Newest Literature Essays

It seems obvious that the vignette “ The Monkey Garden” in the novel The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is about a pretty garden morphing into a hideous place. The garden first appears to be a safe, fun setting for the neighborhood kids...

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics presents the reader with his thoughts on philosophical matters. In book two chapter four, Aristotle compares and contrasts virtue with the arts. He begins by addressing the possible question of what he means when...

The Namesake is a contemporary novel by the author Jhumpa Lahiri published in 2003. Bearing qualities of domestic fiction and bildungsroman, the novel serves as a conjunction of Bengali values, culture and people with the ‘melting pot’ of America...

Her Kind, a poem by Anne Sexton, although not an admittance, a confession or a concession in the least presents and vividly explores the concepts of a woman’s role in the society, and the particular alienation and estrangement that might result...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” illustrates the life of Dexter Green, a young man who yearns to be a part of exclusive society, and hopes to become close to a woman named Judy Jones. This traditional styled story about society, masculinity...

“What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears” (Alice Walker). This quote by Alice Walker, a prominent writer, delineates how ideologies and beliefs are often created with a lack of evidence - commonly referred to by the term...

In Anglo-American interwar modernism, poetics of impersonality might be tracked along two chief lines—that of T.S. Eliot and that of William Carlos Williams. The two, it should be noted, were antagonists. (Or, at least Williams hated Eliot and...

In the film “Mean Girls,” the dominant female inner clique in high school imitates social disparity in terms of catty societal groups in a present context. The members of the Plastics: a snobby social group symptomatic of spoiled, rich young...

The Masquerade of the Red Death and the Moustache, by Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Cormier, are two short-stories that describe a common theme through similar rhetoric. In the Masquerade of Red Death, a wealthy young prince by the name of Prospero...

In George Orwell’s renowned novel, 1984, the protagonist, Winston Smith continues to preserve his normal, day to day tendencies while secretly questioning the rigid policies of Oceania’s ominously dark society privately within his mind. Although...

In Stephen King’s The Green Mile, King’s characterization of death row inmate John Coffey as someone living with an intellectual disability, which oftentimes throughout the novel has the effect of infantilizing Coffey, works to challenge readers’...

Stephen King’s The Green Mile is an overtly Magical Realist text by means of one of the novel’s focal protagonists – John Coffey. Coffey is summarily described by Nada Hussein as ‘the huge Black prisoner [who] has magical healing abilities […]...

Beginning from the title, “A Simple Heart”, the reader can already sense a tone of fondness emoting from the author. Despite his intellect and pride in his education which is a stark contrast from his main character, Gustave Flaubert depicts...

“Show, don’t tell” is a timeless technique persisting in various media industries, inclusive for both literature and film. Tying together the two lies Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black, chronicling the struggles of the eponymous George Washington...

As one of the many literary voices illustrating Lo Real Maravilloso, commonly known as magical realism, Carlos Fuentes’s novel The Old Gringo captures imagery of the Mexican landscape through vivid language that enhances associations between...

Sarah Miles may have had the façade of a loyal, loving wife, but at night her promiscuous nature was revealed. She became addicted to the covertness of affairs and longed to be embraced as her husband never did. Her desire to have a physical...

Vile Bodies is an amusing text which considers the trivial concerns of the youth of upper class London society in the early 20th century. The novel is often absurd and the plethora of characters who weave in and out of the narrative can leave the...

William Faulkner’s Dry September narrates the forming of a lynch mob in response to an improbable accusation of sexual violence, made by an aging spinster, against a black watchman, Will Mayes, in the small fictional town of Jefferson,...

In “Arts of the Contact Zone,” Mary Louise Pratt proposes the idea of “contact zones” as areas of interaction between cultures in the New World. Pratt defines “contact zones” as areas where cultures “meet, clash and grapple […] often in contexts...

Situated in the liminal space between literal and figurative expression, a symbol possesses constructed meaning that both transcends, and is indebted to, its empirical counterpart. Thus, there exists both a symbolic nightingale, borne of literary...

Many of the characters in Infinite Jest struggle throughout the novel with justifying and defending the existence of God despite the existence of evil in the world. The Higher Power, AA, CA, and NA’s non-denominational redeemer of addiction...

At the end of his lecture entitled “The Paths to the Formation of Symptoms,” Freud addresses the artist as a psychoanalytic subject in a brief but intriguing tangent. Though artists are never again discussed after this brief passage, Freud’s...

In his 2017 film Get Out, Jordan Peele explores some of the mechanisms of racism that have oppressed people of colour and their impact on modern society to a great extent. He exposes his audience to the concept of white feminism and...

Boyz n the Hood is mainly centred around 3 teenagers; Ricky, Doughboy and Tre; All 3 of which wish to embark on different paths. They live in the Crenshaw ghettos, Singleton uses Ricky in particular to break prejudices surrounding young black...