Literature Essays

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 …

As William Shakespeare weaved the storylines of his plays, he considered both the ignorant lowlife and the insightful intellectual. He constructed them to be entertaining enough to humor those with little intelligence, but also meaningful enough to attract intellectuals. In this particular play, “Macbeth”, Shakespeare makes a commentary about human …

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 …

Both Karl Marx and Max Weber had very different ways of looking at the societies economic system. Marx’s strong beliefs in what would make society thrive were in the materialism approach and Weber’s was in the idealism approach. Karl Marx believed that the majority of societies problems came from the …

The symbols in “In the Heat of the Night” are heat, night, wallet, murder weapon and the colours black and white. The strongest and most significant symbols are heat and night. The heat represents the features of anxiety, nervousness, and tension. It also suggests to the overall mood of characters. …

How does one define the word “good?” If something is good, is it helpful? Profitable? Satisfactory? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, when something is good, it can be relied on, it’s loyal, and it’s true. Communism is misunderstood by many Americans. This is mainly due to a lack of knowledge …

Hamlet’s first soliloquy strikes a note of despair and reveals his feelings towards life and the hasty marriage between his mother and his uncle. Hamlet wishes to “thaw and resolve […] into a dew” but is restrained by the canon law that condemns him to eternal suffering in hell if …