Literature Analysis

Tuesdays with Morrie, was based on a true story about friendship and lessons learned. It’s about a sports writer, Mitch and former sociology professor, Morrie, who is in his last days of life after being diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and their rekindled relationship after many years. They first met on the campus grounds […]

William Bell’s Crabbe is a novel filled with suspense, action and emotion. With the main character being a teenager that runs away from home, it makes for an intriguing story. Crabbe (Franklin) explains all of his thoughts and beliefs on school, parents and life in the course of the story. As a result, the story […]

Description of Dill in to Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960. Instantly successful, widely read in high schools and middle schools in the United States, it has become a classic of modern American literature winning the Pulitzer Prize.   Who is Dill in to Kill a Mockingbird?     Dill is a very […]

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare is one of the most famous and influential tragedies of all time. Shakespeare wrote Hamlet—and most of his other tragedies—at the beginning of his career in the early 1600s (Shakespeare’s Career). The tragedy genre was developed long before Shakespeare. A central idea of the tragedy […]

In The Odyssey by Homer, like in most ancient Greek stories, curiosity is frowned upon. Homer displays many tragic consequences due to curiosity to convey his definition of curiosity. One example of how curiosity killed the cat would be when Odysseus and his shipmates head home after their visit to Aiolia Island, and homer explains, […]

“The Strange Death of Silas Deane” by James West Davison and Mark Hamilton Lytle creates a new perspective on what people see history as. Although many people would define history as something that happened in the past, through “The Strange Death of Silas Deane”, the authors demonstrate that this everyday view on history can be […]

Anthropologist Margaret Mead addressed the differences in temperament found between men and women in her book Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935). In this study she concluded that sex has no bearing on social traits and the temperament of an individual. Her research looked at whether masculine or feminine traits are innate or […]

The world’s wife is a compilation of poems published in 1999 and written by Carol Ann Duffy, a modern feminist poet. It covers various myths in order to give women a voice. This includes the short monologue like poem: “Medusa”. How do metaphors, symbols and allegories contribute in clarifying the meanings of the poem? Primarily, […]

Carol Ann Duffy seems to ask political/feminist questions in the following poems and believes women to be partly responsible for mass production, industrialisation and technology. The women in Duffy’s poems are seen as obsessive (The Diet, Work) and not in control (the woman who shopped). All three poems seem to combine aspects of femininity into […]

According to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, love encounters obstacles and does not always proceed smoothly. Individuals frequently confront challenges in their relationships and recognize that these distinct qualities contribute to a resilient and enduring love. Love encompasses diverse unconventional aspects and is a complex phenomenon that defies predictability with its numerous possible outcomes. Literature […]

Albert Einstein’s analogy of life being similar to riding a bicycle and requiring constant progress to maintain balance is exemplified by the husband in Gayle Godwin’s “A Sorrowful Woman.” In the story, he skillfully handles his wife’s irrational demands, including cooking, cleaning, paying bills, and taking care of their three-year-old child. Even though he has […]

Montana 1948 is a story of debauchery and the abuse of power. It is also a story of great courage and decency. ’ Do you agree? Montana 1948 is a story about power and corruption. The story focuses on a dominating father, a guilty son and a courageous son, whose personalities and actions result in […]

“You left me” is an intriguingly concise poem by Emily Dickinson. Like many of her other works, the poem follows a tight ballad meter—iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. The rhyme is also very precise in the second and fourth lines of each stanza creating an easy to follow flow to the poem. This pattern gives […]

A long time ago a legendary story called “Beowulf” was told. It spoke of a man being stronger then any other man and killing horrible monsters for the Danes. Then in 2007 a 3D movie was released it also told of Beowulf and him fighting monsters for the Danes but the story and the movie […]

F. Scott Fitzgerald effectively conveyed multiple messages in The Great Gatsby through nine chapters, with a recurring focus on money. The setting of the 1920s highlighted how individuals obtained their wealth and determined their social circles. Society was divided into two classes – those who were born wealthy and those who had to work for […]

Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz is a novel about a street full of colorful Egyptians coping with life towards the end of World War II. The role of women in marriage and Egyptian society is clearly shown in the novel. The traditional gender roles in Egypt began to shift during the novel. Due to the […]

The book Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, first published in 1954, became a very successful novel over the years. In 2004, ABC first launched the hit TV show Lost. These two have extreme similarities between each other, and Lost would not exist without Lord of the Flies. The mix of intrigue, survival skills […]

Use of literary devices to enhance the mood of “Berenice” Famous author and poet Edgar Allan Poe is well known for his writing of ill-minded scenarios and grotesque circumstances. Poe, one of America’s most ailing writers, made use of many different literary devices to develop his popular, eerie, and suspenseful mood. In “Berenice” (1835), Edgar […]

Year of wonders the novel explores how people change by catastrophe such as the plague. The plague was brought to the town by cloths Anna is urged by Mr Mompellion to burn Viccars belongings and Anys Gowdie being a customer of his rejects his advice. ‘Burn it all! Burn it all! For the love of […]

World War I was known as “The Great War;” in which countries all around the globe participated in an extensive stalemate that lasted longer than any leader or countryman had ever anticipated. WWI had initially been thought to last through the Christmas of 1914; however, the world war persisted for 1500 days. During this time, […]

“Frailty, Thy name is woman,” quoted by Shakespeare himself, alluding to the claimed inherent weakness of womens’ character. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, women are portrayed in a very sexual manner and are looked down upon, which is a result of the Prince’s deep seated issues. One issue that Hamlet faces is misogyny towards women, which is […]

According to F. R. Leavis, as mentioned in Montgomery et al’s “Ways of Reading”, a novel must possess specific qualities such as complexity, aesthetic unity, literary language, subject-matter, and canonical status to be considered a literary “classic”[2]. John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” exemplifies all these attributes and is regarded as having intrinsic value. In […]