Essays on Literature

How are children’s lives influenced by language? This is a pertinent question probed in Amy Tan's “Mother Tongue”. In the book, Amy Tan shares her personal opinions on the use of English language in different countries and the impact of language on children’s lives. The author is fascinated by language and...

Introduction In the essay, "Am I Blue?" Alice Walker, who is a black woman uses her writing to show the nature of black man slavery, unfair treatment of women in the society as well as unfair treatment of animals. To achieve this, she tells a story of a horse called "Blue",...

The Tragedy of Macbeth and the Second Creation Story The tragedy of Macbeth can be easily related to the second creation story through the choices the protagonists make to achieve their wishes and the failures which result from their decisions. For instance, the creation story can in the Bible be easily...

The book "Silence and the Roar" The book "Silence and the Roar" was written by a Syrian author known as Nihad Sirees in 2008. The initial version of the book was written in Arabic, but it was later translated into English by Max Weiss in 2013. A Typical Day in the Life...

Unlike a few years ago, I had no challenges comprehending concepts in recent grammar classes. After studying topics assigned for week one, I now know that traditional grammar classifies words into eight different categories, collectively known as parts of speech (VanderMey, Meyer, and Rys). These include nouns, pronouns, verbs, conjunctions,...

Ahmed, Mohammad Kaosar, and Md Mizanur Rahman. "Reading Burgess’S A Clockwork Orange: Cultural Oddities and Their Social Impact". IIUC Studies, vol 7, no. 0, 2012. Bangladesh Journals Online (JOL Ahmed Mohammad Kaosar, Assistant professor, Department of English Language Dhaka Campus in Bangladesh and Md Mizanur Rahman, a professor, department of English,...

The story of “A clean well lighted place “by Ernest Hemingway is a story which is characterized by nothingness and the author entirely focuses on giving the reader to concentrate wholly on the meaning of the story. The story explains the typical life of an old man in his ordinary...

Television Comedy: Different Genres and their Descriptions Television comedy exists in different genres depending on the source of humor, the delivery method, as well as the delivery context. Many comedians can fit into several genres therefore the classifications tend to overlap to meet the needs of different fans. Comedy can be...

Shooting an Elephant Shooting an Elephant, was written by George Orwell who recounts a situation from his life when he was around twenty years during which he was required to demonstrate how powerful he was as an army (Orwell 8). Later on, the episode seems to be haunting him. The story...

Jealousy is apparent throughout Shakespeare’s Othello. The tragedy Othello highlights the doom of Othello and various chief characters as a result of jealousy. Jealousy is mainly depicted through the two main characters: Othello and Iago. It destroys their lives since it makes Iago depict his true self, which successively prompts...

The Importance of Gender in "Wife of Bath's Prologue" The tale suits the teller in Wife of Bath’s Prologue ion several ways including her gender, sovereignty, and the middle ages when the story was written. Gender as a Center of Conflict In the “Wife of Bath’s Prologue,” it is rather apparent that...

Language used in poetry or the works of literature affects the audience differently thus interpretation can also vary. Interpretation of words used can lead to varying ideas about the feelings of writers even when he/she has not indicated in the work. This essay compares and contrasts use of terms, words,...