AP Literature Blog

Macbeth is interesting in the fact that it is one of the few stories of Shakespeare's time in which a woman is the truly dominant charac...

The entire plot of Midsummer's Night Dream is a convoluted mess that could easily be fixed at numerous times throughout the play. One o...

Throughout Shakespeare's Richard III, the title character causes the deaths of many people, including his closest family and friends. Th...

The motif of flight that is constantly repeated throughout the book stems from Stephen's last name, which he shares with a man from a Gr...

In Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Douglas, the speaker is a solider- most likely in World War II due to the dead German soldier mentioned in the...

The poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats contains two speakers. The first speaker starts the poem addressing the second speaker, who...

The speaker of When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman is a man who, as made obvious by the title, had listened to an astro...