Literature Analysis

The poem “Season” written by Wole Soyinka makes use of various poetic devices and techniques. The poem is set in the time spent waiting between autumn and winter and is seen through the eyes of corn garnered. In the poem, Soyinka depicts the feeling of the corn garnered and the fields he occupies. Primarily, this […]

Title of Building: Dancing House Name of Architect: Frank Gehry Date Completed: 1996 Illustration of Work: ? Frank Gehry. Dancing House. Prague, Czech Republic. http://www. columbia. edu/~beecher/prague/Dancing_House/0600/dancing_building_1. html. Part 1: Description of This Building Dancing House by Frank Gehry, was a building that was started in 1992 and was finished in 1996. The building obviously […]

Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare around 1594. The play Romeo and Juliet is about two start crossed lovers who were born into a world with an ‘ancient grudge’. This automatically leads to Romeo and Juliet’s death. This sorrowful play was performed in Globe Theatre as there was large number of people who […]

In this analysis, I aim to demonstrate my achievements in three areas of literary study: improving my reading skills, understanding and developing more complex metaphors, and finding my personal writing style. By discussing the critical dialogue and the thematic, structural, and linguistic elements of a text, I show my ability to engage with the text […]

In his novel “Dona Perfecta”, Benito Perez Galdos creates characters that the readers can connect with, namely Don Jose “Pepe” Rey, Rosario, and Dona Perfecta. Under his father’s command, Pepe Rey departs from his home to go to Orbajosa, the small town where his aunt, Dona Perfecta, resides. Being a recent engineering graduate, Pepe Rey […]

In his poem ‘Mending wall’, Robert Frost presents the idea to us of the physical labour involved in repairing a wall, and the significance of this, showing the effect it can have between people. This literal idea also hides a double meaning, presented to us through poetic techniques such as metaphors, imagery, structure and humour. […]

Individuals can evolve very quickly over time, often adopting contrasting principles and virtually transforming into distinct identities. This adjustment is a prevalent trait throughout human history, as people tend to change their features to adapt during challenging situations or periods of intense transformation. Likewise, Jem Finch in Harper Lee’s celebrated novella ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ […]

The poem “Annabel Lee”, written by Edgar Allan Poe, expresses mainly the emotion love. But also inscribed within it is grief, sadness, death, and jealousy. “Annabel Lee” consists of six stanzas, three with six lines, one with seven, and two with eight, with the rhyme pattern differing slightly in each one. The poem uses repetition and […]

Robert Coover’s “The Babysitter” tells the story of a single evening through the point of view of different characters, shifting voices every paragraph. Their stories are interconnected and overlapping to establish the events taken place that night: a babysitter takes care of the three children while their parents, the Tuckers, attend a friend’s party. Coover […]

Our Iceberg Is Melting is a rather unique and most certainly entertaining fable by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber. While the authors’ key intention was to portray an array of turbulent changes in the context of Eight-Step Change Model, the book also applies a multitude of other business theories to the concept of organizational change. […]

Everyone has different views of life. In our real society, there are people who want to be somebody, and people who just want to be nobody. From the songs of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, we can see how they choose to become somebody or nobody. Walt Whitman in “Song of myself” presents a large […]

1. In What sense did the narrator participate in her aunt’s punishment? The narrator participated in her aunt’s punishment by not speaking of her and acting, like the rest of her family, as if she had never existed. Even though she thought of her and wrote of her, she never tried to find out anything […]

This is the high-tension story of a woman whose life was changed by a few careless words. Even though Mary Turner had led a somewhat limited life in her sleepy South African town, she was happy until she overheard some friends say that she would never marry. At those words, her delicately balanced little world […]

Devil in the White City, an book written by Erik Larson, tells the true story of the construction of the 1893 Columbian Exposition World’s Fair in Chicago, which is considered the most significant fair in the United States. Larson also delves into the narrative of H. H., a psychopathic murderer. Holmes employed his World’s Fair […]

In The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri provides an account of the Ganguli family, an Indian American family of educated, middle-class Bengali immigrants. Torn between two cultures and two worlds, the Ganguli’s live in Suburban Massachusetts. Ashoke and Ashimi Ganguli have two children, Gogol and Sonia. The caste system in India impacts the lives of Ashoke and […]

Finn’s willingness to go along with the actions of Monus made an already bad situation worse. Finn as the CFO should not have allowed himself to be involved in financial frauds of any sort just to show a profit. Finn should taken control of the situation right then and told Monus what he was doing […]

The individuality and unique identity of a person are often the product of their experiences, whether positive or negative. This concept is deeply explored in the acclaimed novel A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews and the timeless bestseller Anne of Green Gables by L.M Montgomery. Both novels center around the protagonists’ quest for self-identification. With […]

In “The Sacrificial Egg”, the author, Chinua Achebe “presents the conflict between an African civilization called Igbo and Westernization, specifically European. ” (Joaquin, 2003) The protagonist, whose name is Julius Obi, is a product of European and African culture– he is a Western educated Igbo. The story begins in the empty market named Nkwo. Since […]

Great Expectations is a novel that was written by Charles Dickens and published in the late 19th century. It was firstly published in serial form in ‘All The Year Round’, which was Dickens weekly literary magazine. It was founded and owned by him and published between 1859 and 1895 throughout the UK. It is a […]

In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates Gatsby who is a man who over time, becomes great. He begins life as just an ordinary, lower-class, citizen. But Gatsby has a dream of becoming wealthy. After meeting Daisy, he has a reason to strive to become prominent. Throughout his life, Gatsby gains the […]

“How My Brother Noel Brought Home a Wife” is a short story written by Manuel Arguilla. It won first prize in the Commonwealth Literary Contest in 1940. Manuel Estabillo Arguilla (1911-1944) was an Ilokano writer in English. He is known for his popular short story “How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife,” which won […]

In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the story’s protagonist, Hester Prynne commits adultery and is forced to live her life with the scarlet letter “A” embroidered upon her chest. The outcome of Hester’s “unforgivable sin” is her daughter, Pearl who is seen as a demon and symbol of evil by all in […]