Category: Literature 5177

  • Literary Devices in John Updike’s “A&P” Story

    Aguiar, Christian. Living class in John Updike’s “A&P”. The Explicator, vol.78, no. 2, 2020, pp. 58-61. Some analyses identify the specific variation of the short story interpretation referred to as the “living class” concept of Beverly Skeggs. It is known as a classism perception in A&P Story, another metaphoric tool in order to direct a…

  • The Poem “Mexican” Is Not a Noun by F. Alarcon

    Table of Contents Introduction Discussion Conclusion Reference Introduction “Mexican” Is Not a Noun by Francisco Alarcon depicts the difficulties experienced by Mexicans in the United States. The writer relies on figurative language and sound effects to catch the readers’ attention and create a sense of urgency to understand the immigrants’ despair. Hence, the author aims…

  • The Meaning of Fairy Tales in Adult Life

    Children love fairy tales, which is not surprising as books contain worldly wisdom, allowing them to find a way out of many life situations and in an accessible form explaining the structure of this world. Many of the world-famous fairy tales were initially written for adult readers. Only transformed and adapted over time, they began…

  • “Citizen: An American Lyric” and “Stop and Frisk” by Rankine

    Claudia Rankine is a writer, poet, dramatist, and anthology editor from the United States of America. The author published five collections of poems, two plays, and several articles. The two works of hers that were proposed for the analysis are Citizen: An American Lyric and the poem Stop and Frisk. With the help of writing,…

  • Literary Analysis of The Tell-Tale Heart

    Table of Contents The Use of Imagery to Develop Symbols The Work’s Organic Unity The Interconnectedness of the Work The Application of Paradox, Irony, Ambiguity, and Tension Aesthetic Quality of the Work The Resolution of Contradictions The Correlation between the Form of the Work and the Content The Central Passage Conclusion Works Cited The Tell-Tale…

  • The Future Shock and Its Idea on Accelerating the Speed of Progress

    Alvin Toffler is an American philosopher and futurologist, one of the authors of the popular concept of post-industrial civilization, author of many books and articles. He holds honorary doctorates in literature and natural sciences. In the late 1960s, Toffler was commissioned by IBM to research the social consequences of the introduction of computer technology (Islas…

  • Critical Comments on “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Williams

    Table of Contents Introduction Gender and Sexuality Class Conflict Violence and Cruelty Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The play presents an analysis of the postwar American society and how the attitudes and institutions at the time restricted the lives of women. The author uses the dependence of Stella and Blanche on men to depict and evaluate…

  • Independent Child Hero in Coraline Novel by Gaiman

    Introduction The book Coraline mainly focuses on courage among children, as depicted by Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman’s children’s novel, Coraline, is about a tale of a child and mother, belonging, and the variances between reality and fantasy. After Coraline moved into a new apartment located in a remote area, she realized new ways of escaping…

  • Themes, Imagery, and Diction of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18

    “Sonnet 18” of Shakespeare belongs to the group of poems addressed by the author to Pure Youth, the embodiment of the beauty of features, the clarity of the soul of a young man. The addressee of this poem is the very embodiment of youth and beauty, the combination of which constitutes the theme of the…

  • Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est”

    The research on Owen’s life helps understand the motivation for writing “Dulce et Decorum Est.” Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire, England, in 1893 (“Wilfred Owen”). As a young adult, he was forced to join the army in 1916 because the WW1 began. Hence, the understanding of Owens’s life journey helps uncover the main themes…