Forster through his novel “A Passage to India” stresses on the Oriental notions further. Written with an aim to eradicate the darkness attributed to India by the Englishmen, the novel in turn exoticises India to a large extent. He evaluates the ‘Other’ in a myriad…
Essays on Literary Genres
A Novel of Reincarnation, a historical fictional romance novel by Samyann, is a story of self-discovery and deliverance from doubt and fear. We follow the main character Amanda Parker who, by a chance encounter, meets and saves the life of a Chicago Mounted police officer,…
S. E. Hinton’s iconic novel The Outsiders is about 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy thinks that there are only two types of people on this planet: greasers and Socs. Socs, short for socials, are the west-side rich kids that have nothing to worry about with their…
In their time as an author, writers write many great books but this paper is about an author named Madeleine L’Engle and her life and journey as an author. Madeleine L’Engle is an author who wrote many books in her time, her best one being…
J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is based entirely on the protagonist’s point of view, Holden Caulfied. This helps the reader to analyze the character’s thoughts and actions based on their own personal morals. The Catcher in the Rye is the story of Holden…
In Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony, poetry is paired alongside text to communicate traditional perceptions of healing. In the novel, folklore presents a collective and holistic outlook on modern medicine. This is important since Western medical techniques are not always beneficial in the cultural context…
“Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus’ is a novel written by Mary Shelley and is published in the year 1818 in three volumes. The novel can be said to have marveled on various aspects such as narrative technique, theme, realism, and appropriate representation of the socio-political…
Throughout the novel, Chris McCandless goes on a journey on his own to go into the wild and attempts to achieve his goal. Chris had little resources to start off and relied on himself to make it to Alaska. Chris encounters many people offer him…
“The Tuft of Flowers,” “Mowing,” and “After Apple-Picking,” – Robert Frost poems show his unique view of nature and its connections to the human world. Beginning his career in New Hampshire, he moved his family to England where he met with Ezra Pound who helped…
Everybody grows up wither you like it or not, there are things you cannot unseen and things you can’t speak of “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that…
In William Golding’s famous Lord of the Flies, the absence of females is very evident, consistently throughout the novel. Since the earliest eras of society, women have been perceived as inferior, always fighting for equality and justice against oppression. Seeing as the novel was written…
Frankenstein is one such story that is considered to be utterly significant. The author, Mary Shelley, does this by incorporating a mentor who dramatically changes how the character views not only himself, but the world itself. Such instance is the professor, Waldon, who inspires Victor…
There is a frequently repeated saying that human curiosity is the driver of progress. In most of the cases, people perceive this thesis in a positive context since scientific progress is associated with positive changes. However, knowledge dangerous knowledge in Frankenstein and science have their…
“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.” That is one of Wilfred Owen’s famous quotes demonstrating that he writes his opinion on the devastation of war and tries to inform the reader about it in his writing….
What makes someone or something a monster? Many would argue that a monster is something that is cruel, inhumane, and abnormal. In our current society, there are many examples of monsters shown through movies, television, and literature. In the very popular novel, Frankenstein, by Mary…
