Literary Criticism Essay Examples and Topics

Both Oliver Twist and Jane Eyre are stories that tackle the dilemma of Victorian society’s power struggles, the issues with discrimination and the hardships of class mobility. Many parallels can be drawn between the two eponymous characters. They are both born orphans and spend the…

The fictional memoir of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle narrates the life of Diedrich Knickerbocker, a man residing in a small village in the Catskill mountains, who finds particular interest in recounting the histories and rich anecdotes from Dutch descendants of New York. Although Knickerbocker…

Although Gimpel did not die a fool he lived his life primarily as a fool. Singers use of “Gimpel the Fool” demonstrated two lower levels of the human scale. The first is the cowards ability to justify to himself the reasoning behind his behavior. The…

The Distortion of the Fairytale One of the longest thriving gatherings in the world has been storytelling. Originally storytelling was just what it sounds like: telling a story. Sitting with a group of people in a community and telling a fable about anything from a…

In the essay “How to Mark a Book” written by Mortimer Adler, he wants to convince readers to truly appreciate the work of a book by reading and writing “between the lines to get the most out of anything” in the first paragraph. He criticizes…

Although each character goes through completely different experiences Alex’s, Meursault’s, and Victor’s moral ambiguity forces them each to make unethical decisions that destroy their own lives and those around them. Due to his lack of morality, Alex acts in a violent and destructive manor that…

Identify the message for a change in this text- theme The message for a change in this text revolves around the idea of confinement and restrictions, specifically on women. The main character in this story is facing postpartum depression. Her husband would constantly tell her…

As both theories of Feminism and Historicism are deemed to be essential parts of this paper, they should be explained. Elaine Showalter argues that women’s writing was underestimated by the male commentators. She separated feminist criticism into two particular assortments. The first is entitled ‘women…

Feminist theories appeared in 1792. Sojourner’s Ain’t I a Woman (1851) addresses the way that women’s rights are limited by flawed representational factors. Women of color are often represented by historically rooted subjective social constructions that marginalize them. This is better explained through the concept…

Emile Zola’s The Ladies’ Paradise, published in 1883 is an important text in which Zola explores social perspectives and depicts extensive socio-economic experiences through his representation of the department store, based on Paris’ first department store of the Second Empire. Zola expressed that he wanted…

Greek playwright Euripides is known to have very complex female lead roles in many of his tragedies. Medea is one of Euripides’s best-known works that demonstrates the thematic idea of the feminist viewpoint. The story follows a wife named Medea who ends up murdering her…

In Krishna Varma’s story “The Grass Eaters”, story takes place in the past in Calcutta, India. Basically, The Grass Eaters set at the time of religion dispute between Hindu and Muslim also when independence in India was big issue. Whereas, in “A Women Like Me”…

This essay aims to take a look into the play ‘King Lear’ written by William Shakespeare, using both the feminist and psychoanalytical critical approach. Like most of Shakespeare’s tragedies, King Lear can be identified on various levels and from a diversity of critical perspectives, due…

Abstract Day by day the population of Bangladesh is increasing and it’s getting more tougher and tougher for government to reach the door to door of the people. When any of the facilities has provided for the people of the state, the most of the…

Set in 1800s Britain, Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park at first glace seems to conform to the gender stereotypes of the day. Fanny Price is at first glance “timid and shy, and shrinking from notice”, she seems to conform to much of the negative gender stereotypes,…