📚 Literature Essays

Throughout the Italian campaign of World War I, Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley, two characters in A Farewell to Arms, had a tumultuous relationship. The…

In Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, Robert Jordan, a supporter of the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War, joins a squad of…

Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea is an intriguing short story that revolves around the relationship between man and nature. The story, published…

Ernest Hemingway’s the Old Man and the Sea recounts the story of a senior citizen faced with perpetual bad luck in a fishing village in…

Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea is a celebrated novella that has resonated with generations of readers. Riveting in the narrative, it sees…

Antigone is one of the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles’ creative works. The play recounts the struggles of Antigone, a fictional female character who rebels against…

The short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut was first published in 1961. Kurt Vonnegut’s novel is set in a dystopian future in which the…

Flowers for Algernon is a story by Daniel Keyes, an American author who later expanded it into a novel that was subsequently adopted for filmmaking….

Flowers for Algernon, a short story and later a novel by Daniel Keyes, tells the story of a laboratory mouse named Algernon who undergoes experimental…

The literary device of conflict was crucial in developing the plot of this work. The author takes a dispassionate third-person conflict and describes it in…

Despite an unknown number of studies and untold billions spent on research, the jury is still out on whether violent behavior is instinctual or learned….

Hamilton, Edith. Mythology: Timeless tales of gods and heroes. Hachette UK, 2017. This book by Edith Hamilton brings the modern to the reader to the…

First published in 1918, Jane Austen’s novel of manners, Pride and Prejudice, explores the emotional development and maturity of the novel’s protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, as…

In several occasions, one might find that things do not work as they had expected and this might contradict the emotions related to the occasion. …

It is possible to have differing social classes within a tightly-knit nuclear family. “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”, as written by Joyce…

Introduction The widespread criticism of Desdemona’s character in Othello is that she represents an inactive figure, noble but lacking in true depth and determination, and…

Introduction The character of Iago as the embodiment of jealousy, resentment and prejudice in William Shakespeare’s play Othello is the leading theme from the beginning…

Introduction The fundamental issue and the primary driving force of the plot of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Othello is definitely jealousy. This statement can be drawn…

Introduction In the outstanding novel “1984”, war signifies peace, freedom is the same as slavery, and ignorance is the major force. The plot of the…

Introduction Social control is, basically, a community and political system that regulates the behavior of a person or group. The novel “1984” by George Orwell…