Newest Literature Essays

Due to the interconnectivity of the world today, people living in the 21st century encounter the other fairly often. Whether this other relates to religion, sexuality, culture, race, or any number of other factors, most people have some sort of...

Whatever happens in life, it is always political. Somehow and someway, even the most mundane thing connects back to bigger issues in the world. Even personal things can easily turn political without much effort. While the relation between how...

At any point in time, the world has been filled with people who are vastly different from each other. While these differences may at times feel insurmountable, they do not have to be points of division for humanity. Humanity can instead choose to...

In Elizabethan England it became increasingly difficult to decide what could be deemed magic. Everyday occurrences such as folk medicine, a common practice by women, were considered to be magical. As a result, it is no surprise that magic worked...

Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill represent two opposing schools of ethical thought. From Mill’s utilitarian perspective, the ethical value of anything can be determined based on its consequences, regardless of intent. For Kant, the consequences...

Fear as a negative emotion refers to one of the strongest preventers of a joyful life. Naturally, it becomes the seed of a number of obstacles a person faces. For instance, one may not be willing to move to an opportunistic big city because of the...

Someone’s comedy is another’s tragedy. While whole of the England was rejoicing on the ascension of Charles II to the throne of England, the Puritans were gazing in silence the arrival of a whirling tornado of discriminatory laws against them. As...

Tradition vs Modernity is a deep rooted battle between old and young generations specifically in South Asian context. It is important to discuss the conflict between tradition and modernity since it plays a major theme in most of R.K. Narayan’s...

The social roles of women during Virginia Woolf’s lifetime restricted half the world’s population from developing individual purpose and meaning within their lives. The burgeoning of suffrage and equality brought on a new horizon of philosophy...

Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is a nonfiction novel which seeks to understand the reasons leading to the tragic murders of the Clutter family. Whilst Capote does not endeavour to downplay the atrocities committed by Perry Smith and Dick Hickock,...

Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge explores the existence of a man, Michael Henchard, who is constantly seeking the validation of others and failing to forgive himself for past mistakes. The text urges readers to think about Henchard’s...

Acquiring knowledge remains one of the fundamental purposes of humankind, yet for centuries half of the population have been discouraged and often prohibited from discovering the pleasures and advantages of learning. This idea held women back from...

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’ depicts a microcosmic society in which each member is somehow isolated despite their proximity to others. Hitchcock uses the setting and the camera angles with which he shows the characters to convey loneliness and...

It is common for people in society to feel ill at ease with those who think or act differently than what is expected. The protagonists in both Albert Camus’ ‘The Stranger’ and Ron Butlin’s ‘The Sound of My Voice’ are men who are undoubtably viewed...

The unexpected may serve as a reminder or a surprise to us as we journey through life. The voice of Robert Gray is used to describe and explore the various adventures he has taken throughout his life. Robert Gray is a poet from Australia whose...

In his short story “The Open Boat” author Stephen Crane poses—and then proceeds to answer—a question of fundamental significance to the continued survival of the human species. The question that Crane’s story poses to the reader is one asking them...

Lorraine Hansberry’s play ‘A Raisin in the Sun’, first debuted in the year 1959 on Broadway, depicts the life of the Youngers, a fictional African-American family, in the 1950’s, who live in Chicago, USA. Hansberry delineates the deceased father -...

The working class often describes those who work blue-collar jobs with low wages. Those who belong to the working class often face job insecurity because they do not have the same rights and safeguards for their jobs, unlike their employers, who...

If satirical comedy can accurately shed light on the flaws of society, it seems that hypocrisy in its many forms, is the first and hardest of them to fall. Voltaire’s 1759 satire, Candide does just this as it pokes holes in the many dysfunctions...

One of Roald Dahl’s most popular, anthologized, and filmed stories is “Lamb to the Slaughter.” The title is an allusion to the ritualistic killing of lambs as part of an animal sacrifice. The contextual concept inherent in the reference is that...

Composers creatively explore the intangible nature of the American identity reflecting the flawed values of American exceptionalism and capitalism. Tennessee Williams’ symbolist play, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947, inspects the destabilisation of...

The American dream, the belief that one will be able to achieve success through hard work and sacrifice, is an overly romanticized concept that people have been actively pursuing for decades. Many individuals set out in pursuit of their own idea...

John Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel (1681), a verse satire based in Restoration England, has led Edward Albert to dub him “the champion of monarchy”. Indeed, the poet’s use of two Biblical narratives (the tale of David and Absalom and the fable...

Conflict is an unavoidable and fundamental aspect of human life. Favell Parrett explains how narrative is, and has always been, a powerful tool to express the impact of human experience on individuals in her gripping coming of age novel Past the...