Essays on Writers

The character Daniel Plainview, was a major focus throughout the movie “There Will Be Blood’ due to his connections to the oil industry. Daniel was dressed in plain colors such as tan, brown, and occasional greys. The clothing he wore symbolized the late 1800’s and…

In early America, to capture the feat of being female poet was extremely rare and was no easy task. Phyllis Wheatley and Emily Dickinson challenged what it meant to be a good poet, though for two completely different reasons. In Wheatley’s poetry, religious repetition and…

We all want big paychecks, big cars & big houses. We want everything and we want it more, but have you ever thought what the limit is? Where it all stops? What is the end? How much is enough? Let me start answering this profound…

A World Diverse II: See Comes Between (B) and (D) is the second in a series of collections of poems written by David Edmond. He started writing poetry well into his retirement years as a therapeutic diversion after his second wife died of the complications…

This novel ‘Frankenstein’ is written by Mary Shelley. She was an English novelist, dramatist, travelled writer and she was best known for her Gothic novel (an English genre of fiction characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror) ‘Frankenstein’. Story of ‘Frankenstein’ touches on issue…

Shylock’s character in William Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice is essentially evil; he is meant to be hated by the reader. He is portrayed as a devil-like being throughout the entire play, someone purely just evil. However, it can be argued that maybe Shylock’s…

Assimilation, for the most part, means that, over the course of generations, you lose your own culture in exchange for the culture of the land that you have moved to. This very process is a major theme in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan….

The Great Depression is a very important part of American history which explains that life can change at any second. During the Great Depression, the stock market dropped all of a sudden which made tough to get a good job because most of the companies…

“Your elevation may require your isolation”. This quote relates to the poem “The Tuft of Flowers” written by Robert Frost as it basically deliberately tells the story of Frost’s poem in one sentence. The poem was written in most likely 1896, his son was also…

Fathom a world without planes, cars, complex weaponry, accurate time, and so forth. This was the world afore Leonardo Da Vinci. Revolutionaries were in dire need of innovators and creative minds at that time. Then stepped up a man from out of the shadows to…