Literature Essays

The Rovers, on the other hand, ends lightheartedly with the marriages of Florinda and Belville, and Hellena and Willmore. However, before reaching such a conventional comic ending where the heroines are married off, the play is mainly motivated by female agency or the lack thereof. There are three attempted rapes of Florinda in the play.

Nathan's anger also makes him go out drinking and all he could think about was the divorce: ”all along, step by step they had dismantled their marriage...at once so angry and nostalgic; and alcohol seemed to be doing the job” (Chabon 437). Indeed, such issue as parental divorce “can be stressful for adolescents”. 

The stories hold the mirror which provides an accurate view into traditional Chinese legal systems, method, and dispensation of justice, reformation attempts and the punishments meted out to the accused and the prisoners. How people felt assured about getting justice from the upright judges, who carried out their duties with ruthless efficiency. 

One was requesting that surfaces within the story are what the centrality of a normal man is and the course there isn't necessary amounts of them left on the earth.

Without men at its head, there is no one to strike against and, therefore, no means of controlling its power. Like so many other tenants, the Joads found themselves without a home, without hope and without a livelihood thanks to its incessant demands. They feel flight is the only option remaining open to them. 

The author states that after being created the monster roams about, lost, and disarrayed in his objectives and searches for a partner. The monster itself frightens Victor. The appearance of the monster is described as a creature of eight feet height and a translucent yellowish skin which somehow fails to hide the vessels and muscles underneath.

People’s over-consciousness towards obesity is an outcome of the long-cultivated perception that beauty is smartness. Literature from the past or literature of today that talks about past serve as evidence for this. 

In his short story, Silent Snow, Secret Snow wrote in 1934, Conrad Aiken explores the nature of snow in combination with the nature of mental illness as it begins to overwhelm a young boy. Snow becomes the focus, the symbol, and the torment of the descent that the child takes as he crosses from mental health into mental disintegration.

It is a critically acclaimed literary work that is considered ahead of its time due to the successful exploration and presentation of the themes which include the complexity of human struggles not only within one’s self but also in the interaction with other people.  The book had been referred to as an autobiography probably based on the fact that it mirrors the struggles of a person in life, specifically that of a woman (Bronte).

Darkness has always been associated with mystery, horror, and the supernatural. Poets, writers, and philosophers have used darkness sometimes personified, sometimes as metaphor and in many different ways with telling effect. Questions have been raised, experiments conducted with science, nocturnal life, religious rituals, spiritualism, occultism, etc. with the intended purpose of unraveling unknown mysteries and happenings.

In the early days leading up to Lexington and Concord, they prepared food for militia musters and made cartridges. War, when it came, touched everyone: resources were scarce leading to high inflation; invading troops destroyed farms and homes, and the absence of husbands and fathers left some in danger of starvation. 

Although books have some technical aspects, you can make your symbol what you want it to mean.

In the paper “A Solo Song: For Doc” the author’s intention was to keep the language and tone of the story as true to the original as he could while retelling the story from Doc’s inner perspective. He wanted to capture the feelings and impressions of the man who had so affected his peers.

The author states that although classically trained as a surgeon, John Keats quickly abandoned this profession in favor of his heart’s calling, the lure of poetry. He had received fairly harsh criticism of his early poetry, yet he took up the challenge of a lyric epic in the form of “Hyperion” in 1818.

The most interesting stories are those that not only appeal to the senses but also those which strike a chord in the hearts and minds of the audience. Fancy stories made for entertainment will be discussed but compositions involving human nature such as but not confined to political and social aspects will always be remembered and cherished.

Iris Marion Young after viewing various forms of oppression that happened in the United States earlier and still which are happening now, tried to interpret oppression with different meanings. She defines the operation as a kind of inhibition, which prevents the oppressed people from the chance to develop their ability or show their capacities.

I have been tried for years to visit Egypt but it was only this humanitarian trip arranged the last minute, which urged me to travel to Africa. In fact, I had promised to my colleagues that in case that such a trip would be ever organized I would participate with enthusiasm. Now, I had started to wonder if my decision was right. 

Тhe most interesting thing is the skill of Shakespeare to depict the whole life within the very short framework of the sonnets which comprises just 14 lines. In just 14 lines Shakespeare has been successful in telling the philosophy of the entire life. The same attempt Donald has achieved while composing the poetry.

Even an important person who ingests indecent quantifies of darling on an everyday basis, as I do, understands that convinced things can be too sweet. Specifically, sodas and other bottled food and drink, which the nourishment realist Marion Nestle, writer of Food Politics and the new What to Eat calls "liquor candy."

One thing to note is that the hurricane which prompts the original line where the title is taken from could also be a symbol for a greater and deeper cause. In a book about how an African-American woman overcomes the obstacles of a society dictated by the white society, the hurricane could serve as a signal for the end of an era.

Both the narratives deal with the women’s decision to divorce their respective spouses and the repercussions of this act. Bizhu divorces her old husband and turns down the offer of marriage from her childhood sweetheart. Zhu Xiaofen divorces her young husband and is puzzled by society’s reaction to her position.

From a detailed analysis of sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare, it is revealed that the poem is the words of the sonneteer, a man in agony who knows it is impossible to free his soul from the force of love towards the beloved.

The author begins the essay with the claim that he is not alone even when there is nobody with him as he is in a special relationship with nature where the omnipresent nature surrounds him in the form of thousands of stars and reminding him about the greatness of the Universal Spirit.

Before plummeting into these financial records, some background may show helpful. This foreword addresses the principal questions that stand on the substance discussed in this book: What are we hypothetical to eat to wait healthy? Does diet actually substance? Is there an important gap stuck between what we are hypothetical to eat and what we do eat?

“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is a poem that blends the elements of imagery, theme and character judiciously. It travels in time through the various changes and differences of perception. It is informed with the new scientific inventions but at the same time strongly attached to the mythical and archetypal images of collective life.

It is significant to note that Queen Elizabeth was a protestant. In the story, Macbeth holds an influential position in the Scottish kingdom as a nobleman. He is a fighter motivated by protecting his kingdom and the leading fighters for Lord Duncan. On the way home from the battlefield, Duncan encounters three peculiar figures (Witches).

The author states that although fairy tales usually cause a good impression among children and adults, there are many horrors and cruelties in their plots: “graphic descriptions of murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest that fill the pages of these bedtime stories for children”.

"Thank you, Maam," contains valuable lessons thus remains relevant up to date. For one to unveil the full story, it is essential to familiarize oneself with an analysis of "Thank You Maam", a simple story about second chances and how it should be given as written by Langston Hughes.

Lee's novel appealed to an audience on a global scale because of its multi-layer of context and interesting characters.

The piece confronted Negro aesthetics during an era in the United States when racial segregation was at its peak. The article calls out artists of African-American origin who obscure identity to appease the high members in society.

The author states that insanity plays a key role in Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. In this play, the young prince of Denmark is informed by the ghost of his father that his Uncle Claudius, now married to Hamlet’s mother, murdered his father with poison. Hamlet feigns insanity to discover the truth, but might as easily be insane.

The author states that The Decameron has the weakness of character in contrast with Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, modeled on a similar oral narrative structure. In Chaucer, the tales often weary us, but the tellers never do; in Boccaccio, the tales never weary us, but the tellers always do.

King Lear’s action is very quick and he immediately disinherits Cordelia. In this part of the play, the king severs his relationship with his daughter Cordelia and considers her as a “stranger.” The rage that King Lear feels is so great that he does not only disinherit Cordelia; he also gives her share to her sisters Goneril and Regan. 

Campbell has put forward three main criteria as features of a Hero’s journey. The actions and adventures of a real-life personality, Abdulrahman Zeitoun are assessed on the basis of the criteria mentioned by Campbell. 

The physical environment plays an important role in affecting the psyche of a person. One can always take refuge in his physical surroundings and camouflage his emotions or can merge in mirth. The setting of ‘The Dead’ plays an important role in the story and acts as a character on its own just like that of Gabriel Conroy. 

The importance of art in the success of certain social movements and in attaining certain social ills the attention that they deserve cannot be stressed too much. Artists in every age have been the torchbearers of change and have managed to communicate the sentiment of the downtrodden in forms of protest, to the rulers of a community or nation.

Cities were built, people gathered in large numbers to work in factories instead of fields and long-held cultural traditions were beginning to break down as a result of this shift. Social structures started to crumble as fortunes were measured at the business table in cash rather than by King’s favour and landed property. 

The paper implies critically examining the text in terms of the qualities and traits that characterize a text as it is. Although it may seem complicated to conduct a contextual analysis of a text yet it does not require much complex skills to undertake the task. It can be done by studying the circumstances in which that particular text was written.

The particular form of literature may be a factor for study. For example, poems are constructed in a way that is quite different from the other literary works, and the way that poems are studied may be quite different from the way other literary works are studied. However, other issues that are related to the study of literary works such as style are usually the same.

Tartuffe is the most sinful person in the play. However, Madame Pernelle and Orgon think otherwise, they regard him as very righteous and as far as wrongs and rights are concerned, they view him as the person in power. In fact, Madame Pernelle tells the rest that “your souls would fare far better if you followed his precepts to the letter.”

The author states that the struggles she made were more to be a part of the high achievers she lives with. She seems inferior not only because of the physical differences between herself and other beautiful family members but also for her average results as compared to the brilliance of others’ results.

The author states that the main characters, Carla and her spouse, Clark, tries to make a decent living from giving trail rides to school children, guests from summer camps or regular customers seeking to enjoy an outdoor trip on a horseback. Carla’s concern for the lost Flora, their white goat, could have been the plot of the story.

“Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse is a novel that deals with the spiritual trajectory of a boy known by the name of Siddhartha from the Indian Subcontinent during the period of Buddha. Published in the year 1951 in the U.S., the book was able to influence the mass of the 1960s greatly. Another book crafted on the path of humanity and presented on a spiritual plane was the book “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion” by Yukio Mishima.

This book took Bryson along a path less traveled by him and in this, he traverses the realm of subjects like physics, chemistry, biology and geology, using unusually simple language to explain highly complex theories. The book is written in a casual, talkative style and the resultant bonhomie between reader and writer derives as much from Bryson’s electric verbal skill as from his “show-biz brio”. 

Shoemaker, on the other hand, was a light-hearted comedy that was reminiscent of some of William Shakespeare's comedy. As such, there was not necessarily a deep moral message in the play, other than the message that class does not mean anything when it comes to love.

Most literary criticism focuses on Sarty and how sad it is that he has to deal with his father's erratic behavior.  What many people do not see is that Abner is actually the hero of the story. He is a vigilante who is out to right the injustice of the common man.

The Bartholomew Fair is a play by Ben Jonson and can be regarded as the Seinfeld of the English Renaissance (Cantor 2009). On the surface, the play does not deliver a sense of any meaningful story or theme. When it was first presented to the London theatres for being staged, the play drew nothing but confusion from the theatre companies.

It is also necessary to maintain Isabella’s purity until the end of the play. The poet then devises a means for her to refuse Lord Angelo’s offer while fooling him to believe that they are met. Giving in to Lord Angelo’s demand would have damaged Isabella’s virtue and the overall dramatic ploy set against moral corruption in the play’s entirety. 

The poem Sick Rose, William Blake uses imagery and similes to describe the destruction of a woman because of a sexual affair. He uses simile rose to describe the women's health that is sick and is lying in the bed, she is suffering because of disease that she has acquired out of matrimony and therefore has to suffer.

The author states that concepts of estrangement and articulations of the marginal, as the introduction to the thesis, will show, have been preoccupations of modern and modernist poetry, and, as the main body of my work will argue, developed in a different and more complex manner in post-war poetry.