Newest Literature Essays

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...

In 1759, Voltaire published his magnum opus, Candide—nearly a century after Milton first published his own masterpiece, Paradise Lost. Upon finally settling on a farm with his dearest friends, Candide concludes the text by saying “we must...

Con Academy, written by Joe Schreiber, is not a typical high school-romance book, but rather a book that based off the idea that cheating throughout life could potentially lead to a positive outcome. With the genre being mystery and thriller, the...

Throughout both novels, The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson and Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the protagonists are on a constant journey, throughout which they make many and continuing explorations. Their paths are lexically, semantically and...

Selvon's 'The Lonely Londoners' not only explores processes of cultural contact, but is in itself the product of and inspiration for future mixing of cultures: it is a novel which ‘forged a shift in perspective which would not only change the way...

The narrative style and nature of Robertson Davies’ Fifth Business as presented through the perspective of main character Dunstan Ramsay creates a divide between his “objective truth” of the events of his life that he claims to tell and the “...

In the Indian epic the Ramayana, there are several women who play integral roles in the story. For example, it is because of Rama’s stepmother that he is sent of into the forest to live in the first place, it is because of Surpanakha that Rama...

William Blake’s poems ‘The Tyger’ and ‘Holy Thursday’ - each from his more dysphemistic book ‘Songs of Experience’ - explore and lament the loss of spirituality in the unethical era of the Industrial Revolution. He approaches the topics of man's...

During her TED Talk in 2013, Elizabeth Loftus stated, “Your memory is like a Wikipedia page- you can edit it, and so can other people.” People tend to believe that memory is an exact, unflawed reflection of their experiences. However, memories are...

“K’op, the Tzotzil word for both problem and prayer, recalls rum’s dialectical role in both causing and healing imbalances” (Eber 135). In the Highland Chiapas of southern Mexico, Pedranos live in a vicious cycle of drinking rum to forget their...

Human beings are composed of several characteristics that make them unique, but these features are often considered “labels” in a social sense. Intersectionality explains the process of experiencing life based on several identities that one...