Tension between a protagonist and the society in which he lives is an element of storytelling which can be found in many texts across many millennia. The story of Jesus Christ's crucifixion is a particularly notable example, though the great...

Consumerist culture of the latter half of the twentieth-century has had profound impacts on the mental and spiritual well being of the world population, and a lack of such moral grounding rears its head in the shape of excessive consumption. The...

The controversy surrounding Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange relates primarily to the central themes that are explored in both books. Nevertheless, the brutality and explicit expression that drench...

“It has been said in literature, excessive sexual behaviour always leads to corruption”

To present the significance of sexual behaviour in both novels is to link the psychological power of sexual impulses over the individual’s moral principles,...

Masculinity and the idea of what it represents is merely a socially constructed concept and nothing more. The main character in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, Patrick Bateman, however, sure has a certain view of what it should look like and...