Newest Literature Essays

Solomon Northup is the author of the literary story 12 Years a Slave, which was set up in New York and Washington DC in the 1840s. He was kidnapped and forced into slavery, where he worked as a slave for 12 years before the government freed him....

In Josefina Lopez's play, Detained in the Desert, we are introduced to Lou and Sandi, two individuals from different backgrounds who end up crossing paths in the desert. Lou Sanchez, a 50s Anglo-conservative talk show host who criticizes...

Gender roles are a set of societal norms that dictate the type of behavior that is deemed to be acceptable and desirable from people based on their sex. Considered to be a part of traditional roles, by some, gender roles have been used to raise...

Jean Toomer’s Cane was written in response to the author’s time spent in Georgia teaching in rural black schools. Toomer, born and raised in affluent areas of the North, was surely surprised by many elements of his stay in the black rural South,...

Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “kitchenette building” was published in 1945 and written in the South Side of Chicago presumably a few years before that, during a time when African-Americans—especially those in Northern urban centers, which were supposed...

The Spanish Tragedy is a play written by an English dramatist called Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592 when the first known performance was conducted. Kyd was a popular dramatist in his day, although most of his plays have been lost. The Spanish...

The idea that the pride displayed by tragic heroes elevates them rather than diminishes them can be proven in relation to Shakespeare’s “Richard II” and Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” In both texts the protagonists display a great deal of pride...

Serving as the final act of the main Star Wars franchise, the sequel trilogy has so far received mixed reviews and reactions, with the last movie of the trilogy being the most disparaged and criticised one. A majority of the negative reviews...

Dying for one's belief is the most selfless act known to man. Those who die for this very reason are granted martyrdom and become respected for many generations by the descendants of the martyrs. However, if a person plans to die for his belief in...

The poem 'Birches' was written by Robert Frost in his forties. Being at such an age, Frost desired to relive his childhood and the comfort it provided, but he also wanted to live and experience old age. Just like the birch trees, Frost also swings...

Key to Shelley’s radical personal philosophy was the belief that art breeds liberty. Art -or, in Shelley’s case, poetry- allows any literate person to escape whatever shackles society may have placed on them to empathise with the different and...

Although society has historically told women that they have no role in literature, generating the notion that they are incapable, women writers, specifically poets, have risen up to defeat this constriction and ultimately changed the literary and...

In “The History of Conspiracy Theory Research” from the book, Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them, authors Michael Butter and Peter Knight argue that conspiracy theory research has gradually evolved over time due to the...

The Philippine Eagle or Haribon symbolizes bravery and strength. True enough, this specie can be found at the top of food chain on the basis of science. It can only be found in the Philippines and possesses unique characteristics that sets it...

Language comes in many forms. The forms can be actual different languages, or the forms can be found within a language. There are many forms of languages in writing alone. One can be straight forward, like a business letter, and another then be...

In a patriarchal society, it is common for women to be denounced for their emotional tendencies, specifically being blamed for lacking rational thought. This preconception is seen in a multitude of different literary works, from centuries ago to...

The conception of power is a topic that has been pondered upon by philosophers for thousands of years. Generally, this refers to the distribution of power in a society and the subsequent structure that it forms; for example, how a ruler controls...

Arundhati has spoken of and written a fair amount of critiques surrounding corporate globalization and the neoliberal agenda; “Confronting Empire” is just one of them. For the interest of familiarity, neoliberalism is a successor of Keynsianism...

Hardt and Negri outline the definition of the word “empire” in their book entitled Empire (2001: xiv) as being a “phenomenon arising from the increasing globalization of the world, transcending the power of even the strongest sovereign nations...

What exactly makes love and wealth so appealing to humans? Love is a desirable feeling, which people feel they cannot live without. People need love in their life to feel whole, when they are with or care for a special someone. Wealth refers to...

Rape ruins women’s lives. Rape is a weapon. It is used to manufacture female fear factory – a collective socialization of females to accept the ever-presence of rape most often by being invited to be vigilant. It traumatizes. It scars. The...

In a post-modernist and clearly post-colonial novel such as Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love (1999), a focus on politics and cultural history of both contributing countries, England and Egypt, is not taken lightly. The imperial British rule over the...

There are many critics, and criticism alike, about both Jeanette Winterson as a subject and her numerous art works in the world of literature as a post-modern writer. With an array of analysis from art critics come various views on Winterson’s...

In his literary theory treatise Poetics, Philosopher Aristotle explains that a successful tragedy must have characters who are improved-upon versions of their real-life subjects, making good, moral choices and appearing appropriate, lifelike, and...