Category: Literature

Written in 1752, the novel The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella by Charlotte Lenox was a masterful representation of societal orders of the eighteenth century through the main character’s life and adventures. This work stirs various emotions and makes contemporary young ladies deliberate on the notion of romance and its role in contemporary…

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a short satiric story written by Mark Twain and published in 1865. The story tells of a man incredibly fond of arguing and betting. One day, he bet his frog would jump over all the others in Calaveras County. Twain used two types of language: his narrator…

Endgame, like Samuel Beckett’s other plays and novels, depicts a post-apocalyptic world, where only four people and a few scattered objects still endure. Everything that still lingers in this world is stripped down to a very basic form: the objects, the actions, the dialogue. The play is a minimalist representation of the very complex universe…

Table of Contents Introduction Issues Conclusion/recommendations Reference List Introduction Robin Hood has started what he perceives as a noble cause to redistribute wealth in society albeit in a bizarre manner. He seeks to steal from the rich and help the poor come out of their wretchedness. However, his organisational strategy is falling apart and what…

Edgar Alan Poe’s short story The Masque of Red Death is a unique piece, allowing the reader to experience Gothic fiction and analyze death’s inevitability through the author’s allegoric instruments. The central topic of the plague sets a specific mood to the story, helping a reader better understand the content and writing setting. The spirit…

Table of Contents Introduction The Extramarital Affair Anne and John are Sent to Prison The Law and Church View of Fornication Anne’s Background Bastards Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Morality is supposed to be the differentiation among decisions, actions and intentions between the right ones and good ones based on ones religion, philosophy and culture. There…

Being a traveler is rather hard. Apart from diving into an entirely new environment regularly, a traveler should weight their judgment about the places of visit and the local people. Representing a nation is a complicated task, and both Osnos and Pugh in their articles “The Grand Tour” and “Vagabonding” do a fairly decent job.…

The Sound and the Fury is a wonderful written work first presented by William Faulkner in 1929. The book has many compelling episodes to get absorbed with. It is interesting how Faulkner described his characters so vividly, each of them has own principles, virtues, attitude towards life and towards Caddy. One of the main protagonists…

Archibald MacLeish famously declared in a poem full of meaning that “A poem should not mean/ But be.” The poems of E. E. Cummings commingle meaning and being in one—and none more concretely so than “l (a.” This poem, like most of the Cummings’ other poems, exists, quite meaningfully exists, in both form and content.…

The study of theatrical productions can provide valuable knowledge about how this kind of art developed. Hence this review will explore a Broadway play called “Kiss me, Kate.” Therefore, the plot of the musical is based on a quarrel between a married couple. In the course of the narrative, it impresses the viewer with skillful…