Newest Literature Essays

In Peter Pan, the play by James M. Barrie, the human characters in the city of London consider animals as soulless and inferior. However, in the Never Land, the relation towards animals shifts constantly and it becomes more complex: characters...

Foils are common in Shakespeare—a pair of characters, usually very different but sharing certain commonalities, each highlighting the other’s qualities by contrast. Ariel and Caliban, despite both being servants of Prospero, act as foils to each...

“Epic theatre’s basic effort is to make familiar strange, show the world as alterable, hold events at a temporal distance and as Bretch writes, reveal the human being as “as the sum of all circumstances”.”Alisa Solman

In response to the political...

“Athena, [in pursuit of her] adventures as a woman, [tied to an immortal and moral world that is] dominated by a male ethos”, is used to highlight the importance of gender in an unforgiving society. As a woman, Athena is enslaved to her gender, in...

Robert Frost is one of the most widely-read poets in the American literary tradition. His poetry and themes have been profoundly impactful, garnering readers across national boundaries and inciting generation after generation of critics, fans, and...

The human intellect is often perceived as confusing because of the way it presents unimaginable truths and outright lies to people. One repeatedly mistakes truth for lies and vice versa, often resulting in a conundrum that pits half-truths and...

We live in a violent world. One only needs to watch the nightly news to find this to be the truth. Theft. Murder. Rape. Fires. Car crashes. Natural disasters. All of these forces bring violence into our lives, and it should come as no surprise...

Lauren Groff’s short story “Above and Below” tells the story of a woman engulfed in misfortune after losing her lover, her university funds, her home, and anything included in what was previously perceived as her normal life. This powerful, short...

The phrase, “you’re not supposed to be here” echoes throughout the lives of undocumented Americans. Immigration discussions dominate the media with the so-called border crisis at its forefront alongside the question of who deserves to have a place...

A prominent feature of dystopian literature is the ability of certain individuals to capitalize on the fear of others in order to gain power. A novel that this is evident in is William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, in which we see how power is...

In Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises the protagonist, Jake Barnes, struggles with being impotent in a post World War I society which bases masculinity primarily on a man’s ability to perform in his relationships. The other male...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is an anthology of tales told by characters within the greater work. While taking a pilgrimage, the characters within the anthology begin to competitively tell stories as a way to pass the time. Many of...

Adam Bede published in 1859 is George Eliot’s first full-length novel but not her first fiction. At the time of its apparition, she had already published a collection of three novellas and established herself as an editor, reviewer, and essayist....

Language is a powerful tool that goes beyond a channel of communication, to shape both our individual and collective identity, and influence our cultural perspectives. Henry Lawson, also known as the “poet of the people '' was one of the most...

Hulu’s television miniseries Little Fires Everywhere was the most-watched drama ever on the streaming service in its first 60 days online, proving that many of us are still curious about the way families function. The plot centers on four mothers...

According to the world population review rape statics by country 2019, South Africa made it to the top of the list as the country with the highest rates of rape. This has led it to being labelled the rape capital of the world. Mark Behr’s novel, ...

Heaney's autobiographical poem 'Mid Term Break' details how a younger Heaney reacted to the death of his four-year-old brother, as well as how he dealt with suddenly being seen as an adult by his peers. Heaney takes on a numb, almost clinical tone...

How far can our ecosystem impact our lives? According to ecocriticism, the environment influences society in almost every way possible. For instance, in Bressler’s Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, he states that...

Like many other movies from the 1980s, The Breakfast Club has become a timeless classic. Directed by John Hughes, The Breakfast Club focuses on five students in an Illinois high school, who each come from very different backgrounds. The five of...

The ultimate irony of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders is that the apparent good circumstances protagonist Moll arrives in by the end of the novel - the accumulation of money and materials - are precisely the results of the criminal practices of those...

The etiology of Enuma Elish, the Babylonian Creation story, imagines the world's creation as an event of divine sacrifice and ordered beauty. The tale tells the anecdote of how the queen of chaos, Tiamet, and her consort Quingu go to war against...

Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed: How is Affects Us Now

Paulo Freire was a Brazilian philosopher who focused on the art of teaching and creating literacy for the lower-class socioeconomic groups among his people and the world of education...

The author of the text from The Story of Sinuhe is someone who worked under the Egyptian pharaoh as a servant and someone who knew Sinuhe well, during the second to third millennium BCE. Evidences are found from the passage when it mentions that “...

The Sorrows of Satan is a controversial novel often regarded as an influential fin de siècle text in spite of the mixed critical responses it has received. Published in 1895 to its author Marie Corelli - who had enjoyed then a period of great...