Literature Essay Samples Page 368

That year, the harvest was mournful and brought many farmers to tears as they unearthed the wretched and decaying yams. In the midst of it all, one man took his own life by tying his cloth to a tree and hanging himself. Okonkwo carried the memory of that tragic year with him for the rest…

The term “alienation” in respect of people and societies is generally used to describe both estrangement from traditional communities by single people and estrangement of people from each other in contemporary society. Our way of life is based in individualism and individual effort, as well as ideology of individual success so it leaves little room…

Every time I read the opening of Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” I am reminded of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. In Stravinsky’s work, the rebirth offered by spring is presented as being violent and painful, much like Eliot’s “breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land” (Eliot, lines 2-3). Indeed, the opening seven lines…

Often times a book like Internal Bleeding is written primarily from a third or fourth person point of view in an effort to inform the American public about something that occurs thousands of times each day in hospitals all over the country. This book however, was written by two doctors, Bob Wachter and Kaveh Shojania,…

The drama of Othello is like you are forcing a immense bowlder up a steep mountain, and so it eventually reaches the top, and it goes down the other side, and nil can halt it. This is how I see the action in Othello. Iago spends the whole clip plotting, and cabaling with the audience,…

I believe that Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of the nunnery scene was the most effective out of all the ones we watched. This is because he used symbolism in the setting, included the entire text of Hamlet, and emphasized the shifts in tone between Hamlet and Ophelia, which conveyed the subtle themes and meanings of the…

Act 1 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet establishes the mood of the play through various conversations and events. These moods include mystery, sorrow, and a desire for revenge. These emotions will likely shape the actions of Hamlet and other events that unfold throughout this tragic tale. From the very beginning, in the first scene and in subsequent…

In Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man, the protagonist exemplifies inner conflict and constant fluctuation in future goals, reality, and personal opinions similar to Spinning’s character Mr. Cogitator in his poems “On Mr. Cogitator’s Two Legs” and “Mr. Cogitator and the Pearl. ” In “On Mr. Cogitator’s Two Legs,” Kibitzing shows Mr. Cogitator’s conflicting personalities by…

Robert Ewell, his family, and how he lives. A good example is the passage in which Robert Ewell testifies in the TomRobinson Trial. This is a description of the Ewell’s home as well as aninsight into the Ewells themselves. We learn what kind of a father Robert isand the kind of life into which he…

Blood is a symbolic representation of sin throughout the play, evoking fear and suspense in both the characters and the readers. Macbeth and his wife’s immoral ambitions reveal their guilt. Even before their actions took place, Macbeth was plagued by haunting images of blood: “I see thee still, and on thy blade and dudgeon gouts…