Newest Literature Essays

The importance of a narrative lies in its capacity to illustrate how humans perceive themselves as individuals and communities. Groups have been sharing stories since the beginning of time. As a result, narratives are products of their specific...

Numerous scholars have examined Christine de Pizan’s seminal The Book of the City of Ladies, finished circa 1405, as a conscious “reappropriation” of earlier texts by men – most notably as a formal response to Jean de Meun’s popular additions to...

The story of Bisclavret is a lais poem, written by Marie De France in the 12th century. The titular character is a knight cursed with the ability to change into a wolf. However, the true monster of this story is made out to be his unfaithful wife....

Many feminist scholars have lauded Edith Wharton for her refusal to shy away from portraying the misery of married women. A common interpretation of Wharton’s intentions were that this misery stems from the dissatisfaction her characters suffer at...

As one grows and matures throughout their lifetime, countless relationships are created and changed. These shifting relationships help define who a person will ultimately be. Many of the reasons for relationship changes come from social situations...

According to famous American actress Marilyn Monroe, “Sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall together”. At times when it seems one’s world is falling apart and life is not worth the unbearable pain, something unexpected...

Within contemporary culture, it is generally assumed that to speak for oneself is an exercise of inherent power – while speech signifies autonomy, silence implies subjugation. Yet Aeschylus’s Agamemnon complicates this dichotomy through its...

“We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but more animated and an audible thinking,” Jane Eyre reports fondly in the conclusion of her eponymous novel, describing the marital bliss she has finally achieved with Mr. Rochester...

In Andre Alexis’ novel, Fifteen Dogs, a group of dogs are given the ‘gift’ of human intelligence by the Gods Hermes and Apollo. Each dog experiences their new consciousness in diverse courses, for instance by rejecting or embracing it. Prince, a...

Within the canon of English Romantic literature, John Keats’ work is distinguished by its willingness to portray beauty as a blissful and unfathomable mystery. In contrast to the founding generation of Romantics most prominent during the late 18th...

There are a million people, men and women and children, who share the curse of the wage-slave; who toil every hour they can stand and see, for just enough to keep them alive; who are condemned till the end of their days to monotony and weariness,...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” deals with the theme: “Undervaluation of Women”: the plot merits a feminist criticism because it brings to light the extent to which that men can go to have “trophy wives” that are impeccable. In the quest to...

In the novels The House on Mango Street and The Bell Jar, the two authors, Sandra Cisneros and Sylvia Plath show very contrasting motherly figures. Both novels are telling the general story of the respective authors through pseudonyms, Esperanza...

Prior to the events of the Stonewall Riots, queer and LGBTQ+ movements within the United States ran primarily underground and parallel to the rest of American social activist movements. Marginalized writers and authors during the early- to...

At its core, acclaimed director/screenwriter/playwright Martin McDonagh’s masterful Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2016) is a film about how transformative and all-consuming rage is and how rage – at least in part – should be replaced...

In Cry the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton, the theme and motifs of justice is one that is heavily discussed. However, in the world we live in, justice is not written in black and white and sometimes balancing out the unfairness of the world can...

Dixon, as the director of CAPE, seems to be ambitious and competitive when she shares the realities of getting CAPE to survive. She mentions how she has to compete with people like Stuart Decker in order to get research grants and international...

Igoni Barrett’s Blackass is a satirical representation of racial injustice that floods the pages of this riveting novel. In the story, Barrett expressed his perception of people in society, which purports the fact that society deploys race as a...

The experience of time passage and the effects of this process is a collective and individual human experience. Time is something which can in no way be stopped or changed, meaning its actions and consequences are inevitable. This is a concept...

Many can agree that naiveté is a form of innocence and it diminishes when humans are forced to face circumstances that may cause questions about oneself and the world around them, causing such perspective and morals to change. Innocence is...

Poets of the Romantic movement sought to counteract the prevailing political and social viewpoints of the 18th-19th century. Romanticism was a philosophical movement and reaction against the logical enlightenment and the imagination was used as an...

Poets of the Romantic movement sought to counteract the prevailing political and social viewpoints of the 18th-19th century. Romanticism was a philosophical movement and reaction against the logical enlightenment known as an age of reason which...

For much of his professional career, director Martin McDonagh has consistently said that he prefers the medium of film to theater, saying that he has a "respect for the whole history of films and a slight disrespect for theatre." And while his...

Each person’s identity is made up of many factors that influence the way they are. The decisions individuals make and how they carry themselves is largely prompted by various factors including race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic...