Literature Essays

The narration in the memoir We Meant Well by Peter Van evidently shows how our leaders are inept and corrupt. Personally, after reading the book I was left disillusioned and appalled but wiser. As unpalatable as it may look, it is an important book to the leaders. Truly, the author’s message should be factored in any ongoing discussions concerning the reconstruction efforts by PRTs in Iraq.

The druggist’s epitaph is an external view of love. The speaker says that a chemist can tell with accuracy the result of compounding fluids or solids yet no one can tell how men and women interact. He gives an example of Benjamin and His wife, whom he says are evil to each other such as hydrogen and oxygen in the chemistry world.

The nation was at the center of a red scare in 1952, when the play was written, and Miller himself was extremely pretentious as an individual in the center of that scare, having been offered to give evidence against others and refusing to do so. Miller's play is about McCarthyism in a less restricted way than many observers have affirmed. 

There are a variety of interesting facts revolving around the poem by Alexander Pope titled “An Essay on Man”; one of them being the fact that he refused to acknowledge the ownership of the piece until 1735! More interesting than that, however, is the fact that it was initially written in heroic couplets before being published as a whole in 1733

Since the invention of fast modes of transport such as air transport and others, many people, across the world have benefitted from positive impacts. Some of the positive impacts include connectivity, increase in productivity in business, cultural exchange, recreation and leisure, and social contact.

“Kafka’s world is ultimately one that comes to a full stop, and K[afka] himself is one who dwells in its fixity, which has become the hallmark of the modern age in which closed rooms, closed doors, and closed windows personify a barren, spiritless world” (Panichas 91). Franz Kafka is one of those authors who is not easily understood by readers.

Kafka’s Country Doctor is an intriguing story full of adversity and obstacles; the dreamlike description of the story creates a nightmarish feel, the story attempts to explain to the audience that understanding the irrational behavior of human beings is difficult and hence it is often easy to blame others for one’s own mistakes. 

The narrator recounts his adventures from the First World War and what happens since then. He remembers sitting with his friend in a cafe watching a parade of soldiers who had been conscripted match recently (Romanillos 2013). The friend has an opinion that France is the best nation in the world, the idea that Bardamu object to strongly. Bardamu claims that the nationalism idea is unrealistic.

One of the essays that would be discussed is ‘SantaLand Diaries’ by Sedaris, a great playwright and a well-known public speaker who was well sought after in France. He was also quite a famous essayist who contributed his writings that centered around bringing awareness to people on some of the prevalent social causes or problems in the society

Despite the length and the scrupulous detail of the book, it’s very important in our current culture. The members of the public are greatly affected by the disposal of carcinogens in the groundwater. The disposal leads to contamination, death, and suffering in the town.  

Books keep children busy during vacations and when at all times. They also teach important valuable lessons to children. The writers of children's books take a lot of care to ensure that their books convey the right message and that these books do not contain vulgar and unrefined terms and phrases in their messages 

The authors have identified and comprehensively explained six stages that those struggling to overcome their bad habits can follow: Pre-contemplation; Contemplation; Preparation; Action; Maintenance; and Termination. This is the stage when people with a problem such as smoking, or overeating deny that they have a problem, especially when people close to them.

Romanticism was a complex artistic, literary and intellectual movement that evolved with the beginning of the second half of the 18th century in Europe and gained its strength with the reaction of the industrial revolution. It was a rebellion of the social and political norms and the reaction against scientific rationalization and was attached much to the visual arts, literature, and music.

Readers are helped to understand what the other readers have to say about the advertisements on clothing fashion in the magazines in a way of opinions. The journal is particularly useful to the media fraternity especially those printing magazines since they get the opinion of their readers there. However, the article seems not to factor in the opinions of all its readers as only a few get representations.

The pre-modern world was marred by conflicts particularly between kingdoms and between people of different walks of life. This to a large extent can be attributed to the lack of well-developed legal structures at the time. The source of law was particularly the monarch who also acted as the final court of appeal. 

To arrive at the basic requirements of any discourse analysis and give Joe Bennet’s text the intended meaning, the theory of Systematic Functional Linguistics (SFL) will be the guiding principle. For better understandings of the aforementioned theory, the paper will begin by highlighting the basis of the theory.

The lost thing is a picture storybook authored and demonstrated by Shaun Tan. This is a story full of humor. It is about a boy who finds out a creature with weird looks while at the beach collecting bottle tops. He guesses that the creature is lost thus he makes an effort to search for where it belongs or the owner. 

Family reveals Miyare’s character as a self-centred and stereotyped man. When his father visited him in Nairobi, instead of attending to his father and happily chat with him, he tells his wife that it was good that his father had come. Still, he was ill-timed, and he would not have the time since he is in the middle of an important experiment.

Alienation is something that Victor willingly chose for himself as he was in the pursuit of something greater. The nature of his pursuit of knowledge also contributes to his alienation and he finds solace in his creation, the monster. In turn, the monster has been one of the most tormented characters due to its alienation and unlike its creator, it never chose to be alienated.

From the brink of a precipice where fate led him, Wiesel returned to embrace humanity, strengthened by the faith of his inner world, and affirmed that some Supreme Power controlled the managed the world. The life of Wiesel is the lesson for all right-thinking persons to understand that fate is subservient to the will power of the human being.

These books contain descriptive stories that will assist the children in the development of literature and the formation of words in sentences. They help the children to perfect the structure of simple words and phrases as well as improve their literacy skills in the initial stages. 

The story in the book, Goodnight, Goodnight, Constructive Site, is an attractive picture that is descriptive hence making young readers understand the context easily. It displays a simple picture layout, attractive formatting, simple words, and colored images that attract the site of a young reader. 

Cases of betrayal are present in the two sets of stories as cases of unfaithfulness in marriages is witnessed among the characters used. In The Decameron story day 3 stories 4, Puccio di Rinieroi who lived near Convent of San Brancazio frequently betrays his wife when she wants to have sex with him.

Frederick L. Ashe has a different idea about Jane and states that although many critics say she is rebellious, he sees her as pessimistic in the beginning and then sees her chance to be optimistic in the future. He states that readers have to take into account that Jane spent the first ten years of her life being mistreated and then the next eight with people who humiliate her.

The poem is part of the Confessional Movement, where Plath seems to be confessing her personal feelings and ideas about her German immigrant father in particular. The speaker of the poem is a daughter who speaks in the first person. She wants to understand and resolve her problems with her authoritarian father, who died when she was only eight years old.

The major debate in the room is based on who Alik loved the most. They also question whether he should be christened before he dies, like in the case of his wife, Nina, who used to be an alcoholic, or whether he should be reconciled to his birth’s faith by a rabbi. They also wonder what the Yeltsin putsch will mean to them.

This book was meant to condemn the religious toleration and the stricter enforcement of the licensing rule in England. He believed in the leadership of wise men as he said England should be ruled by, “the best and wisest men.” The right and also the duty of every intelligent man, as a rational being, to know the ground and to take responsibility for his actions and beliefs. 

It also talks about what he went through during his childhood, and how events in his life that shaped him to become a leader. It also elaborates more on how the people who were in his life shaped him to become a leader in England. The book talks about how he started the civil war, which was the main reason for his execution.

It is a period during which there was an upsurge of literary creativity that was unprecedented. The Harlem Renaissance represents a period between the 1920s and the 1930s, during which African American writers used their literary skills as a tool for exalting the African culture, while also using their works of literature to express themselves.

In her book The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901), Beatrix Potter uses rabbits and friendly sparrows as the only animals. A family of rabbits is shown where the mother rabbit warns her children not to go into the vegetable garden. Potter used a variety of human traits with each character. The mother rabbit is cautious as a mother always is.

Very recently, there was a high profile and much-discussed case of several cartoonists who depicted humorous pictures of the prophet Muhammad which were published in several periodicals around the world. Clearly those were fictional depictions of the prophet but they created a controversy that became a political and social problem for many countries of the world.

It is meant to help men and women grow up in wisdom and strength. Mark Twain is celebrated for the numerous books he authored and for being a humorist.

The play was composed in 1600. The playset, initially set in Scotland, explores Macbeth's life and centers its findings on the growth and fall of King Macbeth. The drama explores Macbeth's greed for authority and power.

After all, if a virtuous true identity is one that trusts others and can submit to the will of others, its very existence and the happiness that it can bring to an individual who enters into social relationships depend on its being a part of a community. So, the ability to maintain a virtuous true identity becomes the final stage of an individual's development.

As his mother touches the money he earns, she uses it not to satisfy family needs — it has little or no use-value — but to extend her social position and social power, and the process of extension, of course, is never-ending, requiring ever greater sums of money: "There were certain new furnishings, and Paul had a tutor. He was really going to Eton, his father's school, in the following autumn.

It is difficult to ignore the sense of dubiety that pervades the story, from the uncertainty of the light to the ambiguity that surrounds Miss Minnie's accusations. Her allegation is described as "the rumor, the story, whatever it was. Something about Miss Minnie Cooper and a Negro...none of them...knew exactly what had happened" (517).

Twain's literary achievement in this story is dazzling. The double framework, his superb command of the vernacular language, the complete deadpan manners of the two narrators, the excellent characterizations, the clever ordering of the absurd anecdotes in Wheeler's yarn, the increasing dramatic effects, the vivid dramatization of the frog story.

In the dialogue that follows, the narrator becomes an infiltrator, a present observer pointing out and enhancing the unintended comic errors in the words and meanings of the men in Mr. Kernan's bedroom. This figure has evolved out of the borrowed voice in the public house and may be described as the poetic narrator acting impishly.

The Victorian era was a time of drastic change in Britain, as the development of new technologies demanded a revolution of politics, society and culture. As Matthew Sweet notes in his introduction to Inventing the Victorians, the sheer volume of advertisements in contemporary newspapers shows that Victorian society was intoxicated on the sense of its own modernity.

His work is to some extent prefigured by the work of Hawthorne in the Scarlet Letter as will be discussed below but is in other ways sui generis. The impact of massive machinery moving against a single person, crushing them without reason, and can now be found in much contemporary literature, in particular in Coetzee's The Life and Times of Michael K.

In the introductory paragraph, Orwell tells how having remained away from his father for the first eight years of his life and been placed between his two siblings with a distance of five years from each of them put him into isolation. He attributed his early childhood agitation to the very isolation.

The book is a reflection of the lives of females in prison based on her experiences. The author is serving a sentence of many years in a prison in Virginia (Erin 2). The story also focuses on the stories of other imprisoned females. This paper offers an overview of the book and a detailed critique of the information presented in it. 

The clarification of expressions and self-revelation of the hero and his discourse about himself is not pre-determined (as the ultimate goal of construction) by some form of a neutral image of him, does sometimes make the author’s setting “fantastic”. Some fantastic viewpoints have been sought for the author outside the ordinary fields of vision.

Richards’ theory is based on the problems that come about because of misreading, which makes literary criticism as a whole difficult. Leavis believed that the merit of a piece of literature was entirely based on how it was evaluated and that an effective piece should contain some moral commentary on life. 

The soldiers are described to be moving from one place to the other, wandering aimlessly carrying heavy loads. There was no purpose behind their journey, there wasn’t any war, and there was no fight, nothing. They are tired of this endless journey. Yet they are amazed by the constant supplies they get.

Based upon information provided by the British Museum (2008), the scroll retains other elements of technique and style that are characteristic of the fourth-century figure painting styles of Gu Kaizhi. “Similar pictorial motifs have been discovered in contemporary tombs.  Experts describe Gu Kaizhi as having painted in this manner”. 

The points discussed above indicate how literacy can liberate and oppress people. According to Hannon and other authors cited in this paper, literacy is very much a product of society’s standards and ideas of knowledge and learning. Reading and writing go through stages and every child must conform to these standards. 

Literature has a way of teaching us about life in other places and times so that we may get a better idea of how they think and thus open our minds to greater possibilities.  This is particularly true of literature written by minority people during times when minorities were largely ignored or silenced.

Othello's actions and thoughts are influenced by other characters, their inner desires and motives. Readers build their responses to them not only from what a character says and does but also from what other persons in the play say about the character and how he interacts with these other dramatic personae.

In the play, Romeo and Juliet, Juliet’s father, in rage decide to get Juliet married on Thursday with Count Paris. He discloses the plan to Juliet and when she asks him to give her some time, he calls her unworthy of the suitable match that he has found in Paris. He curses her and orders her to be ready for marriage