Essays on Writers

When I ve grown into a responsible adult, I ve always found myself wondering: how much control do I have over the world and my surroundings? In today s multicultural culture, plenty of us find ourselves conforming to our guardians earthly perspectives: looking no deeper than they do, even...

Emily Dickinson and Her Poetry Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time. The elements she employs in her poetry, such as forms, punctuation, and vocabulary, allow her poems to express deeper meanings. Dickinson, like many female writers, composed her poetry with thoughts and sentiments in...

Introduction: Social Expectations and Marriage It is a widely accepted fact that a single man with a good fortune must be in need of a wife. This is how Jane Austen's book "Pride and Prejudice" begins. This first line demonstrates how the speaker presents the perception of social expectations as playing...

Emily Dickinson's poem I Felt a Funeral in My Brain Emily Dickinson's poem I Felt a Funeral in My Brain reflects the death of her mental health. It explains the author's lack of sanity as she feels it, weakening from stanza to stanza and ultimately resulting in madness. The word funeral,...

Miss Emily's Alienation Miss Emily, the lead character of William Faulkner's short story A Rose for Emily, fails to find her place in the world. There is no denying that 'A Rose for Emily' is a tale of mental and physical loneliness. William Faulkner depicts the mechanism by which individuals become...

In her short story Desiree's Baby, Kate Chopin discusses the different shades of love that exist between people. In certain cases, it is conditional which jeopardizes the foundation of families. The most important divider in this story is race. It is set in pre-World War I America in the home...

Langston Hughes wrote the poem Mother to Son, in which the writer is a Black American mother to her son. It is clear that the mother has faced tremendous struggles and wants to give hope and inspiration to her son so that he, too, will persevere in life as she...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the novel The Minister's Black Veil. It is a tale of how the inhabitants of the town become puzzled and perplexed as their Reverend begins to wear a black veil to cover his identity without explanation. The author introduces a protagonist and...

The short stories "The Jewelry" by Guy de Maupassant and "The Birthmark" by Nathanial Hawthorne are works of literature that have substance, form, and compositional similarities. Both pieces of literature concerning marriage were written at the same time in the 1800s, with “The Jewelry” published in 1884 and “The Birthmark”...

Krebs Struggle to Adjust after the WarKrebs anticipated that things would be the same at home after he returned from the war. They were, with the exception of one. Looking around, the town was getting older, and the ladies had matured into adult adults. It was not his expectation...

Shakespeare s plays have been divided by scholars into different categories, including comedies and dramas. The playwright has shown considerable talent in exemplifying styles in his productions, but not to excellence, as most critics point out. In some ways, his play starts as a joke but concludes as a tragedy....

Choosing the right solution to discovery steps in Robert Frost's The Path Not Taken and Alfred, Lord Tennyson's The Eagle Robert Frost, the well-known author of "The ROAD Not Taken," was born in San Francisco, California in 1876. He stayed in the city for eleven years, until his father, William Prescott...