Newest Literature Essays

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s thirteen stanza poem, “The Cry of the Children” presents a passionate plea written in 1843 to reform child labor during the period of the First Industrial Revolution. Barrett Browning displays contrasting voices in...

In “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”, Frederick Douglass addresses the hypocrisy of American Independence and calls attention to the fact that a large population of the people dwelling on American soil, African Americans, are excluded...

Whether making gritty dramas or black comedies or even a Biblical epic, legendary film director Martin Scorsese consistently proves over and over against he possesses an absolutely unerring instinct for knowing when his film requires a score, when...

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a product of late 16th- early 17th century England. The Renaissance period was one of change within the worlds of politics, art, culture, societal hierarchy and many other things. Many of the features of the play...

Agatha Christie leaves us, by the end of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, in a state of bewilderment and unknowing – to the extent where right and wrong have become incomprehensible. It seems as though the world in which King’s Abbot is situated has...

In one of those examples of incomprehensibly insensible irony that can be excused for believing exists only within the otherworldly sphere of Hollywood, U.S.A, Academy Award voters in 1977 failed to nominate Bill Conti’s work on Rocky for Best...

In Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and Rosalie Ham's "The Dressmaker", an unbalanced power distribution stemming from an unjust social hierarchy causes much jealousy displayed amongst the citizens of Salem and Dungatar, influencing their judgements...

In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “the white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men”, Brooks writes from the perspective of white troops in preparation for a war who starts to question the rationality of maintaining a segregated mindset...

Anna C. Salter, an author, commented on the act of placing blame on victims of rape saying, “We mute the realization of malevolence-which is too threatening to bear- by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as...

Although not a clear-cut hero’s journey, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss features many - if not all - of the narrative archetypes. To begin, Alma Singer is the hero archetype. The young girl’s entire life is a quest, whether it be a quest to...

Specific sharp phrases, simple yet elegant, are what make up Stevie Smith’s “Not Waving but Drowning”. However, this austere selection of phrases is what serves the most powerful and sensual shot of the sorrowful themes and emotions, that Smith...

Life is full of intricacy and irony. Escapism can turn into captivity. And in captivity, there may lie freedom. Incredulous and nonsensical as it may sound, one can indeed find freedom in imprisonment, or, at least, it appears valid in the case of...

Inaugurated as the queen of the mid-summer festival, Perdita stands on stage, in Act 4, Scene 4 of The Winter’s Tale, dressed in royal garments and draped in flowers. It is a moment of visual splendor, with the floral arrangements of Perdita’s...

The short story “Ark of Bones” by Henry Dumas was originally published posthumously in 1974. The story is based on a black person named Headeye who undergoes a mysterious experience to deliver his people. Dumas tells the story from the...

Both Waters and Stoker use narrative point of view to enhance their novels. This is achieved by the use of striking openings, the inevitable elements of unreliable narration in both novels, and how this links to themes of uncertainty as well as...

Every minute, approximately 105 individuals die. Each of these people represent a story of a life lived, and each death reminds their respective company of the finite time every human has on Earth. Although some may argue that death is a...

The word ‘absurd’ is derived from the Latin ‘absurdus,’ which consists of the prefix ‘ab’ denoting ‘from,’ and the stem ‘surdus’ meaning ‘deaf.’ ‘Deaf’ can be further interpreted as ‘unable to hear’ or, by implication, ‘unwilling to listen’. [1]...

Howard Hawks’ 1938 film Bringing Up Baby and Shakespeare’s Macbeth both demonstrate the chaos that occurs as a result of the subversion of convention and gender roles. Bringing Up Baby follows the expected trajectory of a screwball comedy as it...

Throughout childhood we are taught by movies and novels that the world is judged on an even scale of good or evil, while the gray area becomes exposed as we age. The idealism that evil is born and not made is an unjust classification of humanity’s...

Part I: Formalist Approach: James Joyce’s contemplative short story, “The Dead” examines the actions of a neurotic Irish intellectual, Gabriel Conroy, and his existential realizations following a revelation from his wife, Gretta. The story begins...

Idiostyle is a structurally united and internally related system of means and forms of verbal expression used by a writer, or simply an individual writing style. In linguistics, the concept of idiostyle is associated with a certain choice, the...

Elizabeth Bishop never considered herself a believer. “I dislike the didacticism, not to say condescension, of the practicing Christians I know,”[1] she wrote to her biographer Anne Stevenson in 1964. However, her poems suggest that her aversion...

As young kids we hold our parents to a supernatural standard, only to feel the same level of duty when we grow older and uphold the same mantel. In "My Father in Heaven Is Reading Out Loud," Li-Young Lee writes from a growing perception of his...

Adaptations are bodies of work separated from its actual source that have undergone various steps of reconstruction to complement the new mediums that they would get involved with. They ought to capture the essence of their counterparts—commonly,...