Essays on Literature

Edgar Poe was a well-known author who could write suspenseful and horrifying stories that made the reader's spine tingle (Flores). Furthermore, he can be known as the author who helped to shape and advance the short-story genre in the world of literature (Flores). Poe was among the first writers to...

Dorothy Allison’s Essay Background: Understanding the Importance of Context and Personal Awareness Dorothy Allison writes in her essay Background (1994) that understanding a person well and thoroughly is based on and necessitates personal awareness of their childhood and social life. The essay was written as a memoir in order to focus...

Introduction Comics and graphic novels have been expressed as distinct popular-culture art forms with the ability to persuade, educate, and shape beliefs and behaviors; they are an art-related enjoyment not available in any other media. Despite the fact that most academics dismiss the value of comics, they have important reflective messages...

Introduction Edgar Allan Poe, an American author, and editor noted for his literary work was a key figure in the Romantic Movement and a pioneer in the genre of detective novel and poetry writing. He is one of the best-known writers who often gives his own life to each of his...

Ben Hur (1959) Ben Hur (1959) is an historical movie that depicts the life of the character Judah Ben-Hur, a story of the struggles of a man who the entirety has been taken from him, keeps his faith and survives through subject to free himself and his family from the oppressive...

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...

For millennia, nearly all traditions have held that cooking should be confined to women. According to Inness's book "Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food," it is not difficult to note that food, as well as its preparation, is heavily gender-coded to the feminine. In most countries, however, masculinity...

Beowulf is a medieval English epic poem about the childhood of a young Geatish warrior. This warrior aided Hrothgar, King of the Danes, whose kingdom was being attacked by Grendel the monster. Beowulf beats Grendel in the mead hall of Hrothgar, Heorot, due to his courage and epic strength. Beowulf...

The primary goal of this film is to explore the drama movie Forest Gump s disabilities. The year this film was made was 1994. (Groom 34). This movie is based on a novel that was published in 1986. Disabilities and prejudice are two of the major themes explored in this...

The poem “I started Early - Took my Dog­ “ is a poem by Emily Dickson which by reading the title for the first time creates a intellectual image of the presence of a dog and a woman and of route an early morning. The poem depicts a picture of...

The concept of insanity has been built upon by many great playwrights, including Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Hamlet is one of the most widely read tragedies due to the contentious recurring theme of insanity. The theme of hysteria in Hamlet has been one of the most discussed topics in literature, with many...

William Shakespeare was unquestionably the most influential author and playwright of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Dramatized novels, poetry, and sonnets are among his most popular and inventive works. One hundred and fifty-four sonnets are credited to William Shakespeare. Between 1929 and 1959, there was an epidemic of the...