Literature Essays

Throughout her career, the South African novelist Nadine Gordimer has wanted to explore the terrain where personal interests, desires and ambitions encounter (and, not rarely, contend with) the demands and trials of a politically active life. She has had a keen eye for the exceedingly precarious moral situation of her …

PaulineThe world is becoming more specific; therefore, the writing techniques are becoming more specific. Writers have a wide variety of literary tools such as allusion, metaphor, symbolism, and irony. Irony is the most common and efficient technique of the satirist. Since this technique is so popular and is being used …

“In Mrs Tilscher’s class” by Carol Ann Duffy is about rites of passage, the transition from childhood to adolescence and the things we learn at school, from our teachers and from our peers. Duffy writes this accessible poem using a variety of techniques that make it a memorable read. The …

“John Proctor: I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem– vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant’s vengeance! I’ll not give my wife to vengeance! (Miller, …

Power is authority and strength, which is any form of motive force or energy, ability to act, or control. When too much power is given, a dictatorship government can form, in which all decisions are made by one authority. In “Animal Farm”, George Orwell portrays how “Power tends to corrupt …

In 1970, Grove Press used the slogan “it’s the real thing” in an advertisement for Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher by Jim Haskins. The Coca-Cola Company had already been using this slogan and similar slogans for approximately 28 years, and as a result a Coca-Cola Company executive, Mr. Ira C. …

Nabokov tries to explain his use of language from a modernist approach: language is complex , Humbert describes in great detail his feelings and thoughts, the struggle inside him between the “monster” and the “gentleman”. The “nymphet” seen as a modernist feature is a form of art, as well as …

The passage is from “Of Mice and Men”. Steinbeck describes Crooks’ room for the first time. In this passage, Steinbeck is illustrating Crooks’ barn to the reader as the setting on the passage. First, he describes everything in detail that is located in Crooks’ barn while using powerful diction to …

When reading, “How I met my husband,” by Alice Munro, the reader begins to ponder on Edie’s life as a hired girl and as a married woman. Edie’s status did not seem to change from childhood to womanhood. Instead, she continued to live the ordinary, mundane life, which she was …

Neither Langston Hughes nor Maya Angelou were just poets in the world of the twentieth century but instead heroes and leaders who showed the world that race wasn’t what made you but whom you are instead. Though both grew up during times and events in the world, both have similar …