The critically acclaimed and dramatic love story of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ written by William Shakespeare in 1594 has flooded both the theatrical and cinematic domain over the last two centuries. The play centres on two star crossed lovers and the conflict of the feuding families which results in the lovers meeting a bitter end. Rasta[…]
Mothers are the happiness of children. The death of a mother is like a burning flame to a child. The tales of the red shoes and the little match girl shows how miserable life can be without a mother. Little match girl in the tale, she faces a lot of hardship in her life. This[…]
Art pieces have power in the sense that they can influence, actions drama, or suggest and evoke intense feelings and images in the mind of the audiences. Art is therefore capable of creating and or destroying. Art is a representative of reality, and its power lies in its ability to change the vision and the[…]
Throughout the play, Othello: The Moor of Venice, written by the famous dramatist William Shakespeare, Iago, the mastermind of the play, uses his intelligence to plot an intricate plan against Othello. Iago depicts himself as an honest man, but behind that mask is a nefarious person who uses lies to deceive others. Iago never fails to[…]
Hench is a fantasy novel by Natalie Zina Walschots about a data analyst Anna Tromedlov who becomes the auditor for the most powerful supervillain in the world, Leviathan. Supercollider is an invincible powerful superhero, and Quantum Entanglement is his partner; Keller is Leviathan’s human muscle; June and Greg are Anna’s friends way before she was[…]
The Golden Gate Park is a green space in the heart of San Francisco, which is home to many gardens and museums. The area was arid before development and was later reclaimed to form what is famously known as the Golden Gate Park. The place currently is full of biodiversity with different types of species[…]
Postcolonial literature is the literature which mainly explores the consequences and the issues, faced by the formerly colonised population. It is defined as “writings from Africa, the Indian subcontinent, the Caribbean, and other regions whose histories during the 20th century are marked by colonialism, anti-colonial movements, and subsequent transitions to post-independence society” (Oxford reference, 2011).[…]
Sammy, a teenage boy who operates as a cashier in a grocery store, tells the narrative in John Updike’s poem “A$P”. He decided to quit his job as a way of standing up for the unethical treatment of three teenage girls, led by Queenie, who walked into the store dressed in swimsuits. The elements of[…]
Frank Hebert’s science fiction novel Dune is the first book of a six-novel series. The book series focuses on several issues including but not limited to ecology, eugenics and social change. In Dune, Hebert highlights the struggle of humanity in an enormous empire. Over the past five decades, Dune has received extensive attention. Indeed, many[…]
Executive summary The study is a critical review of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a novel written by Mohsin Hamid. It discusses how the narrator’s point of view shapes or limits one’s understanding of the events that unfold in the story. Based on the narrator’s point of view, one can develop a deeper understanding of the issues[…]
Critical Précis: Sensational Sisters: Wilkie Collins’s ‘The Woman in White’, Leila Silvana May The Sensationalization of Masculinity in ‘The Woman in White’, Rachel Ablow Collins’s The Woman in White demarcates the revolutionary Victorian narrative where the fossilization of traditional stereotypes is juxtaposed with Gothic horror and psychological realism. Collins greatly explores and experiments with the Victorian phenomenon of[…]
Introduction Social networking and the internet have been the modern forms of virtual communications for people separated by distance across the whole world. Nevertheless, social networking has become a center where many of its users tend to find solace in communicating with various friends that they build on the platforms since such friends can be[…]
In his book Beowulf and the Appositive Style, Robinson says that Beowulf is a pagan poem reworked by a Christian mind to create a peculiar spiritual atmosphere[1]. It has been argued that Beowulf was a pagan oral poem of roughly the seventh century, later written down by a Christian monk around the twelfth century, incorporating many Christian thoughts and ideas[…]
After Easter may confuse many readers; however, the absurd dreams or visions Greta has are the key to understanding the overall plot. Greta’s dreams seem to be the main stumbling block to creating a cohesive understanding of the overall story, but Macrobius’s three types of significant dreams, which are manifested in Greta’s mind: the somnium, visio, and oraculum, which[…]
“Notes of a Native Son” is a publication of several essays printed in various periodicals. James Baldwin was among black activists and took part in the Civil Rights Movement. According to his arguments, Baldwin was none violent, unlike the other activist; therefore, he used his critical thinking perspectives to write what he has felt and[…]
The Dark Reality “The Murderer”, by Ray Bradbury, concerns the extreme use of technology in society. The main character who questions the unnecessary use of electronic devices in everyday life is considered crazy. Bradbury’s use of humor and descriptions, along with the characters, highlights the message that revolves around how humanity has become addicted to[…]
Royal leaders of the barbaric age have been described as having unquestionable abilities that their subjects lacked. Such leaders were powerful and were ordained by God to rule since they were described as having royal blood run through them. As a leader, the king was charged with different responsibilities like making decisions during cases (Laks[…]
Love and sacrifice are two elements that work together to control humanity. In the search for love, people make sacrifices that may cost them their life or even deeper consequences. Once someone takes passion in what they do, it becomes a part of their habit and later forms their character. The story in a prices[…]
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How is class conflict portrayed in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, and what are the wider implications of these depictions? There is a parallelism within Oliver Twist (1838), one presenting Rose and Nancy as doubles in which one represents the upper class and the other the working class.[…]
I might as well try to clip my own nose into shape with scissors. The book bleeds. D.H. Lawrence. Early attempts to publish and disseminate Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) were shrouded in secrecy. The first edition was published privately in Florence at just a thousand copies; British censors would ban an unexpurgated version for the[…]
The age of printing is indeed the age of the subject… The subject sets itself up as a Book, and only this self-erection has ever secured the substance of a subject – whose frank dissimulation allows desire to be read like an open book: thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you[…]
The poetry of Alfred Tennyson charted the increasing anxieties of the early Victorian period as pertain to crises of religious faith over contemporary scientific theories about the true origins of humankind, and our relationship with nature. Tennyson, in particular, was greatly influenced by the views of Charles Lyell. ‘Lyell’s vision of [the] organic world […][…]
1.1 ABSTRACT In this essay, I will focus on the relationship between empathy and reader’s choice of ending. In order to do this I have chosen two narrative texts – Mordecai Richler’s Barney’s Version (1997) and Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island (2003), both of which have open endings. “The most commonly nominated feature of narrative fiction[…]