Essays on American Literature

There are very few creations from the year 1900 that still hold their relevance in society. The novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum is one such creation. For over a century, this novel has been able to adapt and fit different...

In the nineteenth century, America was arranging itself into socially acceptable categories by those who were in charge. These layers and classes of people created divisions in society and how people should interact. Social norms and roles were created and interactions came down to two...

What is so important about literature? In The Norton Anthology of American Literature, it discusses many works, poems, and bibliographies about various famous authors all throughout the years between the 1700s and the 1900s. Over a semester period, we have gone over how all these...

Often cited as “The Great American Novel”, if any title can live up to that, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1925) is a story that typifies the urban culture of the 1920s. Following the tragic life of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, the...

The middle of the 19th century was the culmination of the Romantic era in American literature, the time of the “Great American Novel”, Moby Dick. Written in a era that emphasized the individual over the whole and where the ideas of what religion is and...

Since 1938, Superman has been one of the most well-known characters in the world. Anywhere you go, there is a good chance you will see some sort of merchandise or advertisement for Superman. Superman’s origin begins with him being sent to earth by his parents,...

William Faulkner is widely known for his unique sentence structure. Absalom, Absalom! is regarded as one of Faulkner’s greatest works that makes use of complex language, sentence structure, and literary technique (Scott 92). Scott states that the way that Faulkner introduces the story has been...