Literature Essays

Sophocles’ Oedipus is an impeccable personification of Aristotle’s concept of a tragic hero. Per Aristotle’s idea of a tragic hero, Oedipus possessed the qualities of a tragic hero while the story reflected the rubrics that the tragic hero need to undergo. Below is a review of Aristotle’s criteria of a …

            William Shakespeare came down in history as one of the greatest playwrights of from his times and for generations to come. His legacy included the best works of literature, even in the present age. Hamlet and Macbeth were two tragedies that he had written that reflected his place literature. …

            Sociologist Arlie Hochschild was able to convey academic research into an extremely readable format by providing an insider’s view of ten couple’s lives.  She did this by spending a large amount of time inside the two-working-parent homes: I shopped with them, visited friends, watched television, ate with them, walked …

The title itself is intriguing, what would someone do if you find a very old man with enormous wings? As we have known that only angels or fairies will have such appendage, people will definitely have mixed emotions upon seeing an old man with huge wings lying in a puddle …

Introduction In its explicit narration, the poem simply describes the regular work restoration of walls between two neighbors that basically delineates their properties.  Each is consistently fixing their walls warily even if one stone is missing.  However in such a simple scenario, the poems also posts deeper issues that is …

Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje carries us to Sri Lanka, a country shaped in century-old customs and shoved into the tail-end of the twentieth century by the chaos of civil war. The setting is cast under the awning of Sri Lanka’s provocative backdrop with a landscape of ancient civilization. In …

The classic tale, Split Cherry Tree, exhibits just representation of general nature. While The Spirit of Emulation, on the other hand, is written in metaphor and does not represent common experience. I will discuss each stories different ways of meeting its desired moral intent, and why each is valuable and …

John Cheever, a short stories writer and novelist whose rich literary heritage makes him one of the prominent American authors of the 20th century, is well-known for his talent to vividly uncover sorrows and dramatism in the lives, all too often apparently common, of his characters, and due to his …

The book by Mitch Albom ‘The Five People You Meet in Heaven’ has made an astonishing influence on me, making me think, which five people will I meet in Heaven after death?             The core idea of the book has been expressed by the author himself in the first chapter, …

Observed through modern eyes, the “shock” endings so prevalent in Gothic fiction of the nineteenth century are likely deprived of a bit of their former gusto and visceral impact.  Not only have modern minds grown very well accustomed to the device of “shock” endings in fiction, as well as in …