Literature Essays

Race in Toni Morrison’s Recitatif
Example essay. Last modified: 27th May 2021
Introduction: There is an underlying desire– a compulsion for the readers of “Recitatif” to decipher the racial question of Twyla and Roberta that pervades throughout the short story. Readers automatically begin to categorize and classify the characters whether they are conscious of it or not...

Racial Inequalities of the 20th Century
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: The life of three people who were in the same place at the same time is a story of those who wanted to make a change in the world. A story of people who thought differently than others and sought...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction:  Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American Transcendentalist poet and essayist during the 19th century who wrote his best essay titled “Self-Reliance.” The purpose of Emerson’s essay was to ...

Rappaccini’s Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Within Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Rappaccini is allegedly a cruel, cold, and evil father as he represents himself as a scientist attempting a poisonous exp...

Reconstruction of the Self in Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: THE POWER OF LOVE Introduction When Leonard Andre Scovens was a young boy his stepfather physically abused him with objects such as extension cords, hangers and pieces of wood....

Red Riding Hood: Hunted or Hunter?
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Red Riding Hood is a tale used to warn of the dangers in the world especially those of strangers and their desires to harm the innocent. But in deeper investigation I have come across a different...

Reflective Statement on Rabindranath Tagore's 'Red Oleanders'
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2021
Introduction: This reflective statement will look at Rabindranath Tagore's 'Red Oleanders' and discuss the cultural and contextual considerations of Red Oleanders. The statement will considered how this work was influenced by the author’s perspectives and the socio-political and economic events leading up to and including the time period wherein it was written in....

Relationship between Man and Nature in Frankenstein
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Theme: Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein explores how destructive the pursuit of knowledge can be when it goes beyond human understanding. Given that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in the mids...

Relationship Between the Enigmatic Quality of Modernist Short Stories and Abrupt Endings
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Discuss the relationship between the enigmatic quality of modernist short stories and their abrupt endings. Frank Kermode argues in his book The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theor...

Relationship between the Reader and the Text
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:  ‘The Reader is a Producer rather Than a Consumer of Meanings.’ Discuss with Reference to Theories of the Role of the Reader/Audience. The relationship between the reader and th...

Representation of Africa in Harlem Renaissance Texts
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Essay Question: 1)     ‘The Dixie pike has grown from a goat path in Africa’ (Jean Toomer). Examine the representation of Africa in Harlem Renaissance texts (you...

Representation of Social Groups in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? – Darcy Davitt In Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, androids represent the zenith of technological creati...

Representation of the Community in A Taste of Honey and U and non-U
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Raymond Williams called ‘community’ ‘that warmly persuasive word’. Explore the way that one or more texts represent the idea of community as either inclusive or alienating. Both ...

Research Project on Edith Wharton's Roman Fever
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Oct 2021
Introduction: This is one of the many reasons why we thought Wharton would make a great person to research. Wharton is known for her two most famous stories, ...

Rhetorical Devices Used in “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2021
Introduction: Analysis of Rhetorical Devices Used in Dr Martin Luther King Jr's “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting without a permit. Soon after, eight clergymen wrote a letter entitled, “A Call for Unity,” ...

Richard Mayhew’s Character Development in Neverwhere
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Richard Mayhew is a quiet, lonely, and, overall, average man from Scotland looking for a new life in London. He meets, who he believes is the, love of his life, and enjoys every minute of being i...

Robert Browning's Porphyria’s Lover | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Everyone comes from different surroundings, cultures, ethnicities, but they all have something forbidden to them. In Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue, Porphyria’s Lover, a tragicevent of ...

Robert Lowell's The Drinker | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 27th May 2021
Introduction: Lowell was born unplanned and unwanted. His life did not follow a continuous line: it was convoluted like razor wire through intervals of misery, each a discouraging echo of the last, a toilsome way to exist in time. Imagine living life in a strait jacket inside a white padded room, surrounded by the deafening silence that is depression....

Role of Narration in Camus’ The Outsider
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: The Role of Narration in Camus’ The Outsider   Reflective Statement: From my first reading of The Outsider by Camus, I had not fully grasped the importance of ...

Rudyard Kipling’s India: Literature, History and Empire
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Kim: Pedagogy in the Empire from a Post-Colonial Perspective Kipling has created various educational character models in his fictional works in the past and ‘Kim’ is no exception. Ki...

Sexuality in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:            The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger heavily probes the theme of sexuality – specifically, Holden Caulfield’s immense turbu...

Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio: Themes and Effects
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Jun 2018
Introduction: Title: Discuss the implications of Sherwood Anderson’s introduction to Winesburg, Ohio: ‘The Book of the Grotesque’. Sherwood Anderson’s post-war ‘novel’ of America in microcosm, Winesbur...

Similarities Between the Salem Witch Hunt and McCarthyism and Their Influence on The Crucible
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2021
Introduction: It is apparent that numerous parallels are drawn between Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, and McCarthyism. Both the publishing of the play by as well as the events of the Red Scare took place in the mid-20th century, specifically the 1950s. They were extremely influential events that shaped the future....

Situational Irony in Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Irony is a type of figure of speech often used by authors to draw attention and to send a message about certain situations or characters without being too obvious. Among the different types of ir...

So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs From Americans | Poem Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Project 2: Literacy Analysis The purpose of this paper is to explore the poem, “So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs From Americans, (1979)” by Jimmy Santiago Baca. In the poem, Baca offers ...

Social Class in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jun 2023
Introduction: To conclude, the author makes various connections between the central idea of social class in the novel and the various settings discussed. Fitzgerald illustrated the different behaviours and attitudes from the different social classes presented in the novel – East Egg, West Egg and The Valley of Ashes to describe how people were seen in the Roaring Twenties based on their social class....

Social Commentary in Allen Ginsberg's Howl
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Conformity is a fundamental aspect of which society as we know it has been built upon. Since the beginning of mankind, people have tended to conform to behaviours that are common among other peop...

Social Conflicts in American Literature: Hester Prynne and Huckleberry Finn
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Nov 2021
Introduction: The social conflicts faced by two great characters of American literature - Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter and the titular character of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn....

Some Memoirs of the Life of JOB
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Some Memoirs of the life of JOB written by Thomas Bluett takes place in the 1700s around the time of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The article displays Diallo’s journey of being captured, esca...

Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:  “Sonny’s Blues” is a story authored by James Baldwin and published in 1957. The short story takes place in the center of civil rights movements in American society. Baldwin is conside...

Sons and Lovers in Terms of Modernism
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:  The new literary discovery of the XX was the modernist movement. Modernism is the art of a dehumanized era, the attitude towards humanistic values in modernism is unclear, but the modernist...

Spirituality in Life of Pi and The Great Gatsby
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Devoutness, Difficulty, and Determination The novel, Life of Pi, shares affinities and discrepancies with the novel, The Great Gatsby. Yann Martel, the author of Life of Pi, bases its s...

Stability seen in Brave New World
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Today, there are many news articles and research into communication and censorship. Also, there is a lot of talk of genetically modified babies. To many people, this may be a very new thing, but ...

Stories of Silencing and Censorship in Metamorphoses
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Throughout Metamorphoses, Ovid attempted to narrate how society transformed from uncivilized to civilized through self-contained transformation stories. These stories often portray female charact...

Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: In the view of “Isms”
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: In the view of “Isms” Introduction The very famous “Riot” in the history of the arts broke out on the night of May 29th 1913, the premier...

Submissive Women Protagonists in Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: It is quite common for readers to apply their own standards of conduct to their favorite characters and situations from any particular literature. This tendency affects the way a reader perceives...

Symbolism and Imagery in Crime and Punishment
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Research Question: How and why does Fyodor Dostoyevsky in Crime and Punishment use symbolism and imagery to characterize the journey of Raskolnikov?   Title: “A journey f...

Symbolism in Eveline by James Joyce
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: A Paralyzed Soul Catholicism was the dominant religion in Ireland throughout the age of Modernism. The role of the Catholic church played a vital role in Eveline’s life and served ...

Talking Back by Bells Hooks, and Girl by Jamaica Kincaid | Comparison
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: How To Act Like A lady; Or Not Jamaica Kincaid wrote an interesting short fiction called “Girl”. At first glance, there seems to be a narrator listing multiple objectives and rules ...

Tartuffe Society Moliere
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Apr 2017
Introduction: Moliere's Tartuffe speaks volumes about reason by highlighting it in some of the main characters, while at the same time exaggerating the lack of it in others....

Tennessee Williams and Alice Walker's Presentations of Entrapment
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Explore how Tennessee Williams and Alice Walker present the idea of entrapment through the characters of Amanda and Celie? Entrapment is the enclosure of someone unwillingly, and usuall...

Tennessee Williams’ Poetic Language
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction:  Has anyone ever wondered if there would be another writer as influential as Shakespeare? Some may say it is a poet or novelist, but others, such as author John Lahr, say its Tennessee Will...

The “Ballad of Birmingham”: A Historical Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: The poem, “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall, is a piece of work that is incredibly important in history and for American literature because it depicts the disgusting reality that racis...

The Adrenaline Narrative in Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild and Into Thin Air
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:  Jon Krakauer uses the adrenaline narrative to explore identity in his two books, Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, as he learns how high adrenaline adventures influence a person’s liveliho...

The Book Thief: The Omnipresence of Pain
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: The Book Thief: The Omnipresence of Pain The illustrious novel,The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, depicts the story of Liesel Meminger, a young German girl coming of age in Nazi Germany. T...

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Apr 2018
Introduction: Thesis: When boundaries like social, cultural physical and separations constrained Bruno’s life, it never prevented him from forming a forbidden friendship Sana Ibrahim -3202 John Boyne is an Irish...

The Chronicles of a Death Foretold | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: A Chronicle of a Town’s Envy  In the book “The Chronicles of a Death Foretold”, an unidentified narrator recounts the murder of a man name Santiago in front of his doorstep. T...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker: Redemption of Mr
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: The Color Purple by Alice Walker: Redemption of Mr._____          Change: it is an inevitable force that happens to everything and everyone in tim...

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Wrought into the iron gates of a dormant hellscape, there exists a perpetual deception in a foreign language- a mother tongue in the times when the barren remains of genocide were an undying pur...

The Crucible A.P. Book Report
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jun 2015
Introduction: The Crucible A.P. Book Report 1. The Crucible 2. Arthur Miller, 1950’s 3. America, California 4. John Proctor – Honorable and rational, he is the “leader” of the few sane peop...

The Ecological Indian and Solar Storms
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: In the novel Solar Storms by Linda Hogan, traditional indigenous lands and cultures are being destroyed to make room for infrastructure development, like dams. Hogan portrays Native Americans sim...

The Effects of Imperialism in The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Example essay. Last modified: 12th May 2021
Introduction: The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a book about a seaman, Marlow, from Europe. He is sent on a boat journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, the most successful trader in ivory working for the Belgian government....

The Embodiment of Isolation By 1930s’ Prejudice in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: The significance of rejection and exclusion is echoed throughout a myriad of events in history, especially the Great Depression, for countless causes. Causes like: racism, sexism, ableism, and cl...

The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jun 2017
Introduction: The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, also more generally know with his abbreviated name of V.S. Naipaul, is an English novelist who also indulged into writing ess...

The Giver by Lois Lowry - Chapter Summary
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2017
Introduction: Chapter Summaries Each summary must have at 4-5 sentences. Chapter 1: In chapter 1 in the giver we learn about what jonas’s life is like in the community. We learn that there are a lot of rule...

The Growth of Esperanza in Sandra Cisneros' 'The House on Mango Street'
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Sep 2021
Introduction: Friends can help guide you through tough situations. But sometimes making decisions on your own can be better than what any friend can tell you. Throughout Esperanza’s growth during her year in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza experiences many tough situations and gains realizations on what life is like in Mango Street from Lucy, Sally, and Nenny....

The Handmaid’s Tale Through Feminism
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Men experience a type of fear that if women are created to be equivalent to them in society that women would become more superior than them. Women were at the hands of the men; they were not gran...

The Importance of Family Heritage: Everyday Use by Alice Walker
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction:  During the fourteenth century, quilting was accomplished from the European art, which subsequently expanded its full growth in North America. The U.S quilt have taken on an outstanding and ...

The Importance Of The Friendship Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies” Aristotle, Lives of eminent Philosophers, (2010) Wikipedia dictionary online. Available from: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristotl...

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: The Kite Runner Summary    The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, follows the narrator, Amir, and his memories from when he was a boy in Kabul, Afg...

The Kite Runner: The Feminist Critique
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Jul 2021
Introduction: In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, “The Kite Runner”,  Hosseini displays how conservative Afghan society views women as being innately inferior to their male counterparts throughout the novel.  He displays the lack of female agency in many ways....

The Lais of Marie de France | Book Review
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:  I’ve decided to do my second book review on the first book we read for this class. Which was “The Lais of Marie de France”. written by Marie de France in the 12th century but later tr...

The Literary Canon as an Ideological Construction
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: In the twenty-first century, what we both formally and informally assume is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ literature is often, and conveniently assumed to be what is either canonized or non-canonized r...

The Loss of Identity in Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Jul 2021
Introduction: The dominance of men in The Republic of Gilead causes female characters to struggle in obtaining their true identity. As Gilead arises, all women lose control, giving all men the ability to thrive. Males obtain power and dominance to construct a society that destroys women....

The Lottery by Shiley Jackson and The Scarlet Letter: Themes of Public Shame
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Both “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne are ironic because they share a baseline similarity in obvious relation to public shame.  In the story...

The Man Who Bombed Karachi: A Memoir by Admiral SM Nanda
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Jan 2018
Introduction: The book by Admiral SM Nanda, The Man Who Bombed Karachi: A Memoir, is an autobiography by an Indian Naval officer who retired as the Chief of Naval staff (CNS) and is often remembered for his most re...

The Mango Rains Will Only Come When Women’s Health is a Nation-State’s Priority
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Monique and the Mango Rains is a beautifully written true story of courage in the face of overwhelming odds and the power of women from vastly different cultures banding together to change the wo...

The Multicultural Self as the Palimpsest of Native & Foreign Identities in Zadie Smith's White Teeth
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: The tussle over the consciousness and a sense of self as it manifests through native and foreign culture is nowhere more apparent than in the diasporic populations. As Zadie Smith herself notes i...

The Necklace By Guy De Maupassant
Example essay. Last modified: 4th May 2017
Introduction: I could say that Guy de Maupassant’s stories are just mundane waste of ink. Reading the story you understand things you have never thought about before or, by contrast, have already faced in you...

The Other Side Of The River, By Alex Kotlowitz
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Apr 2017
Introduction: The book, The Other Side of the River, by Alex Kotlowitz, investigates the relationship between two Michigan cities, as well as the death of Eric McGinnis. The two towns, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor...

The Patriarchy in Huxley’s Brave New World
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Every One Belongs to Every One:  The Patriarchy in Huxley’s Brave New World In a world where discomfort and unpleasant emotion do not exist, Huxley’s female characters drift thr...

The Poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Interwar Culture and Poetry This essay will focus on the poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti and will contrast the ways he is able to convey a sense of Italian identity, not only for the soldie...

The Portrayal of Black Men and Racial Hierarchy in Oscar Micheaux’s 'Within Our Gates'
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Aug 2021
Introduction: Even though Within Our Gates was a counterreaction to The Birth of a Nation’s portrayal of the black race, Oscar Micheaux’s characters represent both the educated and the controversial black men. The portrayal of the educated and criminally driven black men shows how the racial hierarchy influences the standpoint of blacks in the early 1900s....

The Pursuit of Happiness in Typical American by Gish Jen
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: What is America? America is the land of the free were individuals can find opportunity for prosperity and success. Many people immigrate to America for the hope of achieving more from their lives...

The Pursuit of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Jul 2023
Introduction: The Great Gatsby is a tragic love story on the outside but is most commonly understood as a skeptical judge of the American Dream. In the novel, Jay Gatsby overcomes his poor past to gain a substantial amount of money in the 1920s NYC, as he fulfills his eventful life impacted by characters in the big city...

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:         Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English Poet of the Romantic Movement, best recognized for “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. In this poem, Coleridge...

The Role of Zionism in Bezmozgis’ The Betrayers
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: The Role of Zionism in Bezmozgis’ The Betrayers Baruch Kotler is a cabinet member in the Knesset and a Soviet-born Zionist hero. When Israel’s prime-minister announces to take down ...

The Romantic Period of Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction:  Romanticism in literature was defined as a literary, artistic and philosophical movement originating in the late 17th century and early 18th century, a movement against the Neoclassicism of...

The Scarlet Letter Notes
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The Scarlet Letter Notes 1. Background Information: The Scarlet Letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and was published back in 1850 during the Romantic Period. This novel can be classified as b...

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov - Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Jul 2017
Introduction: The Seagull is one of Anton Chekhov’s first acclaimed plays, he claimed it to be ‘five tons of love’. It is a comedy of frustrated lives; each character has to deal with their own disapp...

The Secret Life of Bees: Perseverance and Identity
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:  “The nation saw itself in the midst of a new war in Vietnam, and culture wars were being fought at home, with the civil rights movement escalating and new youth subcultures emerging that ...

The Significance Of The Dorado Sequence
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Apr 2017
Introduction: In Candide by Voltaire, describes the transformation of the protagonist Candide, throughout the story. The author demonstrates the character development over the story starting with an innocent person...

The Situationist City | Critical Review
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Sadler, S. (1999). The Situationist City. Cambridge, Mass. and London, England: The MIT Press. Review by Ivette Chehade A man’s life is a series of ever changing situations. ...

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction:  “Short lived Freedom”  The death of a loved one, better yet a spouse, can be devastating. This time can be very critical to the person depending on the type of support sy...

The True Genesis of Slavery: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: The True Genesis of Slavery Slavery, a word that continues to leave society in lasting bitterness. Images of inhumane conditions that appear instantaneously and the ugliness that it adds...

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead: Rebellion and Endurance
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: How is the thing worse than rebellion its cause and how did slaves show that endurance is patience concentrated? In the modern alternate history novel, The Underground Railroad, Colson W...

The Underground Railroad Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: In the fictional novel, The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead writes about slavery and it’s unfortunate/ dishonorable history. He includes the racial discrimination against African America...

The Use of Intertextuality in Postmodern Fiction and Film
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction:  Discuss the use of intertextuality in postmodern fiction and/or film. Two examples of intertextuality in fiction and film are The Hours (dir. Stephen Daldry, 2002) and Jeanette Wi...

Thematic Analysis Of Faerie Queene Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The earthly human society continues to be faced by various impediments to its existence and continuity. Some of these varied issues include; the reality a bout truth and faith, the unending evils, the...

Thematic Analysis on “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Traditions and rituals can be a force of nature. No culture or tradition is unchanging, as for the most part a lot of them have been around since the beginning of time and to mess with an ancient...

Theme of Loneliness and Rejection in Frankenstein
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2021
Introduction: The author illustrates that the guilt for murders can not be put only on Frankenstein’s creation. Society and social norms finally result in feeling of loneliness and estrangement....

Themes and Concepts in Flannery O’Connor's Work
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Research Essay The impact of an author’s writing is often influenced by their childhood, which helped lead them to the successful position they are in. Flannery O’Connor, an author ...

Themes and Messages in the Book of Samuel
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Critically analyse the main message of the book of Samuel by considering its primary themes. Introduction In this essay I will show that the main message of the book of Samuel ...

Themes in Crispin’s Model and The Yellow Wallpaper
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: What is it that makes a story great? Is it the characters and what they are like, the setting, the problems that happen throughout the story to the characters? In eighteen ninety-two, Charlotte ...

Themes in John Steinbeck’s “Chrysanthemums”
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:  During the 1930s genders were viewed differently than they are today. It was a time when there were specific expectations of what a male was supposed to be and how they were to act, they we...

Themes in Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemmingway
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Theme Analysis             Theme is the reoccurring main idea throughout a passage. Sometimes the theme can be identified easily and other times ...

Themes in The Seventh Voyage by Stanislaw Lem
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Hate it or love it, Science fiction is a popular Genre in both films and Books. Regardless of the view, one thing that Science fiction does well is ties in real world problems that are affecting ...

Themes of Guilt and Sexuality in James Baldwin's 'Giovanni's Room'
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Aug 2021
Introduction: James Baldwin’s main concentrate for the novel is Homosexuality. David, the narrator, has a hard time accepting the fact he is gay, leading to his burdensome self-acceptance and self-loathing. David never embraces it....

Themes of Racism in 'Blazing Saddles' & 'The Sellout:'
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Aug 2021
Introduction: Similar techniques can be noted between Blazing Saddles, a satirical comedy Western film directed by Mel Brooks in 1974, and The Sellout, a satirical novel written by Paul Beatty in 2015....

Theoretical Framework for Research Study
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Jan 2018
Introduction: Chapter 3 Research Methodology 3.0 Overview As chapter 1 had discussed about the introduction to the research and chapter 2 had provided an insight into the literature review, chapter 3 would be focus...

This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Sherman Alexie’s “This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix, Arizona” is one of the most fulfilling short stories of times. Victor as named in this particular story had lost a job. Immed...

Thought Paper
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The purpose of this thought paper is to synthesize theoretical discussions and provide critical analysis of selected reading assignments of the preceding weeks. The paper will specifically provide the...

Thousand One Nights
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Do you see The Thousand and One Nights as essentially an entertainment? Antoine Galland was the man responsible for the introduction of ‘the thousand and one nights’ to the western world. This...

To Kill A Mockingbird Controversies Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the great classics of the last century, a beloved book that is studied in high schools across the United States-and yet this book beloved by many is also ...

To What Extent Is the American Literary Self a “representative” Self?
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: The opening line of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself (1855) appearstopresent a celebration of individualism, by declaring: “I celebrate myself” (1). However, through his free use of deictics, ...

Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry by Assia Djebar | Review
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Jan 2018
Introduction: Assia Djebar is an Algerian writer, translator and moviemaker. She is one of North Africa’s best-known and most widely celebrated writers and has in print poems, plays, and short stories, and ha...

Toni Morrison’s Depictions of African American Culture
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Abstract Toni Morrison is an award-winning author, best defined for her explicitly intricate narratives displaying African Americans throughout history. Morrison reconceptualizes the cul...

Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Unbowed Critical Review  The main goal Wangari Maathai wants to accomplish in Unbowed is to use it as a platform to raise awareness that the planet is overwhelmed by carel...

Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal | Review
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Chomsky review  In Aviva Chomsky’s novel Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal she emphasizes how the idea of immigration was built upon racism and bigotry. She stands behi...

Unhappiness in Utopian Literature
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Introduction:  A utopia is a society that is perfect and  where everyone is happy and enjoying their lives. It is more of a dreamed up society that usually won’t function well when it is actually c...

Utopian and Dystopian Fiction by Octavia Butler
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Introduction: Bulter’s unique and naturalistic dystopian characters are very much prominent about the overemphasized loads mostly overstressed sort of powers, with the survival of stories, with amplification...

Utopian Thinking and Entitlement in Huon De Bordeaux
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Introduction: This essay will begin by examining the utopian elements of the Huon de Bordeaux narrative, including their significance within the text and the broader socio-political context, then it will seek to demonstrate that these elements are intrinsically linked and inherently dependent on a Western Crusade....

Versaility in Monstrosity
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Introduction: VERSATILITY IN MONSTROSITY     INTRODUCTION   Since ancient times, monsters have always aroused significant interest among humans. ...

Walt Whitman Poetry Analysis
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Introduction: The Stages of Life     Poetry is the way to express one’s feelings, viewpoints, and experiences in life through a certain style and rhythmic format. In the 19th century...

Washington Square by Henry James
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Introduction: Washington Square The novel, Washington Square, written in 1880, is considered to be one of Henry James’s most exciting and admired novels, with the most open style and plot of his wo...

What Does Hemingway Convey about Success in the Old Man and the Sea ?
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Introduction: Topic: Success in The Old Man and the Sea Research Question: What does Hemingway convey about success in The Old Man and the Seaand is Santiago a successful fisherman   ...

What is the Purpose of Parallelism Between Fantasy and Reality?
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Introduction: What is the Purpose of Parallelism Between Fantasy and Reality? “‘Khattam-Shud,’ he said slowly, ‘is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of Language itself. He is the Prince of ...

What Natural Influences Did Blake and Wordsworth Respond to in Their Poetry?
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Introduction: When looking into the influences of both William Blake and William Wordsworth it is very important to remember a key important event often associated with the term “revolution”, French....

What Role Does the Narrative Voice Play in the Creation of a Text’s Meaning?
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Introduction:      This essay will discuss the important role that has the narrative voice in the meaning of a text using as a point of reference two important works from two different auth...

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | Analysis
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Introduction:  In the short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates the struggle one may experience when trying to define their identity. Connie is a fifteen...

Who Wrote The Works of Shakespeare?
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Introduction: Conversely, the many documents which do exist relating to Shakespeare of Stratford fail to indicate that he was even literate. They depict the life of someone who was energetically engaged in business matters and moneylending, but does not refer to any literary career....

William Shakespeare Sonnet
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Introduction: Comparisons between Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith’s 10 Things I Hate About You and William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and references to William Shakespeare’s “So...

Without Her by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Introduction: ‘Without Her’ – Dante Gabriel Rossetti Formed in 1848, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood consisted of a group of young artists who wished to throw off the conventions of the art establishment a...

Women as Migrants in The Season of Migration to the North
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Introduction: Inna nisah shayatin khuliqna lana Na’ udhubillah min sharri shayatin Women are devils created for us We seek refuge in Allah from the ill luck of the devils (Al- Mawa...

Women of Beowulf
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Introduction: Women of Beowulf Violence and honor governed the Scandinavian culture the story of Beowulf originates. Beowulf, an Old English epic poem,was originally an oral story that was written dow...

Women Roles in “My Contraband” and Little Women
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Introduction:  The American Civil War has often been referred to as the war between brothers. When the war began men were expected to fight and the women were supposed to take care of the house, and the c...

Women Trifles Play
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Introduction: Gender possition and the society (Susan Glaspell) The nineteenth century saw the emergence of several prominent female literary figures. Like many other women writers, Glaspell struggled with themes l...

Writers in the Enlightenment Period
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Introduction: The Enlightenment Period What is an enlightened thinker? It’s when one can critically think or act for themselves. They are free-thinkers, can see the truth, they have an understandin...

Yann Martels Life Of Pi 2001 Literature Essay
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Introduction: Yann Martel’s Booker-Prize winning novel Life of Pi (2001) narrates the nine months’ odyssey of Piscine Patel on the Pacific Ocean. Far from being only a fascinating adventurous tale, this...