Newest Literature Essays

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring follows the adventures of Frodo, Pippin, Merry, and Sam, who set out on a journey to destroy the One Ring. When the party finally leaves the Shire, they encounter many dangers as black riders, and other...

Sylvia Plath’s “The Applicant,” is a 40-line poem first published in The London Magazine in 1963, then later republished posthumously in Plath’s second poetry collection, Ariel, in 1965. Her poem describes an unknown, presumably eligible male who...

The Symbolism of Nature, Biblical Lessons, and Tests of Faith in Silence

Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence has confounded and conflicted critics ever since it came out, due to the challenging combination of simple writing, rich symbolism, and...

Much Ado About Nothing, a comedy by William Shakespeare, was first preformed in 1612. The play is set in Messina, Italy that follows the couple Hero and Claudio. Hero is unjustly accused of unchastity that results in her and Claudio’s separation...

Though Agatha Christie has been enjoyed by millions in the last century since she wrote her widely popular detective novels, little serious scholarship has been written on her works, despite their ingenious craft and subtlety. In fact, there is a...

“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates is a short story that was published in the 1966 Fall edition of Epoch magazine. Connie, a fifteen-year-old girl, who frequently picks up boys without her parent’s knowledge at a local...

e.e. cummings’ idiosyncrasy can largely be attributed to his situation in the modernist United States as he lived through World War I, World War II and the Great Depression. His works largely divulged a need for love within society to resolve its...

In both Seamus Heaney’s 2004 play The Burial at Thebes and Kamila Shamsie’s 2017 novel Home Fire, strict borders are heavily enforced by oppressive governmental institutions that seek to homogenize collective identity through restrictive forms of...

In Sheridan Le Fanu’s short story, “Carmilla”, innocent love and deceitful lust are intertwined throughout the tale, so much that it is difficult for the narrator, Laura, to distinguish between the two, even years after the events of the story....

Throughout The Book of the Duchess, we are urged to tackle the question of whether the Dreamer or the Man in Black is the more hopeless lover. While both the Man in Black and the Dreamer are hopeless lovers, the Man in Black is closer to...

The original German fairytale “Snow White” was published in 1857 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm that features the 7-year-old Snow White, and her evil stepmother who the king marries after the child’s biological mother dies from childbirth. This tale...

“Parkinson’s Disease” by Galway Kinnell was originally published in 1994 in his collection of poems titled Imperfect Thirst. This poem describes a man with Parkinson’s Disease who is being cared for presumably by his adult daughter—the whole poem...

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson published in 2014 is a split non-chronological narrative of twins, Noah and Jude, that follows their separate perspectives during adolescence. Although Noah and Jude are incredibly close at thirteen, they...

Banned and challenged books and their explicit content for adolescents have always been a controversial topic of debate among education and relating communities in which certain texts may be challenged or banned due to their content being “...

Confronting new phases and experiences assist in the development of growth, maturation and internal progression. This concept is undoubtedly evident within J C Burke’s novel ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’, the interview titled ‘2 of us’ by Dani Valent...

Noah Baumbach is often recognized as a great screenwriter. He writes dialogue that is simultaneously realistic but also dramatic. However good, dialogue only gets you so far. Thankfully, Baumbach can also handle the rest brilliantly in Marriage...

Adam Smith, an 18th century economist, coined the term “Invisible Hand” as a metaphor for the unseen forces that move the free market economy. In Mr. Smith’s opinion, it is beneficial for individuals to pursue their own interests, as he believes...

Since the start of the 21st century, the paradigm of fighting a war has been turned completed on its head by a technology capable of obliterating anything at the flip of a switch by an operator thousands of miles away and by someone who has never...

Beast-bridegroom stories have been around for centuries. They can be traced back to the story of Psyche and Cupid, written in the second century as a side story of The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius. In these stories, a young maiden falls in love...