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

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Comparing the Authors of “The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl” and “The Tell Take Heart” (2956 words, 5 pages)

Comparative Essay Compare how the authors of The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl and The Tell Tale Heart and Jane Eyre explore the theme of madness Mad, Madness1. (Adjective) someone who is mad has a mental illness, which often causes him or her to behave in strange ways. ... Read More

A Comparison of Wilfred Owen’s Poems “Dulce et Decorum Est” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth” (2156 words, 4 pages)

Wilfred Owen Poetry Comparison In this essay, I have decided to analyse two poems by the war poet Wilfred Owen, taken from his writings on the First World War. Both of these poems ('Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'Anthem for Doomed Youth') portray Owen's bitter angst towards the war, but ... Read More

Comparing Fear in the Hound of the Baskervilles and the Whole Town’s Sleeping (1500 words, 2 pages)

Fear is present in many different types of literature from the shortest tale tothe longest of novels. Sir Authur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of theBaskervillies" and Ray Bradbury's "The Whole Towns Sleeping" are two verydifferent texts which create fear in different ways but also in very similarways. I am going ... Read More

A Comparison of Wilfred Owen’s Poems “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and “Disabled” (1838 words, 3 pages)

The two poems I have chosen are Dolce Et Decorum Es and Disabled. I felt that of the poems that I was given to choose from these two told a tragic and effective story of what war was really like. Both of these poems were written at a time when ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Speckled Band and Lamb Slaughter (1027 words, 2 pages)

Both the Speckled Band and lamb to the slaughter are identified as murder mysteries compare the two stories and say how each one works as a murder mystery. Which one you find it more effective and why?Sir Arthur Connon Doyle is the author of ' the Speckled Band' it is ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Poem Wha Fe Call, Study No. X and Limbo (1110 words, 5 pages)

The three poems with the mostdiverse techniques which most influence our perception of the poem are Wha FeCall I, Study No. X and Limbo. Study No. X has many different techniques, and the firstline is a good example. Chi ama,crede, which means He who loves, believes.Using these words, which are ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Plays Antigone and Mother Courage and Her Children by Jean Anouilh and Bertholt Brecht (1489 words, 6 pages)

The two writers, Jean Anouilh and Bertolt Brecht wrote their plays Antigone(1944) and Mother Courage and her Children (1938) prior to and during the SecondWorld War as political vessels.The alienation effect, mainly accredited to Brecht, is a derivation ofdefamiliarisation where familiar actions are distorted by being interrupted,lengthened or decelerated. The ... Read More

A Comparison of The Cherry Orchard and Mother Courage and Her Children (1718 words, 7 pages)

The two plays under consideration -one by Chekov and the other by Brecht- areroughly comparable in period, if not in style while The Cherry Orchard is arather conventional play, Mother Courage is unusual under many points of view.Nonetheless, despite their differences in form, one important -and innovative-feature links the two ... Read More

In both Frankenstein and Villette there is a discernible ??element of the search for identity, which contributes to the plot ??and character development in both novels. The search seems to ??take the form of journeys, representing the road to final ??revelations within the novels, and is the means by which ... Read More

A Literary Analysis and a Comparison of the Woman Warrior and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (2979 words, 4 pages)

Oranges an autobiographical novel? No not at all and yes of course.1 In the mind of the modern reader the phrase autobiographical writing conveys a notion of an accurate retelling, in part or in whole, of the author's life. The Concise Oxford Dictionary definition of the term reinforces this preconception, ... Read More

A Comparison of the Stories ‘Tony Arch’, ‘Tickets Please’ and ‘Seeing a Beauty Queen Home’ (1134 words, 5 pages)

The three stories 'TonyKytes The Arch Deceiver', 'Tickets Please' and 'Seeing A Beauty Queen Home'are each set where the author had lived for a period of time, but contrastgreatly, for instance, 'Tony Kytes The Arch Deceiver' is set in rural Wessex(Dorset), in the late 19th century. It displays attitudes to ... Read More

A Literary Analysis and a Comparison of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the Darkness out There (3656 words, 14 pages)

Wehave been looking at the nineteenth century story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hydeand the post world war II text, The Darkness Out There. Both of the storiesfocus on split personalities but we must compare the similarities anddifferences of the stories before we judge how they relate back to the idea ... Read More

An Anaysis of the Writing Skills and Language in Napoleon and Spectre (2447 words, 9 pages)

Both of the stories are very grippingand keep you in apprehension throughout When it comes to ghost stories, bothhold the general key to a first-class story, mystery. They both take a slowapproach to getting to the main climax, which encourages you to keep reading.When making a scary film, it is ... Read More

A Comparison Between “The Mayor of Casterbridge” and “A View from the Bridge” (268 words, 2 pages)

In this piece of coursework our class hadto be split up into groups of three or four and have discussions about topicson the two texts The mayor of Casterbridge and A view from the bridge. Thetopics were Comparisonsof the two texts. Similaritiesbetween the two texts. Thedownfalls of the two main ... Read More

A Comparison of Character Behavior in Ticket Please and the Arch Deceiver (4798 words, 18 pages)

Tickets Pleasewritten by D. H. Lawrence is a 20th Century story. The protagonists are Annieand John Thomas a rather good-looking man who enjoys gallivanting. Annie wantsher revenge on him as he drops her when she takes too much intelligentinterest in him whereas in Tony Kytes, the Arch Deceiver written byThomas ... Read More

How a Normal Person Can Be Loured into Evil Practices in the Wasp Factory (1810 words, 7 pages)

All threeof these novels are either all or partly written in the first-person. They seemto be about the evils of humans, and they are meant to make you think. They dothis by using a Gothic sort of scene for the novels to be set in. All of thestories attitudes to ... Read More

A Comparison of Triangular Relationships in The Withered Arm and Turned (2473 words, 9 pages)

This essay is aimed atdiscussing the differences between the two short stories, called The WitheredArm and Turned. These stories have similar plots and both deliver and contrastthese in their very own clever ways. They are both based on the idea oftriangular relationships, involving two women and a man. In the ... Read More

The Writing Techniques in Conan-Doyle’s “The Speckled Band” and Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter” (3725 words, 15 pages)

In thisessay, I intend to compare and contrast the two short stories The SpeckledBand by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, and Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl,picking out techniques used which make it exactly, or exactly the opposite of atypical detective storymurder mystery. When manypeople think of a murder mystery, they ... Read More

A Comparison of Frankenstein and Of Mice and Men (2105 words, 10 pages)

Frankenstein andOf Mice And Men are different in almost every way. They are written in different times, bydifferent classes of people and in different areas of the world where life isdissimilar to the extreme. The primarycharacters are nothing like each other, and the books are written incontrasting styles. Frankenstein isabout ... Read More

A Literary Analysis and a Comparison of La Belle Dame sans Merci and an Advancement of Learning and Roe-Deer (3380 words, 13 pages)

Thespiritual correspondence between man and nature can be illustrated as being aspiritual communication between the two, which is the affect of how theyinteract with each other. The use of nature in a way that is both beneficial toman and nature can be described as a harmonious spiritual correspondence. The poems ... Read More

A Comparison of the Theme of Love in Plena Timoris, The Workbox, and At Castle Boterel by Thomas Hardy (464 words, 2 pages)

Thomas Hardys Plena Timoris The Workbox "At castle Boterel Thomas Hardysthree poems Plena Timoris, The Workbox, and At Castle Boterel all revolve around thetheme of love. In this essay, I aim to show how Hardy manages tocreate this passionate, romantic feeling in his poems, and how hemanages to convey the ... Read More

A Comparison on Individual Characters Between Eddie and Marco (1400 words, 6 pages)

In this part of the essay I am going to discuss whatindividual characters should do in page 60 to 61.Before these pages Marco an Rodolfo were taken away by the Immigration Bureau ,and after this scene it is the confrontation between Eddie and Marco.Eddie you should act tense in this ... Read More

A Comparison of the Use of Suspense in The Stolen Bacillus by H. G. Wells and The Adventures of the Speckled Band by A. C. Doyle and Arthur Conan Doyle (1880 words, 7 pages)

How do the Writers Create Suspense in the Short Stories? Many writers use suspense in their work in order toexcite the reader more, to make him or her want to turn over to the next page.This is can be done by giving the reader some information, but not enough forhim ... Read More

The Love Elements in the Seduction, to His Coy Mistress and the Flea (1668 words, 7 pages)

Lovepoems are a way of expressing sexual or loving feelings through words. Love poems are almost always romantic but aswe will see, this is not the case for all of them. Iwill be analysing and comparing three different love poems The Seduction byEileen Mc Auley, To his Coy Mistress by ... Read More

A Comparative Literary Analysis of London by William Blake and London, 1802 by William Blake (1146 words, 5 pages)

Both these poems were written at around the turn of the 19thcentury, in Georgian times, to illustrate the authors views on the City ofLondon. At this time, the industrial revolution was underway and there was vastgrowth in the population, due to medical advances and people having morechildren. In my opinion, ... Read More

A Comparison of a Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and Oedipus the King by Sophocles (1574 words, 2 pages)

The drama of Ibsen was unusual for it's time since the language that was used and the chaHI Eiracters it portrayed were very much of the real world. "A Doll's House", serves as an example of the kind of issue-based drama that distinguishes Ibsen from many of his contemporaries. The ... Read More

A Comparison of Themes in the Great Gatsby and War and Peace (1309 words, 2 pages)

I will discuss during the course of this essay the above theme in the two following books - The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and War and Peace, written by Leo Tolstoy. Much has been written in each of the two books on this theme. Very briefly I ... Read More

An Analysis and a Comparison of Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl and Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle (1380 words, 2 pages)

Roald Dahl wrote Lamb to the slaughter in 1954, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Speckled Band in 1892, that is around 62 yrs apart which would make the stories slightly different to each other because they were wrote in two different centuries.Roald Dahl was born in 1916 and died in ... Read More

A Comparative Analysis of the Three Styles in The Raven, Frankenstein and Man Overboard (7776 words, 8 pages)

I have been given the task of comparing three stories of suspense in three different styles of writing. During this essay I will discuss the way each story is written, how and why certain effects are achieved and what elements contribute to the mood and suspense of the story. Finally, ... Read More

A Literary Analysis and a Comparison of the Signalman and the Darkness Is out There (901 words, 2 pages)

Both The Signalman and The darkness is out there have unexpected endings. Compare the way tension is built up in both stories so that the reader is surprised by how the stories end. In the story, The darkness is out there by Penelope Lively, tension is built in a range ... Read More

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