Literature Essays

The situation he describes is one that could be told forty years later in the same words and same context, which is to state that little has changed in bridging the gap between the world’s poorest people and the richest societies economically, or even with regard to the most basic aspects of standard of living such as adequate food, shelter, and health care.

The paper tells that Othello’s behavior is “based on military codes of conduct”. A number of elements in the characterization of Othello reveal his inner opposition to the Venetian society. The Moor can serve Venice at virtually any position up to the post of the commander of large military units. But he cannot organically enter this society and merge with it.

The conclusion from this study states that Mark Twain was the representative of the democratic literary current. The creative activity of the writer became the point of the mixture for different art and literary tendencies and that is why the works by Mark Twain can be considered as those which synthesize romanticism and realism. 

It is also the case with literary growth that observed unabated progress by the end of 16th and beginning of 17th century, during which the divergent schools of thought appeared on the horizon of literary developments and left indelible imprints of their intellect and creativity on the future generations to come.

Achebe also uses various native symbols. Locusts are used to mean impeding whites. Fire represents Okonkwo’s nature which is fierce, constructive as well as destructive. Drums are used in the narration to bind the heartbeats of the villagers in unison. All these symbols were unheard of in English by then.

I have to admit that as I was reading The End of Education I did not think the matter had anything to do with me. I have never thought public schools were in danger of becoming extinct, especially if we consider that most parents and most figures of authorities want to exert some control over youngsters.

The reader is aware of the fact that the writer likely intends something more in their lines. “The very making of a poem involves a transformation from perceived reality or experience into a verbal utterance shaped by the poet’s imagination and craft”. The effectiveness of the poem will therefore depend to a great degree on the poet's ability to present her ideas, emotions, and impressions.

William Faulkner’s Barn Burning is a short story that details the life of a child who moves from town to town because his father constantly burns the barns of the people with whom they are staying. The story functions as an investigation into social class and moral responsibility.

During the World War II, North Africa Campaign was initiated. This included campaigns which were fought in the Western Desert as well as Morocco and Algeria (referred as the Operation Torch). The war originated from the invasion of British-America into the French North Africa during early 1940s.

A Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens has one of the most memorable openings for a novel that has ever been written. The novel begins with the statement ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of time” setting a rhythm for the writing in which a study in contrasts is made throughout the first paragraph.

A convinced utilitarian, in Taking Life: Humans Peter Singer presents his vision of the euthanasia problem. According to Singer (1993), “euthanasia means a gentle and easy death, but it is not used to refer to the killing of those who are incurably ill and in great pain or distress, for the sake of those killed, and in order to spare them further suffering or distress”.

Contemporary literature captivates the essence of diaspora and enthrals within the compass of its theme, the issue of immigration and sense of uprooting form native socio-cultural milieu.

In the first one-third of the piece, Gwendolyn Brooks initiated rather with a straight affecting cut and gathers all within a sharp word the necessary mood by which the theme must be conveyed. ‘Abortions’ – As if to generate a resonance of accusation somewhere, such word sounds too sharp that regardless of the amount and stress of the pitch used, a mere utterance utters all.

Perhaps one of the most well known antiheroes is Holden Caulfield, the main character from The Catcher in the Rye.

The purpose of many novels is to entertain, but often literary works have a different style and goal as is the case in Washington Irving’s story. Irving is a satirical writer which is no doubt an appealing style to Tim Burton.

Egan attributes the disaster to the collective cause of reckless man-made agricultural practices, even as he surveys the tragic individual stories of the people who suffered from it.  He argues that the combined effects of drought and a heatwave in the early 1930s, and man’s hubris and environmental ignorance and irresponsibility throughout the decade.

King Lear a famous and renowned play of Shakespeare is read and staged all over the world for its tragic connotation. The story, as the name depicts; mainly revolves around the king and his miseries brought up by himself.

“The Great Awakening” was a fire and brimstone approach to the revival of Puritanism in Colonial America. Edwards felt that this society was on a path to hell and through his fiery preaching, he could scare people out of hell. Those preachers who preach in the same fashion are called evangelicals. They and some parts of the media exploit disasters.

There is no way to deny that there are some potent elements of symbolism in Dr. Rank’s character. Probably the most significant is his disease, what Nora calls a “consumption of the spine” (Act 2).

The concept of nature versus nurture is one which is continuously displayed to create a different meaning to identity of characters. In Angela Carter’s story Wolf – Alice, there is an association with the concept of nature versus nurture through the main character of Alice.

Welty and Frost both put forth their divergent perspectives by the use of different themes of the journey in their work. In the poem “The Road Not Taken,” Frost masterly makes a depiction of how choice at the present has a huge impact in future.

The narrative of Sojourner of truth is a memoir written by Oliver Gilbert whereas the book up from slave is an autobiography written by Booker Washington himself.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was undoubtedly one of the greatest playwrights and dramatists that ever lived. There is no facet of human character and emotion that he has left unexplored.

This research is being carried out to evaluate and present how John Irving using Irony engages and involves the readers by making them extract deeper levels of meanings through the suspense created. Though compelling to read, Irving evokes sadness, nervousness, irritation, enjoyment, and hilarity through the entire novel through his writing.

In his famous play “Medea” the Euripides presented a completely new perspective on tragedy. This perspective is worth discussing, thus the given paper will define tragedy and demonstrate in what ways "Medea" can be considered as a tragedy.

All Quiet on the Western Front is an antiwar novel written by Erich Maria Remarque a German boy who was drafted into the Germany war in 1916 to fight the world war I. in this war, Remarque was badly wounded and 10 years after the war, he was motivated to write this book with the purpose of bringing into light what ordinary German soldiers go through during times of war.

The Gilded Six-Bits, by Zora Neale Hurston, illustrates several principles about money and how it is viewed by two people that are married, including paydays and having a savings account before any life-altering events, such as having children.

People and in particular readers of fiction will always want happy endings in real life as well as in fictional stories. However, when viewed from the perspective of creators or authors of fictional works, tragic endings and thereby tragic stories will only make a deeper imprint in the minds of the readers.

The researcher states that the story “Heart of Darkness” is about: ‘Europeans performing acts of imperial mastery and will in (or about) Africa’. By this time business interests predominated over adventurous and exploratory interests in empire building.  The imperialist world that Conrad narrates is sealed within its own circularity; it does not allow for any alternative views.

Joyce represented many themes in his story; which reveal the potential behavior and life style; a person can acquire. The life of residents of Dublin not only revolved around class discrimination but it also showed different phases of life.

The stranger according to Albert, revolve around an emotionally detached amoral young man who defies the societal norms thus deemed a threat to humanity (49). The two different characters from the two novels, Meursault and Gatsby, demonstrate a degree of contrasting oblivion to how they try to attain and sustain the lives they want in a totally contrasting manner.

Rules of conduct may hold true to the sustenance of the love between a man and his beloved on an emotional scale. However, they lack the means to explain how fortune and one’s psychological impetus may affect the outcome of a romanticized relationship. Other romantic works offer a complete outlook on what constitutes the fate of lovers’ relationship.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol is a tale on the subject of change. It is a quite simple story based on an intervallic narrative composition in which all of the major chapters have a clear, fixed symbolic connotation. Dickens' much-loved short story A Christmas Carol was printed in 1843, along with the purpose of getting the attention of the reader to the dilemma of England's underprivileged people.

This story has attracted the need understand how Susan Glaspell uses dialogue and visual symbols that largely surrounds the murder of a local farmer by his wife, to build up the idea that a chasm of misunderstanding exists between women and men. “A jury of her peers” greatly focuses on the various predicaments that are usually faced by women in a society that is dominated by men.

A Critical Analysis of Social Expectation in “The Story of an Hour” and “A Sorrowful Woman” Introduction On the surface level, both Kate Chopin’s “the Story of an Hour” and Gail Goldwin’s story, “A Sorrowful Woman” deal with the protagonists’ reactions to what the society expects from them.

“Oedipus the King” is a play in which Oedipus is the focal character, and is represented as the most terrible hero. Oedipus is shaped as an attractive personality that has many characteristics, both good and bad.

Fate or destiny and karma are two varying concept that feature prominently both in the Indian epic “Mahabharata” and Homer’s “The Odyssey”. One of the overriding principles in the epic Mahabharata is karma, which literary means “acts,” basically referring to the principle of cause-effect governing all life.

In the midst of family and political conflict, both Cordelia and Edmund suffer tragic deaths in the play, King Lear, dying young and at the hands of their siblings. Ultimately, the sisters Goneril and Regan bring about the death of Cordelia in a sister against sister murder.

After taking a close look into the archetype Wilson utilizes as the foundation for his commentary, the internal conflict of the Charles family and their attempt to maintain their African-American heritage and values in a world of Christianity and white man culture is demonstrated by their understanding of the value of the family piano.

The Iliad is an ancient story that analyzes the actions and motivations of many relatable characters. These characters are driven by their strengths and weaknesses. In this story, I see how the human psyche has remained constant throughout time. Ego, greed, loyalty, and the greater good is a constant theme that the characters possess.

The story of this character is very rich coupled with numerous intertwining layers. This paper therefore traces the journey of Macbeth as presented in the entire play through a complexity of the themes within the play.

One of the themes in Maria Conception is the primitive laws of justice that the villagers use to protect Maria. When Maria goes ahead to attack Juan’s woman and even steal her baby, the villagers still protect her by gathering around her even when she committed murder.

This paper will comprehensively analyze the story. There are several people who exist only for themselves, their selfish existence is of no use to other people and this is one story which explores the selfish existence of the grandmother and how she tries her best to deceive the misfit ultimately failing in her endeavor and getting shot three times in the chest.

By looking into the history of the world at large, it becomes crystal clear that wars and conflicts always bring death, destruction, devastation, and despair. This is particularly the case with the two Great Wars, which deteriorated the social, cultural, and financial activities of the affected states.

In the poems ‘The Unknown Citizen’ by Auden and ‘Richard Cory’ by Robinson, the reader is witness to two works which satirize the human condition in quite similar ways of style, poetic devices and use of irony.

Vanity is a sin, an indulgence of the spirit in which importance is put on the exterior instead of through character and values. In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the theme of vanity is taken to its extreme, a supernatural connection allowing the protagonist to exist in unending youth and beauty without the consequences of his immorality reflected in his face or body.

In the modern setting, racism is still a very sensitive topic that everyone tries to avoid because of the complexities that it may convey. Consequently, creating unconventional characters such as a protagonist who is black, noble and respectable and carries a high rank in the army, and an antagonist who is white and evil, is something that is totally outrageous when Shakespeare first brought ‘Othello’ to his 17th century European audience.

The theme of death remains one of the most popular and challenging in the world poetry. The complexity of the death phenomenon and the fact that no one actually knows what stands behind death drive the hearts and minds of outstanding poets. Death is a common object of romanticism and dreaming.

The army of Agamemnon king of men has commanders who themselves are kings (king Diomedes of Argos and princes (Nester). Even king Priam holds Agamemnon in awe. However, there is an emphasis on beauty whose benefits that seem to hide behind the action packed folds of this poem. Beauty or lack of it is a source of conflict in the Iliad.

Such is the impact of the holocaust that mankind can talk in support of it or express their disgust but can never ignore the incident in human history. The point is that the dark hand behind this holocaust was that of Hitler’s but he was not alone in his venture.