Essays on Literature

Masculinity is described as the state or essence of being manly. Historically, manliness was considered to be natural for a man or male (Wedgwood 330). Ernest Hemingway wrote a vast number of novels, one of which is In Our Day, a collection of various stories that focuses on the subject...

About every community believes in the desire to connect with the deceased. Many individuals have claimed to be able to communicate with our dearly departed members since time immemorial. Classic fiction, such as Shakespeare s plays, the Bible, and folklore, describes this contact with ghosts and spirits (Holloway 182-187). Deception and...

The Scarlet Letter is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that takes place in Puritan Boston in the 17th century. The story revolves around a woman who has committed adultery with a Reverend and is sentenced to carry a scarlet letter as punishment for her transgression. When Hester is released...

Cummings' poem, Everyone Lived in a Pretty How Town, raises concern about how people value relationships in urban areas. Cumming portrays contemporary relationships as fading, claiming that people no longer value others. Instead, they respect their own selves and only see their industries as essential, and they show no care...

Ernest Hemingway's story Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway's story Hills Like White Elephants is about an American man and a lady drinking beer outside a station bar while waiting for a train from Barcelona to Madrid. The atmosphere surrounding them is strained as the man attempts to persuade the girl...

Walker's characters stand out in the novel Everyday Use, in part because of her wits in struggling for her family's heritage. The story takes place in the late 1960s, after a period of dramatic change for African Americans. African Americans gained their freedom from resistance, overcoming acts of segregation, brutality,...

Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens) is a world-renowned American author. On November 30, 1835, he was born in the Missouri village of Florida (“Mark Twain – Mini Biography”). This author was known for writing in a variety of genres, such as adventure novels, complex metaphysical memoirs, or fantasy....

The novel Black Boy by Richard Wright is about understanding American history from the eyes of an African-American boy growing up in the early twentieth century. Wright journeys through his early childhood in this semi-autobiographical book, not understanding that there is such a chasm between whites and blacks. He is...

Worth Jenifer discusses the first and second installments of Marjane Satrapi's novel Persepolis. The two novels are unconventional solo performances that can be read as an articulated solo performance that Satrapi would otherwise deny. Satrapis' Comic Relief and Social Change Satrapi provides comic light relief when juxtaposing the macabre imagery of revolt and...

Absurdism has been extensively used in representing Estragon in Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." This type can be used by an actor to recognize the character's role. This paper investigates how an actor should use absurdist methods and norms in representing Estragon as seen in Waiting for Godot. The use...

Competing over a girl or a boy is a common aspect that offers similarities between characters, intriguing themes, comedy, and suspense to a plot, as demonstrated by the history of novels, films, plays, and folklore. A Midsummer Night s Dream by William Shakespeare is a clear example of how the...

Introduction William Butler Yeats' second coming poetry depicts a theme centered on the connection between politics and the arts. William Yeats, a poet, argues that the British government's intervention in the Irish political system resulted in bad politics, which in turn produced a power play that enabled Britain to influence the...