Literature Essays

Naranjo-Morse uses the poem “Ta” to tackle the difficult endeavor of measuring “success.” The underlying themes of her poem are ethics, social justice, and integrity, which are all related to the same themes found in “Ethics,” Clayton’s “A Whole Lot of Cheatin’ Going On,” King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” and Carter’s “The Rules about the Rules.”

This paper aims to look deeper into the symbolisms that Glaspell used in her play such as the location of Wright’s farmhouse, the rope, telephone, canary, birdcage and the word trifles. This will be examined closer in order for readers to have a clearer and deeper understanding of the story.

Bassanio expresses how he is able to set everything that he has for the sake of Antonio’s life. He says, “But life itself, my wife, and all the world are not with me esteemed above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all Here to this devil, to deliver you”. His emotion towards a person of the same sex is expressed through these statements.

The two books under discussion in this paper are both classics of children’s literature and have received both critical appreciations by scholars and great popularity with parents and children alike.

Owen, who was immensely troubled by his wartime experiences, wrote a significant amount of poetry about the Great War, describing the unimaginable in terms of the unknowable. However, as the film developed as a medium, and the unknowable became manifest in people's acted interpretations of it, audiences began to react to Owen's work.

This essay considers the frame story in relation to a series of picture stories, examining the relation for a variety of literary and theoretical aspects. Within the overarching narrative structure of Tales from the Thousand and One Nights is the presentation of a frame story.

This essay has considered the nature of ancient Greek ceramics. It has demonstrated that as early a 1000 B.C. Greek culture demonstrate considerable artistry in terms of ceramic craftsmanship. The essay went on the considerable the evolution of ancient Greek ceramic art through a variety of styles and periods throughout the height of Greek cultural influence.

Expressionist dramaturgy means using the drama to show any idea or theme. In expressionist drama, consequences of a distorted situation are followed as if they are real and the audience feels that what they are seeing is not a remake of what has already happened but they are seeing something spontaneous.

The theme of abstract versus concrete talking on the things and events in the story is especially highlighted throughout the book. It is to imply the idea of what soldiers carried in Vietnam. It is possible to suppose different equipment with them. One would point out features of immaterial nature that the soldiers carried throughout the ocean up to Vietnam.

James was trying to resist shouting but the pain was obvious on his face. His bloody fingers were holding the item he choose to punish himself with; a blade. He was trying not to scream but the pain was too much. He was holding his thigh tightly and his eyes were closed. James had used the blade to cut the inner parts of his thigh.

Conversely, it is interesting to learn how ingenious and innovative the ancient Chinese were. Of the numerous technologies, I will only identify ten of the most ingenious and innovative inventions ever invented in China. The categories for selecting these ten inventions are the technology’s function and role in the lives of the people.

The author states that the narrator’s ignorance and insensitivity even extends to his wife when he brushed off the poem she had written about a mind-boggling experience of being touched on the face by a blind man. To top it all, he is also jealous of his wife’s relationship with the visiting blind man.

She represents herself as a Trier & a fighter who has the strength & the mental capacity to thwart the agnostic attitude of her spouse. Sarah Penn’s calm yet dominating presence exemplifies in the sequences when she argues & combats with her husband Adoniram Penn.

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, figurative language is effectively used in the latter part of Act I, Scene 3 in order to denote the true gravity of the exchange that takes place between the two generals and the three witches. Even though both men were brave and unshakeable in battle, each became fearful and emotionally disturbed from the prophetic messages that they were given during their encounter with the foreboding women on a tumultuous night in the moor.

In order to develop the ethical rigor of the experiment, the researchers “followed the guidelines of the Stanford human subjects ethics committee that approved” the experiment (O’Toole, 1997). This means that an independent board reviewed the goals and conditions of the experiment and did not anticipate any harm that would occur to the participants.

As a contemporary, I clearly think that Carol Ann Duffy furthers this cause in her poems The Kray Sisters and Standing Female Nude. She may be termed as being postmodern philosophically, but not artistically, therefore, apprehension thus ensues amid the conventional form as well as the politicized content.

True to its setting, Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest presents a chaotic portrayal of our society as a world of madness, where gender is stereotyped to assign specific roles and grant us individual characters, such that men and women are expected to adhere to their respective “masculine” and “feminine” nature.

The very first person Dante encountered within the Inferno is the distinguished Roman poet of B.C. era i.e. Virgil, who would serve Dante’s guide to Inferno, and would lead him towards all the nine circles. Since Virgin was born several decades before Jesus Christ, he is certainly a non-believer of the Christian faith.

As has always been the case against all forms of gender disparity, the writer notes of how attempts were made to integrate girls into this whole saga of Manga and thus the opening of the closed world of Shoio Managa.

The ideals and thoughts of Romanticism reached America and its writers in the nineteenth century. Romanticism in America was often the product of the transcendentalism that was also a feature of the American philosophical landscape during the nineteenth century. Writers were influenced by this school of thought and it reflected in their writings. 

He swears at the Prince and Pons warning them that he would defeat the king and chase him out of his kingdom. His verbal expansiveness is evident right from the beginning and slowly develops with time in due course of progress of the scene. Falstaff has a very convincing way of speaking.

The first device is a symbol. The first symbolic figure in the book is a shoe. It has been used to serve the purposes of evoking sex and adult and feminity images. In the case of Esperanza, the shoes serve the main role of illustrating the conflict she experiences between her independent desire and her emerging sexual attractiveness.

A Comparison between the “Dark Knight Movie” and “Good Country People” The dark knight movie is based on a comic book which debut in 1940 called the Long Halloween. This movie is directed by Christopher Nolan and follows the previous movie called the Batman Begins which was filmed in the year 2005.

Literally, the poem, The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost talks about a traveler who comes across a Y junction. There are two roads of nearly the same quality though one has used just a little bit more by travelers before but that morning, neither of the two roads had been used. The traveler, for a while cannot decide on which of the two roads to take: “…long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth” (Frost, 2012).

In English phonology, tragedy refers to a disastrous event which results in a negative consequence like injury or even loss of life. Within the literature element of drama, tragedy refers to a literary work where the main character undergoes distress, suffering or death at the end of a play.

So when our duty to the law, to our beliefs, is contrary to the duty to the family we can be caught in be brought to an emotional and ethical conundrum that is at the core of many great stories. Antigone, Abraham, and Medea are exceptional examples of when the question of duty is resting at a crossroads between family and the rest of the world we live in.

The poem as a whole is a shaped one. We can see that this was intentional because of the way Rilke repeats the word “enough” (Rilke, I Am Too Much Alone, www.poets.org, 2001) yet leaves it on a separate line, in order to make the appearance fragmented, and draw attention, not only to this word in particular, but also to these few lines of the first stanza.

The researcher states that loyalty is one of the most important themes of the play King Lear by William Shakespeare, since the plot is fundamentally shaped by Lear’s attempt to judge the loyalty of his daughters towards himself. The author thinks that Lear’s way of judging the love and loyalty of his daughters for him is shallow and unsophisticated.

The Courtier states “I wish our courtier be of gentle race and be nobly born; . . . given that noble is perceive as and really is like a bright light that distinguishes and makes plain both wicked and good actions” ( Sayre, The Perfect Courtier, para 4, retrieved from Earenyeka’s essay 2012 ).

We see therefore that Frost has certain common elements in his poems: his humanist concerns, his use of the first-person narrative as a contrapuntal voice, his rich imagery drawn from nature, his use of a simple surface-level narrative to hide a deeper meaning. Each of these indicates the poet’s thoughtful, humane and introspective outlook that comes across in his work as well.

The main character in this book “Candide ” is portrayed as a man of sufficient determination amidst disillusionment in the entire book. His life is described from a premature background as struggling to chart his destiny despite the many pitfalls on his way. Candide is said to have been forced to join the Bulgarian army when found lost.

This research will begin with the statement that of the vast number of literary works that have since flourished different cultures of the world and enriched various minds heretofore, the researcher must confess having had a deep appreciation of poetries especially those that depict the essence of understanding history with respect to the issue of race and color.

Mary Shelley has also used another female character, Margaret Seville, to show how men take control of their women in the family institution. Being submissive to men and respecting all their decisions without objection. Mary tries to show how any male-dominated society fails to consider women’s role and view on factors affecting the whole society.

She lived in poverty during the early years of her life, and this phase was to her, a great teacher. Duse had no formal education and her learning came from her mother Angelica. She performed her first role, that of Cosette, in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables at the tender age of four, when the Duse family troupe performed the play.

 All of them speak of seemingly ordinary and innocuous occurrences from daily life but have a universal message on the differences between human beings and both the bridges and the walls that we construct daily in the course of our interactions with each other.

Although they all meet at different times and under different circumstances, their stories intertwine to give rise to the author’s narration. This essay seeks to examine how the author incorporates his thoughts and attitudes into the characters within the novella, judging by the information contained in the appendix.

The sequence of "A Street in Bronzeville” poems vividly explains Gwendolyn Brook’s theory that challenges and obstacles encumber the person’s hopes of fulfilling one’s dreams of equally better community life. These obstacles, however, may be related to a person’s financial status, gender, sexual orientation, age group, or any other factor.

The true reason for the NATO intervention in Libya had little if anything to do with humanitarian rights. Rather, as this writer became aware, the ultimate causation was Old European powers along with their American counterparts realizing that there was a fundamental weakness exhibited in the aging leadership of a very wealthy North African nation.

In Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, there are some intertextual references that aid the reader in better appreciating the narrative and it is connections to other installations (Shelly, 2009). There are palpable references in the narrative, such as the one on the heading page; Frankenstein (Ruthwell, 2010).

The play ‘The Crucible’ is a classical drama that was written in the 1950s by the author Arthur Miller. The setting of this drama is in Salem, Massachusetts, and it dates back to 1692. The setting is in Puritan only societies who were known to be very religious. However, there was a practice of witchcraft which was not acceptable.

Dracula, one of the most renowned novels by Bram Stoker is not just a piece of everyday fiction but rather contains an entire generation in itself that incorporates various famous beliefs, thoughts, ideas that are belonging to the Victorian time period. In this novel, the author Bram Stoker draws a detailed picture of what society looked like in his generation.

Importance of Setting to the Hound of the Baskervilles In Arthur Doyle’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, the atmosphere is characterized by attributes which conform to those of a detective at work. The novel, therefore, has a mystic and scary sensation, which is intended to build the reader’s tension and excitement thus making this literary work intriguing.

This essay explores the Chinese modern literature based on such novels of Eileen Chang as Golden Cangue, Dilemmas, Love in a fallen City, Idealism and others. Writer’s works are full of metaphors and symbolism. Some of her novels were filmed. Eileen Chang talks about human feelings in her works, about the relationship between people.

“Trifles” is a drama about the marital conflict between a couple, Mr. Wright and Mrs. Wright, leading to the murder of the former. Investigations are carried out to identify the alleged murderer by the local legal authorities and the astute women friends of the Wright family.  What is the reason for the serious differences between the bard-like Mrs. Write and the hard-hearted Mr. Wright?

Nick, though more watchful and diffident and suffering from the ravages of his father's neglect, has very destructive behavioural patterns; albeit these patterns are presented as much milder than his father's. Olivia Thirlby is Nick's one-time lover, closest friend, and co-worker who also witnesses Nick's struggle with moral addictions.  

This story made Mark Twain famous, because it already reflected his unique humor that had been formed gradually in his previous stories. The humor of Mark Twain represents unique and at the same time real American fictional phenomenon. Twain became uninterested in traditional American humor that attracted the attention of the people, who were not too unpretentious in literature.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author Arthur Doyle and he is a famous and immensely successful fictional detective with many successful stories in his name. This detective story is considered to be amongst the greatest detective stories of the modern times and his abilities border great fantasies.

According to the report Kafka wrote the fiction 'A Hunger Artist' out of the need to point out worker safety, for which he worked in his later years as well. The hunger artist had no other option to live his life than performing the art he knew to get the attention of people. The art no longer charmed people and his efforts went unnoticed later on.

The analysis concluded that the writer’s approach is a fusion of facts and fiction to grab the attention and interest of the readers. The writer has used a frank and matter-of-factly tone throughout the story and uses his creative imagination and power on language to keep the readers engrossed until the end.

In conclusion, the two“lotteries” are each significant in their own ways and the underlying similarities between them are undeniable. However, a critical examination of the contents and the writers’ different backgrounds and motivations leave little doubt that to a large extent the commonalities are coincidental.