Literature Essay Samples Page 31

I could hardly contain my delight when I received an invitation to a “Horror Party” which has held in honour of Countess Dracula’s birthday. The Countess was actually my best friend, Sandra, and she wanted a special party to celebrate her fourteenth birthday. The day before the party, some of us went to Sandra’s house…

Despite discrimination in the 1950s, Troy, a hard-working African American, provides for his family within desperate times in unjustified conditions. August Wilson’s play, Fences, displays unjustified actions towards blacks, how the feeling of death always looms, and how love can be shown in the simplest items with vivid language and imagery. Throughout the family’s struggles,…

The antisemitism in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice is well-known and documented by literary critics and historians. Shylock, one pf the play’s main characters, is a wealthy Jew whose selfish and avaricious nature is exploited throughout the play to create one of Shakespeare’s  notorious villains. This accomplishment to a large extent rests on Shakespeare’s ability…

In Anglo-Saxon literature and most likely in Anglo-Saxon times, men were measured by many of the same aspects of life that men are measured by today’s standards. Men of that time period were godless, fearless, fame seeking and most of all, courageous. Everyone was in search of these qualities and they achieved them by completing…

In 1983, one of the most influential American Theater writers, August Wilson introduced his literature masterpiece Fences. Based in the nineteen fifties it brings the viewer through a realistic and depressing story of African Americans in the fifties. Wilson’s play fences explains the story of Troy Maxson a promising baseball player through life became a…

What defines what a true tragedy is? A tragedy is often referred as a situation in life where someone has suffered severe misfortune and even death. “Match Point” directed by Woody Allen, stars Chris Wilton, Nola Rice and Chloe Hewett. A. C Bradley, one of the renowned literacy authorities on Shakespearean tragedies made a list…

Joyce Carol Oates employs an allegorical representation of evil in order to depict the concept of temptation. Oates makes references to hell via the character Arnold Friend, who represents the devil, and his target Connie, who succumbs to temptation through her vanity. The narrator indirectly suggests that Arnold Friend is Satan by providing distinct hints…

18th September 2010 What can we learn about Fitzgerald literary concerns from Winter Dreams? In this essay I am going to analyze the literary concerns of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Winter Dreams. F. Scott Fitzgerald short story Winter Dreams’ first appeared In the Metropolitan Magazine, December 1922. Winter Dreams’ tells the story of Dexter Green…

In Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin, the novel explores the theme of Compare and Contrast. Baldwin illustrates characters who experience similar situations, while others contrast with one another. For instance, Florence and Elizabeth share similarities in their circumstances, while Florence and Gabriel clash due to their differing attitudes and beliefs. Additionally,…

My book was divided into sections focusing on individual characters. These characters include Anna Fitzgerald, a thirteen-year-old daughter who was born to help her terminally ill sister. Sara Fitzgerald, a mother of three children who is overwhelmed by her daughter’s diagnosis. Brian Fitzgerald, the father and a firefighter who is often at the station but…