“Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.” In the anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, protagonist Paul Baumer is enlisted into the war because of the influence from a schoolmaster. Although this schoolmaster has never been in a war himself and does not realize […]
In the novel 1984 by George Orwell mostly focuses on the protagonist Winston Smith. The novel takes place in the future in a modern dystopia written in 1949 on Orwell’s judgment on Stalin and Hitler who he views are alike to one another. The agonist of the novel is a Totalitarian authority known as the […]
Our editors will help you fix any mistakes and get an A+!
Get startedThe novel “Beloved” by Toni Morrison is full of ambiguity. This ambiguity can lead readers to believe that Beloved could represent various things, such as Sethe’s deceased daughter, or slavery as a whole. Either way, the bigger picture is that Beloved represents the past returning to the present. The characters engagement with Beloved and as […]
A novel A Thousand Splendid Suns is written by contemporary author Khaled Husseini, it is a thrilling depiction of wars stricken in Afghanistan. It is a story oppression, sacrifice, suffering and war. The grief-stricken story is set in Afghanistan, which traverses quite a few years, is driven by the accounts of two ladies, Laila and Mariyam, […]
The novel A Christmas Carol was written by Charles Dickens it describes the story of a mean-spirited and selfish old man Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is afflicted by the Spirit of his former friend Jacob Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. He is also shown the errors of his ways […]
In the novel The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien tells the story of a group of soldiers in the Vietnam war who, as a band of brothers, went through so much together. This story details the struggles and internal battles that these men had to deal with during their time in Vietnam and even after […]
Introduction The nature and the status of truth are dubious matters in connection to George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. It’s the place love is depicted as preposterous, and pointless. Individuals are reproduced to loathe and despise the essential feeling that people feel. The absence of affection and benevolence is the thing that brings the general […]
Truth and reality can often be found in fiction through a universal truth in the theme. In the novel Life of Pi, author Yann Martel writes, “That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transformation of reality?” Through literature we can find truth and revelation in our world, even if it is a work […]
Orientalism was first described 1978 by Edward Said when he published his book, Orientalism. He discussed the term “orientalism” as the western world’s fabricated view that ‘The East’(the societies and people who inhabit Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East) were undeveloped and inferior to their western counterparts. During the Victorian era, England was on […]
Nelson Mandela once said, “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background his religion. People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love,” This quote proves that while discrimination is a hard reality of society, it can be […]
In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, she infers that the strongest way for a government to control its people is to eliminate the people’s ability to question their way of life and heavily influence their ideologies. One strong way that for a government to control its people is to censor their people’s ability […]
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams was a hit at the time it was released (1947) and is still considered one of Williams’s most popular work. It uncovered many issues in the world from the time he wrote it that still apply today such as insanity, domestic violence, compulsive lying, trust issues, homosexuality, etc. […]
Throughout Gothic literature, the portrayal of the female identity has a profound impact on the interpretation of a story. Many Gothic novelists illustrate women in a certain light, highlighting the stereotypical role of women and the contrasting concept of the “New Women” in the Victorian era. Amidst the unearthly buildings and grotesque sceneries of the […]
Imagine a dark, isolated room, where there is barely a connection with the outside world. In the shadows, a despicable master is taunting and controlling a mind without the person knowing. In all the craziness in the world, madness often starts from being alone, too alone. Madness is found within a person’s thoughts, it could […]
‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is the narrative of a lady who goes on a short get-away with her significant other, John. The spouse additionally has a psychological maladjustment, or expressed as ‘temporary nervous depression’, yet appears as if she can’t mend because of her significant other’s absence of conviction. This is made […]
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde exposes a major problem in Victorian society. For the characters in the book, material items and wealth form a major basis of their lives, which leads to their ruin. As their obsession with the material grows stronger, the line between the real and unreal begins to blur. This […]
The Catcher in The Rye (1951) is a novel by J.D Salinger in which a young man by the name of Holden Caulfield takes the reader on the journey of his life and his mind in his late teen years. The novel explores many themes including the theme of youth and the innocence of it. […]
The Holocaust was a time in history that will never be forgotten. It was a time of sorrow and pain. The historical fiction novel Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly demonstrates how the Holocaust affected the lives of very different people. The three characters Caroline Ferriday, Kasia Kuzmerick, and Herta Oberheuser all live disparate lives […]
Just like the famous circus performers, the truths within the novels The Crucible, “Young Goodman Brown,” and Life of Pi bend like contortionists. They get twisted around into unidentifiable shapes that seem amazing at first, but eventually cause the audience to become uncomfortable, making them not want to be in that situation any longer. Bending […]
In the book Dracula, one of the most important themes is the threat of female sexual expression. I believe Bram Stoker wrote this book to deliver some of the awareness of the threats of female expressions going on at the time. Bram Stoker seemed to get this idea across by pampering the concept of how […]
Imagine a society where the thoughts, emotions, and actions of every human are supervised by the government, and there is absolutely no freedom. This is a common theme for a dystopian society, as represented in the famous George Orwell novel, 1984. The “Party” had the power to control all humanity inside of Oceania. Winston Smith […]
George Orwell wrote his novel 1984 as a warning about the future of the world. It seemed at the time to be wild ideas and predictions made in his book impossible and farfetched. For example, a few subjects covered by Orwell included surveillance, a never-ending war and how fake news or the alteration of facts […]
Like any great novel, The Alchemist is a tale that entwines truth and reality into its words and story alongside the fictitious machinations of the story itself. Paulo Coelho does a particularly exceptional task of fabricating obstacles for the characters in The Alchemist that are realistic and faithful to plights that everyday people experience. One […]
In 1987, the novel “Beloved” came about. This post-civil war novel by Toni Morrison is a heartbreaking novel of battling with memories, your horrible actions, and the past. In everyone’s life, there is a moment that is so horrific and so heartbreaking that all you want to do is push it so far back in […]
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” This is the slogan of the Inner Party in the 1984 novel written by George Orwell. It depicts a terrifying and unwelcoming image of the future under “Big Brother.” Which is a Dystopian government that controls not only the citizens’ actions, but also their very own […]
When Esch Batiste wanted winds of change to blow through the bare bones of her broken home, she did not expect them to come in the form of a devastating hurricane. But, as if the hurricane did not present enough of a challenge in and of itself, a much more debilitating threat laid ahead for […]
“So it was the hand that started it all… His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms… His hands were ravenous.”- Guy Montag. Throughout the book Fahrenheit 451 Montag’s actions, appearance and thoughts have changed drastically. Montag himself is a fireman and has never seen an issue with the way he […]
In most books, different characters from different backgrounds and ages come together to resolve the same problems. Jane Eyre is a prime example of two different generations trying to resolve one problem from different points of view. The book is able to connect the social morals between characters who come from two completely different backgrounds […]
Of the many characters that we have studied this year, without a doubt Holden Caulfield is the most unique and interesting one. A number of comparisons between Holden from the Catcher in the Rye and Hamlet from Hamlet. There are many similarities and differences that have been noticed between the two and it is interesting […]
Introduction Monstrosity simply is defined as an object of great and often frightening size, force, or complexity. However, monstrosity can also be represented by one’s qualities, characteristics, and actions. Throughout Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, monstrosity is a prominent theme that greatly affects both Victor and his monster. Judging from the way the author portrays a monster, it […]
