European Literature Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (9,457) essays
European Literature essays:
Review and analysis of the poem "America" by Allen Ginsberg - written as a lecture, but is in essay format
... Ginsbergs poems are characteristically long winded and conversational- or monologual- quite unlike the usual style of a poem. He uses peoples full names, and often dedicates poems to specific people. He writes exactly what he sees- which are often everyday ordinary things- such as going to chinatown ...
Essay On "The Old Man and the Sea" by Earnest Hemmingway.
... and sell it, he grew to respect the marlin as a fellow man. This relationship develops as Santiago fights his worthy opponent for here days, until finally pulling it in. Santiago's attitude toward the fish is also changed as he fought off predators after the fish ...
Marriage in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility fully describes the relationship between plot and historical period and the public views of women / marriage
... century. The nineteenth century saw a great surge of events in history and politics: as Tony Tanner explains, "[Austen] saw- or lived through- the French Revolution, the rise (and fall) of Napoleon Bonaparte, the American War for Independence (and the war with England ...
Analyse the Different Forms of Power Presented in "My Last Duchess", "A Woman to Her Lover" and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
... poem " My Last Duchess " is a dramatic monologue written by Robert Browning, coming from the Duke of Ferrara. In the poem he displays his megalomaniac tendencies towards his late wife and how he feels his title symbolises his power over her. We also learn how he doesn't want his wife for love ...
"Tender is the Night", by Scott Fitzgerald "Choose one main character from the story and show how they undergo a life transformation from beginning to end"
... . Fitzgerald portrays sudden love as an element of self-destruction. Dick Diver, a robust psychologist, falls victim to unforeseen love with his patient, Nicole. Ultimately, the commitment he establishes with her obliterates his social status and moral well-being. Dick, attempting to cure Nicole's ...
Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to Brobdingnag Peculiar nature of the country and its natives
... love that he always does for Royalty by kissing the end of the Queen's pinky finger. Gulliver once said she possessed 'infinite wit and humour. The Brobdingnag ians and their immense size are meant to symbolize the private, personal, and ...
Discuss how George Orwell uses language techniques to represent power in "Animal Farm."
... powerful on the farm. This state of tyranny and oppression was also a subtle hint of the transformation of the "unalterable" Seven Commandments into Napoleon's own laws. Orwell uses Boxer's death as a warning of such totalitarian rule, and his death points sadly and ...
Araby
... love and hope in a world that does not exist except in his imagination. He feels angry and betrayed and realizes his self-deception. That is why he feels he is "a creature driven and derided by vanity" and ...
"The House of Atreus."
... married Hippodamia, and they had two sons, Atreus and Thyestes. In turn, Atreus married Aerope, daughter of King Catreus of Crete, and fathered two sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus. Somewhere along the way, however, Aerope had fallen in love with Atreus' brother, Thyestes, and when Atreus found ...
"The Color of Innocence" about "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. Examines the color white motif in the novel and the way it's meaning evolves.
... love altogether. Deeply wounded by Dorian's tirade and exclamation of nothing but distaste for her, "The girl [Sibyl Vane] grew white, and trembled" (85). Whereas Sibyl had previously taken on such a color and ...