Literature

Dystopian fiction as its own subgenre often falls under a more general category of science fiction or speculative fiction. Dystopian worlds are often darkly ...

“Everyday Use” is a short story about a young black woman who desperately wants to leave her heritage and humble beginnings behind but throws ...

The purpose of social commentary is to rebel through speech or written word toward an individual or a group for the purposes of promoting ...

Martin Luther is credited with being the initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation by posting his ninety-five theses on the door of Castle Church ...

It is impossible to examine American Literature without discussing historical events, which influenced writers. Louisa May Alcott is no exception. The Civil War and ...

Richard Price's Clockers is a novel based the infestation of crime and race that run rampant throughout society. The novel offers a profound examination ...

In Michel Foucault’s “Discipline and Punish”, the author expands on and develops his own unique understanding of “panopticism”, which is a social theory of ...

John Steinbeck’s work is known for its settings and their importance to the characters, actions and themes of each book. The Grapes of Wrath ...

The Odyssey is a book besieged with adventurous tales. Odysseus is driven at the end of the Trojan War to get home, but it ...

The novel examines the lives of young boys who were lost on an island with no adult supervision. Many of them had been taken ...