Essays on Fiction
Literature has always been adaptive to change; new eras meant new circumstances; and new circumstances meant new genres. Each and every literary movement started as a reaction to a one before, like the Romantic Movement that was a reaction to the Age of Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, the Modern era was a reaction to...
Why is reading important? What can people learn from reading? I started to get into reading since my first memory. I am fond of reading because my father encouraged me to read when I was a child. He made me read numerous books. I used to think nonfictional books can expand our minds. I was...
Everything could have started for a million different reasons. An epidemic disease could have spread across nations. Or, perhaps, the government caused a nuclear holocaust. Maybe it was due to a runaway climate change happening over time. Or maybe a powerful radiation caused the undead to rise. Whatever the cause, the effect is the same:...
The short stories “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, written by Flannery O’Connor in 1953, and “A Rose for Emily”, written by William Faulkner are both excellent examples of Southern Gothicism. Southern Gothicism is a literary genre, which often involves disturbed characters doing rather disturbing things. The main characters in each of these stories...
