Literature Essays

This essay demonstrates that the main protagonist in the story is Marlow, who sets out on an obsessive quest - a journey down the coastline of Africa into its deepest jungles, to find Kurtz - he also faces the same darkness but is able to get out before it is too late. Civilization is a very important underlying theme in the book.

According to the essay, it is clear that although Nick seems to be the perfect narrator for the story because of his proximity to Gatsby and his relationship to Daisy, these relationships serve to deepen his cynicism and sour his opinion of the higher classes. Nick’s relationship to Gatsby is forged primarily because he lives next door.

Franz Kafka is so obsessed with his need to get up from bed to go to work that he cannot change his attitude towards his compulsion to attend office even when he realizes that he has become a bug. He struggles to approximate normality as he struggles with his new physical body.

Hughes’ ideology was to boost the morale of his black people. Many blacks still remained in the working class so he used Way Down South with its characters of working class blacks to gain the empathy of the black audience.

The poem is presented by the author in the form of a suicide note written by the poor girl to her parents. This was a heartbreaking incident that should never have happened in the first place.

What is vulnerability? Who is vulnerable? Why? And from what? What are natural disasters? Can we avert them? Are we supposed to resign ourselves to disasters simply because they are ‘acts of God’? The term vulnerability refers directly to risk, and a large number of authors use it to refer to vulnerable groups like the elderly, children or women.

Tthis book does make reference to events that could happen and have happened in the past. There are no zombies, those who have perished do not come back to us however the characters are zombie-like. There are no big surprises or shocking events to suddenly jolt us then allow us to return back to reality.

America: Past and Present is a book written by chapters according to the events that happened which shaped America's history and influenced its future. This book which has 33 chapters was written by seven brilliant men. Robert A. Divine is a recipient of Organization of American Historians (OAH)Distinguished Lectureship Program for 2006-2007. A Littlefield Professor Emeritus, Robert A. Divine taught American Diplomatic History at the University of Texas in Austin for 42 years.

From this research it is clear that looking at novels such as Francis Hodgson Burnett’s story "A Little Princess" helps to illuminate several elements of life for the rich as opposed to life for the poor in Victorian London as well as to include commentary regarding the relationships that were held between Britain and India at this point in history.

Sherlock Holmes, the great fictional detective created by Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle uses his great powers of observation, scientific methods and his great intellect to solve crimes in “The Red-Headed League” and ”Silver Blaze”. While in “The Red-Headed League” he averts a cleverly formulated bank robbery, In “Silver “Blaze”, he finds the missing race horse and solves the murder of the trainer.

This essay stresses that the world today is full of unusual and undesirable events which occur in life. Some of these events either happen intentionally by an individual while some of them unintentionally. The events happening in life which are undesirable can be remembered and lamented upon in the future.

The novel revolves around the women of a particular social class, the Bennett Family, who are not poor, rather above the working class, but they are not extremely rich either. The story explores the role of young women and the importance of marriage in their lives. It was mandatory for them to get married.

From this paper, it is clear that throughout the book, religion is pitted against knowledge even as knowledge becomes divided by its ultimate purpose. Mrs. Coulter and her General Oblation Board represent the church’s typical reaction to any kind of new scientific knowledge.

This essay describes the sympathetic feelings that the reader experiences and have nothing to do with the inner workings of the reader's mind. This is owed in large part to the way the book is written. The story is being told as a narrative from the point of view of Humbert. His whims and his actions that are portrayed through his point of view.

From this paper it is clear that in "Alas, Babylon", one of the effects of nuclear war is to put a de facto end to segregation in a small Southern town; in Stephen King’s "The Stand", good has the chance to triumph over evil; in Russell Hoban’s cult classic "Riddley Walker", “true” history is the key to mankind’s salvation.

From this paper it is clear that this is the never-ending story through the Ages - it is about him and her. John and Kathy. It is a joint operation-rescue. Each one of them is on a mission to salvage what remains within their inner worlds and try rejuvenation. Tim is not interested in promising a happy ending to the readers.

The paper discusses that Wordsworth would never have been heard of if he lived in any other period in the history of literature and he has difficulty to be satisfied with the hebetudes of his intellect. Hazlitt remarks that Wordsworth’s poetry is based on setting up an opposition between the natural and the artificial.

This paper concerns the “A&P” written by John Updike. “A&P” is a story of initiation. It is a story that shows that some day everyone has to grow up and become an independent and responsible for one’s actions adult. “A&P” is the story that shows how people, start perceiving and viewing an opposite gender differently.

As the report declares George Eliot, in her book Silas Marner explores the preciseness of love and hope in human relationships. This novel depicts the issues of selfless love, the concept of community, the immaculate role of religion, and the rank of the virtues of family. The writer goes a long way with the imprints of goodness in the book.

The ultimate goal of this paper is to show the reader that Margaret Walker made a great contribution into modern writing. Margaret was an extraordinary poet and essayist though she later emerged as a novelist too. Margaret Walker’s research goes so far as to research a whole list of important issues, including ethics and psychology. 

The story eventually ends portraying a lot of ironies given the turn of events in the plot. Edith’s novella is based on her observations of Frome’s residence as he stayed during a particular winter storm. Ethan Frome is portrayed as a mysterious figure - one who gets injured in a grisly accident in his earlier days.

This essay describes the importance of fairy tales for all listeners and readers. They have many good lessons for them. The author describes the story “Diamonds and Toads”, which has heroines with opposite characters and teaches the children the main values of life: to be calm, kind, good. This fairy tale has symbolic value of gifts, like rose and a jewel to the younger daughter and a toad and a snake to the older one.

Phillip Sydney’s poem speaks about the love shared between two people devoted to each other. It makes use of poetic meters that help the readers understand its contents, the most dominant of which is the iambic meter. Most of the lines using this specific meter have five feet so that it could be well considered as an iambic pentameter, starting off with an unstressed word and ending in a stressed word or syllable.

The main problem of The Lottery is how quickly a person can change during a situation, especially when someone’s life is at risk. These noticeable changes show to the reader how differently people act in their casuall life situations and dangerous affairs, such as The Lottery itself. No matter what, their own safety ends up being the top priority.

Along with several articles, this essay is expounds on the differences and similarities of their styles, particularly in the poems You, Reader and Poetry by Collins and Neruda, respectively. Compared to other forms of literature, poetry is almost always considered as high art. Poetry is a fine art painting to short stories’ comic books.

Flashbacks are employed by O’Brien to present various events and his experience in Vietnam War as a soldier. The New York Times article begins with the description of Landing Zone Gater, Vietnam, in 1994, the place which sucked narrator’s life and virtue. A few sentences further, the O’Brien talks already about events of February 1969.

The paper tells that the reading is set during the Great Depression and the author attempts to show the deterioration in a child’s psychophysical growth, mainly due to the influence of the father’s superstitious nature, and the apparent disinterest in the boy’s wellbeing.

The Americans were very cruel to the Germans. The Americans exposed the Germans to very callous conditions. To begin with, the camps had no toilets and the toilets were mainly logs that were flung over the trenches of the fence. There was no food and the prisoners ate grass including the young children and the pregnant women at the camps.

The article written by Frederick Douglass (141-143) is entitled, How I Learned to Read and Write. The narrative highlights how he was able to read and write when he was a slave. His mistress deprived him of education for as Douglass (141) stressed that the mistress deems that education and slavery are incompatible with each other.

Jean-Baptiste Moliere’s Tartuffe is a masterpiece that raises different thematic issues. The play was written during The Enlightenment in the late seventeenth century, a period during which thinkers believed in reason as a dependable guide. The main characters include Tartuffe, Orgon, Elmire, Cleante, and Dorine. 

The paper also demonstrates Les Liaisons "Dangereuses". This was a novel published by renowned novelist Choderlos de Laclos. In the novel, women are portrayed as a product of adultery in society. This is from the manner in which a married woman by the name Madame de Tourvel, consistently cheats on his husband with one Vicomte de Valmont.

In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (1994) dispelled the myth of the ignorant African savage. Achebe (1994) told the story of Okonkwo, who is an ideal example of a leader from a proud, independent, and intelligent, traditional African culture. Okonkwo’s greatest weakness resulted from his obsession with his father’s failures.

The author states that the most fascinating part of its plot is that Minnie Wright, the murderer, and her husband John Wright never appear on stage. The dialogues and the coherence of the play are so strongly framed that the presence of the players of the main event of the play is all fleshed in their dialogues and gestures.

This essay analyzes that the best route In life is the royal road and, though, destiny cannot be changed, it can be challenged and to walk through trials and tribulations is true heroism; the world cannot run on total happiness and one has to find fulfillment by making the best use of available blessings bestowed by Nature.

This essay demonstrates that Charlie Marlow is the central character of the novel. He is philosophical and has a mind of his own. He harbors a skeptical view of people around him. Being a European he has many prejudices yet is skeptical of imperialism. He travels to Africa to deliver ivory and also to return Kurtz.

The epic tale of Kim’s adventures are regarding Kipling’s Imperialistic worldview and how much have his adult ideas influenced the prose and settings of the story. The impact of these questions doesn’t diminish the basic element of entertainment of the story and it is possible to ignore the imperial overtones and just focus on the journey of Kimball O’Hara.

The story is about an orphan who loses his parents to extreme poverty. Rudyard Kipling creates his protagonist as bi-racial to explore the vulnerability that such people can endure. The author introduces a symbolic journey in which the protagonist undergoes several transformations. Kim becomes a disciple who is keen and learns several aspects of life.

The researcher states that there are several attitudes being brought up by the author and through in the novella. These attitudes include but are not limited to disdain, attraction, detachment, romanticism and roguish attitudes. Some of these attitudes are more evident and pronounced in the novella and specific for particular genders.

The novelists studied here the use the tones of a child’s imagination and dreams and the assertions of the adult mature self to reflect the complex and struggling nature of self- realization. These re-envision modes of self-representative writing are described as Bildungsroman.

In the novel, Frankenstein is highlighted as a character of a monster which has a nurturing element but not a natural element inherently, hence making it reasonable for one to believe that this monster is entirely influenced by nurture. Any human being’s character is subject to the nurture and the author here primarily tries to clarify some natural aspects.

This discussion talks that the novel is a pure and balanced narration of a story of the soldiers engaged in the First World War, and as opposed to many other novels, books or stories written on the same subject, the novel simply leaves no details out, narrating the whole process from the entry and recruitment of the soldiers into the war.

This paper compares the qualities of the creature to that of human beings, without considering its physical grotesqueness, essentially makes the creature one of the human beings. Consequently, this forms the major objective of the paper which is to present an argument for or against the humanity of the creature.

The paper gives detailed information about a literal analysis of Ford’s central characters Henry Lee and Keiko Okabe, which seeks to shed light on racial issues specific to before and after World War II in America and their impact on society. Henry and Keiko represent the first generation of Chinese and American immigrants respectively granted citizenship by the US government.

Sarah Grimke’s Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women describes the level of inequality and discrimination that women faced in the society. Unlike Franklin’s Dream that cited a bright future for all Americans, Grimke recalls that women during her time were only allowed to remain in the house.

The book describes past events, which have already occurred. Following the date of publication and the year, the events being discussed happened then it is evident that the authors have something to reveal about the two thousand and eight's United States of America's elections. It is definite that the authors have carried out research on the elections.

All along the story, the characters are subjected to conditions where more than one path can be chosen as an option; a path of immoral nature or a path full of difficulties but the one which is morally correct. There also are points in the story where the characters are depicted to display being affected by guilty feelings.

The novel 1984 begins with the pathetic and deplorable state of affairs experienced by the protagonist Winston Smith, the member of Outer Party as well as Proles, along with the projection of the pictures of some Big Brother, the totalitarian despotic ruler of the imaginary State of Oceania, through billboards and posters almost everywhere.

Diversity has come with a lot of unnoticed good to the United States of America. Most minority American writers have themed their works towards highlighting the presence of diversity in the society and how diversity and multi-cultural nature of the nation have enriched the culture, beliefs, and norms in America.

Sandra L. West, while writing a biography of Angelou, remarkably notes that “The inner strength, self-worth, and acknowledged sexuality of a black sisterhood are extremely important to Angelou. For example, the female narrator of the poem “Phenomenal Woman”, symbolizing all black women, feels gorgeous and blessed with her natural attributes".

The major theme, which is portrayed through the novel, is the theme of hope amidst oppression. Oppression of women is found from the starting of the novel, which underlines the confiscation of rights of women. Mariam’s mother Nana teaches her, "Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman".