Literature essay samples

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[The Dew Breaker is an elaborate novel by Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian by origin living in the USA now. Edwidge Danticat’s most works deal with the hardships of her native country and its people since the mid 1960s. The novel discloses various themes ... read more

The most impressive and bloodiest play Macbeth by Shakespeare presents us a story of a Scottish tan who turns into a tyrant after becoming a king. His ambitions and obsessions of power are direct consequences of the “truths” predicted by three witches. In my opinion, his weak character would not allow him to commit those crimes without the influence o... read more

Since the 1990s the progress of computer technologies has caused an intensive development of digitization according to the following two main aims: to provide online access to a number of materials in order to serve users better and to use surrogates instead of valuable originals thus avoiding unnecessary handling. The greatest advantage the users of... read more

“Othello” Study Guide

Act 1. Scene 1. 1. The scene opens with a conversation between Roderigo and Iago. In it, Iago tells about his dislike of Othello, and this conversation becomes a background which explains the logic of Iago’s further actions. 2. Iago says that Othello is married to Desdemona, the daughter of the Senator. He bel... read more

Act III, scene 1.1. The scene starts with Cassio asking musicians to play to set Othello in a good mood because he is involved in suspicion at that point already. The talk between a musician and a clown adds theatrical touch to the scene to remind of Shakespeare’s concept of life as theatre play, so after this episode the characters look like puppets in the play.2. Cassio says “I never knew... read more

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters Review

“Dancing in the Glory of Monsters” is a reflection of one of the greatest wars in Africa. The title of the book signifies how Congo plunged into being a failed state due to the violence that emanated from the consequences of the genocide in adjacent Rwanda. Stearns presents a true picture o... read more

The Crucible is a play, written by American playwright Arthur Miller in 1952. According to Oxford dictionary, one of the meanings of crucible is “a situation of severe trial”. In the play Miller successfully shows the Salem society during the “witch hunt” of 1692 and 1693. The event is considered as one of the most terrible and dramatic chapters of Am... read more

Introduction

The logic of collective action is a book by Mancur Olson, Jr. that challenges the school of thought in the 60’s. The thought at the time was that if individuals in a group had similar aspirations, then they would act collectively to meet them and that the greatest threat of a democracy is the tyranny and exploitation... read more

The Shadow of the Wind was written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and the book has been published in dozens of countries and it has been translated into more than 30 languages of the world. The Shadow of the Wind received great amount of international awards and became a bestseller.

It deals with the story in which Daniel Sempara is the pr... read more

Both Jean Rhys, a 20th century novelist from Dominica, and Sam Selvon, a writer of the same period from Trinidad, represent prose works of the Caribbean region in the diversity of authors’ styles, plots, frames of mind, and the language used by writers to narrate their stories. Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers by Jean Rhys is a story set at the end of the 19th ... read more