Literature Essays

The author explains that Olivia is born of an American mother and Chinese father. At the age of six, she comes to know of her so-long undisclosed Chinese sister. Her father’s death-bed wish is to get his elder daughter, Kwan, over to America. After the father’s death, the 18-year old Kwan joins the reluctant American step-family.

The Waste Land by T.S Eliot is one of the most influential modern poems of the 20th century. Although known for its satire and prophecy, it seems to suggest meaninglessness in life, existence and fall of civilization. The waste land is characteristically unconventional and controversial following none of the defined poetic styles and the subject matter seems to have transcended cultures and limits of time and place.

The author states that this book by Fae Moyenne Ng was published in 1993 by Harper Perennial and is regarded as one of the premier books by Chinese American woman author. In literature, a ‘reliable narrator’ is a character who presents the characterization in a manner that could be identified with.

Chapter 10 follows directly on from this, with Orwell witnessing the street fighting: “The issue was clear enough. On one side stood the CNT, on the other side the police…when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself what side I am on”.

Every story features many characters, an assortment of plots with fascinating exaggerated interactions. Two of the stories in Canterbury Tales are "The Knight's Tale" and "The Wife of Bath's Tale", which engross different sort of passion and relationships based on graciousness, vigor, respect.

The most obvious discrepancy is the age difference: for Hamlet to fit into his period role he could have ranged from the age of 13 to possibly as old as 21. Gibson, to be generous, is at least 28.

The author states that no doubt her own character flaws and behavior contribute largely to this tragic end, but the one character who needs to take the most responsibility for what happened is definitely her sister Stella. François de La Rochefoucauld once said, "We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation."

Human beings are a species for which contradictoriness in development may be viewed as one of the essential characteristics. During our history, we have progressed from the primitive animal-like state to the present technologically advanced societies only accelerating their pace of change. The side effect is that man is losing his connection with nature.

Cole is a transitory character and his position is very difficult. He has lived all his life with his grandfather in a peaceful world governed by the rules of nature, and suddenly his grandfather dies. This is how the novel begins. This death is a metaphor for the Western collapse, for the destruction of a whole system. 

Although Shylock is presented as an aggressively ruthless character, like all of Shakespeare’s protagonists, he is not clear-cut, straightforward, or one-dimensional. Shakespeare rarely painted his characters as absolute gods or devils but depicted them as a complex with contradictory and conflicting qualities.

O'Connor 's use of religion in the story points to her opinions that religion can become a devious tool in the hands of those who use it only for their own selfish means.Throughout the story, the grandmother is described as a pessimistic, selfish, and devious woman

The author states that the poem has explained the 'brief genealogy of the Scylding royal dynasty' which was named after mythic hero as a tribute to his services and sacrifices. Scyld Scefing has reached his tribe as a castaway babe on a ship loaded with treasure. The poem has explained the rituals of the funeral ceremony of Scyld in a beautiful manner.

A View from the Bridge, which was originally a one-act play written by Arthur Miller in 1955, was inspired by the story of a longshoreman who informed the Immigration Bureau of his relatives’ presence as illegal immigrants; an act done by the said dock worker as a means to prevent one of his kin from marrying his niece.

The author states that there are many important issues that are brought to attention within this literary work, and this work is actually considered to be one of the most overt and influential in the world in regards to Arab culture. In order to be able to gain a better perspective on this book overall, there are several factors.

The readers nowadays say, that Rowling's style of writing is changing from book to book, that the topics discussed in those teenage fairy tales become more and more serious from book to book. For to evaluate this statement we decided to choose the comparison and contrast of two Rowling's books, the first and the fourth in the series, which are "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", as the topic of this essay.

The author states that the first period, imperialism, does not simply reflect the nature of US foreign policy towards Latin America but is expressive of the dominant nature of international relations. Covering the 1790’s to the 1930s, this was a period in world history that witnessed the rise of multinational empires.

Carter demonstrates that with a little updating of the story, which can be done to accommodate the present-day concepts of female living and gender roles, much can be demonstrated about the main point of the story.  By taking a closer look at Carter’s story, one can see how gender roles as well as the reversal of gender roles have an overall effect on the classic fairy tale.

“The noblest poem that ever was wrote in any language or in any age” [Sir John Denham Cited Wedgwood, 46] John Milton’s Paradise Lost essentially belongs to the genre of epic poetry. Yet in retelling the biblical myth of God and Satan, Satan’s enticement of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

This is how the monster sums up his situation at the end of the tale, the word “abortion” spelling out the rejection faced by an unwanted child, better dead than alive, which tormented him to acts of unspeakable cruelty. His inhuman appearance was not gained through a life of heinous deeds, it was how he was made by his human creator.

.Both poems were chosen because they seemed so powerful and dealt with a topic (death) that most people do not talk about. Both authors speak English but different versions of English.

Many modern and leftist critics, including the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe find the novel to be upholding imperialism and racism in a very subtle and hidden way. Heart of Darkness, a story the reader presumes to be have happened in the Congo as depicted by Marlow from a barge on the Thames.

The author states that it is only proper that his subjects should lie to please him. His accusation is that Cordelia is stubbornly refusing to be a sycophant like her sisters because she is proud. On the other hand, in her mind, Cordelia is being simply true to her feelings. Plainness, to Cordelia, is honesty.

Point of view makes a large contribution to the overall meaning in John Updike's "A&P" and James Joyce's "Araby." Both stories deal with a moment in childhood that changes the way the narrator sees the world. In the case of "A&P," a 19 year old male quits his job to defend the honor of a girl he does not even know.

The book in question, published in the year 2008 has already been acclaimed by the readers and also by the critics. ‘Japan through the Looking Glass’ is especially important since it addresses as well as provides answers for the questions and doubts and vague ideas about the culture and civilization of Japan. Macfarlane in his book has described the country of Japan to be an ‘enchanted’ world.

The author states that Poe allows the reader to imagine what the rest of the “evidence” is on “her emaciated frame”. It is as if the reader is seeing her for the first time along with the characters. She is just a “frame” rather than a body, seeming more dead than alive and more terrible in her aspect because of it.

The book report gives detailed information about such unique phenomenon of Irish literature, as dreaming and mythologizing. The researcher of this paper aims to analyze the history of its beginnings and that is it often used by Irish writers based on three literary works of W.B. Yeast, Brian Friel and Michael Longley.

The author of the paper states that that led to contriving a trick of pestering their master by imitating cat’s cries next to the bedroom of the bourgeois and the bourgeoisie. By goading him with catcalls, they provoked the print master himself to authorize the massacre of the “malevolent” cats.

He also notes the need to continuously innovate in one's particular approach to teaching as the generations of children differ from each other thus intending to show how diverse the subject presentations maybe. In huge classes, Musser tries to point out that the need to balance out the teaching style in mathematics is necessary so as to assure that the students are able to grasp the idea of the subject matter in a much easier and effective manner that would work for the majority of the population of young learners making up the class.

There is a power dimension within the global scope that wrests its control over the Indonesian environment, from multinational corporations vying for profit and thick-skinned environmentalists adamant over its protection, both however could also provide a negative and a positive effect in Indonesia and its people.

Giving so much importance to race distracts us from what we really need to work on: becoming better human and humane beings. "There were two worlds bursting inside me trying to get out. I had to find out more about who I was, and in order to find out who I was, I had to find out who my mother was" (McBride, 266).

Similarly, Jane and Elinor have a sweet and reticent disposition. Both are not forthcoming in showing their feelings towards their suitors. Jane, who is constantly roused by Miss Bingley, never really gets angry with her, or shows her true emotions. Similarly, Elinor deals in the most diplomatic manner with Lucy, despite her feelings for Edward Ferrars.

The conclusion from this study states that in 1984, Orwell returned to topics he had treated in other works--imperialism, class, poverty, morality, freedom, and language--in the context of a drab future dystopia, a hopelessly wrong society, where the greatest heresy is the expression of common sense.

Mary’s narrative is a first person narrative of the Indian Wars, which lasted from 1675 – 1699. This is one of the famous original narratives of early American history. Mary was a strong Christian whose faith never faltered. The social-political climate was one of change.

The author states that Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj was born in Saigon in 1944, the son of an Indian man from Bombay and a Vietnamese mother, named Noy. His mother's second husband, a French military officer stationed in Saigon, Lieutenant Alphonse Jarreau, later adopted Charles Sobhraj and he was eventually resettled with his mother in Marseille, France.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in his work, ‘Crimes against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy’, has attempted to delve deep into the actual nature of the Bush governance by exposing its true nature and its reluctance towards a growing crisis of global environmental issues.

Observably, the English Only policy has taken a toll on the pride and identity of several cultural clusters, isolating them from their roots and from their clans. Being castigated for using their ancestral language which is frequently brought down in their own minds, these people have acknowledged the prevailing society’s unfair verdict 

The author states that the story is about maintaining a certain appearance, about a sincere attempt not to hurt the family, and keeping the truth undercover. This duplicity produces unending tension for the family throughout the play that presents only false images. In the play, Charlie is the truth.

None of the people whom Rasselas have encountered during his journey is able to keep it for a long time: the happiness of the wise man lasts till the death of his daughter, the adherents of pastoral life feel happy until they meet a person who comes off better than they, etc. Therefore, the prince obviously fails to find the true happiness 

The author states that flies buzz angrily around a bloody sow’s head on a stake, signifying decay, destruction, demoralization, and panic in Golding’s fable of an island paradise turned deadly and malevolent. “Lord of the Flies” is a suggestive name for the Devil, a devil whose name proposes that he is devoted to decay, fear and destruction.

“But no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box” says Shirley Jackson in her short story, “The Lottery”, indicating the point of the macabre story. The story is set in an ordinary American village of three hundred inhabitants, who are apparently friendly to each other.

Ishmael says he became sensible of strange feelings. These are in fact not any particular feelings such as related to joy or sorrow, but are just “feelings.” Ishmael is inundated with “feeling” – an uncategorised expansive emotion. And then he feels a melting inside him. This is a very characteristic response accompanying the awakening of the heart.

The author states that in King Lear, he has created some of the most Machiavellian characters in his gallery of masterpieces: Goneril, Regan, the utterly villainous Edmund. All of them are monsters in their own right, but what is remarkable is that they all start out as normal people with whom the audience could have some degree of sympathy.

Although motivated by quite disparate circumstances, the effects of both these phenomena have shed light on the cultural aspects of the land. In spite of the harmful effects of the education of Africans in the languages and ideas of colonial nations which destroyed the traditional culture of the land, the recent developments in research on the traditional culture of Africa have greatly contributed to the rich heritage of its traditions.

In the book, In Her Own Words: Women Offenders' Views on Crime and Victimization Alarid and Cromwell have reduced the literature use of words and phrases in order to make it more meaningful to the students. They Editors edited it in such a way that it's thoroughly acceptable from the primary reading itself.

In the background of the ‘Theory of Knowledge’, one can assume that truth is contextual and the process of contextualization is the basic activity in the process of finding truths of ideas and things. Only human beings who are able to think and reflect on the reality of things can determine the truth and falsity of ideas and things.

The author states that the conversation is somewhat vague and elusive. They discuss the topic without saying the topic: abortion. Both characters have different views on this matter, which is evident from their body language and from the dialogue. This paper will analyze the body language and dialogue from a psychological point of view.

The novel, ‘Small Island’, is written by Andrea Levy and is based on the time when the East Enders migrated to England, to serve in odd jobs and to earn a livelihood. This was the time when racism in England was at its zenith and a human being was differentiated from the others by virtue of the color of his skin.

His tale, which is at first confined to his own experiences with the cast of Wuthering Heights, presents several situations and relationships that prove to be too enigmatic or esoteric for him to decipher on his own. He ostensibly seeks the help of Nellie to provide the background to the current situation

The book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has been hailed as a classic but more so, for its unbiased view of the times in which it was written. Though it was written by Mark Twain, the author who earlier gave us adventures of Tom Sawyer, this book is however a far cry from the happy innocent Tom Sawyer. 

In the book “Beyond Charity” Perkins describes personal experience working with church of different communities and races. The author claims that trying to build a strong base and relations with community, church goes beyond charity ad welfare. Since the second half of the 29th century, the welfare became to play major role in life of citizens.