Category: Literature Review

Commencing Margret Atwoods revealing work of dystopian literature in The Handmaid’s Tale, Passage 1 acts as an introduction to Gileads oppressive state, as well as offering an inside look into Offreds contemplations on rebellion; a sentiment that carries across the rest of the following passages. Sleeping in what used to be a gymnasium, a sense…

Asking who wants motherhood could be a little bit of a real understatement, in my opinion. Instead, we must always go deeper into it. What needs motherhood and why? Is it individuals, males, females, society or the world as a whole? Within the essay, Motherhood: Who Desires It?, written by Betty Rollin in 1970, I…

In The Caucasian Chalk Circle Brecht undertakes a redefinition of motherhood. The true mother is no longer she who has borne the child, but she who is most useful to it: What there is shall go to those who are good for it, / Children to the motherly, that they prosper. Brechts notes to the…

The environment of an individuals identity shapes the communitys identity due to isolation. When coming together everyone has so much to express and share as everyone has missed out on so much due to being Australian bush men or women. Our Pipes and The Drovers Wife explore the culture, identity, and language on both an…

The parable is widely used in literature. Centuries ago, it was used only as a religious didactic story, but today the writers want to give a lesson for people hiding it under the cover of a nice story. Reading The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and The One Who Walks Away from Omelas by Ursula Le…

Guy de Maupassant wrote his story The Jewelry in 1887. This discusses the social aspect of the society. It explains how people find happiness and love in different situations of life, along with different roles played by the society. The story is simple and has more societal message. The psychological character is also here in…

The story The Swimmer by John Cheever is described as the swimming journey of Neddy in the neighborhood, as an active and optimistic father and husband. It was one of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, I drank too much last night. Despite joining a cocktail party, he agreed that he would swim…

Have you ever had an impression of an individual to have it then proven wrong? In the short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe, we respond to the narrative of the protagonist with a variety of emotions. As he begins his narrative, we feel alienated from him because we cannot identify with him…

By simply reading the titles of Mary Olivers poems you can see how she connects with nature, not only nature its self but with the characteristics of nature such as animals and seasons. Mary Olivers poems are titled after an animal with a characteristic of nature for instance Turtle, Black Snake, The Snow Cricket and…

In most cases, feelings, emotions, and passions dont seem to have a proper role in the truth that logic aims to achieve. Various logical fallacies stem from them, making such human experiences a nuisance to the pursuit of objective truths. We lose sight of the actual argument and topic because of argumentum ad hominem, and…