Literature Essays

Bruce Norris narrates about the community resistance experienced after a black family bought a house from a white family (Aagensen 57). The similar Karl Lindner found in “A Raisin in the Sun” uses a “transforming” neighborhood culture and plummeting property values as reasons to convince the white owners of the house not to agree to sell it to an African American family.

He wrote a poem “When we two parted”, which is a romantic poem, and to analyze the last speech called “I’ve been to the mountaintop.” given by Martin Luther King, Jr. Who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement? The works of these two well-known personalities will be examined based on the theme Courage.

“Rumors that Jews poisoned wells and slaughtered Christian babies to use their blood for matzot fed into the conception of Judaism as a venomous, anti-Christian religion, and depictions of Jews such as Shylock on the London stage were not uncommon” (Botwick 2).

Herrick and Jonson were born during the Renaissance or that momentous part of history marked by the ‘rebirth of classical learning’ through which the arts, literature, philosophy, and science flourished to heights as though to celebrate the oblivion of the dark medieval past.

Thomas More’s Utopia published in the year 1516, can be perceived as a response that stems from a “revolt against the ascetic inequalities of the ancient and medieval polity” and in many ways reflects the traits of modern political philosophy. Thus, he conceived the ideal society of Utopia, illustrating his concepts of how the state and its government should act towards its citizens.

The novel discussed in the research paper takes into account the disastrous and scandalous life experiences of Dolores Price such as weight issues, rape, proper parental guidance and bullying. In this novel, Dolores Price narrates vividly her ordeals and gives the reader thoughts, written in a first person, is narrated by Dolores herself.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology.

Together they have forged goals for the future that they believe will provide them with happiness. This relationship is reflected through the relationship that Candy has with his dog, and much of what will happen to Lennie is foreshadowed through the events that surround dog.

The author explains that the main characters, Carla and her spouse, Clark, tries to make a decent living from giving trail rides to school children, guests from summer camps or to regular customers seeking to enjoy an outdoor trip on a horseback. Carla’s concern for the lost Flora, their white goat, could have been the plot of the story.

Renaissance classism needed a transition point to go from mythological portraits to Baroque realism. The beginning of the Renaissance was the opening of the doors from the middle ages. A discussion will be made into why the early renaissance lead to the Mannerism School.One artist will be chosen to exemplify the differences he used.

The governing bodies are supposed to design a rule of law that caters to an American civilian with all facilities and should keep an appropriate number of immigration quotas to avoid overcrowded cities which leads to different problems like street crimes, job priorities, medical help, and educational facilities.

William Butler Yeats and James Joyce were contemporary writers. Yeats was a renowned poet and a playwright. He was an Anglo-Irish and one of the prominent nationalists who the most honoured Irish citizen till date. Joyce was also a very famous Irish novelist and poet.

Generally, the success of the company is largely accountable to its well-planned marketing strategy and consumer satisfaction that has helped in promoting brand loyalty. The consumers of Starbucks are assured of high-quality coffee served at the store counters and excellent ambiance within the outlets.

Tom is shown as an individual who aspired to become a poet, but who instead has to work in a warehouse in order to support his family consisting of his mother, Laura Wingfield, and his sister, Laura. The play also involved the character of Tom’s father, Mr. Wingfield, who had abandoned the family a long time ago.

Love. On the surface, it is a seemingly benign and innocent emotion, but when misapplied, it can bring about bitter and even lethal consequences. This is seen to be the case across various forms of literature, including Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “Annabel Lee,” and William Shakespeare’s tragic play, Romeo and Juliet.

Sex has always been a part of theater. However, how sex is portrayed in the theater is evolving. Elizabethan drama showed that sex was a destabilizing influence on the theater because of the way that sex was portrayed, or, in the case of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, satirized.

Dorothea Brooke is one such character. Through her, Eliot tries to convey to the reader the perils of marriage as a social institution and the dangers of excessive religiosity. Eliot squarely places Dorothea within the Victorian age and she is a complex character with many sides to her personality as is exemplified by her growth as a character throughout the novel.

The author claims that one of the features they have in common is that the settings in both are usually more than what the normal minds of mortal can comprehend. Using Beowulf as a case study, the settings mostly encountered in the poem are in no way similar to those that the average person encounters on a regular basis. 

Although it can be assumed that the pyramid was built by King Khufu in the Fourth dynasty, how the pyramid was made remains as a mystery. Therefore, there have been many theories regarding how the pyramids at Giza were constructed. Most whizzes approve that they were made as burial shrines for pharaohs, but “how” these ancient individuals constructed monuments of such prodigious size without modern equipment is a mystery that is still being pondered.

First, she compares the Colossus of Rhodes, which is the ‘the brazen giant of Greek fame’ (Lazarus), the celebrated picture of freedom set in the Island of Rhodes more than two thousand years ago (Krystek), with the new Colossus, the Statue of Liberty which, based from its title has the same representation as its male counterpart.

The word slavery may conjure pictures of desolation, deprivation, and degradation. The accounts of many slaves depict horrific images and support these pictures. Yet out of the horror rise stories of triumph and endurance.

This essay explores literature of Western world through the description of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. We meet different characters who are described as examples of Christian ideals. All heroes of Canterbury Tales have their own personality. The author compares the nature of all characters depicting them in regards to Christian tradition.

In the very first episode readers are introduced to Doctor Hailu, a recognized surgeon, taking out a bullet out of the student’s body. The bullet was fired by the police at the back of one of the students who protested against the Emperor’s rule.  Just as Hailuis doing an operation, his wife is dying of heart failure in his hospital. Yet, this is just the beginning of all hardships this family encounters within the new regime.

The two ideas are propagated to the readers at the same time by the use of the framed narrative. The framed narrative used in the novel also has been intended to create empathy in the reader's mind as the events are being brought into the picture through the voice of the narrator and it turned out to be novel dealing with ironies.

In the short story The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien reveals and critically elaborates the fears, horrendous physical conditions a man may be willing to be exposed, to salvage his reputation. The story is about the infantry Platoon fighting in the jungles of Vietnam in 1968, and the related weight the soldiers had to carry. 

The personal motifs and individualistic approach are more important in arts and architecture. The fight to establish his ideology and efforts to put it into practice is down-treated by the traditional worshipers. Despite the ill-treatment and harsh conditions, Howard wins over all the characters and all the established accepted wisdom of that time.

The author states that Lia’s case was stuck in the middle of two different and clashing cultures; the former being a traditional and based on century-old beliefs while the latter is more advanced and scientific. This made the Hmong child a victim of noncompliant parents and not a cross-cultural understanding or a septic shock.

To comprehend the message conveyed by a given poem, an analysis of all the devices that have been used in that particular poem is necessary. This paper will take into consideration the lucid analysis of the poem, “Sonnet 29” by William Shakespeare. The poem is categorized among the classic poems that used uncommon poetic language.

The choices of life and eternity are what will determine the happiness of different people at different times. The books showed the different lives as possible ways of being in this world. All the characters in the books go out of their ways in search of happiness, but, in the end, they all choose to live their own lives which can bring them happiness.

Keltner relates Darwin’s evolutionary theory to the moral evolution of human beings. He did research on human moral behaviors and developed a formula for calculating the effects of moral behaviors in human beings using the Jen ratio (Keltner 4). His advanced research provided significant evidence.

Tartuffe pretends to be a pious man, a ruse that enables him to manipulate people like Orgon and Madame Pernelle. However, others like Damis, Dorine, and Cléante are not deceived. They see beyond Tartuffe’s appearance and believe that he is an expert hypocrite, although they have difficulty in convincing Orgon in seeing the truth until he sees the truth with his own eyes.

Many different forms of writing prevailed during the 19th century. Poetry, Novels, Romantic Literature, Naturalism, Realism and Transcendentalism were some of the characteristics of this time. Romance Novels also gained popularity during this time. This paper aims to discuss the works and contributions as well as criticisms of Ibsen in the light of contemporary and modern literature.

Christianity and Christian metaphors recur at numerous points in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In fact, one can detect several parallels between Christ’s crucifixion and the deaths of Eva and Tom. While Eva’s death leads to St. Clare’s conversion and Ophelia’s acknowledgment of her own racial bigotry, Tom’s death leads to the emancipation of all the slaves on Shelby’s farm.

Mann makes a notable comment when he writes about Petrarch, who has often been referred to as the father of humanism and certainly the outstanding scholar and creative writer of his generation (Mann 5). In his opinion, “Petrarch was to remain in the secular world and to serve political patrons as politician and diplomat.

With the establishment of the referral request, the soliloquy is viewed as the offering of the unsexed (Shakespeare 42). Lady Macbeth focuses on sacrificing the normal coordination of her body functions.  This act of thickening the blood to alter the visitings of nature takes her milk for gall and permanently stops her psychological state.

Religion has been exploited by many powerful hands in the accomplishment of their unjust wishes. In A Man for All Seasons, a play by Robert Bolt, the writer has reflected his narration of the true story of English history. Sir Thomas More, a dedicated Catholic, is the main character of the play. As against this, King Henry VIII also seeks religious cover for his missions.

Poverty levels are highly connected to obesity because of low-income levels; thus exposing the society to health risks. The research study indicated that people living in the poverty dense areas are prone to obesity. This is because they lack enough food; thus develop poor eating habits; hence resulting to increased obesity.

For example, following the original conception of this tragedy by Euripides, versions of it have appeared in Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, etc through the authorship of such great writers as Francesco Bozza, Jean Racine, Miguel de Unamuno, etc. This enduring appeal makes relevant its study in relation to enlightenment values.

Besides, the director is renowned for the utilization of controversial themes in his films. His career as a film director includes his transformation from independent black comedy, comedy, satirical war film genre, philosophical film genre, biographical sports drama film genre, and romantic comedy-drama film genre.

The character of Othello gives his name to the play and the main plot revolves around his relationship with his wife Desdemona. As a non-Christian of Moorish descent, with a darker skin than that of the European characters, Othello is singled out for ridicule, mainly by his so-called friend Iago.

Love has always been the motive behind certain deeds; both good and bad. Many people are able to do questionable deeds just to secure their love. As for Song Qi, this was the case. We meet a character who killed her friend just for love. Liu Dong loves Song Qi but he goes ahead and has a relationship with his girlfriend’s friend Xiaoxi.

Nadine Gordimer’s “Country Lovers” tells of the complicated love story between Thebedi, a young black woman, and Paulus, the son of her white masters. The relationship among the two began as a simple childhood crush, a phase that, for the other children in the farm town, came to an end once the white children started school.

2332) She seems to be saying that looks (or appearances) are more important than reality; in other words, it's a desirable quality for a person to be able to fool someone else into thinking he/she has more than it appears. How does Wilde use this concept in the play to satirize the "proper" and "moral" emphasis the Victorians are known for?

The first stanza phrases such as "apple boughs," "lilting house," green grass, and "prince of the apple towns", symbolically represent childhood. Moreover, the author has described tunes from the chimney as watery meaning that childhood comprises refreshers and invigorations something that is absent in old age. As we progress to adulthood we smother.

The author states that Shakespeare tries to prove that the course of love does indeed never run smooth and we should be prepared to lose our love before we can ever dream of finding it again. In other words, it is better to set the one we love free and see if he or she does indeed come back to us or not- that is the test of true love.

Both of the articles presented in the research contain and display black women as victims of discrimination and biases solely because of their unique color. They present an insight to the historical racial and ethical discrimination which created divides among the society and promotes inequality and creates distinct classes.

The quilt makes an essential component of the whole story and reflects a detailed account of the family history. It becomes a symbol of the African-American family’s heritage and culture. In the story Everyday Use, Alice Walker has used the quilt to narrate the comparison between heritage and culture from the perspective of the African-American community.

The author states that he was unable to make any friends as there was a communication gap between him and other students. These incidents of embarrassment and lack of knowledge of English language crushed his confidence. While living in Toronto, he was required to use good English to adopt the profession of his choice.

Generally, as obesity has many consequences, and there is a definitive link between obesity and fast food, there needs to be a pushback against these restaurants.  They should not be allowed to market to children, and they should be encouraged, if not forced, to reduce their portion sizes to adults.

These conflicts can be seen to represent the feminine as a stunting presence that holds back the advancement of human knowledge and beliefs, while the male is the hero who releases society from those creations that hold it back from growth. Another such example of this can be found in the story of the Minotaur, written about in Heroides by Ovid.