Essays on Literature

Irony as a literary device has been used in order to achieve a sense of reality within works of fiction. It can be seen a sort of contrast between the surface meaning of something that is said or done and the actual, underlying meaning of…

There are many different attitudes to the purposes of education presented in The History Boys and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. We see many examples of Hector’s traditional views on education compared to Irwin’s pragmatic views about taking an unusual position in debates in…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a science-fiction parody novel by Douglas Adams. It can be classified as an absurdist story where the protagonist searches a meaning to life. Throughout this character’s journey, he’s faced with multiple obstacles which are totally absurd events that…

Andrew Marvell’s “Ametas and Thestylis Making Hay Ropes” is an entertaining critique of the limitations in the 16th century. The oppression applied by the those who occupied power on literature had deeply influenced the characteristic of classic literature that is still being analyzed and as…

Since the beginning of time, people were born different; everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, but some flaws are seen worse than others; discrimination, therefore, becomes a common occurrence. In the essays, “Stranger in the Village” and “On Being a Cripple”, two types of…

At the time that E.M Forster wrote this novel about his experience about India, the British Raj was going on. The British took over India because they aided them but promised to give them a role in the government. Of course this did not happen…

Suspense is the extraordinary inclination that a crowd of people experiences while hanging tight for the result of specific occasions. It essentially leaves the audience holding their breath and needing more. Like in the short story’s Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, A Good Man is…

In this version of the Disney classic, Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent is betrayed by her “true love,” a man named Stefan, who mercilessly cuts off her wings for the king in return for becoming his heir. Maleficent is hysterical when realizes what happened, so, when Stefan…

The novel has many different locations in which it is set in. Most of White Fang takes place in the Yukon Territory which is a section of Canada. The territory is very icy and cold. The area is full of beautiful mountains and lakes. It…

The text The Crying of Lot 49 is a book written by Thomas Pynchon the dwells on the life of an American housewife. Distinctively, the setting of the book is in the 1960s when the postal system was the main medium of communication. In the…