The Call of the Wild is a novel of “devolution” which traces the process of releasing Buck’s savage, atavistic nature beneath its civilized veneer”(citation). Buck, a St. Bernard Shepherd mix, was a very loyal pet to his own family in California where life was easy and good. However, Buck is kidnapped during the time of the Klondike Gold Rush where...
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Individualism describes the habit of being independent and self-reliant. In both The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Call of the Wild, the main characters display the habit of individualism. Christopher takes himself from his home in Swindon to London. Buck travels from Santa Clara Valley, California to Canada. Both characters take their trips alone. In...
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Buck, who is a very big and pretty Saint Bernard, has changed through the book due to his new owners, and friends, and his new journey’s. Buck throughout this story has to be able to adapt to his new changes and has to overcome all his new challenges. Weather it’s be taken from his home, beaten with a club, just...
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‘The lust for power and control brings out the worst in us.’ The longing for power and control can bring out the worst in mankind. The lust for power and control can lead to immense devastation. In William Golding's, Lord of the Flies, Jack’s everlasting desire of control leads to catastrophic impacts. Similarly, in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', Macbeth’s devastating acts and...
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Introduction William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies' is a profound exploration of the intrinsic nature of humanity when stripped of societal norms and constructs. Published in 1954, the novel delves into the dark recesses of the human psyche through the lens of a group of boys stranded on an uninhabited island. Golding's narrative raises fundamental questions about civilization, power, and...
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The postmodernist movement was a backlash against the consequences of WW2, and rejected the idea of order and authority. This was not necessarily beneficial. As the Beat generation was born, it eventually progressed into post-modernism. The beginnings of the beat generation and post-modernism were in fact not negative, just new. However, as post-modernism grew, people's urges to reject order and...
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Fitzgerald’s characters represent Marxist ideas, through his representation of the different classes, and his interpretation of how their class defines their life. Fitzgerald set this story during post-World War I, where both he, Carraway and Gatsby all fought in. However, it doesn’t mark the active capitalist culture it portrays but unveils the hidden side of society at the time. It...
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‘1984’, a novel by George Orwell, represents a dystopian society in which the people of Oceania are watched by the government almost 24/7 and have no freedom which is a society we could never imagine real. But, today citizens of North Korea can be considered the same way as the novel. Though different technological and personal ways of keeping watch,...
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Introduction The adage "Don't judge a book by its cover" echoes the importance of looking beyond superficial appearances to understand the true essence of an entity. This maxim is not merely about books; it serves as a metaphor for the broader human tendency to form judgments based on initial impressions. In an era dominated by digital media and visual culture,...
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What is a banned book? Banned books are books or other printed works, such as essays or plays, which are prohibited by law or to which free access is not permitted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship for political, religious, moral, or commercial motives. One such book is the novel 1984 by George...
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Should I live or die? He asks if it is nobler to suffer the things that happen to you or to oppose and fight back against them. You could end the trouble or end up killing yourself in the process. To die is to sleep as when you sleep, you are able to end heartaches and shocks. But if everyone...
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The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in April of 1924, demonstrates close resemblance to the history of the 1920s. The 1920s commonly referred to as the “Roaring Twenties,” is most popular for its wild parties, dancing, and illegal drinking to its post-war prosperity and its new freedoms for women (Southern). All of these components and more can easily...
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William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a fictional allegory novel that follows a group of schoolboys, all of various ages and personalities, as they attempt to survive a plane crash on a desert island. As the days pass, contrasting priorities become clear between authoritative characters, which in turn leads to conflict brewing and as a result the unavoidable downfall...
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The classic novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the movie (2013) of the same title directed by Baz Luhrmann focuses on a man named Jay Gatsby, the perfect embodiment of the American dream, spending years of his life trying to reunite with and pursue his lost love, Daisy Buchanan. The two mediums both focus on the downfalls...
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Macbeth is a tragic play written by Shakespeare in the 16th century. The play consists of Macbeth, the protagonist, and his wife, Lady Macbeth, who controls and manipulates Macbeth to achieve power. I will be exploring how Lady Macbeth is responsible for her husband’s rise to power as she uses different methods of control and manipulation towards her husband to...
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Dark times for Gatsby women American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul Minnesota grew up in good fortune. Fitzgerald quit Princeton University and joined the military. The earliest success of his first book was This side of paradise (1920). Fitzgerald rose to eminence as an archivist which made him a prompt celebrity. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald...
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Dylan Thomas' ‘Do not go Gentle into that good Night’ is a Villanelle, a nineteen-line poem in a set format, it is an old French format, first written in 1606 by Jean Passerat. The structure is severe with two lines being repeated at the end of alternate stanzas and then making up the final two lines of the last stanza,...
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In the stream of consciousness, the speaker's thought processes are more often addressed to oneself, it is primarily a fictional device (Bell, 1990). The representation of the stream of consciousness reflected her need to go beyond the clumsiness of the factual realism in the novel. Mrs. Dalloway is an exploration of consciousness as it portrays the shifting political atmosphere through...
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World War II negatively impact the world as totalitarian political parties fought to control the world. George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 paints the picture of how the continuation of totalitarian governments would result in a fearful society. 1984 reveals how constant surveillance, low food rations, and propaganda allows for citizens to practically become government property. Orwell uses symbols to develop...
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Introduction 'The story of an Hour is a short story written by an American author, Kate Choplin. This story takes place at Mallard Residence, the home of Brently and Louise Mallard. As we read the passage of the story, we will know how Mrs. Louise Mallard mourned her husband's death -Mr. Brently Mallard. It only shows how Mrs. Mallard loves...
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Introduction Twentieth-Century English Poetry contains the poetry of over 280 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah, and Isaac Rosenberg, D.H. Lawrence and Carol Ann Duffy and many others. It also incorporates works by poets such as Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot,...
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I or Eye This essay ponders upon one of the main aspects present in James Joyce's Ulysses, namely Joyce's ‘postmodern' turn, discourse parallax. In order for this to properly happen, the first and foremost issue to discuss should be the chapter titled ‘Cyclops', this being the chapter in which I opt to analyze this aspect. During my analysis, it is...
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This essay gives a brief summary of the novel The Book of Not and how the black Africans were treated badly at the hands of the whites by applying the Critical Race Theory. Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel The Book of Not was published eighteen years after Nervous Conditions. It is a sequel to the story Nervous Conditions. It is a refined,...
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Introduction "Nervous Conditions," a novel by Tsitsi Dangarembga, provides a profound exploration of the societal changes in post-colonial Zimbabwe through the lens of gender, education, and cultural identity. Published in 1988, the novel captures the struggles faced by African societies transitioning from colonial rule to independence. This essay analyzes how the main characters navigate these transformations, highlighting the tensions between...
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Published in 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel, Nervous Conditions, was the first novel published by a black Zimbabwean woman- not because African women were not writing novels, but because of the difficulties African women faced when attempting to publish works of literature. Due to the issue that African women were not previously given a voice in literature, Dangarembga’s novel unearthed decades...
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Raymond Williams identifies three perspectives that define the meaning of culture – the ideal, documentary, and social. His categories of culture and the political environment in which these categories were drawn are recognizable in The Hunger Games trilogy. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a well-known movie that portrays the cultural and social differences in the country of Panem that...
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Critical analysis surrounding Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, has frequently focused on the portrayal of Nyasha’s eating disorder in relation to Westernised notions of feminism. For instance, Supriya Nair explains: “It is interesting that in a larger context of severe malnutrition, Nyasha suffers from anorexia nervosa and bulimia, disorders generally associated with white, middle-class women.” Readings such as Nair’s recognise that...
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The use of brutal and venomous tones us in the poem as would praise of its unadulterated rage towards male dominance, to wariness at its usage of holocaust imagery. These tones are present in the entire poem “Daddy”. In the poem “Daddy” Plath sees that she explains how her life is as she lives with her decease father and how...
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Two world wars, an intervening economic depression of great severity, and the austerity of life in Britain following the Second World War help to explain the quality and direction of English literature in the 20th century. The traditional values of Western civilization, which the Victorians had only begun to question, came to be questioned seriously by a number of new...
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Ulysses is dwelling on his return home after his long and fulfilling journey through the seas and is unsatisfied with what he has returned to. He is longing for the satisfaction of sharing the adventures that he experienced after the Trojan war, however, he is disappointed when his kingdom is nothing but ungrateful. Ulysses feels disrespected when all that the...
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