Literature Essays

     Susan Whitfield’s novel Life Along the Silk Road expresses the relationship between Asian trade and the colliding cultures on either end of the ‘road’.  From China to Somalia, India to Italy, the series of interconnected routes east to west not only brought spices, silks and other goods from one …

Invisibility and Blindness             Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man is beaming with references to race, especially the racial indifference experienced by blacks in a society dominated by whites. The motif of “blindness” or “invisibility” is sketched almost throughout the novel which essentially revolves around the character of the narrator or …

Examining Theme Through Similes Wordsworth most important literary device in the work is the simile of the title and first line itself, “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”.  The extensive metaphor and the usage of the title and first line simile allow the audience to understand themselves and their role …

            Leil Lowndes was able to produce a magnificent book that can counter shyness and workout confidence among people. The book Goodbye to Shy: 85 Shybusters That Work helps readers in facing everyday lives with full confidence and brighter perspectives. It determines the source of …

          Sometimes a big story which consists of many volumes is completely clear to the reader. Despite of its considerable volume it is destinated to the only thesis statement and all the events and relationships of the story are presented by the author in order to prove and hilghlight this …

Compare and Contrast The central conflict of both stories Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Gish Jen’s “Who’s Irish” is the generation gap as both protagonists belong to the older generation and look at the things from a different perspective as compared with the younger generations. Both protagonists are similar as …

            Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier is a story of a wounded Confederate soldier, W. P. Inman, on his journey home to the mountains and to his love, Ada Monroe. This novel is believed to be partly based on the author’s great-great-grandfather’s own experiences as a Confederate soldier as stated …

    Written by Amy Clampitt, the poem Beach Glass was full of a literary device called figurative speech.             Literary devices include literary elements and techniques. Both of them have a universal function of letting ideas flow in a literary piece. Under literary technique, meanwhile, is the use of figurative …

Revenge is a common theme throughout the writing of Shakespeare’s plays. This paper will compare and contrast the two vengeful characters of Shylock from The Merchant of Venice and Prospero from The Tempest. The Merchant of Venice offers up one of Shakespeare’s most memorable characters in the guise of Shylock, …

Within the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the narrator addresses the audience and develops the dynamics of Hester Prynne’s character by illustrating her as a stereotypical maternal figure towards the people of Boston. Seven years after the protagonist’s initial ignominy at the scaffold, the society’s perspective of Hester …