Newest Literature Essays

Emily Dickinson’s poems about death offer a stark contrast to the sentimental themes and imagery one would usually expect. Rather than the religious symbols and flowery language that we as readers have grown accustomed to, Dickinson approaches the...

Metamorphoses, a collection of poems composed by the Ancient Roman poet Ovid documents hundreds of myths in an encyclopedic manner. It is a collection that is hugely influential in the Western canon and many of the myths surround the brutish...

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-of-age novel that describes the life of a girl named Janette who is adopted into an evangelical household. Raised by a mother who is blindly devoted to her church, Janette as well feels great connection...

Throughout A Small Place, written by Jamaica Kincaid and Siddhartha, written by Hermann Hesse, the concept of the home plays a central role to them both. This concept is explored by each text quite extensively, and it is very significant in them....

Being imprisoned simply for being part of a different race is something most would agree is abhorrent. Many people would never forgive the people who would do such a thing. Yet Monica Sone (neé Kazuko),[1]in her memoir Nisei Daughter , remains...

The world of H.G. Wells’ Ann Veronica includes distinct colors in every scene. A particular color that comes up often is the color white. The many associations made with white seem to be on two opposite poles. At first, it is used to describe fear...

The nature of true happiness has been the subject of many a discussion by philosophers and scholars alike for countless generations. It seems that every man who could call himself a true philosopher, men such as Aquinas, Augustine, Plato,...

Throughout history, racism has been the cause of thousands of historical events that have ripped populations apart. To be more general, the discrimination of individuals always leads up to the split of the community itself. Within Harper Lee’s To...

David Malouf, born in South Brisbane to a Catholic paternal family from Lebanon and Sephardic Jewish maternal family from Spain who had travelled to England before settling in Australia, is an Australian poet and author, whose works reflect a...

In the novel, Maggie by Stephen Crane, Maggie suffers a horrific death. Throughout the novel the reader sees the terrible conditions that each character must live in, as well as the experiences that they go through. Their lives are filled with...

Sin Sui Far, an American author from the late nineteenth/ early twentieth centuries, placed a heavy emphasis in her work on the lives of Chinese-Americans and the oppression they felt. Through legislation passed by U.S. Congress such as the...

Christina Rossetti's 1862 narrative poem “Goblin Market” uses allegories of whimsical and fairy tale-like writing style to represent female sexuality and how fulfilling sexual desire is natural. The poem uses references to nature to encourage the...

The “Nausikaa” episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses illuminates the complex dynamics of Dublin’s socioeconomic sex/gender system, in which women and men perform gender differently as the result of invisible yet pervasive social forces surrounding sex....

Upon mere glance, it becomes immediately apparent that Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” share many common themes, including good versus evil, heart versus mind, and the nature of...

This essay would consider the modes of sentimental realism as presented in George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Charles Dickens Oliver Twist. In Dickens’ Oliver Twist, the narrator’s use of sentimentalism enables the readers to sympathise with the...

In Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Crake takes on the ultimate scientific challenge of recreating humanity. This includes both altering existing behaviors, such as the mating process, and adding new features, such as self healing. Additionally, Crake...

In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume successfully proposes three plausible responses any human may generate when considering the nature and existence of God, and personifies these responses through three characters. Subsequently,...

“One of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific” (Hansberry, To Be Young 128).

Ben Keppel notes that during the 1960s and 1970s, A Raisin in the Sun ...

Representations of social groups are often present in short stories, particularly aiming to convey an idea towards the reader. 'Going Home' (1986), by Archie Weller, a short story that follows a young successful Aboriginal man named Billy and his...

The Holocaust denial movement is perhaps one of the strangest and most nonsensical movements in the world. Unfortunately, the movement is becoming more and more prevalent throughout the world as fewer know - and even fewer learn - about the...

Poets of the Romantic era placed great importance on emotions and feelings of the individual, turning inwards to consider the power of the imagination and the freedom it provides. In fundamentally changing the focus of their poetry, Romantics...

There are multiple works of art discussed in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, including poems that the central character, David Lurie, teaches his class, dances, and Lurie’s opera. This brings up the question of why these works of art are included....

The poems “I Go Back to May 1937” and “Last Look”, both written by Sharon Olds, show how our relationships with loved ones can be complex. In “I Go Back to May 1937”, the speaker looks back at her parents in their college days. She thinks about...

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, an illusion refers to “the fact or condition of being deceived or deluded by appearances, or an instance of this; a mental state involving the attribution of reality to what is unreal” (“Illusion, n.”)....