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The oral tradition of Archaic Greece involved reciters who recreated the individual characters and incidences each time the poems were orated. The Iliad as among literature conceived during ancient Greece were preserved through oral culture in...

In literary analysis, it is critical for readers to assess whether or not a story contains closure. Renowned author Karyn Kusama argues that stories do not “need closure, “they need a beginning, middle, and end”. Other notable writers such as...

In the novel Frankenstein, Victor’s single-minded pursuit for knowledge drives him further into loneliness and solitude, leaving behind his family and the ones that love him like his adopted sister Elizabeth and his father. But in the Handmaid’s...

Of all the feelings enjoyed by humankind, one of the greatest and most desired is freedom. Freedom is the reason why many fight for independence from tyranny, colonization, and injustice despite the danger and uncertainty of victory. In addition,...

“The Swimmer,” is a short story written by John Cheever. In his short story titled “The Swimmer,” the main character, Neddy Merrill, attempts to travel home by swimming through his neighbors’ pools. As the story progresses, time is shown to be...

A guilty conscious can be a crippling ordeal to the mind especially if the basis of the guilt cannot be undone or corrected. When the mind is in emotional distress it will grasp on any construct that makes it feel better. In Martin Scorsese’s ...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Devil on the Cross uses oral storytelling and dialogue to illustrate the ideas that underlie the plot of the novel, making statements about the colonization and decolonization of Kenya. Kenya’s capitalism and corruption caused...

Henry Green’s Party Going explores the relationships of a group of socialites centered around the character, Max. Max dictates the role of each member of the group, serving as the person in control, and thereby dictates the role of each woman in...

Vladimir Nabokov’s “Spring in Fialta” and Anton Chekhov’s “The Darling” both explore relationships focusing on the point of view of only one, Victor and Olenka respectively, in the relationship(s). The relationships in both stories end in the...

Christina Rossetti’s “In an Artist’s Studio” describes the relationship between a male artist and his female muse. The poem takes the form of a Petrarchan sonnet, traditionally used by men to write about a glorified female love interest. In the...

John Keats’ The Eve of St. Agnes explores the supernatural love of Madeline and Porphyro. Keats uses the holy trance of Madeline to explore her relationship with Porphyro, as well as love’s place in their world. The callous environments...

Angela Carter’s short story ‘The Bloody Chamber’ embraces the conventions of the fairy-tale genre in order to destabilize its underlying power structures. The manipulation of the archetypes of the virgin and her ‘Prince Charming’ in the story...

In his article “Literature,” David M. Bethea explains how “the pagan concept of “mother Earth” and the Christian concept of “Holy Russia” … were telescoped again, made extension of each other. As a result, perhaps the greatest of all modern...

In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles Chesnutt clearly depicts the white journalist at fault for causing the spark of anger which set the black community to react in violence. Chesnutt makes it clear the sympathy lies with the black community. The...

The United States of America has progressed so far in terms of equal rights for all of its citizens that when one looks back at the USA of the past, a country that widely exercised the use of slavery, modern day America is unrecognisable in...

A rare two-tailed form of the sonnet serves as the canvas for one of Milton’s political poems regarding the state and the church’s limitations on individual thoughts, actions, and subjectivity in “On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long...

Craig Thompson’s graphic novel/comic Blankets chronicles the life of protagonist Craig. The novel follows Craig from childhood through young adulthood. It is a bildungsroman in more than one way. Craig’s journey through the years, obviously, fits...

Try to imagine music that would accompany someone getting stabbed to death in a movie. Now try to imagine music that would accompany a love scene. Hopefully these are two very different pieces of music. Sound alerts the audience of the action and...

Shakespeare’s King Lear tells the tragic story of a man attempting to test his daughters love for him by promising them land in exchange for words of flattery. Shakespeare illustrates a modern portrayal of femininity in the central character and...

The oral tradition of Archaic Greece involved reciters who recreated the individual characters and incidences each time the poems were orated. The Iliad as among literature conceived during ancient Greece were preserved through oral culture in...

The distinction between gender expression and gender identity is an important one that must be made before we begin to discuss The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff. According to the Human Rights Campaign, gender expression and gender identity have...

The Modernist Era was a time of radical departure from a traditions-orientated society and a journey of discovery to a new form of expression. As a result, the poetry produced during the era was reflective of this change. Specifically, T.S Eliot's...

A study of the poetry of William Butler Yeats illuminates the dichotomies of human experiences, dichotomies that he explores through his skillful manipulation of language and form. Yeats’ literary genius and the organic unity of his work are most...

Gothic novels, irrational works of literature that attempt to hold the reader in constant suspense and fear through mystery, would utilize various components to captivate the audience. Common themes of isolation, villainous men, the supernatural,...