Literature Essays

The experiences of Mary Rowlandson, of the struggle of every day’s living against a backdrop of a myriad challenges in Christian life are universal for all Christians. Mary Johnson epitomizes the perfect Christian who strives to abide by God’s will by conforming to the puritan values of good living; however, like all Christians, she often encounters situations which cause her to be drawn away from God (Jen).

The issue of sanity versus insanity has been a topic that has intrigued writers from the earliest introspection and discussion of humanity that is extant within the world of literature. This is due partly to the definition and understanding of what defines normal and what defines abnormal and by extension what defines sane versus insane.

In the process of theme development, the poet employs the substantial use of numerous stylistic devices within various parts of the poem. In the second line, the speaker refers to the land buyer by saying, “who would be…” In this instance, the poet uses alliteration by repeating the consonant sound “w” in the words “who” and “would.”

In the grand Inquisitor, the characters question the validity of religion, free will and morality. The main dilemma that these characters ask, is it prudent for man, to observe the laws of religion? The other questions that linger on the minds of these people is whether they should take the role of God, and ignore the various religious believes or traditions.

Tom also took on the responsibilities of tending to the well-being of his ill and painfully shy younger sister. However, Tom’s ignorance and selfishness gets the better of him, a behavior that had been building up until it reached a boiling point at the end of the play, resulting in Laura’s emotional distress.

The characters that Lawrence uses in the story are reminiscent of other characters of his. The mother Hester, for instance, exerts a great amount of control over her son, Paul. Her love for money and creature comforts are sought to be fulfilled by her son who takes an unconventional route to do the same.

The above stories can be viewed as masterpieces in terms of giving an introspection into the fate of women in the United States. More specifically, the stories each have a unique setting but they bear notable semblances in the mode of discourse. The two protagonists in the stories are females who are subjected to uncalled for forms of violence as they go bout their normal duties.

Society has come a long way when it comes to the role of women in society. In the past, women did not have a say in the societal roles, as all the roles meant for them were already embedded in the societal norms. The greatest point of controversy about these roles was that they degraded the position of women in society instead of enhancing this position.

Cinderella is one of the more famous Grimm Brother’s fairy tales that have made it as a Disney adaptation, immortalizing it in people’s pop culture sensibilities. The Cinderella story centers on an orphaned girl who triumphed over her stepmother’s and stepsisters’ evil plans to enslave her and generally make her suffer.

Although she portrays herself as righteous and religious minded,her longing for money and the good life show her real aspirations.In fact it is the Misfit that is the more righteous of the two, often thinking about his past and how social injustices have pushed him down the right path to a life of crime.

All through the novel, Janie is presented as a beautiful woman who has been in the search for love, life, and reliability. It is essential to recognize that the protagonist of the novel has a different type of understanding of the concept of God, and she has a Gnostic perspective.

The muscular hard body was a treat to watch. They leapt. They bucked. And they galloped in circles around and around the other in a manner that was wonderful in its immaturity. The sky was blue and the day was filled with sun, and Hannah was enjoying the way the bright sunlight reflected across the backs of the twins.

The author states that the original play was banned in Paris when it was first released, even if the King of France, King Louis XIV enjoyed it. This is because the clergy was highly offended by the way Moliere allegedly mocked religion. This play became one of the most important plays in French Literature.

African American Teens Receive Harsher Sentences Than Caucasian within the Criminal Justice System. Institutional racism has been outlawed for more than 40 years but, somewhat ironically, racism within the legal system continues unabated. This discussion provides data that demonstrates the disparity of justice in the U.S.

Although those initial pains or hurts may never go away—both the ancestral pain of her people having been subjugated to oppression time and again through various methods and also the pains of having lived through life—Cisneros still maintains a positive outlook with the intent to live another day to write another book. 

Quality improvement policies and activities evolve as a result of need/concern in specific areas of patient care. These quality improvement needs can only be addressed by nurses who are directly involved in patient care. Nursing administrators should have excellent quality improvement skills as they significantly influence care and efficiency.

Day one is the development of research objectives, followed by a 2 days development of the research plan. The longest days in this research are devoted to the collection of data.  A relatively long period of time will be needed in case of field research and on-site interviews will be done if necessary.

For a long time, the extent to which technology is responsible for the breakdown of social relationships has been a controversial issue among scholars, researchers and psychologist. Hundreds of technological advancements are introduced every day and the dilemma of living in a fast moving world, while averting the effects of the technology on social fiber is surfaced time and again.

Both stories revolve around the female protagonists, who are justified in being center of attention due to their distinctive traits. The family ties and bonding shown in the two stories represent the obligations a woman carries invisibly. The thin line between love and hate is the most evident aspect in those scenarios which delude the original feelings of love, of the stereotypes about slaves.

If Elizabeth never objected to the closure of top theatres in England, poetry could have lost taste and would not have gotten this far. Poetry is an art that should be promoted under all cost, this because it enhances the exploration of hidden agendas in life through hidden literature language. It acts as a literature indirect tool to fight injustice, corruption, and poor governance.

Humans have grouped themselves into societies that help the individuals to benefit from other’s work besides their own. Societies have evolved from small towns to colossal empires. Amongst these, most of them demand some sort of common sacrifice from the individuals, which might be in direct conflict with the good of the individual, thus suppressing that particular individual’s good.

The difference between the two poems is the choice of narration. “A Red, Red Rose” is told from the narrator’s perspective, although no indication is given as to who the narrator is. The poem uses the pronouns “My” and “I” throughout, emphasizing that the projected emotions are that of the narrator, and potentially the writer.

Published and staged several years before the French Revolution (1789-1799) the play depicts the tumults of the Parisian aristocracy and monarchy. Beaumarchais’s “Marriage of Figaro” itself appears to a voice against the tyranny of the aristocratic society and it champions the commoners’ triumph in their attempt to amend these frontiers of the society.

Ursula Le Guin has clearly stated this as not specifically relevant. In particular, Ursula Le Guin has made assertions that the similarities between Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, who wrote Crime and Punishment that is related to morality, and her work only occur to her in retrospect and that it was never the main influence in her writing of the story.

Today we would like to believe that such paranoia and hysteria could never breed another witch hunt. Whether or not that is true is yet to be seen.  One researcher made a, long true, statement, on which it is worthwhile to rely, “…each generation must learn the lessons of history or risk repeating its mistakes. (Linder)

Sonnets are literary forms that usually thematically express romantic love and the sonnet sequence, Astrophel, and Stella, written by Sir Philip Sidney, is also no exception to this. This sonnet sequence is a discourse on the existential and moral concerns of a man, Astrophel, who is passionately in love with a married woman, Stella (Sidney, 2004).

The author states that “The feudal compact” is the system of relations in the medieval Europe that linked the vassal and his suzerain. The land allotment that was passed into possession was called “feud”. With the transfer of the land into feud, its presenter was becoming a lord suzerain and the recipient was becoming a vassal of the latter.

"Ode on a Grecian Urn” composed by the poet in May 1819 and consequently published in January 1820 is one of his finest and most remarkable creations. Keats composed many other odes simultaneously in the same year and this Ode is regarded as one of the most impeccable and unparallel creations of the era.

Each member of the family is crazy in their own way, but when they get together, they showcase a family that bursts with love and human frailty. Darlyn and her brother exchange roles and help each other with taking care of their mother (Anshaw 3). Lake her daughter fixes her food whenever she can like a show of support to her.

In a manner quite unprecedented, Freud offered an alternate means of understanding the human psyche, that is, through the realm of the unconscious or the repressed. Thus dreams and hitherto stifled desires become the chief subjects of Freud’s studies. This essay would attempt to argue for the continuing relevance of psychoanalysis in literature and literary inquiry through a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s work TheStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

This paper will compare two short stories written by different authors and in different placements. The stories are Punishment written by Rabindranath Tagore and The Conscience of the Court written by Zora Neale Hurston. The two stories have several features in common that therefore compel the comparison of how the authors use them in developing the conflicts, which sustain the story.

The difference in content in the literature varies in terms of intensity of literature and the strengths given to the characters. Various ancient female readings were spectacular owing to the fact that the women were writing them in an age when they were practically not allowed to engage in anything whatsoever.  

Words and Pictures across Cultures Name Professor Institution Course Date Words and Pictures across Cultures Orientalism has been a debate between different people and cultures over many years and one of the acclaimed writers in the field is renowned American author, Edward Wadie Said.

Frank McCourt’s autobiography Angela’s Ashes and Charles Frazier’s novel Cold Mountain both use landscape to reflect the mental state of the characters and show their metaphorical journeys as well as their physical ones. However, each author uses descriptions of the landscape and character interactions with it in a very different way.

Crossroad movies are more like a meeting point of the culture of Africans and the Caribbean. They contain scenes where certain Caribbean, that have their roots from Africa come together with their own brand of music that has its origin from Africa and this music remind viewers of the rich cultural history of Africa.

Lorenzo himself is a Christian while his girlfriend Jessica is a Jew. We get to learn that intermarriage between the two antagonistic religious groups is highly forbidden. This is a ’Love is blind’ kind of relationship that leads Jessica and Lorenzo into the world of unfamiliarity characterized by love blossoming beyond religious boundaries.

No one knows the significance of the storytelling art better than the Shahrazad, as it saved her from the beheading. If she was born in modern times, she would have gone on to become a successful screen play writer, wining various Oscars for possessing a superb and spellbinding art of creating blatantly visual and remarkably intricate scenarios.

He was stripped off his boxing rights for a period of four years after which he went on to become one of the world’s greatest fighters and earned himself the nickname of the ‘Greatest’ as he was involved in some of the most historic boxing matches that have taken place in history.

This research will begin with the statement that poetry is by its very nature an artifice.  The paper tells that one of the most important components of poetry is the fact that each word is chosen, each sound was chosen, so specifically by the poet that it can convey an incredible amount of meaning with a small amount of text. 

The character of Henry develops from a cowardice youth afraid of war and reluctant to participate in war to a fulfilled brave soldier. The plot unfolds to give the reader of the background from which Henry got an injured hence receives a “war wound” that becomes his turning point.

“She spoke, and still more roused in him the passion for weeping. He wept as he held his lovely wife, whose thoughts were virtuous. And as when the land appears welcome to men who are swimming after Poseidon has smashed their strong-built ship on the open water...; so welcome was her husband to her as she looked upon him, and she could not let him go from the embrace of her white arms.”

Gideon’s personality is “not the stuff of which dynasties are founded”. The father lets his disappointment show through in their relationship. Shimshon is prepared for his son to “drop out at the last minute” and avoid the parachute jump. In the event that Gideon does go through with the jump, Shimshon is prepared to be proud of him “for a change”.

Many women in this time believe in gender equality. They believe in the fact that they can do anything the masculine gender is assigned to. Human rights activists help to see that women get the full share of authority as the men. This is defined as feminism the greatest tool of battle in the women society.

Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale can both be considered feminist works. They both look at the different aspect of feminism, which can be seen in the remarkably different environments in which the stories in these novels are set, and these give a hint of the authors’ thoughts on the feminism.

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol during a period when the British were exploring and re-evaluating past Christmas traditions, including carols, and newer customs such as cards and Christmas trees. He was influenced by the experiences of his own youth and by the Christmas stories of other authors, including Washington Irving and Douglas Jerrold.

This essay discusses that while Finkle and Dexter are similar in their pursuit of girls who represent the American Dream, they differ in their reactions to the results of their search. Leo Finkle and Dexter Green pursue girls who represent the Great American Dream: the hope of happiness, freedom, meaningful relationships and wealth.

The stunning moments Edgar Allan Poe created through his bizarre imagination generate his views about the human psyche and his profound use of literary language. Poe is a difficult writer in the sense that sometimes he reaches the heights of imagination, throwing the reader's minds into an indefinable dilemma with utmost curiosity to know the rest.

Shakespeare’s works come under the category of classics in literature, is to be justified not on the basis that they were authored many centuries ago, but for the reason that they throw light on the various facets of human nature. They deal with the most profound realities and shades of life that are as often ugly as they are beautiful. 

Indeed this movie elicits different emotions among the audience. To begin with, when Paul arrives in Mexico, as a father, he becomes friends with certain street children and becomes emotionally attached to them. This relationship later presents a painful situation, when Paul learns that one of these street children is a subject of murder in order to save his daughter’s life.

This paper observes a range of findings of the review of the paper titled “Strategic Management, a Dynamic Approach”. It is part of a peer review activity supposed to assume critical analysis of the paper. Most notably, the paper will cut across different areas including the structure, components and units of the paper.