Literature Essays

Life since the beginning of time has always been about the survival of the fittest. Two short stories “The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien and “War" by Luigi Pirandello show how the survival of the fittest takes precedence over other factors in life. Comparing these two stories one can easily see there is a complex relationship between them. This paper will compare and contrast the differences of these two short and how they interact to create a complex relationship.In “The Things They Carried" Tim O'Brien goes into great detail...

Clearly, the corruption of justice, as occasioned through the conservation of personal political and economic power, was of extreme consequence to the ancients. In Thucydides' “History of the Peloponnesian Wars," as well as in Euripides' “Medea," themes of personal power and universal justice comprise a central motive of expression, as well as informing the writers' respective philosophical and historical visions.As Hall remarks, “Euripides was clearly engaged with the intellectual and ethical questions which the war had asked and which underlay the policy debates in the Athenian assembly. These appear in...

The Old Man and the Sea refer to those literary works of Ernest Hemingway, which give much space to interpretation due to their allegorical nature. Indeed, on the surface the plot is not very much overloaded by events, presenting a story of the old fisherman Santiago, who hunts a great fish for a few days. For over eighty days he hasn't caught a single fish and finally his young friend and pupil, the boy called Manolo, sees him off to have another try. Santiago manages to get hold of a...