A Tale of Love An age where justice and rights become the focus, not only politically, but socially, as well, A Tale of Two Cities unfolds as a battle between, not only social classes, but a battle with morals. It was a time when beliefs were questioned and sides were taken in a fight for control. In Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, love for another and love for power juxtapose each other as extreme measures and sacrifice are taken by the main characters to attain them, emphasizing that selfish
Western literature has enclosed the Oriental woman within two main patterns.The first is the submissive one, who is isolated from the outside world. Women in this pattern appear to have no rights as they are always held in harems, and men have all the rights to divorce or marry another wife. They are the mere object of pleasure that can be sold, bought or given as presents. The other pattern is the vicious woman, who is always connected with black magic and who disturbs the overall atmosphere of
and feel alienated from God himself. Possibly, the severest form of character alienation lies in characters like Meursault in Albert Camus’s The Stranger (1942), who feels alienated from everything with which he comes into contact: his family, his society, and
A Raisin in the Sun “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up/Like a raisin in the sun?” Langston Hughes creates a vivid image of what happens to a dream when it gets delayed or postponed in his poem, A Dream Deferred. He explores the effect that dreams can have on the human spirit, much like Lorraine Hansberry’s dramatic play, A Raisin in the Sun. In her play, Hansberry offers the belief that the dreams that can urge on our ambitions can also destroy our psyche if not properly nurtured