Book Essays
Why did Macbeth kill Duncan
IntroductionMacbeth’s fatal downfall did not result from any one factor. We can emphatically say it was caused by a specific combination of three dark forces: supernatural,…
Gender roles in Macbeth
IntroductionGender socialization and pre-existing stereotypical gender roles have eternally existed in society, producing a significant impact on how people are expected to function as individuals. In…
Masculinity in Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” is packed with many themes, with masculinity taking center stage in the novel. Achebe uses the protagonist, Okonkwo, to demonstrate the…
Gender Roles in Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart provides a profound insight into African culture before the colonial period. Although the novel was published in 1958, post-colonial period, Achebe…
Literary Analysis of Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is a postcolonial novel published in 1958 depicting life before colonial influence in Nigeria. The author’s debut novel is a response…
The Great Gatsby Gender Roles
Scott Fitzgerald’s book, “The Great Gatsby,” writes about gender roles conservatively, portraying women as having fewer rights than men who take this opportunity to establish power…
Gender Roles in “The Hunger Games”
Gender roles are the social norms that specify how a member of a particular sex should behave, think and speak. For example, society often portrays women…
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth has a setting based on Scotland and Europe. Macbeth is introduced as a war hero, holder of an impeccable reputation who has nothing…
Examine the relationship between the Macbeth’s heroic qualities and his…
Macbeth presents a tragic hero since he was initially a good man who was brought down via the manipulation of his sisters and wife resulting in…
Source Analysis of Porters Speech in Macbeth
SummaryAct 2 scene 3 is whereby King Duncan is discovered murdered in his chambers. Beginning with a sound of knocking from off stage, enters a drunken…
Janie Mae Crawford
Janie Mae Crawford is the protagonist in the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” (1937) that forms part of the works of Zora Neale Hurston. Different…
A Rose for Emily Critical Analysis
IntroductionThe character of Emily is an isolated, desperate relic of the South. For many years, Emily lived as a loner, having withdrawn from her family to…
Use of literary devices in ‘A Rose for Emily’
‘A Rose for Emily’, by William Faulkner in 1930, is a story of a pauper, white dowager Miss Emily Grierson who lives a lonely life in…
Faulkner Versus Hemingway
Compare and contrast William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway with respect to “A rose for Emily” and ” the Snows of Kilimanjaro”The Modernist Period in English Literature…
Orwell’s ‘Shooting an Elephant’
George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” is an illustration of how the powerful manipulates the frail individuals in the society for their gain. The narrative tells a…
Somadeva’s “The Red Lotus of Chastity”
In various literatures across the world from different periods, the hero or heroine often disguises herself or himself in order to accomplish certain task which would…
Disgraced
The confrontations, heated conversations, and disagreements between the four main actors in the play Disgraced illuminate the realities of racism and prejudice in the twenty-first century….
Friendship in Of Mice and Men
In John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men,’ the main characters portray the value of friendship in their lives. They recognize that since they do not have…
Nature Vs Nurture in Frankenstein
IntroductionThe nature vs nurture issue is at the heart of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. The debate is based on the controversial topic regarding what makes an…
Beowulf Literary Analysis
“Beowulf” is an Anglo-Saxon-based poem anonymously authored with entertaining and didactic purposes. Besides entertaining the cultural group that depended on oratory narration to learn their culture,…