Newest Literature Essays

The expansive genre of film noir works to construct and deconstruct borders. Film noir both establishes and complicatesborders of identity within race, class, ethnicity, and gender. Neo-noir emulates the visual style of film noir as well as...

The Forever War, written by Joe Haldeman, is a modern classic shaped by the Vietnam War during the Golden Age of science fiction. This book shaped by the Vietnam War discusses human soldiers fighting a war against an alien civilization called the...

Although each historical fiction story based on war has different characters, settings, and sub-plots, certain elements are common among other stories and those of Timothy Findley’s The Wars. The elements make Findley’s fictional tale seem more...

The novel July’s People was written by the well-known South African author Nadine Gordimer. This is a futuristic novel in which the author envisions a political situation that would arise in South Africa. She envisions a situation where the...

The value of art is timeless to a great extent, with the exception of subtle nuances which can be attributed to the progressiveness of modern society. John Keats’ artistic style embraces the worship of nature and the exploration of the individual...

The concept of movement is historically synonymous with the cultural creation of the city. Urban space functions through constant motion in which city dwellers use convenient transportation as a means of passing through various areas in the urban...

Introduction: A Brief Summary of Ernest Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”

In Ernest Hemingway’s 1925 collection of short stories “In Our Time”, the author presents “Cat in the Rain”, a story about a young American couple in an Italian hotel while rain...

Spanish cinema subsists within a complex sociopolitical and historical context. Though certain Spanish filmmakers have chosen to create purposeful “depoliticized” narratives, portraying characters that are distanced from the harsh social realities...

Soyinka presents Yoruba women in contrasting ways by showing the different roles of women both as in the Yoruba culture, in the case of Iyaloja and the young bride (as well as the communal and individual roles of women) and in a contrasting...

A very convincing argument can be forwarded that the two fictional characters appearing in films produced in Hollywood in the 1940’s who more perfect symbolize the complicated reactions to war breaking out again across Europe in the 1930’s are...

The drama The Dumb Waiter was written by the well-known playwright Harold Pinter. This drama is considered as an absurd play. Absurd playwrights wrote plays in order to bring out the purposelessness and the meaninglessness of life of the 20th...

“No poet, no artist of any art has their meaning alone” T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood. Artists of all kinds use intertextuality to take the original text and transform and reconstruct it to fit into the new interpretation. By connecting two texts...

When it was originally released into theaters during the cinema of paranoia that defined 1970’s American film, few aside from its makers, their roving band of American New Wave gang, and a few hip movie critics ever event thought to seek a...

First, remember the words spoken by Jeff Goldblum’s character, Dr. Malcolm, in the first entry of the Jurassic Park franchise: “…your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.” At...

Religion, perhaps unduly, finds itself in the justification of many actions throughout history that would be considered atrocities to the sensible modern-day observer: prejudices, slavery, and murders, all fall under this category of God’s will in...

How does one go about determining the influence of a motion picture on society? The number of times in any given day that someone quotes a line of dialogue? How about how many lines of dialogue are quotable enough to be recognized? Maybe the...

Based on a Stephen King novel, The Shining is a film directed by Stanley Kubrick surrounding the Torrance family. Jack Torrance gets a job caretaking at the Overlook Hotel for one winter and moves there with his wife, Wendy, and young child,...

In the Arab World, women’s rights, gender equality, and feminism have always been a concept that is challenging to the authorities of the society and the social norms established under the Islam and the Arab culture. Although there has been the...

The play Wit by Margaret Edson follows Dr. Vivian Bearing, an English professor diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer, during her treatment at the university’s hospital. Throughout the text, Bearing uses her impressive vocabulary to express...

When Stars Wars was first released in 1977 (without the subtitle A New Hope but simply as Star Wars) it was greeted with instant adoration by movie fans and surprisingly robust (if nowhere near universal) critical acclaim. And why not? It was the...

Courage is defined as strength in the face of uncertainty or intimidation, the choice to confront uncertainty and danger even when feeling fear. This concept of showing bravery during difficult situations ranges so much it is categorized into 6...

The comic The Killing Joke is written by Alan Moore and drawn by Brian Bolland. It portrayed the events happened between the two rivals: Joker and Batman. When Joker broke out of jail again, he bought an amusement park to fulfil his sick desire of...

From p. 210, line 25, “Man of errors!” to p. 212, line 20, “they must continue to hover in my sight.

”I am reliably unreliable.”― Steven Magee

The eighteenth century was a period where reason and rationalism were privileged over fanaticism and...

Raiders of the Lost Ark contains many spectacular and memorable scenes that linger in the memory and provide a better education in the art of cinematic storytelling than a four-year degree at some lesser universities. What is often lost amid all...