Literature Essays

Argumentation is a social process. Having an argument involves two or more individuals responding to one another's claim and support for such a claim. Argument is not simply restating the same claims and reasons, rather it is supporting, modifying or defending positions accordingly.

The handkerchief plays a significant role from the start of their marriage till the end of the couple’s lives. The handkerchief has a story attached to it which is told by Othello to Desdemona. An Egyptian Sibyl wove the handkerchief with silk obtained from the purest of the silk worms and dyed with the hearts of preserved virgins.

The poems "We Real Cool" and "I died for beauty" will be analyzed here.

The poem offers no ultimate spirituality or social or political agenda but instead testifies to the absurdity of soul-banging away on a piano. This essay has examined Allen Ginsberg’s Howl in terms of how it relates to political, social, and historical concerns. It’s demonstrated that the poem articulates the social and historical concerns surrounding the beat movement.

It was believed that he was born at Halicarnassus, a Greek city in Asia Minor. There was no precise record of the date of his birth and death. However, it can be estimated from the details of the book he wrote, The Histories, and from another source book by the Athenian historian.

Both the prose follows the cliché i.e. every saint is a sinner and every sinner a saint because without the other it is not humanly possible to retain the balance of this world.Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne use their power of imagination and fabulous skills of writing to project the sinister and the dark side of human nature.

The short story ‘Optimists’ was written by Richard Ford in 1987. The narrator and protagonist of the story are Frank Brinson who tells about his teenage years and how his family fell apart.  The whole story is about adolescent disillusions and family disintegration (John, 2011) and revolves around a single event (David, 2011).

Martin Espada is a notable Latin poet and is renowned for notable contribution to poetry especially in Latin America. His words flow on paper very systematically and beautifully and through his poems, he has been able to deliver messages to the people regarding emotions and feelings.  

My definition of a hero is an individual of high moral reputation and superior ability who follows his goals tirelessly in the face of strong antagonists. Because of his uncompromised devotion to excelling no matter the challenges, a hero attains spiritual greatness even if he fails to gain practical victory.

It is evidently clear from the discussion that both the poets have exhibited limited similarity when it comes to the use of line, as Whitman’s lines connect to the outer sphere, while Ginsberg’s lines are inward. The self of Whitman is all-encompassing but Ginsberg’s self is passive, lacking diversity by excluding rural settings.

The early to middle years of the nineteenth century (about 1836-1860) witnessed the flourishing of this movement which first began as a reform movement in the Unitarian church, following the views of William Ellery Channing, the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century.

2. In reference the chorus in the opening speech the features that show it is a catholic are the presence of the priests during the singing and the fact that the singing takes place in the archbishop’s hall. Catholic is one of the denominations that first introduced the ranks of priests and archbishops.

The narrative in the third stanza is different than the first two. In the previous stanzas, the narrator was telling a coherent story about the war. Here the focus appears to have shifted away from the war and towards something that was happening at that specific point in time. This is evidence of the despair of the narrator increasing.

Generally, why does red mouth not grant the speaker any favours in I follow her banner? While social status may be a convenient explanation for this, then we must assume the girl as firstly, being a peasant who is not willing to correctly play the game of courtly love, and going to bed with an armoured man.

A great amount of scholarship has been devoted to answering the question of what America means to the disparate groups that call it home.  Some authors have noted that what they see represented is a melting pot of cultures all seeking to find a better life and work towards adopting a new culture of Americanism in what can only be described as an unrealistic and old-fashioned approach to patriotic virtue.

Throughout history, there has been a battle for equality between a man and a woman. Women’s rights are where they are today not because of mass rebellion, but by every woman standing up for herself and what she believes in, subtle yet firm. Such is the tale presented in Margaret Atwood’s “A Handmaid’s Tale”.

One of the oldest arguments for the means of development is the age-old argument with regards to whether environment or heredity serves to be the most important formational aspect of how an individual interacts with and relates to their surroundings. The environment affects the most powerful means by which identity is formed.

This research will begin with the statement that love for truth, painful experiences, sticking to the grassroots realities, imagination based on the practical vision make a brilliant writer. Some write for making a career and some for the sake of upholding the truth and to lend solid support for the common man and societal values.

He finally goes on to mention his true proposal for reforms in the country. Swift’s “surprise” method shocks the reader and wakens the reader’s conscience, making him particularly receptive to the soundness of Swift’s real proposal to effect reforms in Ireland.

Novels and poems could be based on a true story or purely fictional. However, it is rare for a novel and/or a poem to be entirely fictional. Authors usually incorporate their own actual experiences in literary works. But what makes a novel remarkable is not whether it is based on a true story, or purely fictional, or both, but how the author uses the boundary between illusion and reality.

The opening of this poem triumphantly praises the individual: “I celebrate myself, and sing myself” (1). On the other hand, Whitman considers himself to be the voice of many people. He, however, passes equal praises to some of the most exemplary people in history, including Abraham Lincoln, whom he thinks to merit more praises.

Is the classical Greek Hero a dharma warrior? Yes, I do believe that the classical Greek hero is a dharma warrior mainly due to the symbols, character and humanity they represent as we are about to find out. A Dharma warrior is an Eastern term whose Western equivalents may incorporate ethics, morals, prudence, honesty and immaculateness.

Although Euripides is called “misogynist” by his contemporaries, recent studies qualified him as a champion of women’s equality (Rabinowitz, 1993, p.90-1). Certainly, the author of The Trojan Women, Alcestis, Medea, and Hippolytus, who talks about the ill-treatment and suppression of women in ancient Greece, cannot be called a misogynist.

Medea – Gender Roles Medea, a very famous play written by Euripides, is a tale of retribution; a woman, going to extreme ends to inflict sorrow on her beloved husband who had wronged her by abandoning her in order to marry someone else. The play is set in Corinth, the place where Media and Jason had taken refuge after stealing the “Golden Fleece”.

The most common themes in Poe’s work of Gothic fiction are dark and gloomy and hover around the issue of death. Most of Poe’s works of Gothic fiction explore questions of death as well as the physical signs of death along with the effects of decomposition on the human body after death. Other works also include the themes of premature burial with or without themes of reanimation of the dead.

Student’s Name: Professor’s Name Subject: English Literature (Classic and Modern) 04 January, 2012. Shakespeare/HAMLET One of the most debated topics by literature scholars regarding the play “Hamlet” by Shakespeare is whether Hamlet is really mad or not.

Blanche de la Force, the daughter of a strong believer, in a setting based on the era of the French Revolution, is one of the main characters in Gertrud Von Le Fort’s 'The Song at the Scaffold'. Another main character is Sister Marie who is the leading nun in the convent. She is supremely confident of her faith.

All sorts of intellectuals were making progress in the fields such as mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy that made use of the ancient works of Greek philosophers like Aristotle. The famous House of Wisdom in Baghdad served as the source or well of knowledge for Arab scholars especially for people of the Abbasid caliph.

The paper will equally analyze the obstacles that stand in the way of the characters and justify why the characters find themselves in vulnerable and dramatic moments.  Both authors have used fiction in form of images to derive deeper meaning in their stories.

Consequently, the narrative is been considered as a center of enigma in the contemporary literary imagination. Nonetheless, numerous critics have presented positive feedback concerning the influential and symbolic depiction of alienation realized via the unembroidered metaphor of a human being turning into an insect specifically the dung beetle.

3). From this point on the story descends into even darker territory as the full horror of Gregor’s situation sinks in, and he has to remain confined in his room, learning how to cope with his new and unfamiliar body and with the horrified reactions of his family and his boss.

This research paper is focused on the issues of female gender progression and the way it is reflected in the novel “Madame Bovary” by Flaubert and “The Life of an American Slave” by Douglass. There are different reflections of women from different social classes.

It is apparent that legends, myths, and folktales are all literary types that depict the soul of any community or society. Moreover, they depict its wishes, hopes, and conceptions regarding the world. In any dispensation, these exquisite forms of literature embody what society purports as pertinent regarding life. 

The author states that racialism could best be described as a canker that has plagued the world for several decades now and even though there seems to be a public outcry of why the phenomenon is not worth promoting, the two literary works through their themes and other forms of presentation make it very clear.

For quite a few decades, America happened to be an assortment of colonies scattered across the Eastern cost of North America. Hence the earliest American literature, predominantly a colonial literature, relied for its inspiration on the British literary models and themes that constituted the earliest of the American literature and the immediate socio-political issues faced by the colonies.

The Humane Society of the United States estimates eight to ten million companion animals like cats and dogs are given up to overcrowded shelters each year. Of those, four to five million pets are euthanised. “In fact, euthanasia is the number-one killer of all companion animals” (Fournier and Geller 51).

The rest of the criticism was peppered with literary elements that almost filled every lines. The structure of the poem is typical of sonnets which is composed of 14 lines and is written in iambic pentameter. But unlike the traditional sonnet that rhymes as a a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g, Shelly's" England in 1819" is written in the rhyming scheme of a-b-a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, c-c-d-d.

Steinbeck uses the fights and Elisa’s flowers as symbols that demonstrate her inner battle with her need to prove herself on one hand and the instilled repression prevalent in her life from both herself and the society, on the other hand.

 Martin started dreaming about big issues and his vision became bolder as he walked a haunted line between fantasy and reality, ambition, madness, industry and a sense of doom built piece-by-hypnotic piece until this exciting voyage into the heart of an American dreamer reached its bitter-sweet end.

The essay focuses on Eighner’s inquiry regarding various terms, which can offer a clear description of dumpster life. Actually, Eighner’s focuses on describing through a short history on the way he got to the situation of living a dumpster life. There are identifiable attributes, which concerns the application of strategies that include; analogies, sensory appeals, and counterpoints.

World Literature Topic: Research Paper. Maus is an exquisite piece of classic novel depicting the history with animated animal representation. It can be regarded a non tradition method utilized by the author to teach history of the period around world wars.

The narrator exposes to his audience, which include me, about the background and foreground of the story. Here, he seems to be poetical; thus, prophesying the coming future. The narrator clearly describes the physical characteristics of his home environment.

Life is all about challenges, some material and some moral. It is how we face these challenges that determine our eventual destiny. Both in Angie Cruz’s Let it Rain Coffee (2005) and Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis’s Dom Cassmuro (1998), the authors have invented strong female protagonists (or co-protagonists) that are the focus of these stories.

In this respect, it was published recently in “The New York Times.” David Rohde is a respectful journalist of The New York Times proficient in observing different issues in the Middle East countries who was once even captured by the Taliban in November 2008 and could flea after seven months of imprisonment.

Working with people and organisations 2  In this essay I will reflect on my role as a Student Social Worker with a Private Fostering Agency. I will define expectations of good social work and how I have been able to look after children, foster carers, birth families and professionals.

 The author states that Frankenstein is the scientist-creator of the monster. Any creation of literature is influenced by the time to which it belongs and the societal traditions of the era. The age of the writer matters but does it really? Most of the intellectual giants in any field are born great. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was one of them.

The story presents about the occurrences in the village following the finding of the body of a man on the shore of the village. It explains the responses of the people of the village to the body and the changes that the body brings within the minds and the hearts of the people in the village.

Shanley uses his own experiences and the way in which he experienced his religion and community in order to create a setting for his discussion. He begins his discussion through a revealing sermon that is given by Father Flynn which is a discussion about the idea of doubt and the power that it holds.

The conclusion from this review states that fear is inflicted on the people by exposing the current developments and advances made in the war on screens to scare the world population of the wonderful and mighty powers of their governments at war. On seeing these, fear grips the entire world so that no one is willing to wage war against them.

Mrs. Hopewell's daughter, Joy, is thirty-two years old and lost her leg in a childhood shooting accident. Joy is an atheist and has a Ph.D. in philosophy but seems non-sensible to her mother, and in an act of rebellion against her mother, Joy changed her name to "Hulga," the ugliest name Mrs. Hopewell can imagine.