Category: Literary Criticism

The Effective Exposure of Historical and Prejudicial Messages Through To Kill a Mockingbird Students are more likely to retain knowledge if they obtain it through something they enjoy. Reading an interesting book, for example, is a more effective way of learning than simply sitting in a classroom and taking notes about concepts and events from…

The Features of Literary Techniques in To Kill A Mockingbird In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the author demonstrates how she uses literary techniques to convey the theme to the readers. The story is about a young girl named Scout living during the Great Depression and the Jim Crow era with…

Essay on Perseverance in ‘The Odyssey’ My book was The Odyssey by Homer. The Odyssey is a widely popular ancient Greek epic poem written nearly 2500 years ago in Europe. It tells of Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, on a long journey home after the Trojan War. It tells of his battles with monsters and…

The Aspects of Shakespeare Story of Love Much ado about nothing is a play written by William Shakespeare in 1598 over 400 years ago. The play explores the message and the theme of love and how it can be complicated, which is still true today. There are three types of love in this play, Claudio…

Essay on Symbolism in ‘The Outsiders’ Although published in 1967, Outsiders by S.E Hinton an easy-to-read narrative is still relevant to many teenagers today. Darry and Sodapop host a good cop, bad cop bringing up and complimenting one anothers stern affection for Ponyboy. However, Pony also feels Darry is pushing and expects too much of…

Persepolis VS To Kill a Mockingbird The transition between childhood and adulthood is a time of growing independence along with constant questioning, especially when being exposed to the cultural norms of society, some of which are divisive and not always driven by pure motivation. When becoming adults, our personal world is shaped around what we…

Essay on ‘The Truth the Dead Know’ Confessional poetry was considered bold and daring from the late 1950s to the 1980s as it was a break from the more modernist forms of poetry at this time. Confessional poetry is a form of self-revelation in a lot of cases and is extremely personal. (Beach, 154) Anne…

Poetry Explication on ‘The Road Not Taken’ Essay The main aim and purpose of this paper are to analyze Robert Frost’s poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ from the point of view of stylistic analysis. This analysis deals with the different aspects of stylistics such as the lexico-syntactic, patterns and choices, semantically, grammatically, graph logically, and…

Essay on Foreshadowing in ‘The Kite Runner’ The Kite Runner is a record about the life of a man named Amir and his life endeavors. We think about Amir’s puberty in Afghanistan in the 1980s. We moreover locate a couple of arrangements concerning his hardships, his swing to America, and his swing back to Afghanistan.…

Essay on Metaphors in ‘The Kite Runner’ The Kite Runner is a novel emblematic of the concept of redemption through the use of symbolism as well as metaphor. The primary idea enforced by Khaled Hosseini is redemption, which is shown through the portrayal of Amir seeking his fathers approval, for he holds Amir accountable for…