Critical Essays Examples

Vision is used to affect the realism in the short stories, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “A White Heron,” and “The Yellow Wallpaper.” In each of these stories, vision is used in different ways. In the stories, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “A...

Belphoebe, one of the many characters sketched by the genius of Spenser in his allegorical epic, is the virtuous embodiment of queen Elizabeth I alongside her representation in the forms of Britomart and Gloriana. Belphoebe, the chaste and powerful huntress makes various guest-appearances throughout the...

Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl illustrates the cruelties that women faced during slavery to implore free white women of the north to oppose the system. Jacobs’s account of power structures and modes of resistance, although very different in nature,...

Most literary critics look on racism of the blacks as a whole but in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tries through Americanah to explain the actuality of racism by trying to explain the differences of an African American and American African. Through Ifemelu, the protagonist of the...

Any attempt to present a baseline representation of a conunon basis of all feminisms may start with the statement that feminisms trouble themselves with women’s subordinate status in society and with prejudice faced by women because of their sex. Moreover, one could claim that all...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin is about Edna Pontellier who at first is a distant mother and wife seeming self involved yet she still does her duties of taking care of her children and meeting the standards of a wife. Throughout the novel she starts...

Edgar Allan Poe frequently reduces women to stereotyped traits such as being beautiful, ‘self-sacrificing’ victims who are devoted to men.  Women feature prominently in the work of Edgar Allan Poe, but they are often assigned to certain archetypal roles. The assignment of these roles and...

The Rosenberg Self- Esteem Scale is a 10 item self report measure of global self-esteem. It consists of 10 statements related to overall feelings of self for or acceptance. The items are answered on a four-point scale ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree. Before...

Narratives have been universally told since the beginning of human existence. Telling stories is fundamental to every known culture and has formed bonds between the storyteller and the listener. Through analysing and comparing narratives, truths about the society- previously and currently are revealed. Such narratives...

As I grow older and read more books, I understand the message the author is trying to explain. I go in depth with the book and find the real meaning. This year we read three books, where it was difficult to find the message however...