Newest Literature Essays

Part I: Formalist Approach: James Joyce’s contemplative short story, “The Dead” examines the actions of a neurotic Irish intellectual, Gabriel Conroy, and his existential realizations following a revelation from his wife, Gretta. The story begins...

Idiostyle is a structurally united and internally related system of means and forms of verbal expression used by a writer, or simply an individual writing style. In linguistics, the concept of idiostyle is associated with a certain choice, the...

Elizabeth Bishop never considered herself a believer. “I dislike the didacticism, not to say condescension, of the practicing Christians I know,”[1] she wrote to her biographer Anne Stevenson in 1964. However, her poems suggest that her aversion...

As young kids we hold our parents to a supernatural standard, only to feel the same level of duty when we grow older and uphold the same mantel. In "My Father in Heaven Is Reading Out Loud," Li-Young Lee writes from a growing perception of his...

Adaptations are bodies of work separated from its actual source that have undergone various steps of reconstruction to complement the new mediums that they would get involved with. They ought to capture the essence of their counterparts—commonly,...

Not all of us may like baseball; in fact, there are some that hate the sport, but regardless of one’s feelings towards this sport, a good story is universally pleasing. Having a strong bond between the reader and the characters in a story is...

The play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams has many formal qualities that make it stand out as one of the most prominent works of its genre in the twentieth century – its rich symbolism being the one that stands out most. Throughout...

Opposing the inherent evilness in Antonio, Gonzalo proves to be the perfect foil for Antonio in the Tempest. Besides Miranda, Gonzalo is the only character in the play who is the epitome of all that is good and just, in contrast to Antonio, who is...

Having personal strength is an important thing to have in a time of crisis. The film shows that leaders especially need to have personal strength because they go through a lot of challenges. The Queen shows perseverance as she faces one of the...

Late Victorian literature had often dealt with social issues and social evils with the intention of sketching the colossal role played by society itself in the making of its ills and immoralities. The student of literature can easily discern this...

William Faulkner was born in 1897 in Mississippi to Murry Cuthbert and Maud Butler Faulkner. At a young age, William learned to be self-reliant by fending for himself. This experience in his childhood thus is believed to have significantly...

From its inception in the 18th century, the Gothic genre has mostly focused on the experience of wealthy white men. However, as the genre took hold in America, with its own haunting history of slavery and racial subjugation, American authors of...

In Orson Welles’s 1941 groundbreaking film, Citizen Kane, the eponymous, recently deceased, character Charles Foster Kane is portrayed as a hugely influential figure to society. The gossip around his enigmatic personal life and illustrious...

In Pedro Almodóvar’s 1988 film, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, stylistic elements and a unique cinematographic style contribute to the slightly absurd narrative, forming a distinct, surreal world in which the characters exist. The plot...

Emily St John Mandel’s novel, ‘Station Eleven’, demonstrates the negative impacts of idolising success and indicates that truth and beauty are more fulfilling. She implies that inauthenticity blinds society from valuing art and connection which...

In literature, hawks have evolved into a symbol for power and freedom. As they roam the great American landscape, writers have come to admire their strength and control. In Robinson Jeffers’ “Hurt Hawks,” the speaker comes across a wounded hawk...

In Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Felix Randal,” the speaker has different concerns and different ways of healing from the loss of someone than Seamus Heaney’s “Seeing the Sick.” Though both poems cover the same morbid concept, Hopkins’s poem focuses...

In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 film, North by Northwest, the theme of mistaken identity is prevalent. The audience first views the main character, Roger Thornhill, as an ordinary, slightly self-absorbed city dweller, who is completely unprepared for...

Before it graced cinema screens in 1974, Richard O’Brien’s ‘the Rocky Horror Picture Show’ was originally a stage show titled ‘the Rocky Horror Show,’ which eventually spread from a small London theatre, to the West End, Broadway and theatres in...

Irish nationalist Seamus Heaney’s 1975 poem “Act of Union,” written three years after the massacre known as Bloody Sunday, explores the political unification of the colonizer, England, and the colonized, Ireland in which Ireland and England...

Exploring the physical elements of a society involves digging deep in the effect it has on the culture. In the novel Winter’s Bone, Daniel Woodrell uses a plethora of resources within the natural landscape to attribute different factors that play...

Doing the right thing is not a natural human instinct. We’d rather let other people take the fall for our mistakes instead of telling the truth and doing the right thing. In reality,doing the right thing for your city, is not a matter between...

The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov explores the everyday life experiences of lottery winners. In the narrative, Masha and Ivan are a married couple whose fears and distrust of the other emerge as a result of Masha’s potential lottery windfall....

From the beginning of the mankind, people have faced with so many problems. It seems that just surviving and sleeping with a full stomach are not the main problems of developed civilizations since the first formations of societies. ‘Surviving in a...