Rostandâs classic, Cyrano De Bergerac, resonates with audiences of all eras and cultures essentially because it reflects on a universal theme. It is conflict, and specifically the internal conflicts of a hero struggling with ambitions of the material with his innermost, spiritual and intellectual self. All of this is within the desire Cyrano feels for Roxane, which guides his behavior....
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âSalomeâ is a poem taken from Carol Ann Duffyâs collection of poems The Worldâs Wife; most of the poems share a common feature: a historically marginalized narrator retelling the story from personal perspective. Salomeâs character originally appeared in the New Testament and over the centuries many novels and paintings focused on Salome and the legend of Salome contributing to iconization...
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Post-world war II period is incomplete without the name of Sylvia Plath. Plath being a significant artist, turned out to be reputable after her suicide in 1963. She has recognized herself because of her famous collection Ariel which hold alarming and acclaimed stanzas. She used bold and wild metaphors, repeatedly disrupting and violent symbolism to summon mythic characteristics in humankind....
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Shortly after turning fifty, Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828âNovember 10, 1910) succumbed to a profound spiritual crisis. With his greatest works behind him, he found his sense of purpose dwindling as his celebrity and public acclaim billowed, sinking into a state of deep depression and melancholia despite having a large estate, good health for his age, a wife who had...
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Arthur Miller himself once stated that the play is tricky to categorize because none of its characters stand up and make a speech about the great issues which he believes it embodies. This is also a problem for anyone who would attempt to develop a clear idea about what messages Death of a Salesman attempts to deliver and consequently it...
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We are in complete and total control of our thoughts, actions and everyday decisions⌠whether we choose to believe this is down to us. Throughout my life, I have had several times where I stopped to question myself and my happiness, and what I was doing to feed and maintain it. My curiosity for this sparked when I realised that...
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Jack London was a socialist who lectured and gave speeches urging members of the working class to join together and fight for a better form of government than the one they were living under. His message to the capitalist class of his day was, âNo quarter! We want all that you possess.â From an early age, London was determined to...
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In this play Coriolanus by Shakespeare, Coriolanus' expulsion is the peak of a sequence of incidents in which a few powers have a role, all impelling him to his absolute destruction. As is normal in Shakespearean Tragedy, the legend, at the crest of his accomplishments, falls, because of a lethal blemish in his character. Despite the fact that Coriolanus is...
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Dreams are boring. On the list of tedious conversation topics, they fall somewhere between the five-day forecast and golf. As for writing about them, even Henry James, whoâs seldom accused of playing to the cheap seats, had a rule: âTell a dream, lose a reader.â I can remember when I accepted that my own unconscious was not a fount of...
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Vengeance, chaos, uncertain honor and untimely death-whether describing the fall from grace of a noble king, impassioned General, or valiant warrior, each arises in the historically based tragedies of William Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Shakespeareâs account of the societal and self destruction of a Roman warrior paragon, proves no exception, depicting the demise that results from any character trait excess, even honor....
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Cleopatra, âEgyptâs Queen,â is arguably Shakespeareâs most resilient and enchanting female protagonist. She is personified as the embodiment of her country, âthe soul of Egyptâ, and defies the reductive Jacobean âmost monster-likeâ perspective of women. The Renaissance stereotype of the subordinate and inferior female is in total juxtaposition to the possessive and shrewd characteristics that Cleopatra possesses, as she is...
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Our collective relationship with the natural world is one fraught with tensions and paradoxes. Through a refusal to identify any form of objective truth, Ariel by Sylvia Plath moves beyond binaries to posit language as a portal into deepened self understanding. In this essay I will discuss⌠In this essay I will discuss how Plath through an exploration of the...
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âThe Great Gatsbyâ is a novel by Scott Fitzgerald that outlines the impossibility of recapturing the past and altering oneâs future. It further emphasizes the unachievable ideology of the American Dream during the 1920s through a man named Jay Gatsby, from the viewpoint of salesman Nick Carraway. Besides this, the novel depicts a significant disparity in the representation of female...
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When we slot figures neatly onto the plinths of our national pantheon, the heroic status we make often require some scrubbing before they are fit to be viewed by the public. Figures of national renown are scrubbed clean of their more radical thoughts- Martin Luther King Jrâs avowed leftism for example- in order to turn them into saints with simple...
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William Butler Yeats is regarded as one of the most important representative symbolist of the twentieth century English literature who was mainly influenced by the French symbolist movement of 19th century. Symbolism as a conscious movement was born in France as a reaction against naturalism and the precision and exactitude of the 'naturalist' school represented by Emile Zola. The French...
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Introduction to Bureaucracy in "The Trial" Written at the beginning of the 20th century âThe Trialâ depicts âthe rise of bureaucracy, the power of law, and the atomization of the individualâ, which are allegorically reflected in a story about Joseph K., a bank employee who is accused of unspecified crimes. This rather surreal and pessimistic narrative begins when two guards...
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Thomas Hardy is one of the greatest English novelists. With his fourteen novels, he has carved for himself a niche in the glorious mansion of the English novel. He is a great poet as well as a great novelist; but the success and popularity of his novels-especially his six major novels - has overshadowed his glory as a poet. As...
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âDover Beachâ is a four stanza poem written by Matthew Arnold that starts out with a quiet scene. It begins with the speaker looking out on the moonlit water and listening to the sound of the waves. The author describes that the night air is âsweetâ as he stands on the pebbled shore looking out at the âcalmâ sea. However,...
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A problem play is a play in which the playwright portrays the social, political and economic problems of the society he lives in. The problem play is a development form of the âdrama of ideas' (Drama of ideas is a type of discussion play in which the most acute problems of social and personal morality is revealed). It is tragic...
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Harper Lee last spoke publicly about the book in the 1960s. She said that it is a universal theme and that it portrayed an aspect of civilization. Lee has made it clear that she wants absolutely nothing to do with the media. No matter what facts were brought up about Leeâs childhood she put her foot down when critics say...
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When RIP project was assigned to class, I soon decided to write a book review, because I personally like to find interesting books and seek to realize different perspectives on a book by reading book review. Orlando: A Biography is the novel that I have read in writing 39B class this quarter, it leaves me a deep impression. Because gender...
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According to Cary D. Wintz, Harlem Rennaisance was a literary movement whose practical and chronological limits are difficult to be defined. The Harlem era symbolized that black people were freed from slavery. They could fight for their way of life. They have an opportunity to get the education also because in the past, they got oppresion, slavery and many others...
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The world of Shakespeareâs Troilus and Cressida does not distinguish decidedly between the Greeks and the Trojans. Though the Greek camp is a makeshift assembly of tents pitched on the shores of Troy, and the Trojan society is the courtly palace of Priam and his sons, both societies value the same ideas and objects: honor in men, and beauty and...
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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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Sylvia Plath does present the frightening but liberating freedom of the natural world as preferable to the oppressive, patriarchal structures of the manmade world. The poet makes effective use of conceptual landscape and personification in her poetry, and the ânatural worldâ often seems to echo the narrative voiceâs mood clearly. But at the same time , there seems to be...
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Introduction Oscar Wilde, an iconic literary figure of the late 19th century, is primarily celebrated for his contributions to the Aesthetic Movement. This movement, emerging in the Victorian era, emphasized the importance of beauty and art for art's sake, challenging the conventional moral and social values of the time. Wilde's pursuit of aestheticism was not merely an artistic endeavor but...
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Barbara Kingsolverâs (born. April 8, 1955) long fiction is best characterized as contemporary versions of the Bildungsroman with a feminist twist. The main character ventures forth to develop herself and find her place in her community. Many books by women that incorporate such a quest portray punishment for women who explore issues of sexuality or who discover meaningful work in...
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Despite the adaptation of a text to film benefiting from the opportunities and abilities bestowed to a director through the visual aspect of the medium, narrative complexity and depth of literary themes almost inevitably suffer a condensation. Ralph Fiennesâs adaptation of William Shakespeareâs Coriolanus is not immune to this trend, with temporal constraints forcing Fiennes to focus upon thematic elements...
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Deriving his name from a Czech Republican poet named Jan Neruda, the Chilean poet with a Spanish background, Neftali Ricardo Reyesâ life was always kaleidoscopic. His life was subjected to a multitude of colours like the Spanish Civil war, being a âConsul Generalâ in Mexico, communism and exile. From being a prolific poet to donning a prominent political persona, he...
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The themes first introduced are predominantly modern consisting of promiscuity and infidelity. The theme of feminism is first introduced towards the end of the piece when it becomes evident to the reader how much power Salome has over her male counterpart Duffyâs reference to the tale of John the Baptist shows her modernising of the tale as it is subverted...
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