Literature Essays

The essay shall focus on the thematic analysis of the short story, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and the poem, “On Being Brought from Africa to America” by Phillis Wheatley and judge the intricate relations between race, culture, identity, space and geography inherent and operational within the texts.

According to the research findings, it can, therefore, be said that the man died because he could not manage to make a fire to keep his body warm in the snow. The dog is even a more worthy creature as it manages to survive the cold unlike its master, whose numb and freezing body succumbs to death from the biting cold in the snow

The author examines a story The Legend of sleepy hollow, set in the country side around the Dutch settlement in 1790. It is set in a secluded town known as sleepy hollow. This creates the haunting atmosphere thus portraying a terrific scenario of ghosts in secluded environment.  The second element is the plot of the literature.

Prior to the 1600s, mankind believed that culture and religion offered an answer to most of their questions. If they were faced with any problems, they sought the help of their deities in a bid to alleviate them.

The poem reflects a contrast between sadness and joy, the nightingale representing a sense of joy that is missing from the narrator’s experience. The narrator wishes for the innocence of a lack of the knowledge for what is making them sad and goes on to describe a world in which he believes the nightingale is immersed in peace and joy.

“The Wasteland” by T S Eliot, on the other hand, narrates the post World War social conditions, through many distorted images in multiple settings. Both these works of literature are notable for their portrayal of human life and misery through a multi-tiered world within a world as their settings to achieve impact on the audience.

The concept of Owen Meany and the incompletion that is in the novel is one which is based on the understanding of fragmented personalities. The objects and characters all show a sense of incompletion.

The author states that the story is written by the author Clarke, who portrays himself as a scientist and an astronaut and believed in the existence of God at the beginning of the story. The author is faced by many questions that continually fill his mind and those that he must find answers to. He has doubts with his fellow crew members.

With new criticism, reasoning is all about scientific methodologies based on empiricism. The attempt of this reasoning is to account for incidences in critical literature that bear non-scientific cognition. On the other hand, analyzing “The Hitch-Hikers” will also require psychological criticism, which deals with psychology as a science that entails a lot of knowledge.

From a very early age Henry David Thoreau decided to use his own life experience as a helpful source and means of self-education. Being a self-confident, optimistic personality, he reflected this essence in his writings.

All through the chapter, Quigley celarly explains the close relationship between social and individual concerns and in the introductory section he refers to the modern play with attention focused in the horizon of a domain.

Scott Fitzgerald approaches gender roles in both a predictable and a visionary way. As a means of understanding this unique dichotomy, this brief analysis will discuss the methods by which F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes both traditional/conservative understandings of gender roles as well as incorporating key elements of visionary and/or avant guarde interpretations of these constructs within the novel.

In the absence of free will, the family becomes destiny. It is destiny when it turns into the most powerful motivator and shaper of human behavior. In Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill explores the role of families in people’s destinies. He uses stage direction and characters to show the continuing force that a family plays.

It is credited for transforming the ancient Chinese culture, but did also evolve with the changing Chinese dynasties and their social-political demands. The evolution has extensively altered the characteristics of the doctrine and facilitated different interpretations.

This paper discusses the three owners in terms of their comparison to each other.

Linda’s story endeavours to provoke the compassion of her readers in order to endorse humanitarianism. However, this is not done in the usual way of depicting a female as a weakling who just accepts all that is handed to her. Most writers attempt to bring out compassion in a character by using the stereotypical ‘damsel in distress’ role.

The author states that Persuasion which was Austen’s only novel till today that remains as the most critically neglected one. When it was published it was criticized as being ‘less fortunate’ when compared to her previous work and hence viewed as an inferior adaptation of her usual stories “devoid of invention...obviously, all drawn from experience.

In many of his short stories, Anton Chekhov seeks to present his case for action through symbols. The story The Black Monk is one of the most well known short stories of Anton Chekhov. Known for his inimitable style and themes of artistic autonomy, this story is fairly representative of what Chekhov stood for throughout his writing career.

King Lear’s action is very quick and he immediately disinherits Cordelia. In this part of the play, the king severs his relationship to his daughter Cordelia and considers her as a “stranger.” The rage that King Lear feels is so great that he does not only disinherit Cordelia; he also gives her share to her sisters Goneril and Regan.

The conclusion from this review states that being feminine, girls may have their own distinct vision which may totally be in conflict with that of the boys, but girls of a particular race do not have any conflict of views with those of another race until culture comes into the scenario. As long as the culture is same, race does not play any role in depicting choices and influences in life.

The poet calls science as the daughter of time, for, man had started his discoveries and inventions ever since time immemorial. He is worried that science has the magical power to change everything.

When looking at this story through a Marxist lens, one can see that there is the aspect of societal classification and the ethics of a society that is consumer conditioned. The Marxist Socialism school of though holds that those who earn a salary, also refereed to as the working class, are molded by the state they are in, that is, wage-slavery.

Death was very common in the Middle Ages. It could be met with all over the place, and it was a favourite topic for a large number of people. Because life was very hard in those times, people were generally very religious, and religion debates the issue of dying quite often.

This paper will look at the third chapter of Shelley's masterpiece both closely and as part of a wider picture to show that this early section of the novel, written in the early years of the larger Gothic movement, is full of prophetic detail about not only the rest of the story but the rest of Gothic literature.

Castle (quoted in Harker 1996, 53) defines “arete” as the ability to fully maximize physical and mental endowments. Hayward and Hambrick (1997, quoted in Lorenz 2011, 21) consider hubris as a state of extreme confidence engendered by internal disposition and external stimuli.

It talks about the sufferings of women in different forms, in different cultures. It is an eye-opener. It calls us to fight against gendercide, almost a daily show in developing countries. Through Half the Sky, Kristoff and WuDunn was able to detail the struggle of women for equality, and what would possibly happen if women’s value was taken into consideration in the many fields of our society.

The Doll’s house by Henrick Ibsen was known for its presentation of 19th-century society with its characteristic ideology regarding family and life of women. He effectively conveyed the dissatisfaction suffered by the then female society due to the materialistic and dominating attitude of the male especially in the name of the marriage bond.

The themes of these poems and fictional works revolve around the nature and the environment under which the soldiers were fighting, narrating the hardships that they experienced and the sacrifices they made to ensure they defended the interest of the people back in their home countries.

In both novels, the topic of violence is discussed. The story by Zora Hurston is often considered from the perspective of feminism. Therefore, in both novels it is shown that once practiced, violence cannot be stopped. The writer claims that It is possible to draw a linear development of a violent person on the example of Holden and Janie.

This research will begin with the statement that the song of the lasting regret was the most famous romantic poem in the late19 70s, up to mid-80s, written by EO Juyis (Kroll, 1990-1991).  The poem is about a notorious love affair between Emperor Li Longji and the lady he raised to the rank of a precious consort, Yang Yabutt, in the 942 C.E. 

Reviews are mostly written in these two forms for pharmaceutical research which relates to the health of the people. Many test cases on animals and human beings are done in the research to investigate and deduce the accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency of every single medicine made before launching it into the market for commercial use.

Through her novel Mrs. Walker reveals her early political interests as a civil rights worker and the reader can find many of her social views and ideologies discussed in this novel. American black women are subjected to racial discrimination from white people and from their second repression black men, who forcefully impose the double standard of white community on women.

“Bhagavad-Gita is a poem in eighteen chapters; it addresses the fundamental human concerns. It also provides guidelines on how to live an idle life which is free from greed, lust and all the other evils that one could possibly think of.” (The Norton Anthology of World Literature)

The paper tells that the story was set to represent two different phases in the society. The two phases include the old generation who are bound by the tradition and the new generation who don’t believe in the tradition. It uses Nnaemeka to represent the new generation while Okeke represents the old generation. It tries to illustrate that today marriage is totally a private affair.

The author, Lisa See criticizes the inhuman treatment that women had to go through for the purpose of attaining small-sized feet that is a potent symbol throughout the novel. The novel places great emphasis on the relationship between the two main characters, Snow Flower and Lily and shows the progress of their relationship and the different courses that their lives take.

“The Wife of His Youth” was about Mr. Ryder who was a member of a colored race and a dean in Blue Veins Society – a “little society of colored persons organized...shortly after the war.” It consisted of individuals who were, “generally speaking, more white than black.”

Kenan’s work concentrates upon the protagonist, Maggie MacGowan Williams, an old black woman, and the young white boy named Gabriel, the gay friend of her deceased grandson Edward.

 Through describing the scene, through the location and time, using narratives and dialogues, the readers are accorded with the opportunity to determine that the supposed endeavor apparently was a welcoming of new participants to an evil-worshipping group or cult.  

Rat Kiley relied on comic books to see him through the horror of the Vietnam War. In their physical forms, these comic books allowed Riley to escape the war through his imagination, turning to the stories and pictures of another world to help him survive his own.

Literature reviews range from simple with less extensive scopes to the more complex reviews that cover a wider scope. In this regard, it is worthy to note that students normally need to write literature reviews as they begin their college and undergraduate studies while the professional scholars do it as a routine in their quest to write reports worthy of publishing

The work that follows compares and contrasts the literary elements in ‘Punishment’ by Rabindranath Tagore and ‘The Conscience of the Court’ by Zora Neale Hurston based on plot, character, setting and theme with an aim of demonstrating the harsh conditions that the poor pass in the rural community.

On 8th September, 1836, the day prior to the publication of Emerson’s most famous book, Nature, he met with George Putnam, Frederic Henry Hedge and George Ripley, to Plan Periodic Meetings of Other Concurring Intellectuals.

This paper mainly focuses on the first part of the poem set in King Arthur’s court and features the lavish celebration of the New Year disturbed by the arrival of the mysterious Green Knight. The poem exposes very important themes about the political heritage of Britain but also raises critical issues of honor and chivalry.

This paper tells that the aging process is something that everyone must eventually contend with, and it can be hard on one’s self and one’s family.  It is inherently ripe for conflict, which is one of the reasons it is so frequently used in the artistic sphere; it involves conflict between people, dependency, changing relationships and even conflict between the mind, the soul and the body itself.

According to the paper, the three witches heighten the element of drama in the very first scene of Act 1, and give an over view of the mood of the play: ‘darkness, thunder, lightning, battle lost and won’- everything prepares the reader for a Shakespearean tragic drama. He thus employs such elements to enhance the imagery and symbolism in the play.

Ellison, through the protagonist of his fiction, communicates the very message that the notion might is right certainly prevails everywhere in the world, escaping from which is mere the fool’s dream. The novel also indicates the secret activities performed by the so called human rights activists in the name of justice and equality for all.

The story essentially begins by the show of valour and strength by Okonkyo in a wrestling match. However the villagers are accommodative in nature, as they even have place for people like his father irrespective of his material failures and debts.

They are both strong men who are dedicated to the concept of honor. They are also both leaders of their people and consider battle to be the best way to demonstrate their leadership qualities. Because of this, it is easily argued that the Iliad is a story that illustrates how battle is the maker of men.

The essays written by Job Krakauer and Charles Siebert provide valuable insights on how man should treat the other animal species. Krakauer’s Into the Wild, may actually be the real story of Chris McCandless as he tries to survive the Alaskan wild but it also highlights his realizations about man’s relationship with animals.

The portrayal of the women in the novel is strong and de Valdes has repeatedly stated this point in many different words. The reader of the article has to agree to this point picked up. It is especially startling as the time period in which the novel is based is certainly not an era in which women had a lot of societal role to play.