Newest Literature Essays

The Dream is different every time—a sparkling skyline framed in the glass panes of a downtown penthouse, a rambling, ivy-adorned mansion in the countryside, a cheery bungalow by the sea. There is only one thing that never changes: it’s yours. Or,...

Throughout all of Shakespeare's Macbeth, the protagonist, Macbeth, infected by prophecy, cruises a downward spiral into more and more vile and unjustifiable acts until he is slain by the loyal hero Macduff. Because of the frequent acts of malice...

There is often an indistinctive discrepancy between actuality and what tends to be an illusion of actuality. This concept of deception is often captured by many authors, who establish characters and implement facades that hide their true...

Throughout book 9 of Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’, Satan is generally presented as the personification of evil, largely fuelled by Milton’s own religious grounding. This pure evil is conveyed by Milton though Satan’s innate drive to destroy mankind...

The Sun reveals itself as a symbol and a motif in the book as early as Maman’s funeral, it continues to be a sort of mood setter for Meursault, it sometimes makes him feel calm and peaceful, while sometimes it annoys and torments him, it presents...

Michael Foucault, a French social theorist, believed that power and knowledge are used as a form of control in social institutions. In his book entitled "Discipline and Punish : The Birth of the Prison," he describes how every level of the prison,...

In 1836 Angelina Grimke writes an “Appeal to the Christian Women of the South,” in hopes of inspiring southern Christian women to join in her advocacy to end slavery. During this time, people heavily invested themselves in their religion,...

This novel is the first of six books in Rachel Vincent’s series titled The Shifters. The series is based on a world where werecats exist and it depicts their everyday life in the werecat community, while also letting the reader peak into their...

Centered on subjectivity, literature in the Romantic period thrived with its unique feature of surfacing the writers’ inner emotions between the lines. Poetry being one of the most iconic literary forms during this period often deals with themes,...

In present-day society, cultural assumptions often dictate that sexuality and gender are mutually dependent categories and that one posits the other. Societal norms imply that gender is divided into men and women, and that appropriate sexual...

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...