Books Essays

Mary Shelley uses three narrators in her complex narrative of Frankenstein to create a certain degree of objectivity- the novel starts with an epistolary structure with the letters of Robert to Margaret with include an account of the life of Victor and that of the narrative of the monster through …

In “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles we see many occasions where a reader or perhaps even a scholar can begin to get confused. However, Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex takes time to look at some of the most debated events throughout the entire book. E.R. Dodd’s transforms Oedipus Rex into a descriptive …

Female writing during the 18th century became a popular method of expressing feminine mentality on issues that were previously considered forbidden. Writers such as Aphra Behn, Mary Leapor and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu published their works alongside many respected male poets such as Jonathan Swift and Thomas Gray. Women were …

Ernest Hemingway’s impersonal objective narrative style is best exhibited in his short story, “Hills Like White Elephants”, which describes a young girl and her older American boyfriend discussing whether or not she should have an abortion. Hemingway never explicitly uses the word abortion, but instead relies on the description and …

This documentary is written, directed and produced by Michael Moore and is about the social repercussions of capitalism as well as corporate and government issues that conflict with the basic needs of people and their families. Moore takes a liberal humanistic look at the consequences of General Motors closing down …

The name of this book/movie is ‘Of Mice and Men’. The book was written by John Steinbeck, and the movie was directed by Gary Sinise (also stars as George). I will be comparing the movie and book, to see the differences and how effective they are. George and Lennie are …

In both Penelope Lively’s “At the Pitt-Rivers” and James Joyce’s “Araby” the boy narrators have skewed views about love. Throughout his particular story however, each narrator realizes that his ideas on love were mistaken and begins to modify his muddled thinking. In “At the Pitt-Rivers” the sixteen year-old narrator was …

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” The latter, rather confrontational quote was written by Winston Churchill in an attempt to describe the provocative state that communism entailed, more specifically the provocative state Russia had become …

For my essay I chose to describe the light and dark motifs in “Romeo and Juliet”. A motif is a term used to describe a passage in literature that has more than one universal meaning. It is used when a character or narrator is comparing one thing to another. For …

In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, innocence is portrayed through the character of Scout. Her childish innocence shown throughout the book projects enormous effect on people and the outcome of various situations. The innocence shown also develops as the book goes on. First, it was the conflict at school where she …