Essays on Literature

Gregor’s family are only human and their disdain for him germinates. “‘Gregor, you!’ yelled the sister, glaring fiercely and raising her fist. These were her first direct words to him since the metamorphosis” (Kafka). Subsequent to their mother fainting, Grete screams at Gregor when she…

The Metamorphosis is about a man’s obligation to his family. He hates his job of being a traveling salesman, but does anyway so he can support his family’s debt. Gregor wishes that he could be free of his dreadful job with an odious employer. He…

The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka expertly utilizes the power of language to demonstrate an inconsistency in the level of assigned power amongst the individual characters. In The Metamorphosis, the characters have varying levels of power in part due to their predicated societal gender roles. This…

This article traces a historical shift in moral and political thought. There is a commonplace in François Fénelon’s ‘The Adventures of Telemachus, Son of Ulysses’ and Voltaire’s ‘Candide’, as the two authors base their tales in the political context of the late seventeenth and early…

If a person experiences tons of tragedies, then, can the person still have hope for tomorrow? The answer is probably no. When people lose everything without themselves, how do they think to live for tomorrow? A novel tells the answer to these: Candide, written by…

Candide is a satire that was first published in 1759 by French writer, philosopher, and historian Voltaire, who lived during the Age of Enlightenment. This book satirizes the Utopianism, and other philosophical revelations that had spread among some of the movements truest believers. (Denis Diderot,…

“That’s the picture I was looking for”, said Everyman. “Let’s see how many likes this will get on facebook.” The last thing Everyman did every night was to look at his Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat before closing his eyes and diving into the land…

Was Milkman destined to fly? Possibly he was just bound to the existence of flight? This is the choice that Toni Morrison has offered to the readers. From the very beginning Milkman is brought into the world under a confusing cloud and he lives a…

In her third novel, ‘Song of Solomon’, Morrison uses the chorus as ritual dance, song and commentary, and thereby highlights the archetypal quality and extend her audience beyond the actual communities through which Milkman journeys and gains a greater knowledge of his past and himself…

Macon Dead II, the father of Milkman and husband to Ruth Foster, has been traumatized by watching his father be mistreated and eventually murdered during a brawl over the family farm. “Your father was a slave?” “What kind of foolish question is that? Course he…