Essays on Literature

Most individuals believe that they have the ability to improve their lives if they could be provided with the strange thing known as willpower. Possessing great self-control would enable individuals to eat right, avoid alcohol and drugs, save for retirement, avoid procrastination and attain every sort of noble objective. For...

Rabindranath Tagore s Contribution to Indian Society Rabindranath Tagore made a significant contribution to the Indian society through various aspects including politics, literature, and music. In 1913, Tagore was awarded a Nobel Prize for literature. He had a multitalented personality which made him be recognized in the world. He was a...

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street by Herman Melville is an intriguingly comic story that ridicules the nature of work and its function in assigning meaning to human lives. The humor in the story also brings about questions on the degree to which people have a moral obligation to...

Trifles by Susan Glaspell is a play with a unified plot and has verbal flashbacks to the events that led to the murder of John Wright. The themes highlighted in the play are based on the context of the events, and they include isolation, gender, patriarchy and plight of women....

Triffles is a one-demonstration play composed by Susan Glaspell – who is, noted by John Corbin (a theater faultfinder for the New York Times) as one of the few premiers and most encouraging contemporaneous authors of the one-demonstration play (Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times 200). She utilized this play...

The Story of "There Will Come Short Rains" by Ray Bradbury The short story, “There Will Come Short Rains” by Ray Bradbury is an apical story. The story as written by Ray describes the fear of what is to come as Ray puts it in his flash-forward of how the world...

Heaney Seamus is one of the greatest poets of his time for he focused on key cultural issues that the people of Northern Ireland experienced. During his era, society depended more on nature as a source of livelihood and strength and this reflects in the themes present in the poem....

The myth of Daedalus and his son Icarus tells the story of father and son trying to escape possible punishment. Daedalus is a genius and engineers two wings with which they can fly away. Unfortunately, Icarus flies close to the sun despite his father's warning and his wings are ripped...

Persuasive Communication Persuasive communication is a technique that people practice on a daily basis, with or without realizing. At one point or the other, people try to convince their friends, colleagues or even employers to consider their suggestions and ideas (Stiff Mongeau, 2016). In the past, I have encountered...

The article is communicating about a thirty-seven-year-old general paper teacher called Dr. Audrey Cheong Su-Wei who went to a class with an assertion jar in Hwa Chong Institution.  Dr. Cheong was among the nine winners of the year's inspiring teacher of English award well known as ITEA. The teacher instructed...

In the article 'Starting over' Malcolm Gladwell describes the lives of the New Orleans residents after the Hurricane Katrina. Before the storm, the population of New Orleans comprised majorly of the African Americans in a community with high crime rate, not so good schools or poor quality of education, and...

The Rhetoric of Humor The book of The Rhetoric of Humor by Kirk Boyle describes the questions which revolve around the central concept of comedic writing and the sense of humor among people. Additionally, the author states the relevant places to make when people laugh as well as the situations when...