Literature Essays

It was estimated “that 17 per cent of the white population and 38 per cent of the black population could not support themselves without assistance”. As one man among that 38 per cent, Sargeant became a hobo, living in flophouses and jungle camps off the rail yards. When he got desperate he would wander into town, commit a minor crime.  

Idle thoughts and not of any consequence. Hughes seeks and attempts to raise and subtly answer these very idle questions in his story. The church being pulled down ultimately stands for the fall of the hypocritical values (of the man-made artificial system) that have for long been accepted and perpetuated.  

It is evident that Nathanael Hawthorne’s short story Young Goodman Brown represents the social and religious life of 17th-century Puritan society. Through the character of Goodman Brown, Hawthorne depicts the conflicts between good and evil that existed in the mind of a man who lived in the Puritan community.

Arnold Friend is a fleshly sin that is desired by Connie. This collective image of male sexuality and handsomeness, of a devilish seduction and uncontrollable fantasies, is usually refereed by critics as “a disparagement of tasteless teenage defiance” (Wesley, 1992). Connie embodied her secret fleshly interest and was affected by Arnold Friend.

Pound taught at Wabash College for two years but then left his job to travel abroad to Spain, Italy, and London. He became interested in Japanese and Chinese poetry working abroad as a literary executor of Ernest Fenellosa. Ezra Pound was greatly influenced by the dramatic events that happened in his lifetime.

Now, marriages are less traditional.  The divorce rates are high and even gay marriage and civil unions are becoming more predominant.  There are even some couples that never even go through with the legality of marriage nor have a traditional wedding. Instead, people will live together and either stay together or move on with their lives.

This research will begin with the statement that the idea of the banality of evil gained prominence following Hannah Arendt’s publication of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil in the year 1963. This research tells that the book centered on Adolf Eichmann’s trial, which took place in Jerusalem.

The author states that regarding historical setting, we know that Black Steel was composed in 2008, while How was composed in 2010, while we don’t necessarily know the year that Johnson created Green Belt. Regarding historical settings, there are structures indicated by an artist at a particular time in an art-historical context.

The media shows Katniss as a very sympathetic individual. Her decision to join the hunger games were meant to rescue her younger sister selected in the game. The great sacrifice she made appeals to the sensibilities of the members of the society as they consider her as a girl of virtue and who is ready to risk for the sake of her little sister.

Neglect is a failure to act appropriately in accordance to one’s responsibility eventually causing harm to another person. Police department neglected its duty in the novel, A Stolen Life. Phillip Garrido, who was Jaycee Dugard’s kidnapper and abuser, was on parole following a previous kidnapping case.

We all have our own world where one can be the king or the queen, a place where one can be able to live for the rest of one's life without any problems, it can be real, conversely, it can be imaginary. Like Kim Edward, An American Auther stated “But it is more a place of life and rebirth than a land of the dead.

At the onset of the opening of the play, Othello is depicted as being far from much of the actions directed to him despite the effects of these actions on him. Roderigo and Iago ambiguously refer to a ‘him’ or ‘he’ for the greater part of the first scene. At the time when they begin to specify the person referred to as a ‘he’, particularly while standing beneath Brabanzio’s window, this is done based on racial epithets without mentioning names;

Kinzer demonstrates his understanding of the Iranian history and culture. He is competent in the actions of the CIA and employs the occurrences of the 21st century to validate his connection between this coup and the existing rift between the West and the Middle East. This paper seeks to examine whether these relationships are justifiable.

Billy gets to learn that an elegant woman has to be stylish and thin rather than the overweight woman she was before coming to Paris. When she returns to New York, people were awed by her body and they liked her new look. She meets Jessica who shows her about money and men and embarks on a sexual discovery. She lives glamorously and is happy.

The author of the paper states that in one particular program, students were negatively impacted in their success through the construction of a case example characterizing an observation of the pattern, two-year diploma offered distance learning for students who live aboriginal community settings.

In the previous case, fictional writings have often been preferred by readers because the techniques used by writers arouse interest in the minds of the readers, who often want to know the next event. With non-fictional writing, the reader may have background information to the story, which makes him understand the whole story without even reading it in totality.

Shakespeare’s unique ability to elaborate on the good and evil of men, coupled with fascinating dialogue which provided plots that were both humorous and perceptive, appealed to both lower-class and upper-class audiences, creating an opportunity to contemplate one’s own strengths and failings as human beings. This ability made him a literary legend.

Writing styles are used to make written literature more interesting and also make the stories more captivating. However, the sentences should have at least one style that impacts or restate the information being relayed. According to Landon great sentences should incorporate the three rhythms of building sentences.

      The thought of his mother takes him to his father. His father’s assertion that “you can be a momma’s boy or daddy’s boy, but you can’t be both” had been the deciding factor in his life. He chose to stay with his daddy, and the day he went to him was the day when his mother died of a massive heart attack.

In the first segment, it becomes clear that she is finding it impossible to turn off her thoughts as she attempts to go to sleep at night. Although she’d like to kill the inner voice that is keeping her awake, she realizes that it is this inner voice that provides her with her waking life and is therefore essentially important to her personality.

Since all the main characters are women struggling to fight for their rights as women and to be treated equally as men, this movie has feminist perspective written all over it.

The children who read the fairy tale could feel identified since the main characters are also children. The witch represents a contrast with the world of the woodcutter family. She monopolizes candies, bread and sweets, as well as precious stones, in an environment where the rest of the people were starving.

Following the norms in society is judged as being illogical because it allows for the heart to be led in a direction that the mind would not normally take it into. The argument is also made that even when an emotional response to a problem has the best intentions, logic and reason are the only ways that an individual can be free.

Shelly positions Frankenstein and as this rebellion and draws from there at Man likewise. He hints at God to be the monster's God. Shelley's assimilation of the relationship of Adam and God from Paradise Lost to that of Frankenstein’s monster and Victor creates an occasion for illustrating a comparison.

While the United States and Europe have been the geopolitical arenas for feminist ideas, the rest of the world is also catching up. Feminist issues range from “access to employment, education, child care, contraception, and abortion, to equality in the workplace, changing family roles, redress for sexual harassment in the workplace.

The poem contains various religious and cultural elements in it; therefore, the critics have been in serious doubt whether the poem has been written by an early converted Christian or a pagan on the pattern of ancient Greek and Roman pagan sets of belief.

Though he does not kill any of the other characters in the play himself, it is not hard to argue that their blood is on his hands in a metaphorical sense. Of course, not even Creon is able to refuse his guilt after the events of the play: “he goes on to say that Creon gradually deteriorates in the dramas” (Peterkin 263).

This tragedy, set in Denmark, recounts the story of Prince Hamlet, who has been eagerly waiting for verification on the murder of his father and revenge upon his uncle Claudius who may have committed the crime. However, it is not an easy task for Hamlet to settle on his uncle's corruption, and the protagonist delays his revenge, which results in the tragic flaw of the play.

Diction or language of the tragedy is one of the stylistic embellishments which lend tragedy a higher status in poetic art. It uses a grand style in the tradition of an epic as it is to deal with ‘serious actions’ having strong implications on the lives of the dramatic personae as well as the audience.

Much depends on which side is stronger and this side decides the personality. Ellis says that the author is showing that all things remaining equal, man enjoys having the evil side as dominant as it allows the person to act his worst fantasies, indulge in wanton and cruel behavior, act in a very depraved manner, something that a normal person would find loathsome.

The poem “When I Was One and Twenty” addresses the topic of unrequited love, it helps to indicate Housman’s attitude toward endings of any kind.  In this poem, the sense of loss at the end is not as keenly felt like the emotions expressed in “To An Athlete Dying Young.”  This is because a great deal of the poems is dedicated to expressing the views.

In his book he says that since the end of the nineteenth century, and all the way through the era of isolation, the term uplift implied an array of diverse meanings for African Americans. One popular perception of uplift, that goes back to the time of the antislavery folk faith of the slaves, describes it as a personal or a joint spiritual and probable social transcendence of the oppression and misery of the world.

The story is not only significant in questioning gender roles, but also how this changes the identity that each has. The characters, symbolism and the plot line all work together to redefine identity in gender roles and what this means when men are without women.

Each story of the book elucidates life of one or a group of animal, in association with human counterparts in the modern social backdrop. Use of imagination, elements of fancy and inclusion of picturesque from mundane social existence in the stories have provided an impression to audience that present social condition has equaled the situation for both animals and human beings.

George Moore was one of the luminaries in the Anglo-Irish Community. His social protest in the form of novels and other literary work will continue illuminating generations. His works not only bear social document and social history but also serves as a major source of chronicle information of the period when Irish gentry was in a tumultuous situation.

It's pointed out that the verse reads, “That marriage is a misery and woe; For letting me say, if I may make so bold, My lords, since I was but twelve years old, Thanks be to God Eternal evermore, Five husbands have I had the church door”. The story-poem brings out the women’s issues and a very good aspect of this story.

Camus puts the characters of his novel in a situation that not only exposes the most clandestine nature of human being but also makes his readers shockingly aware of the fact that the moral codes of society get reversed when the people of society happen to face the question of “to be or not be”. Camus never feels the necessity of God in human society, but at the same time, he never undermines the role of moral codes in it.

There are numerous themes and ideas presented through the tales, including issues of women’s rights, chivalry, thievery, nobility, and knavery. These subjects are expanded greatly by the fact that the various individuals in the story come from a variety of backgrounds representing as many aspects of medieval society as Chaucer could capture.

Such a brief summary of the main events of the book would seem to indicate a woman who is anything but pure, particularly for her time period in the late Victorian age. However, there are many ways in which the word ‘pure’ might be used. While most likely considered it in terms of a chaste woman or a woman unstained by sin.

Brooks had been known for writing poetry that often dealt with issues confronting America’s urban poor, particularly the African American communities.  The Pool Players is one of those poems that tackle the youth's problems not only then when it was first published but also now, although it may be safe to state that the young nowadays no longer see the pool as a game draw them away from school.

Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye is all about a young black girl called Pecola Breedlove who lives with her family but she lives a difficult life in that, Pecola’s father, Cholly, abuses alcohol and her mother, Pauline has a lame foot and always feel isolated. Her parents engage in fight constantly, and Pauline encourages her husband’s violent behavior.

First, the original situation of “The Cask of Amontillado” comprises of an offense and a promise to seek vengeance. Fortunato and Montresor share a painful and sensitive past. Fortunato repeatedly injured Montresor on multiple occasions, but Montresor does not protest until Fortunato crosses the line.

The young man acts mechanically without understanding the underlying reason for his adopted behavior. The boy had to live with the pain of unacceptance in society. Society has always been stereotypical when it comes to heterosexual relationships. The beauty violated by pain and torture becomes the thoughts of the protagonist.

Kawabata reveals the problems that Shimamura experiences in his life (Kawabata, p. 103). These include the problems h experiences in making human relationship. He is not able to give full commitment to women. This is evident in the fact that he is married with a family yet he searches for pleasure from other women.

The next step becomes ascertaining the guesses. This is carrying out investigations in the wrong way. It is essential to make simple observations because, in such a process, the case puts itself forth. This approach helps the researcher identify the root causes analytically through backward reasoning then, hypothesis comes in automatically.

The author juxtaposes this personal story with the fact that HeLa was beginning to experience a great deal of discussion in the media of that time as news articles began to be published. Due to the fact that doctor-patient confidentiality was becoming an issue at the time, the patient was merely referred to in the news stories as Helen L.

The narrator seems ready to start a new tale, but the author eventually fares well with a polite gesture as he seemed, unwilling to entertain yet another tale of an insignificant cow and its majestic traits. Mark Twain narrated such tell tales to emphasize the specific human traits of different regions of the country.

Generally, the author has been able to personify the dead and making them humans. For this reason, the author has been able to create a close connection between the spirit world and humans. Due to this close connection, it becomes easy for the spirits to fulfill their mission and plans they have in place.

The light-colored balloons represent the characters’ acceptance of the deceased’s achievements and his brighter side, the achievements that he made during his life which must form part of the eulogy and mourning. The theme at the scene of launching the balloons is basically acceptance (Frontain 106).

The play is a warning of how young ambitious lawyers are persuaded to enter a vicious profession where there is a lure of money and compromise of ethical values. We can see that Jim has rejected all applicants who were honest and straight. He wanted a person like Jim who wanted money and success and who can play dirty games to win over clients.