Category: Literature

Totanekai was his name a not so ordinary boy or name, his mother was the daughter of Anaxandridas II and sister of Cleomenes king of Sparta a noblewoman (1) but as with most Spartan women unmentioned. His father Cleombrotus (2) was king of Sparta after Leonidas’s death. He was among the 300 who died with…

Sylvia Plath in her poem Daddy talks about her relationship with her father. She also evokes images of the holocaust just like in her poem Lady Lazarus. In the poem, Plath talks about the unhealthy relationship she had with her dad and the toil it took on her. The poem begins with the speaker declaring…

Table of Contents Introduction Characterization Interpretation Conclusion Works Cited Further Study: FAQ Introduction A Clean and Well-Lighted place is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The thesis statement for this story is “The meaning of life.” This short story is an investigation geared towards finding life’s meaning. The story involves a deaf old man,…

“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” is often interpreted as a reverberating warning about the dangers of strangers, who appear friendly at first. In this reading, the protagonist, Connie, is a fifteen-year-old girl who is often demeaned by her family because she grew to become ‘not like them’, not perfect by character. Her…

Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx are a memoir written by an American actress, screenwriter and author Sonia Manzano, and published in 2015. Manzano is best known for her role as Maria on the iconic show Sesame Street, hence the name of the book. The memoir is the account of the author’s…

Through the Inferno poem, Dante Alighieri describes an allegorical journey to demonstrate the fates of various people in the underworld. As such, Dante indicates that sins are punished on the basis of their seriousness. Consequently, the poet indicates that Hell is subdivided into various sections representing the different sins. Each sin attracts a specific punishment.…

Table of Contents Understanding the Bacchae of Euripides Dionysus The Ideal spectator Understanding the Bacchae of Euripides The Bacchae is a prehistoric Greek tragedy written by the Athenian playwright called Euripides. He was in his final years in Macedonia. The play has won attractions across the main cities in the world. Apart from the first…

Table of Contents Introduction Conclusion References Introduction Individual characteristics vary among various individuals and they influence their lives within the society. Anton Rosicky and Rip Van Winkle in the set texts are unique in their traits, personalities, and values. Looking at the works of Willa Cather in Neighbour Rosicky and Irving Washington’s works in Rip…

At the end of the 19th century the American society was involved in the process of changing the social principles, breaking stereotypes, and creating new revolutionary visions of the peculiarities of the social development. Moreover, the individual self-perception and the notion of self-consciousness were also altered according to the tendencies. It is important to notice…

Franz Kafka was a fundamental pillar that contributed immensely to shaping 20th-century literature through novels and short stories. The modernist writer famously known for his novels The Metamorphosis, and The Trial, transformed literature and left a remarkable legacy that the current and future generations should acknowledge and emulate. While his contributions to literature remain unrivaled,…