Newest Literature Essays

Renaissance dramas still remain among the most popular pieces of literature of today. The ability to create a piece of writing which surpasses time with its wit and humour comes as one of the main reasons why it still does not fail to astonish its...

Satyajit Ray’s overwhelming influence in world cinema as a filmmaker continues unabated; but he was also an accomplished short story writer, and it is interesting to see that a small but rewarding portion of his corpus concerns the macabre or the...

In “Salvatore” William Somerset Maugham questions what it means to be good, and whether a life is better spent being “merely” good than chasing love, ambition, or wealth. Maugham centres his narrative around a young fisherman, Salvatore, and his...

Have you savored the hot taste of life? (180) How do you view and interact with the world around you? From a young age, we are taught to enjoin right and forbid the wrong; however, the definition of what is right and wrong can change according to...

During the mid to late 1800’s, the United States of America was experiencing civil strife between the Northern states and the Southern states. One of the major conflicting issues between the two sides was their opinion on slavery. The South mainly...

When one thinks of the Beat Generation they immediately think of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso, who made the movement so well-known. They were three men who loved the pleasures in life, and the extremes in which they could use...

The migration of people from the former colonies of the British empires following World War II resulted in an influx of authors and performers to the United Kingdom. Even though this influx resulted in Britain's multiple identities, black people...

“So God created man in his own image, / in the image of God he created him; / male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). As the Image of God, man reflects God in many ways through his created nature. He is rational, moral, vocational,...

‘Plenty’ addresses the contrast between materialistic wants and emotional needs – a distinction very vividly presented when childhood and adulthood are thrown in the balance. Through careful diction, a measured sprinkling of punctuation and other...

“Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.” – Alexander McQueen

Sujata Bhatt’s poem ‘Muliebrity’ celebrates beauty in its most exquisite and raw form – the beauty of everyday life. It captures with...

The novel The Quiet American, by Graham Greene, tells the story of the Vietnam War from the perspectives of three different characters. Fowler represents the British viewpoint and is also the narrator of the novel. Pyle gives the American...

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

In this quote by Helen Keller, she states a timeless fact that the beautiful feeling of love is most strongly felt with the heart....

In The Task, published in 1785, William Cowper evokes the mock-heroic, also known as the mock-epic, through an imitation of the language of the classic epic poets, and syntax or sentence structure, in an attempt (or even a quest) to discover a...

At the Bottom of the River is a unified collection of stories that share similar themes by Jamaica Kincaid. Based on the stories, the characters throughout this collection are the same people. Most notably, the mother and daughter characters whose...

The poem “An Excuse for So Much Writ upon my Verses” was written not simply as a lyric poem but as a conclusion to the long prefatory materials of Margaret Cavendish's book Poems and Fancies. As she was also a philosopher, Cavendish had a very...

The narrator of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies is someone Wayne Booth would categorize under the heading of ‘narrator-agent,’ because while Kapasi does function as an observer to the events of the story, he is rendered a narrator-agent...

“Art is the signature of man,” says G.K. Chesterton in The Everlasting Man. If this is true– that where man is, there is art– then art, or creative expression, must be an inherent characteristic of man. This is a recurring theme in Arthur C....

Sebold’s employment of Susie as our dead homodiegetic narrator allows for a fantastical view into characters’ personal spaces when they are alone, a technique that could not occur through a live narrator. As part of Susie’s newfound maturity in...

In both Terry Pratchett’s Mort and William Goldman’s The Princess Bride, the Authors make use of their novels to make commentary about the reality of fairness and justice. Both authors explore how the concepts of fairness and justice effect people...

The relationship between the human and the divine in The Saga of the Volsungs is best exemplified by Odin and the Volsung family, firstly in Odin’s efforts to ensure the continuation of the Volsung family line, then in the manner in which Odin...

In Thomas Kinsella’s translation of The Táin, the relationships between the heroic and the monstrous, the warrior and the divine, are closely intertwined in the character of Cúchulainn, standing in stark contrast against his human traits. What...

In Chrétien de Troyes’s The Story of the Grail, Perceval is first introduced to the reader as a young boy who lives in the woods with his widowed mother, so isolated from society that when he gets his first glimpse of a party of knights, he...

In Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost and Comedy of Errors, confusion is central to the plot, as well as perceived and subsequent enlightenment. In Love’s Labor’s Lost, confusion and enlightenment are played out through the lenses of education, and...

In Goethe’s Faust, the devil Mephistopheles plays many roles for the benefit of our titular character, but none more overarching, nor all-encompassing, than the Fool. The archetypal Fool can wear many faces, as Mephistopheles assumes the roles of...