Identify and comment in detailed analytical manner on the content and style of the passage. Your commentary should follow the text sequentially, and you need to indicate in the margin the line number of the verse(s) under discussion. For Dante, the relevance of the extract to the canto to which it belongs should emerge from your analysis, which should also...
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide is an integral part of the carbon cycle; however, it is also a potent greenhouse gas, absorbing and radiating heat and as a result warms the planet we live on. If the percentage of carbon in the atmosphere is at its natural level these impacts are not a problem, however in our present-day modern world the percentage...
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1984 and Brave New World both depict dystopian futures, both with societies monitored and controlled by their government. George Orwellâs 1984 depicts how the ability to alter past events can be used to control a society people, opposed to Aldous Huxleyâs Brave New World, through which control is achieved via degrading the chosen individual. Orwell depicts how through strict measures...
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Werther is a young, educated, middle-class gentleman setting out to earn a living and make his mark on the world. His family expects him to get a job, and his friend, Wilhelm, networks with his contacts to find opportunities in government service. Werther nurtures a desire to be an artist, a pastime that doesn't pay the bills but suits his...
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Mazzenoâs review of âUlyssesâ begins with an outlook on different perspectives of critics. While Tennyson's contemporaries seem to view it as the heroic spirit who is determined âto strive, to seek, to find, and not to yieldâ, some later critics see it as the most unconscious confessions of a king who has failed. He, after all, proposes to abandon his...
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There is nothing more painful than living in ignominy for the rest of your life. In a place that was known as Puritan New England, no crime was left without punishment. Hester Prynne went against the puritan rules, creating a child that will now bring joy to her, but will mostly haunt her. With all the hatred that Hester received,...
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Science and religion have been at odds since back in Galileoâs day and maybe even before. The battle rages on even today with debates on cloning and stem cell research. These issues can be seen not only todayâs literary works but also in the works from the years past. Two great examples of the past and present are: Mary Shelleyâs...
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âAbandon all hope ye who enter hereâ reads the Gates of Hell in Dante Alighieriâs The Inferno. After awakening at the bottom of a hill, Dante learns that he must descend through Hell, the Inferno, to reach Paradise. Virgil appears to Dante as his guide after Danteâs vain attempt to climb the hill. The duo begins their plunge through the...
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âBlessed are those in whom grace shines so copiously that love of food does not arouse excessive appetite, but lets them hunger after righteousnessâ. On the sixth terrace of Purgatory, a tree speaks these words, communicating a broader theme of The Divine Comedy, that our attention should be consumed by a desire for God instead of worldly pleasures and distractions....
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Every now and again itâs probably healthy to crack open the glass, remove a certain world masterpiece from the display case, and in re-reading it recall thatâunlike Ulysses and Lady Chatterleyâs Lover, two other novels once deemed obscene by the tribunes of moral upkeepâ Lolita is a disgusting book. Furthermore, the day will never come when it is not a...
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Dramatic poetry was introduced in English Literature through the dream debates of Chaucer, The Owl and the Nightingale, and the âMetaphysicalâ poems of John Donne and Andrew Marvell but it reached the height of its perfection in the Victorian age. Robert Browning was an English poet whose dramatic monologues made him a pioneering figure amongst the Victorian poets. His poems...
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We all grew up hearing it. Rapunzel: a tale of a beautiful, dutiful maiden, locked in a tower awaiting a gallant prince to save her from her isolation. But its 2020. Not all girls are weak and feeble. Not all men are bold and strong. Not everyone wants a prince.Since the earliest version of Rapunzel, some 400-years ago, the context...
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'The Sorrows of Young Werther' is a novel from the German Sturm und Drang and one of the most popular novels in the world history. It's an epistolary novel composed out of letters divided into two parts. The letters are from Werther to his friend Wilhelm in whom he seeks support. Mostly the book contains Werther's letters so we get...
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The story opens on a dark autumn night. An old banker was quite restless in his study recollecting a party that happened fifteen years ago. In that party, the guests were having a discussion regarding capital punishment. While most of the guest disapproved of the death penalty, the banker was of the opinion that if capital punishment kills a man...
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The Sorrows of Young Werther is mostly made up of a series of letters that Werther, the title character, sends to his friend Wilhelm. In these letters, Werther shares his artistic endeavors and his philosophies on life. For example, Werther believes that feeling deep emotions is the best way to experience life. He also believes in being artsy and creating...
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Death is something every living thing on this planet will face. On the other hand, we donât really know when we will face our death or how weâll face it. The word âdeathâ freaks some people out, but for others it doesnât. In âThe Red Ponyâ a novel written by John Steinbeck, Jody the protagonist has a visitor named Gitano,...
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Oscar Wilde prefaces his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, with a reflection on art, the artist, and the utility of both. After careful scrutiny, he concludes: âAll art is quite uselessâ. In this one sentence, Wilde encapsulates the complete principles of the Aesthetic Movement popular in Victorian England. That is to say, real art takes no part in molding...
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Introduction Sylvia Plath's novel, "The Bell Jar," is a profound exploration of mental illness, identity, and the societal expectations faced by women in mid-20th-century America. First published in 1963, the novel is a semi-autobiographical account of Plath's own struggles with depression and her experiences as a young woman in a rapidly changing world. The protagonist, Esther Greenwood, provides readers with...
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Robert Browning, an English poet and playwright, well-known for his dramatic monologues is one of the foremost Victorian poets, whose poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. âIn 1846, he married the older poet Elizabeth Barrett, and went to live in Italy. By the time of her death, in...
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Hoping to cause a sensation in the field of parapsychology, Dr. John Montague rents Hill House, a secluded manor with a reputation for being haunted. He carefully selects two participants for his studyâEleanor Vance, a thirty-two-year-old woman who was reported to have had experiences with a poltergeist as a child, and Theodora, a woman marked in one of his labâs...
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Why do some nations prosper while others struggle and are plagued with poverty and greed? Some people say it has everything to do with a nationâs location, culture, or lack of knowledge. But surely this canât be the whole picture. Just look at Botswana. It currently has one of the fastest increasing economies in the world. Meanwhile, close by Congo...
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âIt was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted, Northland Wild.â In this quote, American author Jack London establishes the key theme of his novel White Fang. Throughout this work, London seeks to portray his conception of nature, which is dark, ominous,...
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T. S. Eliotâs notoriously opaque âThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockâ can be interpreted only by acknowledging that the speakerâs thought process is not consistent throughout but an ongoing process. On first reading, the poems stanzas seem to belong to separate plots or lines of thought, but unity can be perceived if we think of the structure of the...
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A Worn Path, by Eudora Welty, is a story of a fierce old woman, and of a love that knows no bounds. This Penlighten article provides a summary and analysis of this moving story. Before writing âThe Worn Pathâ, Eudora Welty was a publicity agent for Works Progress Administration in the â30s. During that time, she captured many moments of...
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To say that âThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockâ is a typical romantic ode to the wonders of love, as the title may suggest, is quite far from the truth. To the contrary, this poem enters the straggling mind of J. Alfred Prufrock, a man plagued with irresolution, and because of this irresolution will probably never realistically be in...
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White Fang opens with a beautifully detailed picture of the Yukon. Two men, Bill and Henry, with a team of six dogs pulling a sled on which is strapped a coffin, are fleeing down a frozen waterway, a wolf pack in pursuit. At night, the dogs are individually lured to their deaths by a she-wolf. London paints quite a portrait...
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Women over centuries have been painted with the brush of kind, gentle, and innocent, as if they are trapped in childhood. Even though these are not bad descriptive words, they are not faltering either, they take away from their potential. Wollstonecraft addresses concerns with the depiction of women, as these artificial objects that men possess. She does this in her...
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Introduction Thomas Hardy's "Return of the Native" is an intricate tapestry of human emotions and societal norms intricately woven into the wild landscape of Egdon Heath. Chapters 3-5 serve as a critical foundation for the unfolding narrative, offering insights into the characters' motivations and the thematic structures that propel the story forward. These chapters are pivotal, as they introduce and...
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Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws. Before the turn of the 20th century, a major reform movement had emerged in the United States. Known as progressives, the reformers were reacting to problems...
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Passionate. Ruthless. Complicated. Champion. These are some of the surplus of words and expressions used to describe the genius that is Kobe Bryant. Born in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, and raised approximately 5,000 miles away in the suburbs of Italy, this memoir depicts the life story of Kobe Bryant; from his upbringing as the youngest child in a...
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