Category: Literature

The poem, “We wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar is my most favorite of the five poems provided. The poem provides me with intrinsic satisfaction when I read it. For instance, the message the poet provides through the poem is touching as it demonstrates clearly the picture of how the black people in America…

Table of Contents Introduction: On Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality Burying Secrets: Antigone. Behind the Shadow of Death Living in a Dollhouse: Ibsen and His Protest Conclusion: The Jailbreak Works Cited Introduction: On Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality Though in the modern world, all people are considered free and possessing equal rights, it has not always been…

Table of Contents Tasting the Fruits: The Poem, the Images, and the Ideas Neruda’s Life Path: A Long Way to Heaven Balancing Between Scylla and Charybdis: Where the Truth Lurks Two and Two, Put Together: Picking the Fruits Works Cited Tasting the Fruits: The Poem, the Images, and the Ideas It is pitch dark. Even…

John Maxwell Coetzee, a renowned writer and academic from South Africa, has recently moved to Australia where he has become a citizen. His background and experiences both in South Africa and outside have influenced greatly on the themes that he chooses to portray in all his literary works. For instance, in his narrative ‘Disgrace’, Coetzee…

Table of Contents Introduction Defining the concept of “humanitarian” The History and Relationship between Human Rights and Humanitarianism Humanitarian Intervention and Collaboration with the Military Personal Conclusion Works Cited Introduction David Rieff in his book, “A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis”, presents the idea that the concept of an international community is moot…

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks is most well known for her poem We Real Cool, written in 1966. A Chicago native, Gwendolyn Brooks received many literary honors over the course of her writing career, including an appointment as the Poet Laureate for the state of Illinois. This essay will explain that the poem We…

“White Teeth” by Zadie Smith is a novel about two special families united by destiny. Is seems that fate has played a hand in the whole matter and condemned the two families together for life. However, the story also satirizes multiculturalism and upholds fundamentalism. Smith presents multiculturalism as a dilemma that is inevitable but almost…

There are a lot of different pieces of work aimed at dwelling upon human virtues and those which criticize those and show how people may behave. Reading Pamela by Samuel Richardson is possible to make a conclusion that the novel is the guide aimed at showing the world that living in the cruel and immoral…

The Australian author David Malouf based his novel Ransom on the myths from Homer’s Iliad, including the death of Patroclus (Book 16), episode when Achilles kills Hector (Book 22), the funeral of Patroclus (Book 23) and visit of Priam to Achilles (Book 24). However, although the author uses the ancient stories, his attention is concentrated…

It is difficult for an honest man to live in a corrupt world. This is the premise of Marcel Pagnol’s play entitled Topaze. An honest man in a corrupt world is like a fish out of water. In the said play the protagonist adhered to a set of values that are alien to the people…