Essays on Literature

​Sophocles shows the fallacy of the position of both opponents, that each of them defends a just cause, but defends it unilaterally. “Antigone” represents a clash of equally fair principles: state interest and family interest; both parties are equally right and at the same time wrong because of their one-sidedness. The destruction of Creon is...

The topic that generally seemed to stand out in Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the job of the women in the story. In past writings, the “damsel in distress” account of women have little effect on the story. In this novel, be that as it may, the women are strong and confident, painted as the ‘heroes’,...

In the story written by Frank Kafka, called The Metamorphosis. Kafka tells the story of a man named Gregor whom one day wakes up and physically transforms into a bug. The man before the transformation of a bug is a salesman who works nonstop to pay off his family’s debt. The story doesn’t specify which...

White Teeth by Zadie Smith is a symbolic novel that illustrates the nature of people and how they relate to each other. Teeth, as widely used in the novel, are a symbolic term that is used to mean people. Teeth are essentially white no matter the race of an individual; this factual concept of the...

World War I brought new views on faith to the United States, it ended simply before the Twenties so these views have been carried over. Some went to god, while others turned away. Morals were altering in that people spent their time and money on completely special matters now. Religion had been the groundwork of...

When reading the three autobiographies I had chosen (The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom; The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and The Story of My Experiments with Truth autobiography by Mahatma Gandhi), what I had felt throughout this entire literary engagement was a sense of inspiration. Not necessarily being inspired by the good thigs done...

Sue Monk Kidd wrote this particular novel based on a little of her creativity and adolescence years. Where she grew up, in the south, in effect Sue actually had no less than 50,000 honey bees living in the wall of her childhood home. Sue lived in her Sylvester home for no less than 18 years....

One of the characteristics of civilization is the written word. From antiquity onwards, writing has been a form of expression for anyone educated enough to make use of it, from philosophers to poets to scientists. Despite this rich history, writing has often been censured and restricted by those in power. In the early United States,...

 Dickens uses allusions to allow the reader to indulge themselves into the story without explaining a lot of the action in a given scene. In the first paragraph of the extract, the narrator uses the words ‘shy of’ when describing Mrs. Tibbs to add emphasis on how small she felt around the people in her...

The crucible is a representative of tragic works. This is a novel written by Arthur Miller, which uses real language to describe the tragic encounters and desire of people to live in a situation where Puritans are full of society. According to an online article: Tragedy in Arthur Miller ’s The Crucible, I figured out...