Literature

In this presentation I am first of all going to read to you the text I have written for a picture book story. After I have read this story to you, I am going to talk about how I would divide the text among the pages, and then I am going to describe the illustrations I would like for each page of the book. The story is called, The Superhero Twirly Twins and it is written for children aged from about 3 to 6 years old. The Superhero Twirly TwinsThe twins, Tim and Jim Twirl, were in the gardenand both...

In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet is shocked to hear from his fathers ghost that it was Claudius who actually murdered his father by pouring poison into his ear, when he was fast asleep in the garden. Although Hamlet sets his mind on revenging his fathers death, he delays taking revenge on Claudius for he wants to confirm that Claudius was the actual murderer. This attitude of Hamlet brings forth his indecision to act on his decisions.     When Hamlet hears from his...

Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray is about a man who, after cursing that he would give up his soul, has maintained his youth and great beauty for years while his portrait grows old and becomes ugly. The story explores how Dorian Gray lived a life of vanity and selfishness. One of the major themes of the story is about the significance of youth and beauty and how these two traits had dictated the course of the story by being the utmost temptations of Gray to live a life of sin.    ...

    Religion plays an important role in the lives of human beings. Since ancient times religion has defined the values and ethics of different human societies. Religion has been depicted in the numerous works of fiction since ages. Different writers provide different perspectives about religion in their works. One such ancient work which deals with religion is The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales consists of a compilation of short stories. These stories are...

Looking into Virginia Woolfe s  Mrs. Dalloway  and Li-Young Lee s  The City In Which I Love You , readers can find the components of love and identity crossing , intersecting, and interacting with one another. The main characters focused upon are both, seemingly, reflecting upon a loved one (or loved ones) and pondering on the relationship with that loved one.     In Mrs. Dalloway, though the novel does not go and discuss Clarissa Dalloway s relationships straightforwardly,...

Joanne Altieri, Ph.D. is a Professor of Literature at Cambridge University.  The stance Altieri takes with this essay is that there is a distinct absence of romantic representation  in Henry V, unlike many of Shakespeares other plays.  It analyzes the impact this fact had on its Elizabethan audiences.  It also develops the idea that the play offers two distinct impressions of Henry V, as generous benefactor and cruel tyrant.  It further goes on to discuss the constraint...

Literature in the past and even in the contemporary world often incorporate political messages. Writers through their masterpieces incorporate their political views and observation. However they have different approaches in illustrating their political messages. William Faulkner is one of the most influential writers in 20th century who often used Southern setting with the stereotypical perceptions towards the Southerners. His writings affirm Southern identity and mock class conflicts that were...

    The forces of evil and good are inherently persistent and clearly elucidated in crime related and detective fiction. The society is always condemning and fighting evil from within itself a clear pointer to superior beings and metaphysics knowledge that is used to solve the impossible evil from the perspective of the common person. Presence of murder in the same society that treats crime as an evil is a form of hypocrisy that beguiles the society. Therefore the essay is going to...

White Noise is the eigth novel of Don DeLillo which follows a year in a life of Jack Gladney, a professor and department head who became well-known for pioneering Hitler studies in a midwestern college known only as The-College-on the-Hill. The book is divided into three parts. The first part entitled Waves and Radiation, sets the scene for the rest of the book and establishes the important characters. This section chronicles the absurd family life of Jack with his wife Babette and stepchildren,...

Revenge is retaliation of an evil done against somebody  as seen in Electra where together with her brother Orestes, seek out to revenge against their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father. They resolve to murder their mother alongside their step father showing how far revenge actions can go beyond the accepted social norms. Their revenge takes place eight years later after their fathers death clearly illustrating that time cannot heal hatred one has against...

In studying American poet Emily Dickinson, it is impossible to separate the woman from the words. As a woman in 19th century America, she presented an individualized idea of philosophy and religion that pervaded her poetic sense and religious obligations. While a strong believer in the power of Christ and a lifelong adherent to the notions of Protestantism that defined 19th century New England, Dickinsons religion was a far more personal affair. In her poem  Some keep the Sabbath  Dickinson...

Isabel Allende is one of the most famous and widely read Spanish-language authors in the world. In addition, she is one of the most well-known women writers in Latin America. With so much credit bequeathed to her, it then becomes important for us to take a glance at her life and her work, so as to determine what the fuss is all about. Therefore in the paragraphs to follow, we will look at Isabels biography, her writing and the literally movement most present in her writing and in summary, we will...