Newest Literature Essays

The film Closely Watched Trains is characterized by its humor primarily at the expense of Milos, a young guard at a train station in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. The use of humor along with sexual experiences in the film provide insight into life...

The philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Albert Camus confront the meaninglessness of existence in unique fashions. Nietzsche’s The Gay Science utilizes short paragraphs discussing particular existentialist themes such as the death of god and...

William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and its adaptation, Hag-seed, by modern novelist, Margaret Atwood collides two contexts together into the one tale. The key illusions created by Prospero and Felix with aid of Ariel and 8Handz prompts penitent...

Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose is a drama based on the true systems and ideals put in place within the American Justice system. The 12 characters are all symbolic of the different aspects of western society. The story shows some of the flaws...

The most appealing aspect of the Gothic genre is its ability to scare the reader, without actually having a physical or harmful affect on her. However, in order to inflict terror upon the reader, the author must create realistic settings,...

One’s life is shaped as a cause of on the effect from others. For instance, if a teenage boy’s mother and friend give off a negative effect, the boy, Conrad, will begin to feel depressed inside and begin to reject himself. This means that...

The liberal arts prides itself upon an education rooted in philosophy and literature, taking cues from the earliest subjects and forms of education within the Western Tradition. This tradition has been handed down through the course of over...

In the poem, ‘The Trees’, Larkin uses a cyclical ABBA rhyme scheme within each stanza to contrast the life cycle of trees with the life cycle of humans. In doing so, he is able to explore the fragility of life and the inevitability of death. His...

Rainsford and General Zaroff are the protagonist and antagonist of “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. The story follows the idea of the most dangerous hunting game, where Rainsford must survive three nights of getting hunted by General...

In The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle concerns himself with eudaimonia, the concept of a happy and fulfilling life. Eudaimonia is gained from meaningful happiness, which in turn in achieved through virtuous acts. Greek culture often favored the...

In “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter, point of view is used to show Granny Weatherall’s path to death. The people around Granny, such as Cornelia and Doctor Harry, don’t truly understand what she’s going through. Although...

An individual’s behavior and motivations is a complex phenomenon prominently shaping the notion of human experiences incorporated in texts through the use of a character’s expression, paradoxes and inconsistencies reflecting an individual’s drive,...

A comparative study of prescribed texts generates insightful conversations between and within texts. How does the textual conversation between Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Daldry’s The Hours capture the dynamic nature of the individual experience?...

In Hindu culture, it is believed that one is reborn into multiple and varied lives. While reading The Bhagavad-Gita, however, it can become confusing to decipher whether one endurs a never-ending life cycle or if this cycle can be stopped, and...

In her novel A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan addresses the illusion of attaining a falsified variation of reality (a gilded outlook on life's "Point B"), in addition to the impossibility of relinquishing responsibility for a conflicted...

The concept of ‘answering back’ is a loose one which describes texts responding to other texts. It is connected to the idea of “the empire...writ[ing] back to a centre” (Ashcroft et al, p6) which is typically associated with a post-colonial text...

As we race toward more sophisticated forms of virtual reality, its worth considering the work of Stanley Kubrick. He spent his career probing and solving the questions of immersive storytelling in ways that still remain unique. More than any other...

The film Bonnie and Clyde (1967, dir. Arthur Penn) is more than an escapist fantasy that lets the audience root for the bad guys. It is a groundbreaking example of American cinema, one that can also be used to construct a historiography of...

Shakespeare is perhaps the best-known name in the world. Naturally so, since his plays have been a part of the canon for a long time, with Julius Caesar among them. There have been thousands of adaptations of Julius Caesar let alone Shakespeare’s...

War films tend to adhere to the common trope of heroism or courage by combatants in the face of impossible adversity while displaying unshaken patriotism. Rarely do these films display the overwhelming dread that comes with facing one’s own...

The summer of 1816 in Geneva was a rather sublime and therefore inspirational season. The weather was so harsh and unpredictable that it ushered a group of remarkably talented people around the hearth instead of roaming the dangerous Alps. Being...

In the era of postmodernity that we live in today, the ideas of distinguished philosophers still have a lasting legacy that is apparent in many of the established foundations that are the cornerstones of our world. Thomas More and Francesco...

Generic plurality is a matter of political statement for Rushdie. Intertextuality is an integral part of his historiographical metafiction. A variety of generic modes, with their points of origins both Asian and Euro-American, interpenetrate and...

It is an incredibly common proverb that money cannot buy happiness. Most individuals agree that while money may be able to fulfill physical needs, it cannot fulfill psychological needs. Edward Arlington Robinson indicates this precept in his poem...