Newest Literature Essays

The Irish airman in William Yeats’ “An Irish airman Foresees His Death" is preoccupied with his death. He visualizes the circumstances in which his death will transpire with a high-level certainty. Being an airman, the man has witnessed numerous...

Conflicts and wars are never the solution to any problem, yet it is a worldwide concern today with many organizations working to prevent the doom of mankind. How many wars is it going to take to convince what unity and peace could bring? Having...

The novel “The Marrow Thieves” from Cherie Dimaline fully incorporates real world problems into her dystopian novel. She is presenting problems that first nations had to go through and problems that first nations are still going through to this...

Thomas Keymer proclaims the first American edition of Rasselas, brought out in 1768 by an Irish immigrant, Richard Bell, most reflective of its “practical as well as philosophical importance”. He observes the interpretative perception of Rasselas...

The subject of religion is prominent throughout many of Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters, having experienced many aspects of Muslim and Christian cultures whilst traveling the globe with her diplomat husband, Edward, the British Ambassador in...

In "Backwards," the persona and her sister cope through a technique referred to as regression. The coping makes them walk backward on a mental level. During the walking, they experience both good and bad memories from the past. The employment of...

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) made an insightful comment on fiction writing when he proposed his “iceberg theory” in his work Death in the Afternoon (Borkiewicz 45-6). This theory proposes that if a writer is deeply familiar with an experience,...

A novel of a heroic quest for selfhood against an imposed silence, The Color Purple revolves around the American cultural understanding of feminine and racial mythologies: preconceived notions that Walker goes on to subvert and reconstruct. It is...

"12 Angry Men" is a classic film directed by Sidney Lumet in 1957. The film is a masterpiece of the courtroom drama genre, exploring the tensions and conflicts among the twelve jurors who are tasked with deciding the fate of a young man accused of...

In Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, the reader is presented with a mystery to be solved and is given access to the same information as the novel's various investigators. The reader is thus placed in the position of an active participant in the...

Like his other writings ‘In a Free State’ and ‘Guerrillas’, ‘A Bend in the River’ portrays the condition of expatriates or migrants adrift in a state of disorder. The background threatens a grim idea of civil disturbance and the irrational...

In his philosophical treatise The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis delves into the theme of moral decay and decadence, positing that the acceptance of moral relativism, the belief that all moral values are subjective and culturally relative, leads to...

In such a popular and classic play as Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, it can be easy to overlook the work’s many naturalistic elements strewn throughout the story. Emile Zola’s late 19th century essay describes naturalism in the context of theatre...

Cyrano de Bergerac, the lead character in the play Cyrano de Bergerac, is a complicated person who is deeply motivated by his love for his distant cousin Roxane. Noble, talented, and beloved by many, Cyrano might have a chance to be with her if it...

Jane, the eldest Bennet sister who so many adore, is revealed to readers in a different way than the other main characters. Throughout the novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen typically reveals her characters’ personalities through their speech,...

In “Blowing in the Wind,” Bob Dylan uses a Q and A format. He poses questions about the challenges facing humanity and asserts that the answers to the challenges are "blowin' in the wind." The response appears as a refrain at the end of each...

"Zuleika Dobson", written by Max Beerbohm in 1911, is a satirical novel that explores the theme of beauty and its power to control those around it. The novel's protagonist, Zuleika, is a stunningly beautiful woman who arrives at Oxford University...

Does the Animal Farm narrated by Napoleon or Snowball would have been interpreted the same, or for that matter, Tomas’s narration or Tereza’s narration of The Unbearable Lightness of Being would have maintained the deliverance of equivalent...

The choices that can make one fulfilled do not always conform to religious and societal norms. This theme is explored in Donne’s “To His Mistress Going to Bed,” where the speaker attempts to persuade a lover to return his affection. The lover is...

Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under The Elms is a tale about love, possession, and revenge wrapped in an enthralling narration and closed with an unexpected ending. There are lots of powerful themes inside this play, such as Greek myth tragedies,...

Violence and spoken words are less deadly than silence. The people who are weak tend to hold back as they are afraid the truth will make them uncomfortable and open wounds that cannot be healed. Communicating about feelings allows individuals to...

Discipline is concerned with the maintenance of social norms and order. Discipline is defined by French sociologist Michel Foucault as a process of “uninterrupted, constant coercion, supervising the processes of the activity rather than its result...