Critical Essays Examples

Robert Browning during 1836 published the poem of “Porphyria’s lover” established during the period of romanticism. The poem was best known for the contradictory that it upheld against the context of the time. ‘The poem like much of Browning’s work conflates sexuality, love and insanity...

Throughout most of his life, Robert Browning’s literary success was overshadowed by his wife’s career, in fact, many people referred to him as “Mrs. Browning’s husband”; however, after experimenting with being a playwright and writing personal prose similar to Percy Shelley, Browning found his niche...

In its value neutral use, “Victorian” simply identifies the historical era in England roughly coincident with the reign of Queen Victoria, 1837-1901. It was a time of rapid and wrenching economic and social changes that had no parallel in earlier history- changes that made small-scale...

“True goodness springs from a man’s own heart. All men are born good.” Confucius Are humans innately born to be virtuous or wicked? This controversial question has been disputed by numerous scholars and philosophers, yet the story of Frankenstein in contrast to the myth of...

The Victorian Era texts that I have studied have shaped my understanding and point of views of what everyday life was like and what people’s roles were in the Victorian Era society. The Victorian Era is a period of time in England from June 1837...

In Robert Browning’s 1836 poem, “Porphyria’s Lover,” relationships are represented as destructive and obsessive when based on different social classes. This idea that people are restricted to their class was something that the Romantics often reflected in their poems. The Romantics valued emotional sensitivity and...

Lying drives against everything most people represent, but it is true that we all lie at some point in our lives, and sometimes it is difficult to realize that. There are some cases when people believe their lies which it becomes a disease, or cases...

A lie is an intentionally false statement. White lies, facades, dismissal, and delusion all fall under the umbrella of lies but have different effects and consequences. The previewing lies are the most self-dismissable ones among the plethora of ways the human race lies. Based on...

Today, a lie is our second oxygen, thanks to which we survive in our society. In her essay, Ericsson revealed to me the type of lie that, in my opinion, our entire society illustrates. Facade. Facade is like wearing a mask. You create an image...

During World War I, Canada’s Indigenous and First Nations communities had always been the target for racism by European settlers. The novel ​Three Day Road​, written by critically acclaimed author, Joseph Boyden uses the literary lens of critical race theory to further focus on racism...