Essays on Writers

In the novel 1984, George Orwell illustrates a dystopian future in which a communist party has taken over. Orwell names this party as “Big Brother” and this organization is in charge of monitoring and watching over every person in the community in order to ensure…

In stanzas 1-3 the character understands the situations that she is in at the moment. The sudden shift in tone in the fourth stanza enables us to examine how Emily Dickinson describes the comfortableness and closeness of the character of the poem, as she is…

William Blake (1757 – 1827) is an English poet and artist who was born in Soho, London to James and Catherine Blake. William was raised in a house where the Bible was an essentiality and it was the source of his inspiration throughout his life,…

Societal Woes Since the beginning of humankind, women had a universal reputation of being the inferior gender because of the difference in physical abilities and appearances. This resulted in many forms of mental, physical and emotional abuse from people ranging from religious figures to commoners…

The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, is a fictional account of a migrant family’s struggles before and while traveling to California in hopes of a new beginning during the Great Depression. As one would know from any level US history course, the Great…

Anne Bradstreet in her poem Upon the burning of our house, sets a perfect example of dealing with a situation which is out of our control. She expresses her distress on losing her beloved possessions but at the same time her awareness that she has…

Spoiler Warning- major spoilers ahead.Once again we are presented with an adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s masterpiece – her debut novel, Sharp Objects. If her name sounds familiar it is because she wrote the highly acclaimed book “Gone Girl” which was later adapted for a movie…

Hamlet by William Shakespeare is written about a prince named Hamlet that is seeking to find revenge over the his father’s murder. In Act 1, Scene 5 of the play Hamlet encounters his late father’s ghost, the ghost reveals that he was murdered by his…

Plath perceived that marriage in the 1950s brought along with its limitations as well as feelings of un-fulfilment. Plath’s 1956 poem ‘Spinster’ serves to juxtapose the expectations of society on women with a woman’s struggle to maintain her independence and control. The persona in ‘Spinster’…

“Sampson,” one of the short stories from “ A Monk’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer is a tragedy that is told as a parable. Chaucer uses this story taken from the Bible to demonstrate a couple themes. The first is that everyone can fall, and the…