Newest Literature Essays

Miyazaki’s film Spirited Away is a dense film with many important aspects, ranging from character development to Japanese folk symbols to economic commentary. However, one of the most salient aspects of the film is its connection to and depiction...

Olaudah Equiano helped to popularize the horrors of slavery and facilitate the birth of the abolitionist movement through his book The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.[1]This book did more than establish the genre of slave...

Stephen King’s acclaimed short story “The Mist” tells the story of David Drayton and his efforts to protect his son Billy from a supernatural and blindingly thick mist that rapidly swallows the town of Bridgton, Maine, as well as the monstrous...

Leah Purcell’s play “The Drover’s Wife” is a post-colonial and feminist redefining of Henry Lawson’s short story of the same name. The play is centered around the hardships that Molly encounters at the time she is solely responsible for raising...

One of the main motifs of Thomas Middleton’s play, The Revenger’s Tragedy is the correlation between a woman’s virtue and her chastity. A prime example of this would be how Castiza, one of the only women in the play who is not painted in a...

“The parallel-text ‘good’/’bad’ investigations which characterise textual approaches to Shakespeare cause as many problems as they solve” (MAGUIRE 1996: 14).Investigating the authority of the first quartos of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and ...

Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis offers the reader an intimate, sober view of the author’s early life around the time of the Iranian revolution of 1979. Her family is middle class, educated and fairly progressive. The young Marji wears Nike shoes,...

In Bad Indians, Miranda argues that, “Culture is ultimately lost when we stop telling the stories of who we are, where we have been, how we arrived here, what we once knew, what we wish we knew; when we stop our retelling of the past, our...

‘Woman, a pleasing but a short-lived flow’r,/ Too soft for business and too weak for pow’r:/ A wife in bondage, or a neglected maid;/ Despised, if ugly; if she’s fair, betrayed.’(MARY LEAPOR) Trinity 2017.

Mary Leapor draws upon the notion of...

Sarah Waters' Neo-Victorian novel ‘Fingersmith’ situates itself against a backdrop of contentious debates surrounding pornography. Second wave feminists were divided in their beliefs about whether pornography was detrimental or beneficial to...

‘Alas! Can tranquil nature give me rest,/ Or scenes of beauty, soothe me to repose?’ (Charlotte Smith)

Within this quote, Smith questions whether the force of nature and beautiful surrounds will have a profound and calming affect, allowing her to...

Wordsworth’s “Lucy Series” is a set of poems concentrating on a young woman, possibly a lover, and her death. “Song” focuses on the loneliness and underappreciation of Lucy after she has passed, although the content of the poem involves his...

Beyond all the facts that she told, what was most fascinating about what Kitty said during "One Day in Auschwitz," is that she considered Auschwitz, which many describe as hell on earth, as “home.” Obviously, most have never experienced anything...

The birds are silent and amidst this gasoline-fueled destruction, alongside “the charred stump of a sapling” (6) and the “tiny veins of burnt leaves” (6), a man has died for the simply crime of living. His townspeople have declared themselves...

“Poetry is my first language”. — Dionne Brand, Abbas 18

Dionne Brand’s novel At the Full and Change of the Moon reads as part poem and part novel combining powerfully evocative images of sight, sound, and smell, with a multigenerational story...

Upon its release in 1928, ‘The Well of Loneliness’ garnered mixed critical attention. Early reception was largely positive, but a vehemently worded article in the Sunday Express, coupled with a pious home-secretary, lead to the novel’s ban (Doan...

“If asked what Nashe ‘says’, we should have to reply, ‘nothing’.” (C.S. Lewis)

In his book of criticism English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama, C.S. Lewis asserts that Nashe tells no story, expresses no thought and maintains...

In Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North, Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, and Christopher Isherwood’s Mr. Norris Changes Trains, the authors invoked elsewhereness through their characters’ needs to be anywhere except home, or Britain. In all three novels,...

Melchior is the biological Father of Dora and Nora but refuses to accept this fact until the very end of the novel at his 100th birthday celebration due to their illegitimacy. He is presented as an extremely selfish, egotistical character and...

While film adaptations of life as a slave are important reminders of our historical disgraces, Tarantinio's Django Unchained is a cruel parody of what was a horrifying history of slavery. It’s obvious that this film has triggered tremendous...

Babies: cute pink hats and shoes that seem unimaginably small and that new baby smell that signifies the beginning of a lifelong journey of parenthood and family. The birth of a new child can be the happiest occasion in a person’s life; however,...

Imagine the most important thing in life. Is it money? Is it friendship? Is it grades? Many people maintain that they value love or religion or knowledge more than material goods and success. Nevertheless, society as a whole is very materialistic....

In a country where the colonizer still holds a social privilege over the colonized, questions of black people rising to success in a white-dominated society creates tensions among races as well as within oneself. ‘Alas Poor Richard’ by James...

If you look up “America” in Jennifer Egan’s personal dictionary, you would probably discover an entry similar to this: “America /əˈmɛrɪkə / noun: A decaying, nervous country that would be the perfect allegorical topic of a novel. Synonyms: Sasha...