The Scribe Review is a quarterly online journal dedicated to publishing the academic English essays of high school students. Our first edition was published in August 2020, and the second was published in November 2020. Our next edition will be published in February 2021.
To submit your essay for consideration for the February issue, email it to submit@scribereview.org by February 12, 2021. It must meet all of our guidelines.
The separation of Black mothers from their children in the United States began with slavery and continues in its wake; the traumatic financial, emotional, and...
Read moreIn Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness , fog and mist on the River Congo represent the incomprehensibility of the rainforest’s “darkness”; they obscure the truth that Marlow seeks through his journey...
Read moreIn 1972, when Toni Morrison wrote Sula , the civil rights movement was still a recent memory. One of the most powerful images from that time – African Americans marching with locked arms against the oppression that sought to...
Read moreOne topic that literary critics have long debated is whether or not the title is part of a work. Is the title something separate, only useful for labeling and organization, or is the title crucial to the interpretation of the work? Critic S.J...
Read moreFood transcends physical sustenance. It feeds a social construct that places men above women, white above Black, and rich above poor. Ultimately, it announces social status and wealth. Does a plate hold rainbows of veggies alongside clean-cut lamb? Or bits of days old rice? Just as how a few...
Read moreArthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge attempts to incorporate themes and traditions that reflect the era in which it was written in to create a modern and relevant Greek tragedy of an everyday man.
Read moreIn Toni Morrison’s novel A Mercy, a vivid, evocative account of colonial America in the late seventeenth century, Jacob Vaark...
Read moreIn both the fictional realm and the real world, the atmosphere of a country mirrors the characteristics and mentality of its ruler. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, after Macbeth kills Duncan,
Read moreT.S. Eliot once said: “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.” Virgil and Ovid, however, divide the world of these two.
Read moreThis poem by Billy Collins is both outwardly and inwardly playful; at first glance, it is a celebration of being briefly carefree, almost sing-song at times,
Read moreIn Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Oedipus is warned of a plague summoned by the wrath of the gods. With the loving support of the people, Oedipus is implored to act as the city of Thebes’ “greatest man” (Sophocles, l.54).
Read moreHow do one’s limitations define their experience of the world around them? How can one meaningfully make choices, despite their own powerlessness? In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he explores these ideas…
gateioBorn near the cusp of the 20th century, Millay was a fiercely independent, feminist poet who refused to yield to the societal norms pressed upon her. After her parents separated in 1904, Millay’s…
Read moreIn their piece “Nativity,” poet Xandria Phillips writes: “I haven’t yet begun to unweld the framework, invent new trauma, whip the stitch arching each bosom...where have I gone, and who have I built to take my place?...I am every man I manufactured my distance from” (2019).
gate ioWe are living in a time of transition. We observe the impact of inequality and greed on a daily basis. Our politics are more divided, inequalities based on income, race and gender persist, environmental degradation continues and we are now living with the disparate impacts of a global pandemic.
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