World Literature Essays and Term Papers

killing of Santiago Nasar. Told 27 years after the crime by an unnamed narrator (arguably García Márquez himself) who returns to the village where he once lived to put back together "the broken mirror of memory," the story is constructed from the fragme…

main and supporting characters who exhibit a diverse array of personalities and expression. Each character's action defines their individual personalities and belief systems. The main character, Bigger Thomas has personality traits spanning various…

well-constructed plays dealing realistically with psychological and social problems won him recognition as the father of modern drama. Although Ibsen's plays shocked contemporary audiences, they were championed by such serious critics as George Bernard…

of the great detail that author extends and because of the solitary reflections of the characters in consideration of their demise. The story possesses amazingly vivid description. This attention to detail affords the reader the greatest degree…

amusing. However a character in the story, Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber, has many unusual thoughts and daydreams that are not real. Mr.Mitty lives with his wife. She is always bossing him around and making him do things that he seems…

want what they cannot have, to the point of self-destruction. Brett Ashley wants a man that would never be able to satisfy her. Jake Barnes wants a woman he could never make happy. Dexter Green wants to conquer the unconquerable woman. Judy Jones…

"Good Country People" and "Where are you going, Where have you been?", most notably their characters. Both stories contain a female protagonist, and a male antagonist, whose confrontations start out relatively normal, and progress to more and more…

to end" Is Eddie's fate as inevitable as Alfieri suggests? Right from the start of A View From The Bridge, during Alfieri's first monologue, he suggests that the story will not have a happy ending and it will run through a bloody course.…

to encapsulate the poem's subject-matter, written with uncomplicated words of the English vocabulary makes the poem stand out in a stark manner. This method is used by Rothenberg to illustrate to readers exactly how he sees war, as it is. One outstandin…

the character Scrooge is established. Since the late 1800's when the novella was written, Scrooge was thought of as being mean, and continues to be viewed as a stereotype of greediness. In the article "Courage under terrible fire" by Marci McDonald,…