Literature Essays

The monster grows to despise itself and generates a lot of hatred toward its creator. In order to hurt him, the monster kills several people close to his creator, Victor, including his wife Elizabeth. The story is horrific in every sense of the word, and to have had such imaginations, Mary Shelley must have had various psychological issues.

The novel The Beach by Alex Garland was his first novel and has a major theme of drug culture. The setting of the novel is in Thailand, where there is no discretion in the use of marijuana. The author presents an entirely different world on the isolated beach, which is greatly influenced by the presence of a huge marijuana plantation. This sets the platform for discussions in this essay.

From the start, Tom’s character is shown to be frustrated and intolerant as he gets angry at his mother for reprimanding him about his eating habits. “I haven’t enjoyed one bite of this dinner because of your constant directions on how to eat it.”  (Glass Menagerie, 2013) In today’s world too no man like to be ordered and fussed around.

Throughout life, we realize that many of the realities we come to face are very harsh. You can never know what to expect and because of this, you never know what you’ll end up being happy with. Many of us face unhappiness at different points in our life.

This research aims to evaluate and present the role of power in literature particularly in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. Generally in literature power is a theme that has negative connotations in the text as it appears to be a force of destruction. Howe and MacKendrick also state, ‘all power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely’

Both writers acknowledge the contributions of their roots and family ties in the process of learning to find remarkable essence in English and love of communicating effectively especially with their parents who occur to be the primary concern in their attempt to simplify approach in writing.

The author states that Momma refuses to retreat inside their Store and show cowardice and accept defeat. Momma reacts to the girls with cool poise and maturity, silently sending her message that she is stronger and better than them. This reaction diffuses the white girls’ nerves, making them aware of how stupid and ridiculous their behavior is.

The author states that in the short story we find the whole village admitting Esteban just because he is well-built and has a handsome face. Even though the villagers know nothing about the man’s personality, background, or character they assume good things about him just because he has a handsome appearance.

 Poetry allows for a writer to examine themes through their emotional context in regard to topics that can be explored through the imagery that is evoked. In three poems that discuss the nature of human impact on the environment and within the environment, the negative role that humanity plays is revealed through the imagery of corruption, destruction, and decay.

The title of the novel is highly symbolic because besides representing the protagonist’s physical and spiritual isolation from the rest of the society it also suggests her confinement within a particular state of mind, which she could not overcome.

It was in the type of environment that Franz Kafka's seminal short story The Metamorphosis evolved. Published in 1915, The Metamorphosis – or Die Verwandlung in its original German – opens with the bald statement that “One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin” (Kafka, 1).

Their study reviewed the influence of both dietary and synthetic antioxidants. Found that vitamin E was a good anti-oxidant to add because it can help with cognitive functioning. Antioxidants such as vitamin E, C, and carotenoids function all support the immune system. The body can produce molecules called free radicals that are toxic to the body.

In the essays presented here from The Informed Argument, the five authors highlighted present the idea that intellectual property shared is intellectual property that is now collectively owned. While we should do our best to give credit where it is due and to be mindful to properly cite and give homage to the original author, it is often difficult to separate out which thoughts belong to the individual and which thoughts are now more collectively owned.

King is referencing the nature of the Declaration of Independence as proclaiming the inalienable rights of all citizens. The logical implication of such a reference is that in continuing to oppress African Americans, the United States is neglecting its very foundational elements. Ultimately, this is a highly effective use of logos.

A Classic Way of Depicting Human Struggle There are many literary works that depict the struggle for life in the middle of the ocean. Each of them provides the author’s view of human sentiments, motives, and actions. However, most works, especially films, tend to overemphasize emotions or digress from the main theme, thus lose the very essence of the story, that is, to depict the human struggle that is not common to everyone because of the setting.

The author states that the major theme of the story is the idea that life is nothing. The major characters of the story suggest that there is no real purpose of life and that the people are just a tiny part of the vast sea of nothingness. According to the waiter, even the religion had no meaning and hence the people's attempt to seek solace.

As you read along, an understanding of the book and its relevance to the real world, aside from the fact that it’s based on the true story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, will be achieved. Morrison depicts the lives of Sethe, an African-American slave who tries to escape from her master, in a hypnotic and beautiful novel.

The books also differ in many other ways too: the books are set after different twentieth-century wars; one of the themes in Ceremony is Native American culture; in Grizzly Years the emphasis is on the culture of grizzly bears; and, Silko writes a fictional account while Peacock may (or may not) embellish the details some, his account is based on actual events.

The formal, witty and impersonal poems deliberately marked by a highly stylized rhetoric-elaborate wordplay, extended conceits, and intricate argument-¬seemed to signify the full fruition of the New Critical style. However, the popularity of Wilbur's poetry, has generally suffered-although his technical skill, unparalleled in twentieth century verse, continues to receive critical praise.

As the author of the text puts it, even in the high-tech twenty-first century, parents make use of these traditional tales to instill important lessons in their children – we have all, in part, learned decency from stories. "The Frog King", for example, teaches us that it is always worthwhile to keep our promises, even those made in haste.

The poem depicts how Clifton herself experiences the final stages of menstrual flow and personifies the last as a “girl” who is “splendid” in her “red dress” yet “never arrived” thirty eight years later. Marked by subsidence from the dynamic state of youth, the poet’s tone consoles the ensuing bleakness of the situation by justifying that at such point, somehow, there exists the absence of painstaking trouble in having to take care of periodic menstruation.

The two stories have been found by critics to deal with death. In the first story, ‘the sisters’, death is maintained from the beginning to the end. In the second story, the author talks about death but mixes it with the joys of the occasion taking place at the scene. A reader is able to gradually realize and understand the theme of death.

According to the research findings, themes of feminism, social order, and race featured in many books by Kate Chopin, as she challenged the moral sense behind these societal impositions. The conflicting and ironic ways in which these themes revealed themselves to her main characters was also a Kate Chopin signature.

The father of Chrysies tries to beg the commander-in-chief to surrender the daughter in exchange for a huge ransom but the commander refuses (Homer, Fagles, Knox, 17). Chrysin being a priest of the god Apollo prays to Apollo for help. These prayers result in Apollo sending a plague to the Greek camp which leads to the death of many soldiers.

Achieving dreams becomes even more difficult if the dreamer is a single African-American mother living in America during 1960s. The newer version of the movie is closer to the original play written by Hansberry. Almost every individual has one or more passionate dreams in his/her life.

The author states that the freedom is short-lived after the supposed dead husband returns unexpectedly; Louise dies of a heart attack when she sees her husband whom she thought was dead. Kate Chopin uses various stylistic, structural, and symbolic tools to bring out the subject matter of the story.

The author states that Dr. Faustus and The Shoemaker's Holiday utilized disguises in manifestly different ways. In Doctor Faustus, the use of disguise was more metaphorical and symbolic than literal, with the possible exception of Meph affecting a physical disguise at the first. The use of disguise was literal, and it was used as a way to secure love.

The context of the Vietnam War is central to Cao’s novel. The novel employs, at a structural level, many of the ideas of guerrilla warfare. Just as the Vietnamese oscillated between the roles of soldiers, farmers and parents during the war, the novel investigates the quotidian, social and historic contexts of the protagonists’ lives.

Since women have proved to have equal or even better public speaking abilities compared to men, they should become more confident and bold in their involvement in public speaking. In addition, more women should get involved in public speaking activities thereby increasing the regularity in which society gets accustomed to their public speaking skills.

The literary critics and thinkers also apply the same tradition, where they appear to be dividing the literary eras into categories, so that the literature produced at some particular period could be examined and analyzed by keeping in view their imperative characteristics.

Materialism is the preoccupation with material objects and comforts. It is placing an emphasis or stress upon the material world. It causes one to develop a disinterest in or total rejection of intellectual, spiritual or cultural values. It is an interest in and a desire for money and possessions, as opposed to ethical values and spirituality.

In order to become a master of love, Erich Fromm presents a secular point of view describing how humans should practice love in his book entitled “The Art of Loving”. In this book, Fromm presents love as a skill in which one can acquire it teaching and development.

The characters in the poem fear the monster and they believe that the intervention that they can receive must come from God. When Beowulf intervened when the monster invaded the Grendel kingdom, the community was not willing to fight, the monster because they believed that the monster had supernatural powers. 

As much as some decisions may seem to have weight on either moral or immoral decisions, this book reveals that it is not always the views of society that properly define morality. In the novel, adventure of Huckleberry Finn, Huck makes three crucial decisions as follows; hiding the gold from the king and duke, assisting Jim to escape as he lied to hunters and lastly tearing the letter to Miss Watson that did concern him and Jim.

In the short story, Long Black Song, the blacks responded to the discrimination against them with so much hate for the whites. The contempt that resulted thereafter led to war and quite a number of people died. It is in these wars that Silas, the leading protagonist, is brought out for the first time. Silas is sad and very remorseful.

The author states that heroes of the epics are unique personalities. They possess the passions of humans but also have dignity of gods. They are mortal beings but their mortality is not common. Their power and bravery are proverbial as is the case with Achilles and Aeneas. The poets present them as the product of man-god relationship.

The author states that similar to Anne Bradstreet, John Winthrop presumes that existence is determined. Like Anne Bradstreet who believes God is preparing her for a better life, after the destruction of her residence, John Winthrop also believes that God exists among his people during their movement to America.

The father is often responsible for the enforcement of discipline in the life of a child and his absence more often than not causes a lapse in it. Although that the presence of a mother is needed for the child to learn how to interact within the family environment, it is a father’s presence that has a direct hand in the introduction of the child into society.

The researcher states that the setting of the Grierson’s house demonstrates the closed nature of their family, which resulted in overarching pride. The community, based on the first-person plural viewpoint, sees the Griersons as a people of arrogance and pride. Emily’s house is described as being haughty.

The USA has documented by various publications and national announcements that she would like to work with the Muslim regimes given that they support her in unmasking terror groups and kicking hostile regimes out of power. Considering that Iran exercises power within the Muslim mandate of the anti-west stereotype, should the US invade Iran or other Iran-like nations to establish friendly regimes?

Love remains itched there permanently and even the cosmic power will not be able to erase it completely because it is the spark of the same cosmic power. William Shakespeare’s (1564-1616) sonnets have been read and debated as vibrations of love of his own life.

He was an African American poet whose first published book was titled Poems from Prison. In this are several poems in which he pours down his feelings about his experience of the eight years spend in prison, of the incidents took place. Later, he got another book published which also included the stories related to the inmates of the cell he had spent almost a decade in.

Generally, the study of literature has been slipping owing to a more than average stress on the study of science, management and other applied disciplines, the ever-burgeoning volume of state mandates that require the school and college curriculums to be crammed with science, mathematics and economics.

The author states that this interrogation lays bare the farcicality of the proverbial myth of the “white man’s burden” as people of all races are shown to be affected adversely by the machinations of imperialism. The story begins with the ruminations of an acutely self-aware narrator as he gauges at once the hostility of the Burmese.

The renaissance period, based on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, identifies aspects of love that though face challenges, the narrator is determined to achieve. The youth identifies love that should be immortal through eternal life and life that never leaves the youthful stage into elderly stages.

Hamlet has been William Shakespeare’s favorite and most famous character. Hamlet was a Prince but with a revelation of being a Party Boy. He left his girlfriend as he thought she had been cheating on him, started talking to himself and his Father’s “ghost”, accused his mother of treachery, pretended to be a lunatic, and things like that.

  The author states that Yeats becomes a very daunting ad shrewd observer studying the faces of the masses. He considers himself to be a traveler who roams around the city in order to experience it. He finds that there is a change in Ireland where the rural masses are moving to experience the city life.

The aim of the novel is to oppose war and act as a voice for thousands of people who were against the war of America with Vietnam. The author time and time again reminds his readers of the millions of lives lost in the World War and fears that something similar would happen if the United Stated tries to participate in favour of war again.

The handkerchief, which Othello gives to Desdemona, his newly married wife as a gift and also that covers Iago’s plans of luring Othello (Shakespeare, William, and Honigmann 43). The handkerchief as a symbol begins at the start of the story, marking the begging of life between Othello and Desdemona as amarried couple and it symbolizes their life together to the end of the story.

The contexts of the choices of mire and dust made by the two subjects in the maxim can also be interpreted to mean sin or evil acts, as these are generally deemed as dirty and distasteful. With this understanding, the maxim can be said to mean that humans always have options in life but we always choose the ways of evil.