Literature Essays

This essay gives a detailed analysis of Elizabeth Bennet, the main character of the Pride and Prejudice. Despite the distinctive disparity of Pride and Prejudice from today’s setting, social norms, and class, Elizabeth Bennet is an epitome of a modern woman of this new generation: intelligent, irrational, compassionate, and independent-minded.

This research will begin with the statement that Diane Ackerman’s essay “Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall?” combines poetry, philosophy and popular science as it describes the cycle in which leaves undergo. This paper illustrates that the essay also relates the falling of the leaves, as seasons transition, with human experiences.

This essay discusses that in the novels sex is used as a dominating tool. The idea of sex in this second novel initially begins with an idea for revenge for Esteban Garcia, an outlet of expression for Esteban Trueba’s secret emotions, self-gratification for Jean de Satigny, and love for Pedro Tercero.

Gender Role: A Mythological Insight Role of a woman in almost every culture, society, country of the world is inferior and for men she is the object rather than a human being.

Gender perceptions and gender roles have often been a central theme of literature in nearly every era. Authors have been presenting their personal opinions about gender roles through the characters of their literary texts. The characters, often times, were a reflection of their own personalities or life experiences. Critics and analysts have been presenting their opinions about literary texts, enabling common readers to become familiar with the themes behind the texts.

From this paper, it is clear that Wormwood’s mission is to lead a human being astray and get hold of his soul. Within the novel, Wormwood hunts the soul of quite an ordinary man, whose name remains unknown to the audience, and tries to prevent his conversion to Christianity.

In this article, Clark traces an old Indian story through several sources to help prove its apparent validity and emphasize the importance of individual thinking, as well as the input of the female, in the major events that have shaped this country, such as the expedition undertaken by Lewis and Clark.

The main character Norman is husband to Peggy and a father to Nick and Clifford. He is a sale counterpart of June, neighbors to Mike and Samuel, brother to Brent, and he is friend to Mike. In the play, Norman’s work as a salesperson classifies his personal life. He attempts to sell to everyone, particularly his household, on his personal beliefs and thoughts.

How is it possible to read One Hundred Years of Solitude as the history of the Columbian banana massacres of 1928, or Del Amor y Otros Demonios, as the history of colonialism and the true story of Saint Cajetan of Thiene and his well-recorded relation with the Augustinian nun, Laura Magnani?

The three vicious Orcs and the three gentle Hobbits who need to cross the river on a single boat will be able to so in five trips assuming that the Orcs would not gobble up Hobbits when they are alone and equal in number.

This book has thought the reader's way towards attaining human goals including the happiness that everybody deserves for choosing to live the way one wanted. To have knowledge is to have that freedom of choice which is the greatest gift that a happy and good life must have. Therefore, it's better to choose to have freedom than by knowing more.

The article titled ‘Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the European Internalization of Mesoamerican Aesthetics’ written by Marcy Norton which was published in the American Historical Review explains the industrious efforts on improvisation and value addition of indigenous chocolates. These measures by the Europeans resultantly made tastier versions of chocolates.

These stories differ in terms of characters’ traditions, ironies, and motivations, while they show similarities in having powerful leaders and their possession of wickedness.The characters of these stories differ because of their varying traditions. The community in “The Lottery” practices an annual lottery

According to the report prejudice is usually defined as an opinion formed without knowledge, but in fact prejudice is usually forged from fear of misconceived knowledge. Prejudice is borne from the fear not of the unknown, but of a misperception of how the unknown will affect society. Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein can be read as a tragedy.

85% of London was destroyed in a great fire in 1666. When rebuilding was accomplished by 1750, it was done quickly due to a population surge and the resulting haphazard design was a perfect setting for criminals lying in wait. This is the setting for the film. Additionally, up until the mid-1800, many a barber also functioned as a surgeon.

The collective narrator, “we” and Richard Cory are in two different situations in which the meanings of suicide are contrastive with each other. Indeed the author’s characterization of his subject facilitates greatly to this irony of situation that keeps the readers carefully secluded from Cory’s world.

My personal opinion is that Belisarius was an excellent person with all the qualities and attributes that one desires, he may lack something in the emotional aspect but his intellect and vision more than makes up for that fact. He was a true great and rightly among the last Romans but is he another page in history that has been lost or will his legend live on?

The story is saying that common American people in that time and place were survivors. They were highly individualistic, yet formed strong social bonds that helped them to cope with despair, loss, and misfortune. Fewer economic advantages in this time and place meant things such as respect in the community

This essay focuses upon the theme of kindness and care in the children’s stories. The lessons of humanity are very important for kids. That is why many writers use them in their works. The stories from this essay use the kindness as a moral value to teach their readers to be good people, best citizens of a society.

Yet this outwardly respectable man has plotted his rival’s death with fiendish cunning. Outwardly, it is Salieri who is successful and is able to earn a decent livelihood but the inner realization of his mediocrity torments him. Yet this outwardly respectable man has plotted his rival’s death with fiendish cunning.

The author describes Daisy Miller, a young beautiful American woman who has no inhibition or qualm about her behavior and actions despite what society may feel about it comes within the limelight of opulent circles of Europe in Switzerland where she is on a visiting trip. She carries the typical air of American nonchalance and bonhomie about her.

Although the musical is different from the story in the book, they both talk about life in itself and its idiosyncrasies that fall in interference of the minds of the people born ahead of their times.

From this research it is clear that Shelley strongly links mental and physical distress in Frankenstein, suggesting that Victor's intense bouts of illness are brought on by his guilt. This idea of mental torture causing physical pain echo throughout descriptions of Victor in chapter four: the dark images evoke clearly a wasted body.

According to the report what makes this an interesting read is the lyrical and imagistic quality of the essay. It demonstrates the simple awareness in the people of Algiers of what life is and what it means to them, without any attempt at creating ideas and ideals to shield themselves from its stark reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.

According to the report This primary self, feeling like a haunted chamber, is the ‘poet self’, while the secondary self, relating to the spatiality of a house, is the ‘social self’. Although the first person is never employed, Dickenson seems to composes these lines in the guise of her ‘poet self’, wistfully contemplating the potential power of the past.

Different social issues are evident throughout the story. It should be noted that relations of characters are depicted in the most striking manner, though this review does not reflect peculiarities of these relations at all.

According to the report learning who Mr. Grierson was is the first step to discovering the influence he had on Emily. Mr. Grierson was a member of one of the oldest families in Jefferson, an aristocratic man and authoritative father, who, like Emily, is afraid of losing the one person left who is close to him.

According to the report “The Prince” includes theoretical interpretation of the role of a ruler, and gives practical advice how to keep power and maintain strict control. At the beginning of the 21st century, recommendations and pieces of advice given 5 centuries ago are still of vital importance, because the qualities of a leader are universal and cannot be influence by regime.

For this paper, the focus is to evaluate the story Super Sad True Love Story by Shteyngart, published in 2010, in relation to aspects such as Symbolic Interactionism, Social Construction of Language and Sapir-Whore Hypothesis. In addition, the concepts to be discussed relate to the construction of the futuristic society in Super Sad True Love Story.

The story revolves around Oskar’s discovery of a key, which belonged to his father, who died on 9/11. As the story unfolds, Oskar’s character unfolds as a sensitive yet a curious and intelligent child who is also skilled in playing tambourine. Being a diligent boy, he travels to New York seeking the information about the key.

Throughout the book there is the underlying theme of a totalitarian mentality dominant both from the side of the colonizers and local war lords, struggling for personal and tribal power through any means possible, particularly through violence.

The main conflict of the poem is divided between two main characters. If Sir Gawain represents the dilemma of every man, the Green Knight stands for the challenge that he must meet to discover and realize his true self. Without being judgemental or didactic for even once the poet seems much ahead of his age in his sensibilities and poetic approach.

The work is the analysis of one of the literary works by Sui Sen. It reveals the problems immigrants face when getting into the USA. The fact that the writer is an immigrant, a Chinese-American, allows the author to show those problems from inside.

Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior is the recounting of a story that happened in ancient China. The writing style of her texts is lyrical, appealing and make the story more interesting. This essay explores a margin between the fantasy world and reality, the main desire of the author, that was to expose the oppression that was experienced by Chinese women.

Amongst the different characters in the novel, the major characters comprise the “foreground” and the other significant but minor characters are a part of the “background” of the story.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to draw the unconscious thoughts, desires and attitudes to the conscious to allow better comprehension of the

After reading these three sources, I am not revising my research question. I still view Welty’s “A Worn Path” as a tragic story about the illusory quest for equality for Southern blacks. While many critics present Phoenix Jackson as a Christ-figure who suffers for the good of others, I see her sacrifice. 

Faulkner uses an anonymous narrator for this short story.  These three examples also use flashback sequences that make the story layered.  This allows readers to think about the story, Faulkner did not just tell a story with his own agenda.  Faulkner wrote about settings he was familiar with, the Deep South of the United States of America. 

Poe’s narrators often make numerous attempts to convince the readers that they are not like their enemy or the victim which they seek to kill. In this case, the narrator functions as the eyes of the reader, and the narrator makes it clear that he and his opponent are in no way alike on the inside, even though they are in the superficial sense.

With a prolific career and a flamboyantly spent life, Dumas gives his stories passion and romance, while injecting intrigue and adventure.  In Georges, however, a unique opportunity arises to examine the issue of race, an issue that still gives our society difficulty in this age. 

William Blake, the author of the Songs of Innocence and Experience has been regarded by the critics for his exceptional expression of ideas and being creative for the themes that he developed. Blake was influenced by various artists but still, he retained his originality as he was characterized by his works. 

The themes of physical suffering are linked with other themes of the two works such as pursuit, ambition, and destiny. The representation of physical suffering and death can be seen in Frankenstein as well as in Moby Dick. Ahab and Victor are the two characters that bring upon physical suffering and death to the people related to them on the basis of their pursuits.

This essay argues that memory brings about salvation, because it offers a refuge for spiritual reflections that invigorates and calms people, but Wordsworth articulates doubt about his own faith in memory because reality relies on perceptions that change, and because he feels a sense of loss that cannot be fully relieved.

The article depicts women as icons of death as reinforced by Gloriana’s skulls, which reveal the fear that men have towards death that is associated with women. This argument is not valid given the fact that Vendice’s actions prove that women’s attachment to death is positive and not negative. In another instance, the author asserts that women have “innocence”.

During this dramatic monologue and to borrow a term from the theatre__ soliloquy, the medium he uses to develop many diverse motifs and themes including thatof age and the human natural phenomena of aging both physically and psychologically.

The author states that David Livingstone, the main character, begins his life as a young man who is eager to discover the glory of slavery in Africa. David Livingstone, published by C. Sylvester Horne, is a fascinating book in the quest of an ambitious man who was a man of prayer and also of action.

The author states that the book also discusses cosmology as an important of the universe. Stephen Hawking has discussed numerous theories and concepts in physics. Some of the main topics of this book discuss the importance of physics in our daily life, gravitational theory, the movement of light in the universe, and the Big Bang theory.

The short story The Open Boat is based on the accounts of the author, Stephen Crane, on his experience during the capsizing of the SS Commodore after colliding with a sandbar, which resulted in him navigating to land using a small boat. The story revolves around four survivors who are left drifting in the middle of the sea due to the capsizing of their ship.

(Kennedy, 2007) 2.) Oedipus sister is the static character here. Considering human nature, Oedipus is the antagonist and his father Loius is the protagonist. But as Oedipus did not know that he was marrying his mother, he is the protagonist

The paper gives detailed information about Howard Pyle’s version of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. The writer suggests that Robin Hood is a person who just wants to help others, but does not know how to go about helping without breaking the law even if he really does not want to break the law.