Literature Essays

The two ladies are in love with men of disguised identities (The Double Life in The Importance of Being Earnest). Gwendolen admits to having fallen in love with Algernon’s friend because he was called Ernest. This fact makes Jack want to be christened so that he would become Ernest. According to Gwendolen, the name Ernest is representative of superior social status.

A Critique of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Purloined Letter.Any analysis of one of the short stories of one of America’s greatest writers, Edgar Allan Poe needs to look at the economic, social and cultural aspects of the work. The confluence of Romantic and realist influences and social issues in the United States of America of the nineteenth century, The Purloined Letter has also been analyzed from a psychoanalyst perspective.

In as much as The Raven remains as one of the most read poem , plus one of the most frequently poems of American literature, it also has not received some generous critical acclaim in the course of history. When it became published, the given poem generated much excitement among some of its readers regarding the dramatic imagery used, its emotional intensity, plus the number of metrical cadences used in the creation of the poem (Edgar 1).

Spartacus dethrones the social structure of his humanity, as well as Katniss, did when she outmaneuvers the Capitol to compel their hand and consent to the unprecedented upshot of two victors. From the Romans’ point of view, the triumph attained by Spartacus’ soldiers against Roman soldiers reversed the expected array of things.

The viewpoint within Steinbeck's story “The Chrysanthemums” is placed in the third person view - through Elisa Allen's eyes. Since the story is limited to her actions and the manner she completes the events, the story is written to depict the style that is omnipresent because she moves within the scene without deterring from the leading character.

However, these drinks are not particularly healthier, states Michael Jacobson, Ph.D., executive director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). Although devoid of sugar, a can of Diet Coke contains the mildly addictive caffeine, acids that cause dental erosion, and harmful artificial sweeteners such as aspartame (Prevention, 167).

The Chaplain can also be placed in the second circle in Dante’s hell. The second circle is composed of those who committed the sins of lusts (Alighieri, Dante and Peabody 10). This circle has people who had doomed love affairs and relationships. His affection for Courage is guided by lust because it is accompanied by demands to Courage.

Lee Thomas is an author, reporter, and four-time Emmy Award-winning television anchor. Lee’s father and mother are a military officer and a nurse assistant respectively. He currently stays in Detroit and has a first-rate relation with his stars as they keep in touch on a regular basis. He is a holder of a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Speech Communications, which he got from George Mason University.

The essay analyzes the imaginary freedom in cohabitation, in reality tightens the noose of negative traits amongst the cohabiting partners as they are likely to get addicted to smoking, substance abuse and alcohol on a regular basis, inviting serious health problems. The incidents of domestic violence are more in cohabiting relationships.

Fibonacci received his primary education and was taught mathematics in Bougie, a Mediterranean port-city in northeastern Algeria. During his travels, he got innumerous scopes to experience different accounting cultures existing in different countries. He found the Roman numerals are not as convenient as Hindu-Arabic numerals which he learnt from an Arab teacher.

One of the remarkable features of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself is its adaptation of the epic poem genre. But, while classics of this genre have at their center a heroic figure, Whitman introduces a new vision of the heroic. The heroic in Whitman is to be found in the qualities of the ‘common man’.

According to Iliad, Achilles is the son of the king of Myrmidons, Peleus and the nymph, Thetis. This makes Achilles a demigod. Legend has it that Achilles was dipped into River Styx by his mother, in order to make Achilles indefatigable, but his heel was not dipped in water and thereby making it his point of weakness. Just as Achilles' heroic exploits make a larger part of an interesting read, so does his character.

The character of Nora evinces remarkable development before the very eyes of the readers. During the brief period of three days, along which the entire action of the play tends to condense, Nora almost depicts a transformation of character. At the very end of the play Nora as a character emerges to being very different from what she happens to be at the very start of the play.

The President’s State of the Union Address seeks to tackle issues promoting the better welfare of Americans and the entire human race on earth. He asserts that his government will create more jobs for Americans, improve on security, build and reduce mortgage costs, construct homes for the vulnerable and minor communities in the US and in the world (The White House, 1).

These art works became popular due to the artists’ rendition and personal expression of life as seen in everyday scenes. Likewise, impressionism emphasizes “a style in which the artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it”.

There are many ways to success as demonstrated by "A Rice Sandwich" by Sandra Cisneros, where she demonstrates some of them with substantial backing in the process of writing the story. The first means of making it to the end without having to do much is blackmail, which is portrayed thoroughly with a different character in the story.

While Postman sees the negative side of having too much information in circulation, the technologies seem to have impacted society positively to a greater extent than it has destroyed it according to the different authors. Blogs, youtube, interactive websites, wikis, social network sites, and online games among other applications have all improved the way people use information.

Center for discussion in this paper is the novel “The Great Gatsby”, the novel with an ancient setting set to highlight the human perception of relationships. In an argument, by Gross, the relationships in the text are set to explain and highlight the human nature effect on relationships. Additionally, the themes in the novel are all based on how people create and survive in a relationship.

Name: Institution: Course: Tutor: Date: Introduction Writing may not only encompass simple techniques that rule out common mistakes of grammatical errors, punctuation and spelling but a reflective and accurate presentation of thoughts and ideas that responds and responds to the needs of the readers.

The short story; “Two Kinds” is the final installment of Amy Tan’s collection of stories titled the Joy Luck Club; the book is segmented into four sections with and each of these holds an autonomous story (Becerra 1). Two Kinds is and examinations of the relationship between mothers and daughters and the complexities and conflicts that can ensure especially if both of them come from different backgrounds.

The facts in the story state clearly that Natalie is the sole bread earner of the family and she gets really tired because she has to work just so hard to support the family and her husband, John on the other hand goes to the gym to keep himself occupied.

The study leads to the conclusion that the implementation of symbolism as a device has deviated in the play, “The Post Office” to a large extent from its predecessors like ‘Sanyasi’, ‘Red Oleanders’ and ‘Chitra’. The symbolism, very coherent with the theme and overtone of the play, has moved from the concrete to ethereal and then to space where comprehension is just merely a perception.

The poem begins with the statement that even on Sunday the poet’s father got up early as usual and made the room warm for his family. Thereafter, the poet acknowledges that his father used to polish ‘my good shoes as well’. In the poem, one can identify an adult looking back into his childhood through the eyes of an adult and realizing his folly of not thanking his father.

Although at times the prose makes the readers cringe at the brutality of the human race and the shackles of customs yet the story is an interesting piece of literature to highlight the various literary devices that amalgamate in order to create a story. Literary devices offer color, uniqueness or dynamism to a work.

The author has successfully elucidated the social problems including abortion, drug consumption, ecological issues and others, where a violation of human rights is evident and inevitable to a great extent. The work reveals the problems people undergo while following the social norms and cultural values.

It commanded and dictated how love should be handled and conducted. The principles revolutionized literature completely and led to the creation of a new genre, which was dedicated to the brave and lovers. This essay will look into the succinct analysis of the two mentioned stories, and come up with comparison and contrast using courtly love as the core theme in the two tales.

Emerson views that compensation is something to which the wisdom of the world is far advanced, in comparison to what Emerson deems as the stale wisdom of the Christian church of his time regarding the nature of the compensation. Without being religious about the nature of work and the true nature of compensation, this speech posits that there is an agreement between Emerson's ideas on vocation and modern ideas about talent and compensation (Emerson).

The setting is done in the Southern Spain and creates a colorful backdrop of the focus of the clash which existed between the Gypsies who are nomads and who were an ethnic group which was highly despised by the public and the Europeans. The author clearly states that the Gypsies can be distinguished from the other inhabitants by their physiognomy and expression.

The names of the characters reflect their personality. O’Connor has used symbolism to develop the importance of each character in the story. Symbolism is also used by the writer to signify the difference between good and bad and the physiological problems and the psychological issues of the characters. The use of biblical parallels is also very common in the story.

In “A Jury of Her Peers”, Glaspell causes her readers to think about the following questions: a) Why did the author choose the title? b) Did the knotting and quilting have anything to say about the story? However, what could be more interesting questions brought about by the story are: a) Was Glaspell trying to communicate to her readers the possible destructive effects the abuses from husbands have on women, in whatever form they are inflicted?

In his book, he wrote: “For instance, why weren’t Native Americans, Africans, and Aboriginal Australians the ones who decimated, subjugated or exterminated Europeans and Asians?” (Diamond 15). He recognizes the control and ownership of guns, germ, and steel as the crucial explanation, marking out their influx in the colonial hands of the Europeans for more than thirteen millennia of agriculture and technology.

Daisy Miller, the title, and protagonist of Henry James’ novel, is exploring her own freedom in the novel. She behaves in unseemly ways for her environment, and yet is absolutely innocent, but her wilfulness leads her to make a poor choice that ultimately leads to her death.

Hamlet is involved in directing his play for the new King Claudius and Queen Gertrude. He is a young passionate wrathful man who wants to portray his disapproval and sound intellectuality in front of his new parents. He wants to demonstrate to the world that he can precisely comprehend adults' sham actions.

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most notable literary figures of history, and also one of the most enigmatic. This paper attempts to analyze the personality of Sherlock Holmes based on the accounts made in the stories that he figured in. Two contrasting personality theories were used Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory, and post-Freud Neo-analytic Theory.

The author of the paper argues in a well-organized manner that one day, however, an inchworm meets a nightingale who threatens to eat him for breakfast.  The inchworm protests, saying that he is useful and can measure things for the nightingale, and goes on to measure each part of his body, but cannot measure the nightingale’s song.

In his novel, Frankl has explained three psychological reactions experienced by every inmate to some degree. The first reaction experienced by them was the shock phase that they would land into after being administered into the camp.

It is not any unworldly message rather it should be implicated by us in our lives so that we may be able to function and coordinate properly even in the midst of aggravated tensions. Basically, being worthy of our sufferings means that we should be able to move along our sufferings and handle them appropriately

Society must first nurture individual creativity and innovation since ultimately society is made up of individuals acting together both apart and in unison.  Gardner weighs the various effects of individual and community, continuity and change, and growth and decays on societal health, and he writes what is at one and the same time a social commentary and an inspirational exhortation to individual growth.

The paper tells that the fame of the novel, The Bell Jar has often been attributed as being the only novel of the world renowned American poet, Sylvia Plath. The author, Plath, parallels her life experience with the protagonist of the novel, Esther Greenwood. The novel unfolds the author’s mental trauma with that of the protagonist.

The author states that The Joy Luck Club concerns two generations – mothers who immigrated from China, and their daughters who were born and raised in America. The director shows these basic themes, as well as many others, in a variety of techniques. The movie goes back and forth from the present, and back again to tell the stories of these women.

There are different people with different identities, and identity springs forth in various categories. It could be religious, social, professional, cultural, and so on. A school of thought believes that there is a knot that ties every kind of identity, some people are still of the opinion that their identity can’t be equated with that of others.

Historical accounts of the same event may differ due to the different perspectives of people on the aspects of life (Stearns). History helps us understand the societies and the people in them. By picking up a historical account of a society one gets to know the behavioral patterns of its people and how the culture and tradition have shaped the way of life of the people of a particular region.

Despite the current absence of the friend in the act of blaming, the friend’s anguish can be felt in the writer’s remorse on initiating and repeating the phrase “You blame me that ...” which equivalently depicts how much their relationship has been strained by the settings of politics and associated concerns.

The definition can differ from culture to culture, society to society, or even race to race. In view of Sherman, postmodernism is the change brought about by the influence of television and pop culture, and computer and other technologies. This paper analyzes the elements of fiction used in ‘Do not go gentle’ by Sherman Alexie that portray her as a postmodern writer.

Since its first performance, the play “the Doll House” has seen various productions as a play, all of which have occasioned a number of changes either in the original play’s setting, characters, or even flow. In this article, I will be contrasting and comparing the original written version with a number of its subsequent live performances.

With that said, a close look will be taken into the satirical elements of both Cat’s Cradle and Catch-22 to define the social criticisms set within the Vonnegut’s and Heller’s sardonic and witty prose. To begin with, both Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle were published during the Vietnam War; a time when the American people were pressed by the ideology of their country’s interference in an international conflict.

Not all literature is intended to deliver a moral message, but most good literature offers something of value regarding the human condition - showing us how to behave, how not to behave, helping us understand change. To help his readers understand what a moral person should look like, Charles Dickens created the character of Oliver Twist,

The author states that the other story that we will be discussing is “Death by Scrabble” by Charlie Fish. By its title name we can guess that the story is related to the popular game ‘Scrabble’, the author himself is an avid Scrabble player and wrote this story thinking: What would happen if a game of Scrabble had the highest possible stakes?

Scarlett was an authoritative girl found juggling her affections for numerous men. The narrative shows her transitioning from a youthful naive sixteen-year recent to a shameful mother United Nations agency had the power to guide a thoroughly southern plantation. She lived her life all the way through a time of the many historical transitions.

Parents may not think much of this fact because they may not have acknowledged that even when among familiar faces, young children can still experience anxiety when suddenly put in strange environments.