Literature Essays

Effect of Love, Lies and Infidelity in Medea
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: What is love after the heart is broken? The best way, but not the most legal way today, is to follow the footsteps of Euripides’ character, Medea. In the story Medea, love makes a person do cra...

How Does Patrick Kavanagh’s Concept of the Parish Inform His Sense of the Significance of the Local in Irish Poetry?
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Patrick Kavanagh, whose poetic work is arguably the most influential to modern day Irish poets, was for a lengthy period during his writing career considered a rogue element by the literature col...

Book Review: A Nation Forged in War by Thomas Bruscino, Jr.
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction:  In the book A Nation Forged in War: How World War II Taught Americans to Get Along takes the reader into what Thomas Bruscino perceived what World War II did for America in seven chapters. ...

Child Resilience in Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: The resilience of a child in an unstable environment has been a crucial theme throughout Heather O’Neill’s book, Lullabies for Little Criminals. The novel focuses on Baby, who struggles to su...

Versaility in Monstrosity
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: VERSATILITY IN MONSTROSITY     INTRODUCTION   Since ancient times, monsters have always aroused significant interest among humans. ...

The Importance of Family Heritage: Everyday Use by Alice Walker
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction:  During the fourteenth century, quilting was accomplished from the European art, which subsequently expanded its full growth in North America. The U.S quilt have taken on an outstanding and ...

On Gold Mountain: The One Hundred Year Odyssey of My Chinese American Family
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Today, immigration ranks as one of the most discussed topics in the US and other parts across the world; specifically, in the US, the campaign and election of President Donald Trump revolved arou...

Analysis of Another Fine Mess by Ray Bradbury
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Doppelganger The text under study here is called “Another fine Mess” written by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury in this story talks about two women Bella and Zelda who are new to the old age ...

Analysis of The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: In “The Necklace” Guy de Maupassant depicts a couple of downfalls due to the wife’s careless actions. As the story begins, Mrs. Loisel attends a ball and loses the necklace. Mrs...

Albert Camus and Kurt Vonnegut's Portrayal of Existentialism
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: International Baccalaureate Extended Essay How are Albert Camus and Kurt Vonnegut both similar and different in portraying existentialism in their novels ‘The Outsider’ and...

Situational Irony in Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Irony is a type of figure of speech often used by authors to draw attention and to send a message about certain situations or characters without being too obvious. Among the different types of ir...

Conflict in “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction:      A Doll’s House the story and play by Henrik Ibsen touches base on the subject of “moral laws” specifically highlighting women during the time period. Ib...

Joseph Campbell's Myths and the Story of Ramayana
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Joseph Campbell was a man that firmly believed that the best answers to the problems of the world would be rooted in the findings of psychology; “Specifically,” he said, “those findings hav...

Analysis of the Maus Comicbook
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: “if you look them together in a room with no food for a week, Then you could see what it is, Friends!” (Art,6) Maus is one of most well know comic books written by Art Spiegelman , which talk...

Representation of Social Groups in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? – Darcy Davitt In Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, androids represent the zenith of technological creati...

The Chronicles of a Death Foretold | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: A Chronicle of a Town’s Envy  In the book “The Chronicles of a Death Foretold”, an unidentified narrator recounts the murder of a man name Santiago in front of his doorstep. T...

And of Clay Are We Created by Isabelle Allende | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction:    "And of Clay Are We Created" by Isabelle Allende tells us a compelling story about a young girl Azucena being trapped in a mud-pit like a prisoner after a volcano erupted, perishing ...

Symbolism in Eveline by James Joyce
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: A Paralyzed Soul Catholicism was the dominant religion in Ireland throughout the age of Modernism. The role of the Catholic church played a vital role in Eveline’s life and served ...

Huck's Development in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first published in 1884, in a small town of St. Petersburg in Missouri. Located close to the Mississippi River, and is decades before...

Comparing Governments of America and China to A Brave New World
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: In a world dominated by government control we must wonder if the government is controlling most aspects of our lives. One main thing that the governments in the U.S. and in Brave New World is bir...

Character Analysis of the Speaker in “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: The poem Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night was written by Dylan Thomas in 1951.  He was exposed to literature at a very young age, his father used to read to him the works of Shakespeare...

Analysis of Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Darkness at Noon In his essay, The God That Failed, Arthur Koestler opens by saying that “a faith is not acquired by reasoning” (The God That Failed, 15). When creating his protagoni...

Sexuality in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:            The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger heavily probes the theme of sexuality – specifically, Holden Caulfield’s immense turbu...

Motherhood as an Exercise in Feminism: Toni Morrison’s Sula
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: In the world that Toni Morrison crafts in Sula, society seems to force women into the age-old binary roles in which they have always been cast: Lilith or Eve? In the Christian book of Genesis in ...

The Pursuit of Happiness in Typical American by Gish Jen
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: What is America? America is the land of the free were individuals can find opportunity for prosperity and success. Many people immigrate to America for the hope of achieving more from their lives...