Literature Essays

“Monkey” and “Jabberwocky” are similar in plot, because they both deal with the “unreal,” but cultural elements also pervade their content. “Jabberwocky” is a poem about the widely-feared dragon, the Jabberwock, which has a gibberish name. Individualism is apparent in how the boy finishes his quest alone.

Marriage is a contract between two individuals, in which both take the responsibility of fulfilling each other’s needs and take an oath to be faithful towards each other throughout life. Almost all religions have declared marriage as the sole means by which people can satiate their sexual cravings without having to disobey their Creator. 

The author states that the above-mentioned writers indicated the role of the home due to depicting the relations between a wife and a husband, a child and parents. This is easily seen by means of the following stories: Half and Half (by Amy Tan), Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (by Joyce Carol Quates).

The play is about double lives. There are two young men in London, one named Jack and the other named Algernon. It all started because of an inscription in Jack’s cigarette lighter. Because Jack was known to Algernon as Ernest, he had to explain the inscription why he was called Jack by a certain Cecily.

Generally speaking, the story describes the callous deflating of that tender shoot’s romantic outlook into the world. Mark Twain’s work keeps a different status from other comedies because of its specific structure. The author generates humor through perfect characterization and a well-structured plot.

What makes this an unusual love story is that Jake and Brett never unite despite Jake’s affection for her since old times. But towards the denouement, Brett only desires out of regret that it could work. The story starts taking a new form because of the disconnection between these two characters. Cohn, another expatriate is now a rich Jewish writer and friend of Jake.

I will use various sources to find areas where Whitman chose to do something different from the cultural norm, or where he simply decided to make a turnaround in his life. Bloom, Harold. Walt Whitman. New York: InfoBase Publishing, 2008 Harold Bloom describes Whitman’s work, Leaves of Grass in his book, Walt Whitman.

The idea of losing friends, familiarity, and security is particularly alarming because they represent the high level of courage that even girls can show, particularly during those times when women in general, and African American women, in particular, had been at the back line of nearly every activity. It highly appealed to the feminist in me, which is why I liked the quote.

The successful uprisings of the Greeks against the Persians are a subject of debate in today’s world. Darius and Xerxes are the main cause of these revolts. Greek people are characterized as people fighting for democratic space and freedom from authoritarian rule.

The advantages and positive effects have been disclosed to range from enhancing cognitive skills and enhanced brain activities in clearly defined regions; to serving as brain training activities for the elderly; as well as in simulating adaptive and responsive behavior in challenges in the real world.

The same message has been passed in unique ways in bringing out the true colors of the characters to the audience. Satire is evident in both plays with essential similarities in themes and style of the stories. In the entire discussion, the audience has been left taking sides with some characters and sharing a few sentiments concerning the way they are treated in the entire story.

According to the findings, it can, therefore, be said that Alexander Pope has produced a poem that has a living value and relevance. In highlighting the fetishism of people with the materialism, Pope comments upon the degree to which the society appreciates the outward appearances in the place of the moral values.

These issues are the belief in the deity, friendship, and immortality. Humanity struggles to understand the concept of immortality because of its link with the deities and the existence of god. It highlights the various fundamental issues in contemporary society such as religion and beliefs. Social relations are addressed in the story with utmost precision.

In the beginning, Othello appears to trust his wife Desdemona, to the extent of admitting his love for her in the presence of her father, Brabanzio. Brabanzio’s attitude to women is evident when dealing with his daughter (Shakespeare 24). Brabanzio learns that his daughter and Othello are secretly married when Iago and Rodrigo inform him of his daughter’s disappearance.

The early literature works by Chicano authors primarily monitor the history and cultural heritage of Mexican society. In this case, most Chicano writers focus on family units and traditional gender roles. To criticize the portrait given by Anglo-American authors, Chicano writers developed their archetypes of women.

Totalitarianism is a political arrangement whereby the state or a single political party holds absolute control and authority over its society. The objective of such a system is to control every aspects of a group of citizens’ public plus private life.

Poems are considered as a medium for looking at things in a new perspective. One of the lenses that poems allow people to see vividly is the society during the Harlem Renaissance. During this time, almost all of the artists in the different fields had the heart to spread the heritage and identity of the African Americans.

The success of the whole story has been moulded in the understanding of the two different worlds of Lyra. The crossover literature offers several distinct advantages because of the generalization and eases to be shared across the different audiences. The trilogy by Pullman covers issues of magic and fantasy in a candid and fascinating form.

Although similar in general scope and topic, the wonderful works diverge from each other as each artist attempts to make sense of the continuous cycles of life and death, birth and renewal, that all of us, as human beings, endure. In his poem, “Year’s End,” RIchard Wilbur begins his observation of a year-in-end with imagery of death in the first of five stanzas with a comparison to winter and “the dying of the year.” With the first line of the poem, the reader is given an image of a dying wintry scene, and the two words “downs” and “dying.” The poet uses the word “downs” to represent the downy new-fallen snow which blankets and covers the ground, which he associates wit

The essay gives a review of Marion Kaplan’s book. Sosua was actually a small agricultural zone of settlement on the island’s north eastern shore, in which multiple refugees lived in the period of the Second World War. They were granted asylum by the authorities of the Dominican. Kaplan argues in the book that the memory of Sosua still lives.

Woolf takes her energetic treatment and transformation of him from man to woman, and poet to ambassador as a highly amusing task; in fact, it seems to have been a matter of open irony for her as is apparent from the very start, “He – for there could be no doubt of his sex.

The poem was published in Leigh Hunt’s literary periodical The Examiner in the same year. The literary work has been widely acclaimed and it is also regarded as a classic. The sonnet is basically dedicated to developing a reflective observation of the translation of Homer’s major works by George Chapman in 1614.

If Diaz’s work is examined on the criteria of Great American book, it can be said that it needs to be a true reflection of liberalism. Diaz’s work illustrates digression from traditional fiction and amalgamates novels and fiction, which adds liberality to his approach (Crews 34).

The masculine aspects relate to men while the feminine aspects tend to relate to women. Gender binaries connote that men and women have many differences, yet at the same time, they can be regarded as having many commonalities. The gender divisions with regard to gender binaries can be with regard to a number of aspects.

Black Unicorn is a symbol of imaginative and ingenious activism lying among one of the Lorde’s models used and discussed by her. She has discussed the feeling of voicelessness right the way through the volume of The Black Unicorn. The pains and voiceless feelings are best communicated through singing, vocalizing, laughing and these kinds of other sounds that are a distinct mean of expression.

Joyce is an American author born in 1938 in Lockport, New York. She was the oldest in a family of three children. Her mother Carolina raised her as a Catholic, but she is now an atheist. She grew up in a working-class farming community in Millersport. She published her first book, By the North Gate, in 1963. Since then, she has published over forty novels.

Magda seems to be a credible narrator because her first-person point-of-view indicates an intimate expression of her world. She has an honest, but depressed, tone in her writing. Her perspective, however, is infallible because her identity cannot be detached from the colonial system that produced her.

Cicero, a popular Roman statesman, and writer listed the cardinal virtues that all persons should strive to fulfill, namely: justice, courage, prudence, and temperance. Aristotle also encouraged all men to live “a virtuous life.” Benjamin Franklin took up the challenge presented by Aristotle with energized fervor.

The author states that the story is of interest to me as it lays stress upon how the social surroundings and the upbringing of Emily Grierson influences the occurrences in her life and how a lack of strong relationships leads her to lead a life of seclusion and loneliness where she has no one to turn to.

The researcher states that the poem The Journey by Mary Oliver is indeed imbued with much meaning and relevance and the poet has immaculately resorted to an astute usage of tone, metaphor and symbolism, in a simple and understandable way to convey a message that is deep, thought provoking and moving.

The format comprises of various parts like the title page, abstract, table of contents, introduction, background, description of proposed research. It also includes elaborate information about the description of relevant institutional resource, list of references, personnel as well as the budget factor.

The intervening theme, which is Odysseus as a new epic hero, is discussed in order to prove how Odysseus contributes to the cultural imagination and knowledge of ancient Greece. The Boat of Poetry, the Cultural Narrative, and the Marriage Bed. At first, everything goes smoothly, and Odysseus effectively crosses the sea for several weeks.

Due to his maximum protection, Aeneas was given the responsibility to lay foundations in Italy for the glory of the Roman Empire.  The writer of the play constantly points out Aeneas’s heroism as the story develops. Although they encountered challenges like terrible weather and plagues, Aeneas was determined to lay a foundation in Italy for the glory of the Roman Empire.

J. Tyldesley’s Ramesses Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh (2001) gives a wonderful insight into the life and reign of Ramesses II, the great Egyptian pharaoh. Ramesses is heard in history as an exemplary archetypal emperor of Egypt who is considered as the most efficient pharaoh of Egypt. He was a mighty warrior and a bold king who was never afraid to take risks.

“Christopher, the Fisherman” is a short story written by Hermann Schubnell is a commendable read. The reader will easily understand the literary elements that the writer has tried to portray, the symbolism being one of them. The use of nature to explain a man’s mistake, who is fighting for nature itself is a rather brilliant approach.

Paradise Lost sees the performance of several roles by several characters. But for a character to be assigned the tag of being a hero, the character is expected to be the protagonist of the story. Rightly so, Satan could be said to be the protagonist of Paradise Lost due to the definition of roles that were given to Satan in the poem.

“The Road Not Taken” is a poem of regular pattern and exact measure in form while “The Diamond Necklace” assumes a short story narrative. Robert’s poem whose less figurative theme bears much equivalence to that of Guy’s short story may be claimed to have required profound thought in demonstrating the major concept with brief details to work on.

It is funny to note how these men find themselves controlled by their ideas on women, particularly in their search for intimacy. Diaz provides what appears to be a “guide” in reaching physical intimacy with women, all the while highlighting the different actions necessary to impress a girl from a specific race.

The author states that Mario falls deeply in love with his aunt Julia Uriquidi who thinks Mario to be a child and calls him ‘Varguitas’. Mario however, proves to her that he has grown into a young man with great ambitions to become a novelist in Paris. Though age has no barrier where love is concerned.

This paper is a critical evaluation of Woolf’s essay to examine whether her assertion that room and money alone can create woman writers makes any sense. Before passing any judgment on her views a brief look at the content of her lecture is imperative. Woolf is emphatic in her opinion that a woman would have done better if she had the opportunities.

Literature captivates subtle intricacies of life, age and the society making them eternal through the paradigm of its creation and reflection of those subtle features in the creative piece. Slavery is always tormenting and with women, it appears to be the most tormenting phenomenon in the entire world.  

Once the concepts offered by the group members were collected, the group then began to filter concepts based on their complexity, proposed budget, and the ability to gather information using secondary or primary research sources. Specifically, my role was to evaluate the ability to gain primary data for the smoking ban through the use of qualitative research tools such as the questionnaire, interview or the use of quantitative opinion surveys.

The First Amendment involves expressing one’s own idea freely while taking responsibility about what has been said. As shown by Stanley Fish, one good example of a true First Amendment hero is a basketball player who turned her back on the flag during the singing of the national anthem to protest against government policies.

Anthropocentrism refers to a philosophical outlook that places man as the center of concerns; a biocentric perspective takes life to be the focus of concerns, and the ecocentric perspective takes ecology to be the focus of concern. The work discussed the matter although the take-off is conservation criminology, not green criminology in general.

Chamberlain (2005) equates this as a sense of independence in which she would not be tied to children, but that was not the nature of life in Renaissance England where women of the court did not typically raise their own children. It is more likely to indicate that she is representative of a woman divorced from the nature of her gender.  

Her plots are based on female education as her heroine approach self-realization and find her own world and place in society while the others are restricted physically etc. Austen’s heroine supports the present social structure by defying her own desires and this is what exactly Ann does in Persuasion when she rejects Wentworth at first.

‘In Defense of Utopia’ by Lyman Tower Sargent talks about the need for utopia for human beings. Her emphasis is on the fact that utopia does not mean a perfect society, but a better society. Sargent asserts that if people stop believing in a better life, then they lose the quality that makes them human.

It is generally considered that medieval society is unreceptive to the power of women. The patriarchal norms and standards of the medieval Europe compel women to simultaneously play two different roles. They displayed heroic ideals of masculinity, and at the same time preserved the values of their domestic private sphere.

In other stories, the first person narrative provides the reader with all of the insight needed. In the end, the narrative voice is vital to a good piece of detective fiction because it allows the investigator's actions to be integrated seamlessly into the prose.

The author tries to present the subhuman treatment of the slaves by their masters with the intention of perpetuating a mental torture. The author presents loss of maternal self among the main characters. In this aspect, there is a psychological humiliation of not being in control of one’s identity and self hence causing a psychological abuse of self.