Newest Literature Essays

At its core, acclaimed director/screenwriter/playwright Martin McDonagh’s masterful Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2016) is a film about how transformative and all-consuming rage is and how rage – at least in part – should be replaced...

In Cry the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton, the theme and motifs of justice is one that is heavily discussed. However, in the world we live in, justice is not written in black and white and sometimes balancing out the unfairness of the world can...

Dixon, as the director of CAPE, seems to be ambitious and competitive when she shares the realities of getting CAPE to survive. She mentions how she has to compete with people like Stuart Decker in order to get research grants and international...

Igoni Barrett’s Blackass is a satirical representation of racial injustice that floods the pages of this riveting novel. In the story, Barrett expressed his perception of people in society, which purports the fact that society deploys race as a...

The experience of time passage and the effects of this process is a collective and individual human experience. Time is something which can in no way be stopped or changed, meaning its actions and consequences are inevitable. This is a concept...

Many can agree that naiveté is a form of innocence and it diminishes when humans are forced to face circumstances that may cause questions about oneself and the world around them, causing such perspective and morals to change. Innocence is...

Poets of the Romantic movement sought to counteract the prevailing political and social viewpoints of the 18th-19th century. Romanticism was a philosophical movement and reaction against the logical enlightenment and the imagination was used as an...

Poets of the Romantic movement sought to counteract the prevailing political and social viewpoints of the 18th-19th century. Romanticism was a philosophical movement and reaction against the logical enlightenment known as an age of reason which...

For much of his professional career, director Martin McDonagh has consistently said that he prefers the medium of film to theater, saying that he has a "respect for the whole history of films and a slight disrespect for theatre." And while his...

Each person’s identity is made up of many factors that influence the way they are. The decisions individuals make and how they carry themselves is largely prompted by various factors including race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic...

Many critics have agreed that the resolutions to the myriad of conflicts in Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream are all unified in a manner that reinforces the central theme of the play. However, when it comes to what exactly critics...

Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” has conflicting interpretations that include : unrequited love, doomed love, passion, opportunism, sacrifice, betrayal and murder. “Porphyria’s Lover” exemplifies the concept of undecidability due to the focus...

On the surface, William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 144” presents men and women in chiaroscuro, or strong contrasts. Since this sonnet is one of his later ones, and thus adopts a scornful and misogynistic tone after the mysterious Dark Lady steals away...

There is no one uniformly agreed-upon notion of love: it is one of the few concepts that people allow to be defined by its subjectivity. In fact, love thrives on the subjective. Exemplifying this point, in Plato’s Symposium some of the greatest...

When we think of rulers we think of extravagance and authority, wealth and might, grandeur and command. But what slips our mind is that perhaps even rulers follow rules to rule. ‘The Prince’ by Niccolo Machiavelli is one extended prescription of...

Hardy’s ‘Beyond the Last Lamp’ presents the theme of love and time in a subtler way than Marvell’s poem, as we only realize the retrospective nature of the poem at the fourth stanza, and see that his memory of the couple’s difficulty has stayed...

Sonnet 116 and the Great Gatsby both present love and commitment as inextricably linked, with commitment seen as an integral part of true love. Contrastingly, The Scrutiny gives a humorous take on the idea of committed relationships, and presents...

The relationship between Miranda and Ferdinand both challenges and reinforces gender roles in ‘the Tempest’. By proposing to Ferdinand herself, Miranda challenges the feminine expectation to be obedient or timid and asserts her own authority....

The New Testament canon is the collection of different books by different authors that were compiled together to create a larger, singular text. Today, the New Testament serves as a justification to the existence of Christianity and a reference on...

A mountain, dotted with fully bloomed flowers and orange-leaved trees in autumn, is left barren by the heavy snowfall endured during winter; however, when spring comes, the mountain is embellished with new flowers, its beauty greater than ever...

Many scholars have adopted a feminist approach when examining Ophelia’s madness in “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare. A popular interpretation is that Shakespeare uses Ophelia’s insanity to empower her in . After spending the majority of the play...

“Jasper Jones”, composed by Craig Silvey and published in 2009, is a gripping tale of Jasper’s horrible discovery which itself unveils series issues. Craig not only exposes the darkness in society but also condemns the widely held stereotypes,...

In Eliza Haywood’s novella Fantomina, the main character is a high-class woman who takes it upon herself to explore her feminine and sexual agency during a time of suffocating and expected purity. The narrative begins with Fantomina’s attraction...

In Tolkien’s view, voiced in his seminal lecture of 1936, the world of monsters is “essential” to the configuration of Beowulf; one half of a series of apparently antithetical binaries youth and age, good and evil, and not least, the human and...