Literature Essays

To gain insight into a culture, it’s crucial to comprehend their diverse art forms such as music, visual arts, theatre, and others. Literature is an essential medium that aids in comprehending a culture. According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, literature is composed of written works in prose or verse that convey ideas with lasting significance and possess […]

Symbolism is employed in “The Yellow Wallpaper” to emphasize the constraints that women faced during the 19th century, such as limited employment choices, a lack of voting rights, and restricted ability to voice opinions on societal issues. In the 19th century, women faced several limitations on their rights. They were not allowed to speak publicly […]

“Ex-Basketball Player,” by John Updike is the poem that struck me this week. It is about a man who once had great potential but never followed through with it. Flick Webb is the focus of this poem; he was a basketball star in high school quite some time ago, but nowadays he merely pumps gas […]

In How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life by Barbara Kingsolver she discusses how she figured herself out in High school with the help of a Librarian. Kingsolver went to a High school in Kentucky and the school she attended was poorly funded. Kingsolver only had one class choice in school, which was Home Ec, […]

James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” portrays the theme of suffering through the struggle between two brothers attempting to comprehend each other. The story highlights the challenges faced by African-Americans in the mid-twentieth century, where their societal status was determined by race. Though the brothers seem dissimilar initially, Sonny’s brother starts comprehending his sibling’s peculiar ways towards […]

Upon finishing James Joyce’s ‘Eveline’, my initial response was one of discontentment, wondering if that was all there was to the story. The cause for this dissatisfaction stemmed from inadequate depiction of vital components like Eveline’s father, her mother’s passing, and her brother Ernest’s fate. My impression of Eveline is that her life and the […]

In this classic novella, which established him as one of the world’s most celebrated writers, John Steinbeck tells the story of two friends in 1930’s California. John Steinbeck wrote a naturalistic novel that dealt with three powerful and universal themes, imperative in the latter success of the novel. These themes were the value of dreams […]

Jane Eyre The novel Jane Eyre is a story about a stoic woman who fights her entire life through many trials and tribulations until she finds true love and achieves an almost nirvana-like state of being. The manner, in which Charlotte Bronte writes, her tone and diction especially, lends its self to the many purposes […]

Ken Kesey was born on September 17th, 1935 in La Junta, Colorado. While he was in a fellowship to Stanford’s Writing Program he worked at a Californian Veterans’ Administration hospital in the psychiatric ward as a night guard (“KnowledgeNotes Study Guide”, par. 1). Kesey’s first published book was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which […]

Compare and contrast the sisters, Elinor and Marianne, in Sense and Sensibility to Cecily and Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest. Be sure to consider the personalities of each woman as you analyze how the demands and requirements of courtship dominate her attention and her interactions with others. Elinor and Marianne Dashwood VS Cecily […]

In D. H.’s “Rocking Horse Winner,” Lawrence delves into the greed inherent in humanity and the lengths individuals will go to appease others, drawing parallels between his work and the introductions of traditional fairy tales. In fact, the opening line reads, “there was a woman who was beautiful…”. H. Lawrence utilizes traditional storytelling techniques to […]

The piece of literature “The American Wilderness: Why It Matters” expresses Robert F Kennedy, Jr’s concern about the American Wilderness. Within this piece of literature, Kennedy is addressing the general American public. This piece of literature was not meant for anyone but Americans. You can see this by the usage of his language. He continually […]

“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”: A Glimpse into Nathaniel Hawthorne’s View Being a classmate of with such greats which included future president Franklin Pierce and future poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow one could make the assumption that Nathaniel Hawthorne would be greatly successful as well. A great writer too many, Nathaniel Hawthorne has become one of America’s greatest […]

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift was written in 1720 as a satirical piece to highlight the child abuse inflicted on Irish catholic children by well to do English protestants. Swifts native heritage of Ireland put him in an excellent position as an observer and, eventually, a commentator, on […]

The Novel “The Last Unicorn” by Peter S. Beagle is a timeless classic story about love and loss. The story has a mesmerizing hold on the reader, drawing you in on its beautifully simplistic storyline. A unicorn learns that she is the last of her kind and sets out to find out what happened to […]

Analysis of “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” The poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” by John Keats is a poem full of imagination, dreams, romanticism, and mystery. It tells us of a knight wandering about the cold bare countryside, where he meets a mystical woman. It is hard to tell from the poem whether or […]

A Commentary on ‘Swifts’ by Ted Hughes The poem ‘Swifts’ by Ted Hughes states its topic -birds – in the title. The entire poem is laden with bright, exciting imagery, and appears to have little hidden meaning- it merely illustrates the behaviour and movement of the swifts. The first line of the poem sets the […]

In The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Brecht combined the theme of motherhood with revolutionary ideas about theatre. ’ Discuss. Bertolt Brecht’s play The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a social and political commentary, focusing on justice and motherhood. Using revolutionary theatrical techniques and devices to reinforce his theme, Brecht attempts to free his audience from the constraints […]

More than anything else, imaginative journeys are about the process of speculation. Do you agree? Argue your point of view. Imaginative journeys take us from the reality now and transfer us into unreal existences or different worlds that not only entertain us, but help us to learn more about the world we inhabit and ourselves. […]

Literature reflects the culture of a nation. It can serve as a tool to express a feeling and emotion. Remember during the Spanish regime, Rizal exploited the functions of literature. His two novels, Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo contained a lot of subversive themes that sparked the revolution and consequently the victory over the […]

In the poem “Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day? ” the author describes his lover to the unrivaled beauty that is summer. The season has made itself a good reputation for being very warm, comfortable, and relaxing. Many other lyricists, artists, and poets have described summer as being “too short” or have made […]

‘It is often suggested that the source for many of William Wordsworth’s poems lies in the pages of Dorothy Wordsworth’s journal. Quite frequently, Dorothy describes an incident in her journal, and William writes a poem about the same incident, often around two years later. ’ It is a common observation that whilst Dorothy is a […]