Essays on Literature

Love and Other Drugs is a 2010 romantic comedy set starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Jamie Randall, a drug representative for Pfizer. Set in the year 1992, Randall’s mission is to convince doctors to prescribe the antidepressant Zolfolt rather than Prozac, the drug which is currently…

It’s raining. He wipes away at her perfectly smeared makeup on her delicately painted face. After a dramatic pause, they share a passion filled kiss as a symphony engulfs them. Then, the music suddenly cuts and a person in a director’s chair tells them they…

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, humanity is cast under the shadow of physical form rather than character. As such, one must deeply analyze the emotional and not the physical attributes of characters. For the most part, society exudes monstrous behavior that conflicts humanity. For instance, the…

The Maze Runner was written by James Dashner and published in 2009. The Maze Runner is a perfect book for someone who loves to read but doesn’t like to be reminded by long words and also for someone who loves action and adventure. In 2014,…

Charles Perrault’s original version of “Blue Beard” is about a very rich blue bearded man who looked scary and was despised by most people. Besides the fact that Blue Beard was unattractive, he underwent several wives in which all of them started crossing their marital…

In To Kill a Mockingbird, the author, Harper Lee, uses her unique characters to create a story based on racism and segregation. The book takes place in a small, southern town known as Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression. The story is being told through…

The book Gulliver’s Travel has a lot of themes. There are 3 themes in the book that are like the major and important in the book. So, what are the themes in the book? The 3 themes that are important and appropriate for the book…

Living Like Weasels is a fascinatingly beautiful story about an encounter between the writer and a wild weasel; an encounter that she claims is the first of its kind for her. While considering the weasel, the writer expounds on a number of ideas, especially those…

“Solder’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway introduces us to a man we only know as Krebs, a former Marine who struggles to connect back with reality back from the war. After the Great War, there were some psychological impacts that affected fighters’ social lives after the…

The comedy genre has existed for as long as we can remember and has consistently released many hilarious films since the dawn of its day. Some of my personal favorites in this genre are the films 21 Jumpstreet and We’re the Millers. Both of these…