Newest Literature Essays

When one thinks of a famous, all-hailed, top surveyor in the nation, one may think of a reserved, ordered and, most importantly, an incredibly fulfilled individual. After all, to attain a similar status in not only the surveillance field but in...

They slowly approached the area where the injured lion laid. The lion gathered up its remaining strength to prepare to rush the approaching hunters. They crept closer and closer in the grass searching for the lion, then out of nowhere it charged...

In Hassan Fazili’s Midnight Traveler, the global migration crisis comes into intimate view. Hassan Fazili is an Afghan filmmaker, husband, and father of two daughters, and was previously the co-operator of a small cafe where reform-minded...

In the Platonic dialogue, Greater Hippias, Socrates and Hippias argue that the beautiful is primarily the fitting. Like perfection and wholeness befitting the gods, certain qualities can be assigned to a body. Militarism and strict law adherence...

In the late 19th century, Christianity remained deeply rooted in European culture. The desire to spread the teachings of Jesus Christ continued to rise with growing fervor, and the push for missionary services spiked in eastern-European nations...

Michael Healey’s The Drawer Boy expresses several universal themes. One major theme throughout this play is the complexity of human relationships. The story follows a pair of farmers named Morgan and Angus as they face the trials and triumphs...

In the mid-twentieth century, the male and female dichotomy defined and permeated many aspects of traditional mainstream American culture. From heteronormative marriage to rigid gender roles, society greatly emphasized maintaining what a lot of...

Zora Neale Hurston’s well-acclaimed novel Their Eyes Were Watching God includes many controversial characters with ambiguous ethics. Janie Crawford’s lovers have been continuously analyzed by literary scholars such as Janice Knudsen and Mesa-El...

As the world moved through time, the African people have as well. This movement may be categorized into three different sections: Antiquity, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, and the New Diaspora. Each of these specific pieces are also characterized...

"I can’t believe you are an old widow, said Miranda Debb.

And so little, said Susanna Briggs.

You who was always so pretty, said Miranda Debb.

You had it rough, said Cynthia Hoynton.

The tide ran out but never ran in, said Susanna Briggs.

The...

New South Wales is more a battlefield than it is a colony. Smasher is the vicious commander steering colonization forward where else Blackwood is an innocent bystander protesting the war. New South Wales is the beginning of colonization; firstly,...

They drag their feet, slouching away from the sun, their palsied, wandering eyes clouded with the blood of rage-busted veins. Desire—the only living thing in them—snarls in the pit of their stomachs, the sole force carrying them forward in their...

Truthfulness in the Birthday PartyThe presentation of truthfulness in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party varies during the play. Pinter effectively uses ellipsis, short sentences, lexical choice and stage directions to show the existence of truth...

The height of industrialism within the British era in the 1800's provoked changes that shifted the dynamics of societal structures. The stratified society of England evinces by Elizabeth Gaskell in 'North and South' polarizes wealth and class and...

Survivalism is a trait commonly found amongst Canadians, perhaps it is in part due to the harsh winters, or the history of peacekeeping Canada proudly boasts. Whatever the reason may be, the notion of survivalism is a commonly observed theme...

The narrative contained within “The Stolen Child,” a poem written in 1866 by William Butler Yeats, is borrowed from a well-known tale in Irish mythology – that of the Changeling. This myth proposed that fairies would often steal away a human child...

In his play, "Waiting for Godot", Samuel Beckett communicates an existentialist perception of meaning as a concept through the interaction between the characters, Vladimir and Estragon. The conversations between the two men reveal various...

In today’s society, living individually to maintain a private space is as necessary as being a member of a team. Numerous individuals cannot maintain collective mindsets because independent impulses will arise in them. In the past, many slaves...

“For the creative artist possessed by Catholic imagination, God and grace lurk everywhere”, declares Andrew Greeley in The Catholic Imagination (10). His is a wide perspective of the sacramentality of things as opposed to the narrow Catholic usage...

A key theme occurring across Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black and Thomas Hardy’s Poems 1912-13 is the concept of the supernatural. Both Hill and Hardy describe apparitions of ghosts and communication with spirits in their work; however, the...

Through our art mediums and our language, humans are always seeking ways to reproduce and make sense of our own perceptions. Julio Cortazar's short story “Blow-Up” explores the subjective nature of reality and the ways in which our perceptions...

Peter Carey’s collections of short stories explore societal expectations and subvert gender roles against a surrealist and/or dystopian background. In The Fat Man in History, we enter a reactionary society in which the conquering “Fat Americans”...

Aristocratic beauty and values comprise culture which is used as a proxy for social and economic and mobility in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. To at least appear as having the same intelligentsia as the Victorian upper class is to...

Rabbit-Proof Fence presents a portrait of people with power, who see themselves as being decent, self-righteously attempting to wipe out an entire race, but failing. The white people in the story see themselves as powerful people who believe they...