Category: Literature Review

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” Maya Angelou said that very famous quote about home. She captured the absolute comfort and safety of a home. The pure essence of a home. A home is usually seen as the…

To consider the social function of art is to endeavor to contemplate a question that has haunted great literary critics since the Greek philosophers Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates. Two minds that both considered and offered explanations to this question in the 1700-1800’s were the German Friedrich Schiller and the English Matthew Arnold. Both Schiller and…

In Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, the blank white space occupies more area than all of the black text and pictures combined. As a relatively short American Lyric, one must assume that this half of the book – the parts where nothing is said – has great meaning and is equally as important as what is said…

“Horton Hears a Who” is a children’s book written and illustrated by political cartoonist Theodor Seuss Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss. The book tells the story of Horton who holds the responsibility of protecting all of the Who’s from multiple dangers. The book often voiced the moral statement “A person’s a person, no…

Mark Lawrence Atwood is presently Director of graduate studies at the Clements centre for national security in Austin at the University of Texas. An associate professor of history and distinguished fellow at the Roberts Strauss centre for international law and security. Mark Atwood received his bachelor of arts from Stanford University in 1988 and obtained…

In Aravind Adiga’s “The White Tiger,” the dichotomy between light and darkness, morality and corruption, is intricately explored against the backdrop of India’s socioeconomic landscape. Through the lens of the protagonist Balram Halwai, the novel navigates the moral complexities and systemic corruption that define contemporary Indian society. Adiga skillfully juxtaposes the contrasting worlds of privilege…

Authors write using sentence structure and word classes to create environment and character in their stories; this essay will be analyzing and evaluating the differences between environment and character in two short stories. It’s A Bear’s Life and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. This essay will also be discussing how accents and dialect…

Growing up in a multiracial family can be confusing, especially if one’s family history has been kept a secret for years. This is the problem for James McBride, whose lifelong struggle of self-identity kept him from truly understanding and accepting who he was and where his family came from. The Color of Water depicts the…

Horace’s philosophy of life, I believe, can be summed up quite effectively by this line on his poem Gather Ye Rosebuds, addressed to Leuconoe: “This day’s thine own, the next may be denied”. Horace is all about finding fulfilment in life through enjoyment of “the present hour”, and living a life worth living. He finds…

Geographical juxtaposition is not uncommon in the genius works of William Shakespeare. In his renowned play, Othello, Shakespeare exploits the stark contrasts in the story’s two settings, the two cities of Venice and Cyprus. Shakespeare presents the environmental, moral, and behavioral dichotomies between Venice and Cyprus (and of the characters in said environments) as they…