Literature Essays

The Bible was not written for scholars alone, however, but to meet the spiritual needs of all people. These passages from Genesis are often seen just as a description, perhaps wrong, of the creation process. However, if they are considered as being a consideration of the relationship between God and his creation and in particular with mankind, then a whole new dimension emerges.

Samuel Selvon, a Trinidadian by birth, grew up in a multiracial, multicultural society. His powerful sense of displacement and feelings has found its way in a subtle form into his fiction. The Lonely Londoners, the first novel of his Moses trilogy has been given recognition as a landmark in the literature. It has been treated successfully with a narrative in Caribbean English. 

It should be noted that Heed and Christine were intimate friends in childhood. However, the vengeance that emerged between them as they grew up is firmly rooted in their relationship with Cosey. Christine was eight months older than her Heed, and had been sent away after Cosey’s marriage with Heed, “throbbing with girl flesh made sexy”.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s A Temporary Matter and When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine involve the stories of a couple that slowly drifted apart after a tragedy struck them and a family left behind in a war-torn country. Nora Keller’s Fox Girl, on the other hand, tells a story set in post-war Korea where two schoolgirls are caught in the harsh realities of life while growing up in America Town.

Analysing the themes of Elizabethan plays a reader can easily find that revenge is a selfish villain with numerous motives that promotes violence in most of the Elizabethan revenge plays. Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet are widely established examples of revenge plays. The term revenge and vengeance are important tools for revealing human instinct.

The Garden of Love by William Blake and Home-Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning are two very different poems; yet, they contain certain similarities.  William Blake belonged to the poetic era known as the Romantic period.  While Robert Browning wrote during the Victorian era.  These two poetic eras held many different background events, both social and political which influenced the poetry of those times.

The three pieces are rendered through a variety of styles and with various literary devices in order to construct worlds that suit the purposes of their universes. Both Pirandello and Shakespeare create two worlds in which to balance their ‘story’ so that they can challenge their audience to think on more than one level. For Rowling, the challenge was to create a single world in which all of the events in Harry’s life could seem plausible.

The concept of war and fighting is one that Beah shows in his memoir, Long Way Gone. The encounters of the civil war and fighting as a child show how this impacted his life psychologically, emotionally and mentally.  Learning to fight and to win wars, building strength to the bloodshed and implying the personal reactions are all noted as a part of the details which are recounted in the book. 

Rawley’s arguments regarding Bleeding Kansas are used as a basis from which to highlight the extent to which race has played a role in shaping American politics. Rawley’s book not only re-evaluates commonly accepted theory on Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War by highlighting the importance of race; it goes further than existing literature in this area by going beyond a mere narration of events.

The main idea of the story defines the line that exists between fantasy and reality. Fantasies are stunning, beautiful and pure while realities are harsh, cruel and brutal. It is portrayed through two main characters Connie and Arnold Friend. Connie is a fifteen years old girl, a typical adolescent, lover of music, theatre and boys. 

Already in his old age, Willy still worked hard earning for a commission as a salesman. Linda is just a plain housewife who appeared to be erudite of his husband’s present mental and emotional health. The two sons arrived home for a break. Both had their own life. While Happy’s life has been a good one at his own, Biff’s seems to be miserable. 

Publius Vergilius Maro is a poet whose best known for his poem Aeneid, which is considered the national epic of Rome up to date. In his twelve-book poem, he describes the journey of Aeneas, who is a warrior fleeing the capture of Troy to Italy, his stay with the Dido Queen of Carthage, and his battles with Turnus an Italian prince.

This article depends on the examination of two perspectives on the waterway by Mark Twain exposition. The paper uncovers the section of an individual from uprightness to comprehension and how certain stuff change and lose their beauty in the wake of turning into another thing.

She had relocated to the north with her parents, where she had a better chance of having a quality life. Sadly, she lived in a society that was divided between races.

Some people are madly focused on their ambition that they would do anything humanly possible to achieve them. Sadly, many end up making irrational decisions that soon prove costly to them as they end up in isolation.

Upon first entry, he notices that the town is nearly empty, with only a dozen individuals roaming the streets. Then, he comes across a house that he is invited to stay in for a few days.

Both are men, but that does not mean they are free to share and seek to grow together. Tobias Wolff highlights the relationship between father and son in the story, “Powder.”

Skip ahead a century of progress and women’s emancipation, inequalities have not disappeared altogether. While the specific details of the inequities between the genders have morphed, the theme is alive and persistent. In this sense, The Kiss is a story that offers interpretive and analytic scope across many disciplines and issues.

The most influential scene of the play was the carpet scene where the Clytemnestra attempts to bring the family daemon to bear on Agamemnon. The moral downwards spirit of the Oikos is encouraged by Clytemnestra which thus in the end acts against her and causes her death by the hands of her own son.

In the essay: “The Use of Name Significance in Their Eyes Were Watching God,” the writer provides critical evaluations that make use of a name that defines the relevance of characterization.

Life, from the perspective of the narrator, is seen to bring some negative overtones that might gradually be seen year by year with the social and family setting. The narrator of this poem makes use of negative undertones, imagery, and similes to develop and define the different aspects of his life stories.

In the whole narrative, the nymph, prostitutes, and mothers can shape the tales due to the impact of their activities. The feminine nature in the whole fabrication is indicated as a character with significant control of their male counterparts.

This was immediately after the decline of Primo de Rivera, a commander in the forces. During this period of economic and political instability, the throne was occupied by King Alfonso XII, who was against Rivera. His dislike for Rivera was evident from the manner he talked about the negative sides of Rivera.

Winston holds from expressing his emotions publicly condemning the governing party because of fear of murder, cruelty, and straining.

But some artists have used their art to portray the evils and concerns they have in the community and their countries. The art might be in different forms, one of them being verbal art, especially poems.

This was a poet, feminist, and essayist. Her birthplace in Baltimore, Maryland. Her date of birth is sixteenth of May nineteen twenty-nine. Rich became popular and renowned because of the perfect way she carried out her duties in the field of literature. As a result, she won the Nation Book Award of poetry.

Chopin shows her prowess in writing by using ironies to bring out the struggles of this woman.  Chopin places the most attention on the reactions and emotions of her main character. From the beginning of the story up to the end, the reader can grasp the different emotions displayed by the main character, Mrs. Mallard.

The poem talks about the fearless warriors such as Beowulf and Wiglaf who wear the shield of heroism, loyalty thus earning great rewards.

Starr is a teenage girl who was born and raised in Graded Heights, a known lower class community in which she was compelled to witness the brutal murder of her most excellent ally.

One possible theme worth analyzing is a redemption Journey in The Kite Runner. The theme of redemption is among the most significant of these themes, and various individuals try to make amends following their wrongdoings in the past. In the table above, we see Amir, who acts as the main protagonist in the narrative share a story about his childhood.

Out of jealousy, Iago plots Othello's doom after he is overlooked of promotion. Consequently, Iago sets off his scheme by alerting Othello of his wife’s alleged unfaithfulness and even proceeds to give evidence, though circumstantial, to support his accusations. In his anger and jealousy, Othello acts irrationally and kills his wife, Desdemona.

Okonkwo becomes a tragic hero due to social denial while Walter revolutionized himself in a positive way, by overcoming social barriers of racism and inequality with self-determination. The two names “Things fall apart” and “A raisin in the sun” truly depict the morals and endings of the stories of two contrasting situations and personalities  

Even though they did not have papers or any claim of possession, their belonging to the continents as natives made the land rightfully theirs. European settlers came with a new land ownership concept that did not comprehend or respect what the native had going on.

The play Crucible draws from a true story and paints a portrait of how things went down in 1692. In this essay, we will be looking at John Proctor and Abigail Affair; causes and effects.

The deceased king, himself called Hamlet, appears as a Ghost, informs the son in some detail how he was murdered by his brother, the latter’s uncle Claudius, and calls for revenge. Although Hamlet agrees, he is skeptical of the apparition and feigns madness as a means of averting suspicion while he embarks on a quest to check the veracity of the information vouchsafed to him.

The Glass Menagerie has contributed to research being conducted on nursing – the parallel between theatre and nursing is drawn on the basis that both are performing arts. (Parse, 1992). R.R. Parse advocated the Human Becoming Theory (“HBT”), whereby the concepts of human subjectivity, co-existence and situation freedom are present sides to side.

Although both books do deviate somewhat from classical form and style, both Wilde and Mann were inarguably well aware of – and strongly influenced by – the thirty-five hundred-year-old European tradition in which they were inscribing themselves as writers of tragedy. 

Within each story is reflected one or the other moral of life and a satire of the contemporary society. In the tales, the most sensitive issues Chaucer raised are the way women perceived in the middle ages, her sexual instincts and the quality which she adored and had to wear as prescribed by the society along with the avaricious attitude many people had to adopt in their lives.

Global warming is a major subject and any attempt to stifle debate on it would be an unfair approach. An open mind and multiple points of view are hallmarks of a healthy debate that has world-wide ramifications. Global warming is not the sole concern of any power-block. It concerns humanity and the generations to come.

The focus of this essay is to provide the reader with a brief description of the story and then focus on the characters of each piece. The conflicts that they were faced within their society and in themselves and thus making them the outsiders in their respective communities. It will outline the similarities in the personality of the main characters and the story of their life as well as contrast the heroes.

Maitland crashes into the concrete island at a crucial time in his life when nobody was expecting him. Hence, this is the time when people would not miss him and his absence would not be questioned. Maitland has to restore his resources to be able to stay alive. Maitland is an impulse individual who rushes into things without waiting. 

He had great pride in his catastrophic weakness, and this eventually led to unlucky proceedings that, in the long run, led to his death. The sad part is that he died because of an offense that he did not commit. Another critical part of being a heart-rending hero is that the character has a complete change, resulting from his or her own imperfection.

The themes of trickery, deception, and betrayal in William Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet” is one of the most important and interesting topics, as it allows not only to approach the disclosure of the artistic idea of ​​the play in more detail but also to penetrate the secret of human characters and destinies.

The concept of tragic in this period of creativity becomes fundamental for Shakespeare's "Macbeth" and is associated with the realization of impunity and the triumph of the force of evil, which saw the tragic wisdom of Europe in the Western Renaissance until recently convinced of the triumph and correctness of universal, humanistic values.

Twenty years ago, one of Rowling's books was so small that it's hard to believe. Her novels nowadays are to be explored in terms of psychoanalysis and paganism, but the protagonist's surname has been tried for the illegal production of condoms.

At this time, Crevecoeur himself was in France. Despite concerns from his parents, his work immediately attracted the attention of the English public.

The multiple differences that exist between Gilgamesh and Enkidu set the characters apart while strengthening their bond. The multiple flaws exhibited by the character Enkidu are enhanced through the character Gilgamesh making them a great pair.

The story casts a cloud of doubt of the meaning of existence with indifferences that exist in the world. It equates with the task of rolling a stone up a hill.

A significant move that the state used to keep the population in check was through the use of surveillance. Under the system, the people of Oceania became fearful of the ruling law while minding their actions and moves relating in a particular manner.

Contrary to the title, the following sentence certainly elicits an opposite reaction in regards to feelings of Ivins towards firearms.