English literature

This article concentrates on the issue of ethics in Salman Rushdie’s Shame (1983), Caryl Phillips’s Foreigners (2007), and Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair (1951). The study of ethics will not be tackled from a broad perspective of the terms. It will be highlighted and limited to the representation of morality in these novels. Therefore, morality is going to be treated in the light of its negative aspects. The representation of morality is conveyed by the author’s depiction of how ethics…

rich history and influence. While The Odyssey is without a doubt a very important literary work, there are many other Greek epics that one can use to learn about Greek society and epic poetry. On the other hand, Beowulf gives us a glimpse into Old English history and Oedipus the King is a dynamic tragedy that is one of a kind. Though the story of Odysseus and his journey home is a truly important and historic epic, it appears that Oedipus the King and Beowulf have an important historical…

geographical locations, population, ancestral influence, and many other elements. Indeed, setting influence audience reception of a story and how they connect with it. Setting can also reveal a lot about the lifestyle of the characters in a piece of literature. Leila Aboulela’s Souvenir and Francisco Jimenez’s the The Circuit are both set in different setting that influence their meaning and interaction with the audience. In this essay, I will compare the settings in Souvenir and The Circuit.…

January 1, 1950 at the age of 47. He spent his first day in India where his father was stationed. A year after his birth, his mother brought him and his older sister, Marjorie, to England and settled in Henley-on-Thames. George Orwell was known as an English novelist, essayist, and critic in Great Britain. His work is marked by ordinary language, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. He was a man of strong opinions who…

Olivia Johnson Mr. Balistreri Honors English September 15, 2017 The Life and Works of Lois Lowry Lois Lowry is one of the most well-known modern authors. Her writing style is very imaginative, but also shows the importance of our interdependence with each other. This way of writing has inspired many readers throughout the years, and continues to today. Because of her interesting life it is no wonder that her works are too. Lois Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii. She…

My competitive nature prodded me into enrolling in these competitions. In hindsight, these competitions have carved me into the literate being I am now. One of my teachers of English, whom I am ever grateful to, encouraged me to write essays. Sometimes, his motivation birthed up to four essays in week, aside from my usual assignments. He really honed my skills in writing from the basic grammar, subject-verb agreement, descriptive…

Rohinton Mistry, a prominent Indian writer, has emerged as a significant literary figure in the sphere of English Literature. He established himself quite rapidly as an exciting new voice on the literary scene. An immigrant writer’s total experience is stored in his memory and only the writer’s own conscious choices and unconscious energies might regulate his artistic expression, so did in the case of Mistry. As a diasporic writer Mistry exposed varied ways in his narrative that explored…

John Gardner utilizes the reversal of one of the oldest monster stories in English literature, the early epic Beowulf, to retell the ancient story through the monster’s eyes, Grendel. In Gardner’s Grendel, we are introduced to the refreshing narrative of Grendel’s interpretation of his encounters with the Shaper and Beowulf. This leads…

Nature, Poetry, and the Role of the Criticism What is the purpose of poetry? This question has been debated within the literary realm for centuries. However, Joseph Addison and Alexander Pope provided an answer to this question. Addison addresses the topic of poetry and art in his writings for The Spectator while Pope’s views on the subject can be found in “An Essay on Criticism.” Both authors address the role that nature plays in art while assessing how the two compare. These two authors also…

A Survivor's Tale and Maus: And Here My Troubles Began. Maus: A Survivor's Tale is the autobiographical work of Art Spiegelman. It tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew, living and surviving in and after Hitler's Germany. Holocaust literature, especially in the graphic novel medium, serve to tell stories of survival in order to demonstrate an understanding of the historical events in human history. Essentially, analyzing the complexity of relationships in Spiegelman’s Maus, helps…