Essays on Writers

Forbidden Joy of Independence and the Oppressiveness of Marriage Kate Chopin's The Tale of an Hour is a reflection of late-nineteenth-century customs in which most of American society retained the profoundly rooted norm that women are inferior and should therefore remain dependent on their husbands. Women were essentially supposed to cook,...

Modernism in Hemingway’s masterpieces is evident thru the two texts in the Soldiers home and the two big hearted river. In the two big hearted river, Hemingway makes use of Nick as the man character who comes back from the war to locate the burnt down and even there are...

In Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, he highlights several examples of bravery and heroism in the small Alabama town that is mocked for its social tensions and suffering. Throughout the two years that they spent in Alabama, the novel focuses on Finch's family. Scout, Jem, Atticus, and Tom...

Dr. Laura Bates and the Rehabilitation Program Dr Laura Bates was rehabilitating prisoners in a maximum security state prison; she requested the inmates an assignment about Shakespeare’s works. The other inmates submitted short responses however Newton gave a one-page answer, earning him a place in her program, “Shakespeare in Shackles.” Shakespeare's Impact...

The play A Raisin in the Sun The play A Raisin in the Sun, talks about two key characters Walter and Beneathaboth from the same family who have alike traits. Beneatha, Walter's younger sister, is a college student who plans to go to medical school. She appears to the most intellectual...

J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, uses the ring of power to represent power, despair, and corruption. This iniquity is conceived by the ring of power, which is thought to exist solely for the purpose of bringing evil to the world and annihilating the human race....

The article, Shooting an Elephant The article, Shooting an Elephant, deals with George Orwell, who is a Moulmein police officer, a British Colony town in Burma (Orwell, 2014). The people of Burma and George's loathing The people of Burma have been acutely loathed by George because he is an English military occupier much...

J.K. Rowling's life and her masterpiece, Harry Potter J.K. Rowling's life is expressed in her most famous piece of art, Harry Potter. In specific, the friendship between Rowling and the characters in her novel is publicly and subtly mirrored in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in the characters and plots...

Because I couldn't stop for death, by Emily Dickinson, is the longest and most fascinating poem. Before she dies, the character continues to accept death. The poem's apparent message is that death will come to everyone, whether they are prepared or not. Nonetheless, from the speaker's point of view, death...

My relationship with writing My relationship with writing has been neither a clean nor a hard sailing. I can, therefore, describe it as an average experience the place I have had successful moments in my writing punctuated with some difficulties. Therefore, my relationship with writing is a low profile relationship that...

The poem “Mother to Son” with the aid of Langston Hughes is published in 1922. Its plot tells the reader life is not an easy ladder to climb. The poetic mask in the poem urges the son that lifestyles has not been easy for the mother. She discerns to him...

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was one of the most outstanding female authors, publishers and critics. Many postwar and interwar writers have been influenced by her writings. Her writings concentrated primarily on discussing the ideas of time and wealth, human emotions and consciousness. Virginia Woolf mentions two major crises she has...