Literature Essays

“To be in love” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “I Need to be in Love” by the Carpenters both deal with the subject of being in love. Love is a universal feeling and strong emotion that is experienced by different people from all walks of life. The comparative analysis of the identified poem and song would be tackled.

The author states that Charles Johnson’s story proposes the view that sociological and economical backgrounds play a vital role in the process of creating motivation among the people. Major characters follow some beliefs about wealth and its material benefits in this earthly life. Money changes the brothers into burglars and later beggars in the street.

Through the use of feminist criticism, problems like pride, lack of obedience, lack of equity in society, bias and use of the father tongue and mother tongue are clearly shown in the story A Wizard of Earthsea (Le Guin). The author of the story is herself a feminist, so perhaps it is not surprising that feminist theories take such a strong place in her work. Unusually, the story uses only male characters.

In the second stanza the poet extends the metaphor set in the first stanza. The poet decides to take the other road, which to him seemed to be more appropriate in the sense that “it was grassy and wanted wear”. In a figurative sense this road presents the tough choices in life which only a chosen few decide to get along with.

Frost tackles the issue of decision making. Like Dickinson, Frost employs the descriptive technique that great poets have mastered, taking the reader into the poem itself. The poem asks the issue about life’s decision.

The enchanting Dulcinea and the exquisite Desdemona, the former an imaginary inspiration for the valorous quests of Don Quixote, and the latter a living companion of Othello; both were initially fortunate enough to be on the receiving end of a chivalrous man’s intense admiration, and then gradually became victims of the same male’s prejudices.

Generally, the novel studies the effect of actions undertaken by persons in their later lives through an analysis of the actions of Kathy Nicolo. Dubus shows how the actions were undertaken by Kathy a recovering drug addict and Massoud Amir Behrani an Iranian immigrant fleeing from the Iranian revolution.

The efforts of Fanon, Senghor, and Cesaire in the Negritude Movement are to be commended as a positive and long-lasting step in this direction. They have made us feel that black can be beautiful too. Discussion Let us look at the search for black identity in Fritz Fanon’s ‘Black Skin, White Mask’, Leopold Senghor’s ‘Letter to a Poet’ and ‘Prayer to the Mask’ and Aime Cesaire’s ‘Notebook of a Return to the Native Land’.

The subject of spirituality is something that I have vested my interest in, so I was compelled to pore over the recommendation as I believe that it had important information. For one thing, spirituality is the practice of that field of consciousness where we gain our universality. This field of awareness is centre perception.

The statue dates back to approximately 530 BCE and is typical of this type of utilitarian work. The statue is in room 211 of the Getty Villa Museum under the title Athletes and Competition.

The only rate of addicted people varies from country to country. However, it has been found that western countries have been facing more complexities because of drug addiction among youth and weak initiatives by governments in countries such as the United States in the context of drug legalization and addiction.

 The creation of robots to perform some human responsibilities remains the foremost feature of this literature. Upon realizing that the beloved woman was an automaton, the protagonist remains filled with feeling of deceit, failing to accept the reality. The protagonist remains in doubt over the reality of his own fiancée.

The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East, Kishore Mahbabani unearths the hidden secret behind the rapid and constant development of the West, evaluates the aspiration of the East Asian nations to attain development, foresees the future scope of shared responsibility in global matters, and put forth apt measures to minimize the scope of conflict between the same.

Although most casual readers are familiar with Hamlet, Romeo, and Macbeth, perhaps a subtler, yet equally important character is Shakespeare’s Falstaff. Indeed, Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom even argued that Falstaff is Shakespeare’s most complex and witty character.

The element of music is important as it recalls Native American and Mexican folk rituals where music played a great part. This phenomenon is similar to the use of jazz elements in the works of African American writers like Toni Morrison. The use of indigenous elements serves to infuse the work of art with a feel of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism.

Walker's has based her poem in her learning of the human requirement and her obligation to bring awareness to social injustices. On the other hand, ‘Waltz with Bashi’r revisits this troubling episode of a massacre that left many people dead in Lebanon from the eyes of an ex-soldier.

At its core is a somber analysis of morality and existence that has profound implications even for the modern world. The work itself is divided into three canticas: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. The text advances through each of these sections or worlds, articulating the cumulative perspectives of Medieval Period culture on the afterlife.

Bibliographical sketch of Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker is a renowned African American writer, poet, novelist and activist. She is considered by many as a widely travelled, controversial and versatile writer of literature that mostly touches on the African American community.

The tales of The Thousand and One Night portray a society where the king was the government. He had the power to punish or execute anyone according to his whims. The power of kings was intimidating and the subjects were completely at their mercy. King Shahrayar after being deceived by his wife killed both his wife and her paramour.

Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston in the year 1809, lived for only 40 years. But during those years, he earned a distinct reputation of being a multitalented writer. His oeuvre does not only include short stories, a novel, books on scientific theories, numerous essays, and book critics but also a distinct theme attached to each one of these kinds of literature.

Christian Smith explains that the morals of the human beings should be founded on factual issues irrelevant of their desires, needs, and preferences. He also recognizes that humans have the limitation of getting to the bottom truth and will in most cases be relying on the narratives to draw conclusions and to make informed choices thereof.

These chapters discuss the different levels of growth that occur in infants in the first two years of their life. Infant is a Latin-derived word that refers to any child who does not speak. During infancy, multiple growth processes take place rapidly.

When Jack decides to go on his own and become a hunter thus breaking away from the initial group who had survived the crash, many of the group members follow him. They do this not because they want to or because of the promises of meat made to them but because they are afraid of being outcasts which are considered a social punishment.

In his novel, Achebe admits, he strives for artistic excellence but also wants to give a message. People served their society by sustaining its values, so did the modern Ibo and then writing in English, should serve Ibo society. In Things Fall Apart, Achebe combines the Ibo oral tradition’s narrative style with the Western world’s traditional form.

As the parade trooped out of the church to proceed to the town hall for the festive banquet, the unexpected happened.  While walking in procession, Rev. Dimmesdale’s bodily conditioned worsened such that he had to be assisted. Reaching the scaffold where Hester and Pearl stood, the Reverend called for the three of them to ascend the scaffold.

12 Angry Men and The Lottery “12 Angry Men”, produced in 1957, is one of a kind movie through its thematic display of how stereotyping, prejudice, racism including other behaviours could hinder communication resulting to catastrophic results (Lumet). The movie emphasizes the importance of critical thinking by an individual instead of making decisions based on groups.

Research essay about Mary Rowlandson Mary Rowlandson was an Anglo American woman who was born in 1637. She was a captured by the Native Americans and her experiences with the Native Americans during the period of her capture were narrated by her in her book The Sovereignty and Goodness of God.

It is necessary to know that a form of bias creeps in within the related equations when the talk goes out loud regarding the race and ethnicity aspects. The utilitarianism point of view and John Rawls’ perspective has been touched upon here to give an incisive look into the topic at hand. Race and ethnicity debates bring prejudice to the fore within college and universities.

The language in her poem is so easy and flawless that her poems largely became famous in schools and colleges. She debated over various issues of everyday life in her poetry. The topics of her poetry vary from gender to violence, relationships to obsession.

Memory and History in Maus and Austerlitz: Recovering from Trauma through Remembering, Forgetting, and Sensemaking. Testimonials and autobiographies are some of the common ways of recording and sharing personal and collective histories. This essay believes that these forms have been entrenched into new ways of narratives, including the comics or commix and novel forms.

From this research, it is clear that with focus on the theme, the story uses non-traditional plot, characterization, and point of view to emphasize the idea that life is irreversible and a bullet in the brain is all it takes to put an end to everything that a person has including memories of the past, especially of love and beauty.

Lives of women like Yanique Guireau Dandin, Alerte Belence, Yolette Etienne, Vita Telcy, etc are recorded separately. Together, their stories reflect a long unvoiced history of Haitian women. The book also speaks about the reconstruction and transformation of power. The goal set by these women is “to take power in order to transform power”.

. In literature the most significant personification of fantastic is the gothic novel that has always represented a very interesting style to analyze and has always meant much for literature as an old style that underwent much development. “At the time of the Gothic birth, the novel itself was a still fairy new phenomenon” (Cooper 25).

The author thinks that “The Offshore Pirate” has the overtones of an adventurous fairy tale. Fitzgerald waxes lyrical on the beauty of the ocean, the sky and the bay, with descriptions of moonlight, stars, mermaids and gilded lakes. However, the beautiful setting serves as a background to highlight the author’s characterization of the two protagonists.

The story is about how, after all the hardships he faced in life, reflects upon his experiences and constantly endeavors in order to keep his children at bay from the kind of life he had lived in the past. He worries mainly about his eldest son, Rudolph, who has fallen deeply in love with and married an American woman at an inadvisable time and is now thinking of quitting the farm to get a job and earn more money.

Lucille Clifton’s passion for poem writing began when she was ten years old, an interest she developed from her mother who was also a poet. With time, she learned to love and embrace the power that words carried.

Fear of shame and public scandal has enslaved many women. This has rendered them powerless and fallen prey to cunning men. Nevertheless, their words are powerful and all stereotypes associated with feminine nature are fulfilled in nearly all the women in this play. They force their way up and define the political setup of the play from start to end.

The schools themselves can hire back their students that have not found jobs yet to work in the school as teaches and support staff so that the school will be maintained and education will continue. Career academies are also given bonus funds by the federal government so the expenses will be more than covered in the long run.

Student’s Name: Instructor’s Name: Subject: Essay, English Literature (Classic and Modern) Date: Topic: Essay on The Left Hand of Darkness Sexuality and gender is the substantive theme in the novel The Left Hand of Darkness, and the title points out an ancillary subject matter.

It is arguably true that there is no absolute meaning of racism due to a lack of agreement on the meaning of discrimination. However, we usually refer to racism as the differences in views, traditions, practices, and beliefs based on racial orientation. Racism uniquely favors members of a certain race making them more desirable and superior.

The Syrian wants to fight for liberation, and the price is not being able to see his wife and kids. Zuhdi cannot share his frustrations with his family, and so he lets them out on an Israeli ending up alone in prison and no one is to provide for his family. Wild Thorns shows that solving internal and external conflicts needs a delicate balance.  

This paper is aimed to compare and contrast Tagore’s “Punishment” with Huston’s “The Conscience of the Court” on the bases of its major characters, themes, use of symbolism and settings of both stories. Themes are the essential part of storytelling which highlights the context of the story. However, in these stories, themes are significantly similar.

Richard manages to escape the paradise that has now become a hell with the help of his friends at the end and reaches Koh Samui again. It is revealed that after leaving Thailand behind, he embraces civilization in his hometown again and attempts to deal with his dark experiences of the past through drugs continue to be part of his life.

Social media have given birth to new platforms where the language can further seep into the crevices and the nooks and crannies of cultures all over the world. As a vibrant stage for the further evolution of the language moreover, social media such as Facebook have come to be breeding grounds for new words and new uses for existing words in English.

The power of music is undeniable in the film for in the manufacture of effective cinema productions, directors harness music to invoke a mood, instill characters with certain feelings and foreshadow future events. Located in Georgia, a peopled with many ex-slaves and their offspring, one observes the repercussion of Jim Crow’s segregational laws.

He talks on either side of the argument the righteous and unpleasant sides and gives his opinion on the importance of the children having a form of entertainment. He starts by explaining the importance of games for children and their contribution to the mental development (Johnson, 459).

The European powers of Spain, Portugal, and England were fighting to establish their supremacy over different parts of the world. The improved navies of these countries attempted to navigate around the world and discover new areas which could be exploited for the benefit of the homeland of the navigators.

Though it might be a very low-level job in a hospital, but it gave the author an opportunity to witness many things first hand, both the actions of doctors and caregivers as well as reactions and feelings of patients.

Generally speaking, Half and Half, by Amy Tan, traces the life and experiences of Rose Hsu Jordan, a Chinese woman who migrated to America along with her family consisting of her parents and six siblings. She has a troubled past, having lost her smallest brother, Bing, to an accident in which he drowned in the sea.

Moreover, it also includes details of some of the data collection techniques. It also includes a summary of a previous project similar to this one. The entire assignment focuses on job satisfaction and the factors that affect job satisfaction and how. The graphical represtations and statistical interpretations used in this assignment will help in understanding the assignment in a better way.