Literature Essay Samples

“It is dangerous to isolate oneself; dangerous for an individual and for a nation.” – Jawaharlal Nehru. The quotation suggests that isolating oneself can be dangerous, as demonstrated in the case of Bartleby, a character in Herman Melville’s novella “Bartleby.” Bartleby’s isolation was dangerous; it led to his depression and eventual death. The motif of…

As the publication date of El Borak and Other Desert Adventures draws closer each day, a companion volume titled  The Early Adventures of El Borak is also looming on the horizon. This hardcover edition from The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press not only contains all the El Borak juvenilia, but related material such as the early…

”Sympathy” and “We Wear the Mask” are without doubt two of the best crafts that a beleaguered poet, who struggled against the norms of his time, would inevitably come up.  Though “Sympathy” and “We Wear the Mask” both speak of Dunbar’s regret for being imprisoned in his own situation, condemning the slavery of blacks and…

When rain clouds gather written by Bessie Head is set in Botswana. The protagonist, Makhaya Maseko is escaping from South Africa as he does not want to be part of the apartheid system, he just wants peace and equality. The aims of the author are to show the horrible living conditions due to the same…

Entry Journal The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde Page #| Quotation| Insights, Questions, Analysis, Connections| 4| “You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one you seem to throw it away. ”| I think this is human nature. We always want things we may not have…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was more than merely an writer. He was a knight, a soldier, a medium, a whaler, a physician, a journalist, and most of all, he was adventuresome. He was non the quiet type of individual, so he enjoyed showing himself. Arthur Conan Doyle was born on the 22nd of May 1859…

Protagonist, and Ma had been keeping secrets from their family making it hard for them to connect with others and come to terms with themselves. Motifs were seen throughout the whole movie expressing thoughts and feelings. For example, face, time and tight camera angles were the motifs in this movie. Throughout those motifs, face was…

The theme in the poem “Homecoming”, by Bruce Dawe, is the feeling and belonging of home and how you can die for your country, yet receive inhumane like treatment. The theme in “Beach Burial”, by Kenneth Slessor, is the pointlessness of war. The two poems are very similar, yet very different, in meaning and tone,…

‘Remembrance’ by Alexander Pushkin is an impassioned poetic lamentation or an elegy of the ‘I’ in the poem about having to be plagued by dreadful memories of particular events.  The poem has an allusion to the capitalist labor atmosphere which was quite abusive during this time.  Pushkin, in the poem, presents the voice to be…

So, I’m going through Post Oaks and Sand Roughs for about the hundredth time and I run across this: “About this time there was printed in the Eagle Nest of Bizarre Stories a letter boosting Steve’s ‘Talon and Bow.’ This letter had been written by a cousin in California, at Steve’s special request.” As we…