Literature Essay Samples Page 203

The Odyssey and the IliadIn our day and age, people strive for independence and a sense of authority. However, at many times this is more easily said than done. Whether it be God, or in the eyes of the Achaeans and Trojans, the immortals, lives and actions are commonly defined by a higher being. Which…

The human condition follows the path of fate. Everyone makes choices out of their own free will which affects their life at that time, but will ultimately lead to their pre- determined fate. People inflict their own wounds during their life by the choices that they make. This applies in Romeo and Juliet and plays…

In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, the narrative unfolds during the late 1800s on Grand Isle in Louisiana. The central figure, Edna Pontellier, stands out as a non-Creole individual amidst a cast of notable characters: Adele Ratignolle, Mr. Ratgnolle, Robert Lebrun, and Leonce Pontellier, all of whom belong to the Creole community. The Creole society is…

The Mbaino tribe in Things Fall Apart practice many traditions that the Western culture would deem superstitious. The Western religion allows for the Christian ideals to prove many of the native traditions superfluous when infiltrating the native’s land during colonization. This disassembling of traditions is introduced by Christianity’s unshakeable stance that native deities have no…

Writers in general shape or influence a reader’s response to their characters by using many clever techniques. The writer does this so he gets a certain response and opinion on each character. They can influence and shape the reader’s views by using techniques like rhetorical questions, alliteration, show and not tell, descriptive writing, choice of…

John Steinbeck is the author of this text. His life dates from 1902 to 1968. He hails from Salinas, in a moderately well up family. His writing career dates from 1925. His first published work includes a series of humor filled stories about Monterey paisanos, widely known as ‘Tortilla Flat’. A close look at his…

The poem’s ‘The Laboratory’, ‘My Last Duchess’, written by Robert Browning, and the play by the late William Shakespeare ‘Macbeth’ are all gravitating to the subject of women, but in different lights. ‘The Laboratory’ is a tragic poem of a wounded heart belonging to a woman who’s converted her feeling into rage towards her husband…

Themes of power and manipulation are evident in George Rowel’s allegory Animal Farm, based on the Russian revolution with animals representing the major players in the debacle, as well as Lord of the Flies, by William Gilding where young children are stranded on a tropical island without any adults or authority figure. Both show how…

The role of a director is commonly associated with working in theatre, television, or film and involves instructing actors. I have been requested to share my insights on directing a scene from ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’. The selected scene, Act Three, Scene Two, lines 120-345, also known as the lovers quarrel, requires a director to…

This underlying theme is used to convey to readers the conflict of the young lovers that gives rise to anxiety as they are caught between protecting oneself from heartache, and risking confession of a true love. Heaney communicates his message through the use of poetic devices as his speaker contemplates whether to go through with…