Newest Literature Essays

Dickens explores the issues of an industrialised society and, a key theme, the capability of the latter to suppress and obstruct human emotion, individuality and imagination. Dickens conveys these themes, primarily, through the characterisation...

Arthur Miller’s 1949 play, Death of a Salesman, endures today because of its ability to effectively convey a complex family dynamic in the wake of its patriarch’s failed American dream. Themes of disappointment and denial, embellishment and skewed...

Atypical Existentialism Gregor Samsa was a person. A shockingly normal person. He dredged to work every day in spite of his general dissatisfaction, his home was nice enough, his family was there (if nothing else), and, like most things which have...

On the surface, Bong Joon-Ho's Snowpiercer is quite literally a linear story. After a mass extinction event leaving the world in uninhabitable cold, the last fraction of humanity survives on an ark-like train that will travel around the world in...

In ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’ Kureishi utilizes Orientalist perspectives and textual attitudes in a multitude of manners in order to reflect how the meanings associated with the Orientalist's imagined ‘East’ shapes characters world-views and world...

Both Plato’s Symposium and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics introduce provocative ideas about love and friendship and how best to attain them. They make it clear that, without love and friendship, life would be a miserable existence. Each figure in...

When faced with extreme times of crisis, history has shown that humanity will show its fallible nature, particularly through the victimization and blaming of other individuals. Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, ...

Brooks and Miller examine how during times of extreme crisis, opportunities of good and bad nature are born and the consequences are unavoidably suffered. Arthur Millers, The Crucible, an allegory of the McCarthy era in the 1950’s American...

There are a number of mind blowing short films that play in the same meticulously designed and weird art-house thriller space as Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin. You mostly see that kind of thing on the Internet more than you do in the theater...

“Goodness restrained has never been a match for badness unrestrained,” writes Umair Haque, contributor to Medium, claiming that being inactively involved in unjustifiable acts is still siding with the tormentor. This claim may be observed in “The...

Initially, animation wasn’t meant to undertake deeply philosophical issues, especially ones that are inherently pessimistic. However, there are animations that have shown a great promise in taking on issues in society, both local and global...

A meditative poem, “Mont Blanc” begins with Shelley inspecting the mountain and the sublime attained by such power. The unique perspective weaves environmentalism and romanticism and concludes the sublime’s impact and the power of nature. Through...

The mirror’s cracked world was safe no longer; was perilous with broken glass, teeming with ghosts; was now the world where Paco waited for the strange-hold and dear good Mary told lies and cautious Rita was dazzled by dragons and Tony hid in a...

During the Elizabethan era of England, there were many concerns regarding the authority of England and why certain public figures possessed power and others did not. Through historical documents from the Elizabethan era we are able to determine...

As far back as Plato’s theory of imitation it has been asserted that “the poet always copies an earlier act of creation from reality or from other literary representations” (Carter 49). When Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream around 1595...

In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare emphasizes the importance of the roles we play in the lives of those around us through elaborate love triangles and complex characters. Whether we are romantically involved, tied by familial bonds, share a common...

Anthony Burgess’s Clockwork Orange is a 1960’s novel of the modern era that deals with horrific depictions of violence and rape conducted by the novel’s protagonist, Alex. With Burgess’s elaboration on the themes of humanity and freewill in the...

An emerging feature in all penitential romances is the concern with social reintegration, healing and peaceful resolution, at the end of a long sequence of highly disturbing events. (RADULESCU)

Middle English popular romances, such as Sir Gowther...

While its title would suggest it serves as a documentation of actual events, Herodotus’s Histories is far more occupied with exploring the intricacies of human thought and emotions through time and varying cultures than providing a survey of...

In Calvino’s masterful collection of short stories, Marcovaldo, he explores the creation of urban restrictions and the freedom which is created by nature. In “the city lost in snow”, Calvino explores the restrictions which are posed by cities and...

To be a great leader, one must first understand the people that they are leading. Human nature is complex. It is crucial for a leader to understand what the people desire and how they act in order to lead them. However, the elaborate complexities...

“When we make a decision we are ‘killing’ our options[...]We are choosing to decide and this feels like a loss.” Business coach Andrew Cussons gave this explanation for “Why People Struggle to Make Decisions.” Shakespeare’s Hamlet heavily preys on...

In “Television”, Roald Dahl contends that children should not be permitted to watch television, despite the fact that it is in most houses. Another alternative, according to Roald Dahl, would be not to install the TV at all. The children should be...