Literature Essays

On Thursday, November 7, I saw a performance of Baal, written by Bertolt Brecht and directed by Evan Parry. The play was not an emotional play, but an intellectual play. It caused the viewer to think about the existentialist nature of Brecht’s writing and the underlying meaning of the play. …

We as readers have too often become one-sided on a particular topic and failed to consider other possibilities. Even today, over fifty years after Arthur Miller’s essay Tragedy and The Common Man; we still associate tragedy with the highborn and their plights. However, Arthur Miller stimulates our minds by explaining …

Never willing to accept defeat before her husband does, Linda Loman deals with her family on a daily basis. She has a husband, Willy who is a salesman searching to achieve the American dream both for himself and his sons, whom he quarrels with as much as he loves them. …

In the poem, The Eagle: A Fragment, Alfred Lord Tennyson questions the position of man in the universe and demonstrates how his existence is transient and fleeting. The word “fragment” in the title of the poem shows immediately that he believes that man is just a trivial piece of insignificance. …

In “True Love”, Viorst skillfully gives examples of a comical and realistic view of love. The poem is aptly named true love because love does not simply imply feelings of passion, but of fondness, friendship, affection and devotion. The wife puts on make-up and watches football games just to please …

Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” has received much attention, especially from the Vietnam-era baby boomers. Like many of his pieces, the story is much more complex then it seems on the surface. Mr. Hemingway is renowned for his description, though he is sometimes criticized for the seeming simplicity of “Soldier’s Home.” …

Laura Hillenbrand’s “Unbroken” is about Louie Zamperini’s life story. Growing up,  Louie was a very mischievous boy.  He was constantly on the edge of being put into a juvenile  detention or jail.  Luckily, a police officer recommended sports and Louie found his passion for  running.  Once Louie realized how great …

From the time papers were invented and came to public, people have been using papers to make paper books. Reading books gives a pleasure of learning and entertainment. Now it is time of technology were things are accessible through internet. Internet creates the possibility of having books. When we are …

For every bird there is this last migration: Once more the cooling year kindles her heart; With a warm passage to the summer station Love pricks the course in lights across the chart. Year after year a speck on the map, divided By a whole hemisphere, summons her to come; …

Structural family theory is a technique employed by social scientists that offers perspectives and tactics that strengthen and examine the familial unit (Walsh, 2014). Developed by Salvador Minuchin, structural family theory looks at the unspoken rules within a family and how they affect the organization of the unit. It is …