Newest Literature Essays

“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...

“What's going on?” (Coen, 2009). That's the question that Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), the ill-fated protagonist of the Coen Brothers dark comedy A Serious Man keeps asking. It's a reflexive and sort of stupid question, one in response to a...

Love serves as the medium through which the imperfections[1]of Adam and Eve can be relayed in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. The story follows the journey of Adam and Eve as they struggle with prioritizing their love for God over their love for each...

Comparative Analysis on Memmi, Du Bois, and Fanon The process of colonization creates a lasting scar on future society. Colonization creates a destructive and selfish mechanism by which a nation state dominates another to take advantage of its...

John Milton wrote Paradise Lost following the epic tradition while, at the same time, it articulates concerns relevant for the Seventeenth Century audience, including the idea of exploration. With this, Milton’s epic enunciates the colonial...

Scientific Writing past paper essay. ‘What distinguishes the novel from the story […] is its essential dependence on the book.’(WALTER BENJAMIN) Trinity 2017.

Here, Walter Benjamin presents ‘the novel’ as a form distinct from ‘the story’....

Hemingway’s iceberg theory supposes that there is strength in a deliberate form of poverty. What is given to us is the strictest minimum: exposition relays to the audience an experience, an experience which hinges on two interlocked components:...

It is often speculated as to why Alan Bennett’s The History Boys has endured as a successful comedy despite the play’s often disturbing undertones and tragic themes such as the political state of Thatcherite Britain. However, it is in fact the...

‘Ye who amid this feverish world would wear/ a body free of pain, of cares a mind,/ Fly the rank city, shun its turbid air’(JOHN ARMSTRONG) Trinity 2017.

Here, John Armstrong connects the Restoration city to ideas of suffering, evident in his...

‘Why that is an avision,/ And why this is a revelacion,/ Why this a drem, why that a sweven, And noght to every man lyche even;/ Why this a fantome, why these oracles.’ Trinity 2016.

With the quotation above, Geoffrey Chaucer relates the act of...

Marxist ideology states that due to the capitalist regime and enforced social structure within society, complete autonomy is non-existent; Members of society therefore assimilate to the belief that all members of society, including the...

Disability and deformity is a very interesting topic to have come out of the Romantic period. It challenged stereotypes and what the public saw as crippling. The literature written by disabled writers or that feature disabled writers made...

The English Renaissance notably developed alongside a volatile political backdrop intertwined with internal conflict, dynastic instability and, perhaps most importantly, religious tension. Religious settlement in the sixteenth and early...

Act One of Arthur Miller's All My Sons introduces themes of money and materialism and a reliance on the supernatural as sources of conflict. The tense beginning indicates escalating acrimony in the following act and foreshadows the tragic finale....

Conformism is a concept that is lusted upon or embraced for the sense of security or safety that it offers. However it is beyond just a choice to be made, it is a force of nature that is quite inevitable considering the demands and expectations...