Literature

Described in the character list as “a savage and deformed slave,” Caliban is the son of Sycorax, an evil witch who has since died but who once held authority over…

What if there was a society where knowledge was feared and looked down upon? A society where someone who is intellectual is absolutely abandoned? In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451,…

A symbol is something that stands for or represents something else. In the book Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Hosseini uses many symbols along with direct and indirect characterization to…

A victim is someone who has been singled out for cruelor unfair treatment. A villain is a wicked person or a criminal. The question is does Shakespare portray Shylock, the…

I love reading. I read almost all kinds of novels, picture books, and some magazines. As a result, I’m full of creativity and imagination. Sometimes I also listen to the…

Ellen Goodman has been named columnist of the year, she has won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980, as well as writing books, essays, and reports. She is an educator, researcher,…

Being that George Orwell was essentially a political writer, who focused his attention on his own times, he based his book “1984” on what times where or what the future…

In plays, dialogue is often relied upon in order to reveal the morals, and values of its characters. Dialogue also plays a very important role in establishing the nature of…

The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a young wife and mother who has recently began to suffer symptoms of depression and anxiety. She does not believe that anything is…

During life, people become great friends with other people. Friends are loyal companions. They always have each other’s backs and are there for them whenever they need them and this…

When comparing power levels and women’s rights, Sparta was a leader in its time. Athens and Sparta, though both Greek city-states were different in the way they operated. More specifically,…

To an extent Doctor Faustus could be seen as a morality play; a morality play the is really a fusion of allegory and the religious drama of the miracle plays…

A cargo ship holding a bunch of Chinese illegal immigrants is on its journey to New York where they will be working for riches and a better life. Each family…

“Looking for Alibrandi” is a contemporary novel about a 17 year old Catholic girl, Josephine Alibrandi, who was in her final year at school. Her life was turned upside down…

The narrator does not necessarily lie the locals in lower Burma but he was sent their to police them. The reason why he does not like the locals too much…

Everyone goes through suffering at some point in life. Some suffer from diseases and physical pain, while others suffer from emotional and mental pain. Sometimes, the suffering stops, in others…

“Memoirs of a Geisha” is a book written by Arthur Golden. The plot takes place in Japan and tells us the story of a young girl; a fisherman’s daughter and…

There are a lot of different themes and symbols throughout the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Many of the motifs coincide with the titles of the three sections in…

William Golding wanted to investigate the evil side in everyone, he wanted to see what boundaries in society hold them back from acting how they wish. It displays the descent…

Lloyd Alexander start to writing for adults and his stories is always based on what he likes, them he star writing for young people. Most of his books are wrote…