Many literary works such as Mary Shelleyâs Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus have addressed the ethical question of whether creating life involves some measure of responsibility for that existence. Victor Frankensteinâs creation of the monster is shown in the book as an ethically ambiguous act since it presents issues regarding...
Othello is one of the playâs central figures, possessing distinct qualities but changing in the course of events. At the beginning of the play, this character is distinguished only by his positive traits, describing him as a brave and respected general. The main expressive features of this character are calmness,...
If someone feels that they have been wronged, it is difficult to forgive the wrongdoer and seek revenge instead. In the story the Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe shows how revenge can be a compelling emotion in a personâs life. This story is about how one man takes his...
Introduction There is often a debate among the new historicist critics whether ethnicity was a major factor in the play or not in the Shakespearean play Othello. Othello is a play based on jealousy, revenge, and war. The new historicists try to find any evidence that could support their view....
Introduction The main characters of Nella Larsen’s novel Passing are two black American women whose identities are primarily performance-based and who can pass as White. Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield, the novel’s protagonists, take advantage of the fact that they “pass” as white. There are both psychological and physical repercussions...
Introduction âA Rose for Emilyâ is a 1930 short story written by William Faulkner that is considered a classic tale of the South. It tells the story of a young woman, Emily, struggling with the changing times and not being able to adapt to them. The story is narrated by...
Introduction Shakespeareâs play Hamlet depicts the strategic role women play in society. At the beginning of the play, Gertrude, the deceased king’s wife, is married to Claudius, her brother-in-law. Hamlet is the son of Gertrude and the late king. Hamlet receives a vision from the ghost of his late father...
Eric Milder has just come from his third mission to Afghanistan and has met his long-term friend Steve Millan, who became a lawyer in the United States of America. The two friends chat for a few seconds then stop to discuss John Crawfordâs âThe last true story Iâll ever tellâ,...
Introduction The intriguing play Fences by August Wilson centers on Maxson, the protagonist. Troy abuses his family and other individuals who are close to him. Wilson’s principal reason for writing the play is to depict how African Americans battled to exist in the United States, a significant theme of the...
Introduction American author and short tale writer Nathaniel Hawthorne significantly represent Protestantism, symbolism, and romance in American literature. He produced a large body of work that explored the complexity and sense of guilt inherent in human nature. When reading his tales and romances for the first time, it is impossible...
Introduction Everyone needs support for being a full-fledged member of society. The desire of humans to belong to one or another type of community and feel unity is primary to their existence, but it presents significant limitations to their well-being. In the utopian “Brand New World,” all of the characters...
Dante’s main theme of “Purgatorio” has the cleansing of the individual’s inner soul as its main preoccupation. It is not a location but rather a process described here. It symbolizes the perpetual transition of evil to good and everything that working spirits confront in the act of combat and the...
Introduction There is a number of extremely great literary works written hundreds or thousands of years ago but are still famous for their plot, style, or other unique characteristics. Many writers use these works of art or their elements to make their own poems and novels better. One such literary...
Like the majority of post-colonial literature, Arab American literature originated from the struggle to attain credibility and acceptance within the social, psychological, and linguistic realms that are associated with constant change. The observation of such changes involves a significant effort of the authors to abandon the old and search for...
Despite being long and unorthodox, Hamlet by Shakespeare is one of the most famous classical plays. The story features several complex themes and revolves around the naturalistic elements of death and destiny. However, one character, in particular, catches the attention of the audience due to the paradox of his nature....
Mark Twain was born in the Missouri village of Florida in 1835. In 1848, Twain became an apprentice to a printer at the Missouri Courier. Later, Twain started working for the Hannibal Journal and created a series of posts and caricatures. Twainâs works were inspired by civil problems of the...
Through dialogue and monologue, Shakespeare allows the public to understand the main action and appreciate the character’s inner state and feelings. Thus, the author uses monologue and soliloquy in Romeo’s speech in the following lines: âHe jests at scars that never felt a wound. But soft, what light through yonder...
Introduction Frankenstein is the best-known work by Mary Shelley that has exited the readers since the time of its creation. Indeed, this is an outstanding literary work as it lets the readers reflect on the essence of good and evil, love and hatred, and the challenges and threats scientific progress...
The famous work Parallel Lives by Plutarch explores the lives of prominent citizens of Ancient Greece and Rome. The author lived in the 1st century A.D., which is why his information regarding the events of the ancient period are valuable (Mossman 565). Being a Greek-Roman author and philosopher, Plutarch may...
Each country is characterized by the presence of characteristics that relate to all spheres of life. So, each region, regardless of size and population, has its own contemporary literary works. Their primary function is to provide an understanding of the peculiarities of the country and its people, its history, and...
Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is a masterpiece of world literature with many complex moral themes. One of them is idealism and the consequences of overly idealistic illusions on people’s lives. In the novel, idealism is represented through several characters, including Victor, his mother, Caroline, and the monster created by Frankenstein....
Matilda and Beatrice represent servants of God whose role is to preach salvation and ensure that sinners gain entry into heaven. Servants of God offer guidance to those who have lost the ways of God and indulge in worldly atrocities. Beatrice was Danteâs lover who guided him to the ways...
At this moment, many women are suffering from domestic violence against them. Even though many countries worldwide have a law that was designed to protect women from suffering, it does not seem to have an ending. Both Trifles and Provoked tell stories of women being threatened by their husbands. It...
Introduction The play Streetcar Desire by Tennessee Williams, an entire Broadway production of the late 40s, has become a modern classic. Streetcar Desire is a multi-layered picture, and there is much more psychology here than plot collisions: almost all the action takes place within one house in New Orleans. Working...
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kozinski is unique in its kind. Unlike other works about the Second World War and the lives of Jews when they were most in danger, it concentrates on a different subject, namely the life of a boy who encountered war for the first time. This...
The novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published in 1852 in the United States. The work was popular among general population of the country as it criticized slavery and the treatment of people as property, stating that limiting peopleâs freedom contradicts to Christian moral beliefs....
Jane Austen has presented the world with one of the greatest masterpieces of the times of ladies and gentlemen. The story can be correlated with the modern world as the author has shown the most common problems in societies that stay unsolved these days. For instance, the story proposes to...
William Wells Brown was a prominent African American abolitionist lecturer and novelist. Born into slavery, Brown managed to escape and dedicated his life to advocating for the prohibition of slavery. Thus, it can be assumed that the agenda of Brownâs piece of writing Memories of Childhood is to show the...
The work of Leopold Aldo A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, showcases all the beauty of nature around people. As a scientist, ecologist, and forester, Aldo describes every element of nature in simple but exact words. The book is divided into chapters that bear the name of...
Introduction Numerous literary works around the globe examine various facets of life, and many of those creations rarely focus on one single aspect. In her writing How to Tame a Wild Tongue, Gloria Anzaldua discusses her experience of being a Chicana in the American community but also debates the subjects...
Introduction Frank Robert is a progressive writer in criticizes the economic status quo. One of his books is “Passions within Reason,” written in 2010, which emphasizes the importance of emotions to overcome problems caused by self-interest because emotions function as a commitment device. The other book, “Success and Luck: Good...
A Rose for Emily is a story that William Faulkner illustrates Emily’s battle with the psychological and physical consequences of isolation. William Faulkner’s 1930 novel “A Rose for Emily” is regarded as his best masterpiece. The plot revolves around Emily Grierson, who is the central protagonist. “A Rose for Emily”...
From the narrative, the vignette which made the strongest impression on me is âHair.â Cisneros uses hair to describe the character traits of her family members. In the reading, mamaâs hair is lengthly as a bond symbol between her and the author. Indeed, the description treats the mother as a...
Introduction Over the decades, the distinction between masculinity and feminism significantly attributed to the root cause of gender inequality. Ernest Hemingway exploits the implication of gender roles reverse and sexuality and notes a profound consequence to the coexistence among people (Remy 57). One of the key initiatives among personnel enshrines...
Introduction This genre is constructed of fears and interests, forcing the reader to immerse himself in the dark thoughts of the characters. Gothic literature, in spite of it all, has maintained its popularity, changing with the passage of time. The action of literary Gothic works, as a rule, unfolds in...
Introduction There seems to be a lot of conflict between male and female characters in Shakespeareâs plays. Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca are Othello’s three female characters. Womenâs behavior and self-presentation are heavily influenced by Shakespeareâs representation of Renaissance and Elizabethan society (Amri and Isna 11). Othello, Desdemona, and Emilia all...
The human being’s brain has a multi-faceted memory system. An individual’s memory recollection may change depending on lived experiences, narration, and epigenetics (O’ Keane 128). Epigenetics is the study of how behaviors and environmental factors affect the genetic functioning of an individual. Psychiatrists and neurologists have constantly discussed whether the...
A Midsummer Nightâs Dream is one of the many plays written by renowned English author William Shakespeare. In this comedy, the writer addresses the themes of love, identity, and parent-child relationships, promoting the readers to consider what a parent should be able to influence in their childrenâs lives. This essay...
Mark Twain was an American novelist, lecturer, journalist, and humorist who acquired global popularity due to his narratives on the nature of the world. He is known for such work as The Innocent Abroad, Roughing It, and Life on the Mississippi (Paine 340). Mark Twain’s role in American literature cannot...
Introduction It is no secret that there are memorable, tragic, and controversial events in every country’s history, especially in the one of the United States (US). Authors write literary works to form their own opinion about the past events and to help readers do so. Such stories often have several...
The book The Tortilla Curtain, written by Thomas Coraghessan Boyle, is a story of two couples with massively different origins and challenges. The story intricately reveals how each couple views others, which enriches the overall perspectives offered by the author. The given collision analysis will primarily focus on familial and...
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville, is a complex, intellectually dense story about the basis of compassion, the transparency of other individuals, and the way confederate social constraints increased concerns about humankindâs metaphysical equivalence. Readers have stressed Bartleby as a representation of incomprehensibility, of the final openness of language or...
Heroic tales and legends of the Middle Ages are now thought to have been completely masculine. However, it would be wrong to consider all works of this genre identical as long as there existed different target audiences who wanted different characters. For instance, the French epic The Song of Roland...
The play A Dollâs House by Henrik Ibsen premiered at the end of the nineteenth century and evoked a heated debate. Although it seemed a feminist play, the author stressed that he did not intend to explore the associated themes. Nonetheless, his renowned work unveils diverse issues females have faced...
The Renaissance, a period in European history that marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity, was characterized by moving from religious dogmas to a more human-centered approach to philosophy, literature, and art and a revived interest in Greco-Roman legacy. It is traditionally considered that the Renaissance reached its...
Introduction Emily Dickinson is presently regarded as one of the most prominent and fruitful American poets that ever exist, even though the world saw only about ten of her poems during her life. Although Emily Dickinson led a calm and secluded lifestyle, she was, at the same time, vividly interested...
The story Sonnyâs Blues, written by James Baldwin, is narrated by an African-American man working as an algebra teacher, whose name is not revealed by the author. At the beginning of the story, the narrator is worried after reading the newspaper, from which he finds out that his brother, Sonny,...
Many literary works reflect real-life events in a compelling and relatable manner. A short story Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason is an exemplary piece of literature since, through the narration of the main character’s transformation, the author portrays a broken marriage and encourages female self-empowerment. Norma Jean is a character...
Margaret Atwoodâs âHappy Endingsâ represents a unique literary work, as it raises multiple issues and challenges numerous standards and writing rules in just a few paragraphs. The author admits that in the beginning, she did not know what kind of story she was writing. Moreover, readers can only guess what...
Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Soldier’s Home” focuses on the setting of an average town somewhere in Oklahoma. It is the early 1920 and the protagonist, Harold Krebs, returns home from World War I almost two years after its end, and such a late arrival plays an essential role in his...
The play takes place in Thebes, a city-state in ancient Greece (Sophocles wrote it in 429 BC.). Despite the fact that there is a day, the weather may be gloomy in order to emphasize the disaster affecting the city. The tragedy started in front of Oedipus’s palace where suffering and...
James Baldwin uses rich similes and metaphors throughout Sonnyâs Blues, often to enhance the image of an event or character or to create a distinct mood and atmosphere. At the beginning of the story, the main character meets with a drug user after finding out that his brother, Sonny, has...
Introduction The community places too much work on the shoulders of African women. African-American women face more pressure with the need to fit in their communities and raise healthy families amidst the challenges such as poverty, crime, and being looked down upon. Alice Walkerâs narrative âEveryday Useâ is one of...
Introduction A Doll House, written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879, is rightful of the most exciting dramas about womenâs happiness. Many kinds of people were introduced throughout the whole drama. While the drama is not significant in size, the actions change so dramatically. As a result, many people fail to...
The play by Glaspell is characterized by a variety of significant miseries and categorical contradictions surrounding the lives of married women. The bird in this contest represents the solitary life of Minnie after getting married to Mr. Wright (Glaspell, 2010). The author compares this engagement to a caged canary and...
An in-depth study of the social mechanisms and driving forces shaping the development of American poetry is an intriguing academic question. More specifically, this strand allows not only to form a coherent system of rhetorical and semantic meanings peculiar to U.S. poetic culture but also to identify relevant historical traditions...
Antigone, an ancient Greek tragedy written by Sophocles around 442 BC, remains a source of inspiration for multiple play-writers, artists, and filmmakers. It addresses the theme of the internal power of gods and the worldliness of people’s power, the conflict between natural law and governmental one, the significance of justice,...
Wave is a short story about Ray, Alma, and the waving man. When Ray is going to work, he passes by a house where a man is sitting on the porch waving at people who pass by. This experience intrigues him because at one time he feels guilty when he...
Humor is a potent tool that helps people to speak about important things in an unserious manner. Dave Barry, in his essay âLost in the Kitchen,â laughs at typical stereotypes lined with men and female behaviors and traditional occupations. The whole story starts with the phrase that sets a tone...
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Canât Stop Talking is a book by Susan Cain published in 2012 where she expresses her point of view that introverts would efficiently occupy leading positions and are generally underestimated in society. Susan Cain is an American lecturer and writer. The...
Emily Dickinson is well-known for her masterful and unconventional use of poetic forms and syntax. Dickinson’s reclusive lifestyle contributed to her works being largely unknown at the time of her life (The Biography.com). Despite that, her poetry is permeated by the ideas of hope, happiness, and self-determination. Her poignant and...
Introduction Hurston introduced Janie Crawford, a strong, eloquent, and dramatic character whose life was best sympathized with by women or the inhabitants of farms and rural black towns. In addition, the author recounted the critical changes in the character’s life and Janie’s quest for self-identity. The woman changes throughout the...
The book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe details the tragic fall of the protagonists, Okonkwo, and the Igbo culture desecration due to colonization. The book follows Okonkwo’s life from his poor background to becoming a leader and outcast in the Umuofia community. The critical events include his exile from...
Douglas Hyde’s speech, “The Necessity for De-Anglicizing the Irish Nation,” was not intended as a protest against trying to imitate the best of the English people; that would be absurd; rather, it was intended to demonstrate the folly of neglecting what is Irish and rushing to adopt everything that is...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is a memoir that describes the author’s life from being a child to growing into a young adult. Angelou narrates her experiences affected by society’s biased thinking and racial practices towards people of color and describes differences between the black...
Introduction Rebecca Laurence’s article titled Why Frankenstein is the story that defines our fears tells how the character Frankenstein was created. The article also suggests that this hero has similarities with equivalent characters in different countries of the world. In addition, songs, comics, video games, and other stories have been...
Introduction James Baldwin is a renowned African American writer whose work covers mostly racial issues in the U.S. The author develops subjective literary pieces based on his life as a Black person in Harlem, NY, between the 1930s and 1940s. Baldwinâs work depicts the lives of African Americans and their...
Introduction Justin Kurzel’s 2015 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth transcends an endeavor to recreate the playwright’s tragedy and proves to be an attempt to portray the genuine emotion and ambiance that Macbeth evokes in readers and viewers. Kurzel’s outstanding artistic vision creates a stunning effect and a sensation of surreal gloom...
The process of working on poetry requires continuous self-referencing and reflection, which allows a poet to improve their style and convey intended messages precisely. In the case of Adrienne Rich, the re-vision of poetry is essential since the poet critically assesses her works, revealing some of the most pivotal characteristics...
A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams in 1947. The play’s protagonist is Blanche DuBois â a neurotic woman who has some dark secrets and issues with alcohol. After facing some difficulties and losses in her hometown, she comes to her sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley...
The theme of a book, short tale, or other literary work is the central concept or underlying meaning that the author investigates. A story’s theme may be represented via characters, environment, dialogue, narrative, or these factors. Moreover, the theme is the overarching objective of the novel and the message that...
It is impossible to agree on whether Brutus was a betrayer or a patriot since everyone’s opinions and minds are different. He did betray and murder his close friend Caesar in cold blood. Nevertheless, he was well aware that assassinating Caesar was the only way to keep Rome from enslaving...
Introduction Heungboo and Nolboo is an interesting Korean folktale written in the Joseon Dynasty. The storyline focuses on greed and the fruits of kindness through two brothers born and raised in a wealthy family. Even though the book’s author is unknown, the Korean story is a popular bedtime narration for...
Introduction The paradigm of gender equality, especially as far as the role of patriarchy is concerned, has always been a subject for discussion from both literary and historical perspectives. The notion is particularly relevant for the investigation of socio-cultural patterns of Ancient Rome and Greece, the literary heritage of which...
Mary Rowlandsonâs story is an autobiography describing her first-hand experience as a prisoner of the Native Americans in 1676 during King Philipâs War. The critical point she centered around in her story was an unconditional submission to the Christian faith as it was challenging to remain a true religious woman...
For Dante, the Divine Comedy was the work of his whole life. During its creation, Dante pursued instructive goals; the Comedy contains a religious and ethical message. However, at the same time, this is a highly personal work, where Dante’s love for Beatrice becomes a saving blessing. Dante’s Comedy, therefore,...
Nora requested the lamp to end the moment of intimacy that Dr. Rank spoiled with his confession. As a married woman, she did not want her affair with Dr. Rank to be public, and she was afraid that her secrets might be disclosed as well. After Mr. Rankâs declaration of...
The narrator, Montresor, states that complete revenge implies impunity and makes some suggestions to ensure that the avenger is above all suspicion. Montresor acted as a friend to Fortunato, with “neither by word nor deed” (28), making his enemy doubt his genuine friendship. Another implicit advice is to observe and...
The article by Harry J. Elam, Jr. examines symbolism and realistic acts depicted in his angelic characters’ transcendence. The author closely views Wilsonâs way of taking realistic resolutions and uses a parallel approach to appropriately intersects the thoughts into the domestic American and modern discourse touching on the minority. The...
Why is love in poetry oftentimes portrayed in a dramatic and highly metaphoric manner when in reality the emotions are much more concrete and potentially messier than the perfection described? The most appealing poem to me is Head, heart by Davis because of its unique structure and idea. It takes...
August Wilsonâs most famous work, Fences, explores the life and relationships of the Maxson family. Perhaps the play has earned its popularity because it talks about basic things that are not the privilege of a particular class or race. One of the themes raised in the work is the achievement...
Racial discrimination in the United States has been around for centuries. Dark-skinned people survived slavery and terror, and their situation began to improve substantially only a few decades ago. However, African-Americans still face violations of their rights, which eventually leads to protests and mass riots over and over again. The...
In today’s America, The Perks of Being a Wallflower has become a sensation among teenagers. Charlie, the central character in Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, is a 15-year-old high schooler in Pittsburgh in the early 1990s. In the form of letters to an unnamed “friend,” he narrates...
The story âSo Much Water So Close to Homeâ revolves around a woman, Claire, and her husband, Stuart. Claire finds out that her husband and his friends discovered a dead and naked female body when they were going to set up a camp for fishing miles away. However, they did...
Plot and Point of View Gazebo by Raymond Carver tells a story of a married couple whose happiness is ruined after the husbandâs affair with their maid. Duane, the spouse who has committed infidelity narrates the story of the conversation that he is having with his wife, Holly. As a...
Introduction In the essay Joyas Voladoras, Brian Doyle profoundly contemplates life, death, and various deep meanings through the images, symbols, and metaphors. The focus of the work is the hearts of diametrically opposite in size representatives of the animal world, namely, hummingbirds and whales. Using these animals, the essay explores...
In the state of capitalism, money and income level determine an individual’s lifestyle, accommodations, level of safety, and position in society. Although Paul’s Case by Willa Cather was written more than a century ago, the struggles the main character experiences throughout the story and his perception of wealth relate closely...
Introduction Toni Cade Bambara was initially born and named Miltona Mirkin Cade. She was one of the influential civil rights activists and a professor in the United States. Born in Harlem, New York City, Toni decided to change her original name from Miltona Mirkin Cade to Toni and added her...
There are many human vices, which bring suffering, hatred, and even death to the people around them. Acclaimed poets and writers, including William Shakespeare and Jean-Baptiste MoliĂšre, have created many compositions that tell about the vices of society at different times. The works of these authors reflected many of the...
Barbara Park is an American writer. Her specialization was children’s books, and each of them was created taking into account the psychology and knowledge of children. She carefully worked on the language in which she wrote the books to be understandable and interesting for children to read. The characters in...
Choices constitute one of the most important elements of fiction. They add drama and tension, thus forcing the reader to anticipate the resolution and consequences of the decisions made by the characters. Not only do choices drive the narrative, but they also determine the dynamics of the story. The quality...
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a novel by the Canadian writer Mordecai Richler. The story begins in the late 40s of the last century in Montreal (Richler 3). The characters are mostly representatives of the local Jewish community. The main one, Duddy Kravitz, is the youngest son of taxi...
The American societal setting entails individuals who are always in control and possess some degree of power that enables the individual to possess some levels of superiority complex. Individuals who portray a superiority complex against other people in society tend to subject other individuals in lower ranks and classes to...
Status Anxiety is a non-fiction book written by a prominent author, Alain de Botton. This is a self-help book, and its topic revolves around the worrying human factor, also known as anxiety. The author illustrates different aspects of status, explains where it comes from, and focuses on the social factor...
Earle Birney is a poet whose life tells a lot about the Canadian character, which is by no means quiet and calm. The extraordinary character and changeable fate of the poet perfectly reflect the original culture and special mentality of Canada, which is hardened in trials, rebellious and free, generous...
Magical realism is an essential component of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s works. The distinctive feature of this genre is incorporating fantastical elements into casual life situations (Wilson 79). The enormous influence on Marquez’s writing was made by his grandmother’s mystical stories and folk tales, building an excellent background for his future...
The book «Pride and Prejudice» by Jane Austen was written in 1813 and told the story of the life of a young girl, Elizabeth Bennet. This book describes in detail the development and formation of the main character, especially her character. Much attention is paid to how the main character...
Gulliverâs Travels were published in the year 1726 and this work was controversial in more ways than one. Lemuel Gulliver was a man who belonged to a middle-class family in England. The novel is based around this middle-class family man in England. He was a very honest man but made...
The novel shows a gradual decline of the narratorâs mental state. She reaches the point of complete insanity when she tears down the yellow paper at the end. Having done so, she begins to think that she is the woman who has just been freed from the wall.More Information Charlotte...
The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper loses her mind following months of confinement in the rented mansion. She tears down the wallpaper and goes completely insane, as her husband John faints at the sight of it. More Information Toward the end of The Yellow Wallpaper, the narratorâs diary entries change...