Literature Essays

The 19th century witnessed the emergence of naturalism in art and literature. This artistic approach attempted to depict the reality of existence in its most pure forms, generally involving the depiction of non-aristocratic laborers. One notices in the naturalistic impulse a rejection of the encroaching mechanized world and industrial values.

The theme is demonstrated throughout the poem through the events and the characters. King Alfred is defeated by the Danish army who does not believe in the existence of God. They have won so many battles yet there is no evidence of fulfillment or Joy for them.

Throughout the epic poem, the writer has explored the significance of observing ones duty by accepting the responsibility which one has been called for. Just like the leaders in the current world, the epic is straightforward in the way it handles issues of adherence and dereliction of duty.

This research is the best example of comparison of two plays. There are many similarities between King Lear and Gloucester in King Lear to Dr. Faustus, in Doctor Faustus. The similarities regard how all the men are seduced. The difference is in the nature of their tragic flaw. All the men are seduced by evil, and all the men have good at their fingertips, but are unable to capitalize on the good.

The author states that Mollie feels empowered by being a man, through enjoying economic, social, and political freedoms. However, she also feels the animosity of men against women. She tries to defend women’s abilities and sensibilities. Most especially, in the ending, Mollie questions how religion attacks women.

The first book, Ragged Dick, written in 1868 by Horatio Alger, Jr., reflects the events in the life of a young man, Ragged Dick; moved from being a poor street boy to a respectable person. Despite being a minor, Ragged Dick drank alcohol and smoked cigarette occasionally.

George Tesman is absolutely incompatible as Hedda Gabler’s husband. He is dull, slow and content with routine. He has no conception of Hedda’s character and the subtle, devious working of her clever mind. She remains an absolutely unknown entity to him.

The main argument in the article was that people, who were left with the death of a loved one, usually have feelings of bitterness, contempt or anxiety due to the fact that they really do not know more about what happened in each other’s’ life from the time that the person common to them left or died, in the process.

"A Worn Path" is finally a simple story, though. The authors’ short tale of an old woman's journey to get medicine for her grandson is valuable simply as that and the starkness of its simplicity often lay undervalued.

From the Ancient World to the Middle Ages. The Odyssey and The Song of Roland are two epic and respected works of art, both written in the form of long and memorable poems and passed down from generation to generation, depicting the heroic acts and lives of mythical characters.

Feminist literary criticism involves various forms and aspects to analyze the literature. Certain feminist authors are incline to discuss the masculinity and challenge it with women, some authors aims to discuss the role of women and analyze work with women’s perspective and attitude (Eagleton).

Characters put up a front that is different from their real self to conceal their evil and murderous intention or in some cases noble ones. Through this theme, Shakespeare developed his characters and the events in the plot as well as created suspense since the audience is often confused about the motives of the characters until they are revealed.

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.