Category: Literature

The love of a good woman is a story in a book written by Munro. Love, sex, and gender are the themes that the narrator has tackled in the story. The narrator breaks down the story into three different parts that keep the reader in suspense. The first part is about three boys who find…

The novel Atonement, written by Ian McEwan, touches upon the topic of the significance of writing. The author uses various literary devices to convey many themes within the novel. Using the omniscient narrator, the author strives to show a person’s emotions who tries to atone the sins through writing. The image of the main character…

“Probably no other twentieth-century short story has called forth more attention than James Joyce’s “Araby”. Some universality of experience makes the story interesting to readers of all ages, for they respond instinctively to an experience that could have been their own.” (The Literary Link). It is instinctive in man’s nature to long for what he…

Table of Contents Introduction The Poem We wear the mask by Paul Dunbar Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The late 19th Century heralded an unprecedented wave of oppression for the Black Americans and thus they had to come up with ways of countering it, albeit silently. They could not voice their concerns honestly or without fear,…

If talking about poets who were consistent in their work and at the same time so changeable with their themes, there is no better example than Adrienne Rich. Although, many poets are concerned with transformation (“Biography of Adrienne Rich”), in the case of Adrienne Rich, one of the brightest and influential poetesses of the second…

Dante Alighieri wrote “The Inferno” as a warning to his peers to turn from their sinful ways; anguish is all that is in store for those who are corrupt. This ground-breaking work painted a vivid picture of hell as an evil, inexplicably torturous place. Dante travels through the nine circles of the underworld with Virgil,…

Morrison’s contribution to the literary world is made evident by the production of “Sula,” an interesting novel highlighting various issues that affected the American society in the 70s. This novel brings out significant scenes within the carefully crafted story that gives the readers an opportunity to grasp the lifestyle of the residents of Ohio at…

All three poems seem to have the theme of mortality and growing older. In Ulysses, the persona admits that he has grown old, and this has left him weak, ‘Match’d with an aging wife, I sit and dole’. However, the persona does not accept old age and weakness as his affliction; he does not accept…

Women have traditionally been regarded as the reading sex, and from the time women gained access to higher education, literature has drawn them in greater numbers than any other discipline. Susan Glaspell is one of the extraordinary women writers who promulgate ideas and feelings of modern women, unveils social problems and new social order. Thesis…

Both Anne Broadstreet and Sor Juan Ines lived and published their works in a highly dominated patriarchal society, which believed that women were incapable of expressing themselves through powerful writing. Male writers depicted even the innermost feelings and emotions of women, and women were forced to abide by this male-constructed hegemony. As a result, the…