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

1524 total results

The Changes in the Characterization of Sunny, Manko, and Rannie in A Drink of Water, a Short Story by Samuel Selvon (825 words, 2 pages)

The short story A Drink of Water takes place in a small village during what is known as the Great Drought of Trinidad. A drought is said to be an extended period of time in which there is an abnormally low amount of rainfall and as a result it causes ... Read More

An Analysis of Four Fables in Renard the Fox, a Collection of Poems (2239 words, 7 pages)

Renard the Fox, otherwise known by its French title Roman de Renart, is a collection of satirical and comedic poems written by many various authors from twelfth and thirteenth century Europe. These poems, though considerably different in each of its branches, star numerous anthropomorphic animals living in a seemingly feudal ... Read More

Have Women Even Gained Rights? A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen is known for its drama. In the playall the situations have intense conflict. Although this play was takenplace in the 1880's it is still relevant to today's society. The role ofwoman in the society may have changed, but the ... Read More

The Personification of Monsieur C.G. in The Painter of the Modern Life, an Essay by Charles Baudelaire (707 words, 2 pages)

Response to Charles Baudelaire The Painter of Modern LifeCharles Baudelaire describes The Painter of Modern Life as a man of such rarity and distinctiveness that even though his name was concealed behind the personification of Monsieur C. G., he would be easily recognizable to those who might have known him ... Read More

The Theme of Family in Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1348 words, 5 pages)

Metamorphosis FamilyMetamorphosis was published in 1915, it was written by Frank Kafka. Kafka was a Jewish German. In the novella it tells a story from a third person point of view, he awakens to find himself an insect. In Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka, family is a major theme throughout the ... Read More

The Use of Poetic Devices to Represent an Individual’s Journey in At Mornington, a Poem by Gwen Hardwood (781 words, 2 pages)

How does Harwood make use of poetic devices to represent the journey of an individual?The poem At Mornington by Gwen Harwood illustrates the idea of life being finite, which makes it precious and sacred. The central concept of reflecting on the change of life and the acceptance of death through ... Read More

A Character Analysis of Nora in A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (1071 words, 3 pages)

In A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen, Nora illegally forged a name on a loan paperwork, causing issues in her family and her husbands new banking job. Society has forced her husband to cage her, no matter how much he loves her and at the end of the show when ... Read More

The Use of Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality on the Character of Humbert Humbert in Lolita, a Novel by Vladimir Nabokov (2134 words, 7 pages)

A Psychoanalysis of Humbert Humberts Personality and Behavior.Sigmund Freud developed a theory called the Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality it argues that ones behavior is a result from an interaction of three mind structure that are the id, the ego, and the superego. David Myers says in his recent book Exploring ... Read More

The Horrific Experiences of Elie Wiesel in the Holocaust in His Memoir Night (1202 words, 4 pages)

Elie's LessonsIn the memoir Night written by Elie Wiesel, Elie tells of the horrors he encounters in the camps during the Holocaust. Elie enters the camp at fifteen years old, and is separated from his mother at the very beginning, never to see her again. Luckily, Elie is still with ... Read More

The Contents of Happiness in the Readings Five Fold Happiness and Herodotus (560 words, 3 pages)

The readings Five Fold Happiness and Herodotus each put forth a specific criterion for what the authors consider to be the good life, and what happiness consists of, relating it back to specific cultures. However, while the Five Fold Happiness talks about the expression of values through art and symbolism, ... Read More

The Struggle of Nora in A Doll’s House, a Play by Henrik Ibsen (647 words, 4 pages)

Failure to ComplyGender roles and expectations for women have always been a prominent part of families and relationships. These expectations were rarely strayed from during the late 1800s. Men were generally viewed as superior to women and husbands had power over their wives. Despite their poor treatment, it was rare ... Read More

The Changes in the Life of Kalief Browder Due to Wrongful Incarceration in Before the Law, a Novel by Franz Kafka (600 words, 2 pages)

Gonnerman, Jennifer. "Before the Law." The New Yorker. The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2014. Web. 05 Dec. 2014.Before The Law, by Jennifer Gonnerman tells the true story of a young man who was miss incarcerated, forever changing his life. Kalief Browder spent three years on Rikers Island Prison, waiting for ... Read More

The Delusions and Self Destruction of Nathaniel in The Sandman, a Short Story by E.T.A. Hoffman (1052 words, 5 pages)

Nathaniels cave in The SandmanThe Sandman by Hoffmann outlines the self-destruction of main-character Nathaniel, who is arguably both demented and deluded by his own manic derivations from reality, but also terrorized by the deliberate manipulation of malignant figures who represent an otherworldly and supernaturally charged scientific prowess relative to Science ... Read More

A Proposal to Include Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis in the First Year Curriculum (996 words, 3 pages)

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka for First Year Experience at School I believe that students should be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of their minds (King James Version, Rom. 12.2). When new freshmen begin their matriculation to CSM, they are starting their lives as ... Read More

Ovid’s Loving Persona in His Poetry (1393 words, 4 pages)

Obviously OvidOvids persona in his poetry is a lover, misogynist, and an overbearing lover. Out of all of the Roman elegiac poets, we have covered not one has the persona Ovid gives off. I see Ovid as the only poet with the strongest male presence. It is clear that he ... Read More

The Theme of Fear and the Characterization of the Wife in Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer (517 words, 3 pages)

Fear can often hurt you more than the object you are in fear of. The hurt is not necessary physical but also mental. When you fear something you are most likely to psych yourself out unreasonably, think of the worst things possible when the chance of those things happening are ... Read More

A Short Review of Giants in the Earth, a Novel by Ole Edvart Rolvaag (778 words, 2 pages)

Giants in the Earth Possible Side EffectsAdjusting to an entirely new home can be emotionally exhausting for any person. The psychological effects, both positive and negative, are exemplified in the story Giants in the Earth by Ole Edvart Rlvaag, a Norwegian author who focuses on the immigration into America from ... Read More

A Celebrity Encounter in Rod Stewart Is Everywhere, a Short Story by Ramon Isao (1707 words, 7 pages)

Seeing a celebrity in public intersects the ordinary and extraordinary in an otherwise routine lifestyle. In fact, I can still distinctly remember the first time I ever publically saw a celebrity. It was a scorching summer day in New York City about six years ago. As a tenacious ten year ... Read More

The Mystery of Identities in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a Play by Tom Stoppard (324 words, 2 pages)

Many works of literature not readily identified with the mystery or detective story genre nonetheless involve the investigation of a mystery. In these works, the solution to the mystery may be less important than the knowledge gained in the process of its investigation. Choose a novel or play in which ... Read More

Symbol and Setting Analysis in Hedda Gabler, a Play by Henrik Ibsen (758 words, 3 pages)

Symbol the living room and pistols. Setting plays a significant role in Herik Ibsens Hedda Gabler. Hedda goes through a deterioration of character as she becomes increasingly mentally unstable and irrational, which leads to further isolation and her eventual suicide. Through setting, Ibsen shows imprisonment, and the effect that this ... Read More

An Analysis of the Final Paragraph in The Metamorphosis, a Novella by Franz Kafka (804 words, 3 pages)

The final paragraph of Kafkas The Metamorphosis wraps up the story on a much lighter tone from whence it started. It is almost oddly disconnected even, from the build up of Gregors suffering as an insect until his death. This in itself was done on purpose to be symbolic as ... Read More

The Symbolic Measures of Gregor in The Metamorphosis, a Novella by Franz Kafka (1393 words, 5 pages)

The Symbolic Measures of Gregor in The MetamorphosisThe Metamorphosis is an awe inspiring piece of literature that entraps the reader by Franz Kafkas haunting style and layers of symbolism embedded in his writing. In Franz Kafkas, The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa was physically transformed into a bug, but with the transformation ... Read More

The Path to Insanity in The Metamorphosis, a Novella by Franz Kafka (1984 words, 6 pages)

The subhuman treatment of others, even in the slightest aggression, when repeated will break a persons humanity to make them less than human. The choice, however, to fight against this treatment before it succeeds is what saves humanity. When you give in from back breaking abuse from work, and receive ... Read More

The Effects of European Education in Season of Migration to the North, a Novel by Tayeb Salih (1193 words, 5 pages)

The Effects of European Education in Season of Migration to the NorthWhen European colonization of Africa began to become prominent in the 18th century, European colonizers promoted their ways of living and culture to the colonized. Most outstanding was the ideal that Africans should become educated in order to gain ... Read More

Selection of Detail and Point of View in the Characterization of the Main Character in Miss Brill, a Short Story by Katherine Mansfield (516 words, 2 pages)

Katherine Mansfields sympathetic short story Miss Brill illuminates the social dissociation of early 1900 life through isolated relationships with the elderly. Mansfield utilizes selection of detail and point of view to characterize Miss Brill and her strange actions in the story. Through a third person limited point of view and ... Read More

An Analysis of The Women’s Swimming Pool by Hanan Al-Shayk (770 words, 3 pages)

Analysis of The Womens Swimming PoolIn The Womens Swimming Pool by Hanan Al-Shayk, a picture is painted of a girls journey to Beirut from her rural town 1982. The political and social ramifications of her world create the frustration and loss inherent in the binds she finds herself in inherited ... Read More

The Opinions of Different Cultures on the Ending of the Play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (2712 words, 9 pages)

Since its conception in the the year 1879 century, Henriks Ibsens classic play A Dolls House has provoked thought in every culture. The notorious end of the play has been called the door slam heard around the world so many times that the first person to actually use the phrase ... Read More

An Analysis of the Importance of Relationship in the Play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (1015 words, 3 pages)

A Doll House AnalysisA house built on a weak foundation will only fall. This same principal applies to many aspects in life. In Ibsens A Doll House, the reader follows a story of Nora, a submissive housewife, and her controlling, superficial husband, Torvald. Her unsatisfying relationship with her husband causes ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of James and the Theme of Lying to Children in the Short Story Another Language (1134 words, 4 pages)

Another Language is about the seven year old boy James. Him and his father is visiting his paternal grandparents. James asks why his grandfather (called Dedo) is always sad and is told that he misses Yugoslavia, his native country. When asked why he left, Dedo tells James that he stutters ... Read More

Misjudgments in the Short Story The Dinner Party by Mona Gardner (1109 words, 3 pages)

Appearances Hide the Truth behind PeopleThere is something under you, your mind doesn't know how to react to the situation, it moves across your foot, and when you thought things couldn't get worse, someone says one of the most untrue things that gets you to do something unimaginable to even ... Read More

World Literature Essay Examples