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

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The Demonstration of Friction Between Parents in the Plays, Oedipus, Hamlet and The Glass Menagerie (479 words, 2 pages)

Friction between child and parent is absolutely timeless. Whether it be a disagreement or a complete mystery, the heat is ever present. Some of these battles leave martyrs as other might leave absolutely nothing at all. Literature has countless examples of this never ending conflict. In the art of plays ... Read More

The Hero Quest Myth Theory of Joseph Campbell in The Hero’s Journey and Its Application to the Ancient Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (827 words, 3 pages)

Often in myth, the audience will watch a character undergo a miraculous series of challenges or events in a quest like fashion. This is known as a hero quest myth. These hero quest myths however, no matter the date they were written, or culture from which they came, hero quest ... Read More

The Symbolism of the Color Red in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (415 words, 2 pages)

Ethan Frome Response Throughout Ethan Frome, symbols are used to give the text meaning and add hidden elements to the story. One example of a symbol is the color red associated with Mattie. Ethan sees Mattie wearing red in two different parts of the book when Mattie is dancing with ... Read More

A Comparison between the Value of Books and Video Games and Their Influnce on People (1956 words, 6 pages)

The argument of books having a more beneficial influence on people than video games do has been common knowledge since we were all introduced to video games. While in some aspects this may be true, I think we need to broaden our spectrum of how were looking at this issue. ... Read More

Psychological Complexity in the Picture of Dorian Gray and Wide Sargasso Sea (2921 words, 8 pages)

Compare and contrast the ways in which two texts on the module evoke psychological complexity in one or more of their characters.PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY IN THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY AND WIDE SARGASSO SEAThere are certain things that grip a reader more tightly to the novel and psychological complexity in character(s), ... Read More

A Look at the “Way of Tea” in the Writing “The Classic of Tea” (1348 words, 4 pages)

Tea and the Way of Tea, has been held in distinction throughout east Asia and Europe. Looking at tea in Japan in particular, since its inception, has served in various roles throughout Japans rich history. It has evolved from being used as a ritual and social pastime amongst Japans elite ... Read More

An Analysis of the Chapter The Construction of Similarity for the Book Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought (369 words, 2 pages)

Rhetoric 10, Week 11 ResponseIn the chapter The Construction of Similarity from their book Mental Leaps Analogy in Creative Thought, Keith Holyoak and Paul Thagard discuss the role that similarity plays in the formation of perception and the connections that one forms between various subjects at varying degrees of differentiation ... Read More

The Debacle of Society as Found in American Psycho and Psycho (1774 words, 6 pages)

The Debacle of Society as Found in American Psycho and PsychoContrary to the belief of humanists that man is good, the reality is that man is inherently flawed and therefore bad. In order to regulate the evils of humanity and to force people to act respectably, society plays a crucial ... Read More

Modernist Themes in The Wasteland and Mad Men (490 words, 3 pages)

Modernist Themes in The Wasteland and Mad MenThe Wasteland and Mad Men share a number of modernist themes, the most evident in my opinion being ennui and decay.Even though both works share common themes, they have many differences. The Waste Land is written in a post-war setting creeping up to ... Read More

A Comparison of James Dickey’s “The Firebombing” and James Tate’s “The Lost Pilot” (3474 words, 11 pages)

The Firebombing by James DickeyThe Lost Pilot by James TateIf Job Had Seen the Truth Demolition of Blind Faith in The Firebombing and The Lost PilotThere was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, ... Read More

A Comparison of Invisible Knapsack by Peggy Macintosh and Black Notebooks by Toi Derricotte (285 words, 1 pages)

Mackintosh Invisible Knapsack and Derricotte Black NotebooksMy reaction to Peggy Macintoshs Invisible Knapsack was that she just has a different perception. She sees that white people are more privileged than black people, in big and small ways. She says that blacks are underprivileged, but whites are also overprivileged. Whether you ... Read More

How Society Influences Us as Demonstrated in “The Cough” and “A Separate Peace” (913 words, 3 pages)

Society and social class can affect us do many different things that we might have not done if society was different or if we were considered in a different social class. In The Cough the father was influenced by his lower social class to work at his miner job that ... Read More

The Theme of Human Abuse in the Lottery and Hunters in the Snow (1133 words, 3 pages)

Hunters in the Snow and the Lottery both deal with a theme of how cruel you can be to another human being, or oneself. Though they differ through how characters and settings express three types of abuse verbally, psychological, or emotional and physically.In Hunters in the Snow verbal abuse is ... Read More

A Comparison of Sympathy in Literature by Walter Benjamin and Robert Musil (1203 words, 4 pages)

Forced Sympathy through Inversion in Benjamin and MusilPrompt IIIn 20th century literature, the adoption of animate traits to inanimate objects and, conversely, the adoption of post-mortem traits to living beings, became regular tropes that modern authors used in order to highlight specific information about the given subject of a work ... Read More

An Analysis of Jihad vs. McWorld article by Benjamin Barber (1523 words, 6 pages)

The Parents of McWorldIn the article Jihad vs. McWorld by Benjamin Barber the main premise is that there are two groups in this world, Jihad and McWorld. Jihad may be seen as people who view the world conservatively from an extreme traditional perspective. They view see the past and tradition ... Read More

The Connection Between People Using Stories (1280 words, 5 pages)

Connecting stories to lives Everywhere in our world, there are people connecting with each other. Sometimes it is two lovers staring into each others eyes as they are about to be wed or normal people meeting each other in a bar. Whatever happens, we are always interested in this connection ... Read More

The Connection Between Captives in the Allegory of the Cave and Ishmael (328 words, 1 pages)

Captivity in Ishmael and The Allegory of the CaveIn Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn, the character named Ishmael says his subject is captivity (p. 24). He then goes on to explain that he sees society as being captives. He suggests that we are captives even though we basically have free reign ... Read More

The Many Iterations of the Tale of the Trojan War (2287 words, 8 pages)

There have been many iterations of the tale of the Trojan War, with the Iliad being the most referenced account of the heroes that fought. William Shakespeare, having borrowed heavily from fellow writer Geoffrey Chaucer, recounts the Trojan War with the same events and heroes. However, in true Shakespeare style, ... Read More

Critique of Hello Dolly by Michael Stewart (484 words, 2 pages)

Hello Dolly CritiqueThe show that I attended was the ever exquisite, Hello Dolly written by Michael Stewart (book) and Jerry Herman (music and lyrics). The show was performed by the Charleston Light Opera Guild on the beautiful stage of Charlestons Clay Center. The musical was directed and choreographed by Nina ... Read More

The presentation pine point and the essay Google Mapping a Syrian Childhood were very different physically, but their messages were similar. Both Pine Point and Google Mapping a Syrian Childhood were about a home town where these people grew up and now cant visit because of complications that developed over ... Read More

An Analysis of Death in The Soldier by Brooke, When I’m Killed by Graves and Simplify Me When I’m Dead by Douglas (1393 words, 5 pages)

Brookes The Soldier, Gravess When Im Killed and Douglass Simplify Me When Im Dead all contain different points of view of death that are contemplated by each speaker. In the The Soldier the speaker finds a sense of nationalism and significance when thinking about his death, while in Simplify Me ... Read More

The Literature by the Greatest Romantic Writers; Blake, Smith and Wordsworth (909 words, 3 pages)

The early Romantic-era was largely a reaction against the ideology of the Enlightenment period that dominated much of European philosophy, politics, and art from the mid-17th to 18th century. During the Enlightenment period, logic, reason and rationality were valued. In opposition to that, Romantics valued emotion, passion, and individuality. Blake, ... Read More

A Comparison of Swift “The Lady’s Dressing room” and Pope’s “Rape of the Lock” (690 words, 3 pages)

Comparison of Swifts The Ladys Dressing Room and Popes Rape of the LockAlthough completely different in content, tone, language and form, in these poems both Swift and Pope satirize and mock female vanity, while also criticizing men and human kind as a whole. In The Ladys Dressing Room Swift starts ... Read More

The Human Body as a Site of Traumatic Narrative in Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane’s Civil War Stories (2665 words, 9 pages)

The Human Body as a Site of Traumatic Narrative in Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Cranes Civil War StoriesOne of the more impactful means by which the experience of war is recreated for a civilian audience is through the illustration of the human body, with lived experience and relevant literature illustrating ... Read More

A Comparison Between the Confessions of an Opium-Eater and Another Bullshit Night in Such City (569 words, 2 pages)

Reading Response 4 No two memoirs or autobiographies can create the same experience forthe reader, as no two authors lives are similar enough to do so. This ideaof the reader's experience is what cements the difference between theaddiction memoirs Confessions of an Opium-Eater and Another Bullshit Nightin Suck City. Thomas ... Read More

The Role Setting Plays in American Theatre; Desire Under the Elms by O’Neill and Our Time by Wilder (2602 words, 10 pages)

An Essential Foundation The Role Setting Plays in American Theatre For the sake of the audience, a theatre production relies on a well-designed and thematically relevant setting. This is because a setting isresponsible for designating the audience in a particular time and place, inaddition to creating a specific social or ... Read More

A Comparison of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge and On the Sea by Rebecca Lindenberg (595 words, 2 pages)

Reading Response 1 Early romantic poetry is oftentimes characterized by a teacher-studentrelationship between the author and the audience or even between charactersin the work itself. Samuel Coleridge employs both versions of this student-teacher relationship in his poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, with thepoet-audience relationship having greater importance. Centuries ... Read More

An Analysis of the Meaning Behind the Poems The Road Not Taken, My November Guest, and A Late Walk (1388 words, 4 pages)

There are many poems that have been written and every single one of them has their own meaning behind it and uses all different kinds of elements of poetry throughout them. Robert Frost is a great poet and three of his most famous poems, The Road Not Taken, My Novembers ... Read More

A Review of Countess Dracula by Tom Swanner and Matthew Burlingham (884 words, 3 pages)

Countess Dracula A Reason to Avoid SororitiesThe Lambda Theatre recently put on a fresh and fit performance of Countess Dracula, written by Tom Swanner and Matthew Burlingham (whom also lead in the stage direction), that entertained and delighted me for the better part of three hours. The production began with ... Read More

Looking at the mechanics of literary analysis which can be described as a tool that a reader uses to express the meaning and interpretation of the specific elements of a text. This essay will compare and contrast the poems Song of Lawino and song of Ocol, both written by Ugandan ... Read More

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