Book Essays
A Raisin in the Sun Gender Roles
The theme of gender roles plays a vital position in the play A Raising in the Sun. The period that saw the writing of A Raising…
A Raisin in the Sun Racism
Racism is having negative feelings against people of a different race due to a sense of superiority in one’s society. However, many people’s simplistic assumptions about…
King Claudius criticizes Hamlet for his continued mourning over King…
HonorificsThe king Claudius uses you as an expression for a person in a superior position. A first scenario, King Claudius said, “’this must be so.’ We…
Novel analysis: If He Hollers Let Him Go
Bob Jones is the main character in the novel If He Hollers Let Him Go that is set in Los Angeles during the 1940’s. During this…
Symbolism in Hills Like White Elephants
“Hills like White Elephants” is a puzzling short story that uses symbolism to fulfill Hemingway’s thematic purposes. The writer uses an untraditional method of telling where…
What inspired Arthur Miller to write The Crucible
The award-winning author of The Crucible, best known for his play, “Death of a Salesman,” craftily puts a 1950s political allegory in a play with hysteria…
A literary analysis of the Story of an Hour
Should death bring sorrow or happiness? The Story of an Hour is a short piece written by Kate Chopin in 1894 and published in the late…
A book report on Animal Farm
IntroductionThis work examines the work by George Orwell on Animal Farm. The book is an excellent piece that employs different artistic styles in using animals as the…
Character analysis of John Proctor in The Crucible
The Crucible is a play by American author and playwright Arthur Miller in 1953. The play was influenced by the Salem Witch hunts in 1962, which…
Criticism of ‘Sonny’s Blues’
Sonny’s Blues is a short-story reflecting on the struggles of African-American youth in America and especially Harlem. The short story centers on the life of the…
How is Macbeth a Tragic Hero?
A tragic hero is a literary device commonly used across almost every piece ever written by the genius of British literature, William Shakespeare. When readers immerse…
Historiography about William Shakespeare
IntroductionThe question whether Shakespeare was the true author of his plays has been of much controversy for the last two centuries. Literary critics and scholars have…
Queer temporalities: Waters’ The Night Watch
The Second World War provides an important historical backdrop to Sarah Waters’ (2006) novel, The Night Watch, as it relaxed the gender basis of employment and…
Feminist criticism
Many authors have written different literary works addressing the concept of feminist criticism. Feminist criticism mainly deals with political act with the aim of changing the…
The male figure in Fredrick Douglass’ “The Heroic Slave”
Black slaves were subjected to inhumane treatment at the hands of their slave masters. White slave masters had to reduce the black African slaves to inferior…
Forgive me, Leonardo Peacock, By Matthew Quick
Forgive me, Leonard Peacock is a book about a young boy who contemplates what he wants in life, due to the challenges he had faced as…
How does Andrew feel about being Vietnamese now
During the Vietnam War, a lot of people died, property was destroyed and some others fled to other countries. Some of those like Andrew escaped to…
Profile essay on gothic literature
Gothic literature is the reason behind low atmosphere, ghosts and vampires in the movies, terror in theaters and new bizarre romance found in the novels in…
Exploration of humanities: Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the…
I read the story “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan. The book was first published in 1839. The story starts in a…
A Rose for Emily analysis
William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is a 1930 short story published as one of the collections of its author, These Thirteen. The story revolves around…