Literature Essays

The Indian-American Das family, consisting of Raj and Mina, and their three children, Bobby, Ronny, and Tina, are on a vacation to India. Mr. Kapasi is their driver and guides on their tour of the Sun temple of Konarak. The story evolves around the relationship between Mrs. Das and Mr. Kapasi on this short trip. Mina is fascinated by Mr. Kapasi’s job.

According to the research findings, it can, therefore, be said that the idea of betrayal is very clear revealed in the stated short stories, emphasizing the fact of human meanness, fears and flabbiness. Such literary works give people valuable lessons and push readers to reflect about significant values of own life.

Both the poems are somewhat alike in their context as they pursue the reality of life. However they are completely different in nature as they both elaborate on completely different issues. In “The Soul selects her own society” Emily puts forward that a person can never like another individual if he does not want to.

Generally, roadside memorials have recently been quite teeming and hazardous, according to public road officers, which force several national governments to regulate them. Aside from the hazard they pose, people who erect them are in effect making these public places private through ‘adverse possession.

Who is “the likeness of the scarlet letter”? How is this person “the likeness of the letter” in both the way this person looks and in what this person symbolizes?The likeness of the Scarlet Letter is the little girl with the woman who is her daughter. The name of the daughter is Pearl. The little child in the woman’s arms is held close to the scarlet letter is being positioned onto her gown. 

Breaking the cycle means the main characters in the play are trying to figure out what to do with their present situation, but are either hindered by the past or the future. This is the main dilemma of the characters in the play. Their views on what to do with the current issues that are pulling them down are opposing, creating conflict among the members of the family (Snodgrass 126).

An Essay on man by Pope is a poem that elaborates on the human nature and the potential of human happiness in relation to the universe, political and social hierarchies and the person individual. The essay is divided into four parts and represents the 18th-century intellectual ideas concerning the role of humanity in the universe.

These three forms of literature that emerged are all about the presentation of life in all its goodness and badness (Chopin and Bloom 14). Naturalism in the story is evident in the portrayal of the “natural” and motivating factors that influence people to act as they do, or the powers-that-be that are beyond an individual's control that have a hold on his or her life.

The location of Arvada Center is in the United States. The address of the center is 6901 Wadsworth, which is 7 miles from The people in charge of the art gallery were very courteous and they are always ready to direct people to the art works that people have requested or have interest.

Historians have identified remarkable influence by various factors such as community, race, ethnic backgrounds and culture. In the field of literature and religion, historians identified only a nominal representation from the part of women. The works of Judith Murray, Phillis Wheatley and Sarah kemble Knigh bestow a realistic picture about the role of women in the early American life.

The passages we are going to analyse throw light on slavery and the plight of people who were considered slaves. If we contrast and compare these passages, we see a consolidated picture of slavery and its implications. Features of Atlantic Slavery 1. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade started because of requirement of work force.

Shakespeare's ‘Iago’ is one of most sophisticated and mysterious villain. At the initiation of the play Iago's temperament seems to be completely evil. But such a character would find it difficult to impact the play and others would soon recognize him.

Alexie in the short story tries to trace the traditional life of the modern Indians. He depicts them as individuals with a double identity, who are not able to identify with their traditions or how to react to the various traditions. In both genres, the characters are not able to differentiate between what is more important and that which is less important.

The focus on Europa and Zeus is still significant. This mosaic makes one wonder and is curious about the relationship between a bull and an attractive princess to a person of today (Apollodorus & Hard, 1999, p.59). Europa was a Phoenician princess, and her father was Agenor king of Tyre. Sister of Kadmos, and the mother of Minos and Rhadamanthys, judges of the afterlife in the underworld (Hard & Rose, 2004, p.175).

Macbeth’s character undergoes a variety of changes in his personal traits throughout the course of the play, as he moves towards the darker side of life and lets evil engulf him completely. This destroys his life because he gives in to the material wants of life and despite knowing the same, does not stop encountering these aspects during his journey.

It is observed that he also provides the readers with an insight into the lives of American Indians and their hardships through the themes incorporated in his works and the characterization of his characters. His works not only have thematic similarities or the similarities of the same attributes in his characters but readers also see a reflection of Alexie’s life in his works as well.

As a matter of fact, it is not just those 2 literary works but a couple more works by the said two authors. However, there are also distinctions found in their works especially after the publication of Melville’s Moby-Dick. As McLoughlin quoted Charles Feidelson’s opinion towards the difference of the two authors: Emerson was the theorist and advocate, Melville the practicing poet.

Published in the year 1902 and written by Joseph Conrad, the book explores the dark face of the European colonization. This darkness is exposed through the encounter of the protagonist of the novel, Marlow, who passes through this darkness while going through the wilderness of Congo basin, being the witness of the cruel treatment by the Europeans inflicted upon the natives of Africa and by perceiving the immeasurable darkness present within every individual that instigates them to execute the most immoral acts of heinous evil.

Anna Lætitia Barbauld describes the shaveows of gender lines in “Washing-Day.” Charlotte Smith understands that the cycle of life ensures death and renewal in “Sonnet Written at the Close of Spring.” Madame Tussaud informs these literary works because they stress the impermanence of human societies and conditions, particularly gender, social and political lines and question the existence of injustices and discriminations.

It is hard to say that the core preoccupations of so-called classic nineteenth-century children’s fiction are altogether obsolete and irrelevant in today’s literature. When it comes to the subject matter, there is a great deal of difference in the choice of theme and the purpose of the writings of both eras but the deep investigation makes us realize that today’s children literature has its roots in nineteenth-century literature.

It comprises five members including the mother Lena, her son Walter, his wife Ruth, their son Travis and Lena’s daughter Beneatha. Each of the family members has his or her dreams and aspirations, which come into conflict with one another. Lena receives an insurance payment of $10,000 against her husband and wants to buy a home, because she feels that a good home will solve all the family’s problems.

Almost every year a Hollywood studio invents a new monster. Friday the 13th introduced Jason, Halloween introduced Michael Myers, and A Nightmare on Elm Street introduced Freddy Krueger. With the clear importance of monsters in society, there seems to be a major aspect of human instinct drawn to these figures.

One can listen to the historical impulse of the people, and how the blacks went through the process of transformation and their inner world changed along with the secular lifestyles. The poet captures the cultural moments that were part of, and shaped her life.

The months during imprisonment have Levi cold, exhausted, and absolutely starving. He only manages to survive because of a friend Alberto who gives him hope. After a series of incidents in which he turns lucky – more so than the others anyway, he does end up not dead after all – he is finally liberated in early 1945.

The work of Edgar Allan Poe is notable for the inception of the psychological element of horror in it. This paper shall look at the differences and similarities between two short stories written by Poe. The genre of the short story was what Poe was famous for, apart from his poetry. He was able to explore the intricacies of the human mind through these short pieces of fiction.

The American writers that are covered from week one to four have something in common that they were fighting for. In addition, show the transition figures between two literary movements and also historical periods and new discoveries that have been made based on the writers and give the best writer who has works that illuminate America’s concerns through week eight (Wood 166).

He was known for his painstaking revisions whose fiction passed through many layers of drafts. Fitzgerald’s style was colorful, witty, lyrical, and clear which gave life to the time and place he was writing about. His themes were surrounded by an idealism that defined American character according to him, mutability and loss.

Stroud who is the main character in Big Clock by Keneth Fearing is given the role of tracing a lost character. Stroud’s situation becomes dodgier as the plot of the tale develops and anxiety is heightened all through the story. This paper shall attempt to assess the Big Clock book evaluation by Kenneth Fearing.

Notes from Underground, and the Death of Ivan Ilyich are two novels based on the philosophical notion of existentialism. Existentialism is a philosophical thought that looks to explain the non-existence of a human being in the real world. The terminology describes a state of an affair where a human being might be present with their mind and body.

Edgar Allan Poe grew up with a natural passion for writing and profound thoughts despite the financial crisis and personal conflicts with the guardians who took custody of him until the stage of full independence. Though reared to become involved in corporate matters by the Allans, his foster parents, Poe had been more inclined to engage himself in the literary endeavor of writing poetry and short stories that depict themes of horror.

With Mr. Wright’s home, specifically the kitchen, as the setting, Glaspell reveals two approaches to finding the truth and serving justice. Two groups want to know if Minnie Foster Wright killed her husband, John Wright. On the one hand, County Attorney George Henderson, Sheriff Henry Peters, and neighboring farmer Lewis Hale search the bedroom and the barn for clues. 

The entire passage depicts him to analyze the past whereas the present with all of its beauty goes past him and he do not benefit from every opportunity of gathering happiness. Philosophers believe that happiness is dancing around all of us. But it is our incapacity to avail them that hinders our ability to be happy.

Fathers and Daughters’ Sexuality: Family or Property and Patriarchy The significance of the fathers being so involved in their daughters’ sexuality is their belief in their primary roles in protecting the latter as either their property or family and in ascertaining patriarchy through the absolute power of men over females’ sexuality.

The author effectively creates a word picture using vivid descriptions. He clearly explains situations that develop a word picture, for instance, when explaining situations when he is training late at night and leaves his wife at home with the dog, he explains what he is feeling.

The author states that Madame Loisel’s husband uses his savings and incurs heavy debt in order to replace the necklace. The Loisels go through a decade of penury and struggle to pay off their debt. At the end of this period, Madame Loisel learns that the necklace was only a piece of imitation jewelry.

Society, in Sybylla’s life, has a disregard for the role of women. Their society is divided into classes, and Sybylla does not hesitate to move out of her lower-class life. Her father cannot provide for the family, and it is up to the women in the family to look for ways of sustaining the family budget.

This was the regime that led the Spanish people immediately after the Spanish Civil War. The girl travelled with her pregnant mother to the residence of Captain Vidal, a man who was signed by the ruling leaders to root out any rebellion against the leader of Spain, Franco. As the story of the young girl is told the movie portrays a great amount of secrecy.

The period mainly advocated for a reason, criticism, logic and freedom in terms of thought contrary to dogmatic, superstitious and blinded faith. During this period, logic played a role in advocating for a world view that argued for an empirical view of human life in revealing the truth related to the universe, the self and human society.

The article titled “AUD/USD: Trading the Reserve Bank of Australia Interest Rate Decision” written by David Song was posted on Saturday 30 April 2011. It discusses the impact of Australia’s monetary policies as a response to target inflation rates, on the Australian dollar and the exchange rate (Song, 2011).

The book shows that she has put in a considerable amount of effort to find out the reason for Milton’s choice of language to be Latin, which could be either due to the fact that Milton could express his thoughts better in Latin and because he felt, it was safe to express the homoerotic relationship with Charles Diodati in Latin.

The book serves as a political guide for rulers and has been reputed to be a favorite of dictators like Stalin. The influence of this slim book is so profound in fact that a term ‘Machiavellian’ has been coined from it and has passed into common use.

The poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats, in a lot of ways, is similar but also displays differences that arise out of a difference in the way they perceived nature and other poetic faculties. Their backgrounds in terms of their class were also as far apart as it could be; this resulting in a lot of dissimilarities as far as their poetry was concerned.

The author states that the beloved one is more lovely and temperate than the summer day. A summer day can be filled with rough winds and can make uneasiness to the nature. It can take both the extremes: sometimes too hot and sometimes too dim. Further the poet says, whatever is beautiful, will sometimes lose beauty.

Some 89% of people in rural sub-Saharan Africa, where 720 million lives as of 2004, thrive without the convenience of electricity. This absence of modern-day basic necessities has deprived these people not only of internet and cable services but basic necessities such as means of agricultural productivity, education, and clean water.

Groupware applications are similar to other systems and applications that facilitate the people in creating and managing documents, frequently by means of a central structure to carry out business activities to produce promotion information, financial plans, dealings, presentations, and unlimited additional documents needed to perform business tasks.

The roughness of its appearance shocked me. I looked at where all the surrounding field lay and wanted to cry at its fleshy picture, its unsurpassed tenderness. This stalk rang so true and earthy- I had never seen such.

Yes, to a great extent this is true that in most places it’s highly difficult and almost impossible to find a good cat shelter easily. One of the many problems that these cat shelters are faced with is the problem of understaffing and over crowdedness of cats.

The author approached the poetry in The Norton Anthology of English Literature with this attitude, little prepared for my encounter with Alfred, Lord Tennyson. One fortuitous evening, he happened to read aloud Tennyson’s poem, “Break, Break, Break.” The sound of the poem was an absolute revelation to him.

Looking at A & P in this perspective enables us to see the bigger picture about how the story actually mirrors the consumer-based society in which Americans live. With this, it is important to first devote our attention to the context of the story and then understand the symbolism behind each character to reveal the author’s intention to create an irony about living in a consumerist country.

That novel, which was written by the German philosopher, poet, and author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as a very young man in 1774, has become a classic work of European literature. The form of the novel is a great part of its charm since it is written as a series of letters from Werther to his male friend.