World Literature Essays and Term Papers

Things Fall Apart, contains the character Okonkwo as the protagonist. Okonkwo represents the idea of a successful person; an admired hero even. Characteristics such as bravery, strength, and a desire to succeed are what everyone admires about Okonkwo.…

in January of 1919, three years after the Easter Rebellion of 1916 and after the First World War had ravaged Europe from 1914 until 1918. Chinua Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart, his first novel, in 1958, just two years prior to the establishment of an…

dream, his mind goes back to the past and he sees his own birth. There is a fight between his mother's side of the family and his father's, where they both have different plans for the young baby, and they both have different rituals that follow…

at a lake in Maine that attract us and refresh our memory even though that happened a long time ago. "Once More to the Lake" written by Elwyn Brooks White is a wonderful recollection of summer times spent with his family, and especially with his father…

generated a substantial amount of debt by investing in an unstable market. Attempting to extricate himself from the financial mess, and cover up the debts, he made more frenetic deals. By the time the bank realized, Leeson had created over a billion…

which to speak and words to hide his thoughts" has existed for centuries; it illustrates the unscrupulousness of lies. Throughout time, children have been taught honesty through literature. Many fairy tales and fables, by incorporating morals, enforce…

particularly on things that he may have missed out on, for one reason or another. In particular, love, beauty, and seeing the truth about life. The narrator is the vehicle he uses for his contemplation, although there are other characters that embody…

by andymanninja The subject of censorship is a very controversial one, especially the banning of books. Many people believe they must protect themselves and others from the "evils" of many classic books and works of art because they can be deemed "indec…

Blake. It is taken from SONGS OF INNOCENCE. It is divine voice of childhood unchallenged by the test and doubts of later years. Blake expresses in simple and lovely diction the happiness and innocence of a child's first thoughts about. This is a pictori…

Prize for Literature in 1968. The popularity of the book can be partly attributed to the fact that was considered extremely controversial at the time of its initial publication in 1939. While Steinbeck chronicled a fictional family, he did base…