Essays on Literature

Oscar Wilde differs from other modern dramatists, and such difference makes him distinctive as a modern writer. Not only the themes in his works but his life shows his modernity, and he benefited from the modern flow in the British theatrical world in the 1800s....

Anne Frank’s extraordinary diary, since it was unveiled in the attic where she had resided during the last years of her time, has been a classic book read worldwide, a compelling read reminding of the war and its horrors, being a tribute to humans. Through...

The Diary of Anne Frank is a powerful testament to the strength of human. From the secrets written to Kitty we can learn the other side of World War 2, a side which is rarely, if ever, seen. The diary gives us a glimpse into...

The Diary of Anne Frank and I Will Bear Witness are a must read for anyone who wishes to ascertain what daily life was like for Jews living in Nazi Germany. The non-fiction Diaries really help understand the insidious and incremental horror of what it...

Room is a traumatic novel, of one young woman who aspires to keep her only child safe from the captor that imprisoned them both in a small shed for seven years. Donoghue’s writing is capable to place the reader within the terrifying experiences witnessed by...

‘Writing, when properly managed … is but a different name for conversation … The truest respect which you can pay to the reader’s understanding, is to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself.’ (Laurence Sterne) ...

Emma Donoghue’s mesmerizing novel ‘Room’ is a captivating and inventive story about sexual assault and motherhood. The book is built on young 5 year old boy named Jack, where he is held captive in a small room with his mother. In the beginning of the...

The book I had chosen for this very intense assignment was “Guns, Germs, and Steel – The Fates of Human Societies”, which was published in 2005 by “Norton” in New York. It has, including the index, 494 pages. The assignment stated to pick any 6...

Guns, Germs, and Steel sets out to tell the history for the last 13,000 years. It also aims to explain why some societies were much more successful than others. Some of this success can be given to population growth, immunity to germs, and animal domestication....

In Flowers for Algernon, Charlie has dreams that hint at sexual repression which upsets Charlie’s unconscious thoughts while disrupting his reality. Charlie’s mother represses his sexual thoughts at a young age, causing Charlie to have nightmares about women which distresses his mental state. When young...

“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows of hunger.” This’s how Charlie Gordon the main character of this novella views himself before he travels from ignorance to great intelligence, he always believed that his biggest ordeal...

Life of Pi and The Great Gatsby are both superb pieces of literature which can be exactly said with each of their respected films which embody each of the themes of the book with superb visual presentation in their use of colour scheme to the...

1950s Colombian society had imposed many different gender roles on the men and women that lived in it, and the characters in the novella “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” fare no different fate. Men were expected to be macho men – to take care of...

In Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold, honour is presented as a force that acts upon and influences characters and the community they belong to. Márquez explores the problem of perpetuating and participating in traditions by examining the duality of upholding honour....

Introduction The analysis of the novel Charlotte’s web was published in 1952. It is a children’s literature novel written by Mr. Elwyn Brooks White, an American writer and essayist who has allowed us to know and deepen this great story. Elwyn White was well known...

After reading “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin’s, one question that catches my eyes was that: What does the story reveal to us about our happiness as a society? In order to answer this question, we have to first...

Morality and happiness are among the many issues that have troubled moral philosophers and scholars over the years. Most communities in the world value morality and often relate it happiness explaining the reason why the topics of morality and happiness are a major concern to...

LeGuin’s “Omelas” reads like a ‘message’ story. It seems to be telling us to ‘walk away’. But is that right? What is the message? Suppose that there is a train heading towards a group of five workers on the tracks. You are in control of...

Would you be able to live with yourself if you knew your happiness was dependent on the suffering of a child? In the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, written by Ursula K. Le Guin in 1973 this exact question is asked...