Newest Literature Essays

Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2015) is a science fiction movie about a highly advanced robot intelligence named Ava, structured as a synthetic feminine entity undergoing what appears to be a Turing test. It's designed to examine where Ava exhibits...

Adolfo Bioy Casares’s The Invention of Morel, first published in 1940, intricately explores the themes of trauma, mental health, and isolation through a narrative that blends elements of science fiction with profound psychological depth. The novel...

The issue regarding right vs. wrong is arguably the oldest debate in the history of humanity. Over the years, philosophers have developed different ethical theories in an attempt to address this question. In light of this development, the central...

In the world of nonfiction, viewing another person’s life experiences can be insightful and emotional. Memoirs capture the reader’s heart and teach important valuable life lessons. One great memoir that does this is Trevor Noah’s Born A Crime. The...

How does the male ego contend with incontestable mortality? In his novel “White Noise”, Don DeLillo depicts a suburbia plagued by eco-disaster. The narrative is underscored by fear of inevitable mortality, strengthened by a contemporary anxiety...

George Orwell, while quite well-known for expressing political views in his literature, such as those of anti-fascism and pro-democratic socialism, was hardly a feminist. In Homage to Catalonia, Orwell tells a tale of the proletariat man fighting...

Loss and suffering are painful yet they are part of our everyday experiences. The loss of loved ones, isolation from our family and friends, and suffering in the hands of gangs and authorities all encompass the tragic experiences we encounter on a...

The debate on whether Nature or Humanity controls the other has been going on for years. On the one hand, some people argue that humans exercise control over nature in that they can alter or destroy nature at will. For instance, humans can create...

Films, like other works of literature, often apply psychological concepts to explain real-world phenomena. This is the same case with Mean Girls, a 2004 American teen comedy film based on Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 nonfiction self-help book Queen...

Information is one of the most essential things in the world, but when people lack it, their perspective on the world negatively changes. This leads to negative outcomes and ends with hurt and the creation of stereotypes. All around the world,...

Traditionally, humans have touted themselves as the most intelligent and compassionate creatures on Earth. In their interactions with other species, humans have used this claim as the basis for their ill-treatment of those species. But does human...

William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, first published in 1959, stands as a landmark in the realm of experimental literature and provides a profound exploration of trauma and mental health. The novel, often regarded as a challenging and provocative...

Towards the conclusion of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama claimed humanity reached "the end of history." Before defending this assertion, he revealed Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel perceived the end of history as the culmination of society's...

Through East of Eden, John Steinbeck told the story of two families living in the Salinas Valley of California: the Trasks and the Hamiltons, the real-life family of Steinbeck’s maternal grandfather. Multiple generations of the two families...

In the twentieth century, Frantz Fanon wrote Black Skin, White Masks, where he articulates the psychological toll racism and colonialism have on Black individuals. First, he establishes that systemic oppression marginalizes Black and colonized...

The Epic of Gilgamesh is frequently interpreted as a study of the interaction between humans and the natural world. But what does this ancient epic tell us about this relationship when we introduce identity? Contemporary readings introduce the...

“The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.” - Charlie Chaplin

The Good Earth by Pearl Buck is a novel based upon a family that endure many difficult hardships together. Specifically, the main character’s wife, O-lan,...

In Books IV and IX of the Confessions, Augustine grapples with the deaths of his friend and his mother, Monica. Augustine demonstrates that his grief toward his friend stems from loving him like he is immortal and reveals how he finds comfort in...

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is more than just a historical biopic since it embodies a meditation on the ethical entanglements of scientific progress. The film recounts the events leading to the creation of the atomic bomb, unpacking the moral...

‘The Song of Achilles’ is at once a scholar’s homage to the Iliad, and a startlingly original work of literature by American novelist Madeline Miller. Conjuring a world where capricious gods and unbreakable prophecies are simply part of life,...

Race discrimination is still persistent nowadays. Although they come from different reasons (history of a country, systematic inequalities and stereotypes) one main important reason is the lack of understanding among the communities that share a...

One of the distinguishing features of Russia in the 19th century was its rigid class hierarchy, which dominated all aspects of Russian life, but most importantly the way that those from different classes related to one another; the upper class...