Literature Essay Samples

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…

In the novel Crime and Punishment, the Russian author Feodor Dostoevsky implements certain narrative techniques which aid greatly in accurately portraying the lives, surroundings, physical characteristics and hardships of protagonist Rodya Raskolnikov, as well as the rest of the lower class in St. Petersburg where the story is set. In addition to simply depicting the…

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…

In Aldo Leopold’s essay Thinking like a Mountain, we can see how his enthusiasm to kill a wolf shifted to an enthusiasm to save every creature in the mountain. The point he’s trying to convey in his essay is that every creature in the environment is important, because it plays a role in keeping the…

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…

The goals of a thesis statement are both to set the framework for an essay as well as providing a sense of direction for the reader. A well crafted thesis statement will introduce the topic and the related issue while informing the reader of the direction the essay will take. The first problem that can…

Long ago, in the far-off land of Ayodhya, a boy was born. His name was Rama, the son of King Dasaratha. As he grew up, he met a young girl named Sita, and the first time he saw her, he was stunned by her beauty. It was love at first sight. They ended up getting…