Category: Literary Criticism

Lonely aging movie star meets a bored newlywed girl while both are briefly in Tokyo. The basic story may not seem particularly novel or interesting, but the actual film stands in stark contrast to such an assumption. Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson discover that jetlag in Tokyo is perfectly daijobu Lost in Translation marks the…

More Than This, There Is Nothing: Simplicity in Lost In Translation Sofia Coppolas 2003 film, Lost In Translation, centers around the platonic relationship between protagonists Bob Harris and Charlotte. Bob is an aging American celebrity in his fifties who has begrudgingly traveled to Tokyo to do a series of advertisements for a Japanese whiskey company.…

Challenges Katniss faces in The Hunger Games The twelve districts of Panem are run by the Capitol, and as a punishment for a rebellion in the past is made to select a boy and a girl who might be tributes who will fight to the death inside the hunger games arena, which is held every…

Introduction to Dystopian Panem In a place where poverty is common and a country that is ruled by a tyrannical dictator, it isn’t possible for an individual to trust others when their own life is always at stake. The novel The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins, demonstrates the significant issues in the real world…

Imagine living in a state of constant suffering, belittlement, control, and alienation. That is what life is like for the men in the asylum throughout the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Nurse Ratched runs the psychiatric ward with an iron fist. Her emasculating power over the patients forces them into submission and constant…

‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ was first released on Ray Bradbury’s hit set in 1950. Set in the year 2026 and following a futuristic smart home in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster that devastated the former human population of the residence, the residence is completely self-contained in this The house, everything is mechanical, from…

The main theme of the short story The Thing in the Forest, by A.S. Byatt is trauma and loss. There are many reasons and examples Byatt show throughout the story. Thought out the main three paragraphs will explain more in detail. Throughout the short story The Thing in the Forest, by A.S. Byatt, it all…

The growth of characters is very crucial as it is the process of creating a fully rounded, lifelike character within any fictional writing. It has the purpose of making readers invested in their life and interested in seeing their growth. In Sandra Cisneros’s short story Eleven, the growth of characters is very present. Character development…

Rime of the Ancient Mariner rests firmly on the philosophical mindset of the Romantics. Coleridge’s lines in this poem are steeped in Romantic philosophy, the importance of love, love for humans, birds, and animals, and the dangers of rational thinking. Coleridge was one of the founders of the Romantic movement, a literary movement that developed…

Introduction “The Death of a Moth” by Virginia Woolf and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin are two captivating works of literature that explore the themes of mortality and freedom. While both stories delve into the human experience and the complex emotions surrounding life and death, they present contrasting perspectives and approaches. In…