In “The Rocking Horse Winner,” D. H. Lawrence seems to deliberately present a young mother of limited dimension, and one lacking in any maternal feeling. From the story's beginning, Hester is revealed in a clinical way, which reflects the absence of warmth in her. She did marry for love, but...

At its simplest, Romanticism is a celebration of intense emotion and nature and a rejection of civilized and rational things. It embraced individualism and freedom. Gothic Romanticism embraced the same things Romanticism embraced, but with a darker twist. The Romantic authors wrote a variety of things including poetry, plays, short...

Penned by Alan Paton in an emotional fervor, Cry the Beloved Country was the author’s first and most successful novel. It relays the tale of apartheid in South Africa and the search for forgiveness as well as the strength to overcome tragedy to move forward with life in a positive...

In his poem, “Bright Star,” John Keats deftly toys with the concept of love. Though his use of words and literary devices does not provide a clear picture of who he is referring to or the details of the relationship, it is clear that Keats is describing the unshakeable beauty...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a short novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in the 19th century describing the duality of human nature, where an individual can be both good and evil. The author presents the idea that shows good and evil can exist in...