Newest Literature Essays

In today’s society, people are increasingly distanced from the natural world due to the rise of modern technology. Although communing with nature is a cherished tradition of Enlightenment and Transcendental philosophy and has been shown to yield...

The act of self-presentation allows the writer to present a specific image of oneself, often with a clearly identifiable motivation often matching the expectations and preferences of the desired audience/readership; and thus to some extent...

Zora Neale Hurston’s “Spunk” is defined by its heavy use of literary devices; therefore, this paper will analyze the text from a Russian formalist perspective. Russian formalism is based on the notion that a text should be analyzed on the basis of...

Humans are social beings. It is because of this that we, as a species, have survived for so long. But, what happens when an event causes confusion to many people? When the curiosity of the unknown cannot be satisfied by knowledge of one or another...

Throughout much of Macbeth, its titular protagonist is concerned with his future. He kills Duncan so that he can become king, he kills Banquo to protect his throne, and he goes to the witches to help him learn how to protect his life. Most of...

In one of the only two novels written by Juan Rulfo, "Pedro Paramo" is one unlike the stories from the conventional era it was published in, conveying a labyrinth of carefully crafted characters drifting through a world of magical realism and...

A Kaddish is a traditional Jewish funeral prayer which has five sections. In his poem “Kaddish,” Allen Ginsberg retells the true horrors of Naomi Ginsberg’s life, descension into psychotic collapse, and death but slowly begins to find a sense of...

In Keystones of Thought, Austin O’Malley said “We use religion as a trolley car - we ride it only while it is going our way.” In Louise Erdrich’s novel Tracks, similarly to how O’Malley stated, Erdrich creates characters who use religion...

Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Animal Dreams epitomizes the themes of love and loss by means of its protagonist, Cosima (“Codi”) Noline, a young woman who returns to her small, rustic hometown of Grace, Arizona to take care of her demented father...

William Shakespeare’s theatrical comedy Twelfth Night follows the story of Viola, who finds herself entangled in a complicated love triangle between her master, Duke Orsino, and his beloved lady, Olivia. In the finale, Viola ends up falling in...

Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio is a composite novel which depicts the lives of emotionally struggling men and women in a fictional town of Winesburg. Each story follows characters who are misunderstood, lonely, and experiencing estrangement...

The American Dream has always been considered the ideal that every United States citizen has an opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work and success. Many people came to follow and believe in the magnificence of the American...

Junior summarizes his lifestyle when he says “I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than…real life.” (Alexie 23) In Sherman Alexie’s book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the main character is a Native American boy...

The industrial revolution brought about numerous technological innovations that increased humanity’s ability to harness nature for their own pleasure or utility. However, it also revolutionized social structure with the emergence of the factory...

Within ‘Othello’, Shakespeare’s portrayal of the fragility of power and hierarchy is exposed through the downfall of individual characters who have a desire and need to maintain status. This consequently becomes the cause for what Kastan believes...

Within the opening act of Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’, deception is a central theme that is also prevalent throughout the play and the result of the tragic ending, which, in the view of Kastan is the ‘genre of uncompensated suffering’ that is either...

For poets writing in the Romantic Era, their work appeared to be a response against the Enlightenment movement which valued logic and reason and rejected emotional and subconscious appeals that the Romantics found to be more favorable. Through the...

Within ‘Songs of Experience: London’ by William Blake and ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ by William Wordsworth, both poets portray their appreciation of natural locations through their embrace of the rural aspect of life and their rejection of...

For poets writing in the Romantic Era, their work appeared to be a response against the Enlightenment movement which valued logic and reason and rejected emotional and subconscious appeals that the Romantics found to be more favorable. Through the...

To take care of another human being-this was something Neel had before thought of doing, not even with his own son, let alone a man of his own age, a foreigner. All he knew of nurture was the tenderness that had been lavished on him by his own...

A major theme of the novel Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh is imprisonment. The novel explores the lives of many different characters on the eve of the opium wars. Over the course of the novel, many characters feel a variety of forms of...

The first thing everyone notices about Blade Runner is how beautiful it is. Along with William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer, the film is credited with the creation of the cyberpunk genre. A science-fiction sub genre marked by the confluence of high...

In Shakespeare’s history play Henry V, the chorus has the distinct role of promoting loyalty to the ruling class by affirming its doctrines and ideals, such as patriotism and honor. While its romanticized portrayals and propagandistic discourses...

Mary Shelley’s gothic novel ‘Frankenstein’, although commonly known as one of the most famous horror novels of all time, evoking issues such as the dangers of scientific experimenting that goes beyond the laws of nature, it also analyses ethical...