Category: Literature

Wole Soyinka’s play Death and the King’s Horseman relies on the real incident about the man who prepares to commit ritual suicide and accompany the deceased king to the afterlife. This is the tradition of his people, and the violation of it seems more terrible than death: a curse, shame, and dishonor (Soyinka, 2002). Soyinka…

Table of Contents Summary Comparative Analysis References Footnotes Summary This section focuses on the review of the literature with regard to the two plays under critical evaluation: Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw; and The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertold Brecht. The theoretical framework that is set to critically examine these two plays…

Literary criticism is a personal perspective of examining or analyzing an authors’ literature. It’s the understanding and approach towards an author writing a critical essay. “Battle Royal” is one chapter in Ralph Ellison’s novel “invisible man”, which was published in the year 1952. Although, the story of the ‘Battle Royal’ was first published as a…

The “18 Rugby Street” melancholic poem is filled with love, tenderness, and sadness about the poet’s past, which he will never be able to return. At the beginning of the poem, Hughes describes the house where he first met his future wife. This house in Bloomsbury, dear to the poet’s heart, appears to him as…

Loneliness is the leading emotion in Wright’s poem, “A Blessing,” as can be deduced from the speaker and ponies’ feelings towards each other. The poet depicts the two horses as experiencing seclusion because they have been isolated from humankind. Essentially, Wright uses the horses to impart solitude in his audience by noting, “There is no…

In Nayla Chehade’s short story “The Vigil”, a poetic tone of voice is introduced to tell the story of a young girl who died while living in a boarding school in a southern climate. Told in the first-person plural, the narrator is a subjective observer of what has happened in the life of Serena del…

Table of Contents Introduction Character Development Themes Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Many writers use various stylistic devices to come up with their work. They use them to ensure that their book remains relevant even decades after the story is written. A plain text is not captivating for a reader; it becomes boring to a big…

House of cards is written by William Cohan, who explains Bear Stearns’ fall. One of the biggest banks for investment known as Bear Stearns in the United States, failed due to holding high stock on its balance sheets of collaterals backed up by mortgages(Cohan, 2010). This event is paramount and should be included in the…

The ten epistles are believed to have been the written thoughts and perceptions about humanity and the life of a Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu. They were penned around the sixth century when he was approached by a city guard, who saw that Lao may be leaving the city for good. Tao, then a renowned philosopher…

The Vietnam War found a profound reflection in the literature and poetry of the country’s citizens, affected by the continuous loss of lives and the division of the country into North and South Vietnam. The demonstration of a soldier’s inner thoughts in the poem “Thoughts of Hanoi” by Nguyen Thi Vinh provides a personalized view…