Literature Essays

When she was born on February 19, 1952, her parents had already overcome one of the most difficult trial which is the trouble brought about by her mother’s abusive first husband and the separation from her 3 daughter whom she left in China. Because of the heartaches she had learned, she had difficulty accepting her heritage and instead loved American culture because her parents refer to her as An-mei or blessing from America.

Plato’s Republic provides fundamental concepts on the organization of the state, the execution of policy and the personal and societal values, on which they are based. In his most celebrated and studied dialogue, Plato introduces the concept of justice, the stratification of society and the distribution of power in his imagined community.Plato contemplates the idea of the perfect city.

The Ethics of Living Jim Crow explores the issue of white dominance through Jim Crow laws and how blacks act in response to these discriminatory laws and practices. The author utilizes his childhood and adolescent anecdotes to explain the power of prejudice, segregation and discrimination upon the thoughts, feelings and actions of the African-American characters.

Why is Harry Potter literature so controversial? The Harry Potter series has faced many literature controversies over the duration of the past fourteen years and though many view the book series to be a magical and wonderful adventure, owing to the cultural and literary impacts the book has made, it faces such controversies.

As a child, I liked dismantling different objects. Perhaps, that is what children do. However, I never stopped at the dismantling but tried to rebuild the objects that I had dismantled. What started out with Lego blocks was continued by the TAMIYA minicar I received on my fifth birthday.

However, instead of giving them the good life as promised, the war tears them down. Emo turns into alcoholism and Tayo later joins him and other Indian veterans in the drinking syndrome after his efforts to seek healing from post-traumatic stress disorder from the white man’s medicine failed to bear fruits.

The author of the report stresses that the parts of the book are bureaucracy and scientific management, human relations theory and people management, organization culture and self-management, and post-bureaucracy and change management. Additionally, here the issue, how business schools define and study organizations is examined.

The novel was published under her pseudonym – A Lady as female writers were still not considered at par with male writers in terms of talent or worthiness. Sense and Sensibility is a romance novel and like other novels of Jane Austen has the touch of realism associated with it depicting the lives and times of the earlier half of the 19th Century of the English gentry.

Narrative Techniques To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf was known for her poetic legacy of using stream of consciousness narrative technique. To the Lighthouse is one of her literary works that used such narrative technique. This technique is said to be associated with a type of monologue, which targets consciousness to be represented internally or with associated feelings.

The gothic literature is distinct because it depicts the proto-psychological intricacies and the complex interiority of the middle class’ psychological and social well-being (Kehler 437).  It enunciates the anxiety of the middle class in an industrial age as he or she struggles for her place in a society that does not yet fully understand the psychology of the self.

The theme of time is a common thread in Elizabethan sonnet cycles. In an examination of William Shakespeare’s (1564-1616) sonnets, the use of the theme of time can be reviewed for both thematic and functional purposes. Sonnet 1 creates a picture of how time can be personified for savage behavior towards nature, and Sonnet 12 creates animal imagery.

The writer has given much attention to developing characters in the novel. The novel primarily revolves around the character of Deborah which is very close to reality. The reader feels that the novel is narrating a real-life story. Although in day to day life people do not come across issues related to mentally ill people.

Hwang has used the play to reveal to the readers and viewers the ongoing rift between the Eastern and the Western world after the French revolution, which took place several years ago. In the given excerpt of the play, he has portrayed to the readers feminism, racism, and oriental stereotyping in the Middle East and France.

This paper tells that the play is named after Antigone, and not after the other main characters such as Creon, who is the king and the one in a position of power. A close analysis of the play reveals, however, that in fact, Antigone is a coward, because she cannot face up to the contradictions in her own position, and she simply gives up rather than fighting for what she believes in.

Success is oftentimes measured through material wealth or material possessions, as well as the attainment of a college education and a reliable career or business. Eugene O’Neill examines the veracity of the American Dream for an Irish family in his popular play, Long Day's Journey into Night (hereinafter, Journey into Night).

This essay discusses that the theme or meaning that a particular poem expresses is often interwoven in the structure, diction, and words used. Whereas in some poems it easy to single out the theme, some require deep and extensive analysis that goes beyond the superficial meaning of words and figures of speech used.

One of the issues tackled in the poem subtly is love. After the love’s first tremor, the heart and mind of the lover will never remain the same forever. Prufrock is interested in seeing and showing things as they are. With no hurried approach to life, he says, there is a long way to go, but there is a long time also!

‘Where are You Going Where Have you been?’ is a short story by Joyce Carol Oates that was first published in 1966. The setting of the story is the 1960’s American society which was a time when many social conventions were being challenged.

The paper tells that “The Briefcase,” and “The Bullet in the Brain,” are largely focused on the exploration of the identities of their respective protagonists. The strongest thematic link between “The Briefcase,” and “The Bullet in the Brain,” is the exploration of identity. Both the stories are grounded on the exploration of the identities of their protagonists.

Literature Review (Modern and Classic) In Ragtime, Doctorow makes reference to recognizable historical figures and events. However, he changes certain details that entirely fabricate the real circumstances. The novel takes on a building block of fantasy as well as addressing the subjectivity of these historical moments.

As time goes, a lot of people argue that the genre of love stories has been exhausted and it is very difficult to find something new to create a unique piece of writing. However, the theme of love in Classical literature is abundant. Love stories are seen as a part of any writing as they are the reality- love is there in war and at peace.

According to the findings of the paper, it can be said that greed and envy rule society today and have taken over the concepts of justice and fairness. Society adores the achievers, no matter what the process of achieving is—the non-achiever, the one who suffers losses, is being destroyed by the inner conviction of uselessness. 

Initially, the inception of arts in Japan came through China. The literary aspect of the Japanese civilization was because of the efforts done by the Chinese scholars and think-tanks. Most of the prior arts and designing of Japan had Chinese touch in them. The evident differentiation started from the 17th and 19th centuries.

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is his darkest tragedy set in Scotland and dramatizes the political and psychological effects, which Lord Macbeth portends when he selects evil means in realizing power. To become king, Lord Macbeth commits regicide and undertakes a murderous terror in order to retain power, which eventually leads his country to civil war. However, he lost everything eventually.

After a careful scrutiny of Hamlet’s, it can be inferred that Hamlet is Hamlet is not coward, but nobly indecisive. He appears to be a noble and considerate personality who thinks much about the consequences of his actions. He wants to take revenge on Claudius who is supposed to be the murderer of his father, King Hamlet.

Though the story revolves a round a single man, its core intention is to cover a majority of people through different characters and particular ideas, on the other hand the book is written I proverbial form to trigger critical thinking for those who will be reading it.

 Since times immemorial, human consciousness has been deeply influenced and troubled by the primordial battle of the good against the evil. It goes without saying that almost every extinct and existent culture and civilization has its stories of creation in the backdrop of which are waging the battles of the light against the darkness.

But the difference between them is that when Desiree chooses to comply with her husband’s order to leave the house without any question, Daisy refuses to conform to the patriarchal society’s expectation about a woman’s role. Desiree could have inquired into the racial origin of her husband. But she has not done so.

An archetype is a representation or symbol that is widely understood and recognized through terms, patterns of behavior and statements from people throughout history. These traits are copied from one generation to another and are mostly used and deducted from literary texts and modern motion picture films derived or translated from texts.

Over the years, women have progressively gained equal rights as men. In the days gone, gender discrimination was common. One of the ways of enlightening society on the fate of the gullible in society is through literary works. This is what is portrayed in Dangarembga’s story titled Nervous Conditions.

Life and Death in Longfellow’s “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” Many people do not like to be reminded of their mortality, but it is not always wise to ignore the briefness of human existence. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” shows people that death is unavoidable, so people should not fear it.

Although introduced late in the story, the character Gatsby in Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby has made a lot of contributions and the story tends to revolve around him. The character Gatsby has made every effort to impact situations in society by his actions and led him to achieve so much popularity among people.

The literature was initially captured in “Putnam's Monthly” in the mid-nineteenth century shortly before its publication in Melville's “The Piazza Tales”. The work is presumably a story of the challenges facing slaves and their resentment against the draconian treatment they were subjected to by their masters.

Title: Women after Industrial Revolution Introduction: Industrial revolution was one significant event that changed the entire outlook of the world. Not just did it bring along the development and new outer look to the world in coming times, it allowed for the gender equality and participation by enabling women to come out of the long caged four walls within.

The prince depicted in the story is not a living prince but just a statue which is decorated with gold leaves and precious stones. He is known as a happy Prince because there is a smile on his lips; however, the smile fades slowly giving way to tears of the miseries he sees amongst the poor people (Wilde 5-11).

He explains the reason for the fall of man and its impact on man. He justifies the fact that, although man experienced a fall, the fall was fortunate ‘felix culpa’. One theme that reverberates in the poem pertains to the fate of man and his free will: Nor had they yet among the Sons of EVE Got them new Names, till wandering ore the Earth.

The study leads to the conclusion that McMurphy plays the role of a con man as well as that of a community builder. As a con man, he pretends to be a mental case and is transferred to the hospital for the mentally ill. Once there, he pulls the strings together as a sober competent gambler to take advantage of the patients.

From this research it is clear that overall the poet has defined life in many different ways and has showed the bad and good experiences of life. His dependable moods, activities his great and worst feelings he felt and the different people he met throughout his life. The poet has been thinking deep about life, his perspectives in all the four poems was the same but described in a different way in all four of them.

The narration is given by a nine year old who takes us back using flash back to the time of the event and develops the story by connecting the past, present and future. Personal responsibility in the story is revealed by several scenes and actions including the desperation of Nancy.

Psychoanalytic analysis of the madness of Shahrayar. King Shahryar’s actions in the book, “A Thousand and One Nights” shows evidence of what many psychoanalytic experts describe as human attitudes, mannerisms, experiences, and thoughts largely driven by irrational drives.

Introduction Novels sometimes reflect society, and often they reflect society not how it is traditionally portrayed, but, rather, how society really was. Sometimes the traditional portray is also the realistic one. Regardless, collective society has certain stereotypes about certain eras, which may or may not be true.

The movement of Christianity from Europe to North America was an immensely complex migration, beginning from the 1620s, and extending over centuries. It was one of the most important transformations in the entire history of Christianity (Noll 1). This exodus of Europeans began as a result of religious ostracism and fear for personal safetyю

Anapestic meters on the other hand are formed by three syllables with two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable which is shown in the first line as stated ‘your tattoos/in complete’ where the syllables ‘your tat-’ and ‘in com-’ are unstressed and ‘-toos’ and ‘-plete’ are stressed syllables, thus completes two anapestic meters.

The institutions of marriage and family in Australia are undergoing rapid change. Not to say that the available statistics well corroborate this fact. Contemporary Australia has had the lowest birth rate in the last hundred years. Astonishingly, modern Australia also has the lowest marriage rate for the hundred years.

Personal Statement It has always been my aim to get associated with a good institute all over my life. In order to achieve this aim, I have always been a studious but a practical person. Knowing the importance of business and its scope in the practical working environment I aim to pursue a Masters degree of Business Administration.

Interpreting the constitution in the light of political ideology is extremely harmful to the country. If the appointments of the Judges are based on nepotism, incompetent people may reach the top of the apex judiciary. An occasion the Judges face political pressure is when they make death sentences.

It is not an unusual issue that parents push their children to do something they don’t want to do. Some parents force their children to choose a very good career path. Sometimes they push their children to be with people they don’t want to be with. These are the issues that we cannot avoid as children.

Racism and prejudice are included in the issues in society through the ages. Ever since the period of slavery, people had been judged, based on skin color. Even the concept of beauty is based on the color of skin, specifically in women. Morrison created a great impact due to the use of rape and incest to teach lessons on the issues related to skin color.

It merely shows us the sad consequences of the subordination of a married woman to the control of her husband. The play focuses the reader’s attention on the conjugal life of a middle-class couple and delineates the relationship existing between the husband and the wife and the possible consequences of that particular kind of relationship.

In Carlyle’s Book III Chapter XI of Past and Present, the author imparts his view of the English society during the mid-eighteenth century in a sermon-like manner to implicate the negative observations he has of the social system during his time. In addition, Carlyle provides readers with some insights about the value of working, which every person, whether blue or white-collared, should ponder on.