“For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public” (Swift 2431). If you have ever heard of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, but have not read it, you probably have heard something along the lines of it being about eating babies. While it...
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Wide Sargasso Sea was written as a metatextual reference to Jane Eyre, through the perspective of Antoinette Cosway, before her psychological dissent within the attic in Jane Eyre. Initially upon reading Wide Sargasso Sea, not being versed in Jane Eyre, it was taken as a tale of imperialism, and the struggle of wealth and class despite the ending of slavery....
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The setting of the story is the area of La Paz, a pearl fishing town in Mexico on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, around the year 1900. The pearl fisher Kino is a native Mexican whose son gets bitten by a scorpion and needs help urgently. To afford a doctor, Kino dives for pearls and finds the largest...
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In Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In the Sun, an African-American family living in a tiny, run-down apartment on the south side of Chicago, encounters barriers due to poverty and structural racism as they try to turn their dreams into reality. Sadly, the Younger family’s struggles with racial tensions in the 1950s are not unlike what Black Americans face today. In...
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People are both the goals and motivations for social development. In order to develop, society need to take care of human factor physically and mentally. Especially learning about the world around them so that they can contribute to building and improving society. Education has held an important role in the human lives nowadays. When talking about education and school, book...
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The seventeenth century – and the times before that – were not particularly great times to live in as a woman. Today we live in a mostly patriarchal society where men often have a lot more to say than women, but we also have feminism and feminist theory. Simone de Beauvoir states that “One is not born, but rather becomes,...
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“And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity” (Stephen King). The late twentieth century was a time of racism and bigotry as the civil rights movement was coming to a close, yet many Americans still refused to integrate African Americans into regular...
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Introduction Henry James' novella "Daisy Miller" is a keen exploration of cultural contrasts and social intricacies nestled in the backdrop of 19th-century European society. Through the lens of the titular character, Daisy Miller, and her interactions, James delves into the rigid conventions that delineate American and European societal norms. The central theme revolves around the clash between innocence and experience,...
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We as humans often like to fantasize about having a more glamorous life than what we actually have. Most of the time, people like to imagine being with someone who thinks is good for them, but it’s the exact opposite. That’s the mistake Mr.Kapasi ended up making in the story “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri. “Interpreter of Maladies” is...
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‘The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time’ (2003), explores the world through the perception of a 15 year old Christopher Boone. Mark Haddon, the author, expresses Christopher's struggle with human, society and many other complex things in life throughout the novel to expose awareness of autism. Haddon used various techniques to achieve his goals for the novel. The...
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Alice Walker once said, “the most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any”. The main character in The Colour Purple is made to believe by men that she has no power, so she feels as if she has none. She gives up her power because she believes she has none, but the women...
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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a reflection of life in the south of America during the Great Depression. Through the main protagonist, Scout, we see how certain events in her life changes and helps her mature, and how she eventually learns that the world is full of bigotry and hatred. She is a young girl...
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With Roy deriving the reference of India as the ‘Heart of Darkness’ from Joseph Conrad’s novel titled as such, it is apparent that the God of Small Things mirrors Conrad’s criticism on the detrimental and lasting impacts of colonialism. Sophie Mol, a clear metaphor of British powers, arrives at Ayemenem with the obsession of ‘taming’ the east, which is portrayed...
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Introduction Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 is widely celebrated for its inventive use of humor, which serves as both a narrative device and a thematic exploration of the absurdities of war. First published in 1961, the novel is set during World War II and follows Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier, as he navigates the bureaucratic madness...
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Sometimes understanding life alone is difficult and you need someone to guide you and teach you around life. In Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, the novel portrays the reality of life and how every family has its own set of problems and difficulties. Anaya demonstrates how to gain knowledge and lose innocence by following someone's footsteps. Throughout the novel,...
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Section 1: Social, Political and Philosophical Context The Victorian era was one of great change and importance. The industrialisation of England during this time forever changed how and where people lived. The shift from rural to urban work accelerated with the rise of factories and the advancement of technology. The lower classes were overworked and suffered from horrible workplace conditions....
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Great Expectations by Charles Dicken’s and Middlemarch by George Eliot simultaneously display the notion that the form is one of the ways it can be understood in relation to the specific historical context from which it emerges. Additionally, they similarly have been shaped by the material conditions of production and reception set in the Victorian...
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INTRODUCTION Wuthering Heights was back in those times written by unknown young girl Emily Brontë and it is considered as one of the greatest works of fiction ever written. It is the passionate love story between Catherine and Heathcliff represented as a wild, cruel character. Published in 1847 under the name of Ellis Bell, is considered one of the classic...
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Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen were both English soldier poets of the First World War but their views were very different and reflected the chasm that separated them in terms of actual war experiences. Both of these famous poets display the horrors of war in a completely different ways in these two poems, The Soldier by Rupert Brooke and Dulce...
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Great Expectations was published weekly in the literary magazine called All The Year Round founded by Charles Dickens. It was published from the 1st December 1860 to August 1861. Later that year, in October, Chapman and Hall (that originally was a British Publishing house) published Great Expectations in three volumes. For a better understanding of the novel and the class...
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See Me is a romance novel written by an American novelist, Nicholas Sparks. See Me follows the powerful story of a young man named Colin Hancock, who is giving his second chance at life, his best shot. “Literary theories are a way of looking at literature that can reveal what the piece of literature can mean and the underlying principles”...
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It’s interesting that this book has been censored in many schools, I suppose people are scared away by all the goddamns. However, when examined by a keen eye, J.D. Salinger’s little window into the life of a certain adolescent, is an untapped well, brimming with educational merit beyond what those ignorant institutions are capable of appreciating. This fiction reveals more...
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Introduction to Feminist Criticism and The Color Purple Feminism in a layman language is giving equal rights and status to women. Unfortunately, women across the world are deprived of their basic rights. The woman is always considered as a “Secondary Sex”. (Quyoom 2017) “As a social movement, feminist criticism highlights the various ways in particular women have been suppressed, oppressed,...
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Dracula (1897), by Bram Stoker, is set in the Victorian Era and follows the story of the vampire Count Dracula and his battle with a determined group of adversaries. Stoker’s novel reflects the fears and anxieties of the late-Victorian society, where the change or disruption of traditional Victorian values and anything that did not stay true to society’s norms were...
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An outsider is described as a person not belonging to a particular group' as defined in the Oxford Dictionary.' The Outsiders' was published by S.E. Hinton. It was set in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960s. It's about the rivalry between the two major youth groups. Their life is split into two major groups by money which is the Socs (Short...
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Introduction Revenge serves as a central theme in William Shakespeare's "The Tragical Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark," driving the narrative and influencing the characters' actions. This theme is deeply intertwined with the play's exploration of morality, justice, and the human psyche. Hamlet's quest for vengeance against his uncle, King Claudius, who has murdered his father, sets off a chain...
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In the play, Macbeth, Macbeth himself wanted nothing more than power. He was so obsessed with power that he would go as far as committing murder to make sure that no one would get in the way of him and his throne. Throughout the play, Macbeth showed many symptoms of various mental health disorders. This proved that Macbeth committed these...
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Introduction to Witchcraft and Gender Roles in Salem For my paper, I read The Crucible. I will discuss the trials based on the significance of gender roles and the Puritan culture. I will also discuss the motivations of the producer and the accuracy of the film. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Witchcraft can be defined as the use of sorcery...
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The contrast between the new rich and the old rich is a prominent theme in the novel and is reinforced by certain techniques throughout the novel. This theme, discussed in the Great Gatsby essays, takes a central role in the story, showcasing the differences between these two groups. Fitzgerald uses characterization to portray the contrast between the two cultures on...
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