Literature Analysis

He begins seeing the darkness around him which is symbolic of sin, and he sees his wife’s ribbon in the tree which Is symbolic of his need of her and fear of losing her. He is mostly afraid of the sin In himself which he unravels as he goes deeper into the forest. HIS fellow […]

Truth versus Immortality in John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” In John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” the speaker admires the immortality and excitement of life depicted on an urn, before realizing that the truth of life and mortality is preferable to static eternal existence. The speaker suggests that the young figures depicted […]

? ‘When No Man Was His Own’: Magic and Self-Discovery in The Tempest In the article, ‘When No Man Was His Own’: Magic and Self-Discovery in The Tempest, Ellen R. Belton explains, in detail, the way Prospero’s magic helps characters find their true identities (128). Belton writes that Prospero’s magic has two sides: manipulation of […]

The play begins with a badly shelled Caucasian village, the members of the two Kilchos villages are sitting in a circle, smoking and drinking wine. There are also a few soldiers among them and the expert of the state reconstruction commission from the capital. They are having a political meeting. Scene two starts with the […]

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in the Georgian era and died on June 9, 1870 during the Victorian era. He wrote Great Expectations, which is considered to be one of his best works, from December 1, 1860 to August 1861. Charles Dickens’ book Great Expectations was influenced by the treatment of children […]

E.M.Forster wrote ‘A Room with a View’ and it was published in 1908. Critically this novel has been treated as a fine example of travel literature, character development and comedy. Forster’s novel was immediately popular with early readers, as he wanted to offer his reader a significantly different perspective of females poised on the edge […]

James Baldwin’s “Another Country” and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” both portray to the reader the experiences of isolated individuals. Despite their dates of publication being nearly one hundred and fifty years apart, the two novels share numerous similarities in their depiction of the “outsider”, as the characters of Rufus and Victor both seem to isolate themselves […]

Benjamin Johnson, more known as Ben Johnson, was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare and was one of the most learned men in Elizabethan times. He was born in London in 1572 and lost his father just a month before his birth. He was no stranger to […]

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill dramatises contemporary life in 1980s Britain depicting a time of change and shifting priorities and expectations as far as women were concerned within society. The period was characterised by Britain’s first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Yet unlike the country’s political agenda, Theatre was not driven by a female force. […]

he novel Eugene Onegin was written by Alexander Pushkin between 1825 and 1832, and was published in its final single volume form in 1837. At the time the book was written, Russia had undergone the reforms of Peter the Great and Europe had a great influence on the ideas, styles and even language of Russia’s […]

‘The Bell Jar’ by Sylvia Plath and ‘Oranges are not the only fruit’ by Jeanette Winterson are two quite diverse novels in more respects than one. ‘The Bell Jar’ is a semi-autobiographical critically acclaimed novel that explores the effects of insanity in the form of depression on a gifted academic, who was popular amongst her […]

Ousmane’s Black Docker is a tragic and moving novel centred on one black man’s struggle to find the liberation, equality and fraternity promised by the modern society of mid 20th century Marseille and Paris. Diaw Falla, originally from Senegal, slaves away on the docks to further his passion for writing and aspirations for becoming an […]

It seems in the beginning of the twenty-first century that there are many challenges facing the justice system. One of those challenges is our prison system and it costs to the taxpayer. Questions are being thrown at the politicians in abundance in hopes for an answer, but to little or no avail. Something is stopping […]

Toni Morrison’s Beloved exemplifies the importance of both narrative methods and structure, in addition to the story itself. The opening line, “124 was spiteful,” introduces the reader to a unique approach where the story is started in the middle. Toni Morrison intentionally filled Beloved with “baby’s venom”1 to create a confrontation with the incomprehensible2. Her […]

Dmitri Gurov is a man living within the confines of a stifled marriage. By spending his years as the lesser force in his relationship with his wife, he begins to fill emasculated and unimportant. In order to regain some control over his own life, Dmitri redefines his view of women and seeks out ways to […]

Fairytales occupy a very important part of both children’s literature and indeed their education. They can be fantastical and contain hidden morals which may be used by adults to warn children of dangers in society “the entire story is usually made to demonstrate a moral point” (Bottigheimer. 152). In today’s society fairytales are often associated […]

In “The management of grief”, a story by Bharati Mukherjee the function of the narrator Shaila Bhave’s journey from Canada to Ireland and through India is a phase of transition from the feeling of denial of the tragic death of her husband and two sons in a plane crash to the slow acceptance of reality […]

James Joyce’s views on marriage and the relationship between men and woman are emphatically expressed throughout Dubliners, his collection of short stories, but are particularly foregrounded in my two chosen stories from the married and celibate sections of the mature-life group: ‘A Little Cloud’ and ‘A Painful Case’.These narratives present to the reader two different […]

The story of The Old Man and the Sea centers around a character named Santiago who encounters numerous challenges while pursuing and safeguarding his ultimate goal, the marlin. In Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago confronts numerous daunting challenges, which ultimately lead to his personal triumph. Although his initial goal was to […]

Canterbury Tales: The Monk Corruption within the Catholic Church has been an ongoing issue for centuries. In medieval times, the Church was known for hypocrisy, abuse of power, and compromising morality. Geoffrey Chaucer portrayed this through The Monk, a character in the Canterbury Tales. The Monk joins a pilgrimage, possibly motivated by his love for […]

In “Harlem,” by Langston Hughes, the speaker wants the reader to consider the dangers of postponing their dreams. Through similes of imagery, he emphasizes the importance to consider dreams to be as real as flesh and vital as food. “Harlem” is a free verse poem consisting of eleven lines, which are broken into four stanzas. […]

On the Waterfront was released in 1954. The film received eight academy awards securing it’s place as an American cult classic. The film is about Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando), a young boxer-turned longshoreman who struggles to stand up to the corrupt Dockers Union with the help of Edie Doyle (Eva Marie Saint), and Father Barry […]