Category: Literature 5177

  • Technology and Humanity in “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley

    Introduction Dystopian fiction is gaining popularity due to its deeply reflective nature and futuristic perspectives on the social order. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley is a dystopian fiction novel written and published in the early 1930s. It presents a society living in the so-called World State, where a strict intelligence-based hierarchy is maintained through…

  • Summary of “Paul’s Case” Story

    Paul’s Case by Willa Cather is a short story full of temperament lessons. It is a narration of a few months’ events in Paul’s life. Paul is a student at Pittsburg High School, who prefers theater and music to class. The story begins when Paul is suspended from school; he meets his principal and teachers,…

  • Creativity in Chopin’s Short Story ‘The Storm’

    Artistic creativity may intuitively appear to be simple but in actuality it is a complex phenomenon. Creativity is definitely an elaborate process with the product being an outcome of the implementation of the creativity. It can be stated that art and creativity is fundamentally governed by the flow of emotion and a good example is…

  • The Play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams

    One of the core themes in the play A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams is the development of the relationships between Blanche and Mitch. In the beginning, creating a family for sensitive and strong Mitch and delicate and naïve Blanche seems to be a compatible option that meets the mutual needs of the…

  • Langston Hughes’ Poem “Dream Deferred”

    Poetry often has a way of reaching into the deepest elements of the human soul to expose the underlying natural desires and emotions that are frequently otherwise suppressed in ‘polite’ society. It does this by both appealing specifically to human emotion and by remaining sufficiently general to have broad common appeal. All this is accomplished…

  • The Art of Losing by Elizabeth Bishop

    Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Elizabeth Bishop has often been portrayed as being detached from her poetry, partly because she often takes an exterior view. However, this is merely her artist’s eye coming through as she uses very co0ncrete imagery to convey her meaning and expects the reader to create…

  • Appearance and Reality in Good Country People

    Her statements are so vague and evident that they are almost meaningless, except for expressing a general philosophy of resignation. The fact that she cannot recognize them as cliches show how little time she spends thinking about her beliefs. Just as Mrs. Hopewell seems to want to change the image of the Freemans in the…

  • Women in ‘A Room with a View’ by Forster and ‘A Mid-Summer’s Dream’ by Shakespeare

    The play, ‘A Room with a View’ and the novel, ‘A Mid-Summer’s Dream’ are correlated in various aspects; in which their authors seem to be having a common knowledge in writing them. As the play and the novel depict, various characters seem to be in similar situations; in which the writers bring out various scenarios…

  • ‘My Mother Enters the Work Force’: Rita Dove’s Perspective on Motherhood

    Rita Dove seems to have an intimate understanding of motherhood and the responsibilities ascribed to motherhood. In the poem, Dove provides strong diction and the female point of view to express the life of being a mother and a wife. In the first stanza, Rita Dove arrays motherhood as a burdensome responsibility. She writes, “But…

  • “The Red and the Black” by Stendhal

    Table of Contents Synopsis Commentary on the Psychological Components Review of the Book References Synopsis The Red and the Black is a novel by Stendhal, and it is also called The chronicle of the XIX century. The book reveals the tragic story of Julien Sorel, “in whose soul there is a struggle between natural nobility…