Literature Essays

On the other side, the story Two Soldiers by William Faulkner deals with the innocent thought of a boy on war heroism and his brother’s patriotic attitude towards war. To be specific, both the works are interconnected and the writers make use of the main characters to convey their messages towards the society.

In Monkey, Wu Cheng En describes a true story concerning the Buddhism religion in East Asia. Wu Cheng En tells a true story about a renowned Chinese rector known as Xuan Zang. The monk was exceptionally religious and was not satisfied by the holy book they used to read and seek guidance. Therefore, he decided to make a journey to India to find the remaining scriptures that were required to make the book whole.

Generally, at the beginning of the story Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, the main character Gulliver is seen as innocent, but he gradually changes in accordance with his experiences which are reflected in the ways he is treated, responds to, and behaves toward others he meets upon his encounters.

The paintings displayed burning ships, fire, shipwrecks, sea storms, etc. immense similarities can be viewed between Burke’s theory and Turner's paintings on the sublime. Burkes points out that seas and oceans are more threatening and thrilling than landscapes. Turner depicts this theory and his paintings which present the sublime are mostly naval.

Introduction In literature of any genre, the theme of deception is a great tool. It provides motivation and kicks to the characters, brings in comedy as the story progresses, and gives a push to the advancement of the plot. It keeps the reader/viewer continuously on tenterhooks.

They were the slaves who worked on the coffee plantations for all the Europeans that presided in the colony. At that time, it was known as Saint-Domingue. It was considered the largest producer of sugar and coffee. Europeans who owned plantations believed that working the slaves to death was the only way to get results.

The character of Hamlet has been studied upon in detail, through different interpretations, because Shakespeare has manifested such a character, whose existence is very much real, and exists in many of us. One question that academics and critics often ponder upon includes the idea, of whether Hamlet is mad or insane.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was a devoted poet, which he proved by contributing to literature until the time he died, and his contribution today is valued for having set the roots of Romanticism, which got momentum and perspective years later (Radley 99-100).

Shakespeare’s sonnets represent some of his best-loved work because they provide compact and elegant observations on the three great human themes of love, death and the passage of time. Part of his mission in the sonnets is to celebrate all of the fleeting emotions that people experience while remaining conscious of the impending shadow of death.

The paper observes Judith Ortiz Cofer’s poem Quinceañera. It overwievs not only the plot of the poem but also touches the Quinceañera's structure. Also, it analyze the theme of importance of aging in the poem as most cultures have coming-of-age rituals emphasizing the importance of reaching a certain age for younger people

Langston Hughes emerged with the Harlem Renaissance and served as one of its more prominent members. As a gifted person, Hughes was able to contribute to poetry, novels, plays, music, social causes and the evolving movement for African American civil rights. Hughes’s poetry prominently reflects changing attitudes.

The paper explores the Langdon Gilkey’s Shantung Compound. One of the most noted and relevant account of being prisoners of the Japanese is Langdon Gilkey’s book, Shantung Compound. It is a novel about the physical, emotional, spiritual and moral struggles in a community that was completely stripped of amenities.

The author of the essay casts light upon the hidden cannibalism in humans in terms of the writing “The Birthmark”. It is emphasized that Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “The Birthmark” portrays the crude reality of the world and the disguised cannibalism still prevalent in the humans in various forms.

It narrates the saga of a family, consisting of a grandmother, her son, his wife and three of their children, going on a trip that finally ends up in their unfortunate execution by a convict at large.

 However, Watson makes one think that apart from negative attributes of science, the progression of science largely depends on other people’s success and eventually the victors are rewarded. The book shows how Crick and Watson who, apart from having some funny behaviors, defy the authority to face a great scientific task to discover transmission of biological information. 

Various research based on the culture of America represents that the final half of the 20th century depicts a fast adaptation of the English language by the immigrants despite their preservation and connection with their native language, which is more rapid and universal than any other group of immigrants at any other era, in the history of America.

Hansberry’s family lived in Chicago, where housing was rigidly segregated on racial lines. Bombings, demonstrations, attacks on blacks who tried to reside in white neighborhoods, and racially restrictive zoning laws were common. In the 1930s, The Hansberry’s attempted to move into a ‘restricted’ white neighborhood in Chicago.

In the Chinese context it would be apt to say that the literature and the politics happen to be intricately intertwined. Under the rule of Mao Zedong the role of literature in the Chinese society and politics was promptly defined. However, with the reinvention of China under the following regimes the literary creativity also evinced a mark shift of focus.

Men who were fiercely courageous like Beowulf and Sir Gawain were the most revered by others. Male strength and dominance has a preponderant effect on the plots of both these epics. When Beowulf fights against Grendel, he lashes out displaying fierce strength instead of going by simpler means to win the battle.

The lines “all of us are pregnant.. both in body and in soul… as we come to a certain age we naturally desire to give birth” explains this point very clearly (Lawall and Mack894). He believes that Love is not the extreme of something but lies in between two extremes, that is, “it is between being wise and ignorant” (Lawall and Mack892).

Plato shows the path of enlightenment by the relationships between Lysias and his lover during the walks. During the morning strolls with other philosophers, Phaedrus demonstrates the essence of sacrifice in love when he confides in Socrates the importance of sacrificing for one’s lover. This is manifested in the denial by Lysias to remain committed to the truths and beliefs of existence.

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in medieval England, heroism was related to chivalry and valor, and one who risked his life and limb to protect a maiden’s honor or save a village from plunder by an evil force was worthy of the highest accolades in the land. It was the duty of the King and his minions to protect the lives of its citizens.

Nathaniel Hawthorn’s The Scarlet Letter widely employs the use of a number of symbolisms to depict his themes and to pass messages in the novel. The first and most conspicuous use of symbolism is in the title of the book, the scarlet letter Hester is compelled to wear.

The main character is Offred, who has been assigned the social and vocational role of a Handmaid. This is a woman who, because of her background as a fertile woman (she had a daughter) previously married to a divorcee (making her marriage null and void in this society and herself a close-cousin to a prostitute because she had broken her original vows), has been reassigned in the new world order to provide an elite couple with a child.

Many lives, already rotting in prison houses for crimes they did not commit, were saved because of it and many victims of unsolved crimes are hoping that justice will still be theirs in the long run. Prosecutors and defense lawyers, however, need to be reminded that the presentation of DNA evidence in court needs to be done correctly.

Qualitative research considers the holistic aspect of a phenomenon, including its macro and microeconomic aspects in addition to social, political, institutional and technological contexts.  The qualitative researcher is mainly concerned with understanding the fundamentals, the process and context of the problem.

Throughout the book it was plain to see that he was more a victim of the circumstances in the mental hospital than he was an outcast. What made him an outcast in society made him a hero in the mental hospital. He was a very outgoing and outrageous man and he was also a person who liked to make changes in people’s lives; he was also a fictitious character.

Born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Edgar Allan Poe studied in boarding school and “later to the University of Virginia, where Poe excelled academically” (Polito, n.d, n.p). He was a writer who earned his living only by using his pen, turned out to be one of the greatest literary writers in history, and managed to write despite his agonizing life.

The author states that beginning with the role of money, Cade Bambara highlights how Sylvia reacts to Miss Moore’s lesson about the cost of a handcrafted fiberglass sailboat. At $1,095, the cost of this toy is more than Sylvia can understand. “For some reason this pisses me off. We look at Miss Moore and she is lookin at us”.

If I request you to make sure that I am not lonely, I, therefore, make an assumption that is in your care. On the contrary, without the pronoun “you” the information of being lonely may not be present. The aspect of being lonely is always present in a social state of being. In this sense, the “I” is public in American Lyric.

Match the terms in Column I with the descriptions in Column II. epiphany imagery allusion ambiguity memoir flashback A. a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is from literature, religion, myth, history, politics, or other field of knowledge B.

Shakespeare challenges the reader into analyzing whether these traits can be a source of harm to an individual. Well presented in Diyanni Robert’s publication “Literature Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama” Michael Cassio is the lieutenant to the moor, Othello.

The author accomplishes this by using different stylistic devices that brings out the meaning and point of view of the author. Some of the stylistic devices used in the poem are characterization, personification, and the use of imagery. Through these devices, a reader understands the mirror and the woman that the author talks about in the poem.  

Diary writing is an important area of literature, as diaries help in expressing the innermost feelings. Through diaries, individuals get to write on events that took place during a certain period of a person, which affected their lives.

The researcher states that Emma in this short story makes is symbolic of Christ’s sacrifice. It is mentioned that just as Christ sacrificed himself for humanity, Emma sacrifices her body for justice for her father. Emma is the abbreviation of her father’s name, Emmanuel. The name Emmanuel is symbolic of Christ as well.

Emily was the second child of three children, born to Edward, a lawyer, and Emily Norcross Dickenson who tried hard to raise her to be a cultured Christian lady who would shoulder the responsibility of a family of her own. On the other hand, Emily did not allow herself to succumb to this pressure because she had an individuality of her own.

The book contains his philosophical message as pointed out by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, editor of the book and he writes in his introduction, “He was a philosopher-poet, putting Imagination above Reason.”(Blake, 1975, ix) To him, secular and divine are the alternative beats of the same heart. 

One feature that outstands in both stories is the mastery of language that the authors use, the vocabulary and the sentence construction is one that shows proficiency. Their statements are expressive and the message is not outright, the mind of the audience is fully engaged as they read.

This paper illustrates that in “The Social Animal” Elliot Aronson has discussed the role of an uninvolved bystander as that of a conformist because he/she overlooks the tragedy because everybody else does the same. The conclusion from this study states that article “The Social Animal” is a very comprehensive and though provoking demonstration of “conformity”.

Prince Hamlet falls into a complex situation and is extremely grieved by all these occurrences. Hamlet acts in a very unpredictable way and shows signs of depression and sadness because of the death of his father followed by the abrupt marriage of his mother to Claudius.

Several extensive types of research carried out, in this direction, go on to show that the contents elaborated in the preceding two paragraphs are in no way exaggerations. As a matter of fact, it has been noted that improper classroom acoustics gravely impede both the psychosocial and also the psycho-educational growth of children.

Shakespeare has written many of his historical plays under the light of the events from English history and such plays have become popular in Elizabethan England. However, he has resorted to a thorough altering of the characters, their intentions and actions which are different from the real history.

As a result of the increasing number of homes going through divorce, many of the adults who will make up the next generation will be the children from those homes. What are the factors that child would have experienced? Those factors that a child growing up in a single-Parent house is likely to experience is what this essay investigates.

It is a place to be sung about where only radiance, green valleys, and good thoughts prevail. However, such grandeur is a thing of the past because the wisdom and goodness is soon overthrown and covered in darkness and evil. For everyone now it is a place to be feared and avoided.

People have been using libraries to quench their thirst for knowledge and it has remained a source of information for people throughout the ages. There exist differences among the use of libraries by native people and those who have migrated to some other country. It is important to evaluate the researches done on the immigrants’ information needs and their use of public libraries.

The author Donette A. Francis in her article, “Silences too horrific to disturb”: Writing Sexual Histories in Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory, has well described the situation of women who were sexually assaulted on their own land, their struggle, their traumatized memories and their quest of running away from the memories of their horrific past that haunts them everywhere.

His writings indicate a period when the true meaning of life in many cases was as leaders would make it better or worse. As pertains to life present in the Eastern epistemology as presented by Tao Te Ching, it comes to our knowledge that majority of common men have resigned to circumstances that they find themselves in as subjects.

Holden’s alienation and being deep-troubled sink him into depression and nervous breakdown. The development of the main character started chapter by chapter. In Chapter 1, Holden mentioned his brother D.B., a Hollywood writer and how disappointed he was after learning that his brother prostituted himself to Hollywood to write screenplays instead of pursuing a career in literature (Salinger, 1).

The prevailing tension during the 1960’s and 70’s which measured the African American struggle for the same rights, are well depicted through the characters in the play. The 1980’s observed a cold struggle to morph the two cultures in order to erase the difference between races and people. The African Americans were dissimilar to any other races or the whites. They were special in their culture and history. The play uses literary devices like personification, metaphors and lots of other symbols which powered it to unravel the conflict of African Americans.

SEXUALITY in the book and the movie WALKABOUT. The Walkabout novel is a fictional story written by James Vance Marshal while the film is by Nicolas Roeg and their setting is the jungle. They both involve children abandoned in the jungle for different reasons.