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.
... 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. Santiago's relationship ...
"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.
... white purity of boyhood" (37). In both of these passages, the motif represents its most basic connotation, that of innocence, particularly, the innocence of youth. White gives Dorian's appearance a sense of vivacity. Lord Henry describes Dorian's soul as having "turned to this white girl [Sibyl Vane ...
Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to Brobdingnag Peculiar nature of the country and its natives
... Grass grows 20 feet high, little girls (Glumdalclitch) can reach 40 feet and hedges can approach 120 feet high. A fully grown adult Brobdingnag ian easily takes 10 yards a stride. The smallest known adult in Brobdingnag is the Queen's Dwarf ...
Analyse the Different Forms of Power Presented in "My Last Duchess", "A Woman to Her Lover" and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
... love. It would have been archetypal for the man to do all the wooing at the time, however yet again the unconventional nature of the relationship seems to carry through, resulting in an inversion of the roles. The main voice of the poem ...
"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"
... 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 mental illness, finds himself taken by her ...
"The House of Atreus."
... and Menelaus. Somewhere along the way, however, Aerope had fallen in love with Atreus' brother, Thyestes, and when Atreus found out about the ... but years later. Aegisthus did not allow his father or brothers to go dishonored. His revenge was obtained many years later through Atreus' son, Agamemnon. ...
Marriage in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility fully describes the relationship between plot and historical period and the public views of women / marriage
... state of her sister's relationship (Austen, 1811). Jane Austen was familiar with this problem personally: her older sister Cassandra's engagement stretched on for may years due to a lack of funds (Southam, 1968). Another concept related to ...
Discuss how George Orwell uses language techniques to represent power in "Animal Farm."
... to unite ... to accompany him everywhere, employed another form of his power, "they kept close to Napoleon. It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr ...
Araby
... love for the girl was one-sided, and that even though his feelings were real, it was not mutual from the girl ... books in his house were in a state of ruin and a priest, the former ... from innocence to knowledge and experience. The narrator had a different attitude and reaction to the initiation ...