Newest Literature Essays

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...

Many items have different values in different cultures and in different time periods. Among communities, the same product might have five different values, depending upon necessity of the item, rarity, and beauty. Gold is one such precious metal...

Bringing great controversy with it when it was published in 1847, Wuthering Heights achieved considerable success by rendering many masked, unresolved issues of the time novel was written apparent. The storyline revolves around the narration of...

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, the 2001 indie mystery film Memento hits home as a thrilling cinematic masterpiece of compositional elements that keeps viewers on the edges of their seats. While all elements of the film are important to...

Religion has long since swayed people’s decisions and determined their fates. In The Diviners by Margaret Laurence, religion and spirituality play a large role in the characters’ lives. The outcome of every situation is dictated in some way by...

The human world is shaped by hierarchies and power. There are strata of influence through which people of influence and authority are able to suppress and control those who are ranked beneath them in terms of their social function and prestige....

Set in in England during the developments of World War II, Atonement is a multi-dimensional historical narrative that combines the ideas of fantasy versus fiction with love and war. As 13-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the romance between her...

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...