Edward Said’s Book Orientalism Edward Said’s book Orientalism (1995) is of vital importance, not only to our notions of the ways in which the West constructs representations and portraitures of the East but, to how the ideology of Othering is facilitated through Art and literature. Using Foucauldian methodologies, Said asserts Read more…
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen The following essay will critically analyse a passage from the play “A Dolls House” by Henrik Ibsen. Between the pages 222 and 225 there seems to be a shift in the plot, as Nora takes a different attitude towards her and Helmer’s relationship. All Read more…
Summary of The Ghat of The Only World by Amitav Ghosh Class 11th There are two characters in this chapter. These two characters are Amitava Ghosh and Aga Shahid Ali. Amitava Ghosh is the author of the essay and he wrote the essay about Aga Shahid Ali, his friend. Agha Read more…
Is American Psycho A Misogynist Text? INTRODUCTION The essential premise of American Psycho is probably not a sexual one, and to focus on Bateman’s sexuality is to risk missing the point. The caricatured inhumanity of the central character focuses on markers of maleness, a “pre-metrosexual” 1980’s masculinity defined by materialism. Read more…
William Carlos Williams was a rebel. The Red Wheelbarrow is revolutionary for its simplicity. While many of his contemporaries wrote poems that locked up meaning like precious jewels in secret rooms, Williams wrote poems that captured ordinary moments and ordinary objects, such as a red wheelbarrow. Think of The Red Read more…
Poetry must get its hands dirty It is amazing to look at just how much poetry and literature have changed throughout the years. For instance, during the romantic era, why did poets such as Byron sell so well? Of course, the confines of society were very different; socially the public Read more…
The Presentation of Violence The Presentation of Violence in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. The different rivers of violence – sexual, domestic, racial, personal — that flow through Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When Read more…
Comparative Study of Protagonists – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Hamlet It is suggested that in modern literature, the true element of tragedy is not captured because the protagonist is often of the same social status as the audience, and therefore, his downfall is not tragic. This opinion, Read more…
What Use Does Lodge Make Of Intertexuality In ‘Nice Work’? When answering this question, it should be pointed out that intertextuality as it is commonly understood as a critical theory is little thought as a device which a person can adopt to his or her advantage. Roland Barthes and Jacques Read more…
Gulliver’s Travels and the Witches “He has gone where fierce indignation can lacerate his heart no more” – these are the epitaphic words of Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels. They are indicative of a career spent contemplating the weaknesses and sins of mankind, of a man described alternately as Read more…
