Category: Literary Criticism

Students are more likely to retain knowledge if they obtain it through something they enjoy. Reading an interesting book, for example, is a more effective way of learning than simply sitting in a classroom and taking notes about concepts and events from decades ago. I believe that it is for this reason that many teachers…

In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the author demonstrates how she uses literary techniques to convey the theme to the readers. The story is about a young girl named Scout living during the Great Depression and the Jim Crow era with her brother and father. The town is a society sharply…

Much ado about nothing is a play written by William Shakespeare in 1598 over 400 years ago. The play explores the message and the theme of love and how it can be complicated, which is still true today. There are three types of love in this play, Claudio and Hero show an example of romantic…

The transition between childhood and adulthood is a time of growing independence along with constant questioning, especially when being exposed to the cultural norms of society, some of which are divisive and not always driven by pure motivation. When becoming adults, our personal world is shaped around what we have been taught and through our…

The catastrophic Greek tragedy, Medea deals with the maltreatment faced by the titular character and how such struggles can lead to immoral retributive acts. Medea challenges societys paradigm of the typical woman who is a timid creature and a coward through her headstrong and opinionated character, thereby establishing herself as an exemplar for women. Moreover,…

Tone can be defined as the general character or attitude of a place, a piece of writing, a situation, etc. In literature, tone is the foundation of everything created; without it, there would be no mood, theme, characterization, or anything else involved in the makeup of a story. In the novel Lord of the Flies…

There are some differences that we can notice between the movies and book Lord of the Flies. The reason that there are differences is because the book is written by William Goldings while the movie is made by Harry Hooks so thats why we can recognize some differences , but that doesnt mean that we…

According to Aristotle,  a tragedy should arouse in the spectators the feeling piety and fear  pity mainly for the heros tragic fate and fear at the sight of the dreadful suffering that occurs the characters, particularly the hero. By arousing these feelings of pity and fear, a tragedy aims at the catharsis or…

The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, defines a tragic hero as a character having valiant traits that earn the audience’s sympathy but also have human flaws that ultimately lead to their own downfall. Aristotle states a tragic hero’s fortune should be not from bad to good but from good to bad caused by their own doing. A…

Thank you, Your Honor. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, thank you for your time as all the evidence was carefully presented. So, all the facts and evidence have been presented to you today and with that, Id like to say the fate of Oedipus life now is within your hands. Oedipus has been convicted…