Category: Literature 5177

  • “Gimp: When Life Deals You a Crappy Hand…” by Mark Zupan

    Introduction It is easy to say that there are no hopeless situations, that the most important thing is not to give up, and that people should believe that the best days are ahead. However, when trouble happens in real life, very few people find the courage to keep on fighting for their dreams. Mark Zupan…

  • David Lurie Character in Coetzee’s Novel “Disgrace”

    Table of Contents Introduction Lurie’s Disgraces Resistance to Change Transformation of Lurie’s Character Conclusion Works Cited Introduction J. M. Coetzee’s Booker Prize-winning novel is a metaphor for the twenty-century world and events happening in it. While the book events revolve around David Lurie and his personal and intrapersonal complicated issues, the author manages to present…

  • My Mistress’ Eyes by Shakespeare

    Sonnet number 130 is one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets. The convention of writing love sonnets during the days of Shakespeare was to compare the beloved to everything beautiful in nature and raise the beloved to the level of a Goddess. The greatest poet of this tradition is Petrarch. In the sonnet under reference here…

  • “The Bustle in a House” by Emily Dickinson

    It is hard to lose a loved one. My father passed away 15 years ago and he died in front of me. What can a person do to cope? No one is prepared for an event as tragic as that. No amount of study and knowledge acquisition can steel the heart so as not to…

  • ‘The Right Stuff’ Book by Tom Wolfe

    Tom Wolf in his book ‘The Right Stuff’ 1979 attempts to talk about the commitment of the pilots in US postwar research with the experimental speed-planes. The title, The Right Stuff dwells around the idea of having the right stuff. Wolfe also documents the tales of the initial development of Mercury astronauts. Wolfe based his…

  • “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee: Feminism and Gender Prejudice

    Table of Contents Introduction Atticus Calpurnia Aunt Alexandra Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird explores the racism and racial prejudice that negatively affected the black community and the Justice System in Maycomb. A wide range of key elements of gender criticism can be observed in the literature, where the whole…

  • “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris

    Table of Contents Introduction Main text Conclusion References Introduction The essay “Me Talk Pretty One Day”, written by a famous American humorist David Sedaris tells the story of a man on his way to learning French in a Paris school at the age of 41. The essay is full of emotions, personal struggles, and growth…

  • “Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams: Analysis

    The attachment to illusion and their inability to embrace reality is reiterated in every character in “Glass Menagerie.” Among the three leading ones, the propensity toward wishful thinking and the inability to meet reality is particularly distinctively emphasized in Amanda. Remarkably, her version of an illusion is substantially different form that one of her children,…

  • Does Poetry Still Really Matter in the Modern World?

    Critics have shown that poetry in the modern times is a specialized occupation of a small and isolated group of individuals, yet it was a major form of communication and expression of intelligence a few decades ago (Arana 91). The poets command only a small residual prestige but they are not visible as individual artists,…

  • Love in Wuthering Heights

    Table of Contents Valuable Lessons Favoritism’s Bad Impact Social Influence Money vs. Love Breaking the Vicious Circle Conclusion References In her classical literary work, Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë contemplates the topic of love and its importance in each person’s life by portraying the consequences that arise when somebody lacks it. The story continues attracting readers’…