Essays on Imagery in Literature

The techniques used in Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion and the film, Man with a Movie Camera both include imagery in numerous ways. Imagery can be very effective because it allows the reader or audience to create a scene in their own perception of…

Have you ever had a miscommunication in your life that caused a little mess up but everything was better afterward? What If because of miscommunication two teen lovers killed themselves and another was murdered. Three lives were lost all because someone couldn’t get a message…

A Thousand Splendid Suns (384 pages) is an extremely heartbreaking yet inspirational novel that accentuates the hardships several Afghan women suffered as a result of the abusive control of the Taliban and the war of Afghanistan. This unforgettable novel was written in 2007 by an…

It is common for individuals to look at others and whether it be subconsciously or consciously, judge, many without realizing the traits mocked in others are the same traits they themselves have. In Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov, is a student…

Today, most people have religious beliefs. Trust is a state of mind when we consider something true even if we are not 100% sure or can prove it. Everyone has a belief in life and the world they experience. The mutual support creates a system…

In exploring these two works, Twelfth Night and Othello, we see that deception is of considerable causality in the damnation of the othered characters Malvolio and Othello through significant tokens of a counterfeited letter and an embroidered handkerchief. As both Maria and Iago are aware…

In “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” Robert Frost conveys many messages. The poem is, on the surface, about nature and the changing of the seasons. If you go deeper into the meaning of the poem you will find a different theme of innocence. Frost relates the…

Nelson Mandela once said, “Freedom can not be achieved unless the woman have been emancipated from all forms of oppression”. As true as this statement rings, it’s not an original one. The discussion of the oppressed woman had been around over a century before he…

Edwin Arlington Robinson battled with depression all through the broader part of his life, It is nothing unexpected that this unpleasantness that hampered his youthfulness is expressed in his most acclaimed poem, ‘Richard Cory’. The poem ‘Richard Cory” is a standout amongst Robinson’s most celebrated and powerful ohms. It…

The Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls is a beautifully told story of her not-so-average life. She talks about her dad, a smart engineer who cares about his children and has taught them many important lessons. But, when he drinks, he turns damaging and untrustworthy….

In the novel “in cold blood”, a family of four is murdered horrifically in a small town named Holcomb, Kansas that has the whole town in shock and fear. Truman Capote wrote this to argue the controversial topic of capital punishment. Capote throughout the book…

The butterfly effect is the belief that something as insignificant as the flap of a butterfly’s wings can start something as catastrophic as an entire hurricane. Although many people believe fate decides the course of a person’s life, the butterfly effect is a much more…

Medea is a story about a Barbarian woman in Greece, who, feeling unloved and alienated from Greek society, wreaks havoc on her husband for cheating on her by murdering their own two children. Animal imagery does not occur very frequently but is used by Euripides…

In today’s society, it is nearly impossible to think of an original idea. Almost everything has been thought of before at some point. This is why Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is so well known. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a novel about an…

What do you do when your life turns around and you find out everything you have trusted your whole life has a completely different story behind it? You change. That is exactly what happens to Jonas in the book “The Giver” by Lois Lowry. Through…