Literature Essays

In total, ‘metamorphosis’ as exciting literature discusses how unexpected life events and associated perceptional changes can affect one’s family life and existence. An unexpected change in life is something that one can never easily admit. Society also sets certain parameters for everyone. It gets dissatisfied if the person is found not capable of meeting its expectations.

The poem starts in South Boston at an aquarium that has been closed for a long time. The readers, then travel back in time when the speaker used to visit the aquarium to gape at fish. The poem talks about Civil war era and the civil war memorial of Colonel Shaw.

Readers are reminded again and again how escaping from one’s fate is beyond possibility even though the human beings do have the power to make choices. But although everything is controlled by fate, along the poem, the intervention of Gods to circumvent some events illustrates that Gods do contemplate going against fate.

Machiavelli’s Prince would prove to be more morally degraded, harmful, and dangerous than the European monarchic rulers because of his education and knowledge about how to manipulate his power as well as people’s emotions and fear to tame them. Machiavelli takes it for granted that princes are devoted to the welfare of their subjects and their states.

The author states that the short story was written by a man who saw the dead bodies of his parents when he was 11 after Aiken’s father committed suicide, and after the father first shot Aiken’s mother dead. The incident is said to have seared itself into the memory and the later life of Aiken, who himself tried to commit suicide.

The women kneel and pray before the statue and this does not yield any results. The two statues are symbolic of greatness with Roosevelt’s indicating earthly superiority while the statue found in church indicates divine superiority. However, the two statues do not respond to earthly situations. God is omnipresent, but not in the form of statues.

Literary Analysis: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” The short story entitled “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” written by Joyce Carol Oates is a literary discourse that focused on the main character, Connie, a fifteen year old girl who apparently exuded physical characteristics and traits that differed from those exhibited by members of her family.

Bronson Howard, the first American playwright ever to earn living by writing plays, has made a significant contribution to American art and entertainment. His most significant achievement is introducing the character of an American businessman to the world of American drama and exploring the business theme in the theater. His approach was innovative for that time.

I remember the cold and the wind, and the terrible sound of the squealing hogs. I also remember my Dad and Uncle John trying to deal with the growing fire. The heat expanded speedily as the fire raged. With wood behind their backs blackening and charring, both men looked as if they were about to be baked in a huge oven.

Since ancient times, humans have played a critical role in redefining life in the universe. Various developments in society have been made to make life better and more rewarding. The cream of the society including kings and the elites has consistently devised means to ensure that their lives are comfortable and fulfilling. Yet in the long run, the tragedy of life is that mortality is inevitable.

In the novel, which Cather gives to Mr. Anton Jalinek as a memoir, he sails back to his childhood in the prairie of Nebraska. Obviously, in such an attempt of the narrator, Antonia the protagonist of the novel and the countryside environmental beauty of Nebraska serve as two main anchors to his past in the country.

Fundamentally the poem talks about the feelings of an individual when he is unable to perform a particular action due to his incapacity and the hatred that builds in him towards his surroundings and people around him as a result.

In the stories examined, two women fight the Battle of the Sexes to achieve power. One, Sarah Penn in “The Revolt of the Mother,” in stoic New England manner chooses direct confrontation.

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. It is believed that Poe was named after a character in Shakespeare’s King Lear, as this was the play that Poe’s parents were performing in around the time that Poe was born. Poe had an elder brother and a younger sister. Poe’s father had abandoned his family in 1810.

Hamlet goes to study abroad and when he comes back, things are no more the same. Hamlet finds it quite awkward that his mother marries his uncle within two months of his father’s death. He ponders over the nature of human beings and their relationships and the way they behave according to their changed circumstances.

This idea of the dialectics of good and evil, organic hostility of the whole society’s lifestyle to kind (“productive” - as them Brecht calls) principles of human nature was expressed with a great poetic force in The Good Person of Szechwan (1938-1940).

The author states that the symbolic meaning of the pumpkin is clear. The load of life is symbolic to the load of pumpkins, which she is struggling to carry. She is already down with the deadly disease of cancer.  She is married to a man 43 years older to her. The narrator uses symbolism at its best for a worst situation.

b) These markets avoid price competition because oligopolistic firms do not have much to gain from price competition so they are likely to keep the prices constant. The main reason for fixed prices is interdependency of firms on each other. An oligopolistic firm in view of a price cut is expected to match price decrease to other firm because it cannot lower the price to a larger margin keeping in view the profit margin (Sloman 1999).

The data relating to Gross National Income for 173 countries are analyzed with statistical methods. The methods employed are analysis of summary statistics, analysis of frequency table, and the analysis of line graph. The number of countries with low Gross National Income is higher as compared to those with higher Gross National Income.

We Real Cool. The poem by Gwendolyn Brooks entitled “We Real Cool” was inspired by a group of seven young people playing pool who portray the life of several young people these days who hang around in like places instead of being in school. It pictures those who think they are cool by playing life ‘cooly’ by not getting serious of their studies or other concerns and responsibilities in life.

The tourism board of India is found to take the help of integrated communications through large-scale uses of several communication tools like advertisement both via print and visual media and also through considerable public relation activities to help generate increased brand awareness for the different tourism activities carried out in the region.

William Shakespeare's King Lear.The greatness of a man is actually determined by how well he ends and for King Lear; he did not end well in any way. What more can be as tragic as two of one’s supposedly favorite daughters ganging against their own father?

The final statement of the strategies laid out by Hague clearly asks the students to ´make their own mark´. He believes that one should take control of his\her own life and make such decisions that suit them, as our decisions can completely alter the meanings of our lives, and thus, wrong decisions can make drastic impacts on our future lives.

His life itself was unusual as he was orphaned at a young age as his mother died and his father abandoned the family and no family ever officially adopted him. Forced to make his way, he focused on writing though his life was continually marred by difficulty as his wife died of tuberculosis. These events in his life have influenced his literary style.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s epic novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, narrates the family history of a native South American family, the Buendia's. This narrative is not merely a genealogical fiction, but also a historical allegory and an autobiography at the same time. Not only does this novel belong to multiple genres but it has several themes as well.

The inhabitants of city housing projects are the producers and consumers of any society involving, poverty and want and on the other a privileged class [possessing administrating, exploiting, organising and obtaining for its own ends, as much social overtime as possible, either for ostentatious consumption or for the accumulation or indeed for both purposes at once.

The title is very important in the context of the story. The author’s use of this particular title portrays the great talent and creative skills that she possesses and her amazing ability to visualize things in an abstract manner. The title of the story, The Yellow Wallpaper, is well suited to the ideas expressed by the author.

In this sense, the father - children relationship is essentially an apparatus that was handled to portray the Parisian aristocrats’ weird tendency to accumulate wealth overlooking the basic needs of other members of the society. In the play, the relationship between the father Harpagon and his children is not antagonistic or hostile in its true sense.

People viewed him as illiterate and socially bankrupt; hence the isolation. The press despised him because of his unrecorded history despite his figurative language being emulated by the President. He grew up with rich people who took care of him then later left him on the streets because of their personal opinions of Chance’s nature.

On the other hand, Flannery O’Connor’s “A good man is hard to find” was published in 1953. The short story portrays the destructive move of the Misfit that turns out fatal to a whole family. Even though both texts deal with the loss of lives, the proportion and the conditions of the destruction are totally different.

The author states that in this rhetoric play, Author Miller depicts Willy as one whose dreams have been disillusioned and still he is unable to embrace that fact. The play introduces Ben’s character as an industrial and self-determined philosopher who embraces ethnic individualism and business orientations of the industrial era.

Kafka’s explorations into absurd and surrealistic elements many before they trended in popular art through the surrealist movement, establish his cutting-edge imagination. Perhaps even more significant, however, are the aesthetic qualities to his work. Kafka was able to create an unparalleled world of language that evoked the extremities of anxiety and alienation. This essay examines what may be Kafka’s preeminent work ‘The Metamorphosis’ through its articulation of destiny; specifically that of protagonist Gregor Samsa.

Here, she looks at the reason why two people come together in the institution of marriage and its sanctity, the passion, the attraction, and joy towards one another that is purely fun and joyous. She brings out her point of view about marriage when she says. "We happen to like being married!" (Kipnis 22).

A journey in the scope of ancient storytelling serves a very different purpose than our interpretation of the world today. We think of journeys as trips or vacations. We leave to explore new places for our own amusement. We pack up into our car or board a plane and travel with a generalized amount of comfort and convenience compared to our ancestors.

The concept of the primitive in Conrad is seen through the descent into the jungles of Africa where life was more ‘primitive’, where in Joyce the concept of the primitive is understood by the base instincts of sexuality.

On one hand, there is a strong implication that the narrator’s use of drugs and alcohol is the cause of his negative attitudes and may be causing marriage problems. On the other hand, it is the use of these ‘vices’ that serves to break the ice between the narrator and Robert, and it is only through this that the narrator is able to see more clearly, and perhaps to find a new way forward in his life.

Abbott is troubled by the concept of God. This idea developed because he sees no solution to his troubles. It reveals he has cried a lot for a God to be there to listen to him. It shows his state of hopelessness against anticipation. He was in fact in dire need of God to solve all his problems but when disappointed, he created his hypothesis. 

Horror establishes an atmosphere where the natural powers are in play in a story, making fear and lack of absolute understanding remain in the mind of the reader throughout the whole story (Stratford and Tammy, 56). This is Horror story regarding an expedition of a man who had gone on a tour of caves.

Discussions pertaining to the proposed increase in the ICC speed limit sparked state-wide debates among lawmakers and concerned citizens. Supporters of the proposal assert that aside from the fact that an increase of 5 miles per hour will reduce driving time, it will aid in the economic activity in Maryland, as goods will spend less time in transit

The development of the play underlines the inherent struggles that are faced by the characters among themselves. It looks at multiple layers of the problems faced by black section of the society. The problems that were faced by the immigrants from the southern states from the period of the 1920 to the 1950’s have formed a background for the play.

Selina Redwood can be cited as an example. As her character played a strong role in the life of Nicholas Farringdon, she had also been more interested in form rather than in substance. She was dubbed as the prettiest woman in the club, but that was all she had. She did not exhibit any moral judgment in her actuation.

The town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, offers its residents a landscape once claimed for France by a seventeenth-century explorer, a namesake battle site many swear is the first of the Revolutionary War and a bipedal, humanoid, mothlike creature with glowing eyes. The last of these local treasures is, of course, extraordinary.

In ancient societies, women were always termed inferior to men with no political, social or economic importance, and their main roles included bearing children, preparing meals and watching over the household. However, over the years women empowerment has enabled them to gain equality with their male counterpart.

The death of Cordelia, his banished daughter who did not inherit anything but risked her own life to save him, confirms her loyalty. She pays the price of her own life to liberate her father and restore order in the kingdom. This strangulation also proves the wickedness of Goneril, Regan and their accomplices who are responsible for Cordelia’s death.

The Christmas holiday has for a long time been celebrated by the Christendom to mark the birth of their savior Jesus Christ whom they claim to have been born on the same date in the early 31AD in one of the then most powerful European empires, the Roman Empire. These people believe that Jesus came into the world to save mankind.

As a function of this highly religious and stratified society, there existed a litany of different competing, but all arguably highly fundamentalist, interpretations of god and his relationship to humanity. Although it cannot be said that “Self-Reliance” was published in any way as a diatribe against god or against religion, key nuances of Emerson’s belief system strike at the very core of what was intrinsically wrong with American society of that time.

The author states that at 19, Gregg was 2 months the senior of Cynthia. Having just spent her birthday with her boyfriend of 6 months, Cynthia longed for the day in which they would not have to part and could continue to spend each and every moment together in the bliss she was certain must await the couple.

On the other hand, the transition from boyhood to manhood is often the most crucial part of a man’s life. It is at this stage when boys seek to be recognized by the society, as well as the opposite sex, as a man. Discovering and making sense of their manhood may either be a rewarding or a painful discovery of what a real man is made of.

This paper will look into Jarman’s Unholy Sonnet 4 that provides an absent yet ever present image of God, and the manner in which the sonnet’s structure extols the divine. Critique Jarman has split his sonnet into two distinctive portions with distinctive purpose.

Tutankhamun ruled for around ten years in 1300 B.C. There has been speculation regarding the cause of his death since the time his body was found in the year 1922.  There have been a number of theories about the death of King Tutankhamun including murder, epilepsy, fracture, etc. Two major theories regarding this king`s death include death from natural causes and murder.