Literary Criticism

Athena once said, "Everyone needs the gods" (3.48). The goddesses of Ancient Greece drove and structured people's lives. We know this because of Homer's Epic, The Odyssey. The Odyssey follows the king of Ithaca, Odysseus, on his journey home after the Trojan War. With many roadblocks, including ravenous sea monsters, screeching sirens, suitors, and the loss of most of his men, many people help him reach the final destination of returning home, along with saving his wife from

“He came up close and [kneeled] gently down… I up at once and smote him on the cheek” (280). Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a feminist text that encourages women to break out of the one-sided patriarchal bonds and standards that were common during the Middle Ages. Through the character of the Wife of Bath, Chaucer encourages women to develop their personality but to not get full of themselves and fall into the trap of thinking they are more important than men. Chaucer uses the

“THERE IS ENCHANTMENT in a uniform.” In these words, convicted felon and fraudster Frank. W. Abagnale. Jr. presents the idea that a facade gives a person influence. He discovers such an idea as a nineteen-year-old in the latter half of the twentieth century while impersonating an airline pilot. Living four centuries before Abagnale, Shakespeare expresses a strikingly similar idea in The Tragedy of Macbeth . In his tragedy, Macbeth, a Scottish noble, murders King Duncan of Sco

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” In these words, Oscar Wilde, the esteemed Irish author and poet, expresses that many people in society live in conformity. He expresses an idea that forms a significant component in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake . In Lahiri’s novel, Gogol navigates adolescence and adulthood as a second-generation Bengali immigrant in America along with his family. Lahi

Growing up feels like being wrenched from a dream. One might hold onto the vanishing visions, but reality urges to push you ahead. Childhood, seemingly blissful and filled with wonder, unravels so that rules engulf imagination and certainty replaces curiosity. No one can avoid this transformation, as it will inevitably happen. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland  and Through the Looking Glass , Lewis Carroll captures this shift, crafting a land where nonsense rules and author

Under the shining moonlight in a dark green forest, the sparking embers of a warm fire pierce through the darkness, casting flickering shadows on the faces of those gathered around. The air hums with the low murmur of conversation, the soft clinking of bottles, and the crackling of fire while the scent of roasting meat fills the night. Horses snort softly in the background, their silhouettes blending with the thick forest as if drawn to the moment’s warmth. In the center of t

Poems are a way that people can connect with each other. Poems can be used to prove a point or tell a story. However, many poems have...

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For centuries, women were spoken for, spoken over, and spoken about but were rarely allowed to speak. That silence is shattered by Toni Morrison's Beloved  and Romain Gary's The Life Before Us , as characters Sethe and Madame Rosa illustrate their individual stories, aligning with feminists' cries for recognition in the 1960s through the 1980s. The Feminist Art Movement was a breaking point from the long-held male-centered perspective in the art world. The movement's purpose

For the longest time, a very dim silhouette represented Black Americans, sketched by the fingers of oppression and shaded with...

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman,” Virginia Woolf once wrote, reflecting on the systematic erasure of women’s voices...

Cause I’m in love with my future, can’t wait to meet her –Billie Eilish, “My Future” From hip Gen Z music artists like Billie Eilish to...

The fun of Cubism is that many people can look at the same painting done by Pablo Picasso, and everyone can see something completely...