Literature Essays

A hunter or a fowler is always close behind it ready to shoot the arrow at the slightest chance. The dangers in the path are countless as are the many beautiful types of scenery and countless wonders. The poet mentions the bird is "lone wandering, but not lost". The power which inculcated the natural instinct in it guides it through every dilemma like the hot desert, cold atmosphere, and aching wings.

On Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’. Allen Ginsberg was a poet of the immediate, and his lesson, if there is one, is that there is a kind of rapture to be had from being completely present in the moment, from crying out in a primal but perceptive and intelligent way about the sanctity of personality and human freedom in the face of oppressive social and political forces.

Armand’s character can be said to be arrogant, controversial. His ideas of looking down on his colored servants depict a very narrow-minded picture of his personality. His stubborn character is proven by the fact that his fatherhood failed to soften his heart for the newborn child. Armand’s long claimed love for his wife disappears into thin air. 

Henry David Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience after his experience trying to show how unjust and pointless the government is. The text was written after he had spent a night in jail when he refused to pay his taxes. Thoreau did not pay his taxes because he was protesting against the approval of slavery. 

The author states that one can glimpse that at the time of its writing, people had social classes and roles to fulfill - those who belonged to the affluent class chose not to interact with people who are in the lower social classes. Yet, it is important to note that standard by which social affluence is never permanent.

The work aims to depict the value of folklore stories in distributing moral principles among generations. It shows universal and unique moral norms which stories carry. The work is full of literary examples of those stories.

As the paper outlines, William Shakespeare’s title character in his play Julius Caesar appears just twice in the play, alive. Even though critics have pointed out to the silent presence of Caesar throughout the play, as is symbolized by the ghost of Caesar who appears later in the play, it is Marcus Brutus who takes up much of the play’s space and the attention of the audience.

The author states that the first element of evil in Zora Neale Hurston’s Spunk occurs in terms of the relationship between Spunk Banks and Lena. This relationship can be viewed as evil in many regards. Spunk Banks is described as a large and impending figure “A Giant of a brown-skinned man”, as well as a bully.

In the current era of revolutionized information technology, organizations must align with the current technology trends in order to stay in the league of competitive advantages. In order to respond to the issues, identification of resources is necessary. Project management triggers in the initial stages of any project.

Proust was inspired by the emotions that he witnessed around him in the city of love, and was thus able to pin down his thoughts for the generations to come. Swann’s Way written by him is an example of one of his greatest ever written and acknowledged works of literature and provides an apt description of the journey that Proust takes to achieve the level of penmanship that he did during his life.

Reality TV Shows and the American Identity: The Postmodern Situation. More American young people can tell you where an island that the 'Survivor' TV series came from is located than can identify Afghanistan or Iraq. Ironically a TV show seems more real or at least more meaningful interesting or relevant than reality.” John Fahey The television is more sophisticated than it ever was since it commercially available during the 1920s.

The Yellow Wallpaper is a story written by Gillman that revolves around a female who is having some psychological problem after her marriage and delivery. She is the wife of a physician who believes that she is struck into a neurological disorder after giving birth to a child. Due to her neurologic stress she has been advised to be bed ridden without doing any sort of work. However this stress gets up to her and she starts writing about the things that are around her.

The collection culminates with a few mementos from the author’s autobiography, including a riveting essay on her painful experience of motherhood and postnatal depression. Sometimes the reader may unconsciously fathom about Gilman’s traits as she excessively endorses about suppression without providing any sort of silver lining. She speaks about the male virus, but does not provide a solution or a cure.

Emily is the main character in the story and the story is all about her life and how she lived in isolation for a major part of her life. The theme of death has been presented in this short story, how Emily becomes completely isolated has been shown in this short story.

The first definition offered is that every citizen must live up to his/her legal obligations and be honest. 2. The next definition is that an individual owes his/her friend help and his/her enemies harm. 3. Another definition is that justice is paying debts and speaking truth.

Through this poem, Eliot criticizes the materialist and superficial culture that Prufrock belongs to. This kind of culture creates Prufrock's anxious and diffident character. This essay analyzes the theme of isolation in “Prufrock.” It argues that Eliot uses repetition, irony, setting, and allusion to depict the theme of human isolation in a materialistic and indulgent society.

We enjoy listening to stories from various narrators for each narrator would have his or her own style of telling it. The question of whether we listen to the narrating style of the story in itself is yet to receive an appropriate and accurate answer. We are going to analyse the narrative style of three writers, namely, Mark Danielewski, Charles Dickens and Kafka in this essay.

This essay is the finest example of the literature research that aims to analyze Can Xue's "The Child Who Raised Poisonous Snakes". This paper also tries to observe the use of specific phrases to support different themes brought in the story; ” there are a variety of themes and ideologies which are present throughout the story.

The author states that the plot follows the life of the Snopes family, who are forced to relocate as a result of the father, Abner Snopes, the patriarch and the main antagonist of the story. Abner Snopes’ pyromaniacal and compulsive desire to exact revenge often leaves him in a tight spot with the law and his son, Sarty.

Exploring the differences and similarities of the theme in I am Alone, and Women vs. the Indian, creates an analysis of both pieces of writing. The unique thematic attributes come alive and give the reader a better understanding of what life was like for these authors and their family.

However, others consider Sunday as a day off, a time ripe for unwinding and escaping their busy and demanding lives. I understand and respect with sincerity the notion of sacredness of the Sabbath; however, the diversity within the masses must be respected.

Today Emily Dickinson is recognized as one of America’s greatest poets. During his life in 19th century New England, however, she lived a life of reclusion and relative obscurity. Indeed, although Dickinson was a highly prolific writer a very small amount of her poems were published during her lifetime.

It alters the communication between neurons and synopsis hence affecting the brain. This essay focuses on how Christopher perceives things and how he was able to investigate a criminal case in their neighborhood. Christopher was very intelligent, and he knew the capital cities of all the countries worldwide.

In ‘Sonny’s Blues’ the narrators wayward younger brother becomes a burden for which he is responsible for, and their entirely contrasting lifestyles and perspectives create a huge amount of tension between them, to the point where the younger brother is a constant source of stress and antagonization for the narrator.

On 21st February 1965, Malcolm was speaking at the organizational meeting of Afro American Unity in Harlem. When he started his speech, a fight started among the audience, and in the melee, three men approached Malcolm with a gun and shot him dead. The three men were later convicted. Two among them were black Muslims.

This text states that “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances” (quoted in Lewis, 2002, p. 230).

Captain Ahab is the epitome of insanity in the novel. Of all the characters in the novel “Moby-Dick”, Captain Ahab seems to be the most insane. The insanity of Captain Ahab is explored mainly at three levels in the novel. The first aspect lies in the history of Ahab’s insanity which was initiated long before the loss of his legs.

The content of the book does relate to the book title, Daughters of Eve, at least according to the theme of the book.  The book concerns a teacher advising a group/club of young high school girls who have experienced mistreatment from two men in the past.

New historical reuse, otherwise simply referred to as New Historicism, as a device of reading recorded accounts gives validity to the contention that we can interpret the contents of history in many ways. By definition, “New Historicism, when applied to literature, suggests that literary works must be studied and interpreted within the context.

Big Ben is Ben’s father who has a thriving business, but, similar to his grandson, he fears facing the reality that his business is having a financial problem that requires to be fixed and, instead, commits suicide. The Telfairs suffer emotionally from the death of these two characters in the family (Arnold 105).

Taj Mahal Building and How It Connects With Islamic Buildings and Monuments. The Indian and Islamic cultures are embedded in several monuments built by different kings. Muslims introduced many architectural aspect in the Indian culture. Such building types include mausoleum, which were used to accommodate remains of popular people.

The characters of these stories are unwilling to give up the pleasures they had experienced while being single. These women seem unaware of their little delights until they realize that marriage means adapting to something else. The point that the authors set out to prove is that some women are comfortable enough with their lives that they fear the changes associated with marriage.

The author states that the isolation of the Scrivener is the focus of the story. On the other hand, Hawthorne narrates a tale of Puritan New England and a protagonist who is a young, family man. Melville’s story is a tragedy which ends in the death of Bartleby. Young Goodman Brown lives to old age, fathering many children and grandchildren.

The book "An introduction to literature" discusses the different voices as well as many apparatus that covers all the elements of literature work and writings including drama, poems, songs, riddles, narrative among others. The book also stresses the writing process that it is important to add new material, especially in literature work.

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” are three short stories that incorporate the figurative idea of a journey in their narratives. Chopin’s protagonist, Louise Mallard, receives news of her husband’s sudden demise in an accident. She considers the changes that widowhood will bring to her life.

This paper analyzes Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein”. Mary Shelley, natural philosophy student who is ambitious and helps people in discovering the constructs of a living thing. It further creates numerous essential issues that may influence people’s lives in many ways. The author skillfully conflates around many traditions and the individual imagination.

His poetry was full of symbolism and depicted much about his personality and emotions. However, what is apparent is that his poetry was influenced largely by his upbringing, his adult life, as well as his complicated era.

Sizwe narrated to Styles his challenges of carrying the passbook. According to him, his passbook prevented him from working in Port Elizabeth since blacks were only restricted to work in their homelands. The dialogue also shows how the whites’ hostility towards blacks forced them to change their identity.

One common Diasporic African theme in the magazine is racial discrimination, portrayed in Caryl Philips’ fiction about the West Indian. In this fiction, the West Indian sphere is a place where whites discriminate and belittle Diasporic Africans. In fact, the first-person narrator in the story does not want to have her luncheon near a black woman.

In fact, poverty and poor health is product of poor choices and contentment of individuals with life lived in the process making change non existent. Poverty is a term that has been used in the world to explain the inability to obtain food, shelter and clothing.

The author states that the story revolves around Tim O’Brien who happens to be the main character where he is said to receive a notice in a particular summer. As a result of the notice, he faces an ethical dilemma where he is torn between reporting for the anticipated war in Vietnam and obeying his conscious to end up in jail or in Canada.

The revolution in the 1990s resulted in the collapse of the USSR and most importantly it makes a big hole in the Cuban Economy which affects society in a big way. As Wondolowski (2001), in his review clearly mentioned the words of Pedro Juan which according to him sum it up all “Nothing is made up. . . . Not a single lie. I only change the names.

Different writers infuse Tituba with varying political, artistic, and historical significance (Jalalzai 419). As such, Conde’s Tituba adds to the many representations that people conjure about Parris’ slave woman. Conde has succeeded variously in demonstrating that appealing to history is still helpful in the creation of self-referential fiction.

The paper “Fusing Creativity: Cultural Metacognition and Teamwork in Multicultural Teams” tries to analyze the impact of fusion of culture and interaction between the members in a multicultural team on the creativity of the solution they provide. The literature review section of the paper has done a comprehensive research on many of the previous works.

According to the research findings The Miller’s Tale is a combination of two types of moral stories based on fiction. The Reeve’s Tale portrays the identity of the humiliated old man in the Millers Tale as the carpenter. The Merchant's story is angered by the idealism presented in his wife Griselda who is ill just in as much as the Miller is also angered by the idealism of the Knight’s story.

The conclusion from this study states that the period after the World War II was a transition phase. This phase was such a difficult phase for the whole world. It was still trying to get out of the trauma caused by World War. On this background, the existential philosophy was the temporary answer for the people.

Odysseus and Oedipus are both leaders of great kingdoms, but they have trudged on different paths, with Odysseus reaching redemption through returning to his homeland and reclaiming his throne and wife, while Oedipus meets a tragic destiny because of fate and hubris. Despite these differences in the protagonists’ endings, these characters have similarities in their characters and temperaments.

The theme of the poem is concerned with abortion and the feelings of a mother who remembers her aborted child. This poem makes one think deeply over the present state of abortions which tolls the lives of many innocent babies in the womb itself. The poem has written as a remembrance to the children aborted and the things that the mother misses.

Teenage is almost certainly the most critical phase in a person’s life. It is where young people confront harsh struggles in order for them to be prepared for adulthood. Identity crisis is one of the highly grave issues each youth shall battle against.

In the story, there was a transformation of the character of Prospero. It can be observed that Shakespeare based the story on revenge. Prospero acted with revenge in the story. Because of the magic used by Prospero, the king and his comrades have gone mad in the story. In the end, Prospero was moved by Ariel’s plea and requests and showed them the mercy which they did not even give to him and his daughter years ago.