Essays, Book Reports & Research Reports on World Literature Authors (135) essays
Authors essays:
An analysis of the classic "Rickshaw" by Chinese literary great Lao She.
... dominant women have been presented in the most unsympathetic light. In similar fashion, our look at the character Hu Niu is relentlessly coloured by Xiangzi's harsh narrative. It is impossible to do a light reading of "Rickshaw" and hope to be presented a face for Hu Niu that is to true to ...
The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salmon Rushdie: Interpretation of Chapter 15 and what the title really means
... of Vina's last day, what Rai and Ormus worship about Vina, the angry gods, smell of hell, and it is the final good bye from Ormus to Vina. Rushdie uses great imagery in this chapter to really put the picture in your mind of ...
Rohinton Mistry: A comparison of his Works. (books read: "A Fine Balance" and "Family Matters" both by Rohinton Mistry.)
... India, Mistry uses his knowledge of his home town as a common setting for both novels. Both have many slums and residential areas called "jhopadpattis". These so-called houses have one big room with a communal water tap in the center of the street. These houses are constructed out of scrap wood ...
Conrad v. Achebe: Is Conrad a racist in The Heart of Darkness?
... stereotypical way, when it clearly has no intentions of doing so. This trend has even made its way into literature, and although it is usually overlooked, it is impossible to begin studying Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness without stumbling upon Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa ...
Pablo Neruda: Su Vida y "El opio en el Este"
... aquellas ideas que sirven para colonizar la mente de los desposeídos. La cultura india, las lenguas indígenas y la manera de vida estaban siendo ... Neruda expresar sus sentimientos y emociones sobre el opio sin un contragolpe. Biography of Pablo Neruda. Nobel Lectures, Literature 1968-1980. 24 abril ...
George Orwell's Animal Farm
... novel takes place on a farm called "Manor Farm". In the initial stages of the book, the power over the farm is directly in the hands of a certain "Mr. Jones" who in recent times has taken up alcohol consumption. Mr.Jones is parallel to ...
There is no doubt that both Ovid, from Imaginary Life, by David Malouf and William Wordsworth eventually come to appreciate their new surroundings. Discuss
... to re assess his life in civilized society and simply admits he hates it as much as he hates the sadness of humanity" for I have learned, to look on nature.... the still, sad music of ... societies. William Wordsworth and Ovid do have their similarities in that they love nature from parallel ...
Bryce Courtenay - Power of One - Peekay speaking eulogy for Geel Piet.
... of beautiful boots on behalf of the prisoners. He claimed he saw intelligence and speed in my boxing that more than compensated for my lack of size and relentlessly campaigned for me to be able to ...
Essay on Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
... society that reveres education. Through Babamukuru's relative affluence, she is aware of the difference between a life of subsistence farming and the promise of living on the mission. Tambu faces a metaphoric journey on all of these planes. The combination influences ...
The symbolic feature with in the book "The Interesting Narrative of the Live of Olaudah Equiano".
... society. This village did not have much is any technological influence at the time of Equiano's capture and enslavement. Essaka is even described by the author as almost an Eden like place of existence. Equiano's village is also used symbolically as a comparison to ...