Essays on Literature Review

Introduction In the text 'Notes of a Native Speaker,' the author addresses the struggles he encountered when trying to establish his cultural and ethnic identity. As a Chinese born in America with Chinese parents, the author provides insight into the difficulties that individuals from American minority races face in not just...

Frankenstein: A Tale of Morality and Madness Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley in the early nineteenth century, tells the tale of a genius, Victor Frankenstein, who creates a man-monster whose name is eventually mispronounced as Frankenstein. Victor creates a creature that he comes to despise as a result of his discovery...

Introduction Because of the creativity and consistency in the prose, Mary Shelly's novel Frankenstein is arguably one of the most read books of literature. As a consequence, the novel has been subjected to scholarly review from a variety of literatures, with a variety of scholars describing their perspectives on the novel. Critical...

Literature and the Power of Imagination Literature gives you the power of imagination, which you can use to perceive another person's viewpoint. That is the power of art: it allows people to break free from the confines of their everyday thinking and feel the feelings and perspectives of those around them....

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down The ethnography The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman outlines two stages of a story centered on Lia Lee and her family, who are trying to heal her epilepsy but are having difficulty reconciling what they believed. Following the...

The House on Mango Street is a novel about the challenges of living in cities where there is little to no access to basic necessities such as adequate shelter, electricity, food, and sanitation. It also uses imagery from a female viewpoint to present topics such as spatial belonging and gender...

Identity is a special and complicated character of an organism that is usually affected by a variety of influences as one develops and moves from one goal to another, and ambition to aspiration. What distinguishes one's personality is mainly one's history, memories, and family, among other things. In an ideal...

Postmodernism in Literature Postmodernism in literature includes, among other aspects, the use of inconsistency, ambiguity, and the difference in the development of narratives. Obviously, Paul Auster's "City of Glass" rebuffs and courtesy the realism and builds itself around coincidences, doubles, and superimpositions. It also combines the postmodern themes of intertextuality, metaphysical...

The Giver: Predictions of the Present Society The protagonist of the novel "The Giver," Lois Lowry, must have foreseen the link between the time he wrote it and the recent turns of events in 2018. The book is entirely focused on the philosophy of civilization and culture. For example, the author...

The High Wit of Exaltation in the 18th Century The high wit of exaltation occurred in the middle of the 18th century, and it became the headline of literature in that time frame. The literature of that time period did some particular alignment with the culture because it was full of...

A Critical Review of Literature on Political Decision Making A critical review of the three chosen literatures discussing various ideas related to political decision making is discussed in the following article. The paper also reflects on the main observations and points put forward by the scholars. Introduction The Introduction chapter of Jon Elster's...

Gulliver's Travel is considered to be the masterpiece of Jonathan Swift. This novel consists of four sections detailing Gulliver's four travels to imaginary tropical destinations. His first journey is to the world of diminutive people called the Lilliputians. Then his quest begins to the world of Brobdingnag, the land of...