Newest Literature Essays

Esther endured five long years of loneliness. Her determination to prove herself and fulfill her desire left her more alone and disappointed than her initial hunger for companionship. In “Esther” by Jean Toomer, Esther’s morality and desires are...

The short story "The Ultimate Safari" by Nadine Gordimer explores the importance in the maintenance of dignity for survival. The narrative follows the journey of a young girl who is forced to flee her country. Shoes are used as a symbol of dignity...

Hamilton has proven to be a pivotal element in the American historical narrative. Both the musical’s content and artistic license speaks to the power of collective memory and our perceptions of the past. The alterations to historical narrative...

Sam Quinones’ Dreamland uncovers the misguided values and cultural ideals of America and explores how those values manifested themselves in the medical and pharmaceutical industries unleashing the current opioid crisis America currently finds...

Lydia Bennet is a childish, oblivious, uncontrolled, impulsive, naïve character, but there is more to her than meets the eye. Rather, her specific character traits can be accounted for by the ways in which she has been brought up. But how this is...

As depicted in Philip Roth's Nemesis, Eugene ‘Bucky’ Cantor is an extremely athletic boy who was admired by most people for his appearance and attitude. Especially the kids he was supervising as playground director during the summer holidays saw...

Oscar Wilde’s “The Sphinx without a Secret” is the type of story scholars and critics eschew for its simplicity and self-explanatory title that seems to deflate the climax of the story. However, Oscar Wilde was no hack of a writer and what he...

Although time causes man to grow and reach his apex, it also brings him to his decline and eventual death, thereby making time a complicated friend as well as foe. Is growth and aging just a slow ride to our tombs, or is there something we can...

The term “agnostic” defines as a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God. Many individuals over the course of history have assumed this mindset in place of believing in religion, as they were...

In Robert Frost’s poem “Directive”, the answer to a question of absolution and religious peace can be found in the form of a journey, led by a poet guide. Frost wrote this poem when he was in his seventies, and while it harnesses many of the same...

The novel That Deadman Dance written by Kim Scott, an indigenous author, tells the significant history of Western Australian colonisation through the years 1826 to 1844. In doing so the novel discusses and develops many of the social and political...

No Spark: An Analysis of Val and Euan’s Relationship in Possession The fictional poet of A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Randolph Henry Ash. muses in his short poem. “And is love then more//Than the kick galvanic” (297). Byatt includes this poem at the...

A vast area of the northern Atlantic Ocean houses a breed of seaweed that is addressed by the name sargassam. This portion of the northern Atlantic is known as the Sargasso Sea, notorious among passing sailors onto whose ships it is reputed to...

Written in 1812, the last line of each verse of the Star Spangled Banner, which later became the National Anthem for the United States of America in 1931, reads “O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!” (Francis Scott Key) It could be...

Visual Analysis of Hitchcock's "Rope"

Alfred Hitchcock claimed that Rope was merely a “stunt,” and it is more well-known for its achievement in its technical aspects compared to the film’s actual story. An adaptation from Patrick Hamilton’s play,...

Bernard Shaw's play St. Joan (1923) tackles with the intricate character of Joan of Arc depicting her distinct traits that comprise of nationalism, individualism, and feminism. In the play, Shaw displays his understanding of the trial of Joan of...

Zoë Wicomb aptly writes in her essay titled, Setting, intertextuality and the resurrection of the postcolonial author: “… setting becomes absorbed into character” (Wicomb, 2006). This statement runs true for the two protagonists of her novel, ...

These two works of literature both construct depictions of London; however, because they were written at different periods and in different formats, we receive inevitably different interpretations of the city and the life within. Pepys’ diary is...

Explore the relationship between fathers and sons, or fathers and daughters, in two of the plays we have studied. Freud hypothesized that, “The earliest affection of the girl-child is lavished on the father”[1] Shakespeare seems to explore the...

Robert Frost was a poised author that was obsessed with the idea of creating tension in his poetry. He is family for the ascending or descending to a breaking point of human action and then watching something dissolve, crumble, or recover. Later,...

The way in which these two scenes make vivid the considerable void between the two sisters’ ambitions, and in doing so, both the good and the evil, is the evident differences they possess emotionally. In keeping with the presentation of her in...

Mauriac uses setting as a vital component to constructing the proceedings and mood of the novel. The prevalent comparison we are easily able to see and make, which concern the concept of setting and how it influences the readers perception of the...

Mauriac uses the relatively minor characters of Jean and Anne to construct two essential relationships with Therese, which have an influence on the way in which we perceive Therese as a character, and how we feel towards her, whether it is...