Literature Essays

Lord Byron in his famous ode, ‘To His Lyre; An Ode’ has very meticulously quoted thus: “I wish to tune my quivering lyre, To deeds of fame, and notes of fire; Fir’d with hope of future fame, I seek some nobler Hero’s name” (Byron 1832). To comprehend the exact position of a Tragic Hero, the insight provided by the author Karuna Shanker Mishra in his book, “The Tragic Hero Through Ages” is apt and befitting to pass any judgment about the modern Tragic Hero, Walter Lee from the play, ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ by Loraine Hansberry.

Therefore, one can view them, as inclusive of one another, while man seems to be a victim or puppet of fate and destiny, he is not coerced to take actions that lead to the outcome. Free will always dominates because man has been given the freedom to choose his actions and be responsible for the result; therefore, man is a product of fate and destiny or the sum of his choices and actions.

Is the hope of this author that such a level of analysis will be able to provide a firm understanding to the reader of whether or not this author agrees or disagrees with the prior quote which was provided from the critic Rozalia Jovanovic in “The Gallerist”.

One of the major difficulties faced by experts while describing “children’s literature” is that children’s and adult literature always slither into each other. In spite of the issues faced in explaining the concept of “children’s literature,” two frequent themes can be recognized while referring to the history of children’s literature which is presented as follows: Children’s literature is a steady clash of instruction and pleasure.

Specifically, this essay explores the relationship between Gregor’s insect-like identity and self-conscious self, and the influence of his working conditions, especially of his feeling of alienation, on his sudden transformation. As Kafka shows it, the connection of Gregor’s awareness to his ‘transformed’ self—an insect—is depressing.

In his own opinion, this will give him an opportunity to woo her. This actually is a sign of love, because of the extent in which Lucentio did go, for purposes of winning the love of Bianca (Henderson, 2012). It is important to denote that Lucentio came to Padua for studies, and not to look after a wife.

Pottery acts as an archaeological evidence of the span of people settlement (Gibson 17). In its decorations and forms, archaeologists can draw histories over a period echoing transforming populations and evolution ways of life. Pottery is significant in archaeological excavations since it can applied to determine cultural series, define location groupings and shed light on marketable production, business and past ways of life.

There is a general and at times valid viewpoint that children suffering through intense childhood trauma because of broken family could be "damaged" as a person. Although, it is true in certain situations, it is not the norm because many children despite broken family and the related trauma have emerged successful in their adulthood.

In some extreme cases, some people who have gone through traumatic experiences have committed suicide. This paper looks at the story of "Cereus Blooms at Night" by Shani Mootoo and "Corregidora" by Gayl Jones showing how the traumatic events in the main characters affected their live and whether they were overcome by acknowledging history and changing their perspectives.

The novel itself has the shade of tragedy in it as the epidemic of cholera was spreading in the city of Venice. The surname of the character which is “Aschenbach” means “stream of ashes” symbolizes death which is a tragedy. “ Gustan Aschenbach or von Aschenbach , as his official surname had been since his fiftieth birthday has taken a solitary walk from his apartment in Munich”.

Shirley Jackson has been a powerful author, and her work has received great attention from literally critics in the past years. The author uses exciting atmosphere that brings the readers into society that is totally different from their own.

Three such stories from her collection titled “Interpreter of Maladies” would be highlighted in the course of this discussion namely “A Temporary Matter”, “Mrs. Sen’s” and “The Third and Final Continent”.

Ernest Hemingway’s celebrated novel entitled A Farewell to Arms substantially contains subtle paradoxes and/or ironies. As a whole, the novel tackles the essence of war, if there is such. War as a subject matter has, of course, several paradoxes. In the context of the novel, however, war as a background or foreground plays a fundamental role.

In fact, discoveries have proven the literary means available in the ancient world, particularly Egypt where much of their writings have been preserved. These written works are reminiscent of the culture and beliefs of ancient people like those which were found in Egyptian tombs.

The author states that Austen’s literary works heralded the transition in English literature from neo-classicism to romanticism. She saw life as it is, and not from the moral pedestal, how it should be! Her mastery of the subjects that she treated could be seen through her various down-to-earth characters.

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman tells about a family’s life during a not-so-distant America. The family’s name is Loman, with Willy as the father; Linda as the wife and mother to two sons: Biff and Happy.

The author states that the self-obsessed Victor Frankenstein travels an isolated path to his own destruction by superseding the boundaries of death and by not taking responsibility to nurture his own creation. Casting aside the medical community’s advice and any hindering sense of spiritual morality.

However, only very rarely is it achieved as formal equality, or as substantial equality in social terms. Gender-and-race-neutral conceptions such as citizenship fail to account for the differences of individuals within communities. In Australia, the position of the Aboriginal people is illustrated by the fact that legal citizenship status has not always granted full and equal membership rights.

As a mayor, I would allocate around 15% of the overall tax money to build fitness facilities. For community users, the patrons will be charged at a discount price. Furthermore, sustaining a physical activity can be a huge challenge. The need for a recreation center is essential for various reasons.

The book, “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman is a valid model of the world today. The theme of the story is about cultural misunderstanding, specifically the Hmong culture and Western medicine. The author made an extensive research on the Hmong culture which is evident in the details she presented in the entirety of the book.

When one considers the trauma and mental torture that Mrs Wright went through in her loveless relationship with her husband, one can hardly hold her culpable of her homicidal act. But her act was a heinous crime and homicide is an unpardonable crime. Nora’s act of abandoning her husband and children after her disillusionment about her husband for regaining her individuality and true identity is a positive step of attaining self-assurance.

Reader can find Sadie and Maude by Gwendolyn Brooks also reveals the story of two young ladies. Sadie and Maud are sisters and poet presented them as the exponents of different attitudes. Both Hardy and Gwendolyn successfully practice some literary devises and techniques to convey their ideas to the readers.

The problem with racism is that it is fueled by assumptions made by one social group about another social group, in this case, whites about blacks. Minnie Cooper is at the center of the event in question, although she is not at the center of the events that occur.

This paper will seek to establish how Frodo is a hero archetype and how his experiences are universal to humankind. It will also elucidate how a model Frodo is that people can be familiar and handle the colossal and often baffling undertaking of being human.

With this, it will study the account of Thucydides as participant and recorder of the Peloponnesian War. It will then compare the Peloponnesian narrative with the epic events of the Trojan War in Homer’s Iliad. Lastly, it will show the parallels of the developments in the Peloponnesian War with the Lysistrata and its author’s arguments of the female intervention in warfare with concern to the Iliad’s claim of man’s monopoly in war.

The latter is considered a threat to a region’s identity and had the potential to divide people. More often than not, this division can cause more harm than colonizing through explicit attacks. However, the immediate address of this issue is not easy, with resistance and assertions of whose preference is wrong or right, logical or irrational, superstitious or reasonable, and a lot of questions based on moral or ethical grounds.

However, with the North winning the war, the United States seemed to have been safe and survived. There have been fundamental changes that occurred in the American society post the Civil War (Hook & Goldman, 1-2). The traditional American culture of literature “was slow to register the scale and scope of the radical changes” that seemed to have occurred in the nation (Hook & Goldman, 2).

A certain treatment cannot be quoted as universal, but rather depends on the norms and situations of the patients. The Last Hippie by Dr. Oliver Sacks is from his collection An Anthropologist on Mars, in which he has explained about patients facing different neurological problems.

Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn provides an account of the American society during the first half the nineteenth century, even though it was published later on in early 1885. The novel is usually believed to be among the significant American literature that profoundly used fictional characters and plot.

The story of “Troilus and Cressida” is one of the tragedies of love. The story is based on an old story that emerges from the histories and myths of the Trojan War but may have its origins in medieval oral traditions that used the backdrop of the war to create the tale.

From the previous educational levels, students have aspired to gain entrance to these institutions because they provide the opportunity for a better lifestyle (Robinson and Moulton 31). The lot composed of graduates qualified to deliver the services appropriately occupy all the luxurious positions within the employment sector.

In other words, monstrosity or social evil is the ultimate result and reflection of what and how the society nurtures its members. Essentially Shelly’s proposition that social beings give back what they receive from the society sides with John Locke’s theory of “Tabula Rasa” that “individuals are born without built-in mental content and that their knowledge comes from experience and perception” (Baldick 28).

Women’s in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums. In sizable societies all over the world, women are always stereotypically viewed as inferior individuals and also as sexual ‘objects’, due to historical, social and even physical reasons.

The quote presents women as only objects for men to meet their sexual desires in the society. The women according to men were meant to use to acquire wealth. Women and men in this society are in war because women need men to take the leading role in stopping the war, but men on the other hand looks women as means to stop the war.

Furthermore, this work has not been previously submitted for any courses or assessments. Shakespeare’s Othello is a highly emotional tragedy, where the relationships between characters are of central importance, and a large proportion of the action in the play occurs through dialogue, rather than physical interaction.

Malcolm Little was born in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925. The white racists of Lansing killed Malcolm’s father by laying him on the railroad track, but even while his father was still alive, their family had already been terrorized by the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm’s mother Louise was confined by the white authorities in a mental asylum.

Sonnets are little songs with a hidden message while Chaucer’s tales are like short stories each containing a moral lesson for the reader. Each tale has a different idea of love while Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three categories that differentiate three contexts of love.

The conquests of Middle Ages often found their reason (or justification) in religious dictates. Thus, Christian travellers often referred to the Muslim territories as to rich and dangerous land inhabited by inferior “others”; Muslim authors did so about Christian territories as well.

A library is an important tool when it comes to enhancing our knowledge. We should encourage its use repeatedly to have a well-informed society. A library is defined as a collection of information resources that are orderly arranged and accessible to users for reading, research and studies.

Goodman Brown is the protagonist of the story. He leaves his loving wife to take a journey to consult the devil in the forest due to his internal conflict. This essential content reveals Goodman’s experiences. He undergoes multiple experiences in the forest, which alter his attitude and cognitions towards his initial Christian faith.

Conflicts, along divides of social class, within the black community were serious problems in the 1950s. The play was influential in highlighting the extent of tensions that existed, among the blacks, based on their social classes. The few wealthy in the community despised their poor brothers. This was a serious cause of disharmony among blacks.

However, after only a few minutes of sitting in silence, Mrs. Mallard comes to terms with the alleged permanent absence of her husband. As she realizes that the rest of her years will be spent without him, she ceases to mope, and instead embraces the prospect of a freedom that she had forfeited when she got married.

Rich perceives feminism as the murky deep task that forces her to dive into the deep sea and find out the sunken ruins. She prepares well for this venture, she surveys the damaged wreck by long-lived myth, and she therefore plunders the hulk ancient treasure in resemblance to the ship as a female figurehead.

Washington Irving’s “The Devil and Tom Walker” Outline I. Introduction A. Life is as short as the money people spend. B. Washington Irving’s “The Devil and Tom Walker” describes the life of Tom Walker, a life who is possessed by the devil, even before he met it.

Metaphors from all over the world share a number of commonalities, which technically comprise universality in metaphorical thought; for instance, metaphors are not only conceptual and linguistic, they are also neural, bodily, and social. That not notwithstanding, metaphors also vary along two main domains, both the cross-cultural domain.

She says that her daughter life will turn out just like hers as she turned out as her mother. She says that she inherited her looks and circumstances from her mother and has passed these onto her daughter. For instance, she was married to two husbands and her daughter is planning to marry her second husband.

[Name of the Writer] [Name of Instructor] [Subject] [Date] Judy Chicago How Fine You Are, My Love Introduction As the artist, author, feminist, educator and intellectual in feminist art in world, Judy Chicago has been the leader and the model, which aims to implement social change.

Consequently it is observed that although “Oedipus Rex” and “Death of a Salesman” have centuries between the time the two plays were written. Yet interestingly the projection of the tragic heroes in both the works provide an excellent basis for a comparative analysis regardless of the difference of the time in which the respective plays were written, their plots and settings.

Cracow was a place of terrible atrocities in the Second World War, but the message of the story is that for the children there, it was an idyllic place of great beauty and peace. I learned from this story that a sense of place, even when it is only a distant memory, is an essential part of a person’s identity.

As the paper outlines, Orwell through “A Hanging” makes an attempt to bring in light the fact that even the criminals and the people who punish such individuals are also human beings with feelings, fears, and weaknesses. Just because some of them have committed wrong deeds and the other set punish the former does not make them inhuman.