Newest Literature Essays

Sarah Daggar-Nickson’s A Vigilante is about Sadie, a survivor of domestic abuse who transforms into a figure capable of helping other women who have nowhere else to turn. Indeed, she becomes the eponymous, avenging warrior that punishes men who...

World War I, argues Susan Grayzel, acted as a ‘catalyst for enormous changes in all aspects of life, including ideas about gender and the behavior of women and men.’[1] More women than ever before challenged contemporary ‘spheres of interest’...

Buddhism began with a man named Siddhartha Gautama. Over two thousand years later, Herman Hesse wrote a story with a protagonist who also happens to be named Siddhartha. The shared name was no coincidence as Hesse’s novel tells the tale of a man...

The struggle of losing a parent or of losing a child, of not belonging, of feeling as though your efforts will never amount to anything, the struggle of being alone although you are not physically alone. These are all struggles that can be...

In the best-selling novel Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, Peter Wiggin is the brother of the protagonist, Ender Wiggin. Peter is proud and violent with an inability to be likable, one of the primary reasons he was not selected for battle...

Fiela’s Child by Dalene Matthee follows the life of Benjamin as he is separated from the Komoeties to live with his apparent birth family (the van Rooyens). As the story progresses, Benjamin’s transition reflects the tensions between his two...

When a person’s desire for something is exceedingly strong, it can often cause them a host of unnecessary problems. Such is the case with Kvothe, the protagonist of The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. In the novel, Kvothe longs not for any...

Scholars have already established how T.S. Eliot uses the various characteristics of his contemporary artistic movements of Futurism, Cubism, and Surrealism in The Waste Land as well as how he takes a cue from technology to the frame the sentences...

Canto 7 in Book 1 of The Faerie Queene follows Redcrosse and Duessa after Redcross escapes from the house of Pryde, and it explores the consequences of Redcross’ choice to remove his armor while he heals his battle wounds. The second stanza in...

Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s poem, “The Caterpillar'' is a 29 line poem written in 1771 amidst turmoil in the American colonies, which at first look details an observer struggles to decide whether or not they are justified in killing a caterpillar,...

Beatrice is a central character in Miller’s “A View from the Bridge”. In terms of theme and significance, she acts as the glue that holds the family together and she represents the struggles of a claustrophobic domestic environment. She is shrewd...

Two types of people exist in the world; dynamic and static. Those willing to change when educated are dynamic, and those who stubbornly reject alternate viewpoints are static. In Neither Wolf Nor Dog, the author Kent Nerburn uses Fatback to allow...

As consumers, one of our biggest faults is our constant need to be entertained. Integral facets of everyday life, such as the news, become sensationalised; otherwise, the news would not be absorbed. This presents a danger to the integrity of...

In Sir Philip Sidney’s “Thou Blind Man’s Mark,” the speaker details a complex relationship with desire, viewing it as both his downfall and his saving grace. The 16th century sonnet addresses the feeling of desire directly, allowing the speaker to...

In “The Good Daughter”, an essay by Caroline Hwang, a young Korean American-born woman struggles with accepting her cultural identity. When Hwang goes to the dry cleaner and is told that she does not pronounce her surname properly by a woman of...

Generally, in Brideshead Revisited, the characters are more concerned with the material than the spiritual. Most of them live in the upper class world where having high status and being wealthy and beautiful are the most prized characteristics of...

The theme of gender and power is prevalent in both Keats’ poetry and Tender is the Night. The power wielded by men and women within both Keats’ poems and Fitzgerald’s novel is often conflicting; Keats writes of beautiful and destructive...

In A Room with a View, E.M. Forster weaves many allusions to music, art, and literature into the plot of the novel. The allusions, though seemingly subtle and insignificant, contribute greatly to the overarching message of the novel. Understanding...

No matter who you are, the people with whom you interact and the environment with which you are accustomed will always impact your behavioral tendencies. Published in 2012, the novel The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling follows the social dynamics...

“The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is a black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black who is this”.

This Malcolm X quote was sampled in Beyonce’s album, Lemonade...

That level of destructive power and coercion that sovereign mechanisms can bring to bear is awe-inspiring is indisputable, and fixation on and discomfort with this fact permeates the work of both Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault. Each of these...

Bennett uses his characters to explore the British education system of the 1980s and convey his views on it in doing so. The play is set once the new curriculum had been brought in by Thatcher’s government, and the publication of ‘league tables’,...

The play “A View from the Bridge” begins with a speech from Alfieri, a lawyer. Alfieri offers the audience the titular “view from the bridge” and acts as the greek chorus in a tragedy. The speech serves as an introduction to the play, introducing...

In George Eliot's Silas Marner, William Dane and Dunstan Cass wrong Silas and alter all aspects of his life. Silas feels betrayed and loses his faith in God. Instead of remaining an unfortunate bystander to his own fate, Silas adopts Eppie who...