Newest Literature Essays

In Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs, the political and social climate from this time period had a tremendous effect on the Jerome household. Simon ties the Great Depression and the impending war to the conflicts that occur between the...

One of the issues that society has always been focused on is fertility. Nowadays, this topic is multidimensional and covers such problems as overpopulation in some countries (such as India) and rising infertility rates in others, such as in South...

Within post-apocalyptic literature, many writers attempt to break down the boundaries of what hierarchies represent in normal society for example race, gender etc. and change them to fit what seems to be their reality. One such author who applies...

Childhood affects one’s creativity and enables the activity of lively imagination. However, the upbringing plays a central role to the development of those qualities. On the one hand, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa and The Sandman are...

In Ursula K. LeGuin’s novel The Word for World is Forest, the concept of nature is presented in an intriguing and innovative way. The novel considers nature as a commodity, albeit a commodity that has different meanings for each of the people...

Ueda Akinari’s “Bewitched” (1776) explores the differing manifestations of desire in men and women, especially in the context of a society that reinforces strict gender norms. The extent to which a person must control his or her desire is...

During and after the Vietnam War, Hollywood studios produced several films depicting the realities of the war from different angles. The films exhibit variations in their aesthetics and even occasionally some have conflicting ideas about the war...

The toxic and destructive nature of Mustafa Saeed’s relationship with Jean Morris is not fully revealed until the end of the novel. The startling extent of their unnatural and twisted romance steadily raises both tension and thrill for the reader...

Robert Hayden’s Those Winter Sundays centers on the speaker who ponders on his past when he was a child and the relationship with his father. The poem offers an intimate comprehension on how the Sunday mornings are for the speaker as a child. As...

Annoying, hypocritical, obsessive, sanctimonious; these are just some of the many ways to describe Drusilla Clack in The Moonstone. An irritating distant relative of the Verinders with a holier-than-thou attitude, she provides her own narrative...

They were deceived. They were manipulated. They were murdered. They were the women in Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories about Sherlock Holmes, the famed private detective of 221B Baker Street. These women constantly fall victim to the “damsel in...

In Complaint to His Purse, Chaucer employs a variety of poetic devices to construct a parody of the traditional medieval romantic lyric. He uses a combination of imagery and strict rhyme to evoke the romantic, while his use of hyperbole, word play...

Throughout ‘You’, the main character, Joe Goldberg, is the one unable to recognise his obsession, while often mistaking his feelings for deep romantic attraction. The novel starts as he lays eyes on Guinevere Beck for the first time and follows...

The flawless facade of the Alabaster manor masks the deep, dark, and diabolical secrets that manifest behind its closed doors. Dances, dialogues, and dinners all take place in this house—a house which, as Matilda “Matty” Crompton declares, “......

In 1865, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln broke the hearts of many in the country. For abolishing slavery, Lincoln was praised by thousands, even after his death. Writers were inspired to write tributes, such as Walt Whitman with his poem, “O...

From the second half of the 19th century, a mythical version of Italy took hold of the European collective imagination. In the mind of foreign Romantic writers, Italy became the symbol of the glorious past and the place of landscapes of romance....

The Assistant is the second novel written by Bernard Malamud in 1957. The riveting story resonated with a wide audience and it garnered positive reviews subsequently winning the National Jewish Book award for fiction, which saw to it being listed...

Arguably, Sherriff presents Osborne as a convivial character, with his most prominent trait being his avuncular, caring nature. Upon first meeting Raleigh, a nervous young officer, he kindly informs him that “the other officers call me uncle."...

Arguably, both poets present a sense of prestige and admiration towards those who participated in WW1, using hindsight as post-war poets to reflect upon the horrors endured by soldiers and to remind more modern readers of the utmost respect these...

The question of how one gains knowledge of a topic comes up in multiple essays by Montaigne. “On Practice” suggests imagination is not good enough to practice being close to death because the closest one can get to understanding the experience of...

Whether Poirot is more so a seeker of justice rather than a representative of the law is an interesting concept, as it develops the idea that the law is not doing its job in finding justice, a complex critique that Christie actually explores...

America is known to be the land of freedom and opportunities, but in times of crisis it can turn into a disaster. During the 1930s America was going through a terrible drought, no rain and extremely high temperatures, which later on led to the...

Although Agatha Christie’s novels are known for their simple and traditional detective formula, ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ explores quite complex themes; most significantly, class. The victim, Roger Ackroyd, is a conventional victim for a...

The main characters in the novels Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe in 1958, and Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston in 1937 are Okonkwo and Janie Mae Crawford. The countries in which they reside (Nigeria and The...