Introduction Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, 'The Great Gatsby,' explores various themes that resonate with readers across time. Set against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald delves into the complexities of wealth, love, social class, and the elusive nature of the American Dream. This essay will examine and analyze some of the key themes in 'The Great Gatsby,' shedding light...
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Introduction Scott Fitzgerald's novel, 'The Great Gatsby,' has captivated readers for decades with its exploration of wealth, love, and the American Dream. In 1974, director Jack Clayton brought the story to the silver screen, starring Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby and Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan. While both the book and the movie share the same narrative foundation, there are...
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Introduction The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is considered a classic of American literature. It tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious and wealthy figure in 1920s New York, and explores themes of wealth, love, and the American Dream. However, despite its critical acclaim and literary significance, The Great Gatsby has faced numerous challenges and attempts at...
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Violence suppressed in the protected walls of a house, murder carried out in the middle of the night, busted pop bottles, burned churches - all of this and more happens in the novel ‘The Outsiders’ written by S. E. Hinton, where there are many tough guys, and the toughest one of them is Dallas Winston. Through Dallas, Hinton tried to...
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“[Austen] began by being an ironical critic; she manifested her judgement of them not by direct censure, but by the indirect method of imitating and exaggerating the faults of her models, thus clearing the fountain by first stirring up the mud. This critical spirit lies at the foundation of her artistic faculty. Criticism, humour, irony, the judgement not of one...
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Personal privacy and individualism among humans are what make unique individuals who all contribute something different to society. Microcosm criticism focuses on the internal society created in the novel and ignores the time and place in which it was written. It focuses heavily on unacknowledged societal structures in our society. Usually, it has an underlying connection to the society at...
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The force that causes and controls all events, so that you cannot change or control how events unfold, is called fate. Along with the various themes presented in ‘Beowulf’, the theme of fate is one of the key ones, and it can be traced primarily concerning death and its perception by the characters of the poem. The characters in ‘Beowulf’...
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Literature grants a voice for an individual to project their thoughts, feelings, and experiences enabling them to escape from reality. In both 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' and 'The Kite Runner' the novels explore the impact of relationships in a war-stricken Afghanistan as a mechanism to convey the voice of the people in Afghanistan. Hosseini centralizes the female narrative at the...
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The color purple and pop culture The Colour Purple is a film that manages to encompass the reciprocity of language, race, gender, and power divisions. The film through its use of black American language produces new narratives, which serve to offer new perspectives and tell the stories of 3 black women, which would otherwise remain unheard. African American women in...
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Essay Question: How do feminist artists/creators challenge, subvert, or resist oppression? Description: For this essay, you will choose an example of a feminist cultural text or set of related texts that you will read through the concepts, arguments, and perspectives of the course to say something about how feminist artists/creators challenge, subvert or resist oppression. Some examples of cultural texts...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne sets the character and story of“Young Goodman Brown”(YGB) in the colony of Massachusetts town of Salem, where the Puritans tried to create a religious society with strict morals and pious standards, but also where the infamous Salem Witch Trials occurred. These trials killed the lives of many innocent people and tarnished the names of countless others. The people...
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The short story “Araby” is about an unnamed young boy living with his aunt and uncle in Dublin, Ireland. The boy lives on a quiet, blind street with several houses and the Christian Brother’s school, which the boy attends. He likes looking through the belongings left behind by the former tenant of his house, a priest who died in the...
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“Some people create their storms and then get mad when it rains.” is a quote about someone ruining their own life by decisions that they make. In the parable The Pearl by John Steinbeck, the main character Kino finds a pearl and leads his family to tragic events through his actions and behaviors. Kino is most responsible for all the...
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The story entitled Young Goodman Brown is about Goodman Brown himself. The protagonist in the story is Goodman Brown, who was three months married to Faith. He is a religious person who went on an errand, leaving his wife alone. His errand became a journey in a forest where he met an old man holding a staff, which was the...
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Morrie Schwartz was a 78-year-old man with a tremendous amount of courage, wisdom, and many life lessons to offer the world. He shared his knowledge with his students as he taught sociology at Brandeis University. His diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) opened his eyes to many things in life that he never thought twice about before. He began to...
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A remarkable and inspiring story about an old professor and his former student. Based on true events written by the former student himself, Mitch Albom. With a great extent of help from the old professor’s friends, family, and colleagues, they tell and embark the story of Morrie and how he changed the lives of every person whom he came across....
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“Never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game.” Samantha Martin said this exact quote in the movie, A Cinderella Story. Throughout the lives of others, they often come across complications that can lead to fears in themselves. It is no lie that fear is everywhere. The past, present, and future of ourselves, include fear. Fearing...
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Introduction In Khaled Hosseini's seminal novel, The Kite Runner, the complex interplay of loyalty and betrayal serves as a crucial thematic underpinning that shapes the narrative's emotional and moral landscape. This intricate tapestry of human relationships is woven around the protagonist, Amir, and his interactions with Hassan, a loyal yet socially marginalized friend. The narrative explores how loyalty is both...
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The Call of the Wild is the first novel that I’ve read. This novel taught me how important of relationship between humans and animals is. I learned that you have to use your own feet and don’t rely on others to survive. Also, the lesson that I can take from this novel is that never give up, you have to...
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The Danger of Loyalty Imagine doing everything for someone worthwhile and then knowing that you won’t get that in return. Loyalty is one of the most kingly traits in the eyes of past and current generations. This is why it receives so much attention, as it can be a part of a healthy and inspiring relationship or as a character...
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This is an extract from the moral play called 'Everyman' by Anonymous. Eventually before this extract, the messenger begins by revealing two themes such as sin and death which depict the cause of death to human beings. In the given extract, God wails over people who do not obey His rules and instead choose material things, friends, and money which...
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On its cosmic pedestal, the sun was like the fire that had sent us out of the sky, only worse. It wore and dried us up in the desert for who knows how long. With twenty other people, it was something like a bad dream. So when it came over the mountains like a cupped hand of salvation, we all...
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Self-awareness is key to being a good person, no matter how the term “good” is defined. Being self-aware allows one to see when they’re straying away from the path they want to take and to correct any behaviors that drove them off in the first place. The story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne explores how a lack of self-awareness...
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Slavery is the social practice in which someone has property rights over another person, who is consequently called a slave. For a long time, slaves were considered a product. Prices changed according to physical conditions, professional skills, sex, age, etc. The only aspect that did not change was their color; they were all black. In present times, this topic is...
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Leadership is always a big deal in different kingdoms, nations, and countries. Whereby other leaders become ambitious and ruthless. The following piece of writing will outline Creon's law, the importance of his law, the period it took him to change it, and either the fairness or unfairness of this law. Creon establishes his law to reinforce his power and make...
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Reality has flaws and situations that are less than ideal, while fantasy can be filled with nothing but a person’s desires. The disappointments reality can bring are the complete opposite of the bliss of fantasy. Just because fantasy is more desirable, living in it can have its flaws too. Although reality may be displeasing compared to a fantasy, making the...
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Fear of death is a phenomenon that exists in all animals including humans, the only difference is how each person reacts to their anxiety and fear. But why are people afraid of death? Because of love, people love everything that they own, and they do not want to forfeit them; however, they know they cannot make any changes since their...
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The transition of how women are perceived from the 20th century to then, post-modern times is differential and quite arguably, dramatic. In both 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Catcher In The Rye' there is a significant pattern of subversion against stereotypes, specifically women. More specifically, this is shown through the contrast of both female protagonists in 'A Streetcar Named Desire',...
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“The Coddling of the American Mind” written by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt is an essay examining the rise of speech restrictions on college campuses, the demand for trigger warnings, and the policing of microaggressions. This book ties in with the theme of where one comes from and their core values affect their chance of getting certain jobs and learning...
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Walden, written by Henry David Thoreau, introduction and annotations by Bill McKibben, follows the life and observations of Thoreau as he lived apart from civilization for two years and two months near Concord, Massachusetts. During this time, he encounters many different individuals who assist him in forming his ideas of life and society. Thoreau argues that by living a life...
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