Literature Analysis

In the novel, Purple Hibiscus, Adichie clearly portrays the conflicting oppression of Kambili’s patriarchal household – where she is ordered to follow a strict ‘schedule’ – to the realisation of an almost ‘holiday’ like freedom she is exposed to when visiting Aunty Ifeoma and her family. In this extract, the author also intentionally expresses the […]

The contemporary designer whose design philosophy best reflects Evan’s analysis of McQueen’s representations on the theme of ‘Victimisation’ is the label Victor & Rolf. Victor & Rolf’s design philosophy is ‘originality and traditions, glamour, avant-garde, conceptual- couture’ (FashionTraveler. com, 2011:1). The Victor & Rolf collection I have chosen from is Autumn/Winter 2008/2009 in order to […]

Niccolo Ammaniti demonstrates in his popular novel, ‘I’m Not Scared’, the role fear plays in people’s lives and their respective decisions. He discusses how fear is able to manipulate key character’s moral instincts and distort their interpretations of what is right. Fear is shown to be an extremely powerful underlying contributor to many of the […]

In the novel Motorcycles and Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor, a community exists that is disjointed and lacking intimate connection between members. Nanabush is called into the community and utilizes chaos to create order and an application of the Marxist concept of creative destruction presents a newly formed community of First Nations people from old […]

As the architects of Gilead knew, to institute an effective tolitarian sytem or indeed any system at all you must offer some benefits and freedoms, at least to a privileged few, in return for those you remove. In a tolitarian state, Atwood suggests, that people would endure oppression willingly as long as they could receive […]

It’s a great way to connect with family and friends. Why should we ban it? Facebook. You can socialize and talk to your loved ones and friends. Games, kids love them. People need to realize, that not everyone is stupid and inappropriate on Facebook. Paragraph 1 If we banned Facebook, how do people talk with […]

In W. O. Mitchell’s novel, Who Has Seen The Wind, there are many similarities and differences to be found between the main character, Brian O’Connal and the mysterious Young Ben. The Young Ben is known to be a loner, the boy of the town drunk. Normally the Young Ben would keep to himself; he never […]

In Shakespeare’s Othello, the character of Iago is constructed to demand the audience’s complicity despite the corrupt nature of his actions. an Elizabethan audience may have responded in a negative fashion to Iago’s manipulative behaviour but in contrast with this, the post Freudian audience would be fascinated by the psychological aspect of his character. Iago […]

‘Song of Hope’ is a poem written by Oodgeroo Nuccal (Kath Walker) an Aboriginal Australian. The piece is classified as Aboriginal Australian literature. It was published in the 1960’s. The purpose of the text is to give hope in a new beginning after the events involving the racial tension between the Aboriginals and the white […]

What does this effect do for the tone of the book? Steinbeck foreshadowed the pivotal events based on Lennie’s psychological structure, innocence, brute strength and the pure brotherly love he holds for George. This therefore gives an overall depressing tone of the book with barely any positive events. Steinbeck first foreshadowed the pivotal events of […]

Szymborska’s poem, “Brueghel’s Two Monkeys,” starts in an odd way. The reader is thrust straight into the scene of an exam, which at first seems all too familiar. However, Szymborska surprises the reader when the voice says what she dreams about as she takes the final exam, “two monkeys, chained to the floor. ” This […]

‘Writers often experiment with narrative devices and structures in order to challenge readers’ expectations of genre and their view of the outside world’ Compare and contrast your two texts in light of this comment Genre is generally defined as a category of composition, characterized by a number of similarities in form, style or subject matter. […]

Hannah, a teenager, moved to a new town only to be faced with classmates she couldn’t trust. These unfaithful peers spread rumors about her, damaging her reputation. Seeking comfort, Hannah joined a poetry class in search of happiness but to no avail. Feeling ignored and unloved, she considered suicide as her next step. In both […]

UNESCO instituted World Teacher’s Day on October 5. However, why wait for Teachers’ Day to come around? We don’t need a special occasion to express our affection towards a teacher. So did Mary Loudon by writing “Doreen Pope”, a hymn to an inspirational teacher. In this descriptive essay she pays tribute to the greatness of […]

Recently, I have read a very intriguing poem. It is called “Centerfold” and is written by Ada Limón.While reading it,I could not stop thinking thatthis poem can be about every teenager. They look at pretty ladies in the magazines imagining that one day they would meet or become gorgeous ladies with velvet skin and perfect […]

“Ozymandias” is a sonnet written by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. In the poem, the author meets a traveler from another country who explains that he once saw a statue of Ramesses the Great (also known as Ozymandias), and on the pedestal, the words “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my […]

In Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path,” the character Phoenix Jackson is introduced. Phoenix Jackson is an uneducated, African-American woman without any family besides her sick grandson. Phoenix is the hero of this story and fits the role well by delivering much-needed medicine to her grandson. Phoenix shows many distinct traits that reveal her to be […]

The father is able to locate underground water sources by using a forked alder branch. The father seems to think that formal education is not as useful as the information he can pass to his son. This is evident in the following quotations: “After I started going to school my father scarcely talked any more”  […]

In Shakespearean sonnets (also known as English sonnets), all poems are written about one thing; love. Each sonnet consists of fourteen lines. A sonnet also consists of an iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables. The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet. An […]

Junto al Pasig (Sa tabi ng Pasig) a one-act zarzuela in Spanish written by the Philippine national hero, Jose Rizal, was staged by the Academy of Spanish Literature members on December 8, 1880. Rizal wrote it to honor Nuestra Senora dela Paz y Buenviaje de Antipolo (Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage). Even when […]

During the period in time covered in Arc of Justice the Great Migration is in full swing. Myriads of blacks are leaving the South and Jim Crow in search of work and opportunity. The story begins in 1925 Detroit, when Dr. Ossian Sweet attempts to move his family out of the ghetto into a bungalow […]

What was the last mistake you made that really ruined things for you? In the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, Mary Maloney the protagonist is seen as the average house wife living, until she murders her husband, Patrick Maloney, a police officer with a frozen leg of lamb. Mary discovers about […]