Newest Literature Essays

Receiving international attention upon publication, Phillis Wheatley’s “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770” introduced the literary world to the influence of her words, specifically her thoughts regarding death. The eulogized...

In the book of Acts, Luke recounts numerous speeches, many of which come from Peter and Paul while giving defenses of themselves and of the new Christian faith. He composes Acts in such a way that the attentive reader may draw significant...

On the surface, the poem “Notice” by Steve Kowit kind of is about a for all intents and purposes young man whose jeans ripped, which definitely is fairly insignificant. But beneath the surface, the poem is about the untimely death of a friend....

In Alice Walker’s Everyday Use the construct of cultural identity is addressed through the characters Dee, Maggie, and Mama. It addresses the struggle of seeking an identity as a black person in America in view of the stigma from slavery and...

In her short story, Katherine Mansfield a carefully sculpted account of the changing of seasons as youth grows older and is replaced by new generation. Our protagonist, Miss Brill, is a self-appreciating elderly woman who views herself as a...

“Redeployment” is a collection of twelve short, fiction stories that give very accurate accounts of many soldier’s experiences in the war. Written by an Iraq war veteran, Phil Klay, this collection of stories reflects Klay’s own experiences...

It is not an overstatement to label Twilight (2005) as a global cultural phenomenon that revamped young adult literature and inspired new movies, shows, and novels all about supernatural teenagers. This is in part what makes Meyer’s latest...

A commonly reported symptom of clinical depression is a warped sense of time. Everything can feel like its moving in super slow motion. In fact, depression warps everything around it like a star warps space-time. Not only your sense of duration...

Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is unique in many ways, perhaps the most significant being that it was composed over the course of his entire life, a fact that is very significant when one considers this unprecedented opportunity to witness the...

Conflict is a polysomic notion that shaped by a contradictory relationship between individualism and cultural solidarity. Todd Strasser's The Wave (1981) explores both internal and external conflicts that arise within and between characters as a...

In feudal China, women were supposed to embrace domesticity as homemakers and wives while only the men were certified to participate in the army. The ubiquitous patriarchal psychology in this era obligated women to be subservient to men, their...

Lost in Translation as a romance film that subverts the typical romantic tropes of the genre offers a new take on affection and the power of the unspoken. The 2001 film focuses on the interaction between two central characters, actor Bob Harris...

In Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy, Lady Philosophy comes to console Boethius, who is imprisoned for execution and despairing of his fate. After a discourse on her own nature, Lady Philosophy begins Book II by describing Fortune...

The reader is immediately informed of the nature of the poem by the title: ‘Love Songs In Age’ promises a sense of progression, maturity and, naturally, love. The gentle, nostalgic tone Larkin develops is enhanced by the use of a third person...

Manipulation of Language in A Handmaid’s Tale and A Clockwork Orange

Subject: English Category 1

Research Question: How do Anthony Burgess and Margaret Atwood’s manipulate language in order to communicate the respective messages of A Clockwork...

In an interview with The Millions, Teju Cole was quick to state that Salinger’s American classic The Catcher in the Rye is “one of the not-often-noticed shadows” (Morton, 2014) of his debut novel, Open City. At face value this statement simply...

Shreds of Tenderness is a riveting drama written by John Ruganda who is Uganda's best-known playwright. Ruganda deployed the use of various stylistic devices in the drama, which enhanced his developing of the conflict and presentation of the...

The Confessions by Saint Augustine is a book composed of three main, extremely distinct sections. The first is a narrative-style part, telling of his life up to the point of writing The Confessions and confessing to his sins along the way. The...

Although critics describe Bride and Prejudice as “a Bollywood-style version of Jane Austen’s novel” (Brockes, 2004), the film is much more than Pride and Prejudice “transplanted…to India” (Gritten, 2004). If the adaptation was simply a transplant...

One of the more prominent themes in Dante’s Commedia is his repeated use of animal symbolism to either signify a certain vice or virtue or to draw a comparison between a particular animal and humanity. This symbolism is used especially throughout...

Dreams and dreaming permeate Murakami’s works, and After the Quake is no exception, so much so that we can witness layers of dreams in his fiction. Such layering is reminiscent of the dream-within-a-dream-within-dreams dynamic of Christopher Nolan...

Throughout history, regardless of changing contexts, individuals have employed various forms of art to effect political change and expose corruptions within society. W.H Auden’s selection of poems including “Spain” (1937) and “In Memory of W.B....

In the short story In the Penal Colony, Franz Kafka utilizes his characters and their dialogue to foreshadow future events in the story and to relate the individual characters to the story’s overarching theme of corruption and justice. Throughout...

The statement that “[The Circle is] not a perfect piece of cinema” (Sydell) can be considered a gross understatement. The film “met with derisive reviews” (White, May 2017) even “bombing in its first week of release” (White, May 2017) “gross[ing]...