Newest Literature Essays

“In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. [...] Every great work of art [...] is a celebration, an act of...

All different parts of the world speak in their own unique way. Dialect can change based off the region you are in, the family you are a part of, the way you were taught, and the society you were brought up in. Many authors write with a certain...

Alcoholism is a serious mental disease that affects a tremendous amount of families in the United States. Not only do the ones with the mental illness suffer, those around them are impacted too. When loved ones are addicted to alcohol, they can...

Ghostbusters was released in 2016, starring Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Leslie Jones. The film challenged typical stereotypes in the first place by placing women in the center, while also depicting men in ways that are...

The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland), the first feature length film with synchronous sound, was released in 1927 spurring many debates and arguments as to whether the addition of sound would have a positive or negative impact on film as an art form....

Art cinema is a highly contested term that is often associated with ‘taste’ and ‘decorum’ in contrast to more classical cinema (Neale, 2002, p103). The films associated with this mode owe their routes to a variety of artistic movements such as the...

In the novels To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee and A Time to Kill by John Grisham, the towns of Maycomb and Clanton Mississippi have two men accused and most people already know who they are voting guilty. Their outlooks on each other...

"Australians are the most beach conscious people on earth. The beach has become our defining experience" (NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE OF AUSTRALIA, n.d.).

Coastal living has become an integral part of surviving the harsh and arid climate of...

In her poems Legend and Australia 1970, Judith Wright condemns and criticises land usage as well as destructive agricultural and industrial practices. She uses literary devices, colloquial symbolism and structural elements to shed light on the...

The exploration of how our language (or lack thereof) can impact our perceptions of ourselves and one another has been extremely prevalent throughout a variety of literary works. Silence’s interaction with individual characters impacts each of...

Love is something that takes many forms. However, the single word that we use to describe it tends to be rather inadequate considering the many aspects that love constitutes. The best way to describe love is to divide it as the Greeks did into...

Although Sicilia is introduced in the first scene of the play as a country of opulence and wealth, Bohemia’s full-fledged appearance in Act 4 Scene 4 of the play easily enchants and fascinates the audience more. Unlike Sicilia, Bohemia is full of...

Inanimate objects often possess more value to individuals than what may appear at a mere glance, and some of these objects holding sentimental value often provide individuals with a positive feeling when associating with these objects. In Kitchen,...

In Seamus Deane’s passage “Feet”, a young boy narrates his household and his surroundings under a table through the experiencing eye when his sister is being carried away to the hospital, only to pass away later. With the use of focalization, how...

Succumbing to the influence of one’s surroundings is a natural human tendency, and although external factors aren’t always negative, they can have the effect of completely altering an individual’s personality. Nowhere is this theme more evident...

Guilty Of mankind. I have perpetrated human nature. My father and mother were accessories before the fact, But there'll be no accessories after the fact, By my virility there won't! Just see me As I am, me like a perambulating Vegetable, patched...

In November, 2018, United States Border Patrol agents tear gassed and attacked members of a migrant caravan from Honduras at the US border. After marching for weeks to escape political unrest and seek asylum, the migrants were met with the same...

Thanks to a literary tool called foreshadowing, readers are not always surprised by important events or plot twists in literature. Foreshadowing is an effective way to hint to readers that a major plot point will happen. In Shakespeare’s tragedy...

In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel narrates his life as a teenager forced to live in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps, struggling to stay with his father and just barely staying alive. The events described in the memoir show an arc in...

It is difficult to embrace oneself when surrounded by rejection. Abraham Maslow, American psychologist, crafted his “Hierarchy of Needs” in 1943. The pyramidal structure caps off with the necessity of “self-actualization,” which stresses the...

The Ganguli family is constantly adapting to change in all of its forms. From moving to a new country, to marriage, to death-- they are always being forced to adjust to their new environments and circumstances no matter how strongly it may affect...

INTRODUCTION

“Living in Delhi I was always surrounded by the sound of Urdu poetry, which is mostlyrecited. But although there is such a reverence for Urdu poetry, the fact that most Muslimsleft India to go to Pakistan meant that most schools and...