Newest Literature Essays

Though very little is told in terms of her backstory, Lady Russell is nonetheless one of those characters that almost covertly dictate the course of the novel in a quite radical manner. More precisely, the widow exerts a very high degree of...

Throughout the French novel Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier, readers follow two main characters, Francois and Augustin, through their journey from youth to adulthood. As narrator Francois recalls his teenage years at Saint Agathe with his...

Brideshead Revisited is a 1945 novel that was written by Evelyn Waugh. During book one and chapter one of book two of the novel, readers closely follow main characters Sebastian and Charles through their adolescent years and early adulthood. The...

‘A Wife in London’ is an anti-war whereby war is portrayed in an unflattering light. Hardy narrates the death of a soldier who fought in the African Boer War and conveys the devastating consequences this has on the soldier’s family. As such, Hardy...

The novel Crime and Punishment, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published in 1866, focuses on many philosophical and psychological themes. One of the themes is the distinction between rationalism and anti-rationalism. Rationalist ideas are based...

If God is all powerful, why does He in His infinite wisdom allow Satan to exist? Lucifer, the Devil, the Dark One, the Tempter—seems like all it would take from the all-knowing, all-powerful creator deity is less effort than it takes to sigh and...

Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You (2014) presents the complexities of family dynamics, exploring the various conflicts the Lee family faces and the powerful influences each member imposes upon each other. The family’s isolation from...

Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) is an American script writer who was born in a Broadway hotel. His play Long Day’s Journey into Night presents certain parallelism with his life. Long Day’s Jorney into Night portrays, as the title states, the long day...

In 'Much Ado About Nothing', friendship is personified as the male bond (shared by Claudio, Don Pedro, and Benedick), female friendship (among Hero, Margaret, and Beatrice), and cross-gender friendship (between Benedick and Beatrice). It is...

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant follows the lives of each member of the Tull family, the mother and her three kids. The story begins and ends with the mother’s death, while the middle of the novel recounts the lives of each of the family...

“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.” (Austen, 03)

First published in 1814, Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, while on the surficial level posits itself as a conventional...

William Wordsworth and other Romantic poets expressed concern for the commercialisation of England spurred by the Industrial Revolution and the desire for material wealth. In “William Wordsworth: Poems collected by Seamus Heaney” (2007) the notion...

What is worse than losing a loved one? Many people would agree that losing someone you hold dear is one of the most painful processes to undergo. However, the people of Southie, in Massachusetts, had to deal with this pain continuously. Whether it...

As a ‘psychological’ dramatist, Tennessee Williams uses Carl Jung’s archetypes of “collective unconsciousness” that mankind possesses to deliver powerful messages. As such, most of his popular plays - including ‘Sweet Bird of Youth’- all encompass...

”How I hate a world which wears us down until we scream for salvation! But I shan’t kneel.” (Martha)

First published in 1943, Camus’ Le Malentendu (or The Misunderstanding, or Cross-Purpose) is a pessimistic dramatization of the absurdity of human...

Brian Friel’s political play ‘Translations’ set in 1833, Baile Beag, is about: British Imperial rule over Ireland in the 1830s; how the British Military enforced 'translations' of the ancient Gaelic language into English to subjugate the Irish;...

It is not well-known that Dr. Seuss wrote a sequel to one of his most popular books of all time, Green Eggs and Ham. It is not well known for two reasons. Reason number one: the sequel was not a particularly popular entry into the Seuss canon....

"Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be a different person, perhaps a lesser person."― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Visually driven imagery, subtle in...

Virgil’s Jupiter and Homer’s Zeus are analogous to each other in the sense that they are both the most powerful being, tasked with ensuring that the fate of the protagonist comes true, in each of their respective epics. In the Iliad, there many...

Contrary to the hegemonic belief that fairytales solely consist of a plot that includes niceties and happy endings, violence exists as one of the universal themes which characterize children’s literature. From a literal interpretation, fairytales...

Dylan Thomas's "And death shall have no dominion" provides a comforting and encouraging reminder that death is not an all-powerful force that holds every aspect of the living world in its clutches. It, too, is finite and pales in comparison to the...

Religion by definition is a strong belief in a supernatural power that controls human destiny.In the modern world, there are various diverse faiths to practice and follow. Such is not the case in the futuristic dystopian world that hosts the novel...

King Leopold was one of history’s most despicable characters; his acquirement of the Congo, management of the Congo, and the amount of wealth that he took from the Congo is revolting. As reported by Major Charles C. Liebrechts under Leopold’s...

The conflict in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is rooted in the appearance of the creature. While he learns to speak eloquently, no one is willing to talk to him because of his inhuman appearance. In her thesis on the culture of bodies, Courtney...