Literature Essays

The San Francisco Chronicle, in its review of the second Clancy novel, Red Storm Rising, acknowledges that Clancy “seems to be always at his best.”   The same sentiment is expressed by the Dallas Morning News on Patriot Games: “Clancy at his best… not to be missed.”   Every time Clancy comes out with a new novel, the reviewers would judge it to be the “best.”

The decision Charity makes finally, looks like surrender but it is the best under the circumstances that she is placed in. The element of true love is there, but the dominating aspect of the situation is that she feels a sense of being trapped. From one end, it is true love but Charity is unable to enjoy the fruits of it.

The author of the following paper states Looking about from the sides of the goddess Night eyes this immortal goddess has filled all the spaces, the depths, and the heights and she stems the tide of darkness with her light. Pushing her sister twilight aside the goddess envelopes everything in herself.

There are many ways one could think of offering such a perspective; through documentaries, movies, or even directly visiting other nations, but reading a story based around a mother and her daughter has a special charm and a degree of intimacy.

The topicality of John Thompson’s Political Scandal in the milieu of increasing media coverage of the scandal, gives the book a special relevance. The book throws a flood of light on the current obsession of the media with the scandals. Thompson’s assumptions have indeed sent a fresh wave of current thinking on the sensitive issue of our time, political scandal.

The book discusses an important issue of the modern world i.e. IT security is a national security issue. According to Thompson (2003), people still discard the idea of cyberattacks. Thompson believes that the main point of Verton’s book is to make the people aware of the possibility of a cyberattack. One of the important points of the book is the interdependency of the infrastructure of the country.

The Subliminal Message of Nikki Giovani’s “Allowables” poems depict a meaning that centers on the demise of the main character.

Part of his historic works showcases the dark side of American history as envisioned through the experiences of a white toddler. Mark Twain paints just a picture of the slave era in America through the eyes of the young toddler.

The Hamlet - Revenge Quotes Essay highlights examples of vengeance excerpts:

“A Sound of Thunder” and “Nethergrave” essay is a creation of Gloria Skurzynki.

In the whole book, the reader encounters two conflicting perspectives on the literature: "Story Truth" and "happening truth."

A careful reading of any random selection of Thomas Hardy's poems will demonstrate how they are not the simple productions of an ‘innocent awkwardness’ as F.R. Lewis once suggested.  Instead, they contain elements of innocence in their withdrawn perspective and their original viewpoints even as they use moments of awkwardness to draw attention to those aspects of the poem that can bring in the allegorical meaning he intended.

Criticism has been in vogue for the last twenty-five centuries. Many theories regarding criticism have been introduced by theorists. These include Medievalism, Romanticism, New Classicism, Marxism, Feminism, Psychoanalytic criticism, Sociological criticism and others.

Agamemnon is portrayed as the classic tragic hero who had accepted the advice of Calchas the seer to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia, so as to ensure safe winds to guide his ship and crew into Troy. Against him, Silentio places Abraham, the father of God’s chosen people. The tragic hero, even Socrates the intellectual tragic hero, can gain no greater prize for society than this. That is a feat that can only be attributed to the knight of faith.

By using Thomas Irving as his primary source for factual information regarding the raid on Dresden, Vonnegut inadvertently may have included a great deal of untruth in his story regarding the motivation and reasoning behind the attack, but uses this early assumption as a key ingredient in developing his concepts of the futility of revenge.

Romanticism, an intellectual movement has its origin in the 18th century in Western Europe. In a sense, it was a revolt against social and political norms of enlightenment as well as a reaction against the rationalization of nature in art and literature. It emphasizes on strong emotions, feelings, etc. and is influenced by the idea of enlightenment 

The second quatrain further pleads that this spirit of love will not only recognize the love she has for him but also that she will gain his pity and he will then forget any idea of other women.  The third quatrain further develops this theme of the suffering lover as she illuminates the various sufferings she’s endured in honor of love.

Regarding the style of Ashbery’s writing and diction, it can be asserted that his writing more or less directly follows his thought process. That is, his use of graceful parataxis, flexible syntax, his casual displacement, and hovering around the subject matter- all these make the form of “Clepsydra” assimilated into its content.

The author, specifically, provides an account of the regular kidnapping of young and strong boys, as well as girls in his village, and Africa. The author and his sister were unluckily kidnapped when their parents were farming at a distant farm. The author and his sister are taken to distant neighbourhoods where they are eventually separated. 

I think dawdling is the inaction that prompts Hamlet's ruin and behind the inaction, there were three primary laws: being hopeful, fatalistic, and over-scientific. Optimism prevents Hamlet from avenging the homicide of his father, whenever he has the chance to execute Claudius (his uncle, the killer of his dad) when he is imploring. It is in 3.3.89-91: "Am I at that point… … horrendous heat".

The two books are works that come in are with major topics of witchcraft, doubt of black magic, and obscure clarification for infections that brought up the networks to unwind and separation in 1660's Salem and Eyam.

Those clergymen did not like the nonviolent form of disobedience in order to acquire the civil rights for the blacks; indeed, they thought that it would be a good idea if the blacks and white come together and settle their issues.

A great epic hero isn't only an encapsulation of that culture yet also the best type of that culture.

The play The Deplorability of Hamlet, the Ruler of Denmark, the significance of Ophelia’s madness, follows the account of Hamlet not long after his adored father committed homicide.

The unfeeling mission for wealth prompts the degradation of human sense and ethics.

We look at the symbolic meaning of colors in the Great Gatsby. Yellow symbolizes social class, wealth, and Daisy.

The death of both characters symbolizes the tragedy of the unavoidable fate. Here readers can understand the meaning of the title ”The train was on time”. It means that a great train of the war is never late. Though the end of the story is quite pessimistic Boll gives some hopes for the best - probably fascism can be won. 

The author states that Hughes has what a few English poets of the time posses, a sense of nature an original writing style, and a most modern outlook on nature, men and god. Hughes's attitude to and treatment of nature distinguishes him from almost all other poets. Hughes's nature imagery is most graphic.

As a function of understanding the root motives behind why these characters chose to behave in the negative ways that they illustrated, the reader is able to understand a far greater and more meaningful level of inference with regards to why the events that took place in the novel were related in the way that they were (Maxner 15).

A century ago, Maziland prospered and thrived, being among the richest kingdoms in Africa. Like nature divided the land between gigantic mountains and golden desert sands, two powerful clans shared it, each ruling its own territory and preserving tense but stable diplomacy with the other. The first clan, Kordz, dwelled in mountains.

She has a strong passion for becoming an adult, and while the plot develops, the author is focused on the transformation of a girl.

He reaffirms everything that modernism and the avant-garde would seem to have forever rejected: the inviolability of aesthetic and family values, the literary taste, the understanding of a work as an organic whole, etc.

In the novel “The Scarlet Letter”, Nathaniel Hawthorne has focused on the development the larger expression of the settings in which his heroes are supposed to live, in the small Puritan town of Boston, where all their sins are exposed much to the light even when being hidden under the veil of verbal shadows and secrets, as it happened to Arthur Dimmesdale.

That last phrase aptly sums up not only the role of “reason” in relationship to love but for Chekhov the role of realism as well. His balanced and brilliant use of it transcends giving mere form to creative literature of which he is the author. For Anton Chekhov, realism is not his literary means of expressing stories of love in life, but rather is his means of exposing love in life’s story.

The poem stands alone in that it is not a blending of Arab/Jewish identity and that it attempts to answer all the questions that might arise within the community at the time it was written. Gilgamesh gives the Gods domain over all that is on earth, develops a heavenly hierarchy, and sets the stage the people to be governed by a royal family.

The book clearly synthesizes the role of public administration as one of the significant fields of social science in order to create a quantitative, factual pragmatic examination of the wrongs in America and their corresponding solution. Clearly and evidently the book is a genuine manuscript that explains the interconnection.

In “Farewell to Arms”, rain is a powerful symbol of the inevitable disintegration of life’s happiness. Listening to the storm beating on the roof, Catherine confides to Henry that she is afraid of the rain and believes that rain has a tendency to destroy things for lovers. Catherine’s fear proves to be prophetic for the couple’s story does end in tragedy.

The fact that the then-Secretary of State Colin Powell got away with impunity after presenting to the United Nations Assembly “a highly concocted illustration” (Jackson, 36) of the presence of WMD’s in Iraq deserves condemnation.  And Richard Jackson does not show any hesitation in cutting Colin Powell’s legacy to size. 

Kate Chopin’s work reflects upon her life and her stories which are an extension of her own experiences and the desires that arose for freedom, due to the events that shaped her own destiny. Chopin had great mastery and as seen in this piece, she could convey such a profound idea in the space of a few pages.

The drama also tries to emphasize the mortality of human beings, the onrush of life that heeds little for our small but bloated egos. Man is naturally a very small being, howsoever, grand his. illusions, of the self, maybe.

With a doctorate in the humanities, she writes under a pseudo name to protect the identity of her children.  She has devoted her life to the study and “curing” of autism through different types of therapies. She is not only qualified to write books on the subject of autism but is also one of the world’s leading authors on the subject.  She is qualified both educationally and through personal experience. 

Goodman Brown is a good man but tempted by forces of sin, may be out of curiosity. Faith, his wife has so strong faith in herself and God that she is not tempted at all. As a faithful wife, she is trying to stop her husband from going to the path of sin. She attains more symbolic meaning as the story progresses. 

Dramatists like, Sophocles, Seneca, William Shakespeare, Marlow, Bernard Shaw and Miller have attributed various forms and meanings to tragedy through their works. Tragedy provides the sadness or fearful phases of characters. Whenever one attempts a discussion on tragedy, one can never ignore the words of the great Greek philosopher. 

An adequate understanding of ancient socio-cultural trends of a particular civilization is always a challenge, mainly due to two reasons, first, lack of authentic source and second, availability of those sources that would provide a proper picture of the prevailing socio-cultural aspects of civilization during a particular period of time.

Lucy’s dual nature in the asylum could easily be explained by the fact that she’s been locked up, to begin with. It can be seen that she struggled with attempting to fit society’s definitions of what she should be despite being what she was even when she was given freedom of movement within the home. 

Though Orwell offers a heavily biased picture of the working class by focusing chiefly on the miners, yet that picture in itself is all-encompassing. The author does not leave out anything from his inspection that might make his plea on improving the conditions of the miners stronger and more persuasive. 

The play's power in performance relies on keeping the ontological stakes of black magic deliberately uncertain, and the audience is convinced of the efficacy of Faustus’s conjuring. According to Andrew Sofer, “the fascination conjuring held for Elizabethan audiences can be traced to its unnerving performative potential. 

By failing in overcoming all the emotions tied to a human being, the Taoist monk’s attempt to create the Elixir of Life has failed. The illusions that Du experienced relate to Buddhism’s view of life, such as the idea that the body is temporary and the things we see are temporary, so in fact, it’s not reality.

From the point of view of gender considerations, Jacob focused on the sexual exploitation of the slaves by the slave owners. Personally her master's personal never-ending forced sexual attention she had to endure formed an important part of her narrations. Jacob has admirably tackled the issue as a woman slave and as a woman author.

A few characters like Dolores and Glory can’t afford to be rebels. Marguerite can walk out of Mrs. Viola’s kitchen as she doesn’t have to think about making both ends meet.  The male characters in the novel, with the exception of Mr. Freeman and Mr. Bailey Johnson, fail to make an impression in the readers’ minds.