Essay Question: Literary works are representative of their genre and period, to adapt them will always be detrimental to the original. Discuss to what extent you agree with this statement using reference to texts you have studied in class. Literature have existed for millions of year and have undergone countless transformations through the ages. Each genre of literature is unique in their own way and bears their own form and style. A play would not be the same as a poem, even less so a novel. There
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
The ideas of Innocence and evil are normally preconceived from influences of other texts and people. Our ideas on Evil and innocence are mostly derived from the bible with the original sin and Satan at the heart of it, by using Milton’s Paradise Lost to compare to Henry James Turn of the Screw I wanted to explore the use of narrative voice through Innocence, Evil, Sympathy, Appearance and Author. In Milton’s Paradise Lost the narrator wants to shape preconceived ideas of Satan being evil by indicating
capable of. As a young girl, I always wondered why the heroes in my comic books were always male, why the princesses in my story books were always in dire need of help, and why females were subtly connoted to be weaker. As much as I realize that this essay is not about female rights or feminist movements, I must mention the silent importance of referring to the person who created the world as a goddess. Alice Notley makes use of diction to pass across a message of empowerment, honesty and wit. “The
poetry. According to him Leavis admitted that the novel had concentrated the major energies “after the decline of the epic and the verse drama.”1 He admires Leavis for bringing about revaluation in the criticism of English novel with his comparison of The Heart of Darkness with Macbeth. But
Essay question: Show how your chosen texts engage in debate over the distinction and hierarchy of genders. In the patriarchal setting of classical literature, strong and complex female characters are often hard to find. Some texts, however, are known as quite misogynistic to the general public but, with a better attention to details, can be read a proto-feminist. Taking the example of Homer’s Odyssey and Euripides’ Medea, I will attempt to demonstrate how these texts engage in debate over the distinction
The first line of Lesbos, Plath positions the poem’s conflict in the realm of the domestic: ‘Viciousness in the kitchen!’ These hostilities take place in the kitchen, the heart of the housewife’s home, suggesting an abnormal viciousness. In contrast Gilman’s is praised for her ability to make the reader empathize with the darkness and emotional turmoil of the narrator. Her short stories explore different standpoints of the
revenge. It is a novel full of opposites and contradictions, one of these, the protagonist himself. It is difficult, regardless of how many times one has read it, to tell if Heathcliff is supposed to be the romantic hero or the despicable villain. This essay will discuss Heathcliff's presentation in Wuthering Heights and how this affects the portrayal of love. On the one hand, the character of Heathcliff could be described as a Byronic Hero. This is a type of romantic hero inspired by Lord Byron, a
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