Category: Literary Criticism

William Golding writes a book about a band of schoolboys who become stranded on a remote island with no adults present. As the story progresses, chaos quickly ensues as the boy’s evil nature surfaces. The Lord of the Flies was written in 1954, with the recent atrocities committed in World War II fresh in mind.…

We all need some kind of authority with us, or our society could be a disaster, as shown in the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding. In this novel, a group of boys is stranded on an isolated Island at the time of an imaginary nuclear war with no connection to the adult…

Romantic love stories always end up with a happy ending, but sometimes they probably wind up in a tragedy such as the loss of a loved one. These horrific tragedies like the loss of a loved one can be caused by a persons actions. The tragic love story, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare explains…

Imagine falling in love with someone only to be part of a family you have been in constant fighting with for many years. This nightmare was played out by Romeo and Juliet, and it made an exciting story. Romeo was played as a depressed teenager in the 1600s looking for true love but ironically doesnt…

The internet defines love as an intense feeling of deep affection. So why does Romeo fall for Juliet after being let down by Rosaline? Romeo knows that love can be tragic, but it makes him happy. Romeo and Juliet are so happy together, Juliet would rather die than not be with Romeo. Readers also learn…

The Relevance of Romeo and Juliet in Todays Teens The play Romeo and Juliet is written by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare in 1597, depicts a romance between the teenage star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. The story takes multiple twists and turns as we follow the two teens through their romance…

Throughout the story ‘Of Mice and Men,’ Steinbeck’s perception of women as the novel evolves is truly revealed. It is shown that at that time if women didn’t fit into the societal view that a woman should be maternal and modest, they would be frowned upon and outcasted. Throughout the novel, Steinbeck represents women to…

In our generation, various different people see Shakespeare as either relevant or irrelevant. If Im going, to be honest, I dread Shakespeare, none of the work made sense to me particularly the way that they spoke. I would sit in class looking at the work my teacher has assigned in confusion wondering how much longer…

William Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a tragedy play about two star-crossed lovers. Aware of his Elizabethan audience, Shakespeare creates men that are in vastly different contrast to current beliefs. Because the ideologies of masculinity in 13th century Italy differed from the modern term’s definition today. Men are represented as arrogant in Romeo and…

There are always consequences to bad choices in one way or another, just as committing a crime results in imprisonment. William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet shows a pair of star-crossed lovers who make dangerous and risky choices they would not make otherwise in hopes of being with each other, ultimately leading to their deaths.…