English Language and Literature Studies; Vol. 5, No. 1; 2015 ISSN 1925-4768 E-ISSN 1925-4776 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education 13 Historicizing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Critique of King Leopold II’s Colonial Rule Isam Shihada1 1 Associate Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies, Department of English, Gaza Strip, Palestine Correspondence: Isam Shihada, Associate Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies, Department of English, Gaza Strip, Palestine
rather abandon everything that is a part of him. An extremely powerful idea is that of the following quote: “The police searched for me in darkness: but I hid myself in light” (Adiga 68). With this phrase, Adiga is suggesting “that the ‘darker’ aspect of Indian society was not necessarily lying in the “India of Darkness”, it was also very much there in the heart of lightness, in the elite societies of cosmopolitan cities like Delhi and Bangalore” (Choudhury, Monir). Since there are so many entrepreneurs
Illusions of freedom of expression concurred by fantasy Fantasy is a genre of fiction that indulges itself in the impossible and what might never exist. Fantasy includes things such as witchcraft and creatures that do not exist in this world, for examples goblins, trolls, monsters or dragons. Fantasy narratives are vastly diverse and can range from a setting of medieval times to another world or dimension in outer space. Often time fantasy as a genre allows the writer to imagine a place or time in
The Journey of Eternal Family My parents introduced me to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They are members of the church before I was born. I grew up with the principles and gospel of the church. We used to attend church classes and meetings as we sat together in the sacrament hall and enjoy each other’s company. Our entire family was active in the church, my mother served as a counselor in the Relief Society organization while my father was the counselor at the Elders Quorum. We
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and
Our understanding has formed in such a way that the general populace; when asked what a church looks like, has a common thought of stages and an altar that overlooks an audience. The thing is though, ‘common’ has taken a new shape over the decades, and so I will aim to prove, it is clearly evident that the thought of tradition warps into something of almost complete difference or fades entirely if given sufficient time. I speak of this in the sense of how the intellectual being develops into a superior
have no public role, yet they are the most secure and protected. The negative stereotypes of Muslim women probably arise from this varying treatment of women. This comes handy for the Western media, whose favorite pastime is to latch on to a few examples of illogical and aberrant behaviour and brand Islam as an “orthodox” religion, especially in its treatment of
A critical study has been carried out in the earlier chapters to explore Flannery O'Connor's fictional works with respect to the study of human relationships and the nuances of the truth-seeking concerns exemplifying interesting realities. The study recorded in this thesis illustrates that there is a repetition of retreat patterns in human relationships on the canvas of the familial, societal and spiritual altitudes. In O’Connor’s fiction, human relationships are understood to be perverted and strange
Now that matters of love magic have been put to rest, it is time to shift our attention to the last remaining witches of the Metamorphoses. In terms of the story’s narrative, Pamphile is after Meroe and Panthia the second witch that the reader comes across in the novel. The end of Aristomenes’ tale finds Lucius already in Hypata, searching for the house of his host, the frugal Milo. A random stranger points Lucius in the right direction, albeit not without making what might later be regarded as an