Literature Essays

The author states that it was evident that Ralph Paton, the stepson to Roger Ackroyd was the obvious suspect. He had much to gain from the death of his stepfather including money that was to come from the estate.  Roger Paton was in danger of being cut off financially from his stepfather which gave him that much more motive to kill him. 

His poem wants people to save themselves from their deepest pits of despair because of the missing connection between the body and the soul and between the individual and the society. The themes of meaningful existence and equality

The positive benefits and the negative consequences of having great wealth are neatly addressed in the short bibliographic story of Fanny, through the Mary Shelley’s pen. The then position of

The exorcism of the white serpent shows that the woman always has to sacrifice, no matter how much devoted she is to the man she loves. The sacrificial

In early literature, the features are particularly stronger with the heroic. Epic simile is extended in its form and tends to consist of several points and details of comparison. In Book I, Neptune is described according to the way he calms the raging (rough) sea and orders the winds to fall back to their caves.

Generally, written in the form of letters, the novel brings out Burney’s perspective of society and how people related through the lens of the characters. The main theme in the novel depicts women as having the capacity to overcome the numerous challenges that society, especially men, have placed on them.

In the sci-fi story, Travis warns the visiting team of the irreversible repercussions that would follow if they break the rules, for example, by changing the past. Eckels’ action of killing the butterfly and carrying it has significant repercussions to the present in that killer vines and environmental changes occur in Chicago.

At the beginning of story, beginning of his life as a human being, man is adrift and uprooted with no permanent place or relationships; no responsibility towards each other or even to the self. Each one is a loser. They are uneducated (ignorant), un-ambitious and lack the sense of responsibility. Relationships are a matter of convenience.

The heroine in “Its Wavering Image” is half-Chinese and half-white. Her half-white parent died long before the opening of the story and Pan has grown up associated herself predominantly with her Chinese father’s culture living in Chinatown. She never really considers her divided self until she begins talking with Mark Carson

The singers and workers symbolically stand for the unborn children’s potential and destiny. The mother, who feels the stinging pain at heart for the unborn children and laments their loss, stands for motherhood and love. The 3d line speaks of the unborn children and their body as a damp small pulp; the picture of a fetus is given here.

The male characters are often people with power, respected men who still manage to doubt, mess up or do wrong things. These men find the way back to purity, acceptance of Mohammed as a prophet, dedication to the one true religion and renewed happiness and life. Evil men do not conform to these principles and suffer as a result of their willfulness.

Although Tartuffe is the clear villain and charlatan who embody those people who advocate religious devoutness but they themselves refuse to put into practice,

Three characters, Esperanza from House on Mango Street, Christopher McCandless, and Oedipus of Greek mythology. All these characters try their best to shape their destiny. But are they able to do so? The three characters try to shape the destiny of their lives. They do everything in their power to try and determine the course of their lives.

From this paper, it is clear that language is made up of themes such as vocabulary, syntax, grammar, and semantics. It is said for instance that “semanticists have to have at least a nodding acquaintance with other disciplines, like philosophy and psychology, which also investigate the creation and transmission of meaning”.

Wollstonecraft’s A vindication of the rights of women words was not also rendered in poetic prose just like Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, where the nuance of the language appeals to the reader’s finer sensibilities but instead was written in a vitriolic rant of a pointed pen of her protest against this treatment of women.

Within the given article in question, John Sekora’s “Black Message/White Envelope: Genre, Authenticity, and Authority in the Antebellum Slave Narrative”, the author discusses the unique bias and nuance that presented via the fact that it is almost invariably the white man/woman who relates and/or writes the history that affects the African slave.

The approach of viewing Sir Thomas More’s Utopia on the lens of practicalism may have touched some important points of the work Utopia but were not able to completely grasp the essence of the work. In practicalism, what was discussed was the economic aspect of Utopia that man’s love for luxury and gold breeds the many ills of society.

The marriage market ensured that virtually all of the rootless and homeless poor were men. Their attachment to the language of friendship and loyalty, which they used to create fragile bonds of patronage and protection, is one of the great examples of the crucial function of male bonding, enabling the survival of the most vulnerable members of the population.

Generally, throughout history, people have formed groups to fight for liberation (Eugene, 2). The minority groups where women belong have formed lots many revolutions across the world so that they gain liberation. Stereotyping of women has contributed to their inability to compete on equal terms with men.

The weather outside seemed to provide a connection to the sad event happening inside his room and what was going on within his entire being. Added to this, there was his small room, depicting his career as a travelling salesman. Such a career, however, provided him with more meaningful harm than good, because he was not happy about it.

A Streetcar Named Desire presents a sharp critique of the way the institutions and attitudes of postwar America placed restrictions on women's lives. Williams uses Blanche's and Stella's dependence on men to expose and critique the treatment of women during the transition from the old to the new South.

Shakespeare has managed to invoke readers’ emotions through the comparison tactic. There is a general feeling of tenderness as the reader goes through the poem in entirety. This has mainly achieved through the speaker's comparison that seems to lie in favor of the beloved who represents a combination of a well-blended summer day.

Among the issues that molded modernism were the advancements of present industrial civilizations and the swift development of cities, trailed then by the fear of World War 1. Ayers, (2008), states that modernism also rebuked the inevitability of insight thinking, and various modernists rebuked religious belief.

The relationship at the onset of the century has been characterized by oppositions, differences especially during the helm of physics and anthropology. At some point, custom, artifice, and convention have been used to distinguish culture from nature. Giblett (2011) extrapolates that culture is perceived as an institution belonging to human beings and often the exercise of the will is reflected.

. In a way, it is a story of the characters that are compelled to seek new identity, as they are placed in a new cultural situation. In their ardent attempt to gain a new identity, everything rooted or fixed, be it personal, social, or national seem to get shaken.

The ludicrousness of the situation gets further accentuated when Don Quixote not only takes the two wenches to be virgins of high birth, but also imagines the blowing of a horn by a swine herd to be the

The development of the main character is earned and deserved. Zits was able to come back to his senses and to an unforeseen redemption. He has changed from the old street kid who was in and out of jail and detention centers. He has developed and learned from each

At the beginning of the poem, Gawain emulates King Arthur’s clean, polite speech and chivalrous actions. By the end of the poem, Gawain has become a dynamic character and learns that chivalrous knights are human and susceptible to the weakness that entails. Throughout the poem, King Arthur and his knights are portrayed as courteous and civilized.

The beginnings of this story capture his childhood being a slave and the effort he puts to attain or get education. He credits his education directly with his success later as a man of action in his nation and community. The aspects of triumph

Poor people are unable to afford healthy foods like lean meat, fresh vegetables, and fruits and thereby, they depend mainly on cheap greasy food. They also lack money to subscribe to sporting clubs where they can engage in sports and check on their weight. The view of the relationship between poverty and obesity in this article is founded objectively.

The mother in Everyday Use compares her two daughters and finds Maggie in need of her assistance and support. She faces a conflict as to who to choose as a representative of her culture and she chooses Maggie, her shy daughter as Dee breaks her link to her culture and family by changing her style of living.

The striking similarity in all these accounts is seen in the mentioning of the cataclysmic event itself and the mentioning of the flood as an extirpator of evil and evil people and the extension of the human race. The actors

examples concerning this level of disagreement is the fact that certain members of the literary community take the stance that “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” represents a type of indeterminant ending with no clear meaning. Alternatively, those that espouse the

Dmitri Gurov is the protagonist of Anton Chekhov’s The Lady with the Pet Dog. Gurov, trapped in an unhappy marriage, is on a holiday in Yalta when he meets Anna Sergeyevna, the ‘Lady with the pet dog’. Anna is also married. The cynical Gurov enters into a brief liaison with Anna and then they go their separate ways.

WALL –E remained on earth cleaning up garbage left by humans. After some time, EVE comes to earth to check if it can be inhabited by humans again. The robot comes to check for the presence of vegetation. She finds a plant, which WALL-E had kept,

In this poem, Frost deems suppose he had chosen the other path in his life things would be currently different. This is evident from his sentiments claiming, “I shall be telling this with a sigh” (Frost 16) not being able to expound explicitly

1). As such, the smoking of marijuana is a societal problem that generates significant public debates in America. Nevertheless, the

Kek, now in Minnesota, is faced with the difficulties of adapting to a new life and finding his lost mother. He believes that his mother still lives and would soon join him in the newfound family. Kek is taken from the airport by a caregiver who takes him to live with his aunt. It is here that Kek meets all that amazed him compared to his home in Sudan.

Antony and Cleopatra is one of the finest tragic dramas ever written. Written by William Shakespeare, it is thought to have been first performed on stage around 1606-07.The focus of the story revolves around the passionate love of the Roman general Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

However, there came a time when the abolitionism movement rose with the aim of bringing to an end to both formal and informal slavery in the US. The notion of abolitionism was adopted as the main theme bymuch literature. The writers who adopted the notion of abolitionism

The empathy goes to an extent of selflessness, as the women have made it their character to help suffering women get over their burdens. The patriarch of the family,

According to the paper, the American culture was experiencing radical changes due to shifts of the economy from agriculture to industry and women roles were also expected to change from domestic to more participation in the economy. Women struggled to express their desire for education and employment.

Centralizing the political institutions is the backbone of a nation’s economic success, which ensures the provision of public necessities such as education, justice, and implementation of contracts for the people. Inclusive and extractive political institutions are also a

The author is also an ethicist. This text depicts the story and the life of a 7-year-old Chinese boy called Kai Ping who was an American-born son of a Shanghainese refugee family from the Second World War. Lee describes the China boy Kai as American-born and settled in a poor neighborhood in San Francisco.

The author states that Jhabvala’s belief in the pre-lapsarian “innocence” and simplicity of the Indians and their passionate zest for life dulls England in comparison. This ‘exoticism’ of the East made her engrossed her into a world of romantic quest, which fuelled her imagination and sustained her illusion that captured the inadequacy of the reality.

This book is about the work to reinvent our high schools, moving them from institutions to communities. The author’s own experiences as an educator in the college as well as high school certainly add to the value of the book since the readers understand that the writer has been an active participant in the education process rather than an outsider looking in to act as a researcher or consultant. Wood’s work does not include any research since he worked for more than a decade as a professor of education which certainly entails its own requirements for research and experimentation.

 In the end, though we see a tragic end to the story the story incorporates within its scope abundant element of optimism. It is the element of mutual love between all the three characters and desperate effort from the protagonist and Grandma Kashpaw to make the situation fine between them is thought compelling. 

Through the story of Lia, we are able to see the mistakes that were committed that may have possibly led to the vegetative state of Lia Lee and hopefully with the awareness, especially for students in medical school, they can be able to avoid such mistakes of intercultural communication and consequently treat their patients effectively.

She is also labeled as a heretic sometimes, because of the conflicting ideas presented in her writings in relation to puritanical beliefs. This poem, ‘the Flesh and the Spirit’, however, is far from being heretic. The poem is a

She had a very unique style of singing and this was evident in her very first album itself. On one hand, there was drama and elocution embedded in her singing and on the other, it also portrayed anger, sadness and depression for not having that one true love