Category: Literary Criticism

Yes, I think ‘Death of a salesman’ is a tragedy. And the story says that it is a modern tragedy. As we know in a word tragedy means misfortune. It also means suffering. And the drama ‘Death of a salesman’ is really sorrowful. Because in this American drama. Willy Loman was a salesman. He belongs…

Why do Greek figures suffer punishment from the gods? Gods had a very benevolent attitude to life. They were not constrained by family relationships, which is why brothers could marry their sisters and could kill their fathers with children or a son. Many moral rules deities can commit would not apply to us, one could…

Oedipus The King is a work heavily focused on Justice. Oedipus, as a king, discovers that the only way he can save his beloved city and its people is to seek and punish the murder of his predecessor. He is determined to establish justice and peace in his city. He starts to uncover the murder…

In his work, William Shakespeare uses the elements of drama to analyze and explain the universal themes present in each of his plays. The Shakespearean play Julius Caesar demonstrates the universal themes of betrayal and tragedy. Julius Caesar is a tragedy play written in 1599. Its about a conflict/rivalry between two people, named Brutus and…

Comedy vs. Tragedy: Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream vs. Romeo and Juliet According to Horace Walpole, Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel (Wolterbeek). Over the course of many years, comedy and tragedy have been studied by various scholars, from Aristotle to Friedrich Nietzsche. In both of Shakespeares…

Because Macbeth is nothing on the different hand a killing machine, it is very difficult to view him as a tragic hero. But can one without a doubt inform whether or not or no longer or now not Macbeth is a two-faced hypocrite? This essay will speak about the public and personal persona of Macbeth…

Long before daytime soap operas, Sophocles regaled the masses with the tragic tale of Oedipus the Tyrant. It is the first of its kind to enmesh the reader in a complicated web of incest, patricide, and regicide whilst featuring a protagonist who evokes rage and pity in the same breath. Centuries after its first performance,…

In The Necklace Guy de Maupassant depicts a couple of downfalls due to the wifes careless actions. As the story begins, Mrs. Loisel attends a ball and loses the necklace. Mrs. Loisel is insatiable and oblivious. Mr. Loisel provides for them and dotes on Mrs. Loisels hand and foot. They seem to be a very…

The importance of the theme of acceptance is illuminated in Boaz Yakins film Remember the Titans (2000) through the interactions of the various characters. Set in the 1970s, the racial barriers present in society at the time are projected onto the characters who belong to a football team called The TCW Titans, causing conflict between…

The novel is about a boy by name Jonas who turns 12 and lives in a utopian society as it seems to be. Society has rules that every single person in society has to follow, otherwise, the individuals get released. Individuals in a society have no emotions. and they are not able to see colors.…