Literature Essay Samples Page 640

European world. In this novel the Europeans regarded themselves as civilized and cultured. On the other hand, Conrad embeds numerous dark intense images to describe this “enlightened” culture such as violent, death, brooding gloom, and more. While the Congo River represents the uncivilized native inhabitants that are described as “utter savagery’ (Conrad, 1990, p. 4),…

In William Faulkner’s, As I Lay Dying, Addie passed away and instructed her family to lay her to rest in Jefferson alongside her relatives. The family obediently transported her lifeless body by wagon, encountering numerous complex circumstances that pushed their boundaries of sanity. Out of all the siblings, Darl emerged as the most mentally stable….

Romeo says he is falling in love with Juliet within minutes of meeting her after finding out that she was a Capsule. “With love’s light wings did I o’er-perch these walls; for stones limits cannot hold love out, and what love can do that dares love attempt” (2. 2. 66-67). Making impulsive decisions allows Romeo…

“Hidden Guilt Abolishes Selfless” Those who keep their sins and feelings to themselves cause themselves only anguish and despair. In The Scarlet Letter, a romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reverend Arthur Timescale is a young man who achieved fame in England as a theologian and then Immigrated to America. In a moment of weakness, he and…

It would seem the never ending hunt is indeed never ending.  Despite the recentflurry of Howard publishing, a number of Howard characters are either out-of-printor impossible to find in one or two books.  Some of these include Francis X. Gordon, Kirby O’Donnell, Steve Harrison, Dark Agnes and Wild Bill Clanton. For example, the Steve Harrison…

In the science fiction novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s life goes from ordinary to crazy in just a few days. During the span of his life in the Community as the Receiver, he discovers color, emotion, and how everything used to be before the Community went to Sameness. As soon as Jonas became…

“To be or not to be” is one of the famous phrases from the opening of Hamlet’s soliloquy in the nunnery scene in Williams Shakespeare’s popular play, Hamlet. In the context of this tragic play, act III scene I, “To be” means to live and “not to be” means to die. It means whether to…

“The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne makes Hester the most “free” character by showcasing her transformation from ostracizes sinner to an able woman of her letter in order to display the idea that repressed sin destroys the soul while openness and honesty sets a soul free. Hester was not burdened with the internal guilt…

The Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen, is a drama about individualism, morality, and ego. But beneath those really equivocal descriptions lies a drama with symbols that clearly picture the corporate unconscious. Through a careful psychoanalytical review of the text, the relationship between the symbolism and the psychological subjects can be discovered as they interact throughout…

On the last page of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, lead characters Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley come to a verbal understanding that they can never be together. As Jake is impotent and Brett someone who heavily values sex, a long-term physical relationship between the two will never realistically work. However, I…