Literature Essays

The essay gives a review of Battista Alberti's views. Leon Battista Alberti is known for his dexterity in several fields such as architecture, poetry, linguistics, philosophy and cryptography. Having coined the concept of Polymaths by claiming that “a man can do all things if he will”, he is regarded as the quintessential example of the Universal man.

The classical book chosen is “Charlotte's Web” by the acclaimed American author E. B. White. Harry Potter is series of seven novels and is a modern-day classic. The book features the main characters Harry Potter and his two best friends, Ronald Weasly and Hermione Granger. As you read the book, you are teleported to a world of magic and mystery.

It is through the jealousy that Leontes goes through suffering and experiences which could have been avoided in the play. The jealousy of Leontes is one which causes him to take blind actions and to hold a cold nature throughout the play instead of recognizing the reality of the situation.

The Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi is one of the most important pilgrimage places of Christians since it is the burial place of St. Francis. Assisi is the place where St. Francis was born. In short, both Assisi and the basilica are important pilgrimage places for Christians. The earthquake caused severe damages to the ceiling vault of the Upper Basilica and in the tympanum of the left transept even though the remaining parts.

Romeo and Juliet are two innocent characters of English Literature, who voluntarily embrace death in order to win each other, as they are well-acquainted with the reality that they would not be in a position to lead a peaceful and tranquil life under the serious enmity between their families.

British poet Frieda Hughes is the daughter of British poet Ted Hughes and American poet Sylvia Plath, who died from suicide. The works of Frieda Hughes show her love for her mother as well as the anger and oppression that any daughter would feel if her dead mother’s private life is made known to the public. 

Since this paper looks into a comparison and contrast, not only among the two stories, but also with the stories with respect to the modern day and age; it is imperative to note that the stories have probably taken place in the lives of many people around the world in different ways.

The phrase Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) was the title of a drama by Friedrich Klinger, first enacted in 1776. It helped in creating a trend among young writers in Germany during the 1770s. Later, critics started using the title to refer to the entire school. Storm and stress were the elements with which these writers stirred the still literary water of the eighteenth century.

The third persona is used in the story as the main character, Kinnell, is sometimes addressed with the adjective “he”. This avoids the monotonous of continuously mentioning his name. The third persona is evident because the narrator of the story is in direct contact with the characters and the reader cannot tell whether the narrator is a man or woman.

Generally, Swift shows pride as what makes man think that he is virtuous and rational when he has not ascertained this fact. Swift explores social systems as his most salient attacks touch on religion, politics, and other elements of the society and the critique on the essence and failures of human nature.

Notably, most of the organizational searchers regard motivation as a development building block upon which other useful and effective management practice theories are based. In fact, motivation penetrates many managerial fields including team building, leadership, managerial ethics, performance management, organizational change, and decision-making.

Just like how his character has developed in the story, this paper shows that the development of his character in the story is gradual and comes along with his experience of illumination from the past, which is towards his change to maturity. The reason why I’ve chosen Alex’s character is because of the important role he has played in the novel.

Destructive memory is a central theme in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, with the protagonist, Sethe in torment from the painful memories of her past, which control her life. The researcher explores statement that Beloved examines the split between actual events we live through and the false memories we relive that can often be dangerous.

They analyze their behaviors and very often sacrifice about the mistakes they have committed. In the poem written by Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It" the author discusses social implications of war in Vietnam. Very often these changes are much important than economic or political benefits of the war.

From this research, it is clear that the book addresses gender and racial discrimination between the two races. Women in the society have been shown as the main target of men whose intention is to satisfy the human desires. Lucy, as one of the main characters in the novel, has been used as a source of reconciliation between the two societies.

He is restricted to live in his bedroom with no human contact. As sole provider, his incapacitation leaves the family struggling to make ends meet. They begin to resent him and blame him for their suffering. Finally, he realizes he is a burden to his family and they want him gone.

The author, David Miller postulates that the act of shopping can be equated as a means of lovemaking by the shoppers. He claims that the traditional form of shopping has transformed to a more devotional sense where people almost conduct shopping as a sacrifice. He argues that the religious values of love and care get manifested through shopping in the modern secular world.

Vengeance is another theme that Weiss has brought to the light of the viewers and readers of his play. “You are watching that revenge and you don’t remember you drove the people to do it”. In the conversation, Marat is talking to the audience concerning the ongoing war. He states that the war is all about revenge by the opponents.

The comparison between the British and the Indian ways of living and behaviours has carefully been drawn as they are acutely discussed side by side. E. M Foster has presented Indian women in the novel from behind the curtain and developed their character with great skill that they have gained great importance.

Customer’s Name Instructor’s Name Course 6 June, 2012 William Faulkner’s Barn Burning Barn Burning is a widely acclaimed short story, written by William Faulkner in 1939. This is the first one in the Snopes Trilogy series. Barn Burning is one of the most famous novels from William Faulkner.

“The Shawl,” a short story by Cynthia Ozick, attempts to relive the psychological trauma of the Holocaust. Ozick does not have firsthand experience of the Holocaust, but through Rosa, she remembers the hardships of the Jews and other victims of the Nazi concentration camps.

Critics think that the novels, Paul’s Case, the Hills like White Elephants, Babylon Revisited, are all magnificent pieces of writing. Furthermore, they state that it was impossible to convey the excellence of the novels during their times, they were truly gripping tales told from a hard point of view that put the literature of those days to shame.

Every society, in this world, has a set of behavioral codes that define what is right and what is wrong. The idea of morality has been a subject of debate in various sociological and philosophical discussions. This has made a number of scholars develop different schemes and models that describe morality and its impacts on human behavior.

The genres and sub-genres within the literary world are indebted to the contributions by world-renowned writers. One can see that working-class- literature and African American literature provide importance to the problems faced by the working-class and the African Americans in the mainstream society.

The author explains that the plot is built around a ruler, Prospero who is deposed, and the play Tempest is set on a far away island in the aftermath that the ship that had the King of Naples faced a storm that was extremely powerful and deathly and the people aboard were to leave the ship in order to survive.

Women’s struggle for their rights in family, society and politics inspired many writers and are widely discussed in a great number of literary works. Thus literature itself plays a very important role in this struggle. Literary works written and read by people helped and help us understand the problems women face in the society and find the ways to solve them.

In literature, many books have been written relating to life, people, and also animals. When an author writes a book about something, it comes from inspiration and the need to get their message across to the society. Many people view both written and spoken literature as some random words that writers put down in order for their books to be read.

Chinese novel writers have been very successful in awakening the Chinese nation which was once hibernating. They were least bothered about their state and therefore did not bother to prove any benefit but these Chinese writers were the ones who were enlightened and worked to develop awareness amongst this great nation. 

The character of Jim, the narrator and protagonist of the novel is one that experiences a great deal of change throughout the novel. Whereas Jim begins the novel as something of a child, his experience within the story changes him to more of a man.

The topic on female problems invariably kindles curiosity of the readers and the response to literature in that genre is generally good. The words, woman and discrimination, generally go in tandem, to make a good plot. Turn the pages of history, gender discrimination has always been there, in all cultures, under the governance of all political philosophies and women mostly are at the receiving end.

Inductive labor is a process where there is stimulation of the uterine contractions before the onset of spontaneous labor. Successful inductive labor leads to normal delivery (vaginal birth). This can happen when there is a concern about the mother’s or baby’s health. However, it is associated with various risks including; emergency cesarean delivery and various infections of delivery.

The book’s closing story ‘The Boat’ is an ethnic Vietnamese tale regarding the harrowing voyage in which people in the boat suffer the squalid conditions like surviving the terrifying storm then almost die from thirst before they finally reach land. Protagonists in the narratives include; 14-year-old Colombian assassin, an Australian teenager. 

According to Creon, Antigone does not deserve to go against the will of her people and the city law as much as she is trying to exercise what she thinks to be morally right. Antigone seem self-sacrificing and daring but also selfish and self-oriented because it looks like she just wants to be popular for burying her brother especially the way she brags after she is arrested by Creon.

The author takes the position that social organizations, particularly churches, have a major role to play in this alternative to incarceration. A "restorative" model is proposed that is based on the needs of victims and offenders, past ways of responding to crime, recent experiments and biblical principles.

The author states that Poe’s literary craftsmanship is beyond the scope of the traditional mode of storytelling. One can see that Poe’s works help the readers to analyze the problems faced by the characters from a different angle of view. One can see that the author consciously links the main theme with the element of horror.

Even though the story is familiar to most as zeitgeist book, it is actually more than that; in comparison to the ways of the youth today is more of a historical artifact that could change the lives of most of these youths (O’Hagan 1). The broad purpose of this paper is to discuss three significant themes from Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’; the few themes elaborated have been clearly depicted in the most parts of the story.

In the novel Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih Mustafa Sa’eed are the enigmatic educated man and the psychological double of the narrator, who was charged with the killing of a lover out of passion but was acquitted in the English courts. In ‘The Grass is Singing’, meanwhile, the servant Moses killed his master Mary in the end, as a culmination of a lifelong tension and the outcome of years of abuse.

Masculinity refers to the male gender and it is associated with certain qualities that are expected for one to qualify to be a man. Macbeth is a play about a man who allows his irresponsible ambition and questioning of his own manhood to through him into committing senseless and brutal acts of violence. The characters of Macbeth are associated with masculinity in terms of aggression, vengeance and bravery.

This essay examines some of the predictions that have come true and those yet to be fulfilled. Orwell foresaw how technology could be used by the Party as ‘Big Brother’ in monitoring the movements and actions of people. Specifically, one of such devices was the ‘telescreen’, which ‘received and transmitted simultaneously’ (Orwell, 5).

The author states that Rowling wrote Harry as a child longing to see his dead parents again. Rowling described the history of the Potter family in greater detail, beginning with the 12th-century wizard Linfred of Stinchcombe, "a locally well-beloved and eccentric man, whose nickname, 'the Potterer', became corrupted in time to 'Potter'".

These poems share the same theme of love, although “love” is illustrated in different ways because of the divergences in the speakers' goals. Both poems depict passionate forms of love, although My Last Duchess revolves around selfish love, while To His Coy Mistress expresses sexual love; The poems are both effective in expressing their themes, where Browning handles the theme of love with irony, allusion, and symbolism to expose the intentions and personality of the Duke of Ferrara, while Marvell pursues the same theme using different imagery, allusion, and symbolism.

A Critical Analysis of the Revelation of the Inner Workings of a Wounded in “the Cask of Amontillado” The story “the Cask of Amontillado” by Edger Allan Poe, in the first place, is a revenge story that yields several meanings upon interpreting it from different points of views.

The theme of the poem is imagination. He is saying that imagination is only good for so long before it peters out and reality takes over. When he was young he enjoyed reading books. He could be anyone in a book, a hero, a villain; his imagination made it all possible. But as time proceeded and he got older, his life became boring.

Love is seen in all the relationships in the story. In the beginning it is the immature infatuation of Romeo with Rosaline which does not end successfully. Then it is the superficial love of Paris with Juliet who wishes to marry her not because he loved her but because she seemed to be an appropriate person for him as a wife.

Some tried colonization by spreading religion while others, like the story of Pocahontas, tried colonization through civilization. Though, truth be told, it is for selfish reasons that many countries have practiced these. Broadening their land and influence entails more power.

"Elizabeth Bishop's very method- that of careful description, the "perfectly useless concentration" that she saw as at the heart of poetic creation, out of which a deeper truth would presumable flow-too often failed to work the magic it sometimes can. One Art is the art of loss, which, she came to understand, was the theme pervading her own life.

Henry James is considered as one of the key figures in the realm of literary criticism and has become one of the leading American writers to define the social relationships and interactions between Americans and Europeans. He was born in a wealthy New York family however spent most of his life in England where he was naturalized as a citizen of the country one year before his death.

The article written by Rosenfeld presents a review of the concern of violence which is normally related to stalking. The article has also highlighted various risk factors which are distinct from the consequence of stalking and are well-known to the offenders. All the literature regarding the causes and consequences of violence is presented in this review.

If there is one thing that is inevitable, yet frightening, it is death. No one, however, is prepared to meet death, in spite of knowing full well that it is not a contingency but a certainty. A rendezvous, it is to be noted, is not just an encounter. It is of free will, anticipated and often planned. It is associated with enthusiasm.

Epics were perceived not as mere stories, but as historical events in which mortals stood on par with the immortals. They depicted the self-esteem and courage of legendary heroes, the virtues and vices of gods and goddesses, and how the two realms affected each other to create profound changes in the course of time.