Literature Essays

Albert Camus and Kurt Vonnegut's Portrayal of Existentialism
18th May 2020
Introduction: International Baccalaureate Extended Essay How are Albert Camus and Kurt Vonnegut both similar and different in portraying existentialism in their novels ‘The Outsider’ and...

Situational Irony in Literature
18th May 2020
Introduction: Irony is a type of figure of speech often used by authors to draw attention and to send a message about certain situations or characters without being too obvious. Among the different types of ir...

Joseph Campbell's Myths and the Story of Ramayana
18th May 2020
Introduction: Joseph Campbell was a man that firmly believed that the best answers to the problems of the world would be rooted in the findings of psychology; “Specifically,” he said, “those findings hav...

Representation of Social Groups in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
18th May 2020
Introduction: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? – Darcy Davitt In Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, androids represent the zenith of technological creati...

Feminist and Marxist Perspectives in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
18th May 2020
Introduction: Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness could be said to be written during a period of change, as the world was transitioning from the end of the Victorian age into the beginning of the Modern ...

The Chronicles of a Death Foretold | Analysis
18th May 2020
Introduction: A Chronicle of a Town’s Envy  In the book “The Chronicles of a Death Foretold”, an unidentified narrator recounts the murder of a man name Santiago in front of his doorstep. T...

Blazing Saddles and The Sellout: Themes of Racism
18th May 2020
Introduction: how has paul beatty in the sellout and mel brooks in blazing saddles used similar techniques to explore the theme of racism? INTRODUCTION Films and novels are two different stor...

Construct Comparisons of Coming of Age Stories
18th May 2020
Introduction: Compare & Contrast the Ideas and Techniques explored by 2 authors in their construct of a Coming of Age Story   Stephen Chbosky, the director of the film The Perks of B...

Biography of Truman Capote
18th May 2020
Introduction: Truman Capote had an extraordinary career and has remained one of America’s most controversial authors, combining literary genius with a penchant for the world of high society. Though he wrote ...

Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl | Analysis
18th May 2020
Introduction: Introduction In this brief paper I will discuss the book, Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl. I will give a general overview and what I feel the author was trying to convey in ...

Deputation of Power in Vijay Tendulkar’s Play
18th May 2020
Introduction: Deputation of Power in Vijay Tendulkar’s Play Abstract Power plays extremely remarkable role in the life of human being. Everybody wants to live in the power structure built b...

Women of Beowulf
18th May 2020
Introduction: Women of Beowulf Violence and honor governed the Scandinavian culture the story of Beowulf originates. Beowulf, an Old English epic poem,was originally an oral story that was written dow...

Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
18th May 2020
Introduction: Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” demonstrates that embracing one’s doubts and fears is an essential part of appreciating life. As presented in the short story, the pro...

Contiental Bonds In Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight
18th May 2020
Introduction: Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight by Alexandria Fuller recounts the struggles of her war-torn childhood stories and major events in her life. These events include losing three siblings, sexu...

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | Analysis
18th May 2020
Introduction:  In the short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates the struggle one may experience when trying to define their identity. Connie is a fifteen...

Some Memoirs of the Life of JOB
18th May 2020
Introduction: Some Memoirs of the life of JOB written by Thomas Bluett takes place in the 1700s around the time of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The article displays Diallo’s journey of being captured, esca...

Thematic Analysis on “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
18th May 2020
Introduction: Traditions and rituals can be a force of nature. No culture or tradition is unchanging, as for the most part a lot of them have been around since the beginning of time and to mess with an ancient...

The Lottery by Shiley Jackson and The Scarlet Letter: Themes of Public Shame
18th May 2020
Introduction: Both “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne are ironic because they share a baseline similarity in obvious relation to public shame.  In the story...

Literature on the Value of Spontaneity
18th May 2020
Introduction: The Value of Spontaneity Among Us   Spontaneity is a trait one might not consider in everyday life as it presents undetermined revelations performed by certain individuals. Whe...

Analysis of the Issue in Censoring Books
18th May 2020
Introduction: Does Banning Books Really Protect The Children?  All across the world, throughout time, books have been challenged, banned, and outright censored due to “suggestive content” fou...

Compelling Cases for Christianity in Literature
18th May 2020
Introduction: Introduction With such a plethora of non-fiction books available from religious teachers, historical scholars and great writers aiming to share the tenets of their Christian beliefs, C.S...

Relationship between Man and Nature in Frankenstein
18th May 2020
Introduction: Theme: Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein explores how destructive the pursuit of knowledge can be when it goes beyond human understanding. Given that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in the mids...

Analysis of A Doll's House
18th May 2020
Introduction: Henrik Ibsen wrote the play “A Doll’s House” on December 21st, 1879. The play’s geographical setting is around the 1870’s in a Norwegian town. The era the play falls in is the Victorian...

Themes in The Seventh Voyage by Stanislaw Lem
18th May 2020
Introduction: Hate it or love it, Science fiction is a popular Genre in both films and Books. Regardless of the view, one thing that Science fiction does well is ties in real world problems that are affecting ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance Essay
18th May 2020
Introduction:  Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American Transcendentalist poet and essayist during the 19th century who wrote his best essay titled “Self-Reliance.” The purpose of Emerson’s essay was to ...