Literature Essays

d. The hope that Lady Macbeth is referring to is the hope that Macbeth had about killing Duncan. Macbeth had been so sure about it prior to the banquet, but he is slowly losing hope in his ability to go through with the action. Lady Macbeth wants him to kill Duncan, and she has become uneasy that Macbeth might be changing his mind.

Deeper analysis makes it clear that the dominant theme of both tales is the concept of the social scapegoat. “The Doll’s House,” and “Desiree’s Baby,” both focus on the rigid conventions and prejudices which prevail in society and the unwritten codes of behavior to which people conform.

Romeo and Juliet written sometime between 1591 and 1595 by William Shakespeare in his early career as a playwright, is a love story between two teenagers. It is one of those typical novels that depict the tragic fate of teenage love and the brutal reaction of society and feuding families on two souls helplessly and madly in love with each other.

The first question that this work raises in my mind is the real value of heroism. If an individual is aiming to be a real hero, he or she must be aware of its consequences. For instance, support from one’s friends, relatives, and well-wishers, is most important. Within this context, Beowulf’s fellowmen supported him and it helped him to undergo a number of hardships during his journey.

The present research has identified that F. Scott Fitzgerald is not the first to write a story that tackles the crisis of meaning.  Among the earliest is the poet William Wordsworth.   One of Wordsworth’s most renowned works is ‘The Prelude”, which is a very long poem that narrates an account of how Wordsworth discovers himself further.

William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, was performed for the first time at around 1600. Since then, it has established to be one of the English language’s most enduring stories. Hamlet has been produced countless times; it has come to the screen through sit-coms, in epithets varying from early, hushed adaptation to ostentatious, color pictures.

In “The Outsider”, Camus presents us with a very unusual and quite shocking protagonist in the character of Meursault, who is utter without morals, judgments, or any kind of belief system. Lacking motivation or remorse for his crime, he is judged to be a type of monster by society and condemned to death.

He has highlighted almost all the characteristics of the newly established Irish state in his work such as lack of language, the division of Irish society into different units, and the hypocrisy of the newly established Irish state that failed to adjust to the insufficiency of its societal structure. ‘Dancing at Lughnasa, Friel has highlighted some of the important themes such as migration and memory.

Holgrave is portrayed as a man who can take control of his inner desolation at any time. He has been shown as a strong young man who wants to take control of his love life but eventually falls for the girl of the enemy family (Gatta,p.40). Holgrave is not a man who forgets his past neither he is capable of forgetting the sin which was committed by Colonel Pyncheon.

Keats invented a new poetic frame for these poems for he found conventional structures to be inadequate for philosophical musings that is the Odes’ defining characteristic. Keats wanted the tone of these odes to be introspective with lesser emphasis on lyrical harmony.

In the play, Hally learnt through the difficult way, not from his drunken father or the discriminative society, all would be described as a teaching of hell. Although sometimes Hally could not control his emotions when talking about conflicting conditions in his life, he demonstrated that he did not like the conflicts he observed in his community.

Critics have conceived the story of The Old Man and the Sea as interesting and exciting at the same time while its symbolism is regarded as quite ‘meaningful and profound’ (Shams 93). Even though the novel depicts Santiago’s heroic struggles against the forces of nature the theme of individualism and interdependence is quite evident in the novel.

Charles Dickens had himself undergone many different transformations in his life, where he had seen many ups and downs, and thus the protagonist of the novel i.e. Pip is merely the portrayal of himself in a way. Dickens had seen quite a hard life himself after which he eventually achieved success, thus being at a lower place in the social spectrum he had developed a strong sense of class system and acquired the quality to judge people based on various traits which they seem to posses, thus he had conceived such characters based on his judgment (Jhonson pp 23).

Freedom and equality: Rhetoric in the pre-Civil War period Name Instructor Class 16 August 2012 In the new nation, different groups existed together, but not without acceptance of each other’s physical and ideological differences. The Declaration of Independence of the United States Government in July 4, 1776 set the religious precedent of equality, where it recognizes and defends the belief that God created people, who are equal to one another.

The book was written by the author inspired by the famous painting called “Girl with a Pearl Earring” created by famous painter Johannes Vermeer. Then the book was cinematized in 2003 and it was a very close to plot adaptation of the book. Many people, especially devoted readers tend to think that it is much more interesting to read books than to watch their screen versions.

The first challenge that Sundiata faced was in his early childhood. He could not walk, even at age seven. This made him the object of scorn and rejection. The soothsayers had predicted that he would be a great leader, a king of Mali. However, as the years passed, everyone forgot about the words of the soothsayers, except his mother and a few faithful friends.

This leads to various tragedies as the monster searches for acceptance. Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by J.M. Coetzee that centers on a crisis of morality and conscience by a magistrate working as a loyal servant in a tiny frontier town of the empire.

Alan Sillitoe’s “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner” is the poignant tale of a seventeen-year-old adolescent, Smith, and his time at Borstal, or remand school for youthful offenders. Smith is inured to a life of petty crime and has been arrested for burgling a bakery. His long-distance running skills bring him to the notice of the institution’s governor, who sees in Smith the opportunity for a public relations coup.

The most important aspect of the story is the manner in which the author, Joyce uses the plotline and the events in the story, its characters and strengthen the theme of the story. Joyce uses the character of Mr. Farrington, and his deeds to underscore the main theme which is the socioeconomic ravages of alcoholism in the story.

This often leads to the revisiting of Caliban as a character. Caliban in recent critical debates is a colonial subject who is represented in a cruel and misleading light. While there are many instances in the text that suggest that this is done with ambiguous intentions, there are also cases where the ideas of racism become important in analysis.

The persona in the poem had given all her heart to the lover. Unfortunately, the lover did not stay long enough with her. This situation leaves her dejected to the extent of losing hope in life. This is evidenced by her decision to dim her light. In this regards, the author has successfully evoked this feeling in the reader's mind.

Laclos presents his ambiguous stance on morality through the characters of Tourvel and de Merteuil, considering that Laclos illustrates both faults and weaknesses of characters. In this case, it is likely that such ambiguity presents the objective intention of the authors in creating their art, regardless of the sidetracked social relevance of their works.

In Haroun and the Sea of Stories, four different characters ask what the use of stories is if they are not even true. This question is what leads to the main character’s father, Rashid, losing his ability to tell stories, which is calamitous, as Rashid previously was a master storyteller. This leads Haroun on adventures to essentially rescue the sea of stories from the forces of evil which is trying to eliminate these stories.

It is an exact depiction of the emotional turmoil faced by Henrietta's family, during their journey to find about Henrietta's immortal cancer cells, named as HeLa cells, used for research without the patient or family’s knowledge or consent . These cells because of its rare kind were a great scientific discovery and still hold importance in scientific research.

The most crucial aspect of the Enlightenment was the belief in the secularization of society where the church was to be separated from the state. The Enlightenment was spearheaded by the philosophes, who were scholars whose work gave life to this age.

Although there are several means by which an author could seek to analyze the text and point to key passages and overall evidence about whether or not these characters complement one another or integrate to form a stark contrast, how this analysis will undertake to prove such a point is by analyzing the key similarities and differences.

He was spiritual but not religious – he married three times. His portrayal of women in his works was also colored a great deal by his own life, having been born the only boy with three sisters (Liang 5). His belief, right from this early time in his life was that all humanity deserved a chance or a fair chance at that at success, a concept that he exploits in his writing.

The author of the paper compares the relationship between Victor Frankenstein and his Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to what Freud describes in his analysis of the Doppelganger in “The Uncanny.” Frankenstein, when he first attempts to create life from dead flesh, fits very well into Freud’s category of the narcissist.

The author states that the main character realizes that he is the first in the process of knowledge then the rest fall in place like rows of grass. He is the most important, like a lost prince that needs to find his identity and everything else will know indeed that he found his lost soul. The world around him will respond by obeying and making him happy.

The comedy contains five acts, with a primary theme of social order satire. This is mainly because the main characters are seemingly religious and witty people, but there is so much irony surrounding their behaviors, which leads to a lot of questioning regarding their degree of being religious or witty, making the comedy completely satirical.

Due to long exposure to active warfare, he suffers from shell shock and uses the forest as a way of healing and forgetting atrocities he witnessed while at the warfront. In this case, forest environment offers him both quietness and calmness he wants contrary to former traumatizing battlefields characterized by machine guns, bombs and tankers.

It is an example of the genre of ‘magical realism, in which the author blends the magical and the ordinary so skilfully that the line between reality and fantasy is blurred. The story is an allegory, with two levels of meaning. On the surface, it seems to be a fairy tale.

The Old English poem Beowulf (Hall) is one of the most spectacular examples in the heroic epic genre since it brings to life the struggles of brave warriors, and a single outstanding warrior in particular, in the face of all kinds of danger. It is renowned for its alliterative verse form and its lively depiction of the ancient Germanic warrior culture.

Medea was not intended to be a social critique of the status of women. Even though Euripides does not portray Medea as originally wretched, Medea at the start of the play stands in stark contrast with the terrifying witch demon who escapes in a chariot given to her by her grandfather. The presentation of Medea should never be taken as separate but rather a concern.

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant were written at different times, in different countries, and in different settings. Their characters have different fates and their stories have different endings. However, there is something in common between these two literary works.

In the paper “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” the author analyzes one of the Canterbury Tales, which is written somewhere in1390 and commonly considered to be one of his works during his creative years. Antifeminism is the keyword or the key term for the Wife of Bath interpretation.

People who mark themselves so are definitely not mad or have unstable minds, but may suffer from fantasies which are enhanced with a tipple or two. And the glitzy, neon-lit commercial tattoo parlors look so attractive on such trips of delusion, that a person just gets drawn towards it in an inebriated state. 

The various experiences encountered on the journey become an inspiration for literature. The significance of these experiences varies according to how people perceive it. Two of the most memorable literary works with the same central subject are: “I Used To Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys and “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty.

The play has been considered Shakespeare’s most tightly constructed tragedy. In this play Shakespeare has made proficient use of different literary devices that well complemented the tragic theme of the play and supported the construction of the central character Othello as a tragic hero.

Literature has long presented utopian and dystopian visions of the future or idealized societies. In large part, these explorations function to shed light on the existence humans face in their current society. Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’, Ursula Le Guin’s‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,’ and Harlan Ellison’s ‘Repent, Harlequin!

Taking into consideration the food, augmentation from herbs, relaxation, and of course the environment is very important to be able to have a holistic approach to a person’s overall well-being. As mentioned, the problem of obesity has greatly weighted down efforts to achieve this healthy lifestyle which has been exacerbated by the societal factors attributed to the fast-paced lifestyle.

What Attitude Does This Poem Reflect? The Last Duchess, a poem composed by Robert Browning, reflects the Italian renaissance time through one of the most representative dramatic monologues. The character of the Duke and the Duchess is fully revealed through the monologue.

We should never forget 9/11 was also the worst ever terrorist attack against UK civilians, and our thoughts are with all those - American, British, and from nations across the world - who lost their lives and with their loved ones who remain and who live with their loss. 9/11 was an attack not just on the United States, but on all those who shared the best values of civilization.

In a subtly proud yet enthusiastic musing of a notable journey, Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’ presents a general view of life and implies persuasion to acknowledge the most realistic though equally rewarding philosophy. It calls forth an essential realization that life, despite its twists and turns through good and bad, is all about a matter of choice and standing by it.

Women and Our Impressions of Them Word Count: 1250 (5 pages) I. Introduction Women have had a variety of roles over the years. As they have gained their independence, women have changed and shaped the landscape of what our world looks like. If it were not for women, many daily tasks would not get completed, and many chores would remain undone.

Literature has often been described as representing human life as it is involving the sketches of real-life situations. The genre of fiction or novels brings out various such instances where the characters in them really resemble the members of one’s family. This resemblance has frequently been mentioned as providing the readers a moral insight that they try to imitate or assume themselves in such positions.

The ode under consideration makes the readers pay attention to the things that take place around them and evaluate the gifts given by autumn to all people. John Keats admires and glorifies this season demonstrating its importance. The ode To Autumn may be called a didactic writing because it teaches to love nature and encourages taking care of it.

The concepts which are stated by Woolf offer a perspective based on gender identity and suppression which occurred because of definitions in society. The authority which is established by Woolf is defined specifically by the analysis of the situation, definitions within society and the expectations which arise from this. 

“To be in love” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “I Need to be in Love” by the Carpenters both deal with the subject of being in love. Love is a universal feeling and strong emotion that is experienced by different people from all walks of life. The comparative analysis of the identified poem and song would be tackled.

The author states that Charles Johnson’s story proposes the view that sociological and economical backgrounds play a vital role in the process of creating motivation among the people. Major characters follow some beliefs about wealth and its material benefits in this earthly life. Money changes the brothers into burglars and later beggars in the street.