Essays on Literature

In the novel Uglies by Scott Westerfield, the author skillfully utilizes characterization to make his characters believable. Characterization is when the writer reveals the personality of a character. Direct characterization is when the author directly states the character trait. The protagonist or main character in…

Imagine not being able to be yourself, read books, or make decisions on your own, this was normalized for Montag and Tally until they met the people that would change their perspective on everything. In Uglies, all sixteen-year-old children are required to have cosmetic surgery…

Despite the various books and films depicting the Holocaust and the war against the Nazis, no one can truly understand life in the concentration camps and the atrocities the Jews faced unless experienced first-hand. We are privileged to gain insight from the personal accounts of…

Primo Levi’s memoir, Survival in Auschwitz, paints a vivid and horrifying picture of the life of a prisoner in Auschwitz during World War Two. The description of everyday life consisted of mental, emotional and physical struggle. Prisoners who entered the camp had everything stripped from…

Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz revealed the cruel ruthless torture that occurred daily in one of the most famous concentration camps – Auschwitz. His personal story revealed the harsh reality of survival and the endless struggle to hold on to any form of humanity. Those…

James Joyce’s complex and riveting novel Ulysses features many parallaxes and deep complexities within it. Themes of paternity and maternity issues, self-identity, and heroism are some composites that makeup Ulysses. In the first set of chapters, we meet multiple men of Dublin. The male characters…

This essay will examine James Joyce’s use of a different narrative voice in his novel Ulysses (1922). It will discuss how his focus on the inner workings of the individual mind, provides a deeper look into the perspective, thoughts and feelings of the characters of…

James Joyce’s Ulysses represents one of the most important works of modernist literature. The name of the novel is a Latinised name of Homer’s Odysseus and there are many parallels between the two works. The novel has been highly controversial and considered to be obscene…

Gender has always been a controversial topic among humans and will continue to be this way. This has been shown through many works of literature through many generations and societies. The Petrified Man by Eudora Welty, and Snow White by Brothers Grimm, are two works…

When examining Snow White in a feminist perspective, it is seemingly apparent that the protagonist represents the stereotypical standards of a female in a patriachial society. Snow White’s beauty, behaviour, and role as a woman ultimately suggests that women who conform to the ideal standards…