Literature

Many years ago, I recall your grand arrival in Seville, where the achievements of your daring first voyage were paraded through our streets (De ...

In the prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the narrator is particularly critical of the Pardoner. A pardoner was someone who was employed by the ...

Dante's Inferno is more or less a literary work on the justice of God and what happens to sinful man. Dante crafts a story ...

The play “The Glass Menagerie,” by Tennessee Williams, explores the story of a dysfunctional 1930’s southern family and their quest for security, stability and ...

In William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, the trial that takes place to decide Shylock’s legal rights is meant to enforce the structure of Venetian ...

Epic poetry serves at least in part to help articulate the values of the society from which it has come. These themes are often ...

While character’s motivations may be expressed in a variety of ways, it is the details that reveal their conscious and subconscious decisions to act. ...

The Restoration ushered in a period that emphasized science, merging secular activities with religion, and biting political writing. Charles II, the king of England ...

In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, each pilgrim is given the opportunity to tell two stories. Many of the pilgrims choose to set up their stories ...

D. H. Lawrence’s short story “The Odour of Chrysanthemums,” tells the story of a woman who comes to terms with the flawed nature of ...