Category: Literature

Table of Contents Background Conflicting Claims Resolution Outcome Conclusion The Book of Job is part of the Old Testament portion of the Christian Bible and an integral part of the Hebrew Bible – the sacred set of books used by Jews. It is one of the very few books in the Bible where little is…

Anne Elliot and Rosalind are two characters in Jane Austen’s Persuasion and William Shakespeare’s As You Like It respectively. Each of the characters is faced with substantial obstacles in their quest for love. This essay argues that Anne Elliot encountered more obstacles to her love than Rosalind. Her path to love was indeed filled with…

Table of Contents Introduction California in Ernest Finney’s imagination California Conclusion Work cited Introduction Ernest Finney, in his book, Sequoia Gardens presents California in a rich and complex manner. This in a way contradicts the present California as it is, and at the same time echoes some activities which take place in California. In the…

Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion References Introduction The narrator in the book “The Lovely Bones” is Susie Salmon who is already in heaven and was only fourteen years of age when she was raped and murdered by a neighbor. Since the story is more in the nature of a real life narration by…

The world of literature discloses the life of nature and human beings in all the aspects of our existence through metaphorical and ironical presentations. The poems under analysis, ‘Apparently with no Surprise’ by Emily Dickinson and ‘Design’ by Robert Frost, are considered to be bright illustrations of nature embodiment depicted through the description of its…

The theme of senselessness is one of the central ideas in Tolstoy’s short story “The Death of Ivan Ilych.” The main character, Ivan Ilych, is a man with a respected career and a family; however, he cannot find any purpose in his life. As Ivan grows more ill, he also starts to understand the artificial…

Through the Death and the King’s Horseman play, Wole Soyinka describes the experiences of British colonialists as they live alongside their African subjects in a post-Second World War Nigeria. The play is interspersed with a number of clashes between these 2 divergent cultures. Such aspects would make a casual observer to claim that Soyinka’s mainly…

Jhumpa Lahiri wrote the short story “Mrs. Sen’s” as part of his book Interpreter of Melodies. The story features the difficulties that an Indian woman faces with her assimilation process into the US culture. The theme of loneliness and isolation is prevalent in the story, as the two main characters, Mrs. Sen and Eliot, are…

Table of Contents Introduction Elucidation Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Orhan Pamuk, the Literature Nobel Prize laureate of 2006 writes that “the history of the novel is a history of human liberation.” The question is what does he mean by this and how relevant is it really? Elucidation This statement of Orhan Pamuk is a reflection…

The technical progress is moved by the inventions of new useful and more effective devices and machines. Different inventions in the sphere of chemistry, biology, science, telecommunications and other important branches of human activity performed an essential part in a modern technical progress. Nevertheless, not all of the inventions were initially invented for the aims…