Art Movements Essays

The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara highlights the social inequality and injustice that happened during the 1960s in America. It used the point of view of Sylvia, one of the child characters in the story, thus making her the narrator.             The story revolved around a day in the lives …

            Literature is unique from other compositions in that it has an ability to provide the reader with a deeper, and often different, understanding each time it is accessed.  The reader brings with him- or herself a background and interest solely individualized and then transfers that background within their reading …

In “Good Country People,” Flannery O’Connor writes a story that compares and contrast different ways of living one’s life. Through the story O’Connor shows that an unnatural decision to chose atheism and nihilism over a common sense approach of accepting life and living it to the best of one’s ability …

Mary E Wilkins Freeman’s fiction is often viewed simply as a depiction of the position of women in nineteenth-century New England. But behind the text lies an elaborate system of symbolism embracing themes from enclosure to desire. In this essay I will examine symbolism in “A New England Nun”.             …

“Othello” is the story of a Moorish general living in Cyprus, and the personal struggles he faces as he tries to decide which of the people closest to him is telling the truth – his wife, or his servant. This play is a tragedy, as evidenced by the interpersonal conflicts …

Ernest Hemingway’s story, “Hills Like White Elephants,” has plenty of symbolism throughout the story. Symbolisms are physical things that are important and stands for something else. In this story, the symbols are the hills, white elephants, railroad tracks, and the felt pads. Hemingway uses these symbols to produce the theme …

“We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action,” – Learned Hand. During the 50s Hand was seen a defender of civil rights when subversion, the downfall …

In the short story “Where Are You going? Where Have You Been?”, by Joyce Carol Oates. The use of the symbolism of Connie’s clothes, her fascination with her beauty, Arnold Friend’s car and Arnold Friend himself help to understand the story’s theme of evil and manipulation. The story, fill with …

     Robert Reich brought forward the theory of the symbolic analyst to describe a growing trend in the American economy.  He saw that economics were no longer populated largely by laborers as they once were, but that as time went on more and more people were becoming employed in …

Introduction:             Sandra Cisneros was an American and a Mexican author. She was the only girl in a family of seven, something which led to her much loneliness. This drove her to the hobby of reading as well as frequent movements between Chicago and Mexican city. She started writing back …