The Color Purple, by the American novelist Alice Walker, is not only intense and insightful, but a very thought-provoking book to read. By intense and thought-provoking, I am speaking about how the book touches and analyzes incredibly difficult and trifling aspects of the life of a poverty-ridden, African American woman under oppression in the early twentieth century. The book is...
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The 17th century marked a shift from an age of faith to an age of reason. Literature represents the turbulence in society, religion, and the realm of this period. Life for the English people reformed as religious hullabaloo and civil war shook the nation. These issues reformulated the role of individuals in society, perspectives of faith, and social structures in...
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In J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in The Rye, the reader is presented to Holden Caulfield, a 17-year-old who’s retelling the story of him at 16 facing rough times. Holden starts off by telling us that he has been kicked out of another school, Pencey Prep. He from there decided to leave and head for New York City. He wandered around...
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Mark Twain began life in Florida, Missouri, where he was born on November 30, 1835. (“Major Works.”) Twain was originally named Samuel Langhorne Clemens, but later began using the pen name, Mark Twain. (“Major Works.”) He modeled his new name after terms that were used while he was on the river boat, mark meaning measure, and twain meaning two. (“Frequently...
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Introduction Intertextuality, a literary device that shapes new texts with references to existing ones, plays a crucial role in Jean Rhys's novel "Wide Sargasso Sea". Published in 1966, this novel serves as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's 1847 classic, "Jane Eyre", offering a revisionist perspective on the life of the character Bertha Mason, known in Rhys's work as Antoinette Cosway....
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Marriage is supposed to be beautiful and coping with each other. Where love is the main reason to still be together. The spouses can’t imagine life without each other. But what if it all turns upside down, death. The death of someone will impact the other and might fall into depression and sadness. In this case, it wasn’t so. The...
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Stephen King is a popular horror fiction author. Most of his novels fall into the category of horror fiction. His works are part of the modern era. In Pet Semetary, Stephen King develops the idea of man playing God and the repercussions of defying nature. Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine. He is the son...
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Law’s first problem with evil is that if there’s an omnibenevolent God, then why is there any evil put into the world at all (Law, 1:45)? This is the logical problem while the evidential problem is that although there might be a world where evil and an omniscient God can coexist, why is there such a large quantity of evil...
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In A Raisin In The Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, she introduces us to an African American family who has to endure poverty. Hansberry also shows us how the Younger’s members of the family value money the most, While their mother tries to show them the value of family. Mrs. Younger shows the value of family by wanting to invest in...
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Mental illness is a wide range of conditions that affects mood,thinking, and behavior. Mental illness is something that affects not only the person in many ways but it also affects their friends and family. Some examples of some mental illnesses are clinical depression which is when the person is always down and they lose interest in activities causing significant impairment...
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Effects of the past have come and affected people’s present as well as their future. In Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex, the reader sees how no matter how hard Oedipus himself tried to escape his past, it only caught up him sooner or later. Oedipus was sentenced with a prophecy at birth, due to this prophecy his past catches gig to him...
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Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury and The Maze Runner directed by Wes Ball show how governments use their power to utilise conformity and individuality to maintain control of the dystopian societies in the two texts. Ray Bradbury’s 2008 republishes version of his 1953 novel is set in a dystopian society that burns books in order to control dangerous ideas...
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“...flound’ring like a man in fire or lime…” Without context, this quote is just a meaningless jumble of words. Context plays a major role for modernist poets to communicate their message. The role of context is evident in Wilfred Owen’s poems Dulce et Decorum Est and Futility. Owen is able to portray his messages effectively with the aid of the...
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Authors often use literary devices to subtly reveal the theme of the work. There are different types of literary devices that can be used in different types of stories including symbolism, conflict, diction, connotation, or foreshadowing. However, through the use of irony and internal conflict, Cynthia Rylant and Judith Ortiz Cofer teach important lessons to the reader. In the short...
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The novel, ‘Parable of Sower’ by Octavia E. Butler was ahead of its time when it was published in 1993. The book is set in a prospect the 2020s where the government has buckled and centers the Lauren Olamina, who can feel and perceive pain along with many additional sensations. These feelings, consequentially, are what keep Lauren on her own...
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The Renaissance era was a major period in our world’s historical development as a whole with many influential creators, artists, astronomers and discoverers. One of the most commonly known creator in this time was Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci is mostly known for his flying machine blueprints, the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper as well as being centuries ahead...
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The Canterbury Tales was written by Geoffrey Chaucer most likely in the late 1380s and early 1390s. After Chaucer wrote The General Prologue, he continued to write more tales concerning the same characters’ stories. The General Prologue introduces the twenty-nine pilgrims and uses each character to represent how society was during that time period. In the narrative poem, The Canterbury...
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To this day in Australia, there are still one in sixth Australian children and young people living in poverty. Research has shown that these young people living in a disadvantage have access to fewer educational supplies, therefore creating a major impact on their future lives. How is Australia supposed to be one of the richest countries when in reality, we’re...
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For centuries war has been romanticized as a heroic battle between a purely good side and the evil side. Incredible heroes fight against evil and give peace back to the good. The good and innocent all live peacefully afterwards while the evil are punished and forced to take responsibility for the war that they inevitably have caused. This heroic and...
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Adolescence is defined as, the period of life when a child develops into an adult, the period from puberty to maturity terminating legally at the age of majority, the state or process of growing up, a stage of development (as of a language or culture)” by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Holden Caulfield in experiencing adolescence in J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the...
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Wide Sargasso Sea is a novel that was written as a response to the text Jane Eyre in 1966. The novel was written by Jean Rhys, who wrote the text to give a voice to Antoinette Cosway, and provide a background to her story before she became ‘the mad woman in the attic’ in Jane Eyre. As such, one of...
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Hermann’s Hesse’s novel Siddhartha and The Guide by R.K. Narayan both portray protagonists or rather main characters who somehow grow and go through a transformation throughout their story. When we first meet Siddhartha, he is a respected member of the Brahman caste, however, he becomes a Samana, and goes on a journey with the goal of becoming enlightened. Raja on...
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The notion of gender is fundamental to both the texts of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. They each centralise female characters who face oppression at the hands of their superior male counterparts as well as the pressures of surrounding society. Despite certain similarities, the unique responses of these characters are...
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The Tempest demonstrates fortune as a theme throughout the story. It may be difficult to see how this play demonstrates luck, but if looked at from the right angle it can be found. In the play there are many times when things look bleak, but if you look for the silver lining then you can see how truly fortunate the...
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The story of “The Yellow Wallpaper” discusses how depression will drive the mind to experience conflicts that will eventually lead to a mental breakdown. When Charlotte Perkins Gilman got married and had a baby what is considered the norm. The husband was isolating her by keeping her locked up in their home away from any social interactions with others. Gilman...
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Genre and film in itself, is greatly influenced by the culture and time of production. Its an integral part of the media itself and can’t be ignored when viewing genre through a critical lens. Although genre is an encompassing mode of identification for films and media, it is fluid and constantly changing through different eras and cultures. A single piece...
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Introduction to Janie Crawford's Marital Journey Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of Janie Crawford, with Janie ultimately serving as her own narrators. Her story begins with a flashback to her life as a young girl and traces her path through three different marriages. Throughout the various pages, the book is perhaps most salient...
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Introduction The Magna Carta, a seminal document in the annals of English history, represents a pivotal turning point in the regulation of medieval England. Sealed by King John of England in 1215, the Magna Carta was a result of the mounting discontent among the English barons against the autocratic and often arbitrary rule of the monarchy. This document laid the...
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil” and Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” each author uses different styles in which they convey their meaning to the Puritan religion to the readers. A more persuasive way to get the meaning across, correlating with Edwards, is that nothing dealing with God’s powers will restrain you from Hell....
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‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ written By Tennessee Williams in 1947. In A Streetcar named Desire Williams uses a range of drama devices to present Blanche’s deterioration mind. Drama devices are techniques used by playwrights to substitute for the reality presented to the audience through performance, and ‘give the audience information they could not get from a straightforward presentation of action’...
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