Category: Literary Criticism

La Belle Dame sans Merci  a ballad by John Keats, thats title translates to the lady without mercy, creates a sense of betrayal from the start. The poem begins from the first-person perspective of the main character, asking himself a question, O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, now pointing to the conclusion that this…

In the exposition ‘Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s’, Brent Staples argues that an unrivaled measure of undergrads has been getting decent evaluations and higher averages they don’t deserve. Staples states, As a consequence, diplomas will become weaker and more ornamental as the years go by. Staples additionally contends that consumerism has influenced the…

Orange Is the New Black is an American comedy-drama series streaming on Netflix. The series is based on Piper Kerman’s memoir about her experiences in a minimum-security federal prison. It covers themes such as racism, sexism, and the monetization of human beings. The Black Lives Matter movement is also an extremely important theme of the…

There are lots of people who cannot have strong relationships with their parents. Some would call others lucky to be able to have the opportunity to connect with their parents. Thi Bui gives information for us to recognize that not every relationship with a family will always be pure. My family constantly talks about their…

The Birthmark was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne during the Age of Enlightenment, in which the subject of science was ridiculously prevalent, as it was believed that science could take anyone anywhere, they wanted to go just by doing their best. This caused science and the scientific method to begin to be seen by people as…

According to the Oxford Dictionary, nature is the phenom of the physical world collectively, such as plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans. In Robert Frosts poem Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, he writes a thought-provoking poem that displays his view of life.…

Poetry has been evident in our lives as a matter of expression of ones emotions. Some use this form of art to express ones love for another or even a short letter to oneself. But despite this being a generalized form of art, it still has its types or forms, showing distinct functions and conveying…

A Clockwork Orange is written by Anthony Burgess, and published in 1962. The protagonist is a fifteen-year-old young man called Alex, whose main interests are ultraviolence and classical music. He spends days sleeping and nights abusing, raping, and robbing along with his three ‘droogs’. The four of them form a gang of which Alex is…

Social class is a prominent theme in The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald represented the upper class, middle class, and lower class of people in the 1920s era, he always separated the rich into two groups: old money and new money. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses the characters to show the conflict among the…

The best way to describe a play like Romeo and Juliet is a rose has thorns. The being, in this case, the rose is love and the thorns are violence. Throughout this play, Shakespeare uses love and violence the juxtapose one another the contrast introduces to the audience the concept that love can be violent,…