Newest Literature Essays

The nature of humankind has been highly explored in literature and film throughout the ages. Whether it be through deception of reality or through over-analyzation of every possible outcome, human thought has been approached in various forms....

Time is the centre-point of Pearce’s novel, particularly the confusion around the reality and reliability of time. This essay will set out to answer Tom’s question; ‘What is Time- I mean, how does Time work?’[1] by researching scientific and...

In Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown and Black Elk Speaks by John Neihardt, both the history of the American Indians, as well as the loss of their land and culture to westward expansion, are examined. In Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,...

William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” is a story of a boy coming to terms with the conflicting expectations of a just society and his place in his family. While that may not seem like too hard a balance to keep, his father does not like society the...

In the film ‘Rabbit-Proof Fence’ (2002) (RPF), the director Phillip Noyce has skillfully portrayed strong and independent Aboriginal characters who challenge the authorities in Australian in the 1930s, for the Aboriginal people's human rights. The...

“The American Dream should require hard work, but it should not require 80-hour workweeks and parents who never see their kids from across the dinner table. The American Dream should entail a first-rate education for every child, but not an...

One of the lesser known, but still important, quotes from the Star Wars Enterprise is attributed to the Supreme Chancellor, speaking to Anakin Skywalker. He says, “Good is a point of view, Anakin” (Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith). In...

In Christina Rossetti’s poem “The Prince’s Progress” and William Morris’ poem “Rapunzel,” the princes make choices which directly affect the fate of the princesses that they are pursuing. The princesses are depicted as unable to carry on their...

Hypermasculinity is prevalent in Joe Trace and Paul D. Both of these characters assert unhealthy dominance in their lives, and especially in their relationships with women. They each have past trauma that will lead to their diminished sense of...

Throughout both John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost and Sinclair Ross’ novel As For Me and My House, characteristics and implications of sex are comparable. To elaborate, only sex within wedlock is regarded as righteous as both works support...

Throughout his 1945 poem “The Provinces,” A. M. Klein uses various literary techniques to emphasize and strengthen the overall message of the brotherhood among the Canadian provinces. The very form of the poem, especially the inconsistent but...

Louis MacNeice was born as the youngest of the three children on 12 September 1907 (Fauske 10). MacNeice describes his own childhood as “a narrative of displacement and dislocation,” due to Ireland, his birth country, ended up being divided at the...

“Because orgasmic sex would lead to women’s autonomy, knowing who you are and what we want: women are not going to follow what some jackass tells us we must do. Not all women are going to get married, be monogamous, and raise a family. It will...

When discussing Jane Eyre, the critical conversation tends to largely ignore the character of Eliza Reed, the title characters cousin. At best, she is often analyzed in terms of her role as a foil to her sister. However, while her contrast to...

Anne Sexton is a modern model of the confessional poet and was very open with her poems and writings. Her therapist recommended her to start writing when she first had a breakdown, prompting Sexton to use her writing as a way to escape the world...

Tom Stoppard’s existential comedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead deals with many coping mechanisms, all of which are employed by the titular characters in order to distract them from their bleak and inevitable realities. One such mechanism,...

Symbolism is a powerful tool used to represent key points and messages across in stories. The symbols present in A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini reveal important details in the development of the story. The table, where Mariam sits...

When comparing Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre to fellow Victorian novelist, George Eliot’s Middlemarch, one might feel inclined to draw similarities between the title character of the former, to Dorothea Brooke. However, the Middlemarch character...

Commonly used to help, medication has been associated in a positive light. Vaccines help protect against diseases, asthma inhalers help relieve asthma attacks, and anti-nausea medications help alleviate queasiness. In A Clockwork Orange, Alex is...

Human experiences are inevitably complex as they are compacted with inconsistencies and paradoxes in human behavior and motivations. Storytelling serves as a vehicle where we may share these experiences. This idea is evident in William Shakespeare...

Seamus Heaney, a 20th century poet from Northern Ireland, is well known for composing pieces that were strongly influenced by his local background. Heaney’s preoccupation with this largely rural setting, as it appears through the lens of his own...

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, published posthumously in 1920, is a ferocious denunciation of the war propagandists who with blind patriotism, glorify warfare. Owen intended to explicitly respond to Jesse Pope’s enthusiastic war poems....

Much like her main characters, anthropologist and world-renowned author Zora Neale Hurston endeavored the pressures of being molded into a perception of a Black person she was not per se, but she chose not to consciously acknowledge. Hurston knew...

The confidante typically is known for being present when the hero or heroine needs a sympathetic listener to confide in, but that is not the case in Sula. Instead, Nel is there to show how the main character differs from the rest of the women in...