Literature Essays

Guilt can be either devastating to one’s life or leaves positive after-effects on his social and moral character, which is evident from the two stories that have been discussed here. Othello in a great rage kills himself as a punishment whereas Gilgamesh learns a lesson and sets off to find immortality and repay for his wrongdoing.

The influence of family on Shakespeare’s life and work William Shakespeare is amongst the world’s most famous playwrights particularly those who belong to the Renaissance era. Writers, artists, musicians, and other celebrities that have made a big name and earned a lot of fame in this world all have had certain factors in their life that had influenced their work.

The drama at that time was more focused on romance and unrealistic fantasies of life. Ibsen showed a new way of expressing the problems of society through drama. According to him, romance and fantasies are a mere part of society however; society’s core and normal issues are far bigger than these ("Ibsen and Realism").

My high school is certainly a place that I can distinctly visualize; it was the place where I had irreplaceable fun with my friends and took part in the various amazing events that were held there. Thinking about my high school now makes me realize that no matter how many good places I go to, it is still the one place which makes me wish there is a time machine to make me rewind time back to when I used to go there.

How all occasions do inform against me /And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,(35) / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. /Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, /Looking before and after, gave us not /That capability and godlike reason (40) (Shakespeare Act 4 Sc IV) 

That bard of love is Francis Petrarch. They may cross the moon, beat the stars, but probe they must the mystery of the heart struck with love—ask Francis Petrarch, he may be able to give some explanation from his practical experience of falling in love, without his lady-love being aware of it.

The Hungry Stones and Western Culture Would you say that the following author, text, or story rejects European and western influences on his culture, accepts ideas that are fundamentally western as its own, or reshapes western culture into something new? What is the significance of this?

It is the story of an old fisherman who is never successful in catching fish. When he goes out to the sea with determination to catch fish, he is rewarded with a big fish but it is a great ordeal, which the novel describes. To Have and Have Not was written in 1937. It is the story of a man who is forced to practice illegal means of livelihood.

The main character of the story, Phoenix Jackson’s characterization in the story is discovered fundamentally with the help of these themes. As Phoenix Jackson sets off on her journey through the woods to get her ailing grandson medicine, there is a long list of obstacles that she must overcome on her way. 

Shakespeare as a playwright has surpassed all the limitations and shortcomings a writer can have to express the emotional paradigms in human beings on stage. Tragedies of Shakespeare are remarkable but as regards to the comedies of Shakespeare they are timeless.

In some cases, the issues that writers write about are highly fictitious and based on their imaginations. But whatever the approach a writer uses, what is important remains that they present to readers a story that is based on meaning. Normally, two key elements are used by writers in drumming home the ideas and meaning they seek to present or draw to the reader.

Industrialization was born out of the British Agricultural Revolution, which brought about overwhelming growth and increases in agricultural productivity. The social structure of Britain thus became characterized by massive and rapid population growth because there was enough for families to feed themselves.

American identity has long been a central subject under discussion among writers particularly due to America’s historical background and its culturally diverse inhabitants. A wide range of factors including colonization, conquest, immigration, race, ethnicity, color, and gender affect the national identity of American citizens.

The poet is categorical in ascertaining that whatever he wants to put through should not be construed with any speculations whatsoever. He casts a ray of the doubt when he uses the phrase. Lightly this would be mistaken to depict his lack of understanding or clear interpretation of the world as he views it. However, deeper meanings could arise and help clear any doubts whatsoever.

Major Pettigrew’s last stand, A novel by the author Helen Simonson, tells us the story about the quietness of life and love. Helen invites her reader to experience love at first sight but not at the first moment and crafts such an enchanting love story, which is brilliant and in accordance with human nature. The story is funny and messy as well as complicated.

one that accurately captures the phenomenon a researcher intends  True / false  7) The most fundamental aspect of ethnography involves administering questionnaires to people True / false  8) All methods of sampling require a sampling frame in order to select research participants True / false  9) Focus group participants are usually interviewed separately to gather their opinions True / false  10) A statistic is a numerical fact systematically collected about a topic True / false  Clearly circle the letter representing correct answer (questions 11-18)  11) Which one of the following statements BEST defines EPISTEMOLOGY?

Yet what are these samples made of, and how do lab technicians utilize the unique qualities of human tissue to make specific identifications? The answer lies in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and its unique composition. Like a fingerprint, each person has a unique DNA sequence that contributes to their individuality (NIH).

From the myriad discoveries made by Oedipus to the way he handles those discoveries while relating them to his own life, to the way he relentlessly gives up himself to find the murderer of his father in order to lift the curse and to come across the reality that he murdered his father, this play leaves the people in utter awe and appreciation. 

Introduction Both Maru and The Lion and the Jewel have been hailed as the best works of their writers. Both writers also seek to bring out change and progress through their protagonists in these works, however in one case progress is obtained while in the other, old traditions win the battle.

The essay describes the evil of war through the discussion of main “Mother Sauvage’s” topics. Guy de Maupassant used the contrast of beauty and gore in his short story to show that the evil of war lived in people’s hearts and nothing could change it. However, the main conflict of “Mother Sauvage” is a mother’s love to her children.

The play King Oedipus consisted of eight dramatic personae and they were: Oedipus, Creon, Priest of Zeus, a chorus by Theban elder, Jocasta, Teiresias, herd of Laus and a messenger. Theaters in ancient Greeks included the use of chorus in plays; they were performed from the background concurrently with the play.

Interestingly, the phase of autumn parallels how each day moves from morning, noon, and evening. Keats captures the splendor of the season’s abrupt changes in its phase and skillfully turned its scenes into a short three-stanza masterpiece. The poet, who casually addresses the season as “To Autumn”, expresses his direct and personal bond with the season by regarding it as an intimate companion.

It is a distinctive phenomenon- a byproduct 0of an eventful encounter between India and Britain: it seeks to express an Indian sensibility in a language that is not primarily Indian.  The development of English as the official language in India was the result of a historical process that commenced with England’s relation with India in the first decade of the seventeenth century.

Both were black Americans and took the lead in articulating the grievances of the oppressed blacks in America. Both had their lives cut shot through gunshots and were assassinated, Malcolm being in 1965 and Luther in 1968. During this period, other two key figures were also assassinated stretching the list of those who died by the bullet.

Gyan and Sai are an Indian-Nepalese couple, and the author tells of their romance and how unrest, betrayals and violence culminates in their eventual separation. Other characters like the Cook, the judge, Lola, Noni, Father Booty and Bindu also have their equal share of troubles and various forms of unrest.

Though Achebe moans this disintegration, he has not glossed over the deficits, deficiencies and superstitions that the tribal culture holds at its heart. By assuming this neutral stance he puts forward the proposition that the African tribes are not as savage and brute as what any European stereotypical view about the African professes; rather the Africans have their own culture, cultural standards and values, justice system, society, etc unlike the Europeans’ stereotypical anticipation; that the western culture is not as whimsical as the Africans commonly assume it.

The novel satirizes colonial injustices and traditional patriarchy. In an attempt to reflect the postcolonial multicultural tenor and universal appeal, the author uses global inscriptions into themes, style, characterization, myths, and setting of the narrative (Robinson, 2006:26). This paper seeks to how deep Oyono goes insofar as anti-colonialism and affirmation of nationalism are concerned.

The three authors’ styles were fundamentally shaped due to their past life experiences. Hemingway was mostly thought to have acquired his writing styles from his previous war experience. In his story, The Hills like White Elephants, he uses a great deal of dialogue, action, as well as suspense to create joy in reading it (Hemingway 4). These three traits are also dominant in Paul’s Case as well as Babylon Revisited.

Generally speaking, each genre of literature has its own set of expectations, and Shakespeare both embraced and resisted the structure. Shakespeare believed that comedy and tragedy are completely different genres and as such require different levels of focus and also different types of story constructions.

Gender inequality has been a topic of discussion for several centuries with different scholars and poets using their works to demonstrate the magnitude of the issue. Poets such as Shakespeare and Jane Austen have used their literary works to show the differences society demonstrates when distributing social roles between men and women.

The first rule is that words should not always be depended on and can hardly ever be pinned down to a precise single meaning. The second rule is that the whole truths of words are hardly ever presented on the stage. What is placed on the stage is meant to arouse a creative response, not to set up moments of actuality?

A person can be beautiful by having a talent, a personality, or anything else that can make her a person that is well-liked by others. Imagination has no boundaries. Beauty on the outside does not matter in life, but what the person is like on the inside matters most in one’s practical life and it is what really counts.  

Women are important in sustaining the society, they play essential roles at different societal levels and therefore deserve similar rights as men do.For a long time different societies have shown biases against women always apportioning women subordinating roles to the men in the society.

The increased murder in the Whitechapel district, London was a mystery because the serial killer murdered and injured numerous people. The storyline presents a plot synopsis and it includes an introduction or background information to the setting of the story. This is a factual story, which has a controversial case of murder that took place in the city of Whitechapel.

Oates Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? is a story that narrates of psychological effects of feeling rejected involving the character Connie. The story is a narration of the way one may act in a weird behavior with such actions justified by the mental conflict that such a character has undergone in their lives.

Interestingly, even though the entire short story focuses upon the material hardship that the husband and wife face, a further interesting component that is woven into the short story is the understanding that material wealth is nothing more than a pipe dream that the lower classes chase with single minded ambition.

The author states that slavery as a drastic oppression against Afro-Americans was depicted by Jacobs based on her own experience of being oppressed. The main goal of slaveholders was to gain money and they tried to destroy a family unit among their slaves. In this paradigm, the readers can trace the way a theme of freedom is depicted by Jacobs.

I think dawdling is the inaction that prompts Hamlet's ruin and behind the inaction, there were three primary laws: being hopeful, fatalistic, and over-scientific. Optimism prevents Hamlet from avenging the homicide of his father, whenever he has the chance to execute Claudius (his uncle, the killer of his dad) when he is imploring.

In both the short stories The Rocking-Horse Winner and The Destructors along with the theme of disparity and destruction, both writers have used various themes such as disillusionment, solitary and hollow existence of man, degeneration, and materialism to project the condition of their respective society and fellow beings.

FoxMeyer was a much larger business than TIBCO. One will therefore expect that FoxMeyer would invest more into the project and hence earn good results from the project. However, in spite of the money invested in the information system changes, the commitment shown by the management of both organizations to ERP varied and this determined the success and failure.

The play demonstrates the inability of the father to understand his son’s aspirations or beliefs. In turn, the son also appears unwilling to accept the father’s experience in society. In the case of both Troy and his son Cory, the father-son discord is deepened due to the racial discrimination against African-Americans.

Humanity defines how humans should be humane in all senses and truth defines the boundaries that help them remain humane- a concept that the reader grasps throughout the novel.Another theme that Le Guin has made his character, Estraven, argue about is patriotism.

This novel presents a world of dystopia vision, where religious fundamentalists are the rulers, while women are only confined to the roles of female with neither property nor education. Throughout the novel: The Handmaids Tale, the author, Margaret Attwood shows a futuristic society, called Gilead, wherein the government controls their citizens through fear, pain and manipulation.

The “Border” is a short story written by Thomas King, which narrates the story of a concerned woman, mother, an affiliate of Blackfoot tribe. It is greatly attached to the ethnic background perspective. It depicts challenges associated with citizenship based on individual background.

One of the most interesting things about this experience is that the following day, Greg had absolutely no memory of the concert, and believed he had seen the Dead only once, back in the 1960s. The new music, however, stayed with him and he was able to recognize the songs without knowing quite where he had heard them. 

In ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ Charlotte Perkins Gilman gives the reader a close and disturbing picture of a woman’s descent into madness. What makes it so profoundly unnerving is the level of detail that Gilman uses to paint this picture. The slow progression into madness is meticulously noted and reproduced for the reader.

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a classic short story that has been taught in high schools and universities since its publication in 1948. It remains an important piece of fiction because of its resonance with the human consciousness. While it is a simple story, with a straightforward storyline, and not long in length, its subject matter touches on some primitive part of the human makeup.

This play explains how he kills his King and his best friend to fulfill his ambitions, his prophecy, and the fortune as he was told by the witches. However, Macbeth met the witches along with Banquo; witches told the glorious future to both of them. Banquo ignored the fortune but Macbeth strictly followed what he was being told by the witches.

The author states that the story compares to the story of the developing world. Most of the developing world faced colonialism, an era that oppressed the people. The people decided to rise against the colonial powers and drove them out of their nations. The people were enthusiastic that better days were on the way.

By evaluating six of her poems, the poet illustrates and brings across the vivid idea of each theme by her unique way with compacted style, capitalization, indirect juxtapositions, and trademark rhyming schemes besides the simple yet exquisite choice of words and means with typical literary devices by which she opts to be more emphatic and effective.