Literature Essay Samples Page 533

The Crucible Essay If you are honest in the first place, it leads to less complications; but if you lie it leads to a disaster. In the novel The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the characters lie and tell the truth, but lying is what gets the community of Salem into trouble. Many people in Salem…

Gulliver’s Travels Novel Analysis 1. The Author and His Times Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 30, 1667. Swift was raised by his uncle and graduated from Trinity College. Swift would later become the secretary for an influential member of the Whig party which began to influence his political views to lie…

Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, is critical in the perception of human suffering, as it portrays the best and the worst of humsn nature in countless ways. In his autobiography, Wiesel describes his dreadful journey during the Holocaust, yet narrates how it increased his humanity, guided him closer to his father, and conclusively brought…

In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, the characters are exposed to unfavorable situations related to sex. A short scholarly essay called “The Bluest Eye Theme of Sex” discusses how the major male characters, Cholly Breedlove, Mr. Henry, and Soaphead Church, are attracted to young girls who ultimately become victims. Cholly sexually assaults his daughter Pecola,…

The underlying assumptions of urban life can be summed up as follows: development is only possible if people work hard.  This assumption though is just an ideal: an ideal that cannot be approximated by reality. Reality tells the audience that life is not a simple arithmetic progression of wealth and development. Life itself is located…

William Shakespeare wrote many plays in the late 16th and early 17th century. During this period he wrote the play Othello. This period, in which Shakespeare wrote many of his plays, was Elizabethan England. At this time England was a horrible place to live. The vast majority of the population of London were white which…

Andrew Brian’Vengeance is mine,’ sayith the Lord. What does this mean? I believewhat the Christians meant it to mean is that we, as humans, have no right toseek revenge, that only the Lord has the right to decide when to take revenge. We say this, but do we follow it? No, I think not. We…

The poem, Thanatopsis, written by William Cullen Bryant, is a wonderful literary work which explores the often controversial questions of death. Within his well written lines Bryant attempts to show the relationship between deaths eternal questions and the ongoing cycle of nature and life. Upon concluding the poem many readers are able to reaffirm their…

are the driving force behind Beowulf. It seemed that in Beowulf, in order for someone to do their best, there had to be some sort of materialistic reward. I believe that achievement of either fame, material gain or conquests were as germane in the past as they are in today’s society. It was important to…

On His Blindness (Sonnet XIX) is a petrarchan sonnet about how Milton comes to terms with his loss of sight. The sonnet talks about how he looks for help with his blindness in religion, Milton was a devout Puritan. This strongly influenced Milton’s thinking, his family were often involved in many political and religious controversies….