Literature Essays

There is no denying the fact that the society is so given to stereotyping that it tends to stereotype people in a collective sense depending on their origins, gender or ethnicity. However, the fact is that no matter to what population an individual is affiliated to, it goes without saying that each individual tends to have a unique personality.

This is especially true in the art of written words and two collections that can prove the opening statement to be true are The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales. These two books have withstood the test of time and still remain relevant in today’s modern world despite the fact that the stories are set in a time that no living man can remember.

Science Fiction is a genre which very often and extremely innovatively manages to touch the intricate subject of gender-biases and stereotypical gender-identities. The acclaimed sci-fi novel “The Left Hand of Darkness” authored by famous novelist Ursula K. Le Guin is one such attempt that unveils the hidden atrocities and hypocrisies of male gender.

In his nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood, the author, Truman Capote, has created suspense by focusing more on the murderer’s motive behind the act, instead of searching for who the murderer was. The reader knows from the beginning about the identity of the murderer. There is deeper suspense behind this.

The setting, though it is a very important part of a work of prose, seldom become the focus of comparison between different works. The setting or the scenery of a literary piece, whether it be a short story, a novel, or even a poem can drastically alter the theme, and plot, and characters of the literary piece.

Aeneas is sentimental about his past experience and expresses his personal regret about the events of his destiny. This is portrayed in the whole narrative of his sea wanderings and the Fall of Troy in both Books II and III. This narrative is an empty space of lament and memory, where the loss of glory and love in Troy is mourned.

This paper analyses the shifting nature of sea and sky throughout the novel and shows that the sea and the sky provide the key which unlocks the moral message of the story.

Renowned for their strength and wit respectively, Thor and Loki are tricked by Utgartha-Loki (Utgard-Loki or Loki of Utgard) while attempting to demonstrate their fitness to stay in Utgard, the land of the giants.

 In “Saturday”, Mungoshi observes the busy lives of city people and the more relaxed and contemplative life the countryside provides. As working-class citizens, Zimbabweans feel the need to have a break, and even to escape the clutches of the corporate world. In their cars, they rush to the countryside for a much-needed relaxation time.

During the regime of the Roman Empire by Tiberius Caesar, Jerusalem too came under its control. Christianity gradually spread across the Roman Empire through the propagation of religious faith. The outlook of the Romans was quite different from that of the Christian faith because the state religion was interconnected with politics.

This study looks into “The Heart of Darkness”, one of the great literary criticisms of the process of imperial expansion in Africa. Yet Marlowe, the main character, is originally fascinated by imperialism and the possibilities that exploring Africa has to offer to a young man seeking his fortune and a name for himself.

He left indelible imprints of his intellect and creativity on art, literature, and society at large by dint of his gifted talent, vivid imagination, and strong visionary capabilities. Although his contemporary critics could not assess his poetic talent and abilities, yet the future generations acknowledged his worth as a proficient author of all times.

The objective of this essay is actually to present a response and personal reaction to Tolle’s contentions focusing on how I felt after reading the book. To achieve this goal, I have noted crucial passages and statements that have moved me in one way of the other and would expound on the rationale for my reaction.

The short story “Life in the Iron Mills, or, The Korl Woman” by Rebecca Harding Davis consists of a grim account of working class life in an American industrial environment during the middle of the nineteenth century.

It is an accepted or free or constantly changing conduct and might have provided a person social standing or social rank. The concept of age and age-related roles is also an old concept in our society. We as a society assign roles to an individual based on their age. These social issues have been well illustrated in the short story “Aren't you happy for me?" by Richard Bausch.

In this short story based on five-parts, the narrative structure of the plot permits Chopin to portray varying viewpoints on particular circumstances as a way of signifying that “actuality” is, at best, comparative. The situation is easy and simple enough: the husband of Calixta, Bobinot, and her son, Bibi, are in city when a storm strikes.

It is necessary to take into consideration the fact that Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic written by Alison Bechdel is a sample of book where the author manages to make both story and its format attract the reader’s attention at once.

Kerouac, Rimbaud, Whitman, and Blake all resist conventionality, making their writing new and interesting. They write about concepts that are in opposition to the dominant bourgeois ideals of their time, making them influential to counter cultural movements for the rest of the twentieth century and beyond.

Both the stories take us to Africa, to war-ravaged Sierra Leone in one book and a degenerate South African slum in the other. Both have been international successes, attracting significant attention in the press and reaping commercial benefits to the author and the cause. More importantly, each of them has revealed an as yet undiscovered face to the causes that they explore.

It is clear that Edgar Allen Poe intends that his short stories, “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “A Predicament” affect his reader directly and powerfully. The responses he wants from the reader, however, differ significantly and therefore the stories are expected to be differently structured, and to use very different tactics to manipulate the readers’ responses.

The bailiff, or meirinho, was little more than a non-salaried errand runner, an appointee who was most often to be found hanging around a street corner or tavern waiting to serve some writ or citation (Ibid). It is a lifestyle that fits well with Leonardo-Pataca’s indolent nature, a responsibility that didn’t impart or require much responsibility. 

This poem is a musical orchestra. Ask me to construct a sentence using three words in appreciation of this poem. They are ‘good, better and best. If this poem is the rose, Maya Angelou’s experience is like the petals. Collectively they spread fragrance that thrills the reader. This poem reveals her character and attitude towards life.

For Eliot poetry is the means for truth reflection of seeking of truth. Poetry is not much about emotions; it is much about reflections of personality, of its inner reaction and reflections, feelings and in-depth thoughts. This essay is focused on two great poets’ developments about poetic creation.

Lady Windermere’s Fan is an impressive piece of work as it speaks to the influencers of people’s characters and thought processes. Society is a key determinant of people’s actions in Victorian society, but Wilde uses certain characters to show that society does not necessarily have to hold one captive as one can exercise his/her individual identity.

Langston Hughes was a remarkable, novelist, columnist, playwright and a social activist of the twentieth century. Hughes was, undoubtedly, a Negro Artist who presented a true picture of “low-life” the black race was subjected to live. Tracy describes Hughes as a persistent and the most wide-ranging writer among the African-Americans.

The first sentence in Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen reads “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife” (Austin 1). This assessment of men and their needs begins the novel in such a way as to set up a thesis for the direction of the story within the novel.

Unlike the usual categorization of what a tragic play means, Sophocles did not have his own static and permanent “blueprint” for what tragedy must be on stage.

The paper tells that the character of the raven in the poem is highly effective in that it forebodes ill omen, evil, and death, which matches the mood and tone of the poem; the black feathers of the raven have traditionally been associated with bad luck or ill omen. This serves to highlight the narrator’s agonizing predicament, “there is no balm in glead”.

“The Color Purple,” is one of the sterling literary works of Alice Walker and a critically acclaimed book. It depicts the tough life of a young African-American woman in South America in the early part of the twentieth century. The novel explores the individual identity of African-American women.

In the two texts, the poets assume protagonists’ positions of their respective works. Their role besides relaying the core information entails developing the works’ plots. Since, instead of giving tale of what will happen or happened; they are the key players whereby their souls are undergoing tests meant to merit eternal contentment (IATH & UOV, n.d).

Architects are the other group of people to whom the museums and their importance are related. Architecture is one of the most important aspects of a museum and thus there are special architects that contribute to the museums and their buildings. This has been coming on for hundreds of years when the museums had started to exist.

When making a management criticism, one studies the various major events that take place in a literary work and their consequences. The decisions that are made by the main characters are analyzed according to the results that come about because of them.

While it is certainly true that, in Fitzgerald's novel, everybody was foolish, except for Nick – Tom was foolish because he was living a lie, in that he was married to Daisy, but clearly didn't love her; Gatsby was foolish, because he believed that if he only amassed wealth that he could have Daisy - it was the women who were the most foolish.

The essence of the Roaring Twenties is impliedly depicted in Hemmingway’s short story despite the lack of details which is typical of the author’s works. It was during this era that men and women had undergone drastic changes since the onset of the 1920s promised freedom and modernization which was then equated to living a care-free life.

The black residents in the county of McIntosh during the 1970s lived in an era where they were not able to get basic amenities were uneducated and the highest population was unemployed. Melissa gives the insight of the people living in this county and this gives the reader a glimpse into the thinking of the people living in the civil movement era.

Drama is a composition of prose telling a short story and intended for presentation by actors on stage to a specific audience. Unlike other forms of prose compositions, drama requires effective writing skills, which incorporate the theatrical practicality necessary in the performance of such stories.

The whole life of this great poet was casted by the clouds of several events affecting his work and writings. His free-love life, failure of first marriage, introduction of a side affair and children’s deaths, all left a mark on his poems and writings.

Walter lee younger sometimes called brother is thirty five years old. He is obsessive, loving, determined and have full energy dreams. He is African American. He is the only son of his mother and his father had died. He has one younger sister.

The beauty of the novel is that despite such grave family conditions, all main characters still manage to hold on to their courage because they have a remarkable sense of self-awareness. They have a tendency of using self-actualization to process their feelings and stay at the surface by perceiving things as they really are.

The stories by the authors Edith Wharton “The summer” and Scott Fitzgeralds “Tender is the Night” have clearly expressed the radical changes of women in their short stories. The Edith Wharton’s novel the summer is a story revealing the coming of age of a young woman.

The novel talks about a day of the lives of three women. It is made up of three separate narratives, one for each woman. Virginia Woolf is one of the women talked about and she is writing Mrs Dalloway (Ehlen, 2013).

Name Tutor Course Date The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells Briefly, the Invisible Man is a story about an invisible scientist who devotes himself in discovering the concept of invisibility and this alienates him from other members of the society. The novel starts with a stranger arriving at a town called Iping and he does not get along with the villagers or members of this town, and so, he spends most of his time engaging something scientific in his room.

According to the research findings “The Red Badge of Courage” and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” are commentaries about the American society, the social programming it does, the bias it has against race and gender, its emphasis on superficial values such as glory and honor which is not backed up by qualitative internal change.

The mind of the cat is mysterious and Dr. Nicholas Dodman, Professor of Behavioral Pharmacology at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and Director of the Behavior Clinic, has tried to unravel the features of that mystery to the extent possible in his book “The Cat Who Cried for Help: Attitudes, Emotions, and the Psychology of Cats.”

It is a story of a woman, a housewife with unappreciative husband, with her beloved plants which symbolizes different important things in her life; children and femininity.

It was not only used in literature but also used in music, critics and the visual arts (Gillies & Mahood, p.5). Most of the Western Literature during this period was a reaction to the rapidly changing times. There are those who appreciated the change that was coming, while on the other hand, others wanted to maintain the status quo.

The conversation between Gregory and Sampson and the episode after it, the violent fight between the Houses of Montague and Capulet, bear witness to people’s dynamic physical existence and the connection between sexual desire and violence

To fully express this idea, Camus relies on the absurd to prove his point by taking an extreme position of the human condition picturing humanity to be indifferent and living in a universe that has no meaning and no purpose with no God or any type of order, sense or reason.

Jane Eyre is the life-long story of a woman from the Victorian Era who is assaulted throughout her life for her disapproving instinct towards the inferior role of woman in the society. As a child, Jane Eyre is assaulted by John Reed. As a teenager, she is assaulted by Mr. Brocklehurst and as an adult, she encounters Mr. Rochester who uses Bertha for becoming wealthy and after acquiring that abandons her because of her madness.

Shakespeare has presented the Fool in King Lear as a sage-fool who sees the truth. The grudging hospitality that Lear received from his ‘trusted daughter,’ Goneril, makes him outrageous; and so he decides to move to his other daughter, Regan. Here Lear can be seen almost at his disposition.