Literature Essays

The main idea of the play Hamlet by Shakespeare. Hamlet is the tragedy by Shakespeare the main idea of which is too difficult to be explained. This makes the work both outstanding and controversial at the same time. Many critics have still been trying to find the answer to different questions: if Hamlet was sane or insane; if the ghost was real.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 1981 novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold is more than just an account of how the Vicario brothers killed an otherwise innocent man named Santiago just to avenge their sister’s shame. In these two novels, the authors were able to maintain the element of suspense although the reader knows from the very start who the murderers and the victims are.

I believe that as children and juvenile literature has gone through the course of rich historical background and tough criticisms, particularly in establishing its concrete definition, children and juvenile literature has been able to provide entertainment to its readers including adults.

Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is described as a satire on human nature as a whole and a satire on Victorian traditions.  It is more than a child’s fantasy of a reversed and chaotic world. It is a socio-political satire on the conflict between the individual’s deepest consciousness and the actual world.

Language, narrative, character, themes, and genre are fundamental aspects of any piece of literature. "The Secret Life of Books" is one of poetic works by Stephen Edgar. Stephen Edgar is a renowned Australian poet, who utilizes perfect craftiness, diverse cultural reference, and resounding capacity in making science a reality in literature.

The author of the paper states that normally the mind has a lot to speak. It is able to think, plan, and store information to an extent. However, the information in the mind is just but a cloud of thoughts if not put into a form that can be referred to, at a later time and even accessible to others.

An in-depth analysis of both the stories suggests that all that Laird and his father and the Misfit and his gang did was to get the skins off their victims. Laird’s father made use of no part of the fox’s bodies but their furs. “…the whole pelting operation… [included] the killing, skinning, and preparation of the furs” (Munro).

The essay would intend to focus on the paradox on which images apparently engages the thought process of the readers on the conflict that the protagonist of this story Sumita faces due to the paradigm shift in her lifestyle from Indian to that of American and the way this conflict is expressed through the changes that she makes in the choice of her clothes and its colors at different times.

Critics have claimed the novel to be autobiographical in myriad occasions. Also, they perceived that the experience of the novel would definitely relate the readers to the life of the young D. H. Lawrence as an aspiring artist. The detailed introspection of the novel would enable its readers to find lots of scope and space for thematic expression.

It is in this setting that Achak Deng began his epic journey across borders. According to Marshall (2006) in his report for Africa Conflict Prevention Pool, armed conflicts and ‘forcibly displaced populations’ escalated in sub-Saharan Africa between mid-1950s and mid-1970s1.

The practice has the benefit of translating various and complicated processes into sets of financial figures. The theoretical framework of this research will give a brief idea of how villagers adopt and constrain their accounting systems. Although they might adopt these systems from their ancestors, this research will take a closer look.

A potential increase of the budget up to 2-3% is possible under the influence of the continuous increase of taxes but also the differentiation in the costs of advertisement as decided by the management team of the relevant organizations; also, differentiations in one or more details of the text published would lead to the increase of the relevant cost.  

Communication is essential, it is also crucial for a hygienist to be an expert in the information related to his job. One should be updated with the latest discoveries or improvements in dental hygiene. His knowledge about oral hygiene essentials should be comprehensive and not just limited to what he adopts himself.

The story starts in motion with young Brown leaving his three-month wife, Faith, home and meeting a stranger in a forest to join an undetermined, but unholy ceremony. It is being discussed in the story that his wife, Faith, wears a hat with pink ribbons on it. Hawthorne explains the character of the wife by the symbol of pink ribbons.

However, through The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald dons the role of a social critic to bring out the adherence and affinity of the generation towards false material values during the Jazz era (Bruccoli, 2000). Through the rise and fall of Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerlad critiques the American society that was keen on affluence and was morally irresponsible.

For a marriage to exist there must be various components which include trust, respect, love, caring for other’s feelings, sharing responsibilities, fidelity, the desire to work everyday on your union, the development of good communications. It is unrealistic to assume that couples who have been married for a long time are happy; instead, we have to consider the elements or components of a healthy marriage or successful relationship.

Written by Mary Shelley, the wife of one of the most revolutionary poets of the Romantic age and the daughter of extremely rebellious parents who sought to challenge the order of things in the society, the work challenges our traditional notions of things.

While as a global society we have developed past extreme scenarios of racism, episodes of racist behavior still manifest themselves in modern society. Specifically, The United States of America as a social system has developed from a colony that legally permitted slaves into an integrated social system with codified means of recourse against racism.

Frank’s idea is adopted by many, as the American Dream. Many people are in support of his idea. All over the world, people are applying it, in maneuvering form the middle-class levels to gaining high social standards. He has written many articles on how individuals can rise to greater heights in life.   

When the novel first appeared, Kate Chopin was criticized by the society for illustrating a sexual, independent woman who breaks away from the strict southern patriarchy hierarchy.  In the novel, the main character Edna commits suicide as the final resort to break free from the oppression of the Victorian society.

The basic plot of the drama revolves around the personality clash between Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski; the two major characters of the play. The play expresses the intense feelings of love and hate, sexuality and devotion, fantasies and hard realities that follow the lives of people with broken and scarred souls.

Martin Luther King, Jr. has been a great influence on the citizen to the US. Very few people around the world have had such a great influence on their nations by the way they speak or write. Reading the Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr., it is clear that the author is an exceptional writer who knows how to express himself.

Introduction Modern literature depicts the cultural ethos of modern times. Modern sensibility is faced with the problem of identity and deterioration of the traditions and values that were cherished by the people of the past. Man in his quest for existence comes across the issue of coping with the world around him.

The Jews have a long history that runs down through an ancestry of biblical ties of the second millennium. Their traditional beliefs are said to have influenced the biblical antecedent and by extension the Christian fraternity. They are known to have achieved political independence in the early 1300 BCE only to be defeated by their neighbors.

Towards the end of the play, it is observed that Othello’s insecurities and complexes regarding his black background and heritage have reached its peak and the readers rather than hating him begin to pity him for his situation. As it is stated in the text, “Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away”.

The story is told in the first person by Meursault, whose mother had just died. The theme of existentialism is early seen in his seeming indifference at his mother’s passing. He opens the story with: “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can’t be sure.”

Tammy Blanchard is an appealing actor who takes the role of Howie’s sister, and Diane Wiest as their mother. Lastly, Miller Teller acts as Jason, a troubled student from high school. This essay critiques and analyses Rabbit Hole in details. Brief summary of Rabbit Hole The chronicle of the film is based on Pulittzer winning play written by David Lindsau-Abaire (Hudson).

These inhabitants can later mature into full male or female once in a month in their phase of sexual arousal which is called Kemmer. This whole novel is based on metaphorical language that is built on unstable balances between binary opposites like winter and summer, betrayal and loyalty, weaknesses and strength, courage and fear.

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman can be said to have the thematic and structural features of a modern tragedy for reasons other than its tragic denouement.

The only reason to re-tell this story would be for it to stand as an allegory of the war that was currently raging during Euripides’ time.  The Cyclops was probably a stand-in for Sparta, which was raging war against Athens at that time. When Odysseys defeats Cyclops by poking out his eye, this was clearly an allegory for Athens defeating Sparta.

Haqqi is less totalizing in his delineation of rural Egyptians. He is more aware of class relations that complicate the notion of a romanticized, monolithic, and ultimately helpless peasantry in revolt against modernity, variously allegorized. Still, it is suspected that al-Sharqawi would not have thought of his characters as romanticized.

The story surrounds what transpires when the Stones are away from home and the millers have to take care of their apartment. This paper will analyze the story as well as the style that Carver employs to reach his audience effectively. The story presents a chronological order of the ventures of the Millers when their neighbors are away.

Rather someone else has written and published those unparallel popular literary works in Shakespeare’s name. Among these authorship candidates, Edward of Oxford appears to be the most powerful. In numerous books, articles, and research papers have been published purporting this stance that “Shakespeare of Stanford-upon-Avon”.

Bush’s administration was determined to invade Iraq with or without compelling evidence that Iraq had an active program for obtaining and hiding weapons of mass destruction (MacAskill). Several American voters strongly believe that they should never have involved themselves in the Iraq war.

A Commentary on King Leontes in Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale. One of Shakespeare’s final plays is The Winter’s Tale, written in a novel type of genre that does not end in a tragedy. It portrays how a jealous king allowed the banishment of his infant daughter and imprisonment of his own wife due to false pretenses and assumptions, as well as his and his family’s eventual redemption and reunion.

Carson McCullers was known for portraying the tragic cycle of love in the novella The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951), and the situation of the three main characters resonates among the novella’s readers. The stage adaptation of the story by Edward Albee shows the similarities in the intended portrayals of the characters within the short story.

The Great Gatsby is a story of a self-made young man, who is infuriated by the state of poverty he was living in, trying to support himself as a janitor in his college life, only to decide to leave college and join a mentor who introduces him to the ways of the rich. His need for money had become so great that he "was in the drug business".

Poetry is one of the earliest forms of artistic literature practiced by different communities to educate the people and pass the desired message. Poetry among the Chinese people can be retraced from as 170BC to the present day, where literal techniques are used to communicate different messages within the community as well as to other parts of the world.

It could be said that there is very often an overt or hidden agenda in a piece of writing intended for children. The number of meanings that have been created for the writing that is done for children is wide and has the scope of all meanings in the universe as writers have approached subjects as varied as imagination to the concept of death.

It is essential to state that feminism is a compilation of activities, which aim at describing, launching, and shielding the political and economic status of women. Feminists prove this wrong as they establish theories that aim to recognize the nature of discrimination by probing women’s social roles.

There have been wide discussions on literary texts, which include Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain.” Notable, literary critics and linguists entail David Lodge, Ronald Carter, and Michael Stubbs. There are various effects produced by the use of specific verbal details in Hemingway’s story and the underlying ethical message by the author.  

In his biography of David Foster Wallace, D T Max said the writer wanted very badly to be the kind of writer for whom fame and success didn’t matter much (O'Connell).His unfinished posthumous work, The Pale King was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012.

Why Guns should not be Legal in the United States. One essential aspect of a positive and civilized society is that in such a society the access to the means of death and destruction tends to be strictly controlled and regulated, and this access is facilitated by law to only a few select statutory agencies and organizations.

Anna Labzina outlines her autobiographical experiences of the 18th century touching on the public spheres for instance, philanthropy, her own career, her husband’s form of oppression and representation of her mother with regard to future public responsibilities.

The novel recounts a story of human unity, love, and the significance of avoiding individualistic life during hard times. Some scholars have disagreed as to Steinbeck’s entire purpose in writing Grapes of Wrath as well as the manner in which he structured the novel. Steinbeck succeeded in advocating for human unity, love, and avoidance of individualistic life.

Both brothers survived the Second World War but no one knows the outcome of the wars that rage inside. The Second World War caused people grief and suffering but I think that both brothers experienced more pain with their internal conflicts. And they were mere reflections of what was happening at every urban black American house hold.

Anton Chekhov has been known for writing comedic masterpieces which are filled with the themes of love, marriage and even death. Most of his plays and stories include a touch of hopelessness such as the seagull, the cherry orchard etc. The proposal, however, could have had a dark conclusion instead the author concluded it with a light and comfortable note of engagement.

The Kiss of the Spider Woman” by Manuel Puig ] Homosexuality and masculinity are two items, which are widely considered by different scholars in terms, if these items can be compared and coexist in one male or in terms of how men should demonstrate their masculinity if they are homosexual.

This paper will begin with the statement that the world and all earthlings can be subjects initiating introspection for those who like to see more than what is visible to a simple man’s eye. Every single object placed here, and every single move made, has a meaning, sometimes a masked meaning which is visible only to those who seek them. 

The Africans should also take advantage of the raw materials they have to produce finished products and sell them to the European nations, rather than waiting on the Europeans to produce finished products for their raw materials. A lot of modern technology and knowledge was instilled in the Africans by the Europeans.