Comparative Literature Essays Examples For College & High School Students in PDF

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A Character Analysis of Rorschach in the Book Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon (676 words, 4 pages)

In Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons book the Watchmen the character Rorschach is introduced. Rorschach is portrayed to be a very aggressive and violent man. Throughout the book Rorschach can be found as being the villain more than he is found being the good guy. If he gets mad enough ... Read More

A Comparison of the Literary Works Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling and How to Talk to Your Mother by Lorrie Moore (1272 words, 5 pages)

The Chosen OneAccording to KidsReads, J.K. Rowling wrote the initial ideas for her famous book series Harry Potter on a napkin while taking a train to London. Many kids and adults alike know about the magical world of Harry Potter. At first the seven books look like childrens books but, ... Read More

Hans Christian Andersens The Little Mermaid, published in 1837, has a grim turn of events compared to the tale that Disney has brought all of us to love, romanticizing the classic, and adapting it into a child appropriate film with a happy ending and singing marine life. The endings are ... Read More

A Report on Personal Financial Management in the Book The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical & Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying by Suze Orman (1518 words, 6 pages)

There are many critical components and financial principles to be learned in Suze Ormans The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom Practical Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying. I chose this book to focus my report on as Suze takes temporal financial advice and marries it with spiritual principles to ... Read More

The Use of Power and Manipulation in the Book The Turn of the Screw by Henry James and Arthur Conan Doyle (675 words, 2 pages)

Power and ManipulationManipulation, in its simplest form, is made up of power and deception. Whether power is given to children or adults, it can almost always be assumed that it will be abused to some degree. In The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, manipulation dominates the storyline. The ... Read More

An Analysis of Sanity in the Characters of Sula by Toni Morrison and the Turn of the Screw by Henry James (2928 words, 9 pages)

Insanity of PerceptionInsanity, in and of itself, is an insane idea. While one can conjure up the film-like image of an insane person in a straitjacket running around a padded room, the mere definition of insanity is unclear. What one person may deem as insane another person may deem as ... Read More

The Nature of Cognizance and the Differences Between Divine and human Intellect in Book 1, Chapter 68 of the Book The Guide of the Perplexed by Maimonides (669 words, 3 pages)

The Embodiment of Human Intellect In Book 1, Chapet 68, Maimonides focuses on the nature of cognizance and the differences between divine and human intellect. He acknowledges the power of thought, asserting that what one thinks is the abstract form of the object of thought. Intellect is always defined by ... Read More

The Weak and Fragile Generations After World War I in the Novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh (1583 words, 5 pages)

Often we wonder what joy it would bring if we were to have no responsibilities and let go off all our morals and then pursue to live. We start to believe that this would be the ideal way to live, devoid from the fact that this behavior will alter our ... Read More

The Impact of Background and Attitude in Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and The Unknown Citizen by W.H. Auden (745 words, 3 pages)

Does an individuals background or attitude affect how they are viewed in society? The poem Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and the poem The Unknown Citizen by W.H. Auden imply that background and attitude can affect how an individual is viewed and treated in society. Wilcoxs poem Solitude and Audens ... Read More

The Use of Madness as a Tool to Achieve Ultimate Goals in the Play Hamlet and in the Film The Dark Knight (921 words, 4 pages)

In both William Shakespeares Hamlet and the 2008 film The Dark Knight, a character is typically written off as insane and this becomes the reasoning behind their actions. However, seemingly irrational actions are not always unplanned and madness is not always crippling sometimes, madness is the crutch, helping you get ... Read More

How Sex in Advertising Dehumanizes and Objectifies People, Especially Women in the Article “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt” by Jean Kilbourne (1166 words, 4 pages)

In, Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt by Jean Kilbourne, Kilbourne argues that the way the media uses sex in advertising, dehumanizes and objectifies people, especially women (p. 459, par. 2). Kilbourne also argues that advertisements almost encourage men to be violent toward women to never take no for ... Read More

A Comparison between Odysseus’s Desire to Go Home and the Christian Desire to Join Jesus in Heaven (492 words, 2 pages)

Through the entire Odyssey, Odysseus has the desire to come home to his wife, Penelope. To achieve this goal, he gives up an opportunity to become an immortal and have a goddess as a wife. This can be likened to the Christian life. Our unfailing desire must be like that ... Read More

The Idea That the State Is Greater Than the Individual and Religion in Sophocles’s Play Antigone and the Current Situation in the U.S. (448 words, 2 pages)

In the play Antigone, by Sophocles, Creon, the king of Thebes, asserts that the state is greater that the individual. He is wrong. This type of thinking can lead to oppressive dictatorships, such as is found in Communist countries. In the ideal government, the state exists only to serve the ... Read More

The Complexity and Vast Depth of Deep Seeded Cultural Movements of Asian Civilizations in The Guide by R.K. Narayan and The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto (1679 words, 6 pages)

Often overlooked in contemporary society are the rich beauty and complexity of the deep-seeded cultural movements of Asian civilizations. These representative paragons of Asian intellectual complexity are the cultures of India and Japan, one that has been significantly affected by British Imperialism and the other by the American occupancy post-World ... Read More

A Comparison of the Poems Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins and The Oven Bird by Robert Frost (955 words, 3 pages)

In the poems Spring and Fall and The Oven Bird, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Frost, respectively, express differing sentiments about not only the comparisons between seasons, but the comparison of human reactions to seasons. Hopkins use of rhetorical questioning and its implicit meanings, Frosts frequent use of imagery in ... Read More

The Struggles for the Balance of Power in the Novels Chronicle of the Blood Merchant by Yu Hua and Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong (1555 words, 5 pages)

The 20th century was a century of revolutions scientific revolutions, technological revolutions, government revolutions, and revolutions of thought. For those who lived in China and Vietnam during that century, their focus was on the tumultuous revolutions of thought and government, namely, Marxism. Sudden shifts in power occurred in China and ... Read More

The Secret Sickness in the Plays Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee Williams (777 words, 3 pages)

Sickly secretsIf your child is diagnosed with cancer, they immediately become the center of your universe. The attention of your family, friends, co-workers and yourself turns to the new, lengthy, and painful list of responsibilities you now have to deal with. Illness magnifies a persons presence. Its when a person ... Read More

The Use of Self Expression by the Protagonists in the Novels This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff and Into the Forest by Jean Hegland (1059 words, 3 pages)

Recreation In the novels This Boys Life and Into the Forest, both protagonists similarly utilize self expression as method to recreate themselves and escape a worse alternative. Throughout the novel, Tobias and the two sisters are plunged into harsh conditions where they must care for themselves. To keep themselves sane, ... Read More

The Critique of Females in the Poems Women by Louise Bogan and The One Girl At the Boy’s Party by Sharon Olds (673 words, 3 pages)

The Female ParadigmIn the poems Women by Louise Bogan and The One Girl At the Boys Party by Sharon Olds, they both describe their own critique of females, envisioning a common character that is constituent of women.Bogans perception of women entails a stereotype from the perspective of a man, who ... Read More

Triumph and Futility in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and 1984 by George Orwell (1555 words, 7 pages)

Big Brother in the Big AppleDo you know the proper antonym for Ego? Bromide, Peter. The rule of the bromide. Ellsworth Toohey, The FountainheadEarning purpose in life entails pursuing ideals that can be considered ends in themselves. Socratic thinkers view the quest for virtue to be the rationale for existence ... Read More

The Theme of Paralysis in Various Literary Pieces (1421 words, 6 pages)

Paralysis A Portrait of Death and IndecisionThe smiting harm of paralysis is formidable and sometimes beyond human control. For instance, the prospect of recovering from a crippling injury is usually grim, and, in this case, on a physical level, the body betrays even the most fundamental faculties of motion and ... Read More

The Future of Globalization in the Novel Globalization by Manfred Steger and Essay Out of the Shadows: Can Japan’s Nuclear Power Renaissance Reduce Global Emission by David McNeill (876 words, 3 pages)

In Medieval Europe, small regional bands of settlers constituted the most basic political entity as Feudalism flourished. Several centuries later, the Peace of Westphalia recognized the nation-state as the heart of political organizations and sovereignty. As social, political, economic, and even cultural norms extend beyond the nation-state, what will the ... Read More

An Evaluation of the Reports of Carr and Kefalas in The Heartland and the Rural Youth Exodus (452 words, 2 pages)

Carr and Kefalass chapter entitled The Heartland and the Rural Youth Exodus does not effectively convince achievers to come back through their use of statistics, personal experience, and interviews with former Iowans, all of which paint a bleak picture for rural America.In an attempt to better understand small-town life, Carr ... Read More

The Role of Knowledge in The Poem of Gilgamesh and The Bible (1141 words, 5 pages)

Knowing Is Half The Battle The Role Of Knowledge in The Poem Of Gilgamesh and The BibleIt is readily apparent that human nature is to gravitate toward knowledge. However, more often than not, this pursuit of knowledge can lead to ones own downfall. Knowledge is more powerful than people think ... Read More

The Concept of Anecdotes in Son by Andrew Solomon, Wisdom by Robert Thurman, and Immune to Reality by Daniel Gilbert (2025 words, 1 pages)

The Purpose of Anecdotes and Implementation of Perspective and Voice in Anecdotes in Son by Andrew Solomon, Wisdom by Robert Thurman and Immune to Reality by Daniel Gilbert How can brief yet amusing stories be used in literature to support an authors overall views? These stories, called anecdotes, are vital ... Read More

The Manifestation of Alteration in Humans in Essays by Martha Stout, Robert Thurman, and Charles Siebert (1865 words, 6 pages)

The Manifestation of Alteration in Individuals as Exhibited by Literary Devices and Titles as it Relates to the Unquestionable Ability of Self-Alteration in Humans from Essays Written by Martha Stout, Robert Thurman, and Charles SiebertAlteration in human beings and animals can be brought upon by the presence of unfavorable influences. ... Read More

The Concepts of Belonging and Alienation in the Poems, Sam, Your Paris, and The Shot by Ted Hughes (1032 words, 4 pages)

The 3 poems by Ted Hughes studied, reflect both the concept of belonging and its antithesis. Belonging and alienation were reflected through the use of a variety of language techniques. Throughout the poem Sam, imagery and repetition were used to help the reader understand the poems more thoroughly to make ... Read More

An Examination of Story-Telling in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Faithless (869 words, 3 pages)

Story-telling in Fun Home and FaithlessAlison Bechdels Fun Home is a memoir in which Bechdel recounts her childhood in rural Pennsylvania. The story is depicted as a graphic novel and addresses topics such as sexual orientation, gender identity, and death. Bechdels novel also pays particular attention to story-telling and her ... Read More

A Comparison between the Perceptions and Interpretations of Death in Death of a Ball Turret Gunner and Back When All Was Continuous Chuckles (652 words, 2 pages)

Dual Sides of DeathDeath, though misfortunate, is something that everyone deals with at some point in their life. Everyone handles the matter of death in a unique way, finding different methods to cope. Some may believe it to be their wrongdoing, as other might see it as a continuation of ... Read More

An Examination of the Characteristics of Sonnets in the Poems Death Be Not Proud, One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand, and How I Love Thee (2291 words, 9 pages)

A sonnet is defined as a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes. They are typically written about love, but can be about a host of other topics as well. They are well known for the utilization of a strong rhythm, which is why ... Read More

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