Category: Literary Criticism

In the poem The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer, he defines love in different ways that others might not catch at first until they have taken their time with every line. There are two definitions of how he defines it throughout the poem such as love that is only full of lust and the…

Poetry is a way of expressing thoughts and emotions through complex uses of words and phrases. Poetry can express many emotions and mean many different things to many different people. The poem She Walks In Beauty, written by Lord Byron, is a lyrical poem that expresses the love of Lord Byron to an unnamed lady.…

Romeo and Juliet is the most daily love story in the English literary tradition. Love is naturally the play’s dominant and most critical theme. Love is naturally the play’s dominant and most fundamental theme. The play focuses on romantic love, often talking about the immoderate ardor that springs up at first sight between Romeo and…

The Tempest a Shakespeares Globe theatre production in 2013 directed by Jeremy Herrin who is a renowned and well-respected director, he first made his Shakespeare debut in 2011 by directing Eve Best in Much Ado About Nothing. The Tempests is set on an un-named Mediterranean island in Renaissance Europe. His ship in the play is…

The film Othello, directed by Oliver Parker and made in 1995 is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play that was written in the early 1600s. The film takes on several of Shakespeares strong recurring themes of love and tragedy. Othello also touches on other imperative themes that are still prominent in the world today, including class…

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the story tells how an innocent black man, Tom Robertson, is accused of rape and gets sent to jail. Its a sad story that shows racism and how the world has a stereotypical view of a black man. I personally feel that the story doesnt…

Throughout Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ Benedick’s personality changes dramatically. He is described at the beginning of the play as dull and empty, with no intentions of finding love. This changes drastically throughout the book, and he is known as a humorous, kind-hearted person that has people’s trust, and we learn this from his relationships…

Alliteration Definition=The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Example=’From forth the fatal loins of these two foes; A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.’ (Prologue. 5-6) Explanation=The first few lines in Romeo and Juliet are used to describe the plot of the entire play.…

The television adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles short story The Final Problem is a modern retelling of the traditional narrative in which both the storyline and characters are appropriated into new contexts. Sherlocks The Reichenback Fall provides a fresh interpretation of the storyline, making it accessible and relevant for viewers today. This has been…

The Things They Carried is a collection of metafiction short stories written in 1990 by Tim OBrien. It was about a platoon fighting in the Vietnam War, in the book he talks about his experiences as a soldier. In one of his stories The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, he talks about how Mary…