Essays on Literature

Love, a complex set of emotions related to strong feelings of affection, protectiveness, warmth, and respect for another person. As Lord Byron once said, “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” Though love is the main theme of many stories throughout the ages, in A View from the Bridge many...

  A View from The Bridge is a modern drama play written by Arthur Miller and is based in the ’50s. The play is set in Red-Hook, the American Italian neighborhood. In this play, Eddie Carbone was portrayed by Miller as a tragic hero. This was surrounded by the demise of Eddie throughout the play....

Prewriting is the first writing process. It is about brainstorming before writing an essay. The prewriting technique helps writers develop clear reasoning. It helps writers find weak points in arguments. It is used before writing your first draft. Prewriting has different techniques, which I have tried and found all to be really helpful and useful....

Throughout the play, Willy has consistently been portrayed as an insecure coward. From these insecurities stems his constant need for positive affirmation from other people. Willy, above all else, seeks to be liked and admired by others. It was Willy’s meeting with Dave Singleman that convinced him to become a salesman. Seeing how many people...

In the story Candide, Voltaire utilizes the encounters of the character Candide and exchange between characters to debate the hypothesis by different rationalists that ‘Everything is for the best right now all potential universes’ (Voltaire). Voltaire accepted that the general public that he lived in had numerous blemishes, defects which are outlined all through the...

The myth of Sisyphus is about a king who confronted the gods and chained Death, so no one could die. After Death was freed and it was time for Sisyphus to die, he escaped from the underworld. When the gods eventually caught him, they sentenced him to an eternal ounishement. Sispyphus had to push a...

The successes of Empire, while it lasted, were largely due in part to their widespread imperialistic tendencies around the world. Although many citizens turned a blind eye to the injustices wrought upon those that were colonized, there is evidence of Britain’s imperialistic nature captured within the literature of the time. The ideas of imperialism can...

 During the hour of the downturn, a creator by the name of John Steinbeck composed a novel called Of Mice and Men. The book setting is in Southern California during a similar timeframe. John Steinbeck gives us that companionship is an important thing to have in the novel Of Mice and Men. The book communicates...

Freedom: to walk free and own no superior – (Walt Whitman). The United States of America is considered the world’s first democracy that evolved to having a dynamic nature that allowed every segment of society to express its problems and demand the solution. Civil Liberty is the jewel in the crown of American democracy. Walt...

On September 12th, 2008, David Foster Wallace committed suicide. Before his death, he gave a remarkable speech to the Kenyans graduating class of 2005. It was called “This Is Water” and in it, Wallace informs the graduates about his perspectives on life. Throughout the speech, Wallace presents didactics to the audience in hopes of elaborating...