Literature Essays

As this research aims to delve on the concepts of postmodern literature, this research discusses Julian Barnes’ Flaubert’s Parrot in the light of Postmodernist criticism of literature. Initially, this research proposes that Flaubert’s Parrot is a Postmodernist literature as expressed by its content, language structure, and the nature of its major themes.

Dacher Keltner and Dr. Bruce Lipton both being highly experienced in the fields of psychology. Prior to discussing the distinguishing aspects which they have discussed in their book, it is crucial to identify their backgrounds, as that would help seek a deeper insight into their viewpoints. Keltner is a professor by profession, who has taught at the University of California, Berkeley. 

Getttysburg Address, on the other hand, was a speech delivered by the US president, Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, Thursday, November. The core theme of the speech was hope that the dead Americans in the war did not die for nothing but to ensure a stable America with government for the people, of the people and by the people.

Libraries, as well as museums, have been found to be enjoying a distinctive function and accountability within the societies of the world. However, the economic disruptions, as well as rapid technological innovations, have led to tremendous changes. It has been noted that libraries and museums are compelled to revisit their own roles as well as responsibilities within these changing societies.

The author of the novel relies on literary devices with the main focus on the movie is a metaphor. The storyline uses a lot of symbolism, such as dogs, to develop the story that will facilitate the development. The dogs are used both metaphorically and symbolically, highlighting both the lawlessness and the faithfulness offered by these creatures. 

Literature bears the reflection of age and society in which it is culminated and is expressed either implicitly or explicitly through those. The literary products many times fail to express the real content captivated within the piece and get expressed through the myriad layers of allegorical implications.

Most evidently, the quote “guys like us are the loneliest guys in the world” does not necessarily apply to George and Lennie for many reasons that are revealed through Steinbeck’s portrayal of their close connection.

Apollo gave Cassandra the power to see into the future, but with the stipulation that no one would believe her when she spoke about it. And, Apollo enlisted the magical sorceress Hecate to cast a spell on her so she would become pregnant, and with his child.

The woman tried to tend to him as she normally would but his condition was irreversible. It was obvious that the man was worn out. Reading the poem more than once helps to decide whether or not the women knew the hired man was dead. At the beginning of the poem, she stated she was loud because she wanted him to hear.

Merely African women had their ‘identity and ‘womanhood’ absolutely refuted. The Civil War had only just started, even if, before black women acquired the same message Sojourner Truth gained in Silver Lake. All of America was ill-equipped to value their nationality, even less there being a ‘woman’.

A Streetcar Named Desire opens with the arrival of Blanche DuBois, an emotionally shattered woman who has lost her inheritance, at the New Orleans home of her sister Stella and Stella's husband Stanley. She cannot come in terms with reality and she makes it clear right from the start that her actions are involuntary.

Dorris Kearns Goodwin, a well known historian and professor in Harvard University, had been accused of plagiarism for her novel “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys” which was released in 1987. It was found she had explicitly borrowed numerous sentences from Lynne Mc Taggart’s book “Kathleen Kennedy: Her life and times”.

In the beginning, the company is financed by friends and family for the partnership but later during the year 1990 friends of the three entrepreneurs approached for being the franchise of Outback Steakhouse and the company started expanding into the business with joint ventures and franchise schemes.

Poverty has always been a historic problem of mankind. It has not just economic, but political and social dimensions to it as well. The term poverty is used in a relative sense rather than absolute. Attacking poverty requires a practical definition and a benchmark for measuring poverty. International organizations like United Nations (UN) have always been a key player in policy formation of poverty eradication.

Sexism on the other hand is another story of similar case, parallel to the aforementioned problem in controversy and passion spent for its fighting. A lot of literary works have been published in the past that expressed different thoughts and some have been rough, attacking mostly the colored people or the Blacks and women yet the events discussed in the literary pieces expose the truths observed in this matter.

World Literature. In the three books of Iliad (Troy), morality is intertwined with other themes. The research focuses on morality as the persuading of a person to act in a standard or required manner. The research centers on three morality concerns. The three books espouse the morality of feminism, leadership, and loyalty.

August Wilson's play “Fences” depicts the relationships of the characters involved in building the Maxson's backyard fence. It also serves as a metaphor for either the building or breaking of the relationships “encompassed” by this fence (Shannon 17). The fence here could also serve as a metaphor for the home.

Sylvia Plath utilizes a confessional approach along with prominent tools and figures of world war history to render “Daddy” vividly effectual as it attempts to impart narrative about the two significant characters in her life. About her father whose presence in her life has caused Plath to bear certain unresolved domestic struggles.

Usually in an analysis you can focus on one key element, such as imagery, and show how it works in the poem; or, you can focus on a theme or mood or some overarching aspect of the poem, and show how the parts contribute to that. Structural elements of poems include rhyme, rhythm, meter, and form.

In her introduction to the first edition of the work, Mary Hemingway defines it as being a biography, in part because it is less about himself and more about other people. The emphasis of the novel is not so much on a direct narrative, but a series of anecdotes, each painting a portrait of a particular niche of Hemingway’s life during that time.

A Comparative Analysis of The Scarlet Letter and Uncle Tom’s Cabin Novels have been read by people for enjoyment and reflection regarding the realities of life. Authors take advantage of that opportunity to share their thoughts, ideals and values to the readers.

Eating children was something they found amusing. Jonathan Swift felt safe while performing the play before the rich because he didn’t want trouble from there. The lower class could not afford to watch his plays but he did worry about a reaction from them at some point that is why in the last paragraphs of his play he had given justifications. 

Indeed Foucauldian concepts of ‘sexuality’ and ‘confession’ can, greatly, assist any attempt to delve deep into Sumire’s psychology and sexual behavior. Foucault believes that sexuality holds the truth of one’s identity in secret, as he says “sex is what holds in darkness….

It is one of the principal challenges, especially when parents make efforts to be the best parents intending to bring the best out of their children. Parents bring into play many approaches while parenting. Some make the children intrepid and positive; while, some tend to make their personalities weaker.

Steinbeck infuses theme through various literary tools such characters, actions of the characters, setting, plot, etc. Dean Koontz defines theme as following: “Theme is a statement, or series of related observations, about some aspect of the human condition, interpreted from the unique viewpoint of the author.”

The author has clearly discussed the cultural restrictions and the discrimination that have highlighted the image of a woman in the society as a ‘minor creature.’ The title of the play clearly narrates the story that how women are perceived in a society by men and how their issues are considered as unimportant ones by the dominating figures of the society. The story of the play revolves around genders and their roles in a give sphere. Glaspell has raised some of the very important questions in the minds of the audience that make them to think how men and women are valued in our society. This play not only raises the question that how women are values on the basis of the gender roles in the society but this play also points out that knowledge and perspectives are taken into consideration by the people and the society at large.

It reflects the economic status of America at that time. Willy, the father, is the nation that continually wants his sons to be materially wealthy but then there are two sons: the one who is like him and the other one who wants the simple pleasures in life. There is the mother who does not have power over the boys, specifically representing the women in that generation – powerless against boys.

Complete Name: Professor: Course: Date of Submission: The general tone of angry social criticism is probably pretty obvious in William Blake’s “London” (p. 472). Pick out two or three specific lines or details and try to explain what they mean and how they work to help create the poem's overall effect.  As William Blake opens his poem “London” with “I wander thro’ each charter’d street; Near where the charter'd Thames does flow”, he means to reflect the state of misery which the city of London was confronted with in the 18th century.

Through historical narratives that supply adequate evidence to the white supremacy over the black inferiority which serves as the leading ground for the widely prevalent slave trade across several states in America, it would occur natural for a common critic to judge with readiness that, in general, white people are wicked whereas the black people constitute the oppressed and the morally deserving of equitable treatment.

This research aims to evaluate and present the role of women in The Rover by Aphra Behn. Through the characters of Helena and Florinda, Behn illustrates how women in eighteenth century Europe endured the restrictions of a severely patriarchal society, which denied them the right to make their own life decisions.

Singer is a moral philosopher who has served as the chair at Monash University and Princeton University and has lectured at the Oxford University on ethics and moral philosophy. He has published many texts on moral dilemma and ethics. In his article in the New York Times, he questions the charitable burden and false sense of ethics that normally respectable claim that they have.

The wise old people say that “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” (The author unknown). For me, the novel “Heart of Darkness” is a manifestation of this proverb. People often have the best intentions in their hearts; however, they are as well often not able to resist temptations that accompany these intentions.

Woody is an aged man with many things in his mind, one being his family. Like all other families, his is filled with troubles of their own, but one interesting fact is the conversion of Woody’s mother into Christianity, particularly to be a catholic. This conversion to another religious group causes his mother to be abandoned by his father.

Culture has been a dynamic way of expressing the dynamic ways in which humans can live. Events in history like the Slave Trade have given an idea of how this dynamism can be abused in some instances.

Both Ramayana and Shakuntala are great works of artistic and philosophical merit. Originally written in Sanskrit close to two millennia ago, their authorship and date of origin are both speculative and mythologized. Yet, these ambiguities do not detract from their unique contributions to Eastern philosophy and literature.

The author states that jointly, through sharing the loss of their loved ones, their lamentation eased into solace. As time progressed, they talked about other matters, fell in love, cherished one another, and finally wedded. The rich king had a daughter named Joanne whom he loved deeply.

The novel may be described as typical because it talks about an issue common to Vietnam war movies, that is, American soldiers were sent to the battlefield without proper training. As expected, the characters suffer the common aftermaths of war such as fear, guilt and despair.

In this type of instruction, the teacher provides information to the students who basically listen to, and learn from what the teacher provides through discussion. In such a situation, the student's role, which is often characterized by listening and thinking, is limited while the teacher's role is very significant, being the main source of knowledge or information.

All Lawrence's works were mostly intended to captivate the theme pertaining to the ill-effects of modernity and industrialization leading to the dehumanizing of values and degradation of emotional quotient in humans (Malcolm and Malcolm 185). Apparently, his impeccable writings find profound expressions in his short stories as well.

The importance of food in immigrant narratives cannot be ignored, most immigrant narratives focus on food making and native food places in diaspora to show the cultural identification of the individuals through the food.

According to the study, the Civil War represents a violent conflict in which blood was necessitated to be spilled, the civil rights movement represents a movement that is more or less been bloodless and has been able to be affected by dialogue and nonviolent opposition. The dissimilarities between how these particular conflicts have been able to be resolved are brief.

Death of a salesman’ is Arthur Miller’s depiction of the success myth which America was haunted at the time of Miller. Being a self deluded man, Miller presents a tragic hero who lives in the past and present.

A new and distinct colour line is demarcated when mention is made of this movement that goes through significant political, social and literary upheavals. Impacted by technological advancement and education, a new black generation is getting ready to assert itself in every segment of human activity. But still, several voices are being heard.

There are several instances in “Persepolis” where magic was employed by the writer.  These were during the early years of the main character Marji when she was barely six years old, and she declared herself to be ready to become a martyr and a prophet so she could try to correct the injustices she saw in her country of Iran.

Suicide is an important element of Shakespearian plays. In his tragedies, we see the suicides committed due to different reasons: despair, mental disorder and even the imitation of suicide that we can see in “Romeo and Juliet”. In total, we can find the suicide or its possibility in fifteen plays written by Shakespeare.

Simply speaking, the Greek tragedies did not play a significant role in the rise of the English tragedy (Taplin 4). Yet, the tragedies of Seneca did influence the English tragedies to some extent (Boyle 142). And when it comes to the English tragedy plays, one simply cannot afford to ignore Shakespeare.

The thesis of this essay is on nationalism as a trend in developing American literature. It indicates how nationalism has played a big role in American literature. In addition, it outlines the significance of nationalism in American literature. Further, it involves factors that affect nationalism.

For instance, Tolstoy makes use of his works to share his ideas on life, especially the role of satisfaction in human life. Thesis statement: The analysis of the character Ivan Ilyich in the novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy proves that this character faces emotional trauma in his private circle, he tries to withstand the same by undergoing guilty consciousness, but self realization and reconciliation helps him to get transformed from a self-centered individual to an enlightened persona in the end.

The story, a sequel to Homer’s other epic Iliad, narrates the saga of the journey of Odysseus after the 10 year-long war of Troy. It takes him another 10 years of perilous journey through hostile oceans and battles with several monsters. In the meanwhile, back at home, his wife Penelope waits for him, trying to fend off the ‘suitors’.

The protagonist and the antagonist characters often end up in a cosmic conflict in which one party is agitating for a given issue which does not palatable to the other. While this tends to take shape in most instances in the play, the neutral characters help the reader to understand the contention between the protagonist and the antagonist as well the voice of reasoning that either party should take (Sadowski 23).