Newest Literature Essays

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...

In both the Tempest and the Dialogues of Plato, the protagonists, Prospero and Socrates, make references to dreams and death, often correlating them to each other. These similarities are evident in two specific quotes, one from each work, which I...

In order to challenge an audience, a screenwriter must create ordinary characters and put them in extraordinary situations to engage the audience with both shock and sympathy. Such is true for Thelma and Louise yet Callie Khouri carefully...

Throughout ‘Othello’, Shakespeare deliberately engineers male-female relationships to show an imbalance of power. Be it Bianca, who has no power as a courtesan in a patriarchal society, a mere “bauble” with which to play; Emilia, a woman weakened...

Throughout ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, Williams presents violence as a multifaceted and complex issue that manifests itself almost constantly in varying guises. However, despite acknowledging that violence is almost certainly the central theme of...

Power is essential theme not just throughout Tennessee Williams’ oeuvre, but the canon of Western literature as a whole. As such, Williams presents power through his characterization of Stanley throughout ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ in order to...

Symbolism is a strong feature in many fables, it helps create meaning and emotion in a story. “The Lady of the House of Love” and “The Company of Wolves” were both written by Angela Carter and published in 1979 and 1985. Both of these stories can...

The piece “My First Son”, was written by Ben Johnson and the poem “Mid-Term Break” was written by Seamus Heaney. Both poems revolve around the death of a loved one. The directed audience of both these poems, are people who have lost someone close...

In Jessica Hua’s “Accepted,” she examines the idea of belonging through the story of Elaine Park, a Stanford reject attempting to break into the school community. Elaine is fooled into believing she belongs where she does not, and as she discovers...

Sethe, Paul D, and other former slave characters of Toni Morrison’s Beloved display clear signs of post traumatic stress coming from their experience in slavery and the events that resulted. For the audiences of her novel, slavery is an...

The preface of a piece of literature generally provides an introduction by the author to what will be discussed, and often, the purpose of this discussion. Similarly, in Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf, the reader is introduced to the premise of the...

The plot of most novels is said to have layers which generally fall in the structure of rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. These layers are all parts that centralize around a type of conflict, such as individual versus self or...

In his paper “Secularization, R.I.P.,” Rodney Stark argues that the secularization thesis has been wholly disproven. This thesis, the notion that religious beliefs would gradually disappear as modernization progressed, is based on several...

In “The Politics of UFOs,” a chapter from her book Republic of Lies, author Anna Merlan recounts her attendance at a conference for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the largest and oldest UFO research group in America. Being established in 1969,...

Shinkai Makoto is well known for his captivating animation and themes of young love, both are present in the 2016 film Kimi no Na wa or Your Name. The film was released three years after Makoto’s last movie so it was one of the most anticipated...