Category: Literature Review

How would you like living in a world with no color, no music, and no love? Well, thats how Jonass life was like. All of those things are present in the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, 1993, dystopian. Jonass community is idyllic. Everyone is assigned their jobs or assignments. This community has no conflict,…

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…

Throughout history, women have been victims of repression, because men comfort themselves with the idea that women need to be guided and looked after. But today, female oppression is worse because women have grown unaware since it has become a part of womens identity. The destruction of the female character has been silently shaped by…

In Changing the Face of Poverty: Nonprofits and the Problem of Representation, Diana George uses ethos and pathos to describe how poverty is trying to be solved in the United States. In this article, she talks about how poverty is advertised to many Americans. She also talks about how different organizations try to come up…

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…