Category: Literature

The novel The Memory Keeper’s daughter is about a story set in mid twentieth century. The social, political, and economic environment was different and its effect on the characters life can be seen especially through the actions they choose. The characters in the novel all seem to be victims of social constrains. By examining the…

The book under discussion is Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas which dwells upon the place of a person in the society hiding this idea behind alcoholism. At the same time, these two notions are connected in the book, as being a teenager, Koren Zailckas tries to find her place in the…

One of Emily Dickinson’s most profound poems is “Because I could not stop for death”. The poem’s vagueness creates that state of inquisitiveness in the reader prolonging the interest to get an in-depth look at the poem. The poem has received much attention from critics who mainly try to get a glimpse of the poem…

Fantasy literature has been defined as a “story based on and controlled by overt violation of what is accepted as the norm or possibility a narrative that transform a condition that is contrary to the fact into fact itself” (Jackson 14). This kind of literature represents the unreal as the new real, and puts to…

Language is one of the distinguishing peculiarities of any country, any region, and any society. It is perceived as an additional cultural, national, or social attribute, and it is inseparable from all components needed to be known when visiting or living in some country. This issue concerns both the native-born speakers and the immigrants, newcomers.…

Towards the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century, there emerged a group of middle class women whose ideology and perception of things was unorthodox to the societal outlook on issues. These women championed the emancipation of other women in the society, they craved for an equal society and…

‘The Secret Agent’ by Joseph Conrad is political novel which was set in London and published in the early twentieth century. Although the novel has got other themes, terrorism is among the most outstanding issues that have been discussed through out the whole story. The main character in the novel is Mr. Verloc who is…

Table of Contents The Message The Quixotic Figures The Context A Satire The Trickster Conclusion Works Cited Don Quixote was very quixotic because even in his old age and very limited means he still wanted to emulate what he has read in romances of chivalry and that is to be an errant knight. Thus, with…

Environmental issues are burning ones in modernity; however, they are not new for the 20th and 21st centuries, since they were raised much earlier, at the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution. It is also true that the environmental problems have been frequently raised in poetry – the works of Wordsworth, Bishop, and Yeats may serve…

Nature does in fact provide access to truth and vision even when this occurs coincidentally. However, sometimes this can be interpreted as haphazardness when the concerned author fails to bring together all his complex ideas. How nature is truthful in three of his works In one of his well known pieces- “Kubla Khan” the author…