Cross-Text Analysis

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Some people like to say that Harry Potter is exactly like a lot of other books. Well, is it? In addition to being purportedly inspired by authors like Jane Austen, JK Rowling may have also pulled from the works of authors like J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Shakespeare.



Below we have essays in which fans have put on a certain lens, a lens through which they attempt to view Harry Potter in a new light and see where it intersects in places with another text. These quibbles inspire some pretty great thoughts, irrespective of whether or not Jo Rowling has herself read the compared text.

If you would like to submit a quibble covering your own cross text analysis, peruse the rules for submission right here. Have an idea for an essay topic in mind but haven't yet formulated it into quibble form? No prob - discuss your thoughts with the Editorials community at large on the bottom of this page.

- Dickensians and Potterheads: A Tale of Two Fandoms

- Wailing the Dead: Dementors in Muggle Legends and Tales

- Harry Potter Daemons?

- Harry Potter vs. Warriors: A Comparison

- Is Johnny Maxwell the forgotten Harry Potter?

- Shakespeare's Legacy: Hermione the Queen and Schoolgirl

- Harry Potter and The Holy Bible: A Comparison

- Out of the Cave, into Hogwarts

- Barricades and Wands: Comparing the Les Amis de la ABC and Dumbledore's Army

- Latin and Ancient Greece: Not-So-Dead Languages and Cultures in Harry Potter

- "The Adventurous Song": Why Harry Potter is Epic Literature

- A Peek at Rowling's Secrets?

- Harry Potter vs. Edward Cullen

- "He Feeds on Fear, Poisons the Truth to Gain Their Faith to Lead the Way to a World of Decay"

- The Gangster genre in Harry Potter

- Harry Potter and the Hero's Journey

- Harry Potter and the Macbeth Essay

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