Literature essays

Ostensibly, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and The World are two texts that are disparate in form and subject matter, each dealing with the consequences of a rapidly changing world in different ways. However, both texts share a concern with exploring the diametric relationship between the home and the outside … Read more

Migration and adapting to different cultures have become major global issues in the contemporary world. Diasporic Literature has a sense of alienation and has emerged as an outcome of migration. Dealing with alienation, nostalgia, quest of identity and displacement, Diasporic Literature addresses amalgamation and disorientation. The person, who has migrated from his homeland feels depersonalised … Read more

No matter what disciple a student is in, it involves various kinds of writing requirements big and small. Each student at East Carolina University is required to write at least one research paper during their time. For a Communication Science and Disorders major, there will be a lot. Research papers in any major require some … Read more

Genre: Genre is a complicated and inherently problematic issue due to many reasons especially history which stands accused of confusing things when it comes to the differentiation between genre fiction and literary fiction (Joshua Rothman, November 6, 2014 9 the new Yorker). After reading A Song of Ice and Fire one might give himself the … Read more

Question 1) Romeo and Juliet, text, context and ideas. [Time] Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, was expounded on 1594– 96 and first distributed in an unapproved quarto in 1597. An approved quarto showed up in 1599, significantly more and more solid. A third quarto, in view of the second, was utilized by the … Read more

The writings of Queen Elizabeth I are by no means considered canonical and play no central role in Renaissance literature. Indeed, one could discuss Elizabethan writing whilst quite ironically ignoring the Queen herself. This dissertation sets out to examine works which are, on the whole, neglected and shows that Queen Elizabeth I expertly utilised language … Read more

1. About the Author (535) Tarık Buğra is Turkish journalist and writer of novels, stories, plays and jokes. He is a well-known writer of Turkish literature in Republican period. Buğra is a versatile writer, especially known for his novels. In 1991 he became a State Artist. Tarık Buğra was born in Akşehir. He attended primary … Read more

Section 1-Pages 0 through 25- done 1.page 25-“Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past. He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that … Read more

The Alchemist Paulo Coelho is one of the most renowned author is known my many amongst continents. He has received numerous international awards including the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. The Alchemist brought him the most fame and it has been translated into 80 languages. It was a story of a shepherd boy … Read more

The short story Reunion is written by the American writer John Cheever. Like this story, most of his fictions takes place near Manhattan, New York. Where he also lived, and it is properly therefor his stories takes place in New York, because he think that all the different people makes the city the most interesting. … Read more

Kids are the definition of innocence. They get to live a big part of their lives with only joy and happiness. As a kid you haven’t gotten to know the more serious dangers and problems in life, such as death. Every parent wants to protect their children for as long as they can, and as … Read more

Zora Neale Hurston’s short story Sweat takes place in a small African American community in Southern Florida during the 1920’s when the society was still divided between the blacks and the whites. There has always been a struggle of power which gives one group of individual more control over the other. For example majority over … Read more

Patriarchy in America during the early nineteenth century was dominated by white males and their constant hunger for power and control. White males were the predominant owners of massive plantations, which required the work of hundreds of slaves. The roles of enslaved female African Americans were not limited to various physical labors, maids, nurses, and … Read more

The importance of descriptive representation in regards to minorities has been the subject of many debates in the past. As countries become more and more divers, they are looking for better understanding on descriptive representation and the driving force in regards to the minorities within their nation state. There isn’t enough research on the subject, … Read more

Betrayal in the Ruins In the novel, The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen; betrayal is portrayed throughout the novel. The name of the main character in the novel isn’t revealed; therefore, throughout the literary analysis, the main character will be identified as narrator. The narrator portrays himself as being “a spy, a sleeper, a spook, … Read more

Life is about making a positive impact on those around you, not trying to accumulate vast wealth. However, it is well-known that members of society are bound to choose riches over one’s own or others happiness. To add, it is important to acknowledge, especially when considering selfish women like Daisy Buchanan. Studies show, that often … Read more

Virgil’s Aeneid is an epic tale that tells of the rise of Roman hero Aeneas and, like many such classics, is filled to the brim with brutality. From its inception to its final lines, the Aeneid develops as a story defined by significant episodes of injurious force and deadly violence that result in innumerable fatalities. … Read more

Peter pan is a novel that has been around for over 100 years. In its lifetime, it has been adapted many times into many different TV shows, movies, and plays. All of these adaptations showcase Peter Pan and the characters of the novel through various different perspectives. Once Upon a Time, is an example of … Read more

The use of hindsight within the first person narration is an effective technique in both novels. In addition to providing distinctly clear detail surrounding events, it also presents a perspective garnered by maturity that a child would not have had. In Jane Eyre, this maturity is demonstrated through the language and the complexity of the … Read more

Alfred Tennyson’s Maud (1855) is a response to the social crisis of the early nineteenth century: a time when the binary between masculinity and femininity was called into question. With the rise of industrial capitalism in the early nineteenth century, the old distinction between upper-class landowning aristocrats and lower-class industrial laborers was complicated by the … Read more

Mason was sure that he was born into a family of robots. He had first believed it when he had become aware of the cool pane of glass pressed into his mother’s skin. Well, to a four year old it was fascinating. Some of his most vivid memories were those ones where he would climb … Read more

Mario Vargas Llosa once wrote, “Thanks to literature, to the consciousness it shapes, the desires and longings it inspires…civilization is now less cruel than when storytellers began to humanize life with their fables,” artfully conveying the meaning behind many war novels, as their authors choose to either romanticize or truly depict the horrors of the … Read more

Weak. Passive. Dependent. Sadly, these are the stereotypes that women were given in the 1800s. During the nineteenth century, women were considered to be in a lower-class when compared to men. Typically, women would stay at home, raise the kids, and care for the house while their husbands were out working and providing for the … Read more

Introduction “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already…” (Rowling, 2008) The “relationship between reality and fiction” is the main theme of this study, which is trying to give an overview of the thinking and imagination of J.K. Rowling, the author who brought the … Read more

In Sophocles’ play, Antigone, it begins with the illegal burial of Polyneices, Antigone’s beloved brother. Creon, the King of Thebes, is coerced to condemn his niece Antigone to death. Being loyal to his city, Creon follows through with his punishment of Antigone. By doing so, his character is changed forever. By the end of the … Read more