Category: Literary Criticism

Filled with paranoia in an unjustified Puritan society, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible depicts the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and its deeper meaning within it. In The Crucible, John Proctor is the protagonist and tragic hero of the story. John Proctor is a farmer and town leader whose downfall initially begins when he commits adultery,…

In Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, Lord Voldemort attempted to kill young Harry Potter and succeeded in killing Harrys parents in order to stop a prophecy concerning the child. This plan backfired as Lord Voldemort could never succeed in killing Harry due to special circumstances involving Harrys parents that occurred when Lord Voldemort first tried…

The play Macbeth takes place in Scotland during a time of turmoil and battle, in the tragedy Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth commit regicide to become King and Queen. This theme of ambition thrives in the play and is the main catalyst for the entire tragedy. Lady Macbeth is a significant character in Macbeth…

Pride comes in all shapes and sizes. It could be the feeling of a parent whose child graduates from college or using pride to help uplift one’s self-confidence and esteem by reflecting an intrinsically motivating can do attitude. To some degree, every living being needs pride, but when this self-confidence is so overwhelming that it…

All actions have consequences is something that has been drilled into every person’s mind since the minute they first got into trouble. However, people seem to forget about this idea until after the deed is done and the consequences start to arrive. But, what a lot of people seem to forget is that consequences can…

The Giver is an incredible work by Lois Lowry. Basically, Lois Lowry says that The Giver was motivated by her fathers memory loss but as he began to forget, his past, the author says she began to imagine a book about eliminating painful memories. The Giver has recently been adjusted into a film It is…

Basically, Frost’s writing is very much colloquial but at the same time very suggestive. And, The Road not Taken is not an exception for this but one of his finest works. First of all, it is a Lyrical poem and we find one of his personal experiences in the poem. In the poem, the poet…

Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragic play written around 1603 by way of William Shakespeare, which addresses the encounters of Othello, the protagonist. Othello is a Venetian army commonplace who falls prey to Iagos devious schemes, which are precipitated by means of jealousy, deceit, and quest for power (Hundley 4). Othello, the Moor…

Told by protagonist Montressor, a dance of long-sought revenge includes a finale as revenge finds its foothold at periods of the ill fate of his antagonist Fortunato. Edgar Allen Poe’s work, The Cask of sherry, is perhaps a tale rife with satisfaction, greed, and demise; via symbolization, the writer exhibits the themes at some stage…

Evolution is a word that means the gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form. When someone evolves, you can no longer go back to the person you once were, resulting in you diving deeper into your personal growth. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor is portrayed as…