Newest Literature Essays

As the play opens with a soliloquy from the Watchman, he introduces Clytemnestra as one who “wears/ A man’s heart in a woman’s body,/ A man’s dreadful will in the scabbard of her body/ Like a polished blade. A hidden blade” (5). He immediately...

When one reads through Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen and Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower there are not any striking similarities. The ages of the characters, the trials they go through, and the culture they are respectively...

Both John Clare and Robert Burns are poets invested in rural lives - in dialect, in tradition, in worlds previously voiced only by aural tradition. The poet who chooses to reveal these intimate portraits of a life all but completely hidden from...

The short story The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence was first published in 1926, and it’s a story about money, success, and luck. It focuses on Paul, a young boy who rides his rocking horse until a frenzied state of mind and succeeds in...

Symbolism is used commonly as a tool to express theme in Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha. The novel details the titular character’s search for enlightenment through experience and wisdom. It is when Siddhartha sees the smile of the Buddha that he...

Mental illnesses have always carried a stigma with their name and their history as people who suffer from these disorders have always struggled to face the misconception and the shame that came from being involuntarily affected by such disorders....

Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger is a satirical novel in the form of an email from Balram Halwai to the Chinese Premier, focusing on Balram’s life as a servant. Balram’s objective is to explain the way the Indian social system is organized. “Mr....

Magical realism is a genre where mysteriously enchanting events are intertwined with a realistic setting. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982, investigates the negative view of human nature and derides the...

The Arabian Nights, a classic collection of medieval tales, has influenced countless writers in literature creations. There are an ocean of novels, fictions and poetry that either borrow elements or derive inspiration from the stories in The...

“We are very different. You are not my son, you are not my nephew. But you are a very good director.” [1] Upon seeing Sorrentino’s 2008 masterpiece, Il Divo, Francesco Rosi, one of the pioneering forefathers of the Italian school of cinema d’...

Louise Labé, as « le plus grand poète féministe de la Renaissance française, » often attempts to reshape the power dynamic inherent within classical, Petrarchan and contemporaneous renaissance love poetry. As a woman writing against this backdrop...

Between 1664 and 1670 Molière wrote the three comedies Le Misanthrope, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Le Tartuffe, all of which were written and performed in Paris, receiving a varied reception contemporaneously. The latter saw the playwright...

Margaret Atwood uses language to help the reader understand the oppression and power relationships within Gilead. The new vocabulary used within Gilead, is both used to instill religious indoctrination into citizens and also establish hierarchy...

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith follows Austin Szerba, a Polish-American teenager, as he and his friends witness the end of the world at the hands of genetically engineered six-foot tall praying mantis super soldiers. While the novel offers a...

Pirandello delights by surprising. It has been widely noted how his radically experimental play Six Characters In Search of an Author — the first in his ‘theatre in the theatre trilogy’ —proved to bring about a paradigmatic shift in the modern...

Utilizing multidisciplinary knowledge gained from analysis of critical readings grants the individual the ability to better understand and judge the ways in which John Donne writes through a metaphysical lens that establishes thought provoking...

The element of disguise is often associated with deception and suspense. This literary device is seemingly ubiquitous throughout Eastern and Western folklore, and is seen in Homer’s Odyssey and the Turkish epic The Book of Dede Korkut. Despite the...

Giants, monsters, and other mythical creatures are seemingly ubiquitous throughout Eastern and Western folklore. These figures are often depicted as man-eating diabolical entities, and it is up to the heroes to stop them. Although giants are...

Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation opened the possibility that Indians were as much in God’s favor as the Pilgrims.During that time period written in the 17th century, this argument would be rather controversial.To begin, the exercise of human...

Nature was a parent to mankind in Wordsworth’s Ode: Intimations of Immortality, but a rival in Byron’s Darkness. Through Wordsworth’s word choice, structure, and metaphors, Ode paralleled the human lifespan with one day, which portrayed nature as...

Isabelle Eberhardt was known as a prominent symbol of eccentricity and unorthodox behavior, a person with a complex and volatile character that was reflected through her natural surroundings depicted in The Nomad (1987, 2003). In addition to a...

The novel suggests that Marie Lazarre was born in the 1920s; she is born a mixed blood, as her father is white. She is raised by Sophie and Izear Lazarre who are her supposed family, her mother Sophie is said to be an old drunk. She is a child of...

Peter Meinke’s poem “Advice to My Son” and Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” should be compared because they are two beautifully written poems that are about relationships between a parent and their child, but they also have their...

Being a pariah, or at least being labeled one, can change a person’s life, and not for the better. Huckleberry Finn, the town “pariah,” is called and treated as an outcast for many reasons, but mainly, because he’s different. Huck Finn is the...