Literature essay samples

A famous American writer Amy Bloom, with the depth and emotionality characteristic for all her works, in a short story “Silver Water” describes the psychology of the relations in the family struck by daughter’s mental illness. This painful circumstance invoked the challenges that could be too hard to cope with and the moral choices difficult to make.... read more

When we hear the word “persuasion”, we have quite a number of associations. The first idea that comes to our mind is trying to change somebody’s outlook for the sake of improving certain negative sides. Take for instance a huge campaign conducted at the universities in order to make students quit smoking. Actually, people are not forbidden to do this ... read more

Industries that are digital content based usually produce products and services that utilise information technology mechanism in digitizing and integrating the media materials. The China and Taiwan countries have increased their efforts and shown a great interest in developing digital content materials and offering digital services. Few entrepreneurs... read more

1. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is a highly acclaimed psychological ghost story. Numerous literary critics and readers are unanimous that one of the distinctive features of the book is its eerie mood. The author applies a wide range of subtle and effective methods to create a tone of menace and dread. The opening paragraph, which prov... read more

Sophocles’s Antigone is the story of an admirable civil disobedient who represents democratic or dissident principle by heroically resisting the overreaching sovereign power of her authoritarian uncle. Antigone buries her brother, although it is prohibited, and is sentenced to death for her dissidence.

Antigone’s responsibility to ... read more

Volunteer service involve activities by individuals, done often, but not necessarily as members of a group, and intended to improve for one or more other people their objective situation or subjective satisfaction or both. International volunteer work does not follow the best known practice principles this sometimes proves wasteful, unethical, and detrimental. DiscussionIn spite of good inte... read more

The modernist movement aroused in the late 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century affecting all kinds of arts including fine art and literature as a consequence of the revision of all the previously formed cultural and philosophic concepts and ideas. Modernism had been developing in the conditions of social and historical crisis which resulted ... read more

“Let The Right One In” is a 2008 Swedish film directed by Tomas Alfredson and based on a popular novel of the same name. Narrated as a coming-of-age story about a twelve-year old boy’s friendship with his unusual neighbour, at the same time it explores controversial themes, such as vampirism, pedophilia, school bullying, and violence. These themes be... read more

Zebra is a story by Chaim Potok. It is devoted to demonstrating how students can overcome some challenging situations which occur in their lives. It is a story of Adam Zebrin, who got his nickname on the basis of similarity of his family name with the name of the animal.

The story pictures he boy to be is seriously injured in an ... read more

Charles Dickens was a Victorian era’s writer who not only reflected it in his writings and raised issues that troubled a British society and tried to solve them. His active literary and social activities contributed great changes as elimination of debtors’ prisons, reforms in education and justice, increased number of charities and revival patronage. ... read more