Books & Literature Essay Examples
The Catcher in the Rye and 1984: Alienation BY JEWELS2660g Alienation is defined as the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved. In the novels The Catcher in the Rye and 1984 alienation is a main theme. Catcher…
The children’s poems of Eloise Greenfield and Shel Silverstein feature distinctly different types of imagination and narrative voices. In Greenfield, the narrator’s imagination revolves around her experience as a black female child, and her reflections are both escapist and deeply aware of her heritage. In Silverstein, on the other hand, imagination does not draw from…
The Consequences of Puritan Depravity and Distrust as Historical Context for Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” by Michael E. McCabe Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require constant self-examination to see that they are sinners and unworthy of God’s Grace. Because man had broken the Covenant of Works when Adam had eaten…
The concepts of death and grief are often interlinked. This is demonstrated in Seamus Heaney’s poem, ‘Mid-Term Break’, where he conveys the sadness of death after his own brother, Christopher, dies. Heaney uses various language techniques, sound devices, symbolizations and contrasts to achieve this sense of sorrow. In the first stanza, Heaney’s clever use of…
The concept of family usually suggests the notions of love and communication. If that were universally true, then the entirely opposite of this would be the cliched entity of the dysfunctional family. But William Faulkner’s novel “As I Lay Dying” introduces us to an uncommon dysfunctional family, the Bundrens, and their story is told in…
The crucible has a very interesting structure, as in it doesn’t follow many of the usual rules of play writing and uses it to maximum effect. The play consists of four acts and no scenes to separate them. This is unusual for a play write to do because it limits the acts location two one…
The creature ruined Victor’s life by taking his love, Elizabethan life. Just as in “Fire and Ice” represents desire & hatred. Humans desired are different from what they need and desires will turn Into Jealously, making destruction come out of that. But humans hatred of others can cause destruction because hating another can ruin friendships…
The Crucible contains many events that which precede the madness that ensues by the end of the play. Tension builds into Hysteria in several ways in Act III. The stage directions at the beginning of act III bring the audience straight into a heavy tense atmosphere. Adjectives like solemn and forbidding make the room seem…
The convict has to treat Pip badly and frighten him because the convict is ‘on the run’ and if he is caught he will be sentenced to death, therefore the convict has to be careful with Pip. If Pip is scared he will do as the convict tells him. It is important for Dickens to start…
The difference between appearance and reality is a constant theme in Shakespearean drama. In The Merchant of Venice it is an important aspect of the development of the plot and character both in the story of the bond, which unfolds in Venice, and in the tale of caskets, set in Belmont. Shylock’s affected ‘kindness’ (I,…
The duality of the last part in the poem – where he reflects on the pettiness of his actions – can be seen as a result of the contrast between a crisis response which is ‘appropriate’ (attacking the snake as education and social convention would prescribe), and a crisis response which is ‘manly,’ that is…
The development of love between Romeo and Juliet is very rapid and sudden. It is definitely love at first sight, or in Romeo’s case, just an aftershock after the downfall of a previous love. Both lovers have both experienced what they thought was true love; Romeo was in love with Rosaline, and Juliet was thinking…
The drama. Andre’s Mother. by Terrence McNally is a narrative about accepting decease and is based in a narrative about a immature adult male who died before stating his female parent that he was gay ; go forthing the man’s spouse to interrupt the intelligence and to inform the female parent about how much he…
The epic poem Beowulf is a tale of a warrior, named Beowulf, and the events that lead to his death. One of the main concerns of the epic poem was whether or not it is of pagan or Christian origin, or whether it has pagan or Christian influences. Even though the poem appeared to be…
The essay of “Self Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson discusses the three major points of the self-contained genius, the disapproval of the world, and the value of self-worth. I really enjoyed reading this essay and I found several quotes that I found interesting and relatable. Emerson says, “To believe your own thought, to believe that…
The exact date of the publication of ‘Julius Caesar’ is not absolutely certain. However, most critics agree that the play was written sometime between 1598 and 1608 – during, or just after, the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. ‘Julius Caesar’ is the first of Shakespeare’s three Roman Plays, the other two being ‘Antony and Cleopatra’…
The fact that Miranda says that Prospero, ‘left me to a bootless inquisition’, showing that Prospero has complete power over her life as he is the only person who can actually tell her who she is. ‘Bootless’, shows that Miranda finds the knowledge completely useless. This shows that Prospero has complete control over what he…
The First World War was the first truly modern war. Its atrocities and huge death toll changed people’s views of war drastically. Pro patria, by Owen Seaman and Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen are both war poems written around the time of the First World War, and as such share certain surface properties….
The first description of Baskerville Hall is “fury of years of storm”; this sets a dark and dismal atmosphere. Storms seem to make everything dark and gloomy and sunlight seems to bring positive emotions. When it states “years” this shows that Baskerville Hall has not seen sunlight for a while, this suggests that the curse…
The first novel that I finished reading was Jurassic Park, by Michael Chriton. That was the first book that captivated my imagination and brought me into the world of reading. I noticed that the book was far better than the movie. My imagination could take me any where and my mind painted extraordinary pictures of…
The Function of Deceit Deceit functions in many ways throughout the play Much Ado About Nothing characters use deceit to conceal, to assist and to trick. Benedict, Beatrice, Clay audio, Hero and Don John are all affected by the functions of deceit throughout the play, the h roes use it to bring people together and…
The Grapes of Wrath is a novel written by John Steinbeck. In the bulk of modern literature, it is consider a masterful epic unmatched in the realm of the written word. The novel centers around a family of workers who are immigrants — The Joads. When the novel takes place they are in California attempting…
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock explores the emotional and conflicting thoughts of a middle-aged man who is indecisive of attending a party to meet a woman. His indecisiveness is caused by his hypocrisy towards the higher classes of society along with his self-consciousness and concern for superficial matters. He concludes that he has…
The masterpiece exposes not only deep social message but also ills of the society, as the writer in various ways reveals the eternal and global robbers such as the problem of good and evil, the problem of racism (black or white), the problem of morality and judging system. The idea of Social Inequality is centered…
The Motto of the World State is Community, Identity, Stability. With detailed reference to the novel, how do you view this in relation to individual freedom? “Community, Identity, Stability. ” — The motto that shapes and defines the entire civilized world. Civilians like Lenina believe that the motto has given them their individual freedom. “I am free….
The non-fiction book, “What They Fought For,” by James McPherson, talks about the motivations that influenced the soldiers who fought the Civil War. This book was curved from letters sent by the soldiers to their parents and friends, and also the lectures given by the author at the university. The book has various ideologies and…
The novel “The voices of silence” by Bel Mooney is set in the country of Romania during the last months of the regime of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. The story is told from the viewpoint of Flora Popescy, a thirteen-year old school girl who lives with her parents Rodika and Constantin in the capital city…
The novel was originally written in French and later translated to numerous other languages including English. Mostly autobiographical, the novel paints a colourful picture of life in Africa. There are the typical ingredients of African wildlife, traditional tribal culture, belief in hoodoo or black magic, etc. But each of these facets to the novel presented…
The other woman in ‘Rhesos’ is the title character’s mother, the Muse Terpsichore. She appears above the stage (deus ex machina) cradling her son’s slain body and is beside herself with grief for her loss and blames Athene of betrayal as she and the other Muses and Phoebus trained Mousaios who was associated with Athene…
The opening scene of Act 4 in Othello succeeds one in which Othello begins to confront Desdemona about Cassio via the loss of her handkerchief. Bewildered by her husband’s strange new violent and jealous behaviour, Desdemona, unknowingly, tries even harder to help Cassio. She continually implores that Othello gives him back his position as officer,…
