Category: Literary Criticism

Gregory Corso was one of the many poets during the Beat Generation alongside Allen Ginsberg. He was born to an immigrant couple then the mom sadly died when Gregory was a child (Hoover). Unlike Allen Ginsberg, Gregory was not the most educational poet in the world because of his past with his family. He was…

Cultural Identity is an important point of focus in Sam Selvon’s ‘The Lonely Londoners’ and Grace Nichols’s’ ‘The Fat Black Woman’s Poems’ as both explore the experiences of West Indian Migrants in Postcolonial Britain. After World War Two (1945) black workers were invited and welcomed back to the ‘mother country’ between 1948 and 1973 to…

Introduction: Ruby Bridges, an iconic figure in the Civil Rights Movement, captured the nation’s attention when she became the first African American student to integrate an all-white school in New Orleans in 1960. Through a rhetorical analysis of Ruby Bridges’ story, this essay will explore the use of rhetorical strategies to convey the themes of…

Lady Macbeth is cunning and manipulative. When first introduced to her in the play she is already plotting the murder of the king. Her ambition to be Queen and her power-hungry nature pushes her to manipulate her husband, Macbeth. Lady Macbeth calls her husbands manhood into question, taunting his lack of courage when he begins…

In life, countless lessons can be learned. Some of these are from mistakes and others victories, but these lessons may also be called themes. In almost every book ever written one of these lessons/themes may be found. In literature, some of the most known themes are love conquers all, the good will always prevail, or…

Ishiguro’s psychologically complicated works draw on the subculture of the realist novel. He counts such authors as Charlotte Bronte, Anton Chekov, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky among his literary influences. Ishiguro identifies as a worldwide writer. He does not see his work as a section of a Japanese literary tradition and has referred to the…

According to Aristotle,  a tragedy should arouse in the spectators the feeling piety and fear  pity mainly for the heros tragic fate and fear at the sight of the dreadful suffering that occurs the characters, particularly the hero. By arousing these feelings of pity and fear, a tragedy aims at the catharsis or…

The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, defines a tragic hero as a character having valiant traits that earn the audience’s sympathy but also have human flaws that ultimately lead to their own downfall. Aristotle states a tragic hero’s fortune should be not from bad to good but from good to bad caused by their own doing. A…

Thank you, Your Honor. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, thank you for your time as all the evidence was carefully presented. So, all the facts and evidence have been presented to you today and with that, Id like to say the fate of Oedipus life now is within your hands. Oedipus has been convicted…

Aristotle in his famous book ‘Poetics’ describes the traits needed to complete the tragedy. As in accordance to Aristotle, any tragedy is a perfect tragedy when the action has soberness, expansive, and ideal in it. Some of the important factors of a perfect tragedy are Peripeteia, Anagnorisis, and catharsis. King Oedipus of Greek mythology owns…