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Alice Walker has written of unfairness in many manners ; Celia ‘s battles with her hubby in The Color Purple ; Olivia ‘s unfairness of female Circumcision in Olivia ; and the Old Woman in The Welcome Table. Her unfairness was non simply racial but besides classist. The Old Woman is a reminder to the…

Every time I read the opening of Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” I am reminded of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. In Stravinsky’s work, the rebirth offered by spring is presented as being violent and painful, much like Eliot’s “breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land” (Eliot, lines 2-3). Indeed, the opening seven lines…

During act 3, scene 3, the full extent of Iago’s evil flourish is realised as he proceeds to have a malignant and cancerous effect on Othello and his relationship with Desdemona. During this time, he also builds bridges with many of the other characters, before deceiving and betraying them. All of this makes him one…

The views and beliefs of societies are often portrayed in the literature, art, and cinema of a certain era. The epic poems, The Iliad and Odyssey, give scholars and historians an idea how the Ancient Greek lived their everyday lives. By reading the two “novels,” the reader is able to experience the three thousand years…

Understanding how the reader transforms a text is of utmost importance in reader-response theory. Our identity as readers is what transforms the text; we apply our own mental processes to the work and therefore gain further understanding. A fixed, stable response to a text is an illusion. According to Norman Holland, our response to a…

Machiavelli’s Philosophy: Fear or Love? Without a doubt, Machiavelli’s The Prince is generally regarded as a vital source of information on topics of statesmanship and power. To further expound, The Prince not merely delineates what a leader or a ruler should consider and accomplish in order to achieve or maintain power, but also thoroughly explains…

The Movie Jindabyne, directed by Ray Lawrence is to say the least an intriguing text, based on Stewart Kane, an irishmen living in the Australian town in NSW of Jindabyne, who goes on a fishing trip in an isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a dead young indigenous…

When an person in our society is confronted with privacy and devastation. the single expresses actions of despair and hurt. merely wanting a sense of company. Point of Position: The point of position in Of Mice and Men is Third Person Omniscient. Throughout the whole narrative Steinbeck limited himself to merely uncovering what one would…

Relevance of The Tempest in the Modern World The Tempest, a pastoral tragicomedy written by William Shakespeare in the Renaissance period around 1611, presents a unique challenge in interpreting its original intent versus how it is understood today, almost four centuries later. The way women are depicted in such older plays like The Tempest would…

That year, the harvest was mournful and brought many farmers to tears as they unearthed the wretched and decaying yams. In the midst of it all, one man took his own life by tying his cloth to a tree and hanging himself. Okonkwo carried the memory of that tragic year with him for the rest…