Newest Literature Essays

Language connects people in a way that nothing else can. Communication is the key to understanding, expression, and building connections with others. In Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography, entitled The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah...

Love is a universal feeling which creates powerful bonds between individuals. By way of illustration, in Gwyn Hyman Rubio’s Icy Sparks, characters suffer through many hardships but are able to overcome the difficult situations they are in with the...

As we progressed through this course, many themes have become clear and have been expressed thoroughly in the assigned readings. A very prominent theme around the 19th century, socially and in literature, was the role of women in society. The 1800...

Across centuries, fairy tales have provided young women with a form of escapism from the restrictive society around them with princes, magic spells, and evil-stepmothers. The women in fairy tales, specifically from the writers and producers of...

Unlike novelists, playwrights can use visual and auditory effects to emphasize certain aspects of the storyline. Tennessee Williams’, A Streetcar Named Desire, utilizes music to portray an internal conflict taking place within Blanche DuBois....

Women’s rights movements in the 1950s of England were not entirely strong. In a speech in regards to women’s rights Wiley Rutridge, Justice of the Supreme Court in 1948, states “there still [remains] large areas in which unjustifiable...

Within the relationship between Jean and Berenger in Rhinoceros, Berenger’s passivity and Jean’s narcissism become apparent. It is clear from the play that Jean is abusive and Berenger is submissive to him, making their friendship toxic. The...

A number of texts that define themselves within the post- modern category have attempted to capture the essence of Jean Baudrillard’s concepts of simulacrum and hyper- reality. Simulacrum can be described as ‘something having merely the form or...

"Misery won’t touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprint on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of ”(Edwidge Danticat).

These disheartening yet wise words from Edwidge Danticat articulate...

Each year, residents of forgotten neighborhoods pay the price of being alive. In “Sonny’s Blues,” James Baldwin uses references to human vulnerability to express the impact of home environment on outlook and life experience. Through the actions of...

In his novella ‘Minority Report’, author Phillip Dick outlines the ambitious nature of human beings and through the representation of characterization and the setting which reflects upon the pessimistic ideas which Dick possesses about human...

Flower arranging, a lost razor, bestiality–all topics which are discussed in Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia. Despite its seeming inconsequentiality, the discussion of flower arranging in Act I when paired with the destruction of items in...

Under the hostility of the Jim Crow Laws and the ever-present threat of lynching in Post-Reconstruction America, the circumstances seemed dire for African-Americans who dreamed of a brighter future. Yet there were still a few whose names found...

The distinction between truth and falsehood is at face value a simple one, but in actuality what is ‘true’ extends beyond the face of the world and permeates all aspects of life. Social systems are built upon the importance of truth, and our...

Bong Joon-Ho’s most recent venture, Parasite(or Gisaengchung), rose to widespread critical acclaim following its premier at the Cannes Film Festival, where it also won the coveted Palm d’Or. There have been countless films and works of literature...

Truth is something that can never be thoroughly understood or known at all, thought Dickinson. She used poetry as a way to look for it, only to have more questions pop up every time she thought she had found it. That is the thing with truth, she...

“All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.” (Burke 402).

Here, revered statesman Edmund Burke was trying to say that a person’s character is destroyed because of their inclination to behave in a certain way....

American author Cormac McCarthy is well-known for unflinchingly examining the moral state of humanity within his writing. His works seldom offer any justification or redemption, leaving readers to equally ponder the sense and senselessness, the...

When the ‘Great Cornhill Fire’ of 1748 swept through the Cornhill district in the centre of London, it obliterated nearly two blocks of the city, destroying more than one hundred homes, causing multiple deaths, and triggering widespread looting in...

Settler common sense, a term popularized by Mark Rifkin, refers to legal and political structures established during times of colonization which are designed to allow “non-native access to indigenous territories” (Settler Common Sense xvi), and...

When most people think of heroes, they often associate them with having a happy ending. For example, fairy tales always end with their heroes living happily ever after, but that is not always the case. Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero is...

Tar Baby, written by Toni Morrison, tells the story of two people from two very different worlds and their journey to find love in a world filled with societal norms, discriminations, and strong ties to the past. The lives of Son and Jadine...

Top Girls, an all-female play written by Caryl Churchill in the early 1980s, focuses almost exclusively on the new struggles women faced in trying to become integrated into and obtain success in the workplace. This struggle is emphasized most...

The goals and struggles associated with the feminist movement have undoubtedly changed over time, transforming as increasing freedom and equality shed light on the more complex issues which surround integrating women wholly into society. Machinal,...