Literature Essays

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.

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.