Literature Essays

The Kite Runner: The Feminist Critique
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Jul 2021
Introduction: In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, “The Kite Runner”,  Hosseini displays how conservative Afghan society views women as being innately inferior to their male counterparts throughout the novel.  He displays the lack of female agency in many ways....

Theme of Loneliness and Rejection in Frankenstein
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2021
Introduction: The author illustrates that the guilt for murders can not be put only on Frankenstein’s creation. Society and social norms finally result in feeling of loneliness and estrangement....

Similarities Between the Salem Witch Hunt and McCarthyism and Their Influence on The Crucible
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2021
Introduction: It is apparent that numerous parallels are drawn between Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, and McCarthyism. Both the publishing of the play by as well as the events of the Red Scare took place in the mid-20th century, specifically the 1950s. They were extremely influential events that shaped the future....

Rhetorical Devices Used in “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2021
Introduction: Analysis of Rhetorical Devices Used in Dr Martin Luther King Jr's “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting without a permit. Soon after, eight clergymen wrote a letter entitled, “A Call for Unity,” ...

Comparison of Female Abuse in Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Jul 2021
Introduction: An essay on the similarity of two very famous works, ...

Book Review of Russell Bourne’s Cradle of Violence
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Jul 2021
Introduction: Bourne’s purpose in writing his book is to exemplify the actions of the maritime workers of Boston. He argues that the American Revolution would not have materialized without their contributions....

Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Jun 2021
Introduction: The story presents the protagonists of the story, Francis Macomber, who needs the courage to live his life of manhood. Francis’s wife, Margot who needs money instead of love. Also, Wilson who is a hunter who knows how to guide and hunt....

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: Power of Language
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Jun 2021
Introduction: Throughout the novel, Atwood demonstrated how the power of language incredibly exploits the mind and disregards reality. The use of language is a rhetorical tactic that Atwood uses to give characters the manipulation of  power and to contrast a totalitarian regime with individual power....

By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 27th May 2021
Introduction: By Night in Chile is a novella written in form of Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix’s deathbed confession as he portrays his current state which lacks the peace he once felt during his life....

Paradise in Early Modern Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 27th May 2021
Introduction: Write an essay which establishes a detailed contrast between what is in your view a generally condemnatory and exonerative account of Eve....

Race in Toni Morrison’s Recitatif
Example essay. Last modified: 27th May 2021
Introduction: There is an underlying desire– a compulsion for the readers of “Recitatif” to decipher the racial question of Twyla and Roberta that pervades throughout the short story. Readers automatically begin to categorize and classify the characters whether they are conscious of it or not...

Robert Lowell's The Drinker | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 27th May 2021
Introduction: Lowell was born unplanned and unwanted. His life did not follow a continuous line: it was convoluted like razor wire through intervals of misery, each a discouraging echo of the last, a toilsome way to exist in time. Imagine living life in a strait jacket inside a white padded room, surrounded by the deafening silence that is depression....

Analysis of Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Example essay. Last modified: 27th May 2021
Introduction: In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez demonstrates the moral questions that arise living in a small, religious Latin-American Society of the 20th century....

Who Wrote The Works of Shakespeare?
Example essay. Last modified: 12th May 2021
Introduction: Conversely, the many documents which do exist relating to Shakespeare of Stratford fail to indicate that he was even literate. They depict the life of someone who was energetically engaged in business matters and moneylending, but does not refer to any literary career....

Identity Crisis in Adolescents in Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 12th May 2021
Introduction: As adolescents are on their path to adulthood, they begin to question the meaning of their goals and interests in life that leads them on a journey to discover their true identity. The feeling of not belonging or even feeling like an outlier of society is a dominant aspect that surrounds the adolescent....

The Effects of Imperialism in The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Example essay. Last modified: 12th May 2021
Introduction: The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a book about a seaman, Marlow, from Europe. He is sent on a boat journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, the most successful trader in ivory working for the Belgian government....

Analysis of Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Example essay. Last modified: 12th May 2021
Introduction: In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade by Vonnegut , the record of Billy Pilgrim is utilized to examine different subjects about nearness and war....

Poe’s Use of Imagination in the Poem “The Raven”
Example essay. Last modified: 12th May 2021
Introduction: Thanks to Edgar Allan Poe, the raven has become a popular symbol of death and mystery from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century. Known for his gothic style of writing, Poe communicates the suggested eerie depth in his composition of ...

Considering Edmond Dantes as a Tragic Hero
Example essay. Last modified: 12th May 2021
Introduction: Definition can support Edmond Dantes as a tragic hero. In the beginning of the book, Edmond Dantes shows honesty, naiveness and ability. It showed him as a young successful sailor on the rise of becoming the future captain of Pharaon. ...

Loss of Innocence in How Far She Went, The Flowers, and Frozen
Example essay. Last modified: 12th May 2021
Introduction: The loss of innocence aligns with the realization that there are restrictions in the world,  limits exist; these limits are the loss of autonomy.  Some of these limits are traps set by others, the shortcomings of those who set them a way to control the people they place within them. ...

Modernism in Eliot's Poetry
Example essay. Last modified: 12th May 2021
Introduction: Eliot composed his first stories as a schoolboy in 1905 for the ‘Smith Academy Record’, where he acquired a lifelong interest in Rudyard Kipling. Suggesting, why this seminal work contains a reference to Kipling’s work “The Love Song of Har Dyal” (1959). ...

Annotated Bibliography on Huckleberry Finn and Racism
Example essay. Last modified: 12th May 2021
Introduction: Williams 2 emphasize “overall” because discussing only Huckleberry Finn ignores both the rest of his career - he would write and socialize for another twenty-five years - and also the changing political, economic, and sociocultural context during those twenty-five years.”...

Character Analysis of Meursault in The Stranger, by Albert Camus
Example essay. Last modified: 12th May 2021
Introduction: Meursault is unable to understand society, take control back from nature and express feelings. The impending result of living like this is isolating oneself and becoming a stranger the world, others and oneself. By being a stranger to everything it is concluded that nothing really matters. ...

Moral Development in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Example essay. Last modified: 10th May 2021
Introduction: “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is not only considered Mark Twain's greatest work but is also widely regarded as one of the most important and most influential books in all of American literature.”...

Analysis of Two Kinds by Amy Tan
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Nov 2020
Introduction: In Two Kinds by Amy Tan we have the topic of expectation, character, disobedience, obligation, fault, autonomy and acknowledgment. Described in the principal individual by a lady called Jing-mei Woo the story is a memory piece...