Literature Essays

Generally, Aeneas, the son of Anchises and Venus, was a Trojan leader. The story gives a clear picture of Aeneas. As can be seen, he was supposed to take the Trojans to Italy and lay foundations there for the Roman Empire. He was an exceptional hero and had all the good qualities a hero should possess.

Introduction Good writers are known by the level of impact their stories make to readers. Whether stories are told of visibly evident events or based on fiction, a writer must be able to win the heart of writers at the end of the day. For Jackson, writing The Lottery was a test of her calling as a writer.

The poem talks about dreams that have been put on hold or deferred. The poet wonders what happens to such dreams that have been postponed. In this context, dreams are goals in a person’s life and not to be taken as the literal dream a person gets when they go to sleep.

Neruda was a Chilean poet, politician and diplomat whose birth name was Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. By applying the Marxist critique, we shall examine the key literary techniques applied by Neruda. The Marxist theory appreciates literary work as not only a mere depiction of style but delves into the meaning behind the writer’s decision to use a technique based on a certain history.

In The Crucible, Abby is a hateful woman who deceived people in order to get what she wants, even when people could die. In Brave New World, the deception was not as apparent because the characters are “conditioned” to accept what was given to them. But then at the end of the story, it becomes obvious that it is the World Controllers.

On the other hand, the story Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an account of a young fictitious couple: Goodman Brown and his wife Faith. It depicts how the evil spirit inside human beings lures them into committing acts of sin, which adversely affects their relationship with their loved ones.

The book focuses on the growth of Esperanza, her psychological and emotional conflicts. It focuses on her resentment of her new neighbourhood, the Mango Street, its people's sexism, poverty and the desperation that accompany her conflicts. The House On Mango Street exposes us to the knowledge that culture, personal history and the physical conditions under which we grow do mould us.

As the time passed the use of internet brought forth the virtual libraries and hence the layers of knowledge spread beyond the walls of the original libraries. Similarly, people who wanted to get knowledge and information on various matters resorted to internet resources.

As the play opens Antigone meets her sister Ismene and they lament these past occurrences. In addition to their father Oedipus’ tragedy, their brothers Polyneices and Eteocles killed themselves in a conflict. Since Polyneices fought against Thebes, Creon – the new king of Thebes – has ordered that his corpse remain unburied.

Language is made up of themes such as vocabulary, syntax, grammar, and semantics. It is said for instance that “semanticists have to have at least a nodding acquaintance with other disciplines, like philosophy and psychology, which also investigate the creation and transmission of meaning” (Saeed, 2003). 

It resonates throughout the text that the reader is left pondering over an extension of the story to imagine the possible ending if they were novels instead. The works under consideration are meant to be compared because of their unique theme which reflects how two authors can write similar yet distinctive stories at different times.

Thus far, the novel is read as a moderately simple guard of tradition. Morris forewarns against the risks of losing touch with cultural and familial memories by way of a symbolic contest between an African-American woman in touch with history, nature, family, and a modern, sophisticated woman who blithely refuses to accept the value of any of these.

The Father, in trying to convince the Manager to use their story, tells him that the Characters are "living beings more alive than those who breathe and wear clothes: beings less real perhaps, but truer!"  At the end som,e says that the Child’s climatic death was a pretense.  "Pretence? The reality, sir, reality!" said the Father.

Louise suffers from a heart illness; thus, her sister is forced to inform her of the death in the gentlest way possible, so as to not aggravate her. Feminist themes, particularly the struggle for women's independence and freedom in a world dominated by their husbands, are revealed in the internal conflicts of the female protagonists in Kate Chopin's short stories.

Both Amy Tan, in “Mother Tongue” and David Sedaris, in “Me Talk Pretty One Day” give clear examples of the insecurities involved with attempting to communicate in a language not yet mastered. Comparing the situation in both the articles, “Mother Tongue,” by Amy Tan and “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” by David Sedaris, it is contrasting.

The story of Oliver Twist is relatively well-known. It was written by Charles Dickens as a form of entertainment and social commentary in 1838 and published as Oliver Twist or The Parish Boy's Progress. The reason the story is so well-known today is that it was made into a relatively popular movie which has been remade again many times, the musical Oliver! directed by Carol Reed and produced by John Woolf.

Shakespeare wrote Othello, the Moor of Venice, at a time when the English, in their expansion around the world, encountered cultures that were different to their own and also at a time when many in Europe were feeling threatened by the continuous expansion of the Ottoman Turk empire.

Humanities is a particularly critical aspect of Western life particularly the American lifestyle. The ideas that were used in the ancient societies such as Egypt, Greece and Rome still have an influence in the culture of the American people to date and are normally used to govern the behavior, mannerisms as well as to explain some of the norms in the society (Woodhull 121).

Distinguished ancient Greek philosopher, critic and intellectual, Aristotle (384-322 B.C) has, in his famous Poetics (335 B.C), elucidated various aspects related to different genres of literature.

It is the story of four men, who survived a shipwreck and ended up in a small lifeboat, only to find themselves stuck around huge waves, waiting to engulf them. It shows the conflict between these four men and the sea around them as well as the determination in these men to work together in an effort to save them from that havoc situation.

Regarding the structure of the story, “The Dead” is not talking about a straightforward death but uses some modern equivocal terms. The examples of terms used are "Galway", ‘the Aughrim lass", and "Connacht" all of which is an intent to the west. The structure of the story captures the image as its basis to reflect modernism.

“MY FATHER DRANK. He drank as a gut-punched boxer gasps for breath, as a starving dog gobbles food, compulsively secretly, in pain and trembling. I use the past tense not because he ever quit drinking but because he quit living” (Sanders 100). This is the first lines of the first paragraph of Scott Sanders essay titled Under the Influence.

Robin Hood could be bad or he could be good. It would depend on situations that he may find himself in at any moment during the story. He has his friends like Little John and other merry men and all his enemies like the Sheriff of Nottingham and Prince John. In reading the novel, the central idea of this story is cultural and it deals with many subjects like poverty and discrimination in society.

The religious views in the novel are very forward. Melville has depicted various religious traditions. Sometimes he mocks some exaggerated religious views. He has used the blanket term Paganism in his novel. He wants to indicate that many times pagans are more ethical than Christian people. Melville is trying to denote the conflict in Ahab’s own religious beliefs.

The essence of evil is to be found in domination and control with the essence of good found in free will. In the story, the ring at once personifies and symbolizes evil and gives all those who are confronted by its power the fundamental ingredients of evil.

To a large extent one can argue that transcendentalism constituted a broader ranging perspective on the universe than did romanticism. One considers Henry David Thoreau, when he writes, “I had withdrawn so far within the great ocean of solitude, into which the rivers of society empty, that for the most part, so far as my needs were concerned, only the finest sediment was deposited around me” (Perkins, p.

Ptah is the symbol of preservation, a parental duty, and a protector. It is the symbol of caring parenthood a protector which are the major qualities of a king. He should assure his subject all kinds of assurance of living a good life such as financial stability, happiness, prosperity, etc. Sekhmet is the Goddess associated with bravery and justice.

Women have to kill their “women” selves so that they can be born again. This essay argues that death comes with fully opposing what society says about gender, especially womanhood. Being ostracised is expected, and loneliness kills too, but if women want to be de-womanized, they must do so by killing their socially-produced identities.

The hallmark of Causley’s craftsmanship in conveying a message that is of universal importance and significance is the style he has selected to wrap and convey it, which is the traditional ballad form. No wonder the words and style chosen by the poet are so typical of his body of work, deft at conveying pithy messages in a simple and matter of fact manner.

He focusses on the theme of death in ways that illustrate a macabre kind of engagement with an issue that unsettles human imagination. Similarly, Poe changes the points of view in some parts of his narration with the intention of enhancing emphasis and authenticity to the central ideas in the stories (Poe and Patrick 33).

In the novel The Englishman’s Boy, Guy represents purely the aspects of truth and history (Vanderhaeghe 34). It is a story that actually involves any reader in telling another story. The novel largely revolves around history, and the incidences, which came with it. As one reads the well-crafted storyline, such thematic concerns as truth, representation, fiction are what the characters and the novelist himself in this novel highlight.

The essay has shaped American views in relation to Puritanism. The idea depicts a wrong form of influence on the Americans. Samuel Danforth, a precursor to Perry Miller, compares to Miler because they were both impassioned and eloquent. Danforth delivered his essay addressing the Election-Day in 1670.

The lack of interaction between Dee and Maggie shows how they share nothing similar. All in all, the story depicts how the African American (cultural) identity has the power to tie people together (as in the case of mama and Maggie) as well as isolate people who fail to appreciate its essence (as in the case of Dee).

Within the text of “same kind of different as me,” is an emotional and painful account of two men, Ron hall and Denver. The most interesting thing about the book is the eternal friendship of Ron and Denver and their redemption and connection to God.

The story sensitively explores different dimensions of human facets to solve the murder case and looks for clues from a woman’s point of view. It highlights the status of women when their opinions were never sought or considered relevant, especially in male-dominated areas like a crime investigation.

Flannery O’ Conner (1925-1964), had a Catholic family background that served as the inspiration of her writings that greatly reflect her faith in Roman Catholicism (Shmoop). According to her “The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism" (The Habits of Being).

Perhaps, it is because of his representation of both the positive and negative attributes that he was called as such. Even in the initial passages of the Ulysses, one particular attribute of Bloom has already been revealed: he is a man of extreme and debauched appetite, as described by the following lines: “Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls.

Rivetheads are people associated with the Industrial dance scene of music. The Rivethead scene along with its dress code started in the last few years of the 1980 decade on the fundamentals of industrial rock, electro-industrial, and EBM music. Hints of fetish wear and Punk aesthetics in a militaristic style is the dress code for a Rivethead.  

One outstanding theme of this movie is the position of a woman in the society as depicted through the character of Eveline and all the characters that surround her to build on this theme. Despite the fact that her father treats her coldly, she remains loyal to her family and she is ready to sacrifice her happiness to keep her family happy at all times.

The history of medicine is a worth-discussing issue. In order to find valuable information, we can turn to encyclopedias, however, there is an alternative. Much important information can be also found in the works of people who saw all the changes in the field of medicine with their own eyes. In general, the state of medicine in the 19th century was very unstable.

According to Dr. Francis J Ambrosio, there are several ways of understanding meaning. This is a problem that philosophers over the centuries have struggled to make sense of. Dr. Ambrosio tackles the issue of meaning through a series of questions that seek to understand the meaning of meaning and to find out whether there is meaning in life.

The author states that magic is also central to the stories as there are characters with jinns, ghouls, wizards, magicians and even famous people of history. Fiction is intermingled with non-fiction. Then sometimes, these characters would intermingle within Scheherezade’s stories resulting to a rich narrative.

Sir Philip Sidney’s ‘Sonnet XXXI’ and Philip Larkin’s ‘Sad Steps’ are two poems that evoke many deep and great feelings that revolve around the use of symbolism and creative imagery. Both poems induce its readers to actively construct a moving progression through their lines that encourages visualizations with the words that they contain.

In conclusion, one may say that both “Sonnet 130” and “Dim Lady” have almost the same literary style. The use of figurative language in both poems is abundant.  The tones are both ironic.  In both poems, it is only in the last two lines that the true attitude and feeling of the man towards her woman is revealed.

Organized crime is a concept that has been much romanticized by popular media concepts and has become a long-standing American interest throughout the 20th and now 21st centuries. This essay considers my own impressions upon entering this course of the mafia, compares these impressions to the depiction of the mafia in the readings, and finally considers characteristics I associate with organized crime.

A disconnected family of obnoxious and ungrateful adults with their wild and uncontrollable children on their way to Florida for a vacation is depicted in Flannery O’Connor’s short fiction “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” On their route they encounter an accident and met a dangerous felon who eventually brings them to their death.

She earned her doctorate in English at the University of Washington and currently teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is rated among the defining American writers of the time we live in. The book The Very Telling Conversations with American Writers introduces Marilynne (Summers) Robinson as ‘An Intensifier of Experience’ (181).

The famous passage in Homer’s Odyssey where Odysseus is described as letting fall “pitiful tears” like a woman who wails when her husband is dying in front of his city, is at first sight rather disturbing, because it shows the great man in a rather tender light, implying that he is soft-hearted and perhaps even weak, since he is unable to control his emotions.

In the symbolism, there is a reference to the Christian belief. The tortured souls come from those who have the same type of mask by belonging to the false beliefs or religious torture that is symbolic of the torture which Christ went through. The idea of Christ and the Biblical reference to sacrifice for the cross become the main ideologies.

The book, A Wizard Of Earthsea is a complete fantasy package that was published in the year 2004.  The story revolves around a wizard who is young and vibrant and brings forth the adventures that are carried out by him.  The central and main character of the book is Ged who is a great wizard around the archipelago of Earthsea.