Newest Literature Essays

Flaubert uses the letter from Rodolphe to Emma as a symbol for their relationship by recounting and clarifying the tendencies and actions of both characters, to show how these have led to the downfall of their relationship. Flaubert concentrates...

The openings of Heart of Darkness and The Turn of the Screw establish the style and atmosphere to come, without addressing any of the content. As the opening scenes are completely isolated, they bring in alternative perspectives on how to approach...

The openings of Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Brontë's Jane Eyre are both centered around introducing the main characters, Stevens and Jane, respectively. Through the first-person narration, their personalities, settings and situations are...

A detailed description allows people to imagine even though not visible. Authors like Flannery O' Connor, in their works, have put in huge details in order to awaken the senses of the readers and help imagine the minutest of details. This aids...

Poetry can be a powerful medium in expressing an opinion which is then left to the reader’s interpretation. Maya Angelou’s poetry does not merely ‘remind’ us of our conscience but challenges our sense of right and wrong to protest against...

Chinua Achebe’s autoethnographic novel “Things Fall Apart “written in 1958 can be viewed as an attempt to destroy the misleading conceptions about Igbo culture that were given to the world by European writers. The way novel presents the arrival of...

Tradition is the unwritten body of beliefs and customs inherited from generation to generation that individuals must follow. Being modern is to adopt new tendencies whereby individuals follow a new trend or style. In the face of a fundamental...

To compromise on a goal is one thing, but to do so on an ambition as monumental as the American dream—that is something many cannot imagine. Ingrained in international culture, the American dream constitutes a set of impossibly perfect ideals that...

In Love in the Time of Cholera, Marquez reconstructs the relationship of Colombia’s localized, politicized and historicized past. Thus, the novel engages in a dialogue with history. This essay will explore Colombia’s history by analysing Dr....

Brian Friel’s “Philadelphia, Here I come!” is essentially a social commentary outlining Ireland’s problems during the 1960s. It explores the theme of failure while presenting the monotonous and predictable life of the citizens of Bellybeg,...

In the film ‘Looking for Alibrandi,’ the director Kate Woods shows how the concept of perfection can play an influential role on an individual’s characteristics and desires. Woods portrays the idea of perfection as destructive and unattainable...

Statistics and research have always focused on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) being one of the psychological disorders associated with war-related stress. It’s not until recently that research has begun to focus on moral injury, which...

Percy Shelley as a Romantic and Ronald Barthes as Post-structuralism have contrasting ideas regarding the function of literature and figure of the author. Despite this, they both view a literary textual object such as a text or a poem as an “...

Andy Mulligan's novel “Trash” illustrates the numerous concepts based around an impulsive world full of exploitation and corruption. Where there's a major imbalance in the society, where the poor have to endure a world of suffering, danger,...

By the time Judge Danforth appears in Act III of The Crucible, the audience has become acquainted with a host of characters, each of which are motivated, in turn, by a desire to better their position, need for attention, saving of reputation, and...

Water, in a purely chemical sense, is one of the most important molecules for life, as its various chemical properties, allow all living things to survive. Because of water’s ubiquity in the scope of human survival, novelists and playwrights do...

Honor Thy Father is a 2015 film by Eric Matti that tackles religion, morality, and family. It centers on Edgar whose family is involved in a Ponzi scheme primarily because of Kate, his wife. They lose everything because of this, especially their...

In a variety of the works we have read so far in class, there have been evidence of unhealthy attachment and obsession in characters, specifically with those who have lost a love one. This ultimately results in a loss of identity in the...

Hidden truths were a motif that was set from the beginning of the romantic era; the romantics lived in secrecy, and places hidden away from society. A common example was in 1816 when the romantics, Lord Byron, Percy Shelly and Mary Shelly stayed...

Sarojini Naidu, the Nightingale of India, and a Freedom Fighter who fought for India’s independence, wrote ‘The Gift Of India’ from the perspective of Mother India and from the perspectives of thousands of mothers who had sent their sons into...

Throughout Cloud Atlas, Mitchell heavily emphasizes the theme of humanity and its innate flaws, the inevitability of our eventual fall. Even with the greatest intentions in mind, we tend to encounter a fatal obstacle, stumbling despite our best...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1642, while Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame takes place in Paris, France in 1482. Despite their vastly different settings, Hawthorne’s heroine Hester Prynne and...

In Miguel Piñero's theatrical play, "Short Eyes," we are introduced to the prison life and the different relationships formed within the Prison. The play opens up with a guard doing roll call in which the leading group of characters is introduced...