Literature Essays

This paper is an attempt to analyze two literary works from different eras and explore the commonalities and/or disparities evident in the depiction of such stereotypical gender roles. The two works selected for this paper are acclaimed plays from Sophocles and David Ives.

The wife of Jack, in this case, is important as she has been used to symbolize marriage as an institution that is civilized or an institution that characterize civilized people in a community that is impervious to change. This analysis mainly explores how symbolism is espoused in the short story "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky". 

The author states that Miracle and Cockfosters are somewhat ‘unreadable’ in certain parts. This is one of the main weaknesses of short stories. Because of their conciseness, they are not able to clarify certain points or aspects that may seem important to the reader but could be irrelevant for the writer. 

The paper dwells upon the poem “So Mexicans are taking Jobs from Americans” by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Baca has a mixed Indio-Mexican descent and experienced an impoverished childhood without the benefits of a loving mother and a decent education.

During the search for the master, the character in the poem finds “a dog [barking] among the sounds of water” (Jones 45) as well as peach blossoms, deer, wild bamboos and a stream (45). He therefore finds no “Master of the Way” but instead finds “two or three pines” (45), which symbolize rest, relaxation and peace of mind.

 Most of the symbols, related to the character-traits of the Monster in the play, are engaged in assigning the visually horrifying features that are the typical characteristics of a traditional monster. But some of these symbols dominantly go on to purport that Frankenstein’s Monster is the victim of its creator’s as well as the society’s injustice towards him. 

Each of the sequences that are used in the poems contains imagery that links to the other images in the poem, specifically which unifies the piece together and shows how one image can define and create meaning with the overall expression used. The language takes the same form, in which the simplicity that links to the images.

Recent research on this interesting field was made possible through the analysis of numerous aboriginal wooden artifacts traded between European and Aboriginal Australians in South East Australia during the time of colonization of the continent. In the comprehensive study carried out by the research team of Tacon, “thirty objects were studied.

The classical concept of Muse was related to divine inspiration being the primary source of poetic creation. As it was believed that creativity required divine intervention the artistic potential of the poets was attributed to the nine goddesses of poetry.

It is important to state that the narrative is a true story of Douglass while in Bondage. Equiano on the other hand narrates a story with a happy beginning and takes the reader through the process in which slaves were robbed of their cultural heritage and taken to live in unbearable circumstances in slavery.

Consequently, the bank bailout decreases equality of opportunity since good entrepreneurs are denied the ability to create a profitable enterprise from the assets of a business that is not profitable. Such entrepreneurs are denied the chance to take up the assets of the failing firm in order to create excellent and competitive products that can fetch good market prices.

Jeanette Winterson was adopted and raised by the woman who strictly believed on living a pure sinless life. Jeanette Winterson had a rough childhood where she was forced to do things that she never liked. For little Jeanette; her school work was her only way to escape out from the environment she was living in.

The author states that Reagan’s effective use of categorical questions spurs the audience’s analytical skills and invites persuasion to support his contentions. The purpose of the speech was to endorse then presidential candidate Barry Goldwater through showcasing positive traits and political agenda, as compared to other candidates.

All These happenings inspired him to explore the themes of death, loss of love, and betrayal. He also faced a difficult life in most of the careers he ventured into including writing, and this subjected him to a life of continuous hard work. This reflects well in his works that are an indication of a writer who never took anything for granted, working hard for what he wanted.

This paper argues that the novel demonstrates that in a patriarchal and capitalist society, people struggle to fight isolation by being committed to human relationships and finding meaning in nature, although the novel also sends the message of futility in this struggle among genders and among social classes.

Achilles went and killed many Trojans, Hektor included after he learned of the killing of Patroklos, a member of his troop. He inhumanly treats Hektor’s body, but when Hektor’s mother, Hecuba, approaches and begs him to give them their son’s body, he does not refuse and willingly hands her corpse (Book 22, Line 560-570).

As Bob Taft says ‘Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors’. Lenny Wilkens puts it in this way ‘The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve .

As the story develops, Nick narrates Gatsby’s story is perhaps a more lyrical style. This lyrical practice achieved syntactically in sentence continuation that seems endless. This grammatical style is a type of appositional phrase whereby Nick’s sympathy towards Gatsby’s ideology is clearly demonstrated.

Human beings cannot be claimed to have evolved from primates and that human beings and other animals such as monkeys and baboons share the same origin. If this is the case, then there would be other changes being experienced in these animals' life or in their attempt to mutate into a complete human beings.

What defines The Metamorphosis The Metamorphosis is a novel by Franz Kafka, written in 1915 which portrays a short story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa who suddenly waked up one to find that he has grown into a monstrous vermin. It was an unbelievable site for him when he sees himself in that horrendous state.

The author argues in a well-organized manner that Huxley argues that it is because of the advent of the machine age that people have become so obsessed with measuring time. Huxley is speaking in the context of the advent of the Industrial Revolution and the sociological changes he sees in the world as a result of it.

Achebe criticizes the Igbo practice of killing of hostages from another village in revenge in a situation where a person from the said village has taken a life. He uses the case of Ikemefuna to show his disapproval since this boy was brought to Umuofia as a hostage, where he was put in the charge of Okonkwo.   

The connection. President Obama traveled to Egypt, a Muslim nation, where he gave a speech mainly on the relationship between the Muslims and America. Most of the issues addressed by the president touched on the loose relationship between America and the Muslim World.

The author states that Maureen Dowd questions the fact that President Obama was able to convince the American public to share his opinion on gun control but was not able to get 60 senators to support him pass the bill in Capitol Hill. Dowd claims that the senators are not intimidated or afraid of him.

The writer’s choice of words and broken rhythm somehow conveys to the reader that the method used renders the creation unafraid of the experimental process to which it is brought so that the poem bears the capacity of gaining the empathy of its audience, drawing them to the core meaning of its wild sentiment.

The middle-class was growing and many middle-class women were accessing education, and yet, they were still geared for Republican motherhood. Sisterhood, which was based on intimate bonds with female siblings and friends, helped women deal with these varied and conflicting social, family, and individual desires and changes in their lives.

Second, his plays have been used by many literary authors that succeeded him. Many stories are based on Shakespeare’s plot; some directly incorporate Shakespeare’s plays, making the work appear as a play within a play. Third, Shakespeare makes use of literary devices that could serve as models for other writers to employ.

From the major discussions in this paper, it can be concluded that teenage volunteer programs are indeed valuable to teenagers as they come with a lot of advantages. There are however major challenges that are worth addressing if the need to maximize the benefits and importance of teenagers in volunteer programs are to be tapped to its fullest.

Shakespeare criticism is vast. The nature of interpretation itself entails that no one single unified reading can ever fix and finalize an explanation of a text. And, the vastness of Shakespeare criticism suggests that many conflicting and evolving perspectives are the very reason for this breadth of scholarship.   

WITCHCRAFT AND SHAMANISM. It is one of the most distinguished innate characteristics of human nature that they do not confine themselves to the perceptible natural and social phenomena existing all around them. On the contrary, they appear to be determined for exploring the realities concealed under the pile of mystery and suspense, but certainly contain imperative significance in their nature and scope.

Considering the fact that China is a communist country and a late starter in the area of economic reforms, the aspects of the rise of the much-vaunted middle class in China are so intricate and complex in terms of their relationship with the larger state policy toward access to prosperity and the deference to the state.

Australian participation in the war against insurgency in Afghanistan won’t impact greatly on the strategic issues confronting the coalition, particularly the complex regional aspects. The best bet for Australia is to attempt to pursue realistic results with the extent of risk it can take in the field of its functioning.

The general questions are primarily focused on the facilities and the staffing. The focus can be said on both acknowledging or recognizing what is needed or required, over and against the specific needs of a conference-goer. There is room and questions that focus on areas that a given conference-goer might be professionally affiliated with.

The movie falls under the general category of drama that seems to present a bibliographic description that explores the amazing emergence of Micky Ward, a young man born in Massachusetts, who becomes the junior welterweight boxing title champion courtesy of help from his rogue loyal half brother.

Here, emphasis will be on Sumerian civilization and the Mesopotamia male worshipper, an art that looks so wholly and presentable to the gods. Findings show that civilization in Samarians took place through a process. Sumerians were among the people who made up Mesopotamia.

Scott N. Brooks, in the book Black Men Can’t Shoot, tries to verify if Black people are natural athletes. In other words, the research looks into the question whether Blacks possess superior genes which give them natural ability. Also, it identifies the various factors which result in higher Black representation in basketball.

Since the beginning of civilization, different variations on literary works such as poetry and other forms of literary writings have evolved in forms and formats that depict the era when they were written. Such differences can be read between the lines of old poems versus the poems written from the era of modernization up to the present time.

This is the reason it is so intriguing to do a comparison of the two stories. Of course there are some obvious similarities like for instance both are short stories but what really binds them together is the other similarities and the main themes of the stories.

A tale is one of the most basic types of literature and it comes in different forms such as fairy tales, folk tales, tales about animals, and many others. These tales have become common in all cultures since they have been, and quite possibly still are, used as precautionary tales and sometimes as a way of making sense of things around people (Lévi-Strauss, 1955).

The activities born out of the people’s reaction to their environment make cities healthy places within which to live. Without a natural environment, then life becomes immensely difficult for the residents. In addition, Jacobs is vehemently against the planning approaches which rely on planners who have been brought in from outside.

Joyce allows his characters to unleash their verbosity and helps the readers to realize the importance of keeping different views in life. To be specific, the novel Ulysses by James Joyce revolutionized the context of world literature because the work is generally considered as the direct disconnection from the traditional mode of literature.

Generally, theoretical lexicography entails the development of theories of the types, components, and structures of dictionaries. These components and structures help in connecting the information in dictionaries, improving data accessibility by users, thus addressing the information needs of users.

The lack of independent thought due to the absence of knowledge come to put the human race into a dark age of intellectual stagnation, as seen in these two works. When one reads these books, one comes to the conclusion that the ability to think through the learning of the previous work of others is what has helped the advancement of the human race.

In this wonderful piece of writing, Benjamin Franklin wanted to convince people about the cultural differences created by Native America and white English America. Discussion Franklin makes a powerful statement about the people who think others as mediocre and proved wrong to someone who thinks others inferior on the basis of religious and cultural differences.

But both of the two stories deal with the theme that brutality and savagery reside at the heart of man’s existence, though man fails to perceive the consequences and dreads of their savagery. In Jackson’s story, this brutality of mankind is underlies masked beneath the rituals, whereas Connell envisages this brutality in a wild world.

Shakespeare used to deploy the concepts of forged identities in the English literature in order to show both the sides of picture in terms of human expressions. The same approach was used at the optimal level in start of 16th century. The name of the literary work was Twelfth Night, in which a girl named Viola survive and accident of a ship, all the ship is wrecked and apparently every one dies except of Viola.

Protagonists in both these stories suffer injustice from the hands of their husband and finally breaks away from the relationship.The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story of repression of women. In the story the husband’s domineering nature has imprisoned the wife into a domestic prison.

‘Confusion, chaos, & clamor’ are the three ingredients that define the exact flavor of Henrik Ibsen’s debatable play, ‘Hedda Gabler.’ A multi-layered & multi-faceted woman, Hedda is the quintessential suppressed & suppressor at the same time. The play, ‘Hedda Gabler’ was penned down by the maverick playwright Henrik Ibsen amidst the final decade of the 19th century.

He considers her as the “epitome of sophistication” and admits that she is “the only creature that seemed lovelier than a largemouth bass” (Wetherell). The author, thus, clearly provides the readers a clear idea of how the boy feels about the girl, which is the basic premise for the story.

As it tells of the challenge brought to the court and Gawain's adventure to try to fulfill his resulting obligations, the story tells us many things that help us understand more about life in medieval times. For example, one of the things we can learn is what some of the important elements of being a knight were and what kind of underlying criticism might have existed of this kind of system.