Literature Analysis of : `Shakespeare`s Hamlet, `Mark Twain`s Huck Finn and Edgar Allen Poe , `European Renaissance` , `To kill a Mockingbird`

LITERATURE ANALYSIS

In Hamlet , the turn of the story leads to his fall that was consciously premeditated and eventually demonstrated outside his conscious efforts He is a victim of his own innocence and folly . Hamlet 's procrastination made him fall to ill-fated events that secured his downfall . The plot is tragic and author Stevenson 's excerpt describes Hamlet as ruled by a single lyric consciousness " Accordingly , Hamlet 's words exhibit its own idiosyncrasies and its combinations with other words establish fluid verbal patterns . In this process , the word patterns gradually create a

br linguistic drama that takes on a coherent life of its own . Shakespeare 's Hamlet has all the images of metaphors that take the readers into the lyrical sequence of his story

Mark Twain 's Huckleberry Finn is a practical boy , intelligent resourceful , resilient , quick-witted , and unconcerned with the conventions of his time . Also , it is Huck the practical realist who discovers the humanity of Jim the slave , and it is he who plans to save and free him . Mark Twain seems to say , in choosing Huck as his hero that to confront life , what is needed is a gritty grip on reality , not pie in the sky visions . Twain seems to say that America 's future lies in the hands of people such as Huck , and not in the hands of Don Quixote types such as Tom . Nor does the future of America lie in the hands of mystics and superstitious people such as the slave Jim . Mark Twain 's America is one that is grounded in the practical , the measurable , and the material . This is one final thought to take away from the novel

The contrast between Huck and Tom says as much about what America 's engine of growth and progress is . As it was during Twain 's time , so it is in the present . Technology , the sciences , reason and the rule of law is what have brought peace and prosperity to present-day America , and it would be wise for us to continue heeding Twain 's message and stay the course

Edgar Allan Poe stands supreme among all in Europe during his own lifetime and even at present for his detective stories , mysterious tales , modern horror or murder stories that were centered in the outlying regions of human mind and experience (Edgar Allan Poe 2005 . One may not be aware about the fact that Edgar Allan Poe was not only a controversial figure in the literary world extending himself from Europe to America , but he was also an editor and contributor to magazines in the many cities of America including Richmond , New York and Philadelphia . He dreamt of having his own magazine that would have granted him financial stability yet , his drive to remain critical about the moralistic strictures against literature , against the New England literary establishment won him more enemies . His criticisms were in the forms of essays and reviews for magazines . Despite all , his toil reaped good harvest as he significantly contributed to...