Literature Essay Samples Page 12

In August Wilson’s “Fences”, Troy is a father and husband who make’s the worse decision from human imperfection, to commit adultery and become mixed up in another relationship. By noticing the racial tension in the late nineteen fifties, in combination with Troy’s past life experiences and the events that play out in each act, one…

The Best of Saki, edited by Martin Stephen, is a collection of short stories by famed 20th century writer Hector Hugh Munro. Saki is the pen name that Munro wrote his short stories under. Most of these stories were originally published in newspapers, which Saki did most of his writing for. After reading this collection…

Cloud Atlas consists of six different narratives which are not in order in the book which made the novel having intersections and synchronized. The first parts of the stories were partially written. The story beginning of the story was all about an America notary’s journal in the South Seas voyage times. The first story was…

The complex issues arising from the developing social hierarchy that existed in Britain at the turn of the 19th century are the subjects of many of the great novels of this era. As the literacy rates in Britain improved in the early 1800s, novels became an important form of social commentary with novelists including Jane…

William Butler Yeats, one of the modern poets, influences his contemporaries as well as successors, such as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and W. B. Aden. Though three common themes in Yeats’ poetry are love, Irish Nationalism and mysticism, but modernism is the overriding theme in his writings. Yeats started his long literary career as…

The Grapes of Wrath was based on John Steinbeck’s 1939 Novel. The producer focuses on a fictional family that was inspired by events during the Great Depression. A film that was both loved and unloved by Americans during that time because of its realism. The film served as a stark reminder of the hardships during…

            Oedipus and Othello are considered as tragic heroes who were ruled with pride, power, and the inability to discern facts from lies. They are also impulsive in bestowing judgment unfortunately mostly to the people they care most about. Oedipus blinded himself after learning that he killed his own birth father, King Laius in self…

This poem, “In a Dark Time” by Theodore Rothke, is often seen as a melancholic and somber work of literature. However, I interpret it differently, finding a darker meaning within it. Rothke deliberately includes numerous hidden meanings in each line of his poem, maintaining the enigmatic tone. In this analysis, I will dissect a few…

The title of the book I am reading is The Reptile Room. The author is Lemony Snicket. The point of view is first person. The main idea of The Reptile Room is that the Baudelaire parents die in a house fire and the orphans are sent to live with a distant relative named Count Olaf,…

In the novel, Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux, we are introduced to a characterknown to everyone as the mysterious Opera Ghost. His character in this book is very complex. Although the Opera Ghost is very ugly physically and mentally, through his actions, we can findmuch beauty. During the masked ball we are given,…