Literature Essays

Metaphors are a type of figure of speech where there is an indirect comparison between two unlike things that have certain points or characteristics in common (Nordquist). Taking Harvey Blume’s “Subtle Mechanisms” into consideration, he takes metaphors, similes and analogies but, as the name implies, uses it in a sense …

James Madison, in his 10th Federalist Paper, identified factions as an evil that may cause destruction to a government. By faction, he means “a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or …

The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway seems absurd reading it for the first time. It is a story of an American man and a woman who are discussing about some things while waiting for a train bound to Madrid at a train station in the Ebro …

Czech Republic is in Central Europe and South East of Germany. Initially it formed the western part of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. Czech and Slovak had remained united for more than 75 years but they split in January 1993 to form two separate states. Since the spilt that …

Economic growth varies from economic development due to the fact that it only entails the positive movement of a country’s GDP while economic development embraces other aspects in addition to economic growth. Economic development tends to focus on the quality of life of individuals while economic growth focuses more on …

Introduction             The two poems written by Marge Piercy and Robert Hayden, “The Secretary Chant” and “Those Winter Sundays”, respectively, are exemplary in the use of imagery; however, the images communicate a greater message for each, delving into the deeper meanings of emotion and purpose.  For these are the exact …

INTRODUCTION Piping down the valleys wild,    Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child,    And he laughing said to me: ‘Pipe a song about a Lamb!’    So I piped with merry cheer. ‘Piper, pipe that song again.’    So I piped: he wept …

The identification of Oedipus’ hamartia differs from reader to reader and from critic to critic. Some critics are of the view that excessive arrogance and self-confidence of Oedipus is the main cause of his tragedy. He harbors unjustified suspicions against Tiresias and Creon; in one place he goes so far …

            “Oedipus the King” and “Death of Salesman” both are tragedies. For a play to be considered as a tragedy it has to meet the principles determined by Aristotle, a Greek Philosopher, or those of Arthur Miller who is playwright of twentieth century. According to Aristotle a tragedy is a …

Paragraph 1 The process of dough making in third paragraph on page 137 symbolically conveys the process of nurturing one’s own sibling and shaping his/her personality. Sardarni makes a dough-ball and shapes it more rounds by patting it. She then set aside small dough-ball out of the large one and …