Category: Literature Review
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Comparing Petrarch and De La Vega’s Perspective on Love
“Love found me altogether disarmed,” declares Francis Petrarch in one of his highly acclaimed sonnets, referring of course to his dearly beloved yet unattainable Laura (Petrarch 2068). This is perhaps a bit of an understatement. Both Francis Petrarch and Garcilaso de la Vega found themselves so utterly consumed by their respective infatuations that they wrote…
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Relations of Othello and Mustafa Sa’eed
On the surface, William Shakespeare’s Othello, the Moor of Venice (1604) and Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North (1966) are very similar. The title character of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a man of color whose marriage with a white woman, Desdemona, is tested by her father, Brabantio. Season of Migration to…
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The Horrors of War and Their Impact on Human Spirit: The Cellist of Sarajevo
War has always been one of the most shocking and destructive staples of human history. In his novel The Cellist of Sarajevo, Canadian author Steven Galloway seeks to encapsulate the effects that war has on individuals. Galloway emphasizes that although war has a significant impact on people, it is the positive outlook of citizens that…
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What Can We Learn from Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov’s play “The Cherry Orchard” is labeled a comedy, however, it has a handful of meaningful lessons that can be learned from the characters featured in the play. These character’s debacles and actions act almost as a for the industrial era in which the play was written. One of the characters that best represent…
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Chekhov’s Path to One’s Freedom in His Play “The Cherry Orchard”
The Cherry Orchard, a classic of modern theater by Anton Chekhov, portrays the coming of age in a Russian society that is beginning to witness a rising middle class upon freeing the serfs. The characters of Firs (the manservant to Gayef) and Lopakhin (a rising middle class businessman and landowner) react differently to this changing…
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“Go Tell It on The Mountain” by James Baldwin
Often times the protagonist of a bildungsroman will undergo a cathartic revelation, shifting their perspective from one of innocence and childhood to one of understanding and adulthood; John Grimes, the protagonist of James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain, experiences said journey of realization and self discovery, which builds up to the climax of…
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Discourse Communities, Censorship, and Outsider Perspective in “The Laramie Project”
Joseph Harris outlines an analytical approach to rhetoric through the identification and classification of discourse communities. The application of Harris’ model to The Laramie Project reveals two individual communities’ desires to be perceived as positive entities, but also the actual impact that their rhetoric has on the outside observers. The Laramie Project is a play…
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: View of Literature and Art
Without a doubt Faiz and Shelley require the all-inclusive community to stay against the abuse and comprehend their vitality. They require the mistreated to rise against the persecution and the abominable mishandle. They influence them to understand that they have an indistinguishable right from the high society has. Their verse addresses that there is no…
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“To Kill a Mockingbird”: Literature Review
In this story how to kill a mockingbird scout has changed her attitude in the ways a lot of people do like in her clothes,fighting, and by her taking up for things she believe not what other people believe.Scout is taught new things by questions and observing. Scout asks tough questions. she can ask these…
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A Look at Literacy as Indicated in “The Kite Runner”
774 million adults around the world are illiterate. In many places, people are not provided the opportunity to get education. In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, Amir is lucky enough to learn how to read and write, while many people in his country, including his servant, are illiterate. The power of literacy and the written…