Literature Essays

“Tartuffe” explores the superficiality of religiousness, while “Journey to the West” examines the ambiguities of disguise and real intentions. This essay studies the unreliability of appearances, re-surfacing of truth, vision of justice, and interplay between essence and appearance, reality and falsehood, truth and disguise.

Louise dies as a married woman and lives again as a free widow. In both stories, marriage acted as a chain around these women's necks, because they worked for their families, particularly their husbands. The main difference between these characters is that Louise died to preserve her new life, while Mathilde lived on to suffer a miserable one.

The narrative observed occurs as if the beginning entails adventures that yield to a typically blissful fairy-tale ending. The tragic fate reveals that the good little boy’s account serves as a fiction whose concrete analogy lies in the common encounter of good people who earn unfortunate returns in exchange for kind deeds.

The short story begins on a note of domestic and marital bonhomie and slowly but steadily degenerates into a disturbing scenario aptly highlighting the gradual but fast deterioration of the central character in the story, who happens to be a woman, to a state of abject mental instability, which is both liberating and shattering at one and the same time.

Being the most vulnerable section in the society, children deserve the first analysis. The work by Joy looked into the variation in fear levels in children after the September 11 attack in order to asses the way the attack impacted the children in the US. The study revealed that nearly half a year after the attack, about 25% of the children in New York had anxiety and emotional problems as a result of the terrorist attack.

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: “Young Goodman Brown”: Moral Ambiguity “Young Goodman Brown,” like most of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s work, deals with the theme of good and evil. Hawthorne weaves a tale, dealing with morality and human frailty, and then seems to leave it to the reader to interpret it in his own way.

Screwtape advises Wormwood to misdirect the Patient from the object of worship (God) itself to prevent the Enemy from victory. He talks about the patient’s mother by saying that he should imagine the form of an ideal mother because only she will be able to make him understand the need for healing himself from the sins of temptation that he had committed.

Flaubert’s aim was to show how an empty headed woman’s romantic thirst t the fulfillment 0of her ill-defined urges brings about her ruin The subject of the novel is an incident in the life of a country doctor; a mean pitiable story of adultery and suicide against the background of Norman Village .The novel deals with the twin themes of stupidity and romantic illusion .

The author compares relationship in two stories bringing out the significant ways in which communities and families shape children identity. Women do not only show the manner in which children are shaped but also the manner in which a community receives a person who defies the very environment that molds them.

The equalities I discover from this chronicle self-explanative to me. Everybody is the same; George being handicap and Hazel having standard intellect level does not mean they are not like other individuals in the society. All individuals are equal. None is better looking, no one is strong than the other, and no one is smart than anybody else. 

The three protagonists in the plays are found to be tragic heroes according to the definition of Aristotle. In Brave New World, John the savage is the tragic hero who is a typical character endowed with strange qualities that distinguish him from other characters in the novel.

As a powerful poetic form used during the Victorian period, Browning makes use of the poetic devices connected with a dramatic monologue to recount and dramatize some of the essential Victorian concerns. As Hans Osterwalder (1992) observes, Browning’s monologue fulfils all the requirements of this genre.

As the years go by, a lot of changes occur to the general way that drama is set and acted. The role of drama in society also changes. Any comparison between medieval plays and modern plays leads to the realization of significant changes in the field of drama over time. There are lots of cultural differences that exist between medieval and early modern drama and this is our main concern in this essay.

The main characters in the story, Desiree and Armand evoke instant reactions and the readers share their anguish. Their social status generates unsolvable intrigues. The relationship between Desiree and Armand is one related to their roots—the descent! Her social isolation creates a deep void in the mind of Desiree and she finds it rather impossible to cope up with her position and remains emotionally disturbed.

In the novel, this influential role of Nature has been worked out through its continuous but passive companionship with the characters. The nature’s role is passive in the sense that it does not directly interact with the characters; rather the narrator, Jim, portrays it in such a way that it encroaches into the theme of the novel with an influencing presence.

African American Literature of the first half of the previous century is represented by a number of prolific and talented writers who focused on the issues of the black population in the United States.While the biggest problem was racial tensions and the establishment of a black identity, African American authors managed to create a vast panorama of black people relationships,domestic life,values, attitudes, aspirations, and economic hardships.

Meursault tumbles over life in a state of stupor. The sun beats on him constantly, which is one day blistering enough to compel him to repeatedly shoot and kill an Arab. Throughout his trial and impending execution, he feels nothing for himself or society. This essay analyzes the motif of the sun in this novel.

The essay examines modernism in the context of philosophies. Modernism is array of cultural propensities as well as related cultural movements that initially sprang from large scale, far-reaching transformations that occurred to the Western society during the waning of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century.

Shakespeare’s heroes, however, are not the usual perfect or ideal characters that are often idealized by many other playwrights. In the case of Hamlet, the main character, Hamlet himself, is depicted as someone who clearly knows the direction that he is going to take in his life and what he must do in order to achieve it.

She is an attractive character with expressive eyes. She has a self assurance that developed from her critical mind. Though Elizabeth is portrayed as a lovable character, she has her unfailing, which are pride and prejudice (Austen, p. 124). In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth’s pride in her judgemental powers causes her prejudice.

This poem has been written by Walt Whitman in a simple yet a free style whereby the mass audience can relate and transcend the themes of the poems conveniently. This poem talks about the significance of self and celebrates individuality and the concept of one`s own self in various perspectives discussed throughout the poem.

They formed one of the prime movements in secular medieval songs. They were the leading poets in history to write in the vernacular, shunning away from the Greek and Latin, which had subjugated the literature of Western Europe for more than a millennium (Delahoyde, 2012).

Such effects were reported after the World War I and II on both soldiers and civilians whose lives were seriously affected economically, emotionally and mentally. They were economically affected because they had to incur certain costs to enable them fight the war.

The book was published in 1939 and it is considered his best work. In fact, it won him the Pulitzer film prize in 1940 and earned him international fame. In 1962, Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In his book ‘The Grapes of Wrath’, Steinbeck tells the story of tenant farmers in Oklahoma who were unable to earn a living therefore moving to California as migratory workers.

This paper seeks to discuss the character trait that is common to Harrison in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron,” Sammy in John Updike’s “A & P,” and the narrator in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” These characters share particular traits and qualities in the way they carry out themselves in the novels.

The works represent events in history that held significance and relevance. Finding literary works by an individual that showed the outright events remained significant because the works represented an identity in American history. The authors in this essay wrote their works with merely personal intent and as a way of channeling their feelings towards issues they got engaged.

This was an age of growth in Europe when new and powerful city-states emerged. Great artists, writers, and thinkers, among them Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo, lived during this time. Among all the artists of the renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci was an outstanding artist whose traces cannot be ignored when renaissance art is considered.

In the Spanish context, it was a combination of myths, politics, culture, geography, and the oral traditions that were practiced in southern and Central America. The author of the book is seen to avoid the use of juxtapositions that are from a surrealist movement point of view and is seen to encourage the use of reality in juxtaposition.

Leadership and manhood are richly associated with each other in Shakespeare’s Richard II and King Lear. Masculinity and manhood are associated with stalwart qualities which also characterize strong and effective leaders. In King Lear, his masculine qualities were basically diminished by his daughters.

The author states that the woman wanted to get rid of them because they were endangering her secret to being revealed. While they were fighting, Li Mu Bai came to their rescue. It was later revealed that Jane Fox disguised as a nun who went to the Wudan training center, aiming to steal the secret training manual of master Li dan Pen.

Cholly hides the bitter experience through his brutal acts of violence and frequently drinking which seems to give him a break from depression. However, he has children but does not know how to raise them; his rough life has clogged his judgment of bright life and he develops to be a man of no feeling. 

Though in the Shakespearian play Othello, Emilia happens to be a minor character, she plays an important role, especially in the latter half of the play. Emilia is introduced to the readers’ right in the first Act when she is instructed to serve as a woman in waiting and as a companion to Desdemona in the absence of Othello.

A Comparison between Pound’s Merchant’s Wife Character and Polly in “Neighbour Rosicky” Willa Cather wrote the short story "Neighbour Rosicky" based on her experiences she gained while living in Nebraska. The story is about Anton Rosicky a compassionate farmer who suffers from heart disease and dies helping his son.

The author states that like most of the novels of Kafka, the novel, “The Metamorphosis” is also eclipsed by the clouds of ambiguity and neither Kafka explains the reason for the transformation nor did the novella throws light explicitly for the reason of such transformation. It ponders on the themes like religion, political and social critic.

Within the scenario of literature, especially within poetry, readers and critics attempt to read between lines and try to unearth hidden facts in the poems. To be specific, readers and critics consider those renowned poets make use of poetry as a medium to express their personal opinions and to share their emotions.

The classic idea of freedom being tied up to economics was defined by one of the main protagonist Torvald as he berated his wife about money. He was upset about his wife about her debt and looked at it as if it is a prison that will put them in bondage. This was evident when Torvald exclaimed “there can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt” (Ibsen 5).

The Iliad brings forth an expansive epic that portrays numerous deeds by the ancient people who lived in ancient Greece. Though the epic brings forth vast concepts that existed and were valued in the Greek world, modern minds cannot comprehend the imaginary ancient way of life. However, the central point of the Iliad concentrates on the Trojan War that the poet does not describe its origin or its end.

The author states that the preaching of sublime attitude of nature and the conflict of scientific quest with nature is at the centre of the text. At the same time, the moral notion advocating that too much of knowledge and pursuit of man to rise beyond the natural flow can be too much dangerous.

The story is greatly influenced by the socio-political condition of Japan during the “enlightened rule” of the Meiji era. Kokoro is a story that exposes feelings of loneliness and isolation of the characters just as the way Japan struggled through the Meiji era.

Examine the images in each poem and explain how they establish an innate connection between nature and humanity. In the process, discuss why the love cultivated in nature achieves its greatest fruition when one becomes immersed in the countryside’s rustic beauty.

The Great Gatsby rationally decides to get into organized crime to dupe people and get rich quickly. Other than getting into an organized crime, the young ambitious operator moves into the business of distributing illegal alcohol.

One of the most common themes in ancient literature is man versus fate or man’s inability to control his fate. In Greek mythology, Achilles and Aeneas are only two of the characters who illustrate the inability to govern their fate, with Achilles dying because of his heel flaw while Aeneas repeatedly escaping death as his goddess mother saves him from misfortunes.

The authors worked hard in those days so that they could prove to the authors who belonged to the European or American culture so that they could be respected and their works to be appreciated by the other authors. By this, the works of the African American authors, therefore, began to get into the extra world and thereby passing the desired morals and values to society.

Defying fate anger the supernatural authority that determines fate. As the play portrays, even the birth of Oedepus was because of fate. The gods had determined his birth thereby informing his parents that he would kill them. In early Greek society, gods were essential in the development of stable and peaceful kingdoms (Homer 2).

The theme of love is explored through reflections on his own young love affair during World War I. The theme of violence is connected to the action within the war, the human to human hostilities creating a balance between the horrors of mankind and the expressions of love in which he finds emotional challenges.

This book is about the German reformer - also a theology professor - called Martin Luther who had a major hand in the Protestant Reformation. He believed in many things but one of his major achievements was translating the Bible into a language the general public easily understood. On the other hand, as his health started to deteriorate, he became quite anti-Jew, which resulted in a controversy.

When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine. Mr. Pirzada, a scholar from Dacca, comes to Lilia’s family home to dine almost every night. At first, Lilia thinks that the reason for Mr. Pirzada’s regular visits to their home has something to do with her parent’s Indian origin.

Like Water for Chocolate is an amazing amalgam of a variety of themes that Laura Esquivel presents before her readers to have an accurate judgment of the society that inspires her writing. Through the character of Tita, the protagonist, and her family members, Esquivel intertwines the social, physical, and mental status of the Mexican woman and her capacity to free herself from the traditional way of living.

Solaria was depicted in the novel, serves as an exact reverse of Earth socially. In Solaria, contrary to that in Earth, people are more adopted to open spaces; therefore they are extremely intolerable when with other human beings. Because of this, people in Solaria developed a system of communication.

The excerpt given in this article covers the most important points of his very popular book. Bernhardi insists throughout his writing that might make right. He talks about war as being “the father of all things” and explains how it is the reason that advanced civilization exists and continues to flourish. He specifically seems to be talking about Germany.