There, on the dusty floorboards, was a piece of paper, folded neatly. A newspaper article from 1941, written in German, alongside a faded picture of two men in Nazi uniforms staring at the camera. I was about to place it back in the box of forgotten things when something in the text jumped out at me. My breath caught in...
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall is a 1930 short story written by American author Katherine Anne Porter. While the story is set inside a bedroom, most of the action takes place inside the mind of 80-year-old Granny Weatherall as she spends her last day on her deathbed. The narrative employs a stream-of-conscious monologue as Granny recollects her long life and...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman should be understood within the context of the Enlightenment as a movement containing complex and often contradictory political, religious, and philosophical implications. The most famous definition of the Enlightenment, though very late in the movement, comes in Immanuel Kantâs essay, âWhat is Enlightenment?â: âEnlightenment is manâs emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is...
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âThe Jilting of Granny Weatherallâ was the first of Katherine Anne Porterâs Texas stories, all drawn from persistent memories of her own impoverished and motherless childhood as well as from her memories of her sternly rigorous and religious grandmother, Catherine Anne Porter of Kyle, Texas. Ellen Weatherall is a character distinctly different from grandmother Sophia Jane Gay, who plays an...
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The opening lines of Franz Kafkaâs The Trial are one of the most chilling and memorable of all time. A well-established chief banker, Josef K. is suddenly arrested one day by unidentified agents from an unidentified organization for committing an unidentified crime. What follows is a host of absurdities: the guilt of the protagonist is assumed, he is allowed to...
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I love exploring elements of the uncanny in gothic literature. It is directly linked with the transgressive nature of such writing. This has been epitomised in many novels and short stories of the nineteenth century. The Gothic and uncanny reinforce each other; they stand side by side in the dark shadows of such writing. To show this Iâm going to...
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âThe Tygerâ is arguably the most famous poem written by William Blake (1757-1827); itâs difficult to say which is more well-known, âThe Tygerâ or the poem commonly known as âJerusalemâ. The poemâs opening line, âTyger Tyger, burning brightâ is among the most famous opening lines in English poetry (itâs sometimes modernised as âTiger, Tiger, burning brightâ). Below is this iconic...
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When English writer D. H. Lawrenceâs novel, The Rainbow, was first published in 1915, it was hailed as obscene and Lawrence himself was labeled a pornographer. The book was banned in many quarters while the righteous of the day took great pleasure in making a public display of burning it. It wasnât available in England and the United States for...
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Birches by Robert Frost is a poem which talks about how one must escape from reality for some time, only to return to it later. In the poem, the author discusses the topic of birch trees and how they bend after an ice storm. In his imagination, the birches are being bent by a boy who has been âswingingâ them....
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White Like Me is a documentary by Tim Wiseâs on his life in a majorly black neighborhood growing up with black friends. It covers his views about white privilege and the structural advantages given to white people as he experienced first hand. In the documentary, Tim wise chose not to follow the path with the least resistance and setbacks using...
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William Blakeâs literary masterpiece, âThe Tygerâ has been scrutinized from literal and metaphorical points of view as he revisits his preferred dilemmas of innocence vs. experience. As for God, his creations are just beautiful and transcend the notions of good-evil. As is the case with his earlier poems, âThe Tygerâ gives no visible answers except to offer more questions. Though...
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The Crucible is a play that was written by Arthur Miller in 1952. It is the play that preceded Death of a Salesman, his first success as a writer for which he won a Tony award and the Pulitzer Prize. The play is based on the Witch trials of Salem, Massachusetts where 20 women accused of being witches where hanged...
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Porterâs strongest female influence while growing up was her grandmother, and several of her stories, including âThe Jilting of Granny Weatherall,â feature a strong grandmotherly protagonist. Granny was able to face the humiliation and heartbreak of having her fiancĂŠ jilt her at the altar and still go on to lead a very successful life as wife, mother, and caregiver. Even...
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In The Chosen, the setting of each scene contributes to our understanding of the bookâs central themes. The baseball field reveals the theme of conflict between two opposing forces, the hospital brings about different perceptions of the world, the library represents the charactersâ expanding minds, and so on. The combination of settings and the sub-themes that develop within them help...
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In The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson demonstrates a strong depiction of oppression towards women. Jackson introduces the idea that women have a weaker mind and a tendency to act childish. This idea can be seen through the deteriorating mental health of the character, Eleanor. She tends to always resort to juvenile behavior throughout the novel. She is most...
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In his book, The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman analyzes how innovation and new technologies, among other factors are âflatteningâ the world, making interaction and trade between nations more convenient and efficient, making some nations, like China and India more competitive, and revolutionizing the global market. Friedman discusses many complex factors that are, in many ways, interacting with each other...
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If Mel believes his view of the elderly couple is true love then who is this author to say that itâs an âemotional immaturity? â Especially, when Campbell also states that âthe reader can rightly infer that nothing he has ever felt as love could be favorably compared with what he found in the elderly man who was depressed because...
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The intention of this essay is to consider the representation of illusion and reality throughout F. Scott Fitzgeraldâs novel The Great Gatsby (1925). It shall focus on characters and their perception of the illusions and realities that they represent, such as Nick Carrawayâs illusion of what he perceives Gatsby to be and what in reality, he is. It shall look...
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In our society, people often become âinvisibleâ due to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, or social class. A personâs identity is shaped by othersâ perceptions, without othersâ perceptions of who he or she is, they will feel invisible. In other words, one must discover oneself and not seek for approval because of social expectations and gender roles. âGirls at...
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People cannot control their destiny but must live through the hardships and change their perspectives/personality to survive the hysteria. Mankind must persist through the failures and as long as courage drives ambition, their voice will be heard across the world. This power of inspiration is expressed during Mccarthyism, an era where Arthur Miller faces contempt with congress but persists on...
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Have you overcome a fear, only to look back and wonder why you were so afraid? I recently went to Sky Zone and had to psych myself up for about 10 minutes just to do a backflip, but once I did--it was so natural. Stephen Crane published âThe Red Badge of Courageâ in October 1895 about soldier Henry in the...
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âOf Mice and Menâ is a 1939 American drama film based on the 1937 novel and play of the same name by John Steinbeck. The film was produced by Hal Roach Studios, and directed by Lewis Milestone. This film took place when the great depression was happening, which means it deals with issues such as loneliness, poverty and unfulfilled dreams....
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Lord Rama is one of the most respected and reversed gods in Hinduism. He is believed to be the seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Lord Rama was born during Treta Yuga out of four cyclic yugas described in religious books. Lord Rama is considered to be one of the most ideal man acquiring several names like âMaryadapurushotham ârespectable and best...
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Thereâs a boy named Stanley Yelnats IV who was arrested because he is wrongfully convicted steal the sneakers of Clyde Livingston who was the famous baseball player and donate his sneakers to for a charity. He was been sentenced in Camp Green Lake for 18 months. He was a kind of boy that has no one friends and he always...
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Austenâs quote from Persuasion overtly and skilfully encompasses and defends the idea of how women are capable of self-correcting themselves, being perfectly flawed yet finding the strength in learning from their mistakes, achieving personal growth. In her novels she does not make the central heroine to be perfect, rather highlights their flaws and how they overcome it leading to personal...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieâs novel âPurple Hibiscusâ explores the tumultuous relationships between the members of the Achike family, inflicted by the father, Eugene. The novel is narrated in the first person, by the fifteen-year-old protagonist Kambili. This essay will portray the significance of âbody writingâ which will be depicted through Eugene and Aunty Ifeoma. The entire family are subjects to domestic...
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âGenesisâ is the first book of the Hebrew and Christian canon, and as it sets the scene for the rest of Scripture, its theological importance cannot be overstated. Every Biblical book that follows is to be read through the theological and historical lens offered in its foundational narrative. The subject of this exegetical tract is the third chapter of âGenesis';...
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âA Poison Treeâ, written by William Blake and published in 1794, uses rhyming couplet form, symbolism and metaphors, and tone to convey message. The message of the poem is that humans âwaterâ their anger and let it grow, whereas the poem tries to teach us that this is unideal. The poem âThe Poison Treeâ is a rhyming couplet. This is...
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âThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksâ, by Rebecca Skloot (2010) tells a story of a poor African American woman whose cancer cells were extracted without her awareness or consent and used for medical research at a lab of the Johns Hopkins University hospital. These cancer cells, later known as HeLa cells would become a major breakthrough in the field of...
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In James Joyceâs short story, âEveline,â in the collection Dubliners, he introduces the story off with Eveline gazing miserably out the window, the distinct smell of dust causing her to reminisce about her youth when she was able to frolic and play in an empty field with other children before new houses were built. This memory sparked a profound sadness...
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