Literature

Katherine Mansfield’s short story, “The Garden Party,” and George Orwell’s essay, “Shooting an Elephant,” provides ample room to discuss a distorted sense of class-consciousness ...

In E.M. Forster’s day, our great-grandparents’ generation complained that the advent of telephones and automobiles had strangled the art of letter-writing among their children’s ...

A single and unique family unit often represents that of the characteristics and experiences of a nation on a smaller level. While a smaller ...

Literature can accomplish many tasks—namely the ability to coherently express the emotions of everyday people—that have for a long time proven difficult for the ...

Chapters 4 through 6 of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby have much to do with pointing out distinctions in social class. There seem to be ...

Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a novel that, while critically acclaimed and very successful, has met much opposition, most often ...

It is clear that literature – its style, its function, and its process – has undergone a dramatic shift in the last century. As ...

August Wilson very thoughtfully and wisely designed his play Fences to mimic the logic of a Greek tragedy. In doing so, he set up ...

This is an analysis of what poverty, and how the thirst for greed and corruption can change a person’s perception of morality and immorality. ...

In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, the nature of Mrs. Mallards “heart trouble” as stated in the first paragraph is a ...