Newest Literature Essays

Through and Through: Toledo Storiesis a brilliant collection of interrelated stories surrounding several generations of an Arab-American family living in Toledo, Ohio (“Little Syria”). The family members are not exceptional or tragic, and their...

The opening of the Helm's Deep battle scene in “The Two Towers” has a lot of similarities with the opening scene from Sergio Leone's “Once Upon A Time in the West”. Both films have classic scores, but both use silence and some spare Foley sound...

Art is not stagnant but, it is reflective and as it progresses relies on a thorough historical narrative to guide its future advances. The boom of the civil rights movement in the 1960s highlighted how this historical narrative has been almost...

Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the Northwas published in 1966 during the ten years following the withdrawal of British forces from Sudan, and the plot takes place at about the same time. It was a tumultuous decade, an interregnum plagued by...

Micheal Drayton’s sonnet tackles the themes of distance, denial, love and reconcilement. The poem presents two lovers who have decided to end their relationship; however, underpinning this facade of certainty (displayed by the lovers) lies a...

In his 1604 play ‘Othello’, William Shakespeare criticizes the damaging effects of patriarchy during the Jacobean era, using the relationship between Desdemona and Emilia as a route to expose the corrupting influence of men. The male characters’...

While Christina Rossetti may have set out to write “Goblin Market” as nothing more than a children’s story, her original intentions have not prevented it from receiving a considerable amount of attention from the literary community. The fact...

The patriarchy denotes a system within society whereby men are provided with a dominant role over their female counterparts. Shakespeare composed his critically acclaimed play ‘King Lear’ in 1606, a time when society was deeply engrained within a...

Poets of the Romantic era placed great importance on individualism and indulging in your emotions, rejecting the Enlightenment era’s attempt to explain the world through logic. This is first seen in ‘Fare Thee Well’, where Lord Byron focuses on...

Du Bois’ double consciousness theory refers to the sense black people possess of looking at oneself through the eyes of others particularly the racist society and measuring oneself by the contempt that is reciprocated. The notion has also been...

During the 18th and 19th century, Nella Larsen, Edith Wharton, and Truman Capote published renowned literary works that gained vast praise and recognition for them all. Each work explored unique themes such as isolation, racism, love, and the...

A Doll’s House embodies Ibsen’s criticism of social constructs on marriage and female roles nurtured by the patriarchal society. Through his friend Laura Kieler who experienced hardships in her marriage from his overbearing husband, Ibsen was...

The battle between the logical mind and the emotional heart presents itself in an infinite array of iterations. Only through acceptance of both logic and feeling can a person discover resolution. In “Arcadia”, Tom Stoppard presents this truth in...

V.S. Naipaul’s Half-A-Life and Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration To The North are two popular and successful postcolonial works of fiction. Both novels include, in some form, the story of a young man from a non-European continent living and...

The character of an individual is demonstrated by the way they handle power Generally, power is referred to the possession/ ability of control or influence over others, which is, in fact, subject to one’s characteristics. This assumption is both...

In the play ‘Othello’, William Shakespeare portrays power and hierarchy as fragile, and it is this fragility that creates the tragedy within the play, catalyzing the ‘fall from prosperity to wretchedness’ in Kastan’s view. Taking on Nuttall’s...

Joyce’s presentation of friendship focusses upon what is expected of it and how one wishes to experience it, contrasted with what it really is and how one actually experiences it. While the narrator begins ‘The Sisters’ with a degree of openness:...

From the first-person accounts during the abolitionist movement to the literary works during civil rights period and the contemporary times, African-American literature have extensively addressed social issues regarding race. Systemic racism, as...

Terrence Malick, who has been lauded as one of the greatest directors of the New American cinema, has only made seven films in the last forty-five years (with three more forthcoming this year), yet his status as an auteur was initially solidified...

In addition to delighting and surprising millions of young people, the film The Hunger Games[1]exemplifies many aspects of media psychology. That is, the film - as well as the book from which it is adapted – reflects many of the theories...

Both poems describe a ruined statue of ‘Ozymandias’ in the middle of an Egyptian desert. They both explore the decay of a once ‘great’ man, once a ‘king of kings’. Also, the poems touch on what a wonderful power used to exist and what that has...

Voltaire’sCandideis more than an example of Enlightenment philosophy meeting Enlightenment-era fiction. It needs to be set into the context of the broader historical and global era in which it was produced. This essay explores how Candideis an...

In 1776, Thomas Paine published his pamphlet, Common Sense in order to help persuade the colonies into revolting against the British government. His writings would become a staple part of American history and were essential to the formation of the...

When Sancho Panza is first introduced, he seems to be a greedy, gluttonous simpleton only along for the ride to get away from his family and make a little money while he was at it (67). However, over the course of his sallies with Don Quixote, he...