Literature Essays

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde's double persona has been interpreted in numerous ways. In his original published incarnation, he was a presentation of the Victorian moral code." This means that Stevenson in his works incorporated Victorian moral values and ethics. His work is a representation of what he perceived in the Victorian era.

The story observed in the paper is about the experiences of a young Russian aristocrat Olenin, who leaves Moscow and joins the army as a cadet with the hope to start a new life in the Caucasus. Olenin, being a new man in the Caucasus, wanted to be a part of the local culture, so he became friends with an old man.

Ray Brower’s Body. Ray Brower, a character in Stephen King’s book Different Seasons dies after a train hits him in the forest where his body lies for days without anyone finding it. The tree house gang that comprises Gordie, Vern, Chris, and Teddy learns of the spot where the body lies and decides to go after it.

As the study highlights the story of Hamlet is about revenge and it is achieved in the final act leads to the death of hamlet and entire plotters. The desire for revenge is revealed in prince hamlet actions. In fact, the prince decides to take action by avenging the death of his father. Hamlet was hurt with the mothers hurried marriage after the death of the father.

After the prophecies, Macbeth's hunger for power was stimulated as they had presented two ways to the throne either by murdering Duncan or by waiting to inherit the throne which would be a longer process. Lady McBeth also utilized the help of supernatural forces in the plot to murder King Duncan (Act I, Scene V, II 42-57). 

The speaker is advising a young couple who has fallen in love not to questions their hearts. He urges the couple to go ahead and form a union where they will see their love bloom. The speaker encourages the lovers to dissociate themselves from the discussion, which would cause them to drop, their plans for a union.

This research will begin with the statement that being the main character of his piece ‘The Road Not Taken’, Frost fully acknowledges that life is practically a matter of choice made by virtue of wise reflections yet Madame Loisel, rather consumed and impaired by self-reproach on losing a diamond necklace fails to discern even the freedom to contemplate on choices.

Hamlet is mourning for his father, and this is also a rational emotion. Hamlet feels that he can’t say anything to Gertrude about his feelings. This is also rational and the way that a rational person would act. Thus, in this soliloquy, as in the other mentioned above, there is no indication that Hamlet is insane – only that he is depressed, grieving, and angry.

In the story “The Machine Stops” the author has tried to convey a clear message that human reliance on machines will drag the future of the society towards destruction. Thus, giving rise to machine-sustained society in future. However, in the end the machine collapses which puts an end on the reliance and dependency of the characters on machines.

Wenger’s book review. In her work, Wenger attempts to scrutinize 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy. To successfully conduct, this analysis, she selects documents that are related to the concepts of the controversy. In the book, Wenger endeavored to highlight the arguments behind the Pueblo Indian dances, in order to have a clear picture on the dilemmas facing the Native Americans, on the move to attain religious freedom.

The paper will recognize the strategies used in the study and why they succeeded. The paper will also explore the necessary components employed in the study. In addition, strategies that can barrowed from this study will be exemplified. Moreover, the paper will evaluate the possibility of employing the strategies used in the study elsewhere.

Running to more than a substantial 1,000 pages, Give Me Liberty! is systematically organized into a chronological catalogue of one hundred-and fifty years of America’s past. The vast tome is divided into four, easily accessible, smaller-sized parts: Reconstruction, Towards a Global Presence, Depression and Wars, and What Kind of a Nation?

The personal lens gives one a very personal view of what is happening.  This is the theme of three of the stories that were studied – “The Brothers Shu,” “The Cure,” and “Sinking.” Part of this is because these stories are told either through the perspective of a child; or somebody who might not be an adult but was a child during the events of the story, or somebody who is a young adult.

While the civil war has its roots entrenched in the highly sensitive issue of slavery and was fought between the US (the Union) and several slave states (the Confederacy), WWII was a global war that involved all the great powers of the world and which eventually separated in two opposing groups namely the Allies and the Axis.

The text of the poem provides the readers with a variety of aspects that can be explored this not only includes the thematic concerns but also the stylistic and linguistic techniques that the poet has incorporated in this poem.

A Doll's House is often considered to be the first feminist play. Written in 1879 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, it features a woman who risks her reputation and her family for the sake of her husband and closes with her reaction to the discovery that her husband would not do the same for her.

The subjects found in the book are topics which can still be found in our existing society and that make it more attractive. You can even make a case that chauvinism still has an outcome in our legal system today. The difficulty is society can inspire beliefs that can act as a curtain and blind the people from impartiality.

Winston Churchill was one of the most influential people of the 20th century, perhaps even the most influential. His energy, his will and dedication contributed, to a considerable degree, to the fact that European democracies managed to resist and finally defeat the brutal aggression of National Socialists and Fascists in World War II.

Most response plans contain details of how the response team should act in order to minimize the damage. However, there are very few response plans that actually touch on how to handle the psychological challenges of dealing with the loss of life. It is important for response team members to consider these challenges.

The black children usually found their mothers by their side and the fathers were mostly absent. The paper brings out the relationship in terms of the lessons taught by a black mother to her son and the way she raised her through two chosen poems – “Mother to Son” by Hughes and “Dear Mama” by Shakur.

A tragic hero is not a person with great virtues; nor is he a bad man that epitomizes evil. He cannot be a villain too. A tragic hero, according to Aristotle, is “a man who is not eminently good and just, yet whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity, but by some error or frailty” (Prasad, 21). His misfortune arouses pity in the audience.

The research centers on Malcolm X’s proposal to murder to correct a wrong on the African Americans.  The research includes James Baldwin, a homosexual, as he fights for the acceptance of homosexuality.  James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King were significantly influential in eliminating racial discrimination in the United States and around the world.

On the other hand, Decameron is a compilation of hundred novellas composed by the renowned writer of the fourteenth century, Giovanni Boccaccio. The composition of the novellas began in the year 1350 and it ended somewhere during the years 1351 to 1353. The novellas contained all tragic and exotic love tales which widen the vista of love and its relationship in the life of mankind and civilisation.

Budgeting not only signifies the strategic objective of an organization but also focuses on the process through which the ultimate objective shall be attained and the total expenditure likely to arise due to the execution of the planning. Similarly, forecasting tends to identify the profitability of the business plan and thus assists the organization in decision-making (Prieskorn, 1975).    

The extraordinary growth has made the automaker to struggle in keeping up with the demand by running their factories non-stop, ignoring regular maintenance, and paying costly overtime. The sudden sales surge has made it hard for the manufacturers to make future plans for their factories in order to meet the demand.

The writer demonstrates that death is viewed drastically differently in many different cultures. No wonder that some view it as the final resting place of a spirit, and others say that it is merely a continuation of the spirit in a different form, yet others would say that it is a means for restarting one's life and coming back to earth.

While adoption by married couples, who are unable to have their own biological child, has been in existence for several years, adoption by single parents was a rarity prior to the 1960s (Cormell). There were even laws in several states that prevented adoption by single parents (Single Parent).

This essay describes the importance of reality’s usage in the children’s stories. From this research it is clear that children’s literature teaches the value of integrity, honesty. Fairy tales express the thoughts of children and adults through a symbolism.

While guns may be treated with a villainous impact by some, gun ownership also has certain benefits that should be accounted for. It is not something that must be treated with unreasonable yet. In fact, American citizens should procure, own, and carry firearms, if they meet certain restrictions regarding age, criminal history, and physical state.

A theme is the central idea behind a story, play, or poem, and is developed into the plot of the story or the play. The theme chosen for this paper is that of death, with grief as the symbol, and through this analysis, the different contexts in which death is treated in the chosen works of literature will be explored.

The author states that people find love in a place they least expected and it often changes them for the better. The short story is written using a simple plot yet effectively exemplifies the message of a loveless marriage and how love is enough to change people. The story is narrated by an omniscient narrator who muses over the protagonist.

In any organizational setting, there needs to be a higher level of professionalism to attain the set objectives effectively. Most jobs that involve qualified professionals are successful because they possess the ability to manage their desired achievements in an orderly manner. Most clients are attracted by work ethics and the order of operation while serving them

Death was positioned by her as the only possible solution to show to the world her dignity, her self-performance and strong-willed character. It seemed to the writer that a woman does not have any other way to do that in this world, which is created especially for men and women are just guests without rights, opportunities and positive experiences.

She has been deterred from reaching her family. Her real name changed to Offred meaning Fred’s possession; her temporary man given to her by the state and being renamed the next man assigned to him. This was all about Gilead’s reaction to women’s rights and the problems that U.S.A had before revolution.

Name Institution Course Tutor Date Critical Essay Summary The critical essay “The waters of Annihilation: Double Vision in To the Lighthouse”, Norman Friedman argues that the symbolism in the novel To the Lighthouse has multiple interpretations. In general, commentators have a consensus that the novel revolves around the central themes of intuition and intellection, chaos and order, and female and male.

This behavior insures the dominance of whichever species of ants colonizes the area. If one examines a college campus, this same type of behavior exists, and not just with ants. Greek fraternities and sororities use similar tactics to gain members, control territory, and exert influence on the college community.

The play of irony here can be seen on several layers. It is his flaw, his pride that initially breeds in him the desire to track down his father’s murderer, which ultimately proves to be the key to his undoing. Again, after he becomes aware of his sin, he could have remained quiet but his sense of pride prevents him from doing so.

 The ability of an absent God to transform him is eschewed despite hints at this as a redemptive force throughout the sonnet. It is here the author echoes previous religious imagery to convey his sense of his soaring soul, as a “lark at the break of day,” which he describes as ascending towards the heavens, “arising/From sullen earth.”

W.E.B. Du Bois and his fiction works. An African American activist, novelist, historian and sociologist, Du Bois was born at a time when racial discrimination was extensive in other communities. He however, didn’t experience the vice in any form, since he was raised in a free community of blacks in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

However, it was just by coincidence that I came across one of your journals regarding your creation. I know that nobody understands what your intention is but, I am afraid that this creation you are willing to undertake may have some serious effect in the future.

Social awareness (sometimes also referred to as social consciousness) is the collective consciousness shared by members of a society (which includes the author). To be socially aware is to be cognizant of ongoing issues and challenges facing different groups in a society.

Opponents of these marriages are hell-bent to ensure that the society maintains the status quo in connection with traditional definition of marriage, which is a union between a man and a woman (Nagle, 2010). On the other hand, proponents have a difficult task to convince the already biased society that marriage is a union, which is dependent on individual feelings, such as love, and therefore it is the best time that the society re-examined its stand on the admissibility of homosexuality as an influential advancement in the institution of marriage.

According to the paper, the APAIS thesaurus database was established in 1978. It lists the subject terms that are used to index articles for the APAIS, which is a subject guide to literature in both humanities and social sciences. In order to ease online searching, the National Library of Australia published the APAIS Thesaurus in 1980.

According to the researcher, racial prejudice stands to be the most obvious prejudice in the novel which pushes the otherwise well intentioned folks of Maycomb to victimize an upright black individual owing to the acquisitions made by a worthless white drunkard. The other pivotal theme is that it tends to delve on the moral nature of human beings.

Dorians’ narcissism is evident even in his attempts to change from his evil ways where his chief motivation is not that his soul shall be uncorrupt, but it may not be “seen” in his person. This is because on the painting he would study, “He grew more and more enamored of his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul”.

Wedded strangers: the challenges of Russian-American marriages. Marriage is a strange thing as it is. Two individuals coming together to live together isn’t rare. We live with our parents most of the life, share our belongings with siblings, live together with roommates during work and study.

Twain has highly celebrated literature from the west. Midwest identity is among the concepts addressed in various literatures of the United States. Twains work, Life on the Mississippi, remains a masterpiece literature in the Midwest given the impact it creates on the readers about Midwest identity.

To formulate my own understanding and eventually my own definition about Noir, it would be necessary to put in perspective on how it started and eventually developed. The common consensus of Noir films beginning was in 1941 with the film "The Maltese Falcon".

The victim of murder in the nation is a bling old man. The narrator describes him with a “vulture eye”. After killing or slaughtering the old man, the narrator carefully dismembered the old man's body and hide under the floorboards (Poe, 03). In both narrations, there are murders committed by persons who are trying to prove a point but not out of vengeance.

In this society, television has taken up the common belief of family ties. The fireman has become an igniter of fire and destroyer of books instead of an insurer against fire and its dangers. Books are seen as evil and illegal because they influence people to think and ask questions about the way things are done in that society.