Literature Essays

Wells turns the concept of advantage and disadvantage upside down when the reader, as well as his protagonist Nunez, is forced to doubt the ability to see as a guaranteed tool for domination in the land of the blind. Nunez as a character is very witty. He is ambitious and entirely motivated to succeed, but this also leaves him vulnerable to failure.

The Tell-Tale Heart is a sensational thriller and horror story written by Edgar Ellen Poe. The story has been told in the first-person and commends the skill and talent of Edgar Ellen Poe in penning a short story that engages the readers and elicits emotional responses from them in reaction to the actions of the narrator.

Wonderland apart from learning the lessons of life which will help her mature and age gracefully. All the writers use fairytale characters and imaginary events to highlight real issues because it would not be possible to criticize society openly and directly without getting strong negative reactions from potential readers. 

Saudi Arabia houses the Ka’aba and Muslims all over the world look towards it for religious guidance. The default language is Arabic; yet, it can be translated into seven languages, so that Muslims living in any part of the world can access this website. It does not include any personal opinion or the reflections of other people or religions.

He was able to adapt the culture and way of living of the Aboriginal people as the years passed by. When other “white people” saw him, they thought that he was also an Aboriginal. As the story go, they later on discovered his true roots. A theme that can be said

The age of enlightenment, the eighteenth century, can be often acknowledged as the age of Voltaire. Voltaire wrote in lots of genres, surpassing several (Lawall 375). He can be remembered in the modern era through his connections with philosophical works, theatre, and short stories of adventure dramatizing philosophical ideologies.

This paper presents a study of William Shakespeare’s “Othello”. Different characters in the play display how their intentions are strikingly driven by passion instead of reason.

Conflict settlement through war kills many people, destroys livelihood, devastates the environment, wastes money and time, and showcases human greed. The negativities cannot be thrown away by the goals of those who engage in wars. The fact cannot be denied even though people may try to become deaf about the results of the war.

However, when focusing on Machiavelli's style of the great political leader of the classical period, one may find the meaning of being a great modern political leader. In his book of the Prince, Machiavelli provides the wary type of advice of being a great political leader.

It is a combination of comedy and tragedy that is then used to provoke the audience by putting them into the character’s shoes. The technique was to propel the plot of the play forward as Hamlet wanted to use this to arouse feelings of guilt in the main antagonist of the play, who had murdered the former King out of lust for power and his wife.

This paper is an attempt to explain the presence of justice as a significant theme in King Lear and the importance of its message in today’s scenario. It is

According to the essay, as the fictional piece depicts the old man in a filthy and sickly appearance, despite his huge wings, the notion of wonder is eventually banished since it amply contrasts how a reader commonly imagines an angel who must have neat brilliance, dazzling aura, as well as youthful look to marvel at besides a pair of wings.

Though the arguments of the two authors are similar in tone and content, they differ in the use of dominant literary devices because Crane adds alliteration and allusion, while Hardy uses rhymes and iambic meter, and shows more guilt in the speaker’s participation in a war that poverty pushed him into. Crane uses alliteration to emphasize the gloominess of war’s brutality.

The citizens make their way to the town square to vindicate their problem to the lord mayor. The mayor in a bid to quell the tension assures them he will take care of it immediately. He fails to do so sparking more anger from the citizens

James Joyce grew up in Ireland and in any piece of literature work that he wrote he had to write stories with Ireland as the setting. In his novel “the portrait of the artist as a young man,” the plot cannot be nailed down on the exact facts and dates, but the setting is in Ireland. The novel flows freely between the different periods in the life of Stephen Dedalus’ who is the main protagonist.

We come to know about Hamlet's father’s death and his mother’s marriage along with Hamlet’s return from studies. The guards see the ghost of the dead king who later informs Hamlet about his father's treacherous death. Hamlet is confused about the attained information and he keeps on considering the rightness of his revenge.

This paper explores the manner in which the shifting views of social lives have changed across people’s different types of realism by highlight the overlapping themes of alienation and inclusion through a closed reading of 2 Articles namely Matryona's House by  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

The poem reveals the story of a girl wandering in the night, looking for her lost lover. She is so much grieved, and an attempt to wait for the lover tragically ends in her death, as

story evolved from the fact that the narrator detested playing baseball but had to concede to suit the preference of his father’s love for the game. Most of the sentiments disclosed included adjectives that described suffering in silence, dreaded waking up to play baseball,

Contrarily, green flags the rich and ambivalent; those who are most kind to Emma are often dressed in green, which is itself a symbolic aspiration to perfection as well as nature. Red and green almost always occur individually; when they appear together, it is to signify a moment of great tension or a weighty decision about to be made. 

The poem is a recollection of the author’s childhood memories spent in rural Ireland and England. Oliver Goldsmith chose not to disclose the location of his village. He, however, did indicate that it was situated fifty miles from London, and is believed to be in Nuneham Courtenay. This poem is dedicated to artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, a close friend of Oliver Goldsmith.

Accordingly, the author notes that Bird’s life has been full of events, friends, and a girlfriend who is addicted to sex. He tries to escape from the situation by taking a trip to Africa, and he has bought a map to define the places that he desires to visit. However, he is stunned by the news that his wife has given birth to a child.

The story expresses Swift’s frustration through contrasting the insincerity of the wealthy and the squalid conditions in which some Irish people live. A meaningful essay, relevant in the

It smells very badly and it is a health risk for swimmers but still the owners of the nearby hotel call it “Gods own country”. Everything that is associated with the river is negative. The river symbolizes a lost sense of innocence and safety. The river used to be good

The nineteenth century was characterized by a shift towards realism and romanticism in stories. Romanticism concerns itself with an idealized conception of the way things should be. Realism, on the other hand, concerns itself with a conception of how things seem to be. The works represent the respective romantic and realist movements.

The author states that for Sula, detachment arises not from being disconnected from the maternal family or being deprived of its traditions, pearls of wisdom, and experiences; instead, for Sula, connection with traditional ideas of maternal love pushes her to turn down the maternal family, specifically the ideals of antique belongings.

The Description of Cooke-ham”, on the other hand, centers around Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland, Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset and later to be Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery in the background of Cooke-ham which was their temporary refuge for a while where Aemilia accompanied them.

Two friends, Oxford academics and members of an informal group called the Inklings spent many hours by the fireside discussing their ideas and concepts regarding many aspects of life following their first meeting in 1926, including their fascination with myth and fairy tales they’d heard as boys.

Wright’s Dave and Alexei’s narrator are both at a crossroads in their lives, standing between boyhood and manhood and while neither attains manhood, their respective characters undergo change and development. It must be emphasized, however, that the character developments are ultimately determined by their settings and limited by stereotypes.

Telling the story of a village getting together to conduct a lottery for something that isn’t made clear until the end, the story is full of bright imagery and suggestions that the typical definition of the word ‘lottery’ as something positive and strongly desired by the contestants is correct.

Men’s little emotional element in connections enables them to dominate and establish power in organizations. The author humorously states that if humans were wild creatures, men would assume the position occupied by lions in a model biological food chain, while she relates women's position to that of spiders.

In the story “A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner and was first published in 1930 issue of the Forum (Rome), the main character, Emily Grierson was initially described in her funeral at the opening of the story. As such, at the onset, readers are made aware of the theme encompassing tragedy, demise, isolation, loneliness, despair.

The love presented in the play is also complicated by the workings of Puck who both causes confusion and then aids in resolving it. Another overwhelming theme is the loss of individual identity that is personified through the friction between Oberon and Titania as well as through the actions of other characters.

For a person to not believe in nature among other factors is overwhelming. Such as a person, according to me, is a superhero (Booker 56). Reading about him is what keeps a person glued to the book. Even though the book is quite long, I could read it time and again just to interpret the story of Oknokwo. 

Poetry has long attempted to find new and exciting ways to present a given set of ideas or relate a given subject matter to the reader.  This alone is one of the defining ways that poetry is similar regardless of style, language used, structure, or subject matter.  Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody Who Are You?” is no different in this respect. 

In ''The Witness of the Prosecution" Agatha Christie very well depicts a story of how easily and smartly Mr Leonard Vole misused the trust and swindled Ms Emily French who was a rich woman. Miss Emily French who trusted a stranger blindly with her business affairs and made a stranger an heir to her will of eighty-five thousand pounds had to pay for the consequences and thus was murdered by that stranger.

He also expresses that he was unable to find the object of his desire and that’s why he is tired. According to his newfound wisdom, the world is an unbearable place and in order to avoid the pain and unhappiness of this world, he is after something which is not of this world. He craves for “ Moon, happiness or immortality”.

The narrative conflict in Hamlet begins with a complex series of injunctions of prescribed actions and their related codes of honor. The self-imposed silence that tortures the bereaved hero and his constitutional inability to articulate his true intent, through action or words, to either his friends or his lover, are the primary sources of conflict.

The narrator of this essay aims to tell that self-fulfilling prophecy is a sociological phenomenon. It is defined as the method through which someone’s expectations of other people result in those people behaving in different means that give confirmation to the assumed expectations. This term was first used by Robert K. Merton.

Human cruelty is rampant throughout the play giving a perception that human beings are prone to cause hurt and pain to one another. Many successive events are not justified meaning that justice is not normally

The main characters in “Trifles” are John Wright, Minnie Wright, Henderson, the Peters, and the Hales. Henderson represents the law investigating the death of John Wright. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hales are friends of Minnie Wrights and are sympathizing with her situation as a woman, and the troubles she passes through in the male-dominated world where the woman has little to contribute.

The author states that extreme cases of mental health have been recorded among black families due to stress caused by psychological fear that festers as domestic violence, suicide, abuse, and unemployment. The article consults many sources and statistics to argue for the discriminated position of the African American in the New Jim Crow society.

Cavalier poetry obviously cultivates this principle in a nearly hedonistic direction. In ‘To the Virgins’, Robert Herrick feels light-hearted and free in expressing the idea of the brevity of earthly life and urging young women to seize the moment. He writes: “Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying”.    

The researcher of the essay "Representation - Making Sense of Society" aims to analyze the novel "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, which vividly illustrates the boundary between the ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ helping readers to distinguish these two worlds. It is important to note that literary perception depends upon the experience of the reader.

The paper accentuates that though her individual poems are often very short, often there are themes running through the separate fascicles that were grouped together. In specific, in fascicle 16 Dickinson presents her own view of death which is very positive and empowering, which is in stark contrast to death as a negative force. 

Just when both the characters and the readers think the last hurdle is jumped, the hero triumphs, and good wins over evil, Duessa finds a way to spoil the merriment.  The evil enchantress sends a messenger into the celebration of Redcrosse and Una’s engagement, claiming that he has already promised himself to her.

The author states that Cleopatra’s character is much-entangled one; into the fifth act there are multiple paradoxical impressions created by Shakespeare, which makes it very difficult to access the motives and self-awareness of Cleopatra in comparison to a typical tragic hero. After the death of Antony, Cleopatra was left at the mercy of Caesar.

According to the discussion the reader is pulled into a world that is both beautiful and horrific at the same time and from this world, the reader is able to recognize many universal themes that the author has injected into the overall story. This novel is powerlessness and by the end of the novel.

The Journal of Helene Berr is a book that describes the life of a young Jew lady and how the events of that time transformed her. The paper involves writing about a Jewish Young lady by the name of Helene Berr, as it is from the book Journal of Helene Berr.  The book is a compilation of Berr’s diary that took every day of her life during the two years of Jews’ persecution.

Moreover, both of these writers are of the same age and time, and hence, both of them can be considered as rivals for each other. The verbal flattery with the pinch of sarcasm was clearly visible whenever they talked about each other. Even though they have some