Literature Essay Samples Page 745

Can you Imagine a world without pain, warfare, poverty, hunger, or terror? Sounds pretty good so far, right? Now, take away feelings, love, diversity, choices, and even the ability to see colors. It doesn’t sound so great anymore, does it? Some people may consider such a place a utopia, shielding its inhabitants from all evil;…

The thought-provoking book Lord of the Flies by William Golding tackles the frailty of civilisation and the underlying darkness of human nature. A group of young boys are abandoned on a remote island without adult supervision, which causes a slow decline into anarchy and brutality. Numerous people suffer terrible endings throughout the narrative, signifying the…

Shakespeare is a well known author who wrote in the 1500’s. Many of hisplays are classified as tragedies. According to the Oxford dictionary ofcurrent English, a tragedy is described as a serious disaster or a sad event. In Shakespeare plays, tragedy is identified as a story that ends unhappily dueto the fall of the protagonist,…

Beowulf vs. Grendel Beowulf and Grendel are two tales. They share subject matter. They share plot. They share setting and tell of the exact same events, but Beowulf and Grendel have two entirely different themes. Beowulf is an epic poem about the honesty, bravery, and humility that defined the ideal Dane. John Gardner’s Grendel, a…

F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby in 1925, a time period commonly known as the ‘roaring twenties’. Anticipating the Great Depression this era was fulfilled by prosperity and material wealth, but despite the common idea of easily creating for one self a successful life many people faced economic misery. Thus, taking into account the…

Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary revolve around the lives of their central characters, Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary, respectively. Both authors present these characters as women with strong personalities. This strength is well highlighted as Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary are surrounded by other characters whose vulnerabilities are quite pronounced as…

F. Scott Fitzgerald presents multiple themes and characters that have an overlaying façade that they portray throughout the novel. Fitzgerald’s main representation of illusion is with James Gatz or Jay Gatsby as he is known in the time covered in the novel. Gatsby can also be considered to be the embodiment of illusion within the…

Romanticism and Realism are two distinct artistic periods that overlapped for almost a decade. Despite their differences, there are also similarities between them. Romanticism was an intellectual movement in the arts that lasted from 1790 to 1870. It rejected Classicism and the Enlightenment, instead focusing on the individual, bias, illogical, creative, spontaneous, emotional, and transcendental…

Wow! What can I say about another year of my life come and gone? It has been fast and slow, long and short and very, very colorful. I’ve learned new words like xenophile and soliloquy! I have grown up, but am still a child, and most of all I’ve learned to see the world as…

The Masque of the Red Death is full of symbolism and clues for the reader to fully catch Poes thoughts. The first symbol in the story is the name of the Prince himself, Prince Prospero. The ebony clock is another major symbol within this tale. The black room is the most prominent symbol in the…