Essays on Literary Genre

The novel ‘The Time Machine’ is a science fiction novella. It introduces us to a very talented English scientist Time traveller. He was living in Richmond surrey in England. The novel starts with a view of a room in which Time traveller is talking to some of his friends. There was a dinner party going...

What, in your view, is the significance of D.H. Lawrence’s short story The Prussian Officer for an understanding of Midgley’s discussion of freedom In this essay, I will begin by giving a summary of D.H. Lawrence’s short story, The Prussian Officer. I will then summarise John Stewart Mill’s ‘harm principle’ which Midgley’s critique of which,...

The film “The Matrix” considered Will Smith instead of Keanu Reeves to play as Neo the main character. This essay will begin with a short plot and character summary. Following the plot and character summary are three hero’s journey stages that are reflected in the Matrix. The three hero’s journey stages I am talking about...

‘Killings’ by Andre Dubus is set in a proletarian city in Massachusetts. The story discovers the mentality as well as feeling of spouses once their child Frank is killed. The story involves complications in addition to tension. The dark enemy and killer, Richard Strout, is treated by Dubus with minor notes of sympathy (Dubus, 1979,...

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...

Introductory Information Title of Work and Author Title: Light in August Author: William Faulkner Genre: Modern Literature and Southern Gothic Historical Context Light in August by William Faulkner was written in the 20th century – 1932. The major historical relevant to the novel are the aftermath of slavery, including the Civil War, World War I...

The one who came to optimize the popular conception of the Romantic poet as a passionate dreamer that celebrates the world of imagination, who lived a short life and still managed to produce 54 poems that widely range from sonnets, odes, romance, and epics. John Keats lost his parents at age fourteen, but he still...

Introduction A Map of Home is a story about immigrants from the Eastern that lived in Western, especially in America. The main character of the novel is Nidali. Nidali is born to a Palestinian father, named Waheed and an Egyptian mother, named Fairuza. Nidali has one brother, named Gamal. In the novel, it mostly tell...

In Thomas More’s 1516, socio-political satire, Utopia, he challenges the values of his contemporary world. Through the book, he is able to criticise many of the political, social, and economic ways of his society. In the book Moore explores a perfect island of Utopia through a carefully constructed character of Raphael. The Utopians are a...

Gattaca, a dystopian society, creates the illusion of perfection by hiding under a mask of a utopia. Every individual knows their place in the social hierarchy and is passive and accepts it. A brutal system has been unintentionally created by the simple thoughts of man and their utilisation of new scientific inventions. Underneath this clean...