maintaining his reputation in society. Thus, the indulgences of Dr. Jekyll expands beyond the personal areas of his – and Mr. Hyde’s – life, symbolizing the inner struggles, the threats to the respectful gentlemen’s society and their professional world, and looking at a greater perspective, the social anxieties of late 19th century England. Considering that the Victorian era was being shaken by new changes and expectations, writers found in literature an alternative to address the public fears. In
I have been a performer for all of my life. The crazy world of performing has been me out in this even crazier world called Earth. If it was either dancing, singing, acting, or just telling a story, I was always interested. Don’t believe me? Just ask anyone who I’ve talked to in the past fifteen years of my life. One thing I’m truly grateful to see in this new industry of acting is the family aspect. It’s not crazy anymore to be an actor. It isn’t unimaginable to pursue performing as an actual profession
is possible to come to the conclusion that this is a work of satire. First, the time period in which Pride and Prejudice was written in is certainly a critical factor in our discussion of this novel. As such, the relating the history of the Victorian Era compared to the representation of that society in this novel will be thoroughly examined. Jane Austen was born in 1775 and
1. Introduction Detective fiction is a relatively young genre of literature: “The idea that crime, particularly murder, provided entertainment was only born in the first decades of the nineteenth century, but it would bloom into one of the greatest mass-media interests of all time” (Worsley 17, italics in the original). In spite of its youthfulness, this genre has already developed its own rules and regulations/conventions, as well as established its own canon. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective
antiquity as well as its aesthetic appeal—is more or less indisputable today. The roots of theatre in India are ancient and deep-seated. Theatrical expression of some kind or the other has been since primitive and mythic times, an integral part of Indian life. Our knowledge about the initial, primitive stage of theatrical activity in India is very meagre. However one can safely say that theatre in India as in Greece was deeply embroiled with religion and the theatrical activity in India as in other cultures
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin