World literature

In this essay sample, the author provides the reasons why Odysseus is described as one who 'veered from his Path'. Odysseus is the archetype of cunning.

In the short story Araby, James Joyce makes a revelation on how the peculiar realities of living in Dublin frustrate people's plans and impede their desires. Read more in the free literary essay sample.

This essay sample aims to illustrate how Dostoevsky in his Crime and Punishment shows us the other side of Saint-Petersburg, crowded, stuffy, noisy, and dirty.

Aphra Behn's Oroonoko talks about a young, black African Prince that is kidnapped and sold into slavery like many of his prisoners of war. The writer draws most of her narrations from the eyewitness (Behn) accounts.

Human life is characterized by decision-making throughout its course. The decisions people make affect their lives and at times the lives of others. The practice of religion has introduced the concept of morality to human life.