Literature Essays

The book “1984" by George Orwell presents a dystopian world in which government surveillance, totalitarianism, and appalling human conditions are rampant. The events take place in Airship One, a region within Oceania in a world with constant wars, manipulation of the public, and ever-present surveillance of the people by its government.

Desiring Canada is a successful masterpiece of work that successfully portrays how states change and develop the desires of its citizens. Other than employing direct force to ensure the citizens abide by what the state feels is right for its own benefit as opposed to the good of the citizens, states ensure application of hidden means to ensure attainment of such agenda.

The narrator of this essay aims to tell about Mara, who was smart. She was easy to get along with and she always had the helping hand whenever I am in need. I never heard her judge anybody nor heard her complain about any problem. I never saw her cry. I guess that was her strength- the ability to hide her feelings.

Death is one of the strongest themes within the pages of the novel.  Suicide is the uglier side of that theme as the act is examined in conflict as the act of a coward and as the act of a man saving his nation.  As Robert contemplates the idea of killing himself. He uses the imagery of planes to exemplify the mechanical nature of modern war.

To ‘mark twain’ is to sound the depths and deem them safe for passage, the term adopted by Clemens as his pen name in 1863” (Merriman, 2006). A humorist, a philosopher, a lecturer, an essayist and a writer of stories and poems, Twain infused his stories with a call to a higher understanding, urging his readers to plunge the depths of their understanding.

A ruler who dumps his primary duties of defense is criticized. Here the ruler is idealistic in his approach as he leaves everything else and focuses on the duty of protection towards his people. The poem brings up the mention of the one God notion as he is referred to as the Lord and the Protector without mentioning any particular name 

Edgar Allan Poe emotes that he desires to hold onto time, grasp as much as one grain of time, but laments that he cannot hold onto it, it is gone and cannot be regained. Time passes and fades, leaving memories that are shadowed with the consistency of a dream, making one wonder if anything that is remembered was real or if it was just a dream.

Due to the necessities of life, the notion of what is just is basically formed as such in order to prevent the collapse of a society. That which seems to be immoral in the eyes of a society that does not share anything in common with another society will always be blind as to how that particular society sees something as moral.

The author states that Dickinson illustrates death as an opportunity to explore the metaphysical aspects of life, such as spirituality, nature, and existence. In addition, Dickinson also portrays death as nothing but a transitional phase of existence as it allows people to explore other aspects of their being aside from their physical existence.

The object of analysis for the purpose of this assignment is manuscript, a book or any document written by hand. In the ancient times, this was the most common way of writing documents. The oldest manuscripts have been preserved for the purpose of reference and study. They are highly valued as they carry important information.

In the middle of several counterparts, possibly the well-known Arab writer is Yasmina Khadra, a female assumed name for Mohammed Moulessehoul, a former prominent Algerian armed forces officer who exhausted years trying to enclose Islamic fundamentalists. relevant works by Ms. Khadra comprise for the sake of God, Wolf Dreams and The Attack 

After four taps, though, the sound is replaced by a heavy metallic taped sound, forcing the audience out of the hypnotic state and into paying close attention to the next words that Dysart says, which are actually directed at the audience as if they were pre-doctorate students observing the case as it transpires.

The house itself is one of Miller’s most powerful tools in the construction of the symbolism of his play. The description opens with the ‘solid vault of the apartment houses’ in juxtaposition with the ‘small, fragile-seeming home’. The simple house of Willy Loman has become surrounded by towering apartment blocks.

Sylvia Plath’s poetry is an echo of the pain and anguish of going through an unbearable life and a self that is abhorred both by the self and the society. It is a struggle of wanting to be free, to be happily rested in the place she sees to be equally hers and be the self and the life she longs for. 

This study will take an in-depth look into the social order that was known as ‘knights,’ and will examine closely the code of ethics that came to known as ‘chivalry’, a term so popular in the world of classical literature, that it unconsciously creates almost two different worlds; the ancient world that is chivalrous, and the modern world lacking chivalry. 

Research has shown that competitive pressure was evident between the English and the French towards dominating the country’s literary environment. Furthermore, Canadian literature has had a deep influence in the country’s discernment of history, social-cultural environment, and the manner in which other nations around the world perceive it.

 Sondheim and Lapine have taken the unique properties of musical theater and used it effectively to create a situation in which the woods as a keeper of secret knowledge and hidden desires can mean something different to each person depending on what he or she is looking for. 

Piggle saw Winnicott in a series of occasions, sixteen in all, until she reached the age of five. Winnicott wrote about these sessions and included some notes and messages from the parents which gave details of Gabrielle at home. Winnicott was an expert child analyst who ran a busy and well-known practice in England.   

Women characters throughout the history of literature had occupied an elevated position in any work of art. They have become an important cause for the strength and success of any piece of work. Just their presence in the plot makes it so interesting and adds magnificence to the work. From the past to the present, women characters and their contribution has brought a great change in the development of the art forms.

 Hence, it is not wise to say that without judgment, absolutely nothing else can matter. Moreover, how can be similar techniques applied to the businesses and organizations over a wide range of specializations? Of course, a judgment has a definite role to play but it cannot be randomly defined.

As part of the literature, the book is very well authored and contains important literal techniques that are useful in ensuring that the reader understands and enjoys every bit of the book. The author has also managed to bring in facts in his fictional account which makes the book reliable and relevant in the historical sense

As the paper highlights, to understand this, one must take a closer look at the history of women’s liberation in Norway. Inheritance rights were gained in 1854, women were given higher education rights in 1882, but the first female professor started teaching in 1912. However, independence was something that was still really distant. 

Today where so much expression is overt, the stillness of Searle’s work has more impact-the videos are short (7 or eight minutes), her installations are large, but not overwhelming and she uses angles screens and multiple screens as a showcase rather than of scale and volume, but it is not over and the screens and prints are without adornment.

The ability to bring about cross-boundary satisfaction is a major characteristic of good literature work. The author has been able to achieve this by including older people as part of the human character team, for example, the professor. This makes the novel to find a place in the reading tables of children as well as adults.

The poem’s assumptions are that, in the contemporary world, brutality and violence constitute the order of the day and leaders, and the people associated to them, are immune from the adverse effects of the political oppression and riots. My sentiments are that the poem is contradictory to the expectations and morals of the modern society.

The authors address the representation of the city in Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth in order to offer a comparison of distinct ways in which the city is imagined in colonial and postcolonial eras and author will argue that the descriptions of the cities in these works are influenced by the authors’ personal perspectives.

The Renaissance period in English poetry mainly comprises the (a) Elizabethan period where there was a form of courtly poetry largely centered around the figure and persona of the monarch (b) classical, where the main themes of the poetry dealt with classical themes and figures from mythology and (c) metaphysical.

Unlike Achilles anger in the Iliad, Aeneas' anger had a more rational dimension. Aeneas is not asked to make a judgment about Turnus' guilt, as this had already been established, but is to administer punishment. Anger is the most appropriate emotion to determine his actions, and anything else would have been repugnant to Roman readers.

This research will begin with the statement that the fundamental point Mark Twain has tried to make in his novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” is that success has no single formula to be achieved. The way Mark Twain has portrayed Tom Sawyer in the novel has a strong relationship with the events and experiences of Twain’s own life.

This is where many of my childhood memories are stored. This place at the top of the hill, which comes so clearly to my mind, was surely there before I was aware of it. I have no idea when it was built, it was always just there. This spot has been enshrined in my memory as a precious part of the world that revealed its magic just to me.

According to the paper, The paperback edition of the novel would win the Hugo award and would appear on one of Time’s list of the 100 best English-language novels, the only graphic novel to achieve either honor.  The book is set in 1985, in an alternate history of the United States where the country was edging closer to a nuclear war with the SU.

Duras’s The Lover is another novel that tells the tale of an objectified woman body. The story is set in 1920s Vietnam. The story, which is autobiographical to some extent, is about a young and smashing school girl. Her beauty and attractiveness provide us with a contrast to Pecola of The Bluest Eys. 

The following document outlines the proposed research process for examining “How Motherhood is Portrayed in Black Women’s Literature.” Through the use of primary texts and secondary academic sources, this study aims to define what motherhood is for the African American woman and how that role, in the literature.

In conclusion, it can be said that Mrs. Dalloway is one of the most famous modernist novels. Woolf uses the literary style of stream of consciousness to great effect. The reader throughout the novel is able to delve into the depths of the thoughts or consciousness of the characters as the thoughts of the characters fly here and there 

Nicolaus Copernicus was the one to develop an astronomical model, in which the sun was the center of the planetary system (Skirbekk 158). Heliocentrism is a rational model of the planetary system with the sun in its center. Copernicus’s model contradicted the heliocentric beliefs about the universe before Copernicus.

This poem showcases a narrator living an isolated love-life and incapable of expressing his inner feelings. As a poet, Elliot makes Prufrock the main character in his poem to shed light on real-life experiences that a majority of people go through in the modern world. The physical setting made by the poem makes it the artwork unique. 

The author states that the terms ‘apartheid’ and ‘South Africa’ seem to go hand in hand in today’s world. It seems common knowledge that South Africa has finally managed to overcome the effects of apartheid, but not such common knowledge what exactly is meant by the word apartheid or what it means to have overcome it.

The study aims to investigate the significance of the portrayal of the personality traits and characteristics of the speaker as well as the listeners presented by a skilled and learned author by creating a fabulous monologue. The paper also draws out the historical background and philosophical ideas described by the authors in their monologues.

The author of the novel tries to amend the image of the runaway slave and the concept of considering black slaves as inhuman through the relationship between the characters of Huck Finn and Jim. Author has touched every important aspect in a human life as loyalty, companionship, punishment, greed, education, and control.

“During his early years, there were many times that he lived almost as a vagabond. During one of these periods, he was traveling with a friend who happened to have epilepsy.  Rousseau took the opportunity while his friend was having an epileptic seizure to slip away through the crowd and abandon his traveling mate.” 

To understand the entire issue in the context of rethinking America’s declaration of war against Vietnam, at first, efforts will be made to understand the political history of Vietnam and its political relation with the US. This effort will focus on the reasons that excited the American political system to take such a radical step. 

Every work of literature must be carefully analyzed and in order to do so, it should be read over and over again. This becomes all the more important especially in the case of poems. The rhyme scheme, what type of a poem is it? Is it a Ballad? Is it a Sonnet? Is it written in iambic pentameters or does it include the use of blank verse?

The author has attempted to give his full concentration on the social issue of domestic violence. When one reads this book, the only thing which can run across their mind is the idea of domestic violence and problems it brings to people and society. The author is exploring the realities of the world where women are treated in an improper way.

Bondanella regards this comic masterpiece as setting the tone for the subsequent films in the style of the Commedia all’italiana. He comments that ‘Monicelli...establishes a pattern which will become typical of the commedia all’italiana’s protagonists: a comic character type portrayed in its various and multiple aspects.

This paper tells that the foil acts to enhance the meaning and shine the light on certain qualities of the hero, in this case, the tragic hero of Hamlet.  Shakespeare includes characters in Hamlet who are obvious foils for Hamlet.  They show his character through contrast or comparison and bring out traits and characteristics, by being the opposite or the same in certain ways. 

The paper will begin with the statement that Anton Chekov was known for greatness in delivering objectivity and mood in his work, particularly one of his best works, “The Lady with a Pet Dog.” He gravitated towards presenting a close-to-the-real life, no matter how ironic or complex it may be, rather than a clearly invented one.

Moreover, it has also to be noted that there cannot be a clear distinction between a ‘colonial’ and ‘post-colonial’ writer based on nationality and socio-politico-cultural affiliations. In brief, the term post-colonial is more about a spirit of contesting colonial values that had an oppressive agenda. 

Serena ventured to ask her Gran, Marcella, why her own eyes were bright blue while those of her friends’ were either brown or grey and a grim-faced Marcella pressed her lips firmly together and answered her curtly, “We’re just different, that’s all!” From then on, Serena retreated into a shell. She asked no further questions.

According to the research findings, it can, therefore, be said that since ages, women in various societies and cultures, irrespective of their geographical location and economic status, were considered as the homemakers, whose solitary duty was to carry out the household works as well as take care of her husband and children.

The author states that the occupation and long-term administration of large areas of the world by colonizing powers have had far-reaching effects on the people who live in these territories. These are political and economic but also deeply cultural and highly visible in the creative output of the people.