Newest Literature Essays

In literature, hawks have evolved into a symbol for power and freedom. As they roam the great American landscape, writers have come to admire their strength and control. In Robinson Jeffers’ “Hurt Hawks,” the speaker comes across a wounded hawk...

In Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Felix Randal,” the speaker has different concerns and different ways of healing from the loss of someone than Seamus Heaney’s “Seeing the Sick.” Though both poems cover the same morbid concept, Hopkins’s poem focuses...

In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 film, North by Northwest, the theme of mistaken identity is prevalent. The audience first views the main character, Roger Thornhill, as an ordinary, slightly self-absorbed city dweller, who is completely unprepared for...

Before it graced cinema screens in 1974, Richard O’Brien’s ‘the Rocky Horror Picture Show’ was originally a stage show titled ‘the Rocky Horror Show,’ which eventually spread from a small London theatre, to the West End, Broadway and theatres in...

Irish nationalist Seamus Heaney’s 1975 poem “Act of Union,” written three years after the massacre known as Bloody Sunday, explores the political unification of the colonizer, England, and the colonized, Ireland in which Ireland and England...

Exploring the physical elements of a society involves digging deep in the effect it has on the culture. In the novel Winter’s Bone, Daniel Woodrell uses a plethora of resources within the natural landscape to attribute different factors that play...

Doing the right thing is not a natural human instinct. We’d rather let other people take the fall for our mistakes instead of telling the truth and doing the right thing. In reality,doing the right thing for your city, is not a matter between...

The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov explores the everyday life experiences of lottery winners. In the narrative, Masha and Ivan are a married couple whose fears and distrust of the other emerge as a result of Masha’s potential lottery windfall....

From the beginning of the mankind, people have faced with so many problems. It seems that just surviving and sleeping with a full stomach are not the main problems of developed civilizations since the first formations of societies. ‘Surviving in a...

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros explores the themes of belonging and acceptance in a series of vignettes. Esperanza is a Mexican American girl growing up in Chicago, on Mango Street. She grapples with major life events and tries to...

The Gospel of John, of all four of the gospels, stands alone in some regards. “Of the four New Testament Gospels, the one that least resembles the other three is the Gospel of John. While some of those most skeptical Gospel scholars dismiss all...

In Elizabeth Acevedo’s young adult novel, The Poet X, fifteen-year old Dominican-American Xiomara Batista describes her aspirations and personal life experiences in the form of poetic verse. Through her narration the reader learns that Xiomara’s...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s renowned series The Lord of the Rings, written between 1937 and 1949, falls into the high fantasy genre, but its themes remain relevant to today’s reality. In 2020, as the earth appears to retaliate against human environmental...

In Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 film, The Conversation, the element of sound functions as a fundamental aspect of each scene. The addition of sound or absence thereof works to underscore the main character, Harry Caul’s, fraught emotions and...

Through the use of first-person narrative, authors are able to convey the innermost thoughts and desires of the characters they create. However, this narrative style limits the scope of the novel by presenting events through the filter of the...

In her trio of short stories, titled “Once in a Lifetime,” “Year’s End,” and “Going Ashore,” Jhumpa Lahiri artfully recounts the complex love story between two Indian-Americans. Hema and Kuashik first meet as children through their parents, who...

While Emily St John Mandel’s novel Station Eleven portrays Arthur Leander as the seemingly fundamental figure due to his thorough association and cogent influence with the majority of other characters, Mandel herself preferentially catechizes...

Here we shall attempt at analyzing the judgements made by different characters of authority under different circumstances, limited to Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and Antony and Cleopatra, and their consequences. People of authority in both...

“Sunshine State” co-written by Adam Flynn and Andrew Dana Hudson is the first short story amongst the 12 short stories in the anthology of climate fiction, Everything Change, and compared to the other stories in the anthology, the message from...

The use of emotion and imagination is prevalent in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Both appear in a plethora of ways but most evidently in his descriptive “lists,” his moon symbolism, and his love lessons. Through Shakespeare’s...

The Monkey is an abridged translation of Journey to the West, a Chinese sixteenth-century novel by Wu Chengen, a poet and novelist who lived during the Ming dynasty. This novel is amongst the Four Great Classical Novels of the Chinese literature....

In his book Art and the Bible, Francis A. Schaeffer discusses the topic of how Christians should interact with art, both religious and secular. He provides his readers with examples of art used throughout the Bible to establish his argument for...

Satire is the use of humor, irony, and exaggeration to rip apart the flaws of people or society. In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift employs the art of satire that sometimes “borders on blasphemy” (Higgins) to “vex and entertain” (Higgins) the...

The term “narcissist,” defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “A person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of themselves,” comes from the story and character of Narcissus. He is a man who rejects the love of all who fall for him until he...