Category: Literary Criticism

The Hunger Games series displays a thrilling storyline filled with pure socialness, vulgar language, mental toughness, and the sacrifices some families have to make to survive. Why did the Hunger Games start? The games started to provide entertainment and to remind the people who were in charge, that the Capitol. The Hunger Games is an…

The story is about the Usher family and it arises by the narrator visits his childhood friend who needs his help as he is sick. He describes the house as ancient and broken down and there lived Roderick and Madeline who seem to be mad. Madeline gets ill and doctors answer with no cure for…

Authority and chaos seem like polar opposites. When people think of absolute authority, they often picture Stalins firm grip, or big brothers’ ever-watching eye, keeping people in lockstep, people checking their own language in order to stay safe. Chaos seems incompatible with this extreme conformity; it doesnt seem possible to keep people in lockstep without…

The book begins with an introduction by the author. While it is not part of the actual story, it is worth looking into because it describes the authors thoughts and comments on his success and the true meaning of the book and its application to his life. The Prologue introduces the alchemist and tells a…

Mindstyle refers to the term coined by Roger Fowler, in 1977, which referred to any distinctive linguistic representation of an individual mental self, whether of a character, narrator, or implied author. The impression of a mindstyle is usually cumulatively conveyed through consistent linguistic choices which together cut the narrated world to a distinctive cognitive pattern.…

Stylistic analysis has a great role in understanding the importance of the literary elements as well as the linguistic contents in literary text. An attempt is made in the current paper to stylistically analyze the literary elements used in the concerned short story. Introduction Stylistic analysis is of great importance to know how language functions…

The Odyssey is a poem written in ancient Greece by poet, Homer. In this poem, we are captivated by the series of obstacles that happen during the main characters lengthy and dangerous journey home. We are introduced to Odysseus who is the King of Ithaca as he prepares to lead his army as a general…

Lord of the Flies is set during a war; Golding may have got this idea as he was in a war himself. The boys are being evacuated, when the plane crashes on the island. After the boys get out it is washed out to sea. ‘He glanced around the scar ‘, this is the first…

The Tell-Tale Heart is a story that indicates that one mans fear and guilt can drive him insane. This is a story about a caretaker who has had enough of an old mans eye. His diseased mind thinks that the old mans eye, which he likens to that of a vulture eye; it was pale…

A key theme of the short story is mental health. The narrator struggles with his sanity. He begins by asking the reader directly, ‘How then am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story.’ this then leads into a paragraph that essentially says that he is going…