Literature Essays

Poe’s fiction celebrates both the hyper-rationality of the detective and the inability of philosophy to account for the perverse”. Poe never did get much money for his writing during his life, even though he held several editorial positions.

The author states that the legacy of totalitarian leaders like Stalin in the early part of the century and now Hitler of the middle of the century caused Orwell to reflect upon the directions in which modern Western societies were going. The example of war-like totalitarian regimes prompted the vision of a cruel and oppressive totalitarian state.

The author of the paper explains that at the beginning of her entrance into the store Sylvia continues to exhibit the brashness and bravado that she had demonstrated before becoming exposed to this new environment. In these regards, Sylvia follows her friends that joke about possibly stealing items.

They belong to three different social groups: Hyppolita is the Queen of the Amazons who is about to be married to Theseus, Duke of Athens and this makes her a royal person, well above the level of normal citizens. Titania is also a Queen, but her royal position is located in the land of the fairies, which sets her apart as not human.

‘Othello’ an awesome tragedy play. Other Shakespearian plays involve themes of political conquest and fight for power. Unlike Hamlet, Macbeth, or King Lear, the tragedy in Othello does not erupt from a quest for power, it stems out of the fragility and corruption of love and love's vulnerability to hate.

The author then describes his final relocation into a White neighborhood, where Eastman grew up to be a top-class physician but throughout his entire life, he tirelessly fought for Native American rights and became a key figure in politics.

If so, what would it look like? Anton Chekhov’s play The Cherry Orchid is about the lives of members of an aristocratic Russian family, their friends and servants. Although the author intended the play to be a simple comedy, themes concerning society and its norms feature prominently in its various performances.

Marketing is defined as a job that involves encouraging people to buy a product or service. In this case, it is a service and the person providing the service is usually a woman. Pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry and this is where the problem lies. There is no motivation to crack down on it because there are financial incentives to keep the industry open.

Surprisingly, Miller reported that the science fair winners are all women, signifying the relevant potentials of future leaders and scientists in various endeavors. As Miller averred, “Google started the science fair to promote curiosity about science and experimentation among students, and it is one of the company’s several education projects.

Though a Long Term Investment, It Is Better to Rent Because of Cost and Mobility Introduction Though housing offers a long term investment, it is better to rent because of cost, mobility and plausible alternatives available with us. It will be interesting to investigate the pros and cons in detail as to how renting becomes more acceptable alternative.

In Shakespeare’s tale, Othello, he uses different characters to put across his principal ideas, which are a reflection of the social setting. His use of Othello, a black character, exemplifies the differing perceptions of different people in the society. Othello helps bring out core themes in the tale. 

Harriet Beecher Stowe did not have much interest in slavery early in her life. It was a geographically isolated evil; and while she had heard accounts of slaveholder brutality and slave ingenuity in escaping; she had little interest in publicizing the stories she was personally acquainted with; neither those she directly experienced or those related via her brother.

Works of Art in the Baroque period are indentified with their apparent and embellished motion. It involved straightforwardly interpreted facts that created excitement, anxiety, enthusiasm, and magnificence in sculptures made. This form of art originated from Rome and spread into many European countries.

It is not unusual for students to interpret novels differently as people tend to view things from different angles. The onus then lies on the shoulders of the teacher to give a general perspective of a particular novel to these students in order to align their minds to the accepted school of thought.

Balzac uses identifiable forms of introductions in almost one-third of his fiction. This prompts one to ask himself, why is this so? Avoiding the mass as well as distributing different forms in the fiction in a way that they appear as broken fragments is another strategy that fiction technicians of rapid days employ (Dargan 350).

The failure to resolve the tension between dark and light and between the real and the imaginary is a reflection of the failure to bridge the gap between masculine and feminine views of the world. The yellow wallpaper symbolizes the pain and madness that comes of oppression, and there is a subtle message in the story, to the effect that the tension can be better managed if the woman is free to come and go as she pleases.

This paper focuses upon the Jonathan Reed’s “Lost Generation”. It’s a poem that has a passion behind it. The poet is clearly concerned about upcoming generations and is wanting these future generations to see what is going on in the world. He wants to see the change he wants to see the reverse of the poem and not the first way of reading the poem.

The conclusion from this study states that the road not taken is a poem with a hidden meaning, it tells us how our life presents two choices in front of us, when we make our choice, after a few years we more often than not ponder over the options we would have had, had we chosen to trot on the road not taken. The poem is very tricky and requires immense concentration to be understood.

As the paper stresses historians like to present events and characters as if they belong in one or other of these two polar opposites: either defenders of freedom and justice or defenders of the iniquities of slavery. The situation is considerably more complex than that, and the constitution is inextricably bound up in the ideology of slavery. 

This paper tells that the term Marxism was derived from Karl Marx who war was the first author to write a literary criticism of Shakespeare’s work. Karl Marx was interested in the unique use of language and political satire that characterized Shakespeare’s work. Julius Caesar was a play written by William Shakespeare depicting the fall and assassination of the Roman dictator, Julius Caesar.

Mo Willems is an award winning animator, television writer, and author. He spent nine years as an animator and writer for Sesame Street, and he has created more than 100 short films many of which have featured in HBO, MTV and Mike’s Festival of Animation.

Gustave Moreau’s painting, Salome Dancing before Herod, was painted in 1876 and depicts the New Testament story concerning Salome’s dance for Herod at his birthday banquet. During this dance, she was supposed to captivate Herod with a seductive dance in order to influence him to offer her whatsoever she desired.

The poor man, Tartuffe, presented himself to be a wonderful and pious individual who gained the favor, love and trust of a wealthy man in the person of Orgon. He used his influence to bamboozle the nearsighted father who thought that the criticisms of his family toward the man he trusted were merely their way of destroying Tartuffe.

Everyone took their place beside their respective families. The lottery was headed by Mr. Summers and assisted by Mr. Graves. A black box sitting on a three-legged stool contains pieces of papers one of which is marked. The lottery is done in the town on a regular basis; hence, further formalities prior to the main event are not done anymore.

Traces of Romanticism in literature can be found even in the works of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio. Later on, it was used to “refer to the verse epics of Tasso and Ariosto”. Later on Romantic Era reached its zenith in the hands of great masters of Romanticism like Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron, Shelley.

In most cases, society finds itself punishing the good and rewarding evil. This act may not be blamed on the part of the society, but on the nature of evil and good that confuses the way, society views the two binary oppositions. In Sula, two parts are set within the same narrative. Sula recounts a story of two childhood friends, Sula and Nel.

Death can be portrayed through the settings. Two of the most famous stories of Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado and The Fall of the House of Usher are stories that revolve around the theme of death. Catacombs, haunted houses, dark nights, human bones, and other descriptive phrases are some of the bizarre settings that are used in these stories.

Kate Chopin effectively uses her story to portray New Orleans and its environs, Louisiana’s Creole society and the gender stereotypes of the late nineteenth century. This make “The Awakening” a valuable interpretation of its historical period.

According to Jonathan Kozol, “The Human Cost of an illiterate society” is far reaching than just their inability to read and write. With their inability to read and write, these people cannot make any informed decisions whatsoever, whether social, economic or political.

The author has used various literary elements like strong plot, setting, character, gender conflict, symbolism etc. to focus the plight of women and to question the validity of a judicial system where the evidence of crime as confirmed by men is enough to charge the prime suspect of the crime.

The author states that women were denied tasks such as reading or social interaction due to a fear of becoming a hysteric. Women were further forced into the stereotypical passive housewife role.” Women who found it difficult to subsume their natural personalities were often harshly treated by their households as well as their neighbors.

Walker uses different animals to project the personalities and motivations of her characters and for Gruesser, this means that these images are “perfectly appropriate” for a “rural setting” (185). But what is wrong with urban language?

There was nothing different in Anna Nicole Smith’s case where Judge Seidlin repeated such attitude again. In this essay, we would be discussing the above-said case and prove this to be true. Larry Seidlin was born in the Bronx, New York, on May 24th, 1950. He was a State Court judge from Florida, who presided over the Anna Nicole case.

The paper attempts to compare the two stories on the basis of the theme and the story lines. The two books show the coming of age of the two boys, who have similar childhood problems and how they overcome every challenge, through motivation and self belief, to emerge successful.

The readers get a first impression of Miss Emily when the aldermen visit her house to ask for her taxes, she is portrayed as “bloated, like a body long submerged in motion water, and of that pallid hue” (Faulkner, 1930). This comparison about her drowned body conveys a message that she had been dead inside the house for a long time now.

Mothers are as panicked about fulfilling the qualities of a bad mother as of falling short to fulfill the attributes of an ideal mother; in both instances, mothers fear the contempt and criticism of their children and other people. This fact is what Sandra McPherson is trying to illustrate in her poem Bad Mother Blues.

“I am disappointed that all the distant scenery, blue and misty, becomes more and more real as I come closer, there is no vague place, where clarity blurs, where certainty has no force, and dreams are real”. Such are the words of the narrator as he comments on the downright difference between reality and dreams.

Maturation of George Willard. Sherwood Anderson brings out touching themes from a small town life. In Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood combines novelistic aspects with those of short stories to describe life in Winesburg. Consisting of twenty-four short stories, the book paints a picture of the inhabitants of winesburg through the narration of George Willard.

The film explores the experience of Nina Sayers as she prepares for a ballet performance of Swan Lake. Throughout Nina’s experience in the film, she goes from a relative position of sanity to psychosis, the implications of which are that Nina is subject to complex psychological impulses.

Such a masterpiece has inspired numerous couples to fight for what they truly feel for is pure. Through times though, the world became rebellious from all the restrictions that have been put throughout the ages. Is there a place for classical masterpieces in modern art forms such as films?

The author states that some of the common characteristic traits of three main characters that provide an interesting comparison include courage and strength, role as a wife and importance of their role. Depiction of female characters as courageous and independent helps in establishing a woman’s status of an individual in the society.

Theodore Roethke, in this poem, has talked about elements of love, fear, and a bit of tension in the relationship of father and son. One of the characters is the son, who narrates that the waltz his father is performing in the kitchen is not easy.

Katniss faces the confusion of being a woman and handling her mind and her heart at the same time, which proves to be difficult for her. At this point, she is seen breaking down at times, not knowing what to give into. However, she still manages to handle the problem with a steadfast frame of mind and emerges victorious through her efforts.

Ayn Rand’s We the Living is one such semi-autobiography, as she wrote that work after being ‘seeded’ by the various events that she saw, heard and felt in the aftermath of the introduction and spread of Communism throughout Russia in early 1900’s.

Students name: Professor’s name: Course code: Date: Why Parents Should Not Spank Their Kids Spanking is a common but most controversial method of instilling disciplining on children. Some parents argue that, it is ethical to spank children while others perceive that children are not supposed to be spanked.

When she was presented to Titus, however, after this happens, Titus reacts as a grieving father would react – with grief and a desire to chop off his own hands – “my grief was at the height before thou cam’st, and now like Nilus it disdaineth bounds.

Chopin, an American writer, and Chekhov, a Russian playwright, both address the issue of marriage in their different works. Even though Chopin and Chekhov portray the same theme, they deal with different aspects of the matter and the genres and styles are dissimilar as well.

Literature is the index of life, at times in a latent way and sometimes with potent motifs, the authors do create on the canvass of their imagination some facts that have manifested in our past, some which are manipulating our present, and some more which shall manufacture our future. It is not very easy to be futuristic.

Literature just as any other work of art provides a representation of society. In doing this, the authors develop constructive plots thereby addressing particular themes which represent the trends and features in the society. Throughout time, authors have expressed different opinions about the use of sex and sexuality in their books.

It is true that more and more information is now being located online, but this is simply shifting the role of librarians from more of a physical to a virtual presence. That being said, it is increasingly becoming difficult to service the needs of certain special populations because of their unique requirements, the lack of staff training, etc.