Literature essay samples

Literary Close Reading of “A Wind from the North” essay

The continuity of the story has been well maintained and the plot is consistent. The use of adequate... Continue reading »

The Spanish Tragedy essay

Introduction Thomas Kyd is an accredited father of tragic stories in Elizabethan literature. It is w... Continue reading »

Children’s Literature essay

Literature is a written or nonverbal type of art that is of artistic value to the reader. It comes i... Continue reading »

Argumentative Essay essay

The events of the World War I significantly affected both people sent to the battlefield and those l... Continue reading »

“Pigeons at Daybreak” essay

The short story Pigeons at Daybreak describes the life and finally the death of Mr. Basu, as seen th... Continue reading »

“Mrs. Doubtfire” essay

Like any other literature work, movies and plays are meant to convey some message to the audience. T... Continue reading »

Poverty and Social Class essay

Poverty and social class are very vital in determining the levels of inequalities among individuals.... Continue reading »

“Arc of the Rainforest” essay

Through the Arc of the Rainforest is a parody of humorous apocalyptic and adventurous signals that b... Continue reading »

Analysis on the “Death of a Salesman” essay

This play tells of a story of a father named Willy who was very stressed as a result of much struggl... Continue reading »

“It Is Sweet and Right” essay

Irony is used to introduce and eventually wrap up the whole poem. The speaker ironically gives a swe... Continue reading »

“Dulce Et Decorum Est” essay

The world of literature entails different types of styles and elements that need to be intergraded i... Continue reading »

Scott Fitzgerald essay

Scott Fitzgerald wrote the archetypal, “The Great Gatsby” in 1925.  It is deliberat... Continue reading »

“The Great Gatsby” Story essay

The Great Gatsby reflects the idea about American dreams, which are food, money, a lot of desires, r... Continue reading »

“The Egg” essay

“Father came upstairs to mother and me with an egg in his hand. I do not know what he intended... Continue reading »

Alice Walker’s Literary Journey essay

Alice Walker’s literary journey is illustrious. Everyday Use, was among many of her literary w... Continue reading »

The Literature essay

Literature is an expression used to explain materials that are spoken or written. It is used to desc... Continue reading »

Joyce Carol Oates essay

The short fiction as presented by Joyce Carol Oates is a clear indication of the extent of inclusive... Continue reading »

“Where Are You Going?” essay

This research paper attempt to look at the relationship between males and females based on the analy... Continue reading »

The Garden of Eden essay

The key major actions are coping, bearing and alleviation instead of the removal or elimination of e... Continue reading »

“Candide” essay

“Candide” as narrated by Voltaire shows how Candide a man who lived a sheltered life in ... Continue reading »

William Gordon’s Novel essay

William Gordon’s novel the lord of the flies as been has been acted as a movie by several movi... Continue reading »

“The Storm” essay

“The Storm” by Kate Chopin describes the story of a woman, Calixta, who commits infideli... Continue reading »

“Walden Two” essay

“Walden two” is a fiction that brings out the idea of community in the Walden two societ... Continue reading »

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” essay

In some of his plays, Shakespeare uses supernatural powers to bring out the plots and themes. Magic ... Continue reading »

Symbols of a Larger Representation essay

The short stories Greasy Lake and To Build a Fire have many symbols of a larger representation. Both... Continue reading »

The Influence of Chaucer’s Works essay

The Wife of Bath is another tale developed by Chaucer. The main character tries to establish her aut... Continue reading »

Pervasiveness of Courtly Love essay

Courtly love refers to the group of ideas that was used to describe love. During the Medieval Age, l... Continue reading »

Corruption of the Church essay

Chaucer satirically depicts how churches were involved in perpetrating corruption within the society... Continue reading »

“Canterbury Tales” essay

Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales focuses on three main social classes, such as aristocracy, pluto... Continue reading »

Meursault essay

The novel is built on a major theme of absurdity as seen in the life and death of the narrator known... Continue reading »

“The Stranger” essay

A new kind of hero came to the world when Camus unfolded an existential novel The Stranger in 1942 t... Continue reading »

Man’s Discoveries essay

The brief history of man’s discoveries is littered with innovations that could be described wi... Continue reading »

“Things Fall Apart” essay

"The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at hi... Continue reading »

Brighton Rock essay

Brighton Rock novel was written by a British writer Henry Graham Greene dating back to1938. Later in... Continue reading »

“A Blessing” essay

The poem, “A Blessing” by Wright revolves around two Indian ponies and two horse lovers.... Continue reading »

The Pact essay

The documentary The Pact is written by Kalin. The Pact is about three young African American men who... Continue reading »

“The Truth the Dead Know” essay

The narrator dreams that he and his grandfather went to a circus but the grandfather does not seem t... Continue reading »

The Southern Fiction essay

The southern fiction focuses on the family, religion, community on one’s life, use of the sout... Continue reading »

Blanche Dubois essay

American literature is any written or literary work produced within the territories of the United St... Continue reading »

“The Sound and the Fury” essay

The Sound and the Fury is the novel that emphasizes the use of different narratives styles. The main... Continue reading »

4 Treasures of Studio essay

Introduction Unique Chinese calligraphy is the finest and most significant among all Chinese art for... Continue reading »

Mary Dickinson’s Appeal essay

The commissioner’s decision, regarding Mary Dickinson’s appeal, was adequate and consist... Continue reading »

A Flawless Portrayal of the American Gangster essay

An offer that we cannot refuse is exactly what Francis Ford Coppola brings with his delightful theat... Continue reading »

My Own Private Collection essay

Introduction Poetry is known as the art of saying the unsayable, and some poems undoubtedly create t... Continue reading »

Disability essay

In 1987, Nancy Mairs published an essay in which she examined how media presented disability. This e... Continue reading »

King Duncan essay

The king was yesterday murdered in cold blood at Inverness in what appeared to be a carefully orches... Continue reading »

Mending Wall essay

Robert Frost wrote a poem Mending Wall from the first person narrator, what is effective for the ful... Continue reading »

Blue Whale essay

Scientific name of the Blue Whale is Balaenoters Musculus. It is the biggest mammal on the Earth. Th... Continue reading »

The Last Time essay

The sun was almost red as the sunset approached. They drove along the rocky coastline when Katie tur... Continue reading »

Themes of the Past essay

Introduction A writer once said that whoever controls the past controls the future. This quotation s... Continue reading »

The Facebook Sonnet by Sherman Alexie essay

Sherman Alexie is a contemporary American writer famous for critical style of writing with humor usi... Continue reading »

The Heart has its Reasons essay

Throughout the years human’s heart and mind have been struggling in an invincible fight to pro... Continue reading »

Robert Fisk – the Honest Journalist essay

People are barely being just when they claim that journalists are not important members of the socie... Continue reading »

The Life of President Theodore Roosevelt essay

Known for his enthusiasm and variety of achievements and interests, Theodore Roosevelt held the pre... Continue reading »

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County essay

“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain is one of the most famou... Continue reading »

A. Flannery O’Connor essay

Flannery O’Connor According to the author Flannery O’Connor she tries to portray the iro... Continue reading »

Vonnegut’s Insight into the Twentieth Century and the Modern World essay

At the beginning of Chapter Four of Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Billy is watching a war movie on TV,... Continue reading »

Oedipus the King essay

Oedipus’s reaction leaves someone to wonder; how trustworthy is Teresias the prophet? The king... Continue reading »

A Narrow Escape essay

May 22, 2011 was a chilly Sunday evening. The weather was not promising and this gave me all the inc... Continue reading »

God’s Grandeur essay

The poem God’s Grandeur is an Italian sonnet. The poem has fourteen lines split into a sestet ... Continue reading »

Mumbo Jumbo essay

‘Mumbo Jumbo,’ is a novel through which Ishmael Reed reveals how marginalized historical... Continue reading »

Science Fiction as Literature essay

The idea of establishing an alternative world contrary to known reality is the basis of science fict... Continue reading »

The new year`s sacrifice essay

This text is one among the many papers that were written by Lu H Sun, a famous Chinese writer of the... Continue reading »

Catcher in the Rye: Holden’s Destructive Behavior essay

Holden Caulfield is a high school junior who had been expelled from four schools. This was his fifth... Continue reading »

Iceman mystery story essay

Iceman mystery is a story written by Stephen Hall and narrates a death that happened more than five ... Continue reading »

The Development of Slums essay

Poverty deprives human beings of their dignity. When a man is forced to live like an animal, soon, h... Continue reading »

Poverty and Dignity essay

In the novel Crime and Punishment, the story revolves around an extremely poor student named Rodion ... Continue reading »

“Crime and Punishment” essay

Poverty leads to criminal activities through indignity and stigmatization of the poor in the society... Continue reading »

Shirley Jackson’s Story essay

Shirley Jackson’s story is filled with a lot of controversy as she uses comedy and irony to sh... Continue reading »

“The Lottery” written in 1948 essay

“The Lottery” is a short story written in 1948 by Shirley Jackson. It is a piece of fict... Continue reading »

“Better Be Ready ‘Bout Half Past Eight” essay

“Better Be Ready ‘Bout Half Past Eight” by Allison Baker is not only a captivating... Continue reading »

Gandalf essay

Gandalf is one of the main characters of the story “The Lord of the Rings”. He has a hum... Continue reading »

“Tarzan of the Apes” and “The Lady with the Pet Dog” essay

The theme of love is a crucial issue in our life, art, science, and almost every sphere of human&rsq... Continue reading »

“Dreaming in Cuban” essay

“Dreaming in Cuban” by Cristina Garcia is story that focuses on the life of Celia Almeid... Continue reading »

“Dessa Rose” essay

“Dessa Rose” is a chronological narrative written by Sherley Anne Williams. It commences... Continue reading »

“The Souls of Black Folk” Composition essay

W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk is an influential composition in Afro-American writing... Continue reading »

“Sex without Love” essay

The poem “Sex without Love” by Sharon Olds is set in the modern atmosphere and talks abo... Continue reading »

An Epic of Old Mali essay

“Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali” is a story that is recited by Mamoudou Kouyaté, a... Continue reading »

Issues in Nursing essay

In Italy, most nurses are not empowered in terms of performance. Scarcity of economic resources in t... Continue reading »

The Secret of the Portrait essay

In the novel, murder depicts a sense of literary criticism. Hallward is murdered by Dorian. The main... Continue reading »

Selecting Sources of Literature essay

1) Solving nursing shortages: a common priority. There are various causes of shortage of nurses.... Continue reading »

Literary Criticism of Oscar Wilde essay

The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of the most tantalizing books by Oscar Wilde. The literary critici... Continue reading »

Achilles’ Internal Struggle essay

Achilles is a great worrier. He serves as a focal point for Iliad. He helps Greeks to defeat Trojans... Continue reading »

Edgar Poe “The Cask of Amontillado” essay

In the story “The Cask of Amontillado”, Edgar Poe gives an account of an act of revenge,... Continue reading »

Gloria Anzaldua essay

In this poem Anzaldúa represents the border itself and uses both Spanish and English in the s... Continue reading »

Themes in Things Fall Apart essay

Language is a theme in this novel. It has been used to demonstrate the imaginative, formal way of co... Continue reading »

Chinua Achebe essay

The setting of the novel is in an African community known as the Igbo in the village of Umuofia, loc... Continue reading »

John Hector essay

John Hector St. John was a French-American writer who started writing about life in the American col... Continue reading »

Directors on Broadway essay

Revivals are production earlier produced performed arts such as plays and musicals. Normally the rev... Continue reading »

George Abbott essay

George Abbott is one of the most reputable directors, play writer in the USA theater the productions... Continue reading »

“After the Wall” essay

Referring to an example from After the Wall and The Lives of Others, Hensel and Dreyman provide a go... Continue reading »

“The Good Man” essay

The poem is written figuratively. At an overview, the author seems to contradict his perception of g... Continue reading »

“Shiloh” essay

Shiloh is a sad story of the two people, Norma Jean Moffitt and her husband Leroy Moffitt, who after... Continue reading »

“Green Apples” by Dudley Randall essay

The theme of this poem is love. Basically Randall describes how young people are not responsible eno... Continue reading »

“Ballad of Birmingham” essay

“Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall offers a poetic description of a Birmingham chu... Continue reading »

Cathedral essay

The nature of relationship between Robert, the blind character, and his wife Beulah is brought into ... Continue reading »

The Lottery essay

The authorship of the short story The Lottery is accredited to Shirley Jackson and was firstly publi... Continue reading »

Martin Luther and Zora Hurston essay

Zora Hurston was an African-American author and a civil rights activist in the early 1900s. He died ... Continue reading »

Dennis Bratcher’s Scriptures essay

He, Bratcher, explains that scripture is in errant or infallible, when it is viewed as the revelatio... Continue reading »

The Norm in the Society essay

According to Henrik play a doll house both Helmer is seen as a very responsible man in that he is ab... Continue reading »

Marriage in Henrik Ibsen’s Doll’s House essay

The purpose of this paper in relation to both the traditional marriage setting and the modern settin... Continue reading »

A Family Tragicomic essay

The text ‘Fun home: A Family Tragicomic’ talks about a girl who was raised in a family w... Continue reading »

“A Doll’s House” essay

The use of language towards women in the 1870s in this novel is metaphorical since it emphasizes par... Continue reading »

“The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair essay

This essay investigates the literature in the novel “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. It e... Continue reading »

Poetry essay

This essay analyses the literary elements contained in the poem “The Kiss” by Julia Alva... Continue reading »

Edwidge Danticat essay

Krik? Krak! is a collection of short stories that were authored and published in 1995 by a Haitian w... Continue reading »

“Out of Nowhere” essay

“Out of Nowhere” is a fictional novel that was authored by Gerard Whelan and is made up ... Continue reading »

“Class Matters” essay

Class Matters by Angela Whitiker Climb presents a unique series of reports examining social class in... Continue reading »

“The Kiss” essay

This essay analyses the literary elements contained in the poem “The Kiss” by Julia Alva... Continue reading »

Vincenzo Natali essay

Splice isa Sci-fi thriller written by Vincenzo Natali, starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley. The f... Continue reading »

“Lady Lazarus” essay

Lady Lazarus is a poem that in my understanding is a mockery of death. The poet is a lady who uses t... Continue reading »

Greatness of Tennessee Williams essay

Tennessee Williams was a prominent play writer in the United States. He put lots of focus in emotion... Continue reading »

James Baldwin essay

Born on the 24th of August 1924 James Baldwin was an American author who dedicated his life to writi... Continue reading »

Modes of Writing essay

The difference in writing of men and women has been of great concern to most critics. There are thos... Continue reading »

Male and Female Writings essay

Male and female writers have different perspectives about the women’s issues in the society. T... Continue reading »

“How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped” essay

‘How Pearl Button was kidnapped’ revolves around the experiences of Pearl Button, a litt... Continue reading »

Women in “The Odyssey” essay

The Odyssey is an epic depicting the heroic acts and adventures of Odysseus. Flashback to the Trojan... Continue reading »

The Odyssey essay

The Odyssey in itself revolves around Odysseus, the epic hero of the Trojan War. He was very courage... Continue reading »

Impact of Character and Setting essay

‘To Build a Fire’ written by Jack London is a tragic story of a man who disregards poten... Continue reading »

Telemakhos and Gods essay

Telemakhos (Telemachus) was the son of Odysseus and Penelope. At the beginning of the story, Telemak... Continue reading »

“The American Dream “ essay

The American Dream happens to be Norman Mailers Fourth reputable book printed by Dial Press. The tit... Continue reading »

Toni Morrison’s “Tar Baby” essay

Toni Morrison’s ‘Tar Baby’ is a story about prejudices and biases. The biases are ... Continue reading »

“The Glass Castle” essay

In her memoir, the Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls explicitly narrates the unique childhood she endure... Continue reading »

The Great Gatsby essay

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American author. 1925, was the first ... Continue reading »

Edgar Allan Poe’s Literary Works essay

An examination of Edgar Allan Poe’s literary works reveals a preoccupation with the state of t... Continue reading »

“The Story of My Body” essay

In the story “The Story of My Body”, Cofer narrates different prejudices she received fr... Continue reading »

Annabel Lee essay

The story about Annabel written by Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most thrilling and informative lov... Continue reading »

“Daughter of the Revolution” essay

Daughter of the Revolution is a novel that shows the social life between the years 1963 and 2005. In... Continue reading »

The Red Room essay

Despite the fact that the story was somehow fictitious, it depicted a realistic scenario of a unique... Continue reading »

Lottery and a Very Old Man with Enormous Wings essay

In the book, an introduction to fiction, poetry, drama and writing (Twelfth Edition), by Kennedy, X.... Continue reading »

Poetic Irony essay

Poetic irony is a literary device, which is used to contrast two or more ideas or situations in a po... Continue reading »

Early Modernism essay

Early modernism is a theoretical concept that is closely related to architectural evolution. This en... Continue reading »

“The Glass Menagerie” essay

The Glass Menagerie is one of the major plays by Tennessee Williams who has worked on numerous draft... Continue reading »

A Rose for Emily essay

Faulkner establishes time and place in the story “A Rose for Emily" in his fictional city of J... Continue reading »

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn essay

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel written by Mark Twain that was published in 1884 in Englan... Continue reading »

Sentimental Power essay

‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ is an anti-slavery novel written by American novelist Harriet ... Continue reading »

Ethan Frome essay

In the widest sense, education or learning as depicted in the novel plays a significant role in tran... Continue reading »

Friends’ Comparison essay

Friend I. This person is a caring and kind-hearted man. He is responsible, since he completes every ... Continue reading »

“A Visit from the Goon Squad” essay

A Visit from the Goon Squad is a novel written by Jennifer Egan, which reflects on the modern life o... Continue reading »

Gothic Literary essay

Many literature styles were formed in ancient times including Gothic literary genre. It is determine... Continue reading »

“Shakespeare’s Sister” essay

Thenovel"Shakespeare's Sister" by Virginia Woolf gives acomprehensiveanalysis of a woman’sposi... Continue reading »

Philosophical Ideas in Literature essay

The book Nemesis by Philip Roth and The Plague by Albert Camus have great similarities as well as ... Continue reading »

Virgils The Aeneid essay

In the poem Aeneid, Aeneas the main character is stranded at the coast in North Africa where a juv... Continue reading »

The Foundations of Othello essay

Aristotle defined the medium of tragedy in 250BC and since then, it has been a prominent feature i... Continue reading »

A Doll House essay

Relevance to 2011 Audience: Family Conflict In Henrick Ibsen’s A Doll House, domestic confli... Continue reading »

Love essay

Love is a feeling of strong affection to and personal attachment. It is also seen as a virtue repr... Continue reading »

How did the Story of Romeo and Juliet Originate essay

The story of Romeo and Juliet may be one of the most influential tale that speaks on the premise o... Continue reading »

Heroic Figures essay

A hero is described as a person with admired deeds or actions that shows great courage. Its true A... Continue reading »

Equity in Measure for Measure essay

Act one, scene oneHe tries to bring proper equity as the play opens with Duke leaving town and app... Continue reading »

Henry and Sovereignty essay

Being independent from external factors defines sovereignty. A nation or an individual can be desc... Continue reading »

As You like It essay

The play As You like is a pastoral comedy written by William Shakespeare. This work is based on th... Continue reading »

Alice Walker essay

Alice Walker’s “The Flowers” is a short story of a young African-American girl cal... Continue reading »

Twains Use of a Child in his Book essay

It is not by mistake that Mark Twain uses a thirteen year old as the main character in his book &l... Continue reading »

Foundations of Othello essay

Shakespeare’s play Othello is marked with so much irony that starts off from the beginning o... Continue reading »

Bibliography of Housman essay

Alfred Edward Housman was a renowned poet and English scholar whose words convey an idealistic pes... Continue reading »

Overcoming Fear in White Noise essay

The Novel White Noise by Don DeLillo narrates the life Jack Gladney, and his obsessive fear of dea... Continue reading »

Bibliography of Kate Chopin essay

Kate Chopin (full name Katherine O'Flaherty) was born to Eliza Faris O'Flaherty who is believed to... Continue reading »

Midsummer Nights Dream essay

A right that the father against his daughter in A Midsummer Night's Dream is that it becomes to ch... Continue reading »

A Small Good Thing essay

Raymond carver wrote the short story called the bath and later rewrote it in a version that he ref... Continue reading »

Masque of Red Death essay

The masque of the red earth falls under the allegory category. There are sets of signs that have b... Continue reading »

All My Sons essay

The action in the play, All My Sons, by Arthur Miller happens in 1947, in the Midwest of the Unite... Continue reading »

Achilles essay

Achilles is by far the greatest warrior that is present in the Achaian army. It is as a consequenc... Continue reading »
 
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