Literature Essay Samples Page 484

“The Necklace” begins by introducing Madame Loisel, a woman married to a clerk and struggling financially. However, this does not stop her from yearning for a luxurious life beyond her means. She desires social status, the opportunity to mingle with the elite, indulgent meals, and extravagant dresses. To please his unappreciative wife, Madame Loisel’s husband…

The book To Kill A Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee, takes readers on a journey though Scout Finch’s childhood. In the book, Scout, who lives in a racist town in Southern Alabama with her father Atticus and brother jem, must learn to deal witht the unjust jerdict of a black man accused of rape, a…

In the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, Atticus teaches his kids many lessons. One of them is “If you just learn a single trick, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until…

            The year 1096 A.D. is remembered in history as the beginning of the Crusades: the attempt of Christendom to regain the Holy Land from the hands of the “infidel” Moslems. That year also marked the height of the struggle between Islam and Christianity; the Cross versus the Crescent. Rulers and followers from both factions…

            In January 1776, Thomas Pained published a pamphlet entitled ‘Common Sense’ which became an instant bestseller both in the Thirteen Colonies and in Europe. The pamphlet was, in general, a challenge both to the authority of the British monarch and the parliament – entities seen as enemies of freedom and integrity. Thomas Paine intended…

Frankenstein Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein has also been characterized as feminine book with feminist agenda. Earlier feminist critics have attributed various feminist themes to Frankenstein. They analyzed the whole novel in the feminist framework and tried to interpret the various themes associated with feminism. These expressions of feminist view clearly manifest that Frankenstein is an epitome…

Have you ever heard of the great Mark Twain? Many people have and recognize hisnovels by name; especially his most famous book called Huckleberry Finn. Thegreat thing about Huck is that it was meant to be a simple book, but ended updeemed a classic. The reason for this is that it contains many great americanthemes…

Modern French dramatist, Jean Anouilh, is a great tragic playwright of the twentieth century. His best known work is Antigone, a modern version of Sophocles’ tragedy. Anouilh’s Antigone also provides a commentary on the Nazi occupation of France. In rewriting the myth in modern times, Anouilh revives the issue of free will under the power…

Women’s poetry and African American poetry are similar in emphasizing the significance of ‘identity’ and in addressing a larger audience beyond the identities established within the poetic paradigms. Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Robert Hayden, and Michael S. Harper seek to address conflicts of gender and racial identities but their poetic aesthetics transcend chasms created by…

Today I would wish all of you to fall in me in a testimonial to the greatest running back of all time to play in the National Football League Walter Payton. His calling with the Chicago Bears began in 1975 and Sweetness continued to run until 1987 his bequest continues much longer. The moniker Sweetness…