexical deviation, grammatical deviation, and deviation of meaning are elements of linguistic deviation.

To what extent do you think that this is true? I do not think that this essay’s opening statement-question is true. The martyrs died in defense of their faith. The male martyrs were not challenged sexually.

When examining a poem one should, with pencil in hand, read and reread the poem. Poets use all sorts of cues to get their poetry to speak beyond what the words alone can do. Examples of cues used are the structure, rhyme, line breaks and language.

The author states that from the theoretical debate of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity there was a duration of hardly more than twenty-five years. What began as merely an interesting speculative problem in physics grew into the Manhattan Project, and then into the Bomb with frightening rapidity, while scientists knew only to their peer.

The first story under analysis “A room of one's own” by Virginia Woolf was published in October of 1929. In this novel, the author investigates the phenomenon called “androgynous” mind trying to find factors which influence a writer. Woolf is convinced that female writers need two things to write fiction: enough money and their own room to write. 

All of Austen's novels function around the plot variations involving young women's courtships and eventual marriage, and Sense and Sensibility is no exception. She worked on a small scale, describing small social groups in provincial environments, and is often accused of being too real in her examination of the nature of society, marriage, and family, and how these affected and shaped each other.

Piercy uses fluctuating tone and imagery to describe what the girl is going through in her teenage years and the results of these experiences. The title itself is a suitable representation of the physical appearance that most people expect other people, particularly girls, to have.

Capitalistic community of production and consumption contributes to this fear. Oligarchy of private capital which power cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically political society impacts all its spheres. Capitalist's competition results in labor waste and deformation of the social consciousness of humans, in education as well.

Instead, he argues that a mass nuclear disarmament movement has mobilized millions of people worldwide and has pressured governments to adopt nuclear disarmament agreements. In short, Wittner contends that the antinuclear movement--not "peace through strength"--has saved the world from nuclear Armageddon.

Plot Summary intended to clarify and introduce the points that the critic is presenting. Its analysis is focused on the devices such as irony, foreshadowing, juxtaposition, and figurative language. The essay illustrates the theme like the selfishness of the individual is shown in grotesque caricature, dangers of conformity are painfully obvious, and this conformity leads to brutality.

The author states that later in the novel, we learn that his real name is James Gatz; he was born in North Dakota to an impoverished farming family. While serving in the Army in World War I, Gatsby met Daisy Fay (now Daisy Buchanan) and fell passionately in love with her. He worked briefly for a millionaire and became acquainted with the people.

The poem showed to me that in pursuit of solutions, we are to be careful as we may be trying to solve one problem, but in the end, we create more problems. Patience in all things and self-control is needed as we do answer our calling every day. When we do not have the solutions right away, we must not put the blame on others. 

"In the pantheon of fantasy writers, no deity is treated with greater reverence than J.R.R. Tolkien, who is regarded by most readers as the Father of Modern Fantasy." - says James Berardinelli, the author of the comprehensive review of The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).

This current paper aims to discuss the theory of Frank Knight and his distinction between risk and uncertainty.  It also aims to prove through mathematical inquiry to what extent long-term investment appraisal based on discounting techniques is rendered a futile exercise in the valuation of investments.

The author states that the chapter is about individuality. Mamet begins it by asking what a good screenwriting course can offer. By the end, his answer is that what potential screenwriters need the most is the ability to not cow-tow. What comes in between is a mixture of good advice, personal hyperbole, and an incoherent divergence.

According to the paper, Conrad was an exemplary Saussurean writer. He exceeded the Saussurean model, and the ways he did so actually provide the grounds for a compelling critique of Saussure and the whole idea of a language machine. Saussure based his theory of language on the self-contained system of signs in a given linguistic community.

His blackness lies at the core of much of his work, and he is not shy about pointing fingers when he sees a guilty party, although he is just as likely to joke as to get angry. The race was a prominent theme in his work, but even more obvious in his earlier writing is the hopeful optimism of the idealist.

Robertson supports his arguments by Jewish and Japanese Americans reparations, but, they were completely different processes that took place during WWII. If we accept Robertson's view, we should agree that the USA has to pay the population of Iraq for the damage caused by military operations, which ruined their houses and life.

The first-person point of view “is usually subjective” as “we learn the narrator’s thoughts, feelings and reactions to events” (Kilian). There is also the objective first person point of view in which the “narrators don’t delve into thoughts or feelings, but only tell what was said or done without further comment” (Kluz).

The author states that without society’s rigid rules, anarchy and savagery can come to light. Almost immediately in the book, Piggy finds the conch shell — the symbol of civilization and society — and Ralph thereby becomes a leader. Jack Merridew enters as both a comrade and a competitor. Jack cannot kill the first pig.

With a terrifying scope and with plenty of heart pounding danger as well, the characters and science hold readers spellbound and leave them with questions and new views of science and nature. Many issues of today are addressed in the book including breakthroughs in genetic bioengineering, biotechnology and new age philosophy, religion, etc.

The author states that the imagery that links the tiger to the idea of hell includes the diction Blake uses to describe the animal. For instance, he uses terms like “burning bright,” and “fire of thine eyes.” He also makes a direct reference to the devil when he mentions “On what wings dare he aspire”.

The main idea of this book review is a comparison of two novels’ central theme. Both their characters, Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye and Lucy Honeychurch from Room with a View decided to do the act of flight. One of them wanted to escape the “phoniness” of the adult world, another one - the petty-minded provincialism of his upbringing.

The author methodically develops the psyche and achievements of Alan Turing. In his book The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries) the author David Leavitt presents his view on mathematics where he discusses the inability of the subject mathematics to penetrate the popular culture.

The conclusion from this study states that may be due to or in spite of his gloominess and of his being a realist, Jack London is also a very careful man. As he pictured his character “stepping gingerly and testing the footing for each step”, I think he was actually writing how he would act if he was the one in acting in his “To Build a Fire.”

Dee has not successfully found a single self-consciousness that combines her American and her African parts; she instead has merely traded her African for her American.  DuBois writes of blacks living a life in which they see themselves “through the revelation of the other world” and this is precisely what Dee does throughout the story.

Throughout Toni Morrison's Beloved, The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon, trauma, memory and narrative are interwoven to produce common strands on non-linear meaning and inter-textual cross-referencing.

What underlies the plot of this book is the fact that Michael Ondaatje is an emigrant who after the divorce of his parents left Sri Lanka at the age of 11, and moved to Britain and then to Canada. In his book Ondaatje describes his return to Sri Lanka in twenty-five years, when arriving there with his family he is striving to comprehend the world of Sri Lanka in the opening decades of the century in which his parents had lived, and which he himself remembered mostly on the basis of stories he had been told when a child.

In his work "The Art of Fiction", Henry James states that "good" fiction should exist in competition with reality, and an author should never interject their intent in writing the story, or remind readers that the story is "just make-believe." "The subject-matter of fiction is stored up likewise in documents and records" (James, n.d.).

While the majority of these studies have concentrated on how the white, middle-class women reacted to their assigned domestic or private sphere in the nineteenth century; there has also been interesting in the dynamics of gender roles and societal expectations in minority and lower-class communities  

Different situations may require diverse combinations of human merits. Basketball, as Dalton mentions, never requires the same merits as medicine or jurisprudence, but people who prepare themselves for each need to develop the very merits that will be requested in a certain area. At the same time, all people need to have basic merits.

The author states that the profound humane southern fiction handles a Negro character as well as a white character and renders justice to both with the same ease. It could be mentioned that this approach is unique and the author can be termed as a pioneering advance towards racial equality.

The author states that both the short stories, through their protagonists, demonstrate that imperfections within the human mind can drive individuals to madness and these literary pieces have several similarities and differences in the ways they present how the character’s imperfections within the mind drive him mad.

We also get glimpses of the medical beliefs and practices of the period, as well as the accepted standards of hygiene. In the tragic story of Messire Jean-Pierre, we see the practice of bloodletting, which was popular since the times of the Greeks who believed that blood was created to be used up, it did not circulate, and hence could clog up different organs.

The character of Alba changed greatly from a young girl to a mature woman able to protect herself. As the most important, unprepared readers understand the message of the novel without difficulties, because the language of Allande is very vivid and clear; descriptions of events and emotions are very concise and brief.

The author states that Mahon’s ability to give non-human objects qualities that one would normally attribute to a human create such a strong illusion that many of the objects in his poems are ‘alive.’ His poems ‘Table Talk’ and ‘Morning Radio’ are two pieces of his work that create an illusion.

The text itself is nothing short of extraordinary. This writer found it engrossing, heartbreaking and considers it as a tragedy of the highest quality. The most striking and fascinating aspect of the text was its psychological elements and its great villain Iago. Through Iago, Shakespeare reveals his remarkable understanding of the human psyche.