Literature Essays

The repetition of the word time in stanza three, for instance, emphasizes the amount of time that Prufrock believes is available for a variety of things to be carried out. This is, however, despite the fact that his age is running fast. In addition to this, rhetorical questions, another common literary illusion is evident in the poem.

In The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer holds the mirror of the Middle Ages before the reader, as for its contemporary life and characteristics. He was in the thick of the happenings in the society and his writings and observations related to the entire society right from the people at the grassroots level to the top hierarchy.

Winston thought O’Brien was trustworthy and a friend, but the truth was that he wanted to deceive him and his hidden motives were ugly and not what he showed. Beatty also claimed to be a well-wisher for Montag, but in reality, he was not his friend – in fact, someone who wanted to harm Montag badly and cruelly. 

Richard shows more pleasure in changing fashions and investing too much in his self-willed interests not in favour of the kingdom. Both of the characters show weaknesses in terms of having masculine traits due to which, they get deprived of their kingdoms and power and have to hand over the power and land to those who are more masculine in character.

The characters have parallels with Shakespeare’s King Lear, although the parallels are mirror images of one another. This is because the female character in Paradise Lost has a male doppelganger in Lear – the titular character, who is foolish, arrogant, narcissistic, vain, prone to flattery, weak-minded, and overly emotional.

Goldfinger is a film based on the novel holding the same name, written by Ian Fleming. Goldfinger is the third film based on the James Bond series. The movie made its fleeting entry into the cinema, won the hearts of its audience, and is considered one of the iconic movies. The character of James Bond is seen wearing sophisticated clothes such as ties and coats; emphasizing the classier side of England.

The effects of narrations often depend on the techniques employed by the author. In the case of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s manner of telling a story, it is said that he always evokes the truth of the human heart. In “The Minister’s Black Veil”, such quality is very evident. In the short story, the author’s choice of character is already a strong characteristic.

The author states that the irony in both poems is that though the speaker’s main concern is to get his beloved into bed with him, he takes a long-winding way to try to reach his destination, fulfillment of carnal desire. Starting with Platonic love, both the poems end by focusing on the fact that life should be enjoyed to the fullest.

1). The authors draw parallels from the practical world and the metaphorical depiction of various events provide greater depth to the prose and maximizes the impact of the message. Therefore, books can teach a great deal about ethics and morality, especially since the oldest moral code brought to man was in the form of a book that came to be known as the Bible.

Center of discussion in this paper is the story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” by Joyce Carol Oates. The major character in this story is Connie. She is a teenage girl that Oates describes as having two sides of her life. Oates says that Connie laughs in two different ways at home and while away from home.

Life is a complex gift that is often taken for granted. People simply exist and forget to live because they are busy trying to conform to society so that they can fit in and be accepted. As Gide says to know how to free one is nothing, the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom (p.

The third section is about a long illness Emily is caught in after her father’s death, and her growing relationship with Homer, a man far below her status. The fourth section discusses the town’s speculation that the poison Emily will commit suicide with the poison she has bought, the growing suspicion about her marriage to Homer, and Emily and Homer’s disappearance into her home for a long time.

Arguably a pioneer of the modern Arab literature, “Cities of Salt” is an interesting novel by Abd al-Rahman Munif whose publication in the twentieth century has attracted a wide readership from across the world. Munif focuses the story on the exploration of oil close to a tiny, far-flung urban Wadi in the Middle East.

The essay based on two excerpts from Voltaire’s and Gronniosaw’s works talks about the manner of narrative’s expression in the stories. The main idea of this paper is highlighting the differences and similarities of characters and their behavior in spite of the fact, that a plot of both narratives is based on the marine topic.

Henry David Thoreau spent two years near Walden Pond living a life of solitude. His observations as explained in this book mention about various birds and particularly about his close encounter with the Merlin Hawk (also known as the Pigeon Hawk as its appearance is similar to that of a pigeon).

Some Hamlet films have been directed by produced by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Michael Almereyda, and Kenneth Branagh. The film versions of the play have been produced to make it easy to study the works of Shakespeare. Michael Almereyda appreciates the cultural influence the works of Shakespeare have had across the world.

Mexicans creep up on you at night and they rob you, stab you in the back (poem). But people have a propensity to overlook the hard work the Mexicans do on plantations for very little money. The poet says the Mexicans work so hard to plant and pick natural food for American stores so they can have food to eat.

Odyssey helps to coin his journey of homecoming through well-placed powerful imagery as this depicts the human condition in such unprecedented way in those times. The Odyssey tries to trace the journey of the storm-tossed man and his tribulations with different encounters and roles of women and men in that context.

The researcher states that it is worth noting that, for these birds to thrive, the army has to be relocated in other part and the field preserved for the birds. In addition, the US wildlife conservancy has been sleeping on work because it has been doing nothing to stop cutting down of trees that provide habitat for red-cockaded woodpecker.

Huckleberry Finn exposes the brutality and cruelty of the slave system and of racism not by showing brutal beatings in the manner of Roots, which would be well enough, but by humanizing Nigger Jim, making it clear that this person is a man worthy of respect.

Further, it tries to analyze the reasons for the current failure of proper financial planning especially the post-global financial crisis. A study of both theoretical and practical aspects of Municipal Budget making is undertaken with relevant examples occurring in the current financial Budget in some of the Municipalities.

In the movie Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room, Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay—the president and CEO of Enron respectively-- had multiple ethical selves. These two men were consistently playing dual roles of responsible business men and gambling risk-takers. At several points in the film, Skilling and Lay claim that Enron was doing fine and that anything unethical was done without their knowledge.

Hamlet lives a life of losses and he becomes even more grieved when he finds about the death of Ophelia. He then realizes about her loss and declares that he truly loved her. Hamlet is a character who portrays goodness as well. He does not want to kill Claudius without ensuring that he was truly responsible for his father’s death.

In the southeast, Bangladesh is bordered by Myanmar whereas on the west, north and north east it has India. It is spread over a land boundary of 55,598 square miles. It has a long history of military rule up till the year of 1990 when it finally got under a democratic political rule.

Where Revel fails, Hertsgaard has been able to profoundly articulate.  Hertsgaard rightly explains that the American people are not to be blamed for their government’s and corporations' actions on other countries.  To some extent, he may have implied that for anti-Americanism to be extinguished, the American people should effect change in their society.

Michelangelo was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese, central Italy. Along with other renowned Renaissance artists, Michelangelo’s works made a phenomenal impact on Western art. He grew up as an apprentice under Francesco Granacci and later under Domenico Ghirlandaio at the age of thirteen. He then studied sculpture at a sculpting school and became a pupil of Donatello, a great sculptor of his time.

There are existing interrelationships between humans and the environment. In this case, it is important to understand that human development depends on its level of interaction with its environment. The learning might differ among humans because of their different niches, but their capacity to learn and remember does not.

The researcher of this discussion presents that the message being sent by the author of story “Two Kinds” Amy Tan tells us that we must understand others from each perspective. Some people do things in the manner of low context communication and culture, in which things are dealt with in a straightforward and no-nonsense manner.

The burning of fossil fuels is the major cause of increased anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere while deforestation is the second major cause. The concentration of carbon dioxide above certain levels in the atmosphere increases the temperature of the earth which has been rising to unprecedented levels.

Columbus, Smith, and the Beginnings of American Identity. In the writings of Christopher Columbus and in the later writings of John Smith one can begin to see an American identity gradually being formed. Obviously, before America became a country unto itself, we can also see how the New World was still subservient to European laws and traditions.

Marlow is employed as a ferryboat captain by a Belgian trading company. His job is to carry ivory downriver, but the main task assigned to him is to bring Kurtz back to his society. The incidents occurring during the execution of this task are detailed in the story providing a deep insight into the psyche of Marlow.

Generally speaking, Hill is able to create an understanding of the ideas of freedom and the absence of freedom with the use of different literary techniques.  The focus on different techniques becomes important in identifying the concept of freedom and how this relates to the main theme of the book.

The middle class on the other hand would get jobs since they could afford proper education while the lower class cannot. Unlike the upper class who managed to read and write Latin or French, the lower class did not afford to learn their native language. Shaw portrays this system of classes as corrupt and highlights reality.

The English Patient’ written by Michael Ondaatje is a story set against the backdrop of war and humanity. It talks about how Hana, a young nurse, spends most of her time with a patient whom she grows to care a lot about. Despite not knowing his name or his identity, she tries to heal his body which has been burned black in carnage by a plane crash.

Religion was an integral percept of life in contemporary Europe and the Catholic Church was determined to create influence in the new world too. In order to ground themselves into the new and emerging system, the Catholic Church sponsored a number of missions into Canada. However, this was not without opposition. As religion was too well-grounded in personal belief and society, the opposition was more or less private in nature.

The decorations in the art can even be therapeutic, and some people are always excited about it (Denver Art Museum). Denver art museum is located on a rocky mountain, and the building itself is impressive in that it captures the interest of the visitor. Outside the building, there are red-colored posts carved which are eye-catching.

It was used to combine culture, language and the society (Belsey 3). She compared the relationship between human beings and language, scholars and their reading materials, politics in people’s culture and writing. In her critical practice, she argued that theories matters a lot because they open people’s minds to the perception of literature and culture.

Anne sexton is often grouped with such poets as Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell who were the leading figure in the so-called 'Confessional Movement'. Colburn says that “confessional poetry is the poetry of suffering. The suffering is generally unbearable because the poetry often projects breakdown and paranoia”.

According to the paper, Kass abrasively states that there is that need due to nature that compel the humanity to decide on the issues not less than whether humanity procreation is to be terminated or it should remain. Additionally, it is whether children are going to be obtained by placing orders rather than begotten.

Mehring remains blind as he is unable to live like a human. He is unable to think about what is right and what is wrong. He is unable to keep all his relationships intact. Moreover, he cannot respond to emotions, be it of her mistress, her wife, son, or poor workers. He is unable to keep up with the little happiness of life or lovemaking.

Laura Chase dies in a car crash that is an apparent suicide shortly after the end of World War II. Iris is an elderly woman at the time of the novel, and her role as the center of the book becomes apparent throughout the course of the story. The narrative of The Blind Assassin is particularly complex. Three narrative threads weave throughout the book.

In the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, the protagonist is the most interesting character. I have chosen Tom Sawyer for this character analysis essay because he is a rebellious boy with full of enthusiasm. The focal point of this work is Tom Sawyer who is able to manipulate others, but not to fulfill any selfish motive.

According to the research findings,  this symbolism, the black sack, is connected to the theme of the inevitability of death. Even though Ivan never wanted to reach the bottom, he finally did. His story of approaching death steadily is his recognition of death as well as his attempt to compromise with his nullifying and dreadful power. 

This proposal is actually plausible, however, it is quite a bit outlandish. The essay can be disturbing and offensive to some readers as it may become graphic. However, Swift writes with an air of authority, as he triggers an emotional aspect of the readers when he mentions the “melancholly” [sic] sight of women and children being beggars in Ireland.

How did you know that your words will be read by all the ages? While reading your book, I recognize a particular style emerging and I am prompted to ask, how did you choose which stories to include? Why, of all things did you choose to deal with change? What made you think that people would want someone to explain what life is all about?

He wrote some pieces of work on sci-fiction as well but people say that most of his work, especially Annabel Lee which is one of his most famous poems, is in the remembrance of Virginia, who was very dear to her and he was unable to come to terms with her death. He died a mysterious death but many analysts state that it was because he had immersed himself in alcohol and drugs uncontrollably.

Besides, the novelist tries to portray the real-life situation in the Indian context. Thesis statement: In the novel Nectar In A Sieve, Kamala Markandaya makes use of the character Rukmani to analyze the basic human instinct to survive in critical situations in life, and attempts to portray the bond between Indian farmers and their land.

This may be attributed to its peculiar form as a comic book and Spiegelman’s metaphoric presentation of various races as species of animals. At the same time, Maus I & II, which documents a variety of traumatizing experiences of the holocaust survivor Vladek, may well be used as an additional source of historical evidence of the Nazi atrocities against the Jews in the war.

Created by contemporary era African American novelist Toni Morrison, Jazz serves as a powerful elucidation of the cultural patterns of ethnic-racial hatred and prejudice, which had been in vogue in different parts of the USA till the first half of the twentieth century; consequently, racial prejudice between the white and black population.

This has provided the focal point for a new, unique and distinct stage in human development, which has not been thoroughly elucidated yet. In the United States, marriage age for a large heap of the population between ages 18 to mid-twenties has gradually increased over time.