Writers Essays

The novella The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, has themes and characters which parallel some of those in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. One of the main themes in both books is the empty pursuit of materialism and money in society. Both books also have characters who are similar …

Argument is an important activity in the advancement of knowledge and society. There are many ways to express your self in this world, art, music, writing, speaking, etc. Within those things are countless approaches to getting your point across, or defending your side of an argument. Some of these methods …

The passages taken from Jane Austen’s and Charles Dickens’ novels show differences in marriage proposals. The type of rhetoric used by each man causes different effects . In the first excerpt taken from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the man reasons that he must set an example for all others …

What makes a tragedy so tragic is that the tragic hero, frequently because of his hamartia, falls a great distance from the high point where he is above many of us to the lowest point possible. In addition, they tend to be conductors of suffering as critic Northrop Frye says. …

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is a fairy tale in which realistic, earthy diction is used to relate a mystical event. The author’s flair for describing the fantastic in a casual, understated way creates an atmosphere of credibility in which anything is possible and believable. …

A truly great work of literature would allow a reader to compare and/or contrast any of the book’s characters–static or rounded–without much trouble. This is the case in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book’s title character, Gatsby, is easily compared to Tom Buchanan. Their fruitless pursuance of …

The main characters from the stories Of Mice and Men and “The Scarlet Ibis”, Lennie and Doodle, have similar dependencies, yet are completely different people. The writers of the book Of Mice and Men, John Steinbech, and the writer of “The Scarlet Ibis”, James Hurst, outline characters that in certain …

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the 1920’s, a period of American History known as the “Roaring Twenties”. The Great Gatsby is the story of the extravagant lifestyle of the rich and famous of New York in this time of peace and prosperity. The story is …

The late sixteenth century play “˜The Merchant of Venice’, one of Shakespeare’s more popular comedies, is one that is portraying various peoples lives throughout Venice and Belmont. During the course of the play there is a concentration of thoughts and emotions towards the character Shylock, a Jewish usurer, this is …

Romeo and Juliet are victims of fate, which is a dominant force from the beginning of the play. In the opening prologue we are told that Romeo and Juliet are “star-cross’d” and “death-mark’d”. The audience learns that the young lovers are doomed to destruction and tragedy. “From forth the fatal …