Newest Literature Essays

One of the most famous quotes from a film directed by John Ford comes from a movie made in the twilight of his career, The Man Who Killed Liberty Valance: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Few quotes so comprehensively sum up the...

The Role of Women in The Wars Just as the First World War almost exclusively directly involved men, The Wars is primarily male focused novel. However, there are a select number of women who play significant roles in the plot. Women are used to...

Upon an initial reading, Mark Twain’s 1893 short story “The Californian’s Tale” seems to be nothing more ambitious than becoming another addition to what was at the time an ever-growing catalogue of characters collectively painting a portrait of...

To Jean Paul Sartre, if you haven’t ended your life, you have “chosen yourself”. While being physically born was not a choice, once existing in the world, one is actively choosing to be the continual “author” (Sartre, 323). Sartre is adamant that...

The devil is in the details! No matter the task, one must pay attention to every aspect of its completion to avoid being swayed by the devil’s tactics of distraction and procrastination. Stories meant to scare have a difficult and all-consuming...

‘Translations’ by Brian Friel is a play with an overriding purpose to raise awareness about the struggles faced by the Irish community, specifically what they had to endure?ensure with the British military’s attempts to eradicate of eradication of...

Women have always faced oppression. Society's patriarchal nature places women in positions where their power is limited. The governmental abuse of Native American women is evidence of a patriarchal society. Native American authors Sherman Alexie,...

Almost exactly three months to the day after a ranging band of marauders attacked the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the free and fair election of a new President in the 2020 election, Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto took to the airwaves as...

No one wants to take responsibility. This is the underlying premise of Gabriel García- Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, a novella about twins Pedro and Pablo Vicario who murder Santiago Nasar. García-Márquez’s inspriation to write the...

Philosopher Karl Popper grew up graciously revering of the paramount thinkers and ideas of his time. He was attentive to the budding theories of Psychoanalysis and Marxism, by Freud and Marx, respectively. He attended lectures presented by...

Until Parasite came along, A Place in the Sun was the most persistent and comprehensive critique of capitalism to ever win one of the five major Academy Awards. Its brilliance lies in its disguise as being merely a doomed star-crossed romance....

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is a controversial text, surrounded by a debate about whether or not it is literature, or merely the writing of a perverse man. Nabokov, himself realizes this, and in 1956, writes a journal article entitled, “On a Book...

Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men follows the story of a drug deal gone wrong. Four Mexican men are found dead at the scene of the crime but the money is nowhere to be found. The novel focuses on Llewelyn Moss, the Texan welder who stumbled...

Self-identity is the personal recognition of one’s individuality especially after a period of ignorance about one’s interests, abilities, weaknesses, characteristics, and motivations. In Malamud’s “The Magic Barrel” and Kincaid’s “At the Bottom of...

Ludwig Feuerbach and James Cone present ideologically different interpretations of religion and its purpose in society. Feuerbach originates his vision of God from a philosophical perspective surrounding materialism. Cone, a theologian,...

Jim Henson’s Labyrinth and Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber were the product of similar time periods that, although are presented as very different mediums, emphasize similar messages that are structured in non traditional ways. This defiance of...

When conjuring images of the Roaring’s Twenties, especially if literarily inclined, one inevitably thinks Harlem and invariably thinks the Harlem Renaissance. It is perhaps reckless to say, yet not without the support of arguments bearing to its...

Jack Davis was a poet, playwright, and Indigenous Activist in the 20th century. He was also the member of the Aboriginal Advancement Council, which clearly shows his devotion towards Indigenous matters. He is also considered to be the “grandfather...

A Sometimes Vagrant, a Sometimes PhilosopherExamining the Intersection of Diametrically Opposing Lifestyles in Claude McKay’s BanjoThough subtitled “A Story without a Plot”, Claude McKay’s Banjo (1929) paints an acute portrait of black diaspora as...

Pietro di Donato’s “Christ in Concrete” was originally a short story but later expanded as a novel and published 1939, a decade after the Great Depression. Paul, who is the story’s main character and protagonist, is the eldest son in an Italian...

As humans, the power of love often overpowers the responsibility of thought. In “The Lady, Or The Tiger,” by Frank Stockton, the strong affection that bonded the several characters into relationships drives them apart ending in a scene with two...

In Justin Torres’s poetic novel, We the Animals, an unnamed narrator chronicles his childhood experiences and social maturation through vignettes. Torres portrays the close relationship the narrator holds with his two older brothers’, Manny and...

Connection is a concept that nearly all creatures within our world desperately crave in their lives. This is showcased through dogs, cats, penguins, lions and most certainly human beings. While some individuals may showcase more closed off,...