Literature Essay Samples Page 90

The wealthy lifestyles of the Buchanans and Miss Jordan have corrupted their lives morally. Their abundance of money has resulted in boredom, influencing their outlook on life and how they treat others in a self-centered manner. However, each person showcases their vanity differently. For example, Tom Buchanan holds the belief that white civilization is crumbling…

Insecure, uncomfortable, unhappy, anxious, and fearful all describe Mr. Prufrock. This poem is ironic because it makes you think that it’s about love, its opposite. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is about a man who is indecisive, too insecure to ask a woman for toast and tea. He refers to himself as a…

In Kate Peterson’s short story “Appearance”, there is the main character Ellen, who lives by herself in a studio apartment in west Cleveland. She’s been living there a little bit more than a month. Since her first day in that new apartment she’s been seeing a stranger in the window outside her room. She didn’t…

In The Color Purple, Celie, the main character, expresses her emotions by writing letters to God. She turns to her “diary” as she lacks someone to confide in. Despite facing numerous hardships such as abuse from her stepfather and spouse, Celie demonstrates incredible resilience. The novel depicts a situation where Celie’s husband desires to marry…

“He found himself understanding the wearisomely of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet”(page 76, line 7)This is great example of author style as its a very good sentence that shows his style of writing which is to get the point…

“The devil in the desert” short story by Paul Horgan (1903-1995) was written in the year 1950. It is a story that features the adventure of an elderly priest who leaves a missionary centre to go preaching to a tribe of Indians that lives in a desert land. At the start of the story, Louis,…

The study examined the difficulties faced by men in different genres during the 20th century. It analyzed works such as William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, T. S Eliot’s The Waste Land, and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. The results showed that contemporary men experience emotions like detachment, disbelief,…

In “A Modest Proposal” Jonathan Swift suggests a unique solution to the problem concerning poor children in Ireland. He suggests using the lands people like cattle, breeding them to eat their babies. He draws the readers in with kind words and a gentle tone, just to drop a crazy bomb on them. This essay will…

The Sidewalk Never Ends “Let us make a pair of pants for the poor old hippopotamus, to cover his hide – once we decide exactly how big his bottomus.” This short, humorous poem from Where the Sidewalk Ends is one of the many unique and entertaining works of Shel Silverstein, a poet, author, artist and…

Othello, written by William Shakespeare is the story of Othello, the protagonistand tragic hero of the play. A Moor commanding the armies of Venice, he is acelebrated general and heroic figure whose “free and open nature” willenable Iago to twist his love for his wife Desdemona into a powerful jealousy. Iago is Othellos ensign, and…