Category: Literary Criticism

The Phantom of the Opera: The Phantom of the Opera or also known as The head of the fire is a ghost who haunted the Opera. His real name is Erik and most people thought he only was a monster who frightened people because he was frustrated at how ugly he was but theres a…

It is often easy to suggest that poetry makes a familiar world unfamiliar however, the world that the poet writes about is familiar to them. For example, Sylvia Plaths poetry was highly influenced by her deteriorating mental health and her difficulty with relationships. The world that Plaths poetry portrayed is a world that was familiar…

During the 19th century, the traditional values of the Igbo people clashed with the values of western culture (Osei-Nyame 149-150). More specifically, the ideas of gender roles presented in Achebes Things Fall Apart contrast how the Igbo people view the role of men and women. During this time period, western literature did not appropriately depict…

Sense and Sensibility written by Austen is a book about two women named Elinor Dashwood, and Marianne Dashwood, and their families. In my opinion, the title means the relationship they have with their significant others. I think this because they show sense which means to have restraint and they show sensibility which means to give…

Jeanette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, narrates Jeanette’s unusual youth portrayed by tenacious neediness and the disarray and perplexity of broken guardians and their itinerant way of life. What is exceptional about Jeanette’s story is that despite the fact that Jeanette’s folks were untrustworthy, careless, and imprudent, they managed to ingrain in their kid’s key…

Sonnet 18 was written by the English poet William Shakespeare, that articulates and emphasizes the sentiment of love. The poem expresses the poets endearment and perpetual devotion to his subject, and how the subject surpasses all tangible beauty. He explicitly expresses this notion through the manipulation and application of figurative language, poetic devices, and imagery.…

Once in our lives, there is a minute that we may consider ourselves superior to somebody or something different. There may likewise be a moment when creating a choice prompts an incredible blunder in judgment. In the play, Oedipus the King, composed by Sophocles, both of these attributes can be found in the primary character.…