Newest Literature Essays

Though unity is devotedly sought after by societies, perfect harmony is rarely achieved. In the story “A Handful of Dates”, the love of money serves as a serious threat to the unity of the small Arabian community. Yet, the story’s focus does not...

Melodrama, as a genre, only started to be considered critically in the 1970s and is still a difficult genre to recognise as many films prescribed to other genres often contain overt melodramatic elements. However, a few directors heavily...

Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, is a neo-noir graphic novel that deals with complex issues of moral ambiguity and authority. Published as a twelve-part comic through 1986 and 1987, it has since come to redefine the genre of comics through...

Buckingham largely acts as a foil to Richard of Gloucester throughout much of Richard III. Both hubristic in their own ways, the pair are clearly two of a kind when it comes to their mastery of rhetoric and persuasion, having little difficulty in...

In the book What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures, Malcolm Gladwell talks about Ron Popeil, the “Set it, and forget it” man in the segment “The Pitchman: Ron Popeil and the Conquest of the American Kitchen”. In this segment, Gladwell writes mainly...

By the 1950s, classical stylings in literature had been all but abandoned by American writers. Poets and novelists were bent on revolutionizing literature by rejecting traditional stylings and standards. After seemingly every arbitrary limit to...

In Tommy Orange’s There There, several unique characters show acute awareness of their “otherness” as members of a minority American culture, yet struggle to uncover their personal identities. In “Phenomenology of Spirit,” German philosopher Georg...

In William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, the Compson family experiences a downward spiral accelerated mainly by two of the novel’s central characters: Caddy and Quentin Compson. Caddy’s sexuality, pregnancy, and banishment from the Compson...

What is truth but the best of us in all of us. Great truths are portions of the soul of man. There are no facts, only interpretations. There is no one truth, or ‘the truth’, but there are as many truths as there are perspectives, and there are as...

To achieve power, knowledge and material wealth in this global age, people are signing deals with the Devil. In this regard, the key question should then be, who or what is the 'devil' we each are willing to bargain with to fulfil that hunger that...

Film form plays a great deal of significance when making relations in a system in efforts to evaluate elements in the whole film. With Film Form comes the meaning behind the elements that seem to be well juxtaposed to fit a system of sequences and...

For every great war, there is a payment to be made- in blood, loss, sacrifice - for the hope of a greater glory. Each person involved gives up something, or many things, for a victory that may or may not come. In The Iliad and Iphigenia at Aulis,...

“The Trojans came down on them in a pack, and Hektor led them raging straight forward, like a great rolling stone from a rock face that a river swollen with winter rain has wrenched from its socket and with immense washing broken the hold of the...

This essay will address the power of language and literature in relation to some of the contemporary issues that Jeanette Winterson discusses in her memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? In it she reflects on her tragic and traumatic...

Through scenes of indirect action involving comically forlorn and hopeless characters, Anton Chekhov’s play Uncle Vanya addresses three predominant themes: work, love, and misery. The two central male characters in the play, Vanya and Astroff,...

It was a pleasure to burn. Yet the ice in Montag’s heart was the only reason he set the books to flames: the feeling of emptiness, of no meaning in life. They all went away as the paper burned to dirt black ashes and a beautiful puff of smoke...

Thomas Hardy, the author of The Return of the Native (1876), is generally known as ‘the last of the great Victorians’. In his early novel, The Return of the Native, the life-like characterization is well-admired to date. The characters of Clement...

Throughout Macbeth, the character of Banquo is continually presented as a contrasting foil to the character of Macbeth himself, as a noble and perceptive ally of the Scottish royal line. His presence in the play is felt in contrast to Macbeth’s...

In chapter XXVIII of The Voyage of Máel Dúin’s Currach, Máel Dúin and his shipmates stumble upon an island populated by a queen and her 17 young daughters. Surprised by her position of power, Máel Dúin does not treat her with the respect she...

Many writers use a setting to establish values within a work of literature. For example, the setting may be a place of virtue and peace or one of primitivism and ignorance. Using the novel The Rent Collector, write an essay in which you analyze...

The plot of the 2010 film Inception relates to entering dreams, intercepting dreams, and implanting ideas in dreams. Dreams are a window into the subconscious, both in the film and reality, a place where thoughts we didn’t even know we’re having...

In Decline and Fall, Waugh uses satire to mock and portray 1920s British society as largely corrupt, undisciplined and twisted. Waugh satirises various aspects of society, including social classes, religion and racism, as well as education. The...