Newest Literature Essays

James Cameron's Avatar, with all its visual splendor, innovation, and ambition, it wasn't enough to make up for the 178 minutes of derivative, heavy-handed storytelling. Avatar isn't the first larger than life blockbuster with a mediocre...

Throughout Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, Bruce Wayne has faced many threats; The Joker, Bane, Scarecrow and metaphorically himself. However there is one man, despite not being categorised as the villain but more "Gotham's White Knight"...

As a character that is “consigned to eternal narrative silence” (Salih, p336) Sanditon’s Miss Lambe is an object of interest. This interest is furthered by the fact that is “Austen’s only ‘brown’ character” (Salih, p330). Alone, this silence and...

In Confessions of Saint Augustine, the reader is presented with many puzzles and seeming contradictions in terms of the structure of the work and how it mirrors, or does not mirror, Augustine’s spiritual journey. Some have argued that the book is...

Fairy tales serve to several purposes; however, they are most commonly meant to be read to children. Sometimes to teach them a moral lesson, others to simply entertain them. Some fairy tales, like Wilde’s, are more complex; they can be interpreted...

“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light”.

The opening stanza to Dylan Thomas’ poem echoes its theme of aging, asserting the necessity of the elderly to live...

Both George Orwell and Chimamanda Adichie have lived in and experienced colonization or a post-colonial environment first hand. Orwell served with the Imperialist police in Burma in the 1920s, before leaving this post due to an immense sense of...

Eyes are often seen in literature as all-encompassing symbols of mystery, perception, awareness, and even omniscience. Many argue that the eyes are “the window to the soul,” meaning that they reveal even the most hidden emotions, desires, or...

Perception as a theme in Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen” is prominent and profoundly portrayed. Many of the chapters bear some sort of reference to visual or auditory perception- be it eyesight, watching, or listening. This begins with Reuven’s inital...

Storytelling is a historic art form, its first traces beginning thousands of years ago, and yet it is relevant in today’s society more than ever. Around the world, individuals took to storytelling as a form of self-expression, some even working it...

In Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Don Quixote de la Mancha chooses a woman by the name of Aldonza Lorenza, whom he renamed Dulcinea del Toboso, to be his lady fair and love of his life. After all of this had been decided, only one problem remained in Don...

Director John Sturges (1910-1992) is today best known for action movies such as The Great Escape (1963) and The Magnificent Seven(1960), but the hallmarks of his style are evident in every one of his films, and particularly evident in Gunfight at...

In several works of children’s literature, the use of language is closely tied with power. Specifically, in Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, and Matilda by Roald Dahl, each of these heroines uses...

“The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies” (Mark Twain).

Christianity has been historically influencing politics around the world, however as Twain addresses, the Bible has...

Science and religion are not often two things that go hand in hand. Conflict may arise when religious beliefs are tested for how scientific or factual they may be, whereas from a religious aspect, the divinity of God is beyond earthly truths. In...

The author, Anne, McCafferey, wrote a draconic fantasy story titled “The Smallest Dragonboy” that took place in the Benden Weyr of the Benden Mountains on an imaginary planet called Pern before the Hatching occurs. In the story, the main...

Sputnik Sweetheart is a novel that allows the reader to contemplate the complex personalities of human, and how they view themselves in reality. It is not only a tool to understand the character’s realities, but the reader may also use the...

In a novel titled Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy could hardly proceed without copious description of the natural and pastoral setting of his work. The simple plot details demand notes on rusticity and Hardy’s Victorian sensibilities...

When Jesus’s disciples asked him about the greatest in Heaven, they were likely expecting him to speak of great religious figures or historical leaders. However, Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children,...

The phrase Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) denoted by film critic Nathan Rabin in the 21st century refers to female characters with quirky or eccentric personalities, who serve as romantic interests for male protagonists in distress emotionally or...

The Florida Project by director Sean Baker is a film that offers one of those transporting experiences that audiences rarely experience in modern films anymore. This film follows a group of kids and their parents who live in a budget motel outside...

The atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima turned a once prosperous city into a flattened hellscape of flame and rubble. Buildings were leveled, structures were vaporized, and lives were erased in an instant. Those fortunate (or...

One of the biggest themes in My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorryis about the power of writing and storytelling. The metafictional aspect of this novel unfolds as Elsa becomes more self-sufficient and less cynical about the world around...

In My Aztlan: White Place and Unprotected, Gil Cuadros (Latino poet and author who focused his work on queer poetry and short stories) uses the settings of San Bernardino County and West Los Angeles, specifically West Hollywood, to compare the...