Literature Essays

Poe in “William Wilson” uses the doppelganger character to explain the narrator’s mind. Gillman in “the yellow wallpaper” uses the same technique but in the form of an imaginary woman on a wallpaper. Hoffman, on the other hand, uses “the sandman to trouble the reader’s mind in trying to understand the protagonist. This essay gives a comparative analysis of the three stories by focusing on the theme of identity and symbolism used.

This essay aims at analyzing the similarities between comic plays, tragic plays, and realist plays in terms of characters, the themes, how the plots are built. In order to better understand these similarities and differences in terms of type of play, the characters, the development of the plots, and the climaxes, the essay uses “Sure Thing”, “Othello”, and “Twilight: Los Angeles”.

This paper finds a common theme of the suffering of women, particularly in the hands of men, in these readings in order to achieve their life goals. The paper will thoroughly compare and contrast this topic with regards to the three readings.

In the book, there is nearly any attractive presentation and the story moves fast to its final conflict and conclusion with a few lines of dialogue. The reason behind this is to make the reader come up with their own suggestion of inspiration, as the storyteller keeps a distance from the excruciating implications of the story detailing only the events.

He was born with a piece of brilliant jade in his mouth, the only valued male heir in Jia’s family. The formation of his rebellious character was not accidental; his living environment in all aspects reveals the reasons for the growth of his character.

In Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of a man called John and his attempt to write a book about the creaetion of the atomic bomb. However, mixed through this story is that of a made-up religion known as Bokononism.

It is a family lost in a world of confusion and "white noise," and, especially, in the material things of modern consumerism. God and all spiritual hope have disappeared for all intents and purposes, replaced by a faith in the products of the consumerist culture.

One can glean some redeeming arguments from Thoreau’s overall philosophy, even though it condemns industrial progress. Literary criticism of Thoreau’s Walden elaborates on his ideals: “Simplicity is good for the soul, for the right relation with God,” (McKibben 20).

People would want to spend the remaining moments of their lives, it would all boil down to how they “seize the day.” Otherwise known as “carpe diem,” this theme is addressed differently by several authors – Wilcox, Herrick, Baudelaire, Frost, and Longfellow – in their poems, in order to show that humans deal with their own mortality in many different ways.

Unlike parallelism, the tools that are used by the poet in ‘Beowulf’ for making the reader understand the context of the line are Kennings. Kennings are poetic descriptions of normal things, for example, a poet might call the sea the ‘whale road’. There is extensive use of the kennings in ‘Beowulf’. There is also extensive use of elided metaphors in the poem (Eliot, 2010).

“The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha” or popularly titled as “Don Quixote” is one of the most brilliant, impeccable and aesthetic outputs of the Spanish Golden Age. Very outstanding and spectacular work of the Spanish literary canon, the novel was written in two separate decades in two volumes by Miguel De Cervantes.

The Indian literary modernity origins are linked to western literary modernity. When Indian intellectuals, fiction writers, and leaders are thinking about their history, they are required to explore basic investigation. The necessity for asking the means by which Indian modernity surfaced and its alienation interference has to be addressed by the Indians.

One of the poets that have talked on the fall of man is William Blake in his poem Marriage of Heaven and Hell. His poem is unique on the revolutionary perspective that it takes regarding the fall of man.

In the first 14 paragraphs Augustus has presented a detailed account of his political achievements and the honors he received from the Senate as well as the public. While telling about his great leadership abilities Augustus mentions the number of times he was made triumvir for the settling of the state.

The confrontation that happened between Dr. A. Herbert Bledsoe and the main character in Ellison’s novel proved how ambition could be blinding for people of the same race that one would rather ignore and waste the dreams of the other than allow him to remain in school and threaten the power he claimed he has had over the white people who founded the school.

Tyler Durden’s brain child is fight club through which he thinks that a way out can be found and his friends as well who live beyond their stultifying and also confining lives. The book talks about the character of Tyler whose world is made without rules, brakes and limits.

Winthrop uses the Body of Christ as a model for perceiving others by answering questions that help them understand human oneness through their oneness with God. The context of Winthrop’s sermon is Christian charity and he answers several questions about charity and lending.

It must be understood that a great deal of the storyline and plot motive can be interpreted with regards to the way in which Grendel’s mother is viewed as the source of the problems. This menacing creature is most certainly not unlike the Devil that is defined by the Hebrew Old Testament as having existed long before the formation of the world.

Trochee helps the reader determine the important word that could express much of the author’s feelings like ‘love’ in the first line of the first paragraph, similar to the effects of the iambic meter, emphasizing the word ‘true’. Successively using the two meters, the words ‘true love’ are greatly stressed, pointing the reader’s attention to it.

Because the story opens with Arkady's father waiting for him to arrive, it is easy to follow the college student Arkady as the main character, but his friend Bazarov is actually the character the author follows most through the book.

How they are being expected to be mere chattels of men that they cannot seem to complain about their lot. In this story, the pregnant aunt was forced to have sex, threatened into silence that when she got pregnant, the man who violated her even organized to raid her home breaking and taking everything in her house.

The author divided this work, which originated in the early 1950s, into three parts. Only three decades earlier, 1919-1920, America was in the midst of a progressive period known as the “red scare.” The Red Scare was the fear that America would be taken over by communistic practices, principles, and ideas.

Two stories, Henry James' “The Turn of the Screw” and Shakespeare's “Hamlet” both deal with the themes of the supernatural and madness. However, these themes are given different treatments in each of these stories. While the themes of the supernatural and madness have negative effects for the characters of novel, they have positive effects for the characters of the play.

This paper deals with the novel “The House of Mirth” by Edith Wharton and setting of the novel was around the Belle Epoch period. This was a time when people were extremely conscious and very particular about their mannerism, especially when in public.

“The Epic of Gilgamesh,” “The Odyssey,” “Oedipus the King,” and “The Ramayana of Valmiki” have different definitions of fate. Some of these stories stress that fate comes from human will, while others emphasize that God has a plan, a plan that structures the essence of their fates.

My Last Duchess is a poem by Robert Browning in narrative form in which a Duke talks about his wife, the Duchess. This poem also starts out quite innocently enough but, like the River God, the tale thickens towards the end with suggestions of murder. The Hunchback in the Park, by Dylan Thomas, tells the tale of a hunchback from an observer’s point of view, and how his deformity has condemned him to a life of outcast solitude.

“Miss Brill” is one of Katherine Mansfield’s most acclaimed short stories. In the middle of a bright picture of a park, with its lively band music and milling crowd of pleasure seekers, the author paints a picture of loneliness. The protagonist’s character is delineated with great subtlety and, at the same time, in a wealth of detail.

A comprehensive feminist interpretation of William Shakespeare’s “Othello”, Henrik Ibsen’s play “A Doll’s House” and Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” will reveal that all these texts portray women as the playthings in the hands of their male counterparts. Though “Othello” and “A Doll’s House” show clear evidence in support of this thesis.

Modernist writing reached peak in the aftermath of World War 1. It was largely a reaction to “The catastrophe of the war (which) had shaken faith in the moral basis, coherence, and durability of Western civilization and raised doubts about the adequacy of traditional literary modes to represent the harsh and dissonant realities of the postwar world” (Abrams, in Pellegrino).

To begin with, there is an appealing emotional background of this letter. The author aims to share his thoughts about death and loss to empathize with his friend’s sorrow.

The tortilla idea is borrowed from the scene occurring after the accident involving Cándido and Delaney vehicle. The story involves two couples; Cándido and wife America, and Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher.

It is also the only model of the once flourishing genre of satirical ballad opera to stay popular nowadays. The opera is a satirical play with more than 60 short songs. The word 'opera' is used satirically in the title. The play satirizes, through the talks of the unlawful characters and events, the ethical standards of the upper classes and politicians in general.

Macbeth’s fate plays a very important role in his failure. Macbeth is destined to fail if the witches’ prophesies are considered as Macbeth’s fate (“Macbeth's Destiny”). Indeed, everything in the play does actually happen according to the witches’ prophesies.

In his debut novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain shows the current American society’s perspective on war and soldiers in a new dimension for his readers. The novel is set on the backdrop of America’s war in Iraq, portraying the struggle of the veterans in adapting to their homeland culture.

  These stories by Ibtisam Adbullah shed light on the dire political and economic circumstances of Iraq through feminist concern. In the story “The Nursery”, an Iraqi single mother is facing the hardships at home due the drought and the world economic sanctions that were laid against Iraq from 1990 to 2003.

The Odyssey is an extreme form of fiction that has no connection with reality. The culture of the gods has been defined in a way that numerous gods assist humans against one another. Intelligence is the key to success in the play The Odyssey.

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Graphic Content in “The Color Purple”: Necessary or Potentially Damaging? Introduction Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” opens with a graphic description of the incestuous rape of a fourteen year old girl by her father.

The concept of the ‘mappability’ of the Arab world has its underpinnings in the Arab world being distributed in a nucleated manner. Countries that are considered part of the Arab world stretch in an uninterrupted file from West and North Africa, right into the Middle East. This is to the effect that the Arab League of Nations comprises 22 states that border one another in a continuous chain.

Without sufficient entertainment value, the minstrel was subject to the mood of the crowd or the powers he performed for in that his life often was the cost of poorly performing his work or the works of others (Hasler 2011). Through the minstrel, the medieval information system was formed and the spirit of social commentary was manifested.

William Roper as an Exaggeration of Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons. During the play A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt, William Roper often acts as a counterpoint to the ideas expressed by Sir Thomas More. In reality, their ideas are not all that different, since they both believe in God and both feel like rules for morality in society are necessary, but they go about it in different ways.

But the poem is written in a satirical style that one may misunderstand the poet as opposing the rights of the women towards the concluding lines of the poem. The first stanza of the poem itself is notable for the exhortation of the poet when he addresses the women as ‘injured women’ and prompts them to ‘rise, assert thy right!

She employs the use of figurative speech in order to convey her message in a simple but indirect way. Her tough childhood depicted in the poem can be compared with the misery that people went through after WW2. She uses her father as an image of Hitler/Nazis as well as mentions some of the shattered towns by the Nazis cruelty, in order to portray the suffering of the people.

From the essay, it's clear that the author states that, Richard Cory was, “Clean favored, and imperially slim”. By referring to Richard as being imperially slim, it seems like the author likens him to a man born of a royal family. The author and his friend from the pavement looked at Richard every time he went downtown.

On this ground, there appears no particular border by which we may hold in full recognition the sex of a hermaphrodite in the sense of confident truth especially that Herculine Barbin herself occurred to have not established a definitive claim of what identifies her or where she belongs considering the unity of her biological constitution, nature, and will altogether.

One of the best examples of this is the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling where traditional British themes are produced as desirable and modernity of the human world is rejected as immaterial. The transformation of children’s literature into film is not a new idea.

There is a need for invoking a vivid illustration in our imagination and simply using their name as a form of identity and reference. They had been referred to as Negros, Blacks, Black-Americans before they could be referred to as Americans as presently. An individual might be prompted to think of the case where the name which is termed verbally posing contention, what of the activities.

With her kids all grown-up already, she moves in to a different and smaller apartment that she decorates with various pictures she had collected over the years. At first, one would wonder why she wants the pictures that give her no peace. Atwood writes, “She does not find them peaceful in the least.

It is very important to scrutinize these three different floods in an effort to identify the distinguishing activities while still trying to find out what binds them. Moreover, the discovery and understanding of the lessons learned from the floods is a deal of great importance. The first focus is on the floods accounted for in the bible.

There are many pieces of literature that are held as valuable and given the honor of being called a classic. Many of them were composed by very noteworthy authors who have given the world a gift in the form of a library of astonishing works which display the genius and the wisdom of the authors who wrote them.

The author utilizes the paradigms of modernism to identify the influences of Joyce on these artists. The author attributes the modernist nature of Pessoa to his schooling in South Africa and his fluency in English.