Literature Review Essay Examples and Research Papers

The book I’m reading is called The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan. The genre of this book is fiction. The setting throughout this book is Chinese Culture. The place of the story is in the main character’s family home (June). The time of the story is in both the past and present, the past…

In the story ‘Two Kinds,’ Amy tan write about a daughter and a mother having an intricated relationship because the mother pushes the daughter into various activities she does not want to be part of, hoping that one she will reveal a concealed talent. Even though the daughter initially complies with her mother’s endeavors, she…

Guilt is an intense emotion that allows an individual to either confront a situation and free themselves of guilt or avoid the emotion by placing blame onto others. Anyone can feel the feeling of guilt for something he did or failed to do. It is true that as a human being, we always feel unhappy…

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a novella that is based on the transformation of a salesman, Gregor Samsa, who struggles to live with his new insect body. Gregor Samsa was already struggling in his previous life and had a debt he had to pay off for his father. He worked and provided for his…

Introduction Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a cautionary tale which follows an inquisitive scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who becomes fascinated by the prospect of reanimating the inanimate and seeks to fabricate artificial life. He pieces together a man-like creature, 8 feet tall, whose ghastly appearance labels it an abomination to all mankind. Deemed loathsome by its creator,…

Introduction This essay critically analyses The Sisters short story by Pauline Smith. The purpose is to discuss the literary devices used by the writer, Pauline Smith. The essay focus on two literary devices. Firstly, it will focus on the structure of the story, which include; setting, structure and plot development, characterization, narrator and point of…

Examine the presentation of horror and terror in ‘Frankenstein using integrated linguistic and literary approaches. In the course of your writing, explore connections between ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ and demonstrate the significance of relevant contexts Throughout the novels horror and terror have a clearly significant effect on the…

Short stories are a very good way of letting an author express a message and tell a story through a short span of time. “The Necklace” and “The Gift of the Magi” are very good examples of this. They use many effective literary terms and narrative techniques to do this. “The Necklace” is a story…

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explores the duality of people, and how each one of us has both a good and bad side. Dr. Jekyll, in an experiment attempting to separate his darker urges from himself, creates Mr. Hyde; a creature representing all of Jekyll’s negative thoughts and impulses, while remaining…

In Frankenstein the creature is portrayed as the monster, but I believe that Victor is the true monster in this case. The Creature wasn’t the most friendliest (redundant) and kindest looking,(parallelism) but he isn’t as monstrous as his creator. The readers overlook what Ii consider an important point about the creature, his physical appearance did…