Literature Essays
Literature can be a lot of fun to write, but it can also be a lot of work. To make the process easier, you can get information online. Literature essays are more common in college, but you may be assigned to write one for high school as well. There are several sites where you can get examples of essays on literature from these websites.
Writing literature essays involves three steps. The first step is to decide what type of essay you want to write. There are five common types of essays: expository, descriptive, narrative, compare and contrast, and persuasive. You can find examples online for all types of literature essays. You can further refine the many subtypes within the five main literature essays. You may seek professional help if you feel unsure about writing your type of essay.
Writing the body takes a lot of time and effort, but you can find help by writing online. Many websites offer writing services for a fee. You only need to give the guidelines, and a professional will be assigned your task. You will receive a quality written essay in due time.
H. G. Wells was a writer with several identities. Most of Wells’ short stories were written about the marvels of science, but the genre of this one, is based on a gothic mystery. A gothic story is a romantic fiction with its setting usually in a ruined gothic castle or abbey. It emphasised mystery and […]
HG Wells uses literacy techniques in The War Of The Worlds to add tension and create a better more frightening atmosphere. He uses four main types of literacy techniques that are: Juxtaposition Pathetic fallacy Omniscient viewpoint And cliffhangersThe meaning of these are as followed: Juxtaposition – this is where two completely different facts are put […]
Using reference to style and content I will explain how and why these two short stories are typical 19th century stories. The two short stories that we have read, ‘ The Red Room’ by H.G. Wells and ‘The Judges House’ by Bram Stoker, are heavily concerned with the supernatural world, with people in the Victorian […]
Short stories have been written for hundreds of years, although it was not until the nineteenth century that the short story became a popular genre in its own right. Many authors began their careers writing short stories in magazines and journals. (In fact literacy rates were better than ever before and were constantly improving; printing […]
The purpose of this essay is to examine and draw comparisons between two fictional short stories: ‘The Necklace’ by Guy de Maupassant and ‘The Red Room’ by H. Our analysis will delve into the commonalities and distinctions present in these literary works. G. Wells narrates the events of Guy de Maupassant’s short story ‘The Necklace’, […]
Edith Wharton’s ‘The Age of Innocence’ was published in 1920 but is set in the 1870’s. Wharton uses this as a technique to contrast the old against the new. It also reveals how New York has long since changed.The opening paragraph begins by setting the scene. Wharton describes the new opera theatre that is going […]
This poem by Thom Gunn, tells a story of a man dreaming about a conversation between himself and another incarnation of himself. The other man is a red-coat and seems bloody and tortured, but he keeps on chanting ‘I regret nothing’ and some variations of it.The man arrives in a cave, and goes to sleep, […]
Typically, when perusing a ghost story, one may observe that the tale transpires in a dark and secluded site, frequently during nighttime. The apparitions typically consist of individuals who have perished amidst misfortune or wrongdoing. Ghost tales commonly aim to induce fear and discomfort in readers, often by employing suspenseful tactics and gradually escalating tension […]
Survival has been a part of Australian history and culture since the beginning. When white man first settled on Australian soil, it was a survival of the fittest. From the many wars that Australian diggers fought in (and won) to the Great Depression to the present in this economic crisis, Australia has been surviving through […]
In literature, there are two types of narrator: Reliable and Unreliable. In this essay, I shall be exploring the ideas of James Wood in this topic and lead to the creation of an extra element in the piece they have written, and how it affects the reader. A classic example of the use of this […]
This descriptive poem, “Ode to Man” reflects the usage of power by man in society. The writer uses natural imagery, diction, personification and the structure of 4 lines per stanza to indicate and ensure how the poem and society can reflect between each other and its conflicts. It vividly explains how man became powerful with […]
The possession of patriotism is a common attribute among the citizens of a country, while some believe that it has a poetic quality, making it a suitable topic for poets to explore. E. E. E. Cummings expressed his perspective on patriotism through a poem that, initially, may appear disordered and bewildering. E. E. Cummings expressed […]
A theme omnipresent in Merce Rodoreda’s The Time of the Doves and Naguib Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley is male deception. In both novels, a captivating male character enthralls the female protagonist, and leads her into miserable situations. The opening chapter of The Time of the Doves itself introduces Natalia as a submissive character; “But she made […]
There are many similarities and even more differences in the character Jay Gatsby, from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Cottard, from The Plague by Albert Camus. Fitzgerald, when he wrote The Great Gatsby, he based it off of much of his own life, but also on how the American Dream had been […]
Rudyard Kipling’s Kim has many themes, but the most prevalent are the Game and the Search. The main characters, Kim and the Lama, are both involved in these two “topics”. They keep switching back and forth between the Game and the Search. Though the purpose of the Lama is the Search for his river, he […]
The dominance of Keith’s personality in the first four chapters is easily noticeable and acceptable. Stephen establishes Keith as both a hero and a representation of the perfect family. Additionally, Keith’s active imagination allows him to create various different worlds. To analyze Keith’s portrayal in the first four chapters, I have divided the text into […]
Throughout Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the idea of shame is explored both through Gawain’s own experiences but also through the presentation of the contrasting courts of Arthur and Bertelak, both of which the reader is drawn towards questioning the morals of by the end of poem. As this essay will discuss, it is, […]
The Winter’s Tale belongs to a small group of plays which have been labelled ‘the problem plays’ as they do not fit comfortably into the classifications of either Comedy, History or Tragedy. Therefore it joins Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Tempest in the list of the genre-defying later plays that are usually referred to as “romances […]
“Design”, by Robert Frost, contemplates fate and the role it plays on the lives of every living thing, regardless of size. By definition, design is the purposeful or inventive arrangement of parts or details ( Webster ). The poem starts with the description of an observation made of a spider that has caught a moth […]
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is a fascinating novel that recounts the dreadful childhood of young Oliver. Set in the Industrial Revolution, this novel explores the difficulties of an orphan in an unfriendly environment. The themes and plot compels the reader to thoroughly enjoy the book however, what drives the reader to enjoy it the […]
Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, is the1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning recreation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, Mrs. Dalloway. In this adaptation Cunningham does not retell the same story, but follows a day in the life of three separate women who are living in different time periods and dealing with issues that parallel those in Woolf’s novel. Although their […]
The book “One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gives a detailed account of a labourer who is forced to serve a sentence of up to ten years in a work camp situated somewhere in Russia. The book follows Ivan from the time of getting up in the morning to the […]
