English Literature

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.s Mother Night is a masterpiece of Black Humor. Mother Night, is presented as the work of one Howard W. Campbell, Jr. who is a prisoner awaiting trial in Israel for Nazi war crimes, with Vonnegut as the editor of the work. Unlike many of Vonneguts other works, the story is not concerned with the future, it is set in present day settings with Howard reminiscing about his past. Howard dedicates his recollections to Mata Hari, a Dutch exotic dancer who was executed by the French on...

One of the numerous painful realities of life, death is one such reality which evokes intense emotions in human beings. Although all human beings accept the fact that death is inevitable, most of the people fear death and seek ways to cheat it. People harbor different attitudes while looking at death and it is these attitudes that shape their reactions when they face death. Numerous literary works depict death as their themes and one such work which stands among them is the play Hamlet by William...

Poetry is probably the most used and loved form of literature. Compared to short stories or even novels, poems touch all the senses of a person most especially with the senses of sight and sound, even if this happens in the hypothetical sense. After all, for poetry to be understood and most especially to be appreciated, it has to be sights and sounds. The sights would naturally pertain to the images and pictures evoked in the minds eyes while the sounds would be reflected in the rhymes and rhythm...

Frankenstein, also referred to as The Modern Prometheus is a novel which was written by Mary Shelley. Moreover, this novel speaks of a scientist, victor Frankenstein, who creates an monster with human characteristics but with larger than life attributes. In Germany, Frankenstein literally refers to stone of the Franks, which represents a region or a town. At university, victors interest in sciences urges him to research on how life decays. After creating the monster, he not only hates its features...