Literature Essays

The first character under analysis is of Holden Caulfield who is the protagonist of the novel. The growth of Holden throughout the novel is quiet exemplary and needs avid analysis of the audiences.

One will find many similarities between Candide and Rasselas the most paramount of which is the fact that both of them are trying to find lasting happiness in their lives. Both of these characters are from very privileged backgrounds despite the fact that Candide is an illegitimate child.

The opening sentence of the article concedes that in the fifty years since the novel’s publication, there have been many studies of To the Lighthouse . Nevertheless, little consensus has been reached on identifying some key ideas in the novel.

In "The Lottery" Shirley Jackson explores the unfortunate reality of a greedy, selfish, and self-centered society. It was written in the 1940s when capitalism was gaining ground and the country seemed to embrace the dog-eat-dog mentality. Tessie Hutchinson was selected to be stoned to death as a symbol of "the one" that must die for the sake of others.

In his letter from 1782, Benjamin Franklin articulated an important difference in attitudes between Americans and Europeans toward people of dissimilar births. One generation later, Washington Irving disputed this claim, chastising the American culture for first destroying and then systematically excluding Native Americans from the “Land of Labour"

Various literary personals have discussed the vital issues raised in the Adventures of Huckleberry and several other books of Mark Twain. Some analysts praised views of the writer and some argued about very harshly. The goal of the writer represented that he identified unsung immoral values of the society and presented a realistic picture.

Oscar Wilde’s play ‘The importance of being Earnest ‘is a typical Wildean firework giving a clue as to the light nature of comedy that is presented to the audience. Much of the complications of this splendid comedy arise out of the confusions and misunderstandings caused on account of the fictional identity created for his own convenience under the pseudonym ‘Ernest’ by the hero of the play.

The work centers on medical or health care situations. There is a lot of racial, class and socio-economic discrimination going on, more so against the minority groups. Rebecca Skloot combines several genres in her work is a professional manner. The genres used in her book include biography, memoir, history and scientific writing.

When the story of the shepherd and the lion (Aesop, 2002) is taken into consideration, the primary message conveyed does get changed, when the crucial points pertaining to slavery of ancient Greece are taken.

Stopping by woods in a snowy evening – Robert Frost Whoever says that poetry is a manifestation of poet’s life and thinking process will have to reconsider the statement after he or she reads Robert Frost’s ‘Stopping by woods in a snowy evening’.

Both the films have been based on film noirs and this has made the depiction of the respective novels very prominent and professional. The visual effects have been immensely used and the directors have been successful in creating a suspense film.

England was politically stable during most of Shakespearean time. Queen Elizabeth had appointed wise and efficient advisors who ensured that all the political structures were run smoothly and addressed the needs of the populace.

The chestnut tree in Jane Eyre and Mrs. Sparsit’s staircase in Hard Times. Two of the most important novels in the history of English literature, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Hard Times by Charles Dickens were significant for the complexity of their themes and the innovation of the stylistic devices that they were able to introduce into their novels.

Machiavelli wrote “The Prince” as an instructional manual for a Renaissance ruler. Some of the secular aspects of governance have changed much since the time of Machiavelli, and as the ruler, I will follow what is relevant and practical in the present political scenario in the world.

There is something in the manner the author wrote the story that triggers the thought that Galila is frequently soliloquizing or she often makes a dialogue with herself. For instance, right at the start when Galila was taking a bath inside the shower, she says that if she would have a mirror inside the shower, she would gaze herself over. 

The very mention of the word ‘dollar’ takes the poetic theme away from the travesties of fate and nature to a socio-economic plane, where its gets easier for the reader to grasp the economic and political dimensions of the issue being considered, thereby starkly portraying the pain, hunger and misery inflicted by humans on other humans owing to racial prejudice.

One take on pi as a number representing infinity is Pi's take on life and what reality is, as something that is grounded not on the intellect, reason, and the mental faculties, but on something infinite, It is based on love, with fuzzy and undefined boundaries, not something that cannot be grasped fully, but only lived.

Kate Chopin’s story “The Storm” is a short, but a transfixing tale that explores a superfluity of tumultuous sensations of the protagonists engrossed in the middle of the milieu of a sudden “storm”.

Othello, a tragedy by William Shakespeare focuses on theme of suspicion, love and treachery. Othello, a black general is detested by Iago for he has promoted Cassio, a man younger to him, to a position that was desired by Iago.

The story happens mostly in the room with the yellow wallpaper. The yellow wallpaper eventually evolves into a character, wherein the main character, the narrator, sees a woman caged within the wallpaper.

One of Espaillat’s books which are being taken into account over here is “Her Place in these Designs”. She is thought to have been quite a feminist and her poems give one confirmation regarding it.

The article written by George Newtown entitled “Sex, Death, and the Drama of Aids” and published in the Antioch Review, Inc. was a highly prolific and verbose discourse which presented controversial issues apparently emphasizing contemporary society’s underpinning for the emergence and increased propensities for contracting AIDS to homosexuals.

A person who speaks out his thoughts freely, hiding nothing and unmindful of what other people would think of him, Li Bo’s poetry is one of the most contemporary of his time. Apparently, he seemed to be more inclined to write about nature, his appreciation as well as his communion with everything the universe could offer.

Kordich, Catherine J., and Harold Bloom.Bloom's how to write about John Steinbeck. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008. Print. The author delves into the application of symbolism and epiphany within John Steinbeck’s story “The Chrysanthemums.”

This essay intends to explicate the impression of the surrealism that can be traced through the style of Franz Kafka, inherent in his timeless novel “Castle”.

Pride and Prejudice is one of the most loved novels of Jane Austen. Published during 1813, the novel tells an intensely personal story in which the money mindedness and pride of the then people influence the family life. This novel unravels the triumph of true love above all barriers of financial security and status offered to all on the basis of monetary benefits.

Paulo Coelho's enthralling novel ‘The Alchemist’ has provided a philosophy for life and hope for many on the very simple ways of life and self belief. The novel has inspired extremely committed following across generations of people around the world. The story, incredible in its simplicity and inspiring wisdom, accounts for the life an Andalusian shepherd boy, Santiago. The author of the essay discusses the main proplems of the novel.

The great Gatsby tells the story of the protagonist who is called Nick and his life as a bond sales man in New York. Nick settled in Long Island next to a rich and mysterious neighbor called Gatsby.

On the speaker’s journey to her final resting place, she and Death “passed the school, where children strove / at recess, in the ring / We passed the fields of gazing grain / We passed the setting sun (Dickinson, 2010, p. 459).” These images are pleasant, and depict, as previously mentioned, the life that the speaker is leaving behind.

The sign, as elaborated by Ferdinand de Saussure in Course in General Linguistics opens up the field of linguistics to that of literary analysis as well. The main contribution of Saussure’s with this work lies in the fact that it made it possible for theorists o look at language as not merely something that existed but also something that shaped existence.

The author suggested that the Shepherd in the poem is not the type which gathers the flock of sheep but rather a feudal owner of flocks of sheep to afford such refinement as expressed in the poem. It would also seem inconsistent that the poem could be written by an uncouth shepherd considering the discipline used in the meters of the poem.

Sin, guilt and redemption, the tripartite structure of Christian theology which suggests the ways of God to men held a very important role in the lives of the puritans of early America in particular.

In Being and Nothingness, Sartre tries to affirm human existence to have existed before it has ever obtained its meaning or fundamental nature. The ultimate goal of Sartre in writing the essay was to validate that indeed “free will” is real and is existent (Levy 111).

Revenge is part of man’s nature and is a typical reaction, especially when one is slighted or insulted by another. Revenge can even be taken as a form of justice to redeem one’s honor and to teach the offender that the insult will not go unpunished, as what Poe portrayed in his “Cask of Amontillado.”

Gender roles and relations are reflected in The Oval Portrait that depicts how men use and exploit the physical beauty of women in the name of art and cultural values. The narrator finds a portrait that is “absolute life-likeliness” (Poe).

This paper makes a comparison of Don Quixote and Oedipus as a true hero from oral tradition, highlighting the main differences in their characters.

Figuratively, fire and ice could refer to emotions. The Free Dictionary defines fire as “the burning intensity of feeling, ardor or enthusiasm. From the phrase, “From what I’ve tasted of desire”, it could be well understood that the term fire as used in the poem refers to such feelings.

This paper focuses upon the Inferno (Hell), the first part of The Divine Comedy, followed by the Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Heaven). It is a classic Christian theological text that uses strong poetic imagination and allegorical allusion. It is underlined that Dante meets both mythological and real people during his long voyage.

In both Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets” and Sherman Alexie’s “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”, there is the theme of parents who are somehow absent from their children’s lives. Jing-Mei’s mother is presented as being more important than her father in the book. Moreover, there are serious misunderstandings between the two.

A common, yet not pervasive aspect of tragedy is that the main character/protagonist is oftentimes attempting to “fix” some aspect of the current world or return to the simplicity, joy, or other positive elements of a bygone era. For instance, one of the most famous tragedies ever penned, and of his, sees the story open with Oedipus attempting to find a way to read his native home town of plague.

In the play A Tempest by Aime Cesaire is based upon the character of Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Caliban is a deformed slave, and this is shown through many different passages in the original play.

H. G. Wells perceives – as ought to every man of even ordinary intellect on the one hand the turmoil of bourgeois social relations, and on the other hand that society’s dynamic forces, in the form of science and technical resources, contain tremendous potency which can only be actualized in diverse social relations.

This essay will begin with the statement that one of the most difficult aspects for any particular writer to engage in a level of integration and separation from the subject matter that they are presenting. The authors fall into the rut of becoming to detect and merely representing the information that they seek to portray in an unemotional and underinvested manner.

Verbal positive depiction of Othello is illustrated through the many speeches of different characters in the play. Through such speeches, we discover Othello’s bravery and his integrity.

Andrew Jackson, a Defining President of United States. “Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own; one cherishes it not only as precious but sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and it’s conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.”1 This is a quote by Andrew Jackson which reflected his views as an American citizen, as a military leader and as a president.

The author uses a high level of metafictional structure that serves to question the belief of the reader in the notion and aspect of reality and how reality can be likened to the happenings in contemporary works. To achieve this end, the author writes in a way that he questions the originality and intertextuality of human existence.

The lady with the lapdog is a short interesting story written by Anton Chekhov. It is a four chapter, fiction story written with great expertise and discloses an adulterous affair between the Russian Banker, Dmitri Dmitrich Gurov and the lady with the lapdog Anna Sergeyevna.

Loisel’s perception of a class she does not belong to causes her to suffer mentally. Loisel fails to accept the fact she is married to a husband who lacks the material wealth that she has desperately yearned for. Her husband's lack of wealth makes her feel less important because of her low rank in society.

Susan Glaspell’s play, Trifles, is a book written in 1916 that reflects Susan’s preoccupation and perceptions towards culture-bound notion of gender and sex roles. This is a patriarch society that views women as lesser beings with totally no role to play.

Edgar Allan Poe, leaving a remarkable literary legacy in the fields of science fiction and horror, is currently regarded the pioneer of the modern detective story. He is also greatly renowned as a poet. His psychologically gripping stories exploring the profundities of the human consciousness gained him remarkable prominence.