Literature Essays

It is always futile to go through literary works of art, without considering the themes being advanced therein. This is because, seldom do literary artistes engage in literary constructions without having a thematic purpose in mind. Isaak E. Babel (1894- January 27th, 1940), Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (June 18th, 1907- January 17th, 1982) and Yevgeny Zamyatin (February 20th, 1884- March 10th, 1937) do not serve as an exception to this.

The manner in which these groups of people are viewed by society is one that goes far in length to demonstrate the amount of misconception present. There have been very many authors over the last couple of years that have had played a great deal in spreading the word about the presence of the gay and lesbian in society.

Asians, Hispanics, and Negros contribute equally to the development of the nation. And their transition and transformation into the unique divergent heterogeneous culture of the United States have always been full of sweet and sour experiences. All these people from different edges of the world immigrated to the United States with a soaring dream in their eyes.

Esther narrates the several incidences that took place while she was in an internship in the City of New York. During this time, she also reminisces about a friend by the name of Buddy. She had dated Buddy for quite a long time and he does consider her his fiancé. When she returned to her home in Massachusetts, she appeared more or less crestfallen.

The setting of the storyline in the novel is in the fictional municipality of Union Grove in New York. Through the progression of the novel it attempts to follow a radiate of characters who try to navigate the fictional world which has been created by the author.

This story is also interesting because it informs us that the narrator’s parents had the desire to have their first born son born in America. Though this happened, it has not given one of the sons born outside America satisfaction. The parent’s dream to have their first born child born in the US come true. 

The case above is true, since the phrases have aspects of similarity and contrasts. In this case, the noun phrases tomb and womb are involved in initiations, or rites of passage. These rites of passage are not necessarily occurring as one-time ritualistic observation, but as passages of trials and tribulations

The Telamarines in Prince Caspian did not believe in Aslan. They also did not believe in the stories about Lucy, Susan, Peter and Edmund, which means that they did not believe in the light and the good. It becomes obvious that the Telmarines did not believe in Aslan, for, when the battle begins, the Telmarines are afraid of Aslan.

The insight gained from my study of how these great men were able to challenge the meaning of life has greatly helped me in establishing exactly what is the meaning of life. I have learned that in life, I should not always settle for what is largely agreed by the masses but should however try and seek the truth regardless of the opposition that I might happen to face in this quest.

At times, their desire would drag us to lose our morality at the expense of other people, just like the way Macbeth became the King at the expense of the death of King Duncan. Sticking to our morals is essential; this is because after Macbeth became the ruler of Scotland, all did not go as planned.

But commercialization of the sport is not necessarily a bad outcome, for it has brought its reach to a wider audience through television broadcast and event-managed shows. The names of most accomplished Rodeo players would have remained anonymous had the sport been restricted to traditional gatherings.

"Drawing a distinction between prose, which can be committed, and poetry (basically non-representational art such as music and poetry properly speaking), which cannot … Sartre proceeds to urge that the prose-writer reveal that man is a value to be invented each day and that ‘the questions he raises are always moral".

When writers construct a novel, and readers engage with this fictional world, there are elements of real life and elements of fantasy involved in these processes. Both author and reader make sense of the people and the events in the novel by relating them in some way to their own lived experience.

There is no sorrow in the Dickinson poem and no relative sense of loss as is immediately experienced in the Updike work. The narrative of the poem jumps back and forth between a past in which knowledge was not known and a present where it has been revealed. Updike writes “We thought her shy malaise was a shot reaction/The autopsy disclosed a rupture in the liver.

However, when the Protestant Reformation finally arrived in England, Henry VIII’s relationship with More became strained. One causal factor was that the king welcomed Protestantism and had even wanted to make it as the official religion. More was a staunch defender of the Roman Catholic Church and the power of the Pope over its members.

Fairytales were integral parts of our lives as kids. We got introduced to them both through the vocal medium and also through the print medium. Till the time we could not read by ourselves, our elders (including parents, grandparents, elder siblings, uncles and aunts) narrated the stories to us through their memory or by reading a book.

The poem, “Song of Myself” was one of the untitled poems that were written by Walt Whitman. The poem was one of the brilliant displays because of the original themes innovative techniques that they use. The poem was in the lead position in the year 1856 and the edition was given its first title.

Three main points would digest the psychological discussion about the short story: powerlessness, defeat and imprisonment. All of them are significant to the theme of the story and the experience of the young nameless boy. Powerlessness was said to be the opposite of powerfulness and their root word is power.

Discrimination and prejudice along racial and ethnic lines is the concept common to the poem, “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker and the story “Country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer. They both have the lead characters or protagonists black women who are victims of partiality because of their black color.

After being abandoned by a mother, a nurse within the facility decides to adopt a girl. As the story unfolds, the adopted girl lives her life but not to her full joy. Despite the fact that her new family gave her all the basic needs, and seemed to share her love, this girl was not fully contented with the life she was leading away from her real parents.

He does not speak for the people of the Indian Community to which he belongs like a politician or a social reformer. Nevertheless, he has his own style to provide rare insights and noteworthy reflections on what it means to be an American Indian, in the modern world.

Moreover, experiences environmental factors and observations somehow affect how people react in every situation that they encounter. Nevertheless, it should be noted that in every relationship, there are differences and circumstances that might just cause the people involved emotional and psychological pains.

Rather than providing a cast of female actors that seek to differentiate the way in which women would be viewed, “Hamlet” introduces female characters that behave in ways that are almost exact copies of one another. Although the age, relation, status, and motives of the women in “Hamlet” are different.

Pecola has totally lost her senses because she is ill-adjusted to fit in the hostile black community, whose concept of beauty has been corrupted by the ‘bluest eye’ myth. Ultimately, Claudia symbolizes hope for the black woman who has to contend with societal ridicule and ill-treatment against a backdrop of a racist concept of beauty (“Chasing Rainbows”).

The first thing which denotes a contrast of Glaspell’s work is the titles which she has assigned to them. This difference in titles somewhat signals to the audience that there are two different focuses which are between the short story and the play. The title “Trifles” appears to inform the audience that the play is about particular objects.

Death is not intimidating, or even frightening, reaper, but instead, a gentle and courteous guide, leading the foremost character to eternity. “Because I could not stop for Death” contains four stanzas, which illustrate the theme of the poem. The speaker does not have any fear for death when it occurs to her in the carriage; she only perceives it as an action of kindness.

The novel is written during some specified time in the future at an unspecified city in the United States sometimes after the 1990s. The book’s main theme delves into the impacts and influences brought about by the government’s censorship of the arts, and in this case, the outlawing and banning of books.

The author uses refrain a special line that he repeats at the end of every stanza. The special line is part of the literary piece and is repeated as a means of stressing some of the most important messages in the piece and to help develop the structure of the poem. Ozymandias is the masterpiece that compares favorably with other modern day poems.   

This makes for the prose is a kind of high wire act with unpredictable and potentially explosive impact on the consciousness of ordinary readers looking in from the outside of the experience. The first is concerning the work's key theme. The second question has to do with the reason for a man to choose the life of a junky, who has a Harvard education.

The plot thickens with the confrontation of the two couples, in presence of Nick, in a New York Hotel room. As Daisy leaves Tom, going with Gatsby, driving Jay’s car she accidentally knocks down Tom’s mistress.

According to this paper both the characters, Gurov and Grandma of the stories, “The Lady with the Pet Dog” and “A Good Man are Hard to Find” respectively are found to be reflections of common and natural traits of human beings hidden behind the complacent and well-behaved faces projected towards the world.

Tragedy makes people realize human nature and makes it possible to equate the great to the ordinary. It exposes the human heart and makes people realize that even the big and mighty are afflicted with the same emotions affecting every human being. It makes connecting to a heroic character an easy task and at the same time leaves room for excusing personal excesses by referring.

The phenomenal success of Avatar has surely resulted from the unique use of technology in terms of creating visual spectacle and magnificent art direction; however, a deeper analysis would reveal that these aspects have been used by the director in a quite measured yet flexible way so that the themes in the storyline receive adequate attention of the audience.

However, considering the essence of a modern-day story, reading between the lines may not be enough to comprehend the author’s point of view and message. In the end, readers should employ a different strategy to fully analyze a modern-day story. Brockmeier’s “The Ceiling” provides an example of how a modern-day story is structured.

On the other side, the story Two Soldiers by William Faulkner deals with the innocent thought of a boy on war heroism and his brother’s patriotic attitude towards war. To be specific, both the works are interconnected and the writers make use of the main characters to convey their messages towards the society.

In Monkey, Wu Cheng En describes a true story concerning the Buddhism religion in East Asia. Wu Cheng En tells a true story about a renowned Chinese rector known as Xuan Zang. The monk was exceptionally religious and was not satisfied by the holy book they used to read and seek guidance. Therefore, he decided to make a journey to India to find the remaining scriptures that were required to make the book whole.

Generally, at the beginning of the story Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, the main character Gulliver is seen as innocent, but he gradually changes in accordance with his experiences which are reflected in the ways he is treated, responds to, and behaves toward others he meets upon his encounters.

The paintings displayed burning ships, fire, shipwrecks, sea storms, etc. immense similarities can be viewed between Burke’s theory and Turner's paintings on the sublime. Burkes points out that seas and oceans are more threatening and thrilling than landscapes. Turner depicts this theory and his paintings which present the sublime are mostly naval.

Introduction In literature of any genre, the theme of deception is a great tool. It provides motivation and kicks to the characters, brings in comedy as the story progresses, and gives a push to the advancement of the plot. It keeps the reader/viewer continuously on tenterhooks.

They were the slaves who worked on the coffee plantations for all the Europeans that presided in the colony. At that time, it was known as Saint-Domingue. It was considered the largest producer of sugar and coffee. Europeans who owned plantations believed that working the slaves to death was the only way to get results.

The character of Hamlet has been studied upon in detail, through different interpretations, because Shakespeare has manifested such a character, whose existence is very much real, and exists in many of us. One question that academics and critics often ponder upon includes the idea, of whether Hamlet is mad or insane.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was a devoted poet, which he proved by contributing to literature until the time he died, and his contribution today is valued for having set the roots of Romanticism, which got momentum and perspective years later (Radley 99-100).

Shakespeare’s sonnets represent some of his best-loved work because they provide compact and elegant observations on the three great human themes of love, death and the passage of time. Part of his mission in the sonnets is to celebrate all of the fleeting emotions that people experience while remaining conscious of the impending shadow of death.

The paper observes Judith Ortiz Cofer’s poem Quinceañera. It overwievs not only the plot of the poem but also touches the Quinceañera's structure. Also, it analyze the theme of importance of aging in the poem as most cultures have coming-of-age rituals emphasizing the importance of reaching a certain age for younger people

Langston Hughes emerged with the Harlem Renaissance and served as one of its more prominent members. As a gifted person, Hughes was able to contribute to poetry, novels, plays, music, social causes and the evolving movement for African American civil rights. Hughes’s poetry prominently reflects changing attitudes.

The paper explores the Langdon Gilkey’s Shantung Compound. One of the most noted and relevant account of being prisoners of the Japanese is Langdon Gilkey’s book, Shantung Compound. It is a novel about the physical, emotional, spiritual and moral struggles in a community that was completely stripped of amenities.

The author of the essay casts light upon the hidden cannibalism in humans in terms of the writing “The Birthmark”. It is emphasized that Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “The Birthmark” portrays the crude reality of the world and the disguised cannibalism still prevalent in the humans in various forms.

It narrates the saga of a family, consisting of a grandmother, her son, his wife and three of their children, going on a trip that finally ends up in their unfortunate execution by a convict at large.

 However, Watson makes one think that apart from negative attributes of science, the progression of science largely depends on other people’s success and eventually the victors are rewarded. The book shows how Crick and Watson who, apart from having some funny behaviors, defy the authority to face a great scientific task to discover transmission of biological information. 

Various research based on the culture of America represents that the final half of the 20th century depicts a fast adaptation of the English language by the immigrants despite their preservation and connection with their native language, which is more rapid and universal than any other group of immigrants at any other era, in the history of America.