Category: Literary Criticism

Thomas Stearns Eliot stands as a great poet of the 20th century. He is regarded as a rebel poet who discusses city life, its barrenness, immoral attitude and activities of the city people, loss of faith in religious traditions, and so on. It is said that a great poet in writing of him writes his…

Agree, the theme of love is foci around which all other themes revolved. The themes of the playwright Romeo and Juliet intertwine with one another. William Shakespeare wanted to show that sometimes through love we can also hate. In this play, love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and…

Shakespeares tragedy Macbeth presents the themes of ambition, the supernatural, and guilt and illustrates the consequences of regicide. Written for audiences of the 16th century, the Scottish tragedy shows how the Great Chain of Being would have been disrupted if the foiled Gunpowder Plot was successful. The purposeful killing of a monarch is often associated…

If I were asked to write a letter to a person from the past about what awaits him in the future, I would simply attach a list of the most famous works of American contemporary literature. Modern American literature is an army of interesting authors and a sea of a wide variety of books. The…

Self-identity is defined as an understanding of an individual that has been displayed to them. According to The Story of an Hour written by Kate Chopin, it states that She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will–as powerless as…

His heart skipped a beat is a common idiom used to describe someone after he has just experienced a moment of shock or surprise. It is often used in a comical sense with the subject of the line never being in any real danger. However, in The Story of an Hour, the main characters heart…

Sartre once shrewdly said Hell is other people, in the short story The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin presents us with a regularly unheard perspective of marriage. Mrs. Louis Mallard, the main character, experiences the elation of freedom other than the desolation of loneliness after she finds out about her husbands death. Later, when…

‘Free! Body and soul free!’ (Choppin 2) what did Mrs. Mallard mean by this? This quotation was said a few moments after she found out that her husband passed away in a fatal trainwreck. But why would she say such things after hearing her spouse has passed away? Mrs. Mallard was very determined to have…

The difference between verbal irony and the situational irony is that verbal irony is something that is said in the opposite of what the speaker means: I beg; open the door- you will make yourself ill. Go away. I am not making myself ill. No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life through…

The Romantic movement in literature is not only one of the most prolific currents in the history of Western literature, but also one of the most misinterpreted in terms of motives, positioning, and objectives. While it is commonly associated with (comparatively) superficial emotional stories and flat descriptions of nature, critics prefer referring to it as…