Newest Literature Essays

In "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time", the relationship between Ed and Christopher is hindered not by Christopher's Asperger's Syndrome but by the perceived limitations brought by this. Through the development of their...

The River Between, a novel by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, is set during the pre-colonial eras of the1930s amongst the Gikuyu tribe of the Bantus living in Central Kenya. In the story, a clear rift is developed between two villages, Kameno and Makuyu, the...

In Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending, the question of responsibility is one that deeply troubles Tony; it is one that drives him to investigate into the truth of past events, which comes up against his own alleged memory of them. Yet, at the...

Culture as a way of life of a given society that is forwarded from one generation to the next has undergone drastic changes in African societies following the colonization period by European powers. The facets mostly affected include political...

Posthumanism paradoxically reconciles the antagonistic self and other in Thomas Pynchon’s V. through a mechanical transformation of human desire. In revealing these features of the narrative, analysis must draw on the mechanical transformations of...

Woman: a singular word, signifying the collective population of the many. The title Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman suggests the wrongs committed against not only one specific woman, but against all women as a whole. Mary Wollstonecraft deliberately...

When the first cinematic instalment of Trainspotting came out in 1996, certainly nobody in the production crew expected it to become an instantly huge success in Great Britain and, not long after the premiere, worldwide as well. The now iconic...

Each of the brothers in Dostoevesky's The Brothers Karamazov have negative or fatal characteristics that set them apart from the rest of the characters. When broken down, the name Karamazov literally means 'black smear,' which alludes to the...

In The Marble Faun; or The Romance of Monte Beni, one of the major themes investigated by Hawthorne is the double nature of human beings. The dual nature of man, who occupies “a middle ground between spirit and flesh, between the ideal and the...

More than a thousand years ago, Plato wrote of a cave in which three prisoners were chained in such a position where they could only see the wall in front of them. This being their only perceived reality, they came to believe that the shadows they...

Slapstick comedy warrants more than two chuckles and a snort, courtesy of Chaplin’s decades of work that gave the world humorous content packed with a philosophical punch. Regardless of liking him or not, his films irrefutably remain some of the...

Recounting the tale of the beloved poet Konstantin Perov, Nabokov cultivates a compelling short story seemingly isolated from a political or social motive; however, in the concluding paragraph, the reader’s expectations swivel upon Nabokov’s...

According to The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and many philosophers during the reformative Fin de Siècle era, human duality, a constant struggle between good and evil within a singular human is a natural phenomenon that prevails within...

One can look to the pariahs and outcasts of the world to understand the attributes that have been deemed unworthy in our world. In the novel, The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, Pecola Breedlove is continually alienated from her community. Her...

It seems to be an innate human need to belong, to be a part of something, a part of a group of people that have formed a strong and reliable bond. In the novel Harvest, by Jim Crace, a fire set at the local manor house sets of a chain of events...

In Homer’s Iliad, Andromache expresses her feelings of abandonment and grief after her husband, Hektor, tragically dies in the Trojan War. In Book 22, the narrator uses word choice in order to display Andromache’s feelings of abandonment, while...

As a comedy, The Clouds by Aristophanes brings attention to the uses of rhetoric and intellectualism–symbolized by the Sophistry. In an argument between the “right” and “wrong,” we see a debate between a new sophist education (the wrong) and the...

Throughout King Lear, characters intrinsically desire happiness, using other pursuits instrumentally to achieve their final goal of personal satisfaction. Through this quest, Shakespeare makes it clear that in order for one to find happiness, one...

It is no new exposé the disconcerting truths in the history of women in which the facets of female identity have been subject to mental disorder diagnoses that otherwise do not apply to their male counterparts. Particularly in the 20th century,...

The process of discovery is often catalyzed by a provocative environment which compels the individual’s opposition to existing values, engendering the realization of one’s own ideas, inherently encouraging the formation of renewed perceptions of...

Composers draw on their political and social milieu in the representations of people and politics which align with their contextual purpose and hence, such representations are inherently manipulated to serve a particular agenda. Such is...

“Words”, written by Dana Gioia, is a beautiful concoction of elements that are crucial in composing a poem. Poetry is considered a form of art, as it incorporates different elements into it, which differentiates it from traditional text. When...