Literature Essays

The novel is evocative of Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man." In this regard, one can claim that in looking into Racine's Phaedra, Voltaire will react both with pride and indignation, pride because the play illustrates the dangers he himself believes if passion and reason are not in check, and indignation because the main character, Phaedra, succumbed to the torment of fate as symbolized by the constant characterization of Greek gods and goddesses.

The author states that human rights must be protected by guardian state through concentrating not just the ill-treatment of differing races but also the injustice done by the same race. The most important is the refugee's current status of the native region; if presently it is unsafe to stay there, then it would be unjust to send such refugees back there.

The author states that in ‘The Golden Tree’, a King had four wives. Of the four he favored one wife mostly who was beautiful, intelligent, honest, kind, and challenging. The other three were jealous of her qualities. Because of the jealousy, the other three somehow convinced the king that she the only source of all the troubles in the kingdom.

The form reveals a perspective that would render ridiculous any earth-bound strife. Just as the view from the heavens at the end of Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde recasts a human tragedy as divine comedy, so the semantic implication of the form of Astrophil and Stella makes the story of its lovers universal and leads the reader from the body to spirit.

It has been declared that there is no cure for this illness, and the lone good which can emerge of enclosing it is the opportunity to say goodbye, also the opportunity to educate an individual towards the true meaning of existence and the chance to put back what so many have offered you.

 The first article headed ‘Did you ever see a hearse go by’ has been written by James A. Thorson. It was published in the Journal of Popular American Culture. It revolves around gallows humor and covers different aspects of the topic. It covers the history and various other types of gallows humor.Gallows Humor is grim and ironic humor in a desperate or hopeless situation.

The author states that one of the strong statements that the novel makes is that of the gender roles existent during the time. It analyses the mere secondary role of women, during the era, wherein they are looked upon as mere sexual objects. Cunegonde is the female protagonist of the novel.

As a whole, the carefully arranged poetical forms contribute more to the grandeur of this work. Whether the application of the thought represented in this poem is for nature or human beings, the true intention is to create a sense of awareness among all and to make us understand how we ourselves have become the cause for the destruction of mankind as well nature itself.

One could just imagine the kind of discrimination that he has experienced in his life as a developed writer as a writer in American society. Likely though, he did not allow that particular matter of individuality that he has to hinder his notable aspiration of becoming one of the most read authors in American society.

The Narrative explains the strategies and procedures by which whites gain and keep power over blacks from their birth onward. Slave owners keep slaves ignorant of basic facts about themselves, such as their birth date or their paternity. This enforced ignorance robs children of their natural sense of individual identity.

A central question that predominates in this discussion is the role of intention in the presentation of a work of art, literary or otherwise. Postmodern literature as opposed to other forms is intensely aware of itself not only as work of literature but as a commentary on other works of literature.

These authors are Harvard graduates who majored in philosophy, and this text was published in 2008 by penguin books. The text seeks to examine philosophy and religion contexts, in an approach that will not only enlighten readers, but also aid in lightening their spirits.

It has been said that the definitive and successful novel is one that encompasses a story in which an individual into contact with things that are strange, unfamiliar and monstrous. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein includes all of these things and perhaps that is the reason the story has endured for so long.

The author states that although Holden depicts a delinquent juvenile believed to be a disturbing influence on the youth, he is actually just a misunderstood and confused young man badly affected by the harsh realities of life. No one can deny Holden’s explicit use of words or his being extremely judgmental of the things.

The author describes the thoughts that came to his mind on a particular evening when he had been listening to Haydn's composition Mass for St. Cecilia, a partially lost composition until a certain Dr. Brand recovered it sometime around the middle of the twentieth century and which had hardly been heard performed.

While experience of living alone was helpful to Swift's Robinson Crusoe in becoming a stronger person, it was not an easy experience. What Crusoe missed most of all was the companionship and help of other men, so he was very happy to be found and rescued from his lonely island.

The passage of time has led to many of his ideas seem to become rather dated and perhaps obsolete, especially regarding the various manifestations of the “hero” that he creates in his novels. In his discussion of the Waverly Novels, Welsh suggests that most of Scott’s characters are enduringly passive, rather unsuited for the heroic action that they indulge in.

Urban Anthropology Sanjeck's concern in "Future Ahead of Us All" is essentially what the implications of this mean. In addition the approaches used will be compared and contrasted in the context of Sanjek's research. In this book Sanjek uses an ethnographic approach.

Growing up, she was constantly searching for an identity and a sense of belonging and her great aunt's life story was an avenue for her to find that heritage. The story is told in the form of different frames, where Pang-Mei narrates some sections and Yu-I narrates the rest.

Modern American writers questioned the meaning that has come to be associated with American Dream. Edwards, in Conrad Cherry, ed., “God’s New Israel. Religious Interpretations of American Destiny,” even challenged Americans to restore the values of the American Dream. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice-Hall, 1971), p. 55.

The late-twentieth century literature, particularly American novels, is replete with the use of sexuality as a form of self-expression of the characters, and also as a means of portraying social control, domination and exploitation.

Silas suffered a traumatic childhood, as his drunken father regularly beat his mother for the albino son. The father blamed her for the boy's embarrassing condition. She finally dies and Silas starts blaming himself, thinking that he is responsible for his mother's death.

The novel story goes like this: Billy Budd, a gentle, sober, innocent and lovable sailor, serving the British merchant ship 'Rights-of-Man' is shifted to the warship 'H.M.S. Bellipotent' for war service. Billy agrees to shift to the warship out of his patriotism.

In Massachusetts, Anne Bradstreet built and raised a family in spite of hardships and struggles. As members of the Puritans, her father and husband joined a group of men to protect the Puritan values and establish their own society in a new land. To run away from church persecution, they came to America (Gonzales, 2000).

The author of the paper states that the story has a gruesome ending – death. It also begins with the death (burial) of the protagonist, Miss Emily. To whom death has no real meaning, most likely, a person is not receptive to change. Death is prevalent, both literally and figuratively, in the story.

This research will begin with the statement that it is a well-known fact that man is a creature of habit.  Habits are also formed quite easily.  It only takes a few weeks to develop one.  Now imagine the activities and hobbies that this person is used to doing.  The regular day to day things that were already taken for granted.

The author of the paper states that a great deal of fuel has been poured into the field of economic research in the past few decades. There is a theory that states that there are markets with asymmetric information, and this theory also states that this is a very important part of economic research.

The author states that the fence is Rose’s wish and seeming obsession. The first reference to a fence in the play is not to a physical fence but a spiritual one—the hymn that Rose “hums and sings softly to herself” at the beginning of Scene 2. These lines could imply that Rose’s obsession with the physical fence.

In his breathtaking book, Ketchum provides a significant exploration of the Battle of Bunker Hill, which took place on June 17, 1775, on and around Breed's Hill, and the author gives an interesting account of the ensuing fight.

The fictional scaffolding is only to support her unconcealed life experience. Rhys once called herself, a doormat in a world of boots. The recurring theme of her writing is the helpless female and outsider in a patriarchal milieu.The feminist literature as a genre is relatively new.

The author states that the relationship between the description of the setting which is an external landscape, and its relationship to the characters, is one of great importance and significance, and is the most primary issue in the discussion of this compilation of short stories. The aim of this paper is to discuss this matter.

El Cantar del Mio Cid is based on a true historical figure named Rodrigo (also referred to as Roy or Ruy) Díaz de Vivar who lived during the time that Spain was being reverted back to independent rule from the Moors. The poem had changed some of the names of the figures in history but most of the historical background is true.

This author also developed the Children of Divorce and Intervention Program which has been praised for its work. Conclusions reflected by the author as to the imbalance between the challenges and promoted strategies present extensive evidence and thorough research.

In this, he shares in common with European theatre practitioners, such as Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht. He is not typical of the British theatre establishment and has often alienated himself from them. He is not the type of artist to leave the script at the rehearsal door and not engage with the process beyond that. He is detailed, descriptive, and respectful of the discipline of dramaturgy.

McDonald’s is now an organization by itself. It is ‘the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world’ (Retzer, 1999:1). It’s affected all walks of life—education, work, travel, the family, and every other sector.

The author states that literary texts are ‘knots in a discursive network’ and “literary history is but a specific parcel within a history of the dialogic relation between the different discourses composing a culture, and the different institutions’ – not taken as a ‘thing’ but as a ‘process designed to give stability to the objects constituting it.’”

The author states that Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is recognized as one of his most well-known literary contributions because of its intricate and complicated plot of murder. The story relates Montressor’s clever plan of murdering his victim Fortunato as his revenge for the insults he received.

The author states that in traditional Ojibwe culture, the tribe interacts with a number οf these manitos, or monsters, in every part οf their lives. It is this that "constitutes the ultimate source οf Ojibwa existence". Each member οf the tribe views the manito as a means to an end because all sources οf food are in some way governed by a manito.

In the very next line, Milton shows us again the connection between the written word and divine revelation.  “In the beginning,” (I, 9) also the first words of Genesis, as shown earlier, complete the unbroken circle from traditional scriptural interoperation to divine revelation and back.  Throughout Paradise Lost, the two concepts play against one another and move back and forth.

Three poems have been selected, Musee des Beaux (poem1), Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (poem 2), and Brueghel in Naples (poem 3). Even though they are all writing about the same painting all poems have the same ambiance, but their length and the point of view from which they are written are entirely different.  

The student is presented with cold, uninspiring facts packaged in glossy books, beautiful classrooms, and scientific rules. The result is, the student no longer enjoys the poetry he reads nor does he learn anything from the science experiment he does, except dry jargon and clichés. In the process, he loses the beauty of the poetry and the wonder of creation.

The author states that the play is based upon revenge; Hamlet takes revenge on his father’s death in the play. Revenge is a very dangerous motive but a very powerful one. This paper will throw light on how Hamlet was a tragic hero in the tragedy of Hamlet. The ideas of Aristotle will also be discussed in this paper.

The author states that Mrs. May scorns her hired help for their race as much as she detests their success. She loathes her own children but still manages to provide for them. She is inwardly tormented by a world that is not of her making and outwardly by a wild bull that is eating away at what little peace she has left on earth.

The author of the paper states that the book is an excellent source for convincing the reader how wrong slavery really is against any person. The slave-owners, and slaves for that matter, lived in such an insulated era and location that they were unable to compare or debate their point of views on slavery – and perhaps that is why it continued on so long.

Such feeling comes from an inner sense of inferiority. Coming from, China, a poor country compared to Japan, he and his brother were forced to go to Japan to seek for better education, which will eventually lead to a better life. There is so much feeling of anxiousness in his heart. The narrator seems to look at things, always on the negative side. He never seeks contentment.

It is important to look at the history of Armenian and Jews religious, origin, language, and economic biographies. Armenians are one of the oldest Christian communities in the world who originated from Asia Minor in the Mediterranean. Their language is Indo-European and most were peasant farmers in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire.

The author states that all societies are based on some organizing principles that are essential to their functioning and to the maintenance of the social order instead of chaos, and many of those principles are grounded on myths that exist in every culture. We often tend to perceive myths in their narrow definition as fables or legends.

Judith Butler explains us the idea of intersex and human life in her own philosophical way in the book “Undoing Gender”. We can say that Butler knows the art of saying ordinary things in extra ordinary way. In this book he focused on the question that “what it might mean to undo restrictively normative conceptions of sexual and gendered life”. 

These woman characters have some common features and characteristics, but also have distinctions that make them differ from each other. Helen is treated as a character, symbolizing ambiguity of feminine character, and she has become a model for many characters of women described in later writings by various authors all over the works. 

Looking at the poems side by side, the similarities are highlighted, but then some of the essential differences are also immediately discernible. The themes of the two poems obviously have much in common, but the same cannot be said of the treatment of the subject matter. While Benson’s poem has a serious, simple tone, Herrick’s poem has a more playful, teasing approach.