Category: Literary Criticism

The leader of a powerful country is known to many as a very peaceful person when dealing with foreign disputes. Suddenly, an enemy nation strikes out of nowhere and destroys one of the biggest urban cities in the country. Plans of war come to mind. Conflicts like these happen all the time around the world,…

The Seventh Mans Guilt How should the seventh man respond to losing somebody he was very close to? People respond to situations in many different ways. The choices you make determine whether or not you should feel guilty for your actions. There are two different types of guilt, subjective, and objective guilt. The seventh man…

In ‘The Seventh Man’, the narrator fails to save his best friend K. He lived with his failure for the rest of his life. The topic of this essay is if he should forgive himself for not being able to save K. I believe, he should, he really wasn’t going to have any way to…

During the late 1800s, women and men were not equal, they lived in a society where women were defined as housewives and were expected to take care of their children and husbands for the rest of their lives. The issue connects with the experience of the narrator in the short story The Yellow Wallpaper, written…

In his article The Optimal Time to Dunk an Oreo, According to Science, Lucas Reilly brings us a roundup of scientific research of just how long our cookie/biscuit should remain in the milk, including an actual physics equation and a university-approved chart. This piece of writing explores Washburn’s/Fisher’s equation, how the equation works, and how…

Strength can be subjective whether it’s physical to mental it all has the same great importance. In my opinion, the most important strength is moral and spiritual strength. I think this because when you have a strong grounding in your own values and spiritual morals everything else comes and falls into place. Things like physical…

In Gods eyes, we are all thought of as His children, and like children we have differences. In a perfect world, there would be no reason for conflict, unfortunately, that just isnt human nature. Because we carry the burden of sin, we have wars, we kill, and we are thrust into the pressures of persecution.…

Of Mice and Men: Steinbecks Controversial Novel Some of the most iconic novels in American Literature are those that are shrouded in controversy, and John Steinbecks Of Mice and Men is no exception to this list. Steinbeck paints a realistic image of what life would be like for farmers during the great depression while providing…

Sophocles Oedipus Rex is, according to Aristotle, the ideal tragedy. Various reasons influence Aristotles position on the matter. One of them is the peripeteia, which refers to a drastic turnaround. In Poetics, Aristotle defines the element of surprise that peripeteia denotes as a change by which the action veers round to its opposite (Cain et…

The whole poem consists of six stanzas, each stanza is three lines long and there is an alternate long and short sentence to express a rhythmic rocking sound. The rhythm of the poem is related to a lullaby where mothers sing it to their precious baby, which ties into the title of the poem. The…