Literature Essays

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.

The author explained that the woman is claimed to have worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery. But there is no record of her service at the bakery.  A Jerusalem daily indicts the bakery of "coarse negligence and inhumanity toward an employee," the bakery's owner is beleaguered by guilt and takes upon the task of entrusting a human resource.

Conflicts arising from political disagreements between countries might have been devastating but the battle between humans and nature has the potential of initiating worse conflicts amongst humans as well as between humans and other creatures. The humans stubbornly ignited the conflict but they might be limited in dealing with it. Across history, there has been conflicting between man and nature.

The number of people who love poetry exceeds the number of those who do not because poetry can help a person to express something that just could not have been expressed otherwise. Poetry makes us feel that we are not alone and it is easier to express ourselves in the poet’s beautiful words. It can define who a person is.

They paint a picture without color and the strokes of the brush. Poets are choosy about the words and take care to see that they convey the intended meanings. The literal meaning, origins, and connotations are equally important for the total effect, as the alternative beats of the same heart. Diction is the poet’s special way to convey the internal fire.

The Great American Dream of the twentieth century is not so great going by the types of repercussions that it has caused. The consumption pattern adopted by the people in the mad race to fulfill that Dream has resulted in the ruination of cultures and ecosystems. The foundation stone of the Dream is consumerism to secure individual and family happiness and security.

This paper explores the Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a representative poem of the romantic period through one of its traits of exotic settings and motifs, traceable in the poetry of the period.  The title of the poem, “Kubla Khan” relates to the name of a king in Xanadu, the province at Shantung in China, the founder of the 20th Chinese Mongol dynasty.

The family seems to be in existence outside the society and outside the law, and their moral code is about the loyalty of the family rather than the conventional notions of wrong or right. Sartoris is told by Snopes that he needs to remain loyal to his family, or he will be alone.

The novel begins on a dark night when a riotous group of Federals arrive in the Rancho of Demetrio Macias, who had already gained recognition for displaying valor in the skirmishes of the Mexican revolution. This group was fighting from the side of the despicable Mexican military dictator, Victoriano Huerta, who formed an exploitive regime.

A clean well lighted place Not everything is visible to man’s naked eye. Every single thing placed on the earth’s surface has a meaning, perhaps a hidden one which can only be deciphered by those who seek to decipher them through introspection. Often, things that are right in front of us are not the complete truth which means that nothing can ever be comprehended by simply looking at things.

The Earth becomes virtually uninhabitable prompting the devastated human populations to seek refuge on other planets. To foster emigration and colonization efforts, humans receive robots or androids that are supposed to help them. These humanoids can barely be distinguished from real human beings due to their high level of sophistication.

Chapter 13 provides evidence of a further level of “perversity”. Ultimately, due to the fact that the mutiny upon the ship and the subsequent struggles that it had taken place had deprived these individuals of necessary resources, including food, water, and bedsheets (to be used to catch rainwater).

Olson’s main argument is that individual rights are a cause of prosperity, not a luxury that the less developed countries may need to do without. These individual rights must be protected from predation by the government or by other private parties. This places Olson alongside Nobel prize-winner, Amartya Sen, who argued a similar case in his book.

The author states that both the stories, ‘Cathedral’ and ‘The Red Convertible’ evoke the compassion and feeling of comradeship and brotherhood which often gets lost amid the complexities and subtleties of the post-modern cosmopolitan life. Both these stories echo the fact that amid a self-centered cosmopolitan way of living.

The author states that the use of symbolism has been unique in this novel.  A green light here in this novel, portrays a strange thread of hope in Gatsby’s life.  There is a green light in the dock of Daisy’s East Egg house, that is hardly visible from the West Egg place of Gatsby, but that is a constant hope to Gatsby signifying a future to Gatsby.

Both stories expound on the constant human themes of loss, regret, pain, and suffering to have a profound impact on their readers and have attained the status of literary classics. Modern literary tragedies still espouse the compelling narrative that the lesson must in some way lead to catharsis and reformation.

The romantic poetry of both poets incorporates theological concern through a meditative focus on the nature of imagination. According to Barth (p.1), imagination is the “faculty that allows the human person, whether instinctively or consciously to shape the world into meaning, much as in the beginning God shaped chaos into cosmos”.

Where do the authors seem most different? Introduction The novels ‘Maru’ (1995) by Bessie Head and ‘The Suns of Independence’ (1970) by Ahmadou Kourouma have interesting commentaries and very different attitudes toward traditional society as shown through their various characters.

The elements of the marketing mix can be grouped into four primary variables i.e. ‘Price’, ‘Product’, ‘Promotion’ and ‘Place’. The number of P’s can be extended i.e. ‘People’, ‘Process’, and ‘Physical Evidence’ to describe the service sector as well. Each element of the marketing mix is interrelated with another.

Generally, with the advancement in technology, the way of life and means of communication have changed such that there is not a requirement for face-to-face communication. With this advancement, there have been several limitations which have not only been limited to exposure of confidential information. 

The whole story revolves around him. He is the one who follows the old nurse in the start, and makes use of the priest and the two nuns to accomplish his heinous goals without letting them know of the gravity of their act. The stranger spies on the old nurse in the beginning.

Huckleberry Finn, the protagonist of the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and his companion Jim travel a long way together with the mission that Huck will help to free Jim. Both the characters match each other in some ways. Huck and Jim, both want freedom from society and social norms that are imposed on them.

This novel, published in 1852, was also one of the widely discussed works in the nineteenth century. This book, since was published during the time of political unrest caused by the anti-slavery issues and women’s rights movement, became a powerful tool in the hands of the advocates of the Abolitionist Movement.

The play keeps true to the title as many of the characters participate mainly in the actions of just observing, listening and nothing. The play deals with the masculine feelings pertaining to women's chastity and the subjugation of women by the male dominated society.

A Knight was supposed to be brave and fearless during any fight and was to show all the knightly qualities. He was supposed to guard the Castle and to ensure that the king was safe in medieval warfare. There were very many virtues of the medieval code of chivalry. These virtues included truth, faith, charity, justice, hope, prudence, and diligence.

liad and The Odyssey: The Characteristics of Epics and their Heroes We see that Homer’s epics are written, and many scholars think that his epics were transcribed and fused stories (folk stories) of Greece during the Bronze Age. As we can see, Homer’s epics are centered on the Trojan War.

Lust is pervasive in the play and has consumed teens. One girl in the play is beaten by her father yet another one wants to be in her place. The teenagers do not understand the problem not even how to address it. What follows is suicide, rape, beatings, teenage pregnancies, masturbation and abortions among other vices.

Patterson’s problem with the merchant is not that he does not believe in the future; his problem is that the merchant seems to want to do both at the same time. He wants to believe and yet he is not ready to commit to any kind of belief. He is a man sitting on the fence unable to make a decision on whether he should believe in love or not.

In neoclassicism, there was a belief that both fantasy and romance were the rejection of the real and the truth that was a part of the social and cultural class as well as the literary elements. This was combined with the use of these two elements as a technique in which fantasy and romance were created through plot lines for love interests, relationships or to develop plots that could not manifest into a specific reality.

Adolescent literature is a form of literal writing that targets teenagers and issues affecting them. With teenagers as the audience, the type of literature has specific characteristics that identify with the group. Such features include issues affecting teenagers such as in orientation of themes, and simplicity that captures the group’s attention.  

The beginning of the 16th century and the end of the 15th century were a time of incredible upheaval. Society was shifting drastically from moment to moment, and as with any drastic shifts in society, this was accompanied by all manner of uproars and issues. Medieval society, which was largely agrarian and feudal, was quickly eroding, and many traditional structures were eroding with it.

Portions of the novel that are written in the form of a journal provide evidence for a verifiable truth about the political responses and the communal experiences related to the Great Famine whereas portions that have been written in the form of personal letters among the characters of the novel depict their individualistic experiences of the consequences of famine.

Many consider Dante’s Divine Comedy as a supreme literary work, not only of medieval Christendom but of the Christian faith in general. Never has a poet given a more compelling vision of Christian love than Dante. This massive and intricate structure of almost fifteen thousand lines, or one hundred “Cantos,” is divided equally into three large sections.

Name: Instructor’s Name: Course: Date of Submission: Woman in the Nineteenth Century Margaret Fuller was an absolute gem of a writer and is known for her famous book, The Dial, in which she voiced feministic thoughts and wrote in favor of the women of the nineteenth century.

Disparaging the Victorian ideals of femininity, Lawrence’s women are found to be self-willed enough to “look out from farm life to the far-off world of cities and government and the active scope of man” (Lawrence 2008, p. 35). But these Brangwen women are not courageous enough to rebel against the patriarchy-authorized social feminine role.

There are many other memoirs that talk about the life of people inspiring others to work and discover the true purpose of their lives; today, one can browse the internet and read people’s blogs or online diaries as these also, in my opinion, are forms of memoirs because they have the same element of being formed from the thoughts and memories of an individual.

Boxing as art gives a fascinating metaphor for the “battle of the sexes”. There are certain low blows and punches thrown between couples in the world of dating. It could maybe be a sudden an unsuspecting girl’s left hook that makes clear her intolerance Chinese food or even a blow to one’s preferred genre of music which is below the belt.

Reading ‘On Leave’ from Tuma’s book made me recall the past few years after a recession. I remembered losing friends, frustration at home and in surroundings, seeing the US surrounded by international threats. It looked like life was asking for a price from us. If Americans went socially and culturally numb, they were righteous to be like that.

Fred Exley, after divorcing the first wife does not give up. He remarries a marriage that does not last but ends in another divorce.  However, he chooses to recuperate his miserable life by indulging in alcoholism and football addiction. He says, ‘I had used alcohol for precisely what it was a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.'

In America, some ancient authors to the literature presented different concept concerning life and how it ought to be manned by all the people as well as presenting the ideals of the culture of different people. In this respect, these authors presented particular themes that were a good indication of the things that prevailed in their environment in the time such people lived and interacted with each other.

 Ultimately, the diary/ships log helps the reader to understand what aspects of the voyage were of the most importance from the perspective of the author and allows for a further level of understanding concerning the daily life of those individuals involved in the political intrigue and dirty work of empire building at a time in which competition.

Romanticism in Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” In Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle,” several Romantic elements are exemplified – the hatred of industrialization, the emphasis on nature’s beauty, the inclination towards the supernatural, and the defiance of reason.

Thesis 1 talks about Tom being in the age bracket of 12 and 13 years. Tom’s attitude and perspective on life are discussed in thesis 2 as having made him the hero he is in American literature. Finally, the paper presents a negative attitude that comes out from the book regarding several characters: child like revenge.

It is quite essential to state that Shakespeare has dealt with the characteristic of love and marriage in most of his 38 plays. Although these two characteristics are omnipresent in his works, the way he ends the love affair between the characters most of the time makes that work a comedy or a tragedy.

Raymond Carver is credited with helping to revive the short story form. Carver’s “Cathedral” is one of his most anthologized and popular stories. It relates to the narrator’s encounter with a blind man, who is his wife’s friend and a house guest. The narrator starts out with rigid, preconceived notions of a blind person and is surprised to find that his guest does not conform to these ideas.

The story centered on the life and death of Oscar Wao, a Dominican boy who was desperate to give and receive love, which was complicated for him to achieve because of his race and nerd personality considering that he lives in the United States. The life of Oscar’s family and the curse passed on to him from his roots were also featured in the story.

In other words, they used real life as their subjects when developing their artistic works. Their works were then put in museums for others to see. One of the most reckoned eras is abstract expressionism, where art work took a different shape as artists advocated for expression of their ideas through their work (Lindauer, 2003).

The objective of this paper is to describe the fetishization of William Shakespeare’s work. In order to better understand the content of this research, it is important to define key terms and concepts: adaptation; fidelity; abuse; fetishization and pop culture. This work is particularly important because it demonstrated the development by which plays like those of Shakespeare’s are modified.

He reflects and contemplates on how the past always has a way of coming back in spite of one's determination and struggle to forget and take it out of the mind. This childhood incident has stayed in his mind since and has continued to discomfit him as this instance involves an act that Amir has done upon Hassan, a friend whom Amir constantly refers to as his sole servant and whom he names "the hare lipped kite runner." (Hosseini 2) The main character in this novel who is also the narrator of the story that he tells, Amir has a fortunate background in the most prosperous part of Afghanistan’s capital city.