Literature Essays

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…

“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…

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…

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…

The literary work that will be discussed is “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway. The aspect of work that I will work on is the…

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…

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…

Throughout the iconic Shakespearean play “Romeo and Juliet,” external forces, particularly those coming from the ongoing vendetta between the families of Montagues and Capulets, continuously challenge…

Macbeth is a protagonist in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth (1623). This story discovers the life path of a talented Scottish general who moved from being a respected…

IntroductionThe events of the Salem Witch Trials, which took place in 1692, were the focus of the film The Crucible, released in 1996. The film was…

There is no doubt that Shakespeare has had the opportunity to influence or affect literature more than other writers in the history of humanity. Based on…

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…

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…

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…

IntroductionThe play Fences by August Wilson is set in the 1950s and focuses on the life of Troy who is a 53-year-old struggling to make ends…

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…

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 play A Midsummer’s Night Dream authored by Shakespeare displays different aspect that can be applied to improving human interactions. Particularly, the relationship between the two…

The novel Huckleberry Finn is an embodiment of the racism that was much apparent after many decades of Emancipation Proclamation and the ending of the Civil…

For a very long time, racism and identity crisis have been a challenge across the world. There are races that claim to be superior to others…