The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is one of the most famous plays of the 20th Century. In the play, Miller offers an interpretation of the Salem Witchcraft Trials. The Salem Witchcraft Trials occurred in Salem, Massachusetts and nearby communities in 1692. Despite the play being based upon this historical period,...

Peter Barry discusses the fact that feminism was not new in the 1960s, but it was the revival of feminism in the 1960s which spawned feminist criticism as we know it today (2009). Literature was believed to serve as a means of indicating to both men and women how each...

George Herbert's poem “The Altar” was published in 1633 along with all of his other writings. The poem is shaped as an emblem, in this case an altar. An emblem is a piece of work written in a particular shape that point to the moral meaning. The poem is Herbert's...

The short story “The Stolen Party” describes a young girl who is attending the birthday party of the daughter of her mother’s employer. To put it another way, she is the maid’s daughter. It is clear that her mother has some concerns about this social event, given their different social...

Don Shea’s “Jumper Down” and Point of View In his seminal work on narrative discourse, literary theorist Gérard Genette suggests that “[i]nsofar as the narrator can at any instant intervene as such in the narrative, every narrating is, to all intents and purposes presented in the first person.” (244) –...