The Idiot Essays

12th Grade

The Idiot

Archetypes are an important foundation for building literary work. As “reoccurring patterns, images, or descriptive details” (Crisp 2), they not only define the identity of an author’s characters, but the course of the plot, the journeys and the...

College

The Idiot

Disability and deformity is a very interesting topic to have come out of the Romantic period. It challenged stereotypes and what the public saw as crippling. The literature written by disabled writers or that feature disabled writers made...

12th Grade

The Idiot

Elif Batuman’s debut novel The Idiot deals with the theme of self-discovery through the vessels of love, loss, and language. The Idiot follows Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, through her freshman year at Harvard in 1995; the reader...