Literature Essay Samples Page 376

The essay on The Scarlet Letter explores the concept of feminism, which advocates for gender equality. In the 1840s, men and women did not enjoy the same rights, but the novel portrays a different perspective. Hester challenges Puritan beliefs, embracing her status as an outcast while proudly wearing her punishment. Additionally, she defies societal norms…

In The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch wrote a section titled “Earnest is better than hip”. This section discusses the lesson Randy learned and the incident that taught him this lesson. Randy begins by expressing his preference for earnest individuals over hip ones. He defines a hip person as someone who lacks seriousness and frequently jokes…

Mark TwainWhat the Huck?Though popularity associated with the American frontier and life on the Mississippi, Samuel Longhorne Clemens –Mark Twain—actually spent many of his happiest and most productive years in and near New York City. Mark Twain was, without question, the finest sastirist of his time. Through his writing, one can see as deeper morality…

Descartes argues that humans do not need to speak nor hear to actually think but they need to think to be actually human. This is interpreted through his statement In Speech Sound Rye, and Obsidian are both sick. Rye cannot read but she can speak and Obsidian can read but not speak. They both are…

Imagine being beaten, bruised, cut and scratched, coming home with a black eye and dried blood. Or imagine being mocked, threatened, excluded and alienated. Can you even start to Imagine how that would feel? There are people who experience this everyday of their life. This Is bullying. There are many types of bullying and they…

Despair, or the loss of hope and expectation, is when one gives up and feels hopeless, lacking motivation or energy to keep trying. It commonly occurs in those who have experienced or are experiencing traumatic events. Additionally, despair can lead to a loss of identity. Elie Wiesel’s novel Night depicts this loss of hope through…

Across the first seven chapters, Dickens presents Mrs Joe as the main antagonist. Whether she is boasting about raising Pip “by hand” or deliberately inflicting pain on him and others, it becomes clear that she represents everything opposite of the Victorian ideal woman. The character “Mrs Joe” is referred to as such throughout these chapters,…

In the novel O Pioneers! By Willa Cather, Alexandra Bergson and Marie Shabata have very different lives. Alexandra is a hard working woman of the land, and is more masculine than most women. She has to serve as a caretaker for many plots of land, as her father died when she was young, and put…

            “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.  It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…” (Fitzgerald 9).  These words were written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the last part of his novel “The Great Gatsby.”  In…

There is a constant struggle for people to find their self identity in a world where society tries to force them to become somebody else. Society often sets standards that “well respected citizens” should meet, limiting people from developing their own views of the world and making their own decisions. In Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison…