Newest Literature Essays

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...

The characters of Ulysses are, to some extent, all shaped by the years of historical turmoil that preceded them. In early 20th century Dublin, they hold their various lineages and family histories to great importance, and others determine their...

It is often debated as to whether the three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth represent instruments of fate or whether they are simply manipulating and toying with Macbeth and influencing him to act in certain ways. However, Orson Welles, in his...

The portrayal of gender and hierarchical power in Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, is reimagined in The Penelopiad to adhere to the values of Atwood’s post-Modernist context. Texts reflect their context but a comparative study reveals the eternal....

Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville explore marriage through a significant physical object in their respective stories, “The Black Cat,” “The Minister’s Black Veil,” and “I and My Chimney”. In each of the stories, the object serves as a dividing force in...

“[he] Began eloquence with us.” (JONSON)

Medieval critics often date the beginning of modern poetry back to the emergence of Tottel’s Miscellany in the late Sixteenth century, specifically with the appearance of Wyatt and Surrey’s...

Saida Herzi offers an in-depth account of the suffering that women from Somalia go through due to circumcision in "Against the Pleasure Principle." Even though the women are conditioned to view circumcision as a religious practice to foster...

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm: to...

The industrial revolution was greatly opposed by the poets of the Romantic movement, due to its corruption of morality and nature, including the exploitation of children. Rousseau stated that ‘everything degenerates in the hands of man’, fueling...