Newest Literature Essays

Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 is one of the greatest examples of the use of emblematic staging in the early-modern period. The more iconographic style which preceded in the theatres, gave way to a much more fluid visual...

Both Russell Baker and Ernesto Galarza rely on a form of story-telling as classic as any other: the coming-of-age tale. This is a universal theme or subject in literature because it usually demands honesty from an author looking back on a troubled...

Beckett once stated in regard to his plays that “any production which ignores my stage directions is completely unacceptable to me”[1]; a famous rule cautioning the director from straying far from the playwright’s vision. Crucially, Beckett’s...

“The looking-glass is not to blame if your own face is plain” - Saying, from Nikolai Gogol’s Government Inspector Orwell, Gogol, Chavchavadze - criticizing society primarily or in a hidden way became popular among classical writers. Highlighting...

In the Roman Imperial World — precisely around 202 CE and 356 CE — early Christian martyrs and ascetics documented their experiences dealing with overcoming their adversaries and, more largely, Satan. Their personal victories hinged on their...

Georges Perec’s novella Les Choses[1]debuted in the mid-1960s, across a cultural landscape of change, disillusionment, and frustration. The lives of the main characters in this novella show us that postwar life in Western Europe is empty and...

The body is represented in the novel as a physical entity, an organism, as a cultural construction. As a natural organisation, the body controls, limits and determines life. It grows and develops from the moment of existence till it reaches its...

Erich Fromm’s The Sane Society and Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence both display individuals ripped away from society by its judgment due to personal disagreements with social norms. The condemnation commences a battle between holding on to one’s...

Many novels exist that deal with themes characteristic to their own era, but few exceptional ones incorporate ideas developed much later. One of such examples is Goethe’s Faust, a tragic play about the journey of an alchemist (named Faust, who...

In Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Pearl’s tragical death deeaply affectes her family members as they do not talk about it, seemingly it is forgotten. For Ruby, Pearl does not even exist. She is traumatized by seeing the accident...

Authors write hero’s journeys every day. They tend to be similar and predictable to the reader, as every hero shares at least one trait with other heroes. However, some stories contain heroes with certain characteristics that distinguish them from...

Through his work Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift conveys his ideas and social criticism towards his civilization and its various faults. The narrative “A Voyage to Laputa” focuses on the floating island of Laputa that rules the kingdom of...

In both ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ the writers use different narrative voices to portray their story. Within ‘Wuthering Heights’ Bronte uses Lockwood as the outer narrative and Nelly as the inner narrative to further...

B. R Ambedkar says that, “Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.” In Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Ivan and Alyosha battle...

Ecological coordinates of environmental parameters surface persistently in Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories as markers of generic wellbeing. Although apparently simplistic, these motives are embedded in processes of cultural meaning-making...

Gaskell’s portrayal of Victorian society in ‘North and South’ does not seem to entirely reflect Brose’s view that faith had ‘ceased to shape their lives’. Within the novel it continues to shape their lives in terms of their ideas of propriety and...

The Good Morrow, by John Donne, is a candid depiction of a lover contemplating their spiritual and sensual awakening after sexually uniting with their beloved. The love described within the poem is one of endless proportions; it is able to...

Jean Rhys’ 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea can be regarded as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Victorian realist novel Jane Eyre which liberates the marginalized. Rhys’ text fixes the problem of perspective between Jane, the Angel in the House, and...

The Bacchae is a Greek tragedy that explores many different types of tension. Order and disorder are particularly common themes throughout the work. These contrasting ideas take on many different forms. One of the more intriguing examples is the...

‘I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering’ (Robert Frost).

The art of discovery has long since marked the progression of humankind through a process of finding unique and unsought information that is able to...

The 1959 film Les 400 Coups (The Four hundred blows, a French idiom referencing something along the lines of “raising hell”) articulates the city of Paris as a city full of temptations and corruption, which shapes Antoine into the character he...

The fairytale is one of the various genres of folklore representing fantasy and mythical creatures. Beginning as an oral tradition passed on to posterity, fairytales now find themselves in printed volumes preserved for eternity. Stemming from...

“Gimpel the Fool” is a short story based on the life of Gimpel, who matured from little boy into an adult man while people treated him as a fool. His actions may reflect that the above statement can be handled as a fact, but from paragraph to...