Literature Essay Samples Page 138

            Adrienne Rich, in her article “Taking Women Students Seriously,” writes about “women as students and students as women” (Rich).  Her article begins with an anecdote about her own life and being a woman student.  She notes, excitedly, that she went to Radcliffe with the knowledge that she would soon have many great men as…

Another way to understand the concept of “within” is to examine how one character silences another character in a text. For instance, in the autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the question arises of how secularists are silenced by Islamic Revolutionists. The novel opens with the chapter “The Veil,” set in Iran in 1980…

In the article Taking Refuge in “How:” Dissecting the Motives Behind Cholly’s Rape in The Bluest Eye by Rebecca Andrews, Andrews talks about the motives behind Cholly raping Pecola. This article shows how Andrews believes “… that Cholly is giving his daughter the only form of love he knows how to express…” In order for…

The story of six individuals who experienced the true effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the East Asia Tin Works factory, just sat down in the plant office and was turning to converse with the girl at the next desk when the bomb exploded….

The character of the Duke is portrayed by Shakespeare as a really complex hypocritical and contradictory character. To many critics. he is conveyed as a Machiavellian Prince utilizing others for his ain political terminals. and to some critics. a God-like figure proving the pathology of power in Vienna. Despite these two polar opposites the character…

Eugene O’Neill has been a essential author in the life of the melodramatic genre. In contrast to other “pure” melodramatic authors like Boucicault, he has transcended the limitations of this dramatic form and has given it a new dimension. If we take into consideration the Greek conventions and the Aristotelian six elements to create a…

Francis Ford Coppola has crafted his film Apocalypse Now to adapt the main values and attitudes as Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness. Whilst the themes of imperialism and human evil are evident in both texts, Apocalypse Now further builds upon these themes through the manipulation of the concepts of the journey to comment on…

The poem takes place in America and tells the story of a black man facing racial discrimination. He is treated as if he is a source of shame for white people and is made to feel inferior. The poet aims to expose how America hides its racial discrimination issues while highlighting the importance of racial…

     All cultures have struggles that are specific to their backgrounds and curcumstances. Some examples include the Jews who survived the Holocaust, victims and refugees from Vietnam in the 1970’s, and Asian-Americans. Although poetry is often regarded as a personal and introspective form of writing, many Asian-American poets have combined it with their personal experiences…

The unique Robert E. Howard tried his hand at quite a few fiction genres, from detective stories to oriental adventure to his humorous westerns about Breck Elkins. He virtually invented heroic fantasy featuring mighty roughneck barbarians, of course, as exemplified by Conan.  His historical adventures with the characters Turlogh Dubh O’Brien and Cormac Fitzgeoffrey (that…