Essays on Literature

One of the most common, but misdiagnosed mental illness conditions in the world is the bipolar disorder. Many people in the world suffer every day from the lack of accurate diagnosis of their condition, which leads to those victims being left unaware of their true...

Happiness is a thing individuals spend their entire lives in pursuit of. In countless shapes and forms, while the feeling is universally understood, it is unique to each individual and cannot be shared or imposed upon others no matter how hard one tries. So the...

To an unusual degree, The Death of a Salesman interweaves past and present action. Willy Loman, the play’s protagonist, repeatedly revisits old memories, sometimes even conflating them with the present moment. But these memories are not the sentimental, slightly melancholy daydreams of a contented man....

The salesman in the novel “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller is a perfect example of how life of today works. Willy Loman made a mistake – a big one – and tried to correct it to no avail. His misdeed left him so...

Arthur Miller’s play ‘The Death of a Salesman’ and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s film ’The Great Gatsby’ both address one linked theme, striving for The American Dream. This unrealistic idea condenses to a happy way of living that is thought by many Americans in which freedom...

Currently, depression and its impacts on society has become a mainstream concern. The development of depression has been widely debated with theories ranging from a chemical imbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain to a mental state created through an inability to accept faults in life....

In the play, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Biff and Willy Loman both struggle to preserve their dignity but in different ways. In the scene where Biff finally realized that he is dime a dozen, Willy refuses to believe in what Biff says...

In the Arthur Miller play “Death of a Salesman” the sacrifice of character is one of the mind. Willy Loman is characterized by being the “common man.” In a time where the glow of post-war success had rapidly began to fade from the country’s mundane...

Over the last one-hundred years, American culture seems to have overall, become less racist and prejudiced. As a whole, U.S. society has not yet reached a period of total racial reformation in which trial and reason are always applied to the happenings of everyday life....

In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the author, R.L. Stevenson uses the views of a repressive society and Dr. Jekyll’s conformity to show when people are held under harsh principles and expectations some are forced to find an outlet to compensate...

Stevenson uses many motifs in the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. One of them that stands out the most is duality and opposites which are used throughout the novel in every chapter. Duality comes from the word “dual”, meaning it...

The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson and was set in the 19th century during the Victorian-era London, where expectations are high and reputations are valued. This novella explores the dual characteristics of a Victorian...

The novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson elaborates the ideas of the duality of human nature and the nature of good and evil. The story revolves around Dr. Jekyll and a strange character named Mr. Hyde. The...

In our world, values are communicated in an unexpected way. People in today’s society often ponder the easily overlooked details that satisfy them. Others feel the contrary way and that costs are the best approaches to live. ¨The Necklace¨ by Guy de Maupassant shows different...

Society sometimes puts pressure on people to be something they are not, so that they be seen as this wonderful person. One book that shows this is “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. The story is about a woman who is beautiful and has all...

Envy can get us into all sorts of trouble. Envy is wanting something that someone else has for ourselves. In the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, the main protagonist in the story is envious of others social class. Mathilde Loisel had beauty...

The Maze Runner is a young adult post apocalyptic dystopian science fiction novel, written by James Dashner. This text strategically approaches symbolism to denote the contrast of civilisation versus savagery, and how people can lose humanity when order fails. The ‘Gladers’ all have an undying...

“People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.” Mexican author Don Miguel Ruiz’s words of knowledge are widely expressed throughout Oscar Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest as the characters experience the consequences in...

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde utilizes parody to deride the social standards of marriage, love and mentality which were inflexible during the Victorian Age. Since it utilizes parody to mock these institutions, it shows the aberrance from the social request by making...