Literature Essays

For a long time, humans have tried to make the world a better place to live in; a joyous place filled with love where one would always care for the well being of the other, or where people would live as a unit. The desire has always been establishing a place where an individual would be the custodian of the other.

The game of money and pleasure is considered to be the oldest business known to mankind. Usually, the occupation of prostitution is considered a societal failing, a disgraceful taboo and the base of sexuality and economic existence. The process of “Reformation” is as old as the infamous occupation itself; women involved in “Sex-Oriented occupation” or female sex workers, have been the prime targets of reformers, more than the male or trans gender sex workers.

This volume commences on the late afternoon of Good Friday. It is in the year 1300. Dante is a starring personality in this volume. At the beginning of the volume, Dante is traveling in the dark forest and he is lost, and he starts to meander frightfully inside the woods. Moreover, there is sunlight that is directly above Dante on a mountain and he tries to reach it, but he finds obstructions.

This paper shall look at this aspect of theatricality in the play that is important in deciding whether the ideology of the playwright is sexist, as some would argue, or not. For this, it would be important to look at some of the attitudes towards sexuality in Elizabethan times, when this play was written. A look at some other works of Shakespeare may also be relevant to this study.

Many Europeans were not open to conform to the culture that was already there; instead, they wanted to shape it in such a way that was parallel to their culture in their homeland. Thus, the voyage towards creating a hybrid society caused Europeans and Indians to consistently have conflicts in lifestyle, workmanship, religion and etc.

The fruits of irresponsible power are deadly. “Goblin Market” exemplifies the deception of the goblins. They offer sumptuous feasts without being clear of the drawbacks of eating their forbidden goods. Lizzie highlights the harms of what the goblins are selling: “Their offers should not charm us,/ Their evil gifts would harm us”ю

October 1843 was the year in which Dickens first started writing A Christmas Carol and he completed the same at the end of November. A Christmas Carol is arguably the most famous work of Charles Dickens and he could not get any sponsors to sponsor his book and in the end, decided to shell out money himself. It proved a very beneficial deal as the book became an instant hit among the people.

The main protagonist refers to a young man, whom Yukon natives see as a tenderfoot because of his inexperience in the winter wilderness and his boldness of traversing it, during a particularly cold and without any human companion. The story reveals the needs and dreams of the working poor during the Gold Rush and the conflicts arising between several factors.

Capote gives the murder case wide perspective including the law aspect. In the novel, readers get to know about the Clutter family, the family that suffers from the brutal murders. The family resides in Holcomb village where people lived as a community, trusting each other, and observing their religious obligations.

“The Odyssey” was written by Homer in 1996. Bernard Knox edited it, and Robert Fagles interpreted the book. Odyssey is a documentation book that reveals the passage of every man in life. Fagles translates the poem of the author’s retold original information. It is one of the ancient Greek poems that were created during the late 8th century.

Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, the state of Pennsylvania in the year 1879. His father was a teacher and a prosperous lawyer who wrote poetry and other literature materials. This shaped the life of Stevens since he ended up following his fathers’ footsteps. There is no doubt that Stevens' father contributed significantly to his son’s early education since he provided an extensive library at home and he also encouraged reading.

“Don Quixote” is a tale about a man named Alonso Quixano, who goes mad from reading tales of heroism and chivalry day and night, until he comes to believe he is a knight. As it is mentioned in the text as well, “lack of sleep and excess of reading…everything he reading his book took possession of his imagination: enchantments, fights, battles, challenges, wounds, sweet nothings, love affairs, storms and impossible absurdities”.

Brave new world deals with various characters that would not imagine life without 1) John talks about happiness 2) The government and the supply of drugs to induce happiness D. Discussion on the real world 1) Use of cloning in human beings 2) Use of drugs E.

Simultaneously another interpretation assumes that Williams, one of the pioneers of the imagist movement in early 1900s, attempts to portray the fate of high ambition which endeavors to rise higher only fall down tragically and unnoticed. Though such imagist convention to depict the destiny of a highflyer seems apparently simple because of the economy of the language and the singularity of theme, the poem in reality renders a complex array of philosophical themes.

The Wife is not corrupt, she simply exercises sovereignty. Several scholars have explored various feminist readings of s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” in The Canterbury Tales. This paper discusses and criticizes four scholarly articles that studied this tale. Their views are similar, where they take a feminist perspective of the work.

e exhibits self-awareness in relation to the state of his emotional and psychological being. Initiating with “I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow” (1) at the onset of the poem, the critical reader may pay curiosity to the stage prior to the waking act and ponder on what might have taken place in this period of sleep which has led the speaker to decide on waking from it.

The concept of race also depicts the blacks as people who do not know their human rights as they are uneducated. Despite the fact that the judgment she is in will determine her life’s trajectory, she is still not aware of the magnitude of it. …"You jury-gentlemen's, they asked me if I was guilty or not, and I still don't know whether an I is or not.

Steinbeck also never fails to use various figures of speech throughout the novel (Tanto and Kosasih). In The Pearl, the statement “Kino was a terrible machine now” is actually a metaphor (Steinbeck). Moreover, Kino’s statements “The pearl has become my soul” and “If I give it up I shall lose my soul” are actually examples of hyperbole.

Heaney’s admiration for his father and frustration, at his own lack of skills, are presented in the “flower” while his lack of understanding is ironically expressed in “death of a naturalist” (Heaney line 6). On the other hand, digging is metaphorically used to mean coming into terms with all these issues that the poet represents.

Due to this knowledge people continuously search for information to enable them avert such health problems. Any information on how to improve their life style is welcome. Therefore the media has invested in providing this information to the people. Every news paper contains a section concerning health, life style and healthy living.

Among the vital literary elements present in the narrative, timing, setting, and order are of the essence as Montresor could not afford to fail in his schemes of exacting revenge against Fortunato. In a way, I find Poe’s creation of “The Cask of Amontillado” quite unique and intersting in the sense that he managed to have furnished Montresor with a character of intelligence and clever wickedness yet leaves the reading audience the critical thought of his pride and reason.

“The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman pictures the map of the mind of a woman afflicted with neurosis, and her mental state is challenged by her interplay with the wallpaper in her room. The state of the wallpaper is the barometer of the advancement of the illness and she views its existence from the different perspectives of the state of her mind.

The legal drinking age is an issue that has raked in many controversies with contrary proposals being extended by warring sides, those arguing to raise the legal drinking age, and those supporting a lowering of the drinking to 18. When it comes to fixing the legal drinking age, the attitude of the law seems to have been guided more by the feelings of the masses, rather than being in consonance with the ground realities.

Through the letters, Nathaniel narrates to his friends how the story of the Sandman scared him when he was still young (Hoffmann 4). The tales have it that the Sandman is a creature that forces children to sleep by blinding them with particles of sand. According to his nurse, the Sandman is an evil being, who approaches children when their eyes will not get heavy, and sprinkles some sand into their eyes hence cause their heads to bleed.

William Shakespeare was born on April 26th, 1564 and died on 23rd April 1616. He was brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was from England, a professional poet and playwright. Shakespeare commenced his excellent career as an actor and a writer. It is also important to note that Shakespeare together with others was in partnership with a playing company.

The story of an hour was published in 1894, depicts the emotional repression of a woman who is in a state of confusion and irony of married life. The insight revelation of Louise Mallard even astonished her; the sudden outburst of grief subsided and turned into pure buoyant feeling.

This will help set the different arguments and discussions in the context of the author’s time period and experiences. Afterward, specific examples of violence, abuse, and graphic content. Specifically, some works will be touched on in the attempt to present the degree of violence and graphic content in the literary works of Alice Walker.

We see in Jane’s personality that she is most of the time feeling comfortable in solitude. When she comes to know about Bertha, she leaves Rochester even she was madly in love with him. Bertha can be considered as a metaphorical character representing Jane’s rage towards the society that has been controlling her and making her quiet down her emotions.

Privatization is the word used to describe the “systematic transfer of government functions and programs into the private sector” (Ashworth, 2005). The privatization of correction and punishment facilities has been a growing trend in the UK for the last few years. Most of the private correction institutions in the country normally operate by offering services for a certain amount of fees.

The tone and perspective that are adopted in a work of literature are usually indicative of the direction that the author intends the work to take. Apart from this the worth of the work as a piece of literature and the critical and popular response that it garners, depends, to a large extent, on the treatment of these two aspects.

The power of women rules the male members of that time like Helen and Hera and sometimes women are depicted as helpless characters and victims of the patriarchal society like Hecuba, Andromache, Chryseis, and Briseis. Female gods also hold a very influential role in this poem. They control the characters and influence their mind to perform some activities which shape the course of the tale.

When you read the play Stanley is a credible tragic character, so there must be something in Williams` art that makes one forget Aristotle`s criteria. This is what I will attempt to demonstrate in my paper, by looking, one by one, at the four attributes Aristotle deemed necessary.

According to the paper, Rosenwasser and Stephen want writers to “figure out what your subject means before deciding on how you feel about it.” Why do you think this advice is good to follow, especially in the writing of a portfolio that tells of your experience? This advice is good to follow, especially in the writing of a portfolio.

'“Lysistrata is the ultimate MC (master of ceremonies) and director of the action of Lysistrata.” (Spark Notes)  She is responsible for giving instructions to everyone. Apart from this she carefully observes and coaches the women. . “A good example of this "coaching" is Lysistrata's interaction with Myrrhine when Kinesias comes to the Akropolis.

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair for instance, is a part of the English language literary canon because of its representation of horrible city life for low-income families around the turn of the last century, while Charles Dickens's work is important not only because of its literary merit but because of its representation of the problems in early Victorian society in which he lived.

The author states that the use of items like dove and ring is intentional as the author attempts to pass on her messages through these inanimate objects. The development of the story from beginning to end is such that it keeps the readers interested in the story at all times. ‘The Grave’ communicates many themes.

I. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” can be interpreted as a poem about the tedium of life as an adult with responsibilities. A. The first stanza provides a clue to a Marxist interpretation of the poem 1. Woods owned. 2. Speaker conveys the importance of balancing life and work.

Jack Larkin describes the rough texture of their life as they experienced it. It tells the fact about everyday life that describes the Americans as they were like in that period. The article is very compact and insightful in describing the real life of people in the period of transition, the Victorian era.

Virginia Woolf born in London, and permanently settled in Bloomsbury, had distinct views on art, especially on the craft of fiction. Her novels are psychological in their approach, employing a narrative technique called stream of Consciousness ‘method”. The novel Mrs. Dalloway is about the story of the main character, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Wolf takes the readers continuously through the thoughts and feelings of Mrs. Dalloway.

The Tell-Tale Heart,” is one of Edger Allan Poe’s well known short stories and was first published in January, 1843. The short story is a psychological portrait. It is narrated by a mad man who commits homicide. It is a horror story, and a psychological thriller, which is presented in a native style.

The writer builds her theory of Jane as a female hunger artist against the background of previous literature which touches upon “the images of starvation and hunger which pervade Jane Eyre” (1). Renk argues that Jane’s hunger artistry is a form of the “pregnant hag” (‘hag’ connoting ‘holy’), or “the grotesque body of the starving saint, and her struggle for justice, knowledge, and self-direction” (2).

The work shows the lives of the members of the Bennett family and also the way in which women and to a certain extent, men are victimized in a patriarchal society. The novel uses irony in a very effective way to satirize the ways in which society uses men and women to perpetuate the system of patriarchy.

John Steinbeck’s 1937 novel Of Mice and Men is the painful and difficult narrative of how the farmers and migrant ranch workers of California faced the horrifying consequences of the Great Depression. It is actually also a story of various struggles of people against their own selves – more particularly those of George and Lennie.

The heroes reflect the innate desire to overcome the monsters and to defeat them. On the other hand, Enkindu’s desire to defeat Humbaba would yield immortality to him besides achieving other goals which was another possibility among many others. To accomplish their goals, both heroes of Gilgamesh progressed and achieved what they were thinking of in their minds.

Both of these men are respected intelligence officers who are tasked by their organizations to foil operations and get ahead of the other. Additionally, the paper delves into the discrepancies that emanate from these men who are ready to sacrifice everything to gain recognition in the espionage world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a poet of the romantic era and based his work in a similar fashion. If one begins to literally analyze the poem, a great deal of imagery, similes, and metaphors may be extracted. Throughout the poem, words like clouds, darkness, midnight, moon, night, etc help in providing meaning to the reader with regard to what the poet wants to say.

According to many people’s views, Mark Twain tends to be less grateful to antecedents than he truly was. This is for the reason that his showbiz has vanished with time and the increase of his special prominence. He adopted the mechanical technique of his letters of trade through his career as a printer.

Morality is an old master, intervening in matters as personal as love. In “The Lady with the Pet Dog,” Anton Chekhov depicts a married middle-aged man hopelessly falling in love with his also-married mistress, Anna. Anna abhors their affair, which Gurov initially expects to end as quickly as it started until he deeply falls in love with her. 

The play starts with Troy, a baseball player, in jail practicing his skills. Troy was very good at Baseball and used to practice the sport in Jail during their free time. It's said during the play and showcased also that Troy tried getting into Major League Baseball, but he couldn’t make enough money for his future. This is where the crux of the play lies.

“Everyday Use” explores the meaning of heritage in the context of the markedly different relationship which exists between a mother and her two daughters, Dee and Maggie. Walker conveys the message that heritage is truly cherished when it is a part of everyday life and not merely exhibited as an exotic accessory.