Literature Essays

As an acclaimed American author of fiction and the recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, Tony Morrison’s novels are radically powerful, exploring the realms of racism and ‘womanism’. Being one of the momentous works of American fiction, The Bluest Eye (1970) centralizes a young Afro- American girl named …

The brilliant tapestry in The Blind Assassin is classic Margaret Atwood.  It is a story-within-a-story, a novel-within-a-novel interwoven in one beautifully crafted literary piece. The story, set in fictional Ontario and Toronto towns in the 1930s and 1940s, is told in the perspective of the narrator as well as perspective …

The Blackboard Jungle and Rock ‘n’ Roll High School are two films that both embody the social awareness inherent in the genre of male mellow drama.  These films have a very significant influence on the trans-generational depiction of adolescence in film.  This can most apparently be seen with such films …

            “Aristophanes, a Greek playwright, is one of the best known early Satirists; he’s particularly famous for his political satire in which he criticized the powerful Cleon (as in the Knights) and for the persecution he underwent. ”(pp. 55-59)             We learn that Aristophanes was one of the earliest Satirists …

            The Bible in a general and broad perspective contains narratives with themes and elements similar in almost every aspect.  The Binding of Isaac and the Suffering and The Suffering and Death of Jesus Christ, for instance, appear to constitute a similar concept, though the two narrations are found in …

As the Bible communicates to different groups of people, Bible scholars had shown that Biblical writers used many different forms in conveying its messages. It has been seen that one-third of the Old Testament and a surprising amount of the New Testament are found in poetic form.              This paper …

Introduction This paper is written on the facts behind the Gas Tragedy that occurred in Bhopal, India, in 1984 when tons of lethal gases escaped from the Union Carbide factory, instantaneously killing around eight thousand people and poisoning thousands others who continue lives with the after effects of gas poisoning …

             A plant used to manufacture pesticides meant to boost the “green revolution” program of India which was, in turn, intended to achieve food self-sufficiency, killed around 8,000 people instead, aside from injuring at least three hundred thousand more, most of them for life.  The culprit was the pesticide plant …

Othello is a manifestation of gender discrimination prevailing at that time. It clearly refer to sexism that is not only inclined toward male chauvinism but also a degraded social status of women in the contemporary society. All three major female characters of the play epitomize this gender discrimination and manifest …

Shakespeare’s characterization of Gertrude and Ophelia in Hamlet is paradoxical as it challenges as well as complements the contemporary social traditions and norms. Gertrude is the best example of this paradox that is manifested through her extraordinary supremacy over all the major characters of Hamlet, her influence in the court …