Newest Literature Essays

Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck” explores the fight for feminism at the height of the Civil Rights period of the 1960’s and 1970’s. The poem’s metaphors are used to create a powerful sense of symbolism the audience can relate to, along with...

Duck Soup is a political satire film directed by Leo McCarey in 1933; it stars the four Marx brothers who were renowned for their work in comedy. The film begins with a wealthy widow, Mrs. Teasdale, who inherits a large fortune from her late...

Typically, books have more similarities to real life than most people realize. One example is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins; here, Collins writes of a dystopia where a tyrannical government controls the districts and subsequently the people...

Throughout the history of mankind, humanity has bared witness to a myriad of atrocious practices that have had an adverse effect on individuals despite the fact that they do not speak up against said practices. The Hunger Games perfectly captures...

In The Big Sleep, Chandler constructs various locations that resonate with the characters and storyline, but also these locations themselves transform into characters with their own independent attributes and motives. The success of these...

Many religious traditions teach that the world is fallen or corrupt, affected at every turn by man’s sin. However, psychological research shows that people tend to believe that the world is a just place, where people get what they deserve....

Before modernization, people were accustomed to a slow-paced life, free of industrial turmoil; however, the modernization and industrialization of the world made this comfort turn into fear and mistrust in an instant. In response to this extreme...

Is there something in nothing? Is there nothing in nothing? Throughout The Tragedy of King Lear, written by William Shakespeare, readers hear multiple references to the word “nothing.” Although nothingness is commonly regarded as something...

When one hears the word Satan, he thinks of an opposition to God. The name alone conjures up evil thoughts in most peoples’ heads. In the epic poem, Paradise Lost, a tale of the creation story, however this feeling of evil is quickly misplaced....

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is not compiled like most gothic novels; rather it is compiled of many different sources and mediums.These sources are used to tell the history of Count Dracula, a rich vampire, and his evil attempt to create more...

Tennessee Williams portrays the character Stella as an adaptable character who has changed to fit in with her new surroundings in order to survive. She is also portrayed as a vulnerable possession, quite primal and driven by desire but also as a...

Romanticism was a literary, artistic and an intellectual movement that originated in Europe approximately at the end of the 18th century. This movement was originally a revolt against the neo-classical movement which focused on rationality and...

The criminal underworld was an elaborate network in Old London introducing new crime stories and entertainment such as Newgate Calendars. The Calendars were nonfiction crime reports from the 18th century that always ended in a lesson for the...

“You see but you do not observe” explains Holmes to a frustrated Watson, as he can’t figure out how Holmes comes to his conclusion (Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia). This seems to be the common scenario throughout Doyle’s stories, as more often than...

The definition of a modern-day hero is seen as “a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities” (Merriam-Webster). This definition is very similar to the way the Anglo-Saxons defined what a hero is....

Since 1801, Ireland was under British control due to the abolition of the Irish Parliament by the United Kingdom. Several uprisings had been attempted during the reign of the British, but none of them were necessarily note-worthy until Easter...

A defining characteristic of the Latin American literary tradition is the concept of magical realism, and Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez is often thought to be the father of magical realism as it is understood today. Even though magical...

In his tragedy Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare successfully engages his audience in a variety of emotions. Although these emotions are often negative, they still provide a cathartic release for the reader. Catharsis is defined as “a sudden emotional...

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino is not a traditional novel with a specific genre, plot, and style of rhetoric. Instead, it is filled with unique literary techniques such as a frame story encompassing a collection of short stories within each...

In “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”, Fitzgerald illustrates a metaphorical Heaven and Hell through the Washington estate and birthplace of John T. Unger. The ambiguous nature of these two important biblical concepts is distorted, yet apparent...

Traditional ideals, particularly in Asian culture value male superiority in the household whilst the women, has to assume secondary roles in the family. Confucianism as the foundation of most Asian regions since the Han dynasty in China has...

A cultural and artistic movement blossomed in England from 1588 to 1666 called the English Renaissance. The two most dominant forms of literature of the English Renaissance were drama and poetry. In the 17th century, poetry became more...

In Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White juxtaposes a conventional children’s story surrounding the anthropomorphism of farm animals with relatively difficult concepts such as death in order to call readers to question their own faith and morality. This is...