Essays on Literature Review

For this essay, I will examine the short story “Swimming” published on the website magazine titled “The New Yorker,” which is composed by T. Cooper. I have picked this story because in a way I slightly relate to how the narrator felt. Although I am...

Christopher Marlowe is one of the most influential playwrights and blank verse dramatists of the sixteenth century. Though perhaps not as renowned in mainstream circles as some his contemporaries, Marlowe’s works have played a crucial role in the development and popularization of dramatic blank verse....

Growing up in 1920’s and 30’s Romania, Eugene Ionesco experienced the uprising of the powerful Iron Guard movement before and during World War II. This in turn aided him with creating one of the most well-known pieces in the Theatre of the Absurd as the...

The Monkey’s Paw is a story of suspense. The setting of “The Monkey’s Paw” is at the White family home on a dark, rainy evening. The White family is waiting for an old friend of Mr. Whites who is named Sergeant-Major Morris. Morris arrives after...

Salmon Rushdie’s Booker prize winning novel, Midnight’s Children (1981), is a story of a post-colonial India struggling to reconcile with its fragmented cultural and national identity, a story told allegorically through the life of Saleem Sinai. Rushdie’s unique language and the allegories of Saleem and...

“I object to anything that divides the two sexes … human development has now reached a point at which sexual difference has become a thing of altogether minor importance. We make too much of it; we are men and women in the second place, human...

Watchmen is a graphic novel series written by Alan Moore that features original superheroes and historical fiction created by the author himself. The storytelling of the superhero ‘species’ is well-known for dealing with issues of social injustice and role-model characters, but Alan Moore’s Watchmen challenges...