Category: Literature Review

How Does The Author Of The Giver Use Their Protagonists Quest To Explore Responsibilities? Jonas is the protagonist in the book named The Giver. The Giver is about a futuristic utopian society which has tried to relieve its citizens of choices to ensure sameness, fairness, and equality. We start reading with Jonas who is eleven…

Crucial Themes And Ideas In The Novel The Giver In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the main protagonist is faced with an important decision when he learns of the true meaning of Release. He (Jonas) lives in a Community where a decision had previously been made to create a utopian (perfect) society by…

The Relevance Of 1984 And The Giver Its this thought, this notion of absolute compliance felt by those submitted to authority which allows power and control to be established and maintained. Imagine believing something to be the complete truth, then realising it was all a lie. A falsehood by those in power forcing you to…

Oppression by Marilyn Frye: Summary Throughout history, women have been victims of repression, because men comfort themselves with the idea that women need to be guided and looked after. But today, female oppression is worse because women have grown unaware since it has become a part of womens identity. The destruction of the female character…

Analysis of Changing the Face of Poverty by Diana George In Changing the Face of Poverty: Nonprofits and the Problem of Representation, Diana George uses ethos and pathos to describe how poverty is trying to be solved in the United States. In this article, she talks about how poverty is advertised to many Americans. She…

Allusions in the Handmaid’s Tale Commencing Margret Atwoods revealing work of dystopian literature in The Handmaid’s Tale, Passage 1 acts as an introduction to Gileads oppressive state, as well as offering an inside look into Offreds contemplations on rebellion; a sentiment that carries across the rest of the following passages. Sleeping in what used to…

Review on ‘Motherhood: Who Desires It?’ by Betty Rollin Asking who wants motherhood could be a little bit of a real understatement, in my opinion. Instead, we must always go deeper into it. What needs motherhood and why? Is it individuals, males, females, society or the world as a whole? Within the essay, Motherhood: Who…

Rethinking Motherhood’: Contesting Ideal Mother through Bertolt Brechts ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’ In The Caucasian Chalk Circle Brecht undertakes a redefinition of motherhood. The true mother is no longer she who has borne the child, but she who is most useful to it: What there is shall go to those who are good for it,…

The Outsiders By S.E. Hinton Resonates With Teenagers Today The Outsiders is a bildungsroman novel, written by S.E. Hinton when she was a teenager. Although it was written in the 70s, the themes of loyalty, isolation, and identity explored throughout the novel are still pertinent to teenagers today. In The Outsiders, loyalty is a recurrent…

Exploring Personal Identity in Henry Lawson’s Short Stories Our Pipes and The Drovers Wife The environment of an individuals identity shapes the communitys identity due to isolation. When coming together everyone has so much to express and share as everyone has missed out on so much due to being Australian bush men or women. Our…