Literature Essay Samples Page 148

            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…

John Keats, the renowned romantic poet, intended to create a world of pure joy through his two famous odes – Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn. Both these great odes of Keats convey a note of solemnity that deepens now and then to poignant suffering. His words also evoke a haunting…

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is widely considered one of the greatest dramas ever written, in part, because so much of the play is open to multiple interpretations. One such ambiguous aspect is the indecisive nature of Hamlet’s revenge. Since the play’s conception over four hundred years ago, intellectuals have put forth numerous theories attempting to identify…

The play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry examines familial relationships and their impact on an individual’s development and group cohesion. The drama set in 1950s Chicago follows the Younger family, an African American working class family, as they struggle with poverty, prejudice, and their aspirations. The drama emphasizes the importance of family,…

“The Necklace” is a short»story written by Guy de Maupassant in 1884. It is famous its twist ending style, which Maupassant is famous for, “The Necklace” was made into a few TV shows and movies before because of its famous story. The story demonstrates the consequences of class greed and materialism, The story starts with…

My Last Duchess are monologues that are similar in presenting middle-aged, unmarried men who are suffering from insecurities. Eliot’s 20th century The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is the story of a man searching for love and acceptance whereas My Last Duchess is set in the 16th century and focuses on a Duke searching…

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…

“Twenty Love Poems and a vocal of Despair” is written by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. He wrote his aggregation of verse forms when he was a twenty-year-old. My chief subjects are the instability of love. the function of the vocal of Despair and the alteration of love during one one or more verse forms…

Sonnet 72 William ShakespeareSonnet 18Shall I compare thee to a summers day? aThou art more lovely and more temperate: bRough winds do shake the darling buds of May, aAnd summers lease hath all too short a date: bSometime too hot the eye of heaven shines cAnd often is his gold complexion dimmed, dAnd every fair…