Newest Literature Essays

“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold was first published in the anthology titled New Poems in 1867.The poem laments the transition from an era of spiritual faith and harmony to an era of rapid erosion of tradition and faith. It is Arnold’s critique of...

It is always complicated to compare the literary pieces that belong to different kinds of literature. However, the word order is not the determining point due to perception and interpretation of literature. The lyric poem “Dover Beach” by Matthew...

John Woolman’s Journals document his life from his earliest childhood experiences and growing relationship to God as he becomes more involved in the Quaker community to his adult life, working as a merchant’s assistant and later a tailor. Woolman’...

Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” tells the tale of a Southern farmer who has been sentenced to execution by hanging after being set up by a scout from the North. The story follows his train of thought as he tries to come to...

After its release in 1957, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame has baffled readers and cemented Beckett as one of the most important playwrights of the 20th century. It is commonly ascribed to the “theatre of the absurd”, a term coined by renowned literary...

In his 2011 book, About A Mountain, John D’Agata takes on the complex history of Yucca Mountain and the United States’ unresolved solution to permanent nuclear waste storage. Yet, with D’Agata’s fixation on Las Vegas’s dark history of high suicide...

J.D Salinger’s ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ has been controversial since its release in 1951. Its focus on crude and sexual subject matter means it was banned in many places, even in some American schools today. Works in the canon, sometimes referred...

"Distinctively visual" refers to the understanding of how relationships and perceptions with others and the world are shaped through unique written and visual language texts. This concept and the idea that these texts allow readers to ‘see’ then ‘...

In his short story, “A&P,” writer John Updike presents readers with a seemingly banal reality. Through a first-person narration style, we are introduced to the protagonist, Sammy, a run-of-the-mill young man employed at a run-of-the-mill...

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros presents a Mexican-American principal character (who is also the narrator) that appears to make slight mistakes with the English language, but acquires to convey different meanings by this. These slight...

In "Goody Blake and Harry Gill: A True Story," Wordsworth presents to the reader the issues of social inequality, as well as the significant dichotomy between the advantaged, namely the landowning class, and disadvantaged, in late 18th century....

The true tragedy of apartheid lies not on the surface, but in the revealing of unspoken desires underneath the surface. Starkly contrasting with the play-long idealistic image of the “all-knowing Mr M and his brilliant protege Thami”, Thami and Mr...

Emily Dickinson has become notorious for her ability to elicit many different but strong emotions in a single poem. Out of all of her animal poetry, one of her most famous symbols might be that of the spider. Critics generally agree that arachnids...

In the poem “I, being born a woman”, Edna St. Vincent Millay focuses on the idea that women can exist outside of what men make them to be, including the idea that they are ruled by their impulses. She uses the poem to show that women can not only...

The image of the swan is thoroughly explored throughout Yeats’ poetry, in which it not only heightens the overall textual integrity but also allows the reader to ingest the suggestions that are intricate and simultaneous as posed by each Yeats...

Most writers find it extremely difficult to convey the feeling of love via the written word. In fact, many people feel inspired to write by that challenge alone. Love cannot be summed up in a sentence or a paragraph, let alone a song or a poem....

In the film The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) directed by Robert Wiene, distinctive themes of modernism including expressionist, experimental techniques of contrasting colours, unnaturalistic sets that enhance the emotional state of characters,...

For two characters who hardly interact at all, Dewey Dell and Anse Bundren have an incredible amount of parallels. For instance, they both have bodies they need to get rid of to the tune of a ticking clock. Dewey Dell needs to get an abortion as...

Love serves as a crucial element in "A View from the Bridge", and is arguably the main force which drives the events of the play. Undoubtedly, the inappropriate love of Eddie towards his niece, Catherine, and his unwillingness to let her mature...

The American Dream means different things to different people, but the basic principle remains the same: putting in enough hard work will guarantee you a happy and successful life. It is a belief that adheres so tightly to the nation built on the...

If realism could depict reality in the most truthful manner then the departure from the same in modernism proves the failure of this mode of representation of reality. The age faced loss of faith in religion, principles, ethics, human relations...

Hitchcock’s classic thriller ‘Rear Window’ demonstrates the perception that people should look into themselves to solve an issue, instead of focusing attention on others. For example, as Jeff becomes more involved with spying on others, he crosses...

At the end of the Victorian era and into the modern age, everything seemed to be up for debate, including deepest held values. A strong clash was particularly felt between the social and economic classes. The upper class, with the security of...

At the crux of the complex ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ is the relations that characters have with one another, most saliently how Skipper’s death corrodes the way Brick interacts with Maggie and Big Daddy. However, although this mention of Brick and...