Literature Essays

Kushner proceeds to expound on the idea that people do not need to be driven out from their homeland and enslaved before going back to God’s ways. In his own words, he said that people’s personal miseries are the wildernesses in their lives, their weaknesses in morality are their enslavement, and their lack of faith is their exile

The author states that the ancient Greeks believed that fate was the underlying force behind all events therefore they were basically powerless when it came to their futures. Although they conceded that man had the power to choose and make decisions for himself, they felt that these decisions inevitably ended up playing into the hands of fate.

Though definitely a drama, The Lord of the Rings ensures that it develops characters that allow for comedic moments, and its protagonist, Frodo, walks the line between heroic and normal in a way that makes him incredibly approachable and respectable simultaneously.

The place is in American countryside, where a couple decides to spend their summer in a large colonial mansion. The story is written in a journal form of the narrations of the wife. John, her husband, is a physician. Her brother is also a physician.

According to the author, she states that the church will make the future world be endurable. The two stories show Christian signs of the times. " A Good Man is Hard to Find" is about a vacationing family from Georgian that is murdered by Misfit. Misfit was an escaped Criminal. In revelation, at a doctor's office a woman is assaulted and the woman's faith is questioned.

In fact, some organizations have even claimed that validation is a costly affair and that the point that it proves cannot be relied on completely. The applicability of the program has been questioned on grounds that training effectiveness is not measurable in financial terms. Validation is perceived as having two different components.

All Quiet on the Western Front is based on Remarque's 1929 novel of the same name about the gruesome conditions faced by a company of German soldiers stationed in France during the First World War. It comes from the last few lines of the novel, which state that Paul dies on a day when the only report filed said ''All quiet on the Western Front. ''. There is still fighting, and men are still dying on both sides.  

The current era brought the fear of wars and innocent lives have been sacrificed to gain material means. The kings used to crush nations and subjects under them to prove their power. Nowadays democrats play the same role but in a decent manner. Attaining material gains, a logical solution for one nation to impose war against the other.

A midsummers night’s dream is among Shakespeare’s plays written approximately in the 1590s.  The play depicts love adventures of young Athenian lovers including a group of six amateur actors who experience manipulation and at the same time controlled by fairies of love, dreams, magic, and love (Shakespeare 3). The characters inhabit the forest where most of the action of exploring love fantasies.

The author states that in A Doll House, Nora's subsequent intercessions with her husband on Krogstad's behalf prove fruitless, and her alternative project, borrowing enough from the friend of the family. Having received his dismissal from Helmer proposes not to have her prosecuted but to use the threat of that as blackmail over her husband.

Women are accustomed to a specific role and have a difficult time coping when a more extensive array of choices is presented to them. The female writers do everything possible to familiarize the public with social problems faced by women, to inspire women to struggle against slavery and support their children who were at a loss.

Heart of Darkness is a novel written by one of the famous person, Joseph Conrad. Before its publication of 1902, it also appeared as a three-part set of series in the Blackwood's Magazine. It is also widely regarded as a significant piece of work of the English literature and also as the part of the Western canon.   

In all the versions of Cinderella, we have the same recurring theme of a young motherless girl, hard-working and virtuous, being ill-treated by her stepmother and sisters. She is helped by a magical being through the rough paths of her life and finally finds freedom by the intervention of some kind stranger, generally of royal blood.

The researcher says that there are two differing versions of Guy. The initial Guy is content with his life, his work, and his marriage. He is going about his job, happily burning homes, and believing himself a happy man. He is experiencing what some might refer to as a mid-life crisis, he is searching for a deeper meaning and a happiness.

The author of this paper gives full answers on the test on Literature. The writer mentions that Grimke’s Appeal addressed Christian women so she quoted scripture to substantiate her arguments. She tried to persuade by winning the women’s confidence. She used her fraternity in Christ to appeal to them.

Shakespeare, through his romantic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, exhibits his craftsmanship of creating love tension. It is this essential ability of the playwright to catch the attention of the audience by creating entrancing love tension all through the play which makes the comedy, which combines love, fairies, magic, and dreams, etc, appealing to a large number of viewers and readers.

Another consideration that Hamlet puts in is if it is appropriate to kill King Claudius when it is not proven that Claudius killed former King Hamlet. This quotation is interpreted by SparkNotes as Hamlet tries to endure the previous unlikable scene at the court with King Claudius and Queen Gertrude.

The author states that Jay Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and the rest of the bacchanalian party revelers, fresh from the human carnage that was the dire result of World War I, all tried to erase the grim memory of that war and lose themselves in the pursuit of wealth, social status, and endless pleasure in the form of lavish.

The author states that the question that was being considered in the case, and the one that pervades the whole book, is whether Sally Miller was really Salome Muller, a German immigrant girl who had been enslaved by a Southern planter. One of the most interesting aspects of the story is that Louisiana slave laws at the time were much more ambiguous.

The author states that Helen’s indignant racist remark puts Max on the spot and brings him back to the living reality. Helen’s reference to Max as a “darky” and a “nigger” cautions him that regardless of his social status, he should always know the place reserved for him and his kind in a race-conscious America.

The author states that grief contributes nothing but pain and unending sorrow. It is only allowing yourself to be imprisoned in the past for which affects the people that you deal with at present, dragging them into feeling the same miseries that you have had in your past. We all share one world.

The thesis states that the comical elements far outweigh the tragic elements so this makes this play a comedy. The play is a comedy to show how characters interact to change for the better or worse. In the beginning of Act One, Scene Three, Don John professes himself to be a melancholic man.

The author states that the setting or location of a short such as a particular room in “haunted” house in the Yellow Paper gives a short story a central point where the plot can be unraveled and also could give the aura or feel of the story. The character or characters of a short story gives a work of fiction its breath or muscle of reality.

They have a balanced partnership because each of them shoulders equivalent burdens and responsibilities. The relationship that they share is far stronger in the beginning and deteriorates as the insanity begins to grip them more and more strongly. The nature of their relationship alters through the course of the play and in the three scenes that are focused on there is a noticeable change between how they act towards one another.

The author states that the most obvious differences became apparent most probably at their births, their origins, their wealth, their beauty as well as their legitimacy of going to bed with a man. The first woman is Bisclavret’s lady. She must be a beautiful woman fit for a knight, a warrior of the land.

Told from an objective point of view, that allows the reader to interpret what is happening, the author was, at first sight, convinced it would tell of a happy family situation, a reasonable assumption when a new baby has been born to love and caring parents and a doting grandmother is on the way to visit.

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller having been written in 1949 is the latest followed by Hamlet written sometime between 1599 and 1601 A.D. with Oedipus the King going way back to the Greek era in 429 B.C. Arthur Miller consistently makes use of Willy’s past to engross the reader in his Death of a Salesman.

“The Things They Carried’ is based on the theme of psychological pressure caused by war time and military actions. This theme is depicted through material and emotional things the soldiers carry. O’Brien serviced two years in the infantry (1969-1970) and participated in one of the cruelest military operations near village My Lai Massacre (1968).

Unpunctuated and far from grammatical; almost rebellious, W.S. Merwin's poem "When the war is over" deals with a subject that could have been addressed at any point in the history of mankind: war. Thousands of disputes --geographical, economical, and even amorous, among others-- have been settled in the battle field.

The author states that the play describes the marriage of Torvald and Nora Helmer, illustrating how this relationship between them is like a game for eight years of their lives. Nora had thought her husband to be a strong and principled man who likes indulging her, who likes calling her pet names like “skylark.”

The author states that Yates focused on the nature of the individual characters as the main factor as to how relationships are being affected. The concepts of self-worth, pretensions, truthfulness, and values about life have become the main theme of the story. He incisively includes other couples with their own struggles and views about life.

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The author states that it was no wonder that the whole populace of the small town was interested in a marriageable young woman, especially so if the woman and her sweetheart did not belong to the same social class. The class difference played an important part in the small towns of the American South, with ordinary people.

The author states that through his ability to survive and his power to recount his adventures, Othello makes himself lovable. He says of his stories, “These things to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline” and “She gave me for my pains a world of kisses”. These lines indicate Desdemona’s interest in Othello as a man.

A multilingual writer, however, even if he has a well-developed understanding of English, if he uses figurative language may cause him difficulty. This is because the words he uses are not meant only for his understanding but for the understanding of his audience or his readers. Words must be clear and direct as to what they want to say

Their second getting together was an event that triggered old and deeply buried feelings in both of them and their lives still run in another course – they are happy now. It was not too late for them to start afresh even at the age of over sixty. Time moves on by a straight line but never stops. One has to find the strength to move on courageously even after the most terrifying misfortunes in life.

The majority of people were poor peasants ruled over by the upper caste landlords, Rajputs and Brahmins. People were ignorant, illiterate and timid. They feared God. They were made to believe by the then upper caste Brahmin community that the acute poverty is caused by the sin they committed.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses there is no main protagonist - it depicts about the process of world creation through numerous interactions of different subjects indicated above.The Odyssey is another example of great ancient literature which reflects the story of Odysseus's adventures and his numerous connections with humans and gods

The author states that in functionalism, society is conceived of as a system of interrelated parts in which no part can be understood in isolation from the whole. A change in any part is seen as leading to a certain degree of imbalance, which in turn results in changes in other parts of the system and to some extent to a reorganization of the system.

Love is a subject that continues to enthrall people of different generations and people from different races and persuasions.  It is an enduring theme that will continue to touch the imagination and sentiments of people from around the world.  And almost anybody can identify with the pain of unfulfilled love of unrealized love.

Fuller argued equality for women and men together and above all she also deconstructed the meaning of the relationship that exists between men and women that causes the faultiness of women in general.

The author states that the use of the dramatic method shows the readers that the poem has much in common with many of the poets and unveils traditional family relations and values. The speaker of the poem is a son who recollects his memories about the father and a distance that existed between the father and son.

The Reunion of the title is not actually a planned event in which two people meet at a particular place and time in order to renew their relationship with one another. Rather, it occurs because the narrator "was going from my grandmother's in the Adirondacks to a cottage on the Cape that my mother had rented, and a I wrote my father that I would be in New York between trains for an hour and a half, and asked if we could have lunch together" (Cheever, 1978).

The author states that in romance and finances, the Servantes was quite singularly unsuccessful throughout his life, but he wrote quite prolifically, producing more than twenty plays and 2 novels in his life. However, only 2 of his plays are today extant. His popular masterpiece, his novel Don Quixote, tells the story of a middle-aged country gentleman.

The author of this essay reminds that King Lear asked his three daughters, Goneril, Reagan and Cordelia , how much each of them loved him. Goneril and Reagan answered him with lavish praise but Cordelia remained silent. The author's thesis is that in spite of her silence, Cordelia is the only true daughter of King Lear.

They come heartbreakingly close to achieving their ideal and amassing untold treasures, but by a cruel stroke of fate they end up failing miserably in their mission and losing their lives in the process. And yet this poignant tale is a tribute to the enduring bond of friendship, indomitable courage in the face of insurmountable odds, and the power of sacrifice.

The author states that Frost poetically displayed transcendent irony and order in life. The fact that he used the word “design” in the poems signifies his deep contemplation on the subject of an intelligent plan or work done in art and skill; the intended relationship between the creations, and the very idea of divine intervention.

Ethics or moral philosophy deals with the issues of right or wrong in life. In other words, it is about making moral judgments on what is right and wrong. Ethics gives people a way to decide what to do when there are moral issues.

Such tensions may be especially challenging for those who live in a society with its own dominant culture, while themselves representing a different cultural tradition. This situation is particularly common for our society in which there are a lot of representatives of different ethnic groups, and into which their members with the different degree of success are trying to become harmonically integrated. 

The author states that the novel is one of the profound read that can be picked from the 20th century Mexican Literature as it reflects upon the emergence of a new culture, in the wake of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) that fragmented the nation, into two despairing decades of civil war.