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One could happen 100s of books refering the Russian revolution ; nevertheless. it was George Orwell’s Animal Farm that shed visible radiation on the corruptness of the revolution. Even though Animal farm is clearly a sarcasm on the Russian Revolution. it can easy be compared to many revolutions. particularly the Cuban. Both revolutions were led…

The Lion King, released in 1994, is widely regarded as one of Disney’s finest films. Interestingly enough, it is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A comparison between the two tales reveals numerous similarities. Both The Lion King and Hamlet center around themes of revenge and responsibility. In The Lion King, Simba seeks to avenge his…

Male/female relationships are portrayed differently in the poems ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, ‘Havisham’, ‘Cousin Kate’ and the play ‘Macbeth’. They all surround the themes of love, hate, jealousy, betrayal, guilt and obsession. However, the love versus hate theme is most dominant because all of the poems and the play have a melancholy mood, showing how the key…

From 1603 to 1606, William Shakespeare penned ‘Macbeth’, a play that aligned with James I’s rise to power in England. James I, formerly known as James the Sixth of Scotland, held firm beliefs in his own greatness as a monarch and possessed a keen fascination for witchcraft, apparitions, and ghosts. The utilization of sorcery in…

The only reference to Twelfth Night during Shakespeare’s own lifetime is to a performance on February 2, 1602. A law student named John Manningham wrote in his diary about a feast he attended at the Middle Temple in London where he was a law student and where “we had a play called Twelfth Night; Or,…

Part One:Inferno is one the main sections of Dante Alighieri’s long narrative, about 33 cantos, La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) which was estimated to be written somewhere between 1307 and 1321 (Barbi and Ruggiers, 1997). Its vivid scenes and sharply drawn characters highlight Dante’s imaginative journey through the many circles of hell or inferno…

“The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Fall of The House of usher”, and “The Raven”, when I hear his name Imagine murderers, madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women coming back from their graves. He was a very versatile writer who was able to write novels, poetry, textbooks, short stories, hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is…

The theme of marriage is seen from the very beginning of novel. Jane Austen makes her views on marriage known from the very first sentence. She opens her highly acclaimed novel with: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife….

Fair is Fowl According to the opening lines of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, “Fair is foul and foul is fair” (I, i, 12-13), contradictions are prevalent in the play through various motifs and symbols. Among these symbols are the birds, which hold different meanings in literature, including representing a journey, freedom, positive omens, and the…

In today’s feminist movement, the statement “I could find in my heart to disgrace my man’s apparel and cry like a woman” would elicit strong reactions. In a society that advocates for gender equality, the author of this sentence would be seen as highly misogynistic. Nevertheless, it is crucial to acknowledge that around 400 years…