Literature essay samples

It was a cold December morning in Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan. Though, winters barely ‘touch and go’ in this city, this year, it seems they extending their stay. Outside, the air was crisp and chilly, laden with the scent of burning fire wood that the Samads, the next door ... Read more »

To Pi Ssu Yao is a Chinese poem. Well written to portray the plight of the poets. It is one of the many Chinese poems, which is just so good and well written. This one particularly reverberated with me; despite the fact that I do not figure out the title. I believe there are two issues going on ... Read more »

The doll house is a play that focuses on the sacrificial role of women in the society. In addition, the play illustrates the deception of appearances as well as the parental and filial obligations as the major themes. In the play, Nora, the main character and she plays the role of a woman who is ... Read more »

I. Thesis Statement A. The lawyer, in Anton Chekov’s The Bet, experienced a drastic mental, physical and spiritual transformation as a result of the voracious reading he engaged in while carrying out a bet that mandated fifteen years of self-isolation. II.  Body: Main Idea A.   ... Read more »

According to Aristotle Oedipus Rexis a tragedy which will fit in what he believed as a tragedy. In the play, Oedipus comes out as version of what one can consider to be a great hero. This can be attributed to the impression that emerges from his personality. Due to hamartia which in English is a ... Read more »

The book, Class Matters by Angela Whitiker Climb present an exclusive collection of accounts examining social status of individuals in U.S.A. It portrays experiences of challenges of different individuals in the American society. It also opens up category inequalities in American society, giving ... Read more »

Creative writing refers to writing of any form that can be fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. This is not just around the normal academic, professional, technical, and journalistic literature. In this paper, creative writing will aim at describing the human mind using poetic devices. Some of the ... Read more »

In all of the Greek dramas, the main characters are usually poised to be alike in some ways and different in others, Medea and Antigone are no exception. Antigone by Sophocles and Medea by Euripides dramas analyze these differences and similarities of their two main characters—Creon and ... Read more »

The story “Where are you going? And where have you been?” revolves around a young girl called Connie and Arnold Friend. Connie is a fifteen years old lady. She is preoccupied with her looks most of the time to an extent her mother is not comfortable and keeps scolding her. Her mother ... Read more »

Angelo is emerging as a two sided character in the play measure for measure. The argument on whether or not that Angelo is perceived to be moral character or evil is cited on the fact that the duke vested his trust on him. The end of the play depicts Angelo as a disheartened character who offers a ... Read more »

“Esta Noche” is poetry that does inspire me emotionally in the sense it does bring out that character of the maid against the gays. In the first instance it is emotionally shocking to have a maid amidst the gays and in gay club. What is likely to happen does leave me with sadness and ... Read more »

The purpose of this paper in relation to both the traditional marriage setting and the modern setting of marriage in our society is to expose the radical changes that have been seen in the recent past. A doll’s house is a three-act play novel that was very successful during It’s time, ... Read more »

Hone Tuwhare published it in 1964. It was the best-selling poem. He was the first person of Maori ancestry in New Zealand to write a book in English. Since then he was a famous poet and wrote several other poems. The theme of the poem was the anti-nuclear theme. He metaphorically used the sun, ... Read more »

The picture posted above is a representation of contrast between two different kinds of lifestyles. People are living as a community as viewed on the upper part of the picture and where life is joyous because people are seemingly in harmony and confident with their environment. There seems to be a ... Read more »

A tragic hero is a potent and a virtuous character in a tragedy. He is a man of noble structure and not an ordinary man. He has outstanding quality and greatness about him. A tragic hero gets destined for downfall, suffering or defeat. That tragedy is brought up by the hero making an error of ... Read more »

As a popular figure literature, Robert Frost is considered to be one of the leading poets in the early twentieth century. His works are distinguished from those of his contemporaries; his works depict the structure and forms of the nineteenth-century literature while revealing the themes and ... Read more »

James Joyce’s “Araby” is a short story that makes up Dubliners, James Joyce’s collection. It is one of the fifteen stories in the collection. The stories were published in 1914, though they were written between 1904 and 1906. The collection portrays life in Dublin, Ireland ... Read more »

All things in this world are continually in a state of transformation. Language, like the rest of the things in this universe, adheres to this broad-spectrum notion. Johnson’s work tries to adjudicate the high regard for a written language among the various types of English that would boast ... Read more »

Mark Wallace approach ethnography as a qualitative technique that is concerned with the understanding and learning of cultural phenomena, which are shown in knowledge and system that guide the life of a cultural group. Ethnography is centered in the studies of ethnic groups, ethnic genesis, people, ... Read more »

Masculine heroes are credited in various American literatures as heroes who were brave and spoke their minds out freely without fear or conservation for the plight of the less fortunate and the oppressed in the society for instance in the poem “song of myself” by Walt ... Read more »

The end of the 19th century is known for its revolution period in the cultural life. The well-known artists and writers went off the frames "of life in the forms of life" in their works. They claimed that the artist`s work shouldn`t be the means of public enlightenment and education, but an ... Read more »

The poem is about a human person who is actively and willingly used as a hunter. The person is like a loaded gun that is condemned to remain inactive until the owner takes possession of it. The gun has in it energy that is capable of stirring echoes in the mountains and energy capable of lighting ... Read more »

The poem Ode to a Nightingale, by the poet John Keats with the other odes, is some of the most important achievements of his poetic history. These odes collectively put forward the ideal of romance and eternal love. The poem in particular is significant as it discusses the immortality of nature ... Read more »

Central character: The key characters taking the center stage are the sheriff, Will Alexander, the farmer, Billy Holcombe, his wife, Amy, their son Isaac and the sheriff’s deputy, Bobby Murphree. Each character related the story as how they viewed it. Other characters: Other characters in the ... Read more »

Henry Fleming is also known as the youth because he was the youngest among the people who went to war. He is said to have a different mind, all the time he was getting ready to go to battle. But the good thing with Henry Fleming is that, he never gave up, and always had some side motivation he ... Read more »

George Herbert (1593-1633) is widely recognized as one of the greatest English metaphysical poets. He was a clergyman from Wales and he has got his higher education at Cambridge. His distinct religious poems were notable for its pure and effective choice of words. His style was very clear and ... Read more »

Rescue is a book written by Anita Shreve. Anita in her book used simple characters who were very easy to identify with and her story is real since one can feel the story unfolding since it talks more about the current issues concerning the challenges of single parenthood. Her story is about a ... Read more »

Introduction The two stories, “Hamlet” and Gimpel the fool” portrays the code of revenge as the major theme. However, the play portrays revenge in some diverse ways with minimal similarities. For instance, Hamlet vows to avenge his father’s death while Gimpel endeavors to ... Read more »

Till my Tale is Told; Women's Memoirs of the Gulag by Simon Vilensky gives an incredibly touchy and candid insight into the suffering at the Gulag camps during the regime of Stalin. This is enhancing the fact that Simon Vilensky is a former prisoner of the Gulag system. Till My Tale Is Told is a ... Read more »

The article “Make Way for the Winged Eros: A Letter to Working Youth” written by Alexandra Kollontai primarily focuses on the evolution of sexual relationships during the Russian Civil War and presents the division of people into those who supported love and those who considered it to ... Read more »

Emergence is the beginning of something new, while modernism is a periodical change in time; in this case, writers and artists broke tradition and found new ways of experiencing and displaying art and literature. This paper discusses at least three motivating factors that led Latin American artists ... Read more »