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Chapters 1-3: Plot Summary: Arthur Dent has just woken up and did his daily routine. He then goes outside and lies down in front of his house because he is trying to prevent a bulldozer from demolishing it. The local council wants to build a bypass and his house is in the way. Ford comes … Read more
In the novel Black Elk Speaks, written by John G. Neihardt, a member of a Lakota tribe named Black Elk gives an account of a vision he encountered as a young boy and explains how this vision shaped the rest of his life as he fought, grew, matured, and learned the true meaning for his … Read more
Of all the feminist writers of the 20th and 21st century, Sylvia Plath is one whose influence in the writing community has remained strong even 50 years after her tragic death. While an astoundingly accomplished woman for the time period, graduating summa cum laude from Smith College, and winning the Fulbright Scholarship to attend Newnham … Read more
Prejudice is a common problem during the early quarter of the twentieth century. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, this problem is evident in the town of Maycomb. Characters such as Boo Radley, Atticus Finch, and Tom Robinson are all victims of prejudice, and all three characters are plagued by this. … Read more
Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess as a critique on the contemporary socio-political events of Early Modern history. Middleton’s revolutionary English History play, A Game at Chess, was the greatest box-office hit in Early Modern London, filling the Globe Theatre for 9 consecutive days in August 1624 before having its license revoked and Middleton and … Read more
To a large extent I agree that Holden’s mental problems arise is the result of him never wanting to grow up like a Peter Pan figure as his behaviours reveals he struggles when he experiences adulthood when he sees phoniness in adults and innocence in children, so he wishes to save himself and other children … Read more
Masculinity is still a new and fresh field to be ploughed specially in the field of literature. Many researchers have done abundant researches on femininity. Yet, masculinity has never been studied fully neither as a concept nor as a movement. Terms like masculinist or Masculinism are still rarely to be found in daily used dictionaries. … Read more
There is something special about local shops. Something beautiful and charming, familiar and irreplaceable. Anyhow, larger supermarket chains are outmatching these local shops and even worse; it is because of us. We accept the rules the government sets out. This issue is discussed in the article “Once upon a shop”. Once Upon a Shop is … Read more
Ever since the beginning of slavery in America, the existence of the black male population has been compromised and they had to live their lives under the power of white supremacy. Society’s institutions use systematic oppression to create the identity of black males. This “monstrous” identity is created to excuse the unlawful acts of the … Read more
Elsie Browning Michie in her book, Outside the Pale: Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Women Writer, argues that the first encounter emphasizes the power differences between Jane and Rochester. Michie adds that this difference in power is represented in terms of size and gender, later of wealth and class through oriental imagery of … Read more
J.M. Coetzee in his novel Disgrace (1999), and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in her novel Americanah (2013), seek to criticise the out-moded power structures founded upon white privilege in post-Apartheid South Africa and Twenty-First century America respectively. By examining how Fredric Jameson’s ‘Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism’ (1986), supported by Michael Hardt and … Read more
Text 1. ”Is Tattooing a Form of Self-Mutilation” is an article written by Andy Carrington on his person website. In his article, he discusses different reasons to getting a tattoo across the world. In his introduction, he writes about some of the more traditional uses of tattoos. He shows how the tattoos symbolize religious and … Read more
In Sean O’Casey’s play “The Shadow of a Gunman”, many themes arise that become apparent to the reader as the story plays out. Sean O’Casey does a great job by portraying these themes through the characters and the setting of the play. With the play set in Dublin during the Irish War of Independence, which … Read more
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn” (biography.com). Mark Twain was one of the first to use raw language, short words, and distinct accents in his writings. During his time, most authors looked to the British for their approval. His work was controversial for some because it discussed … Read more
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born unfolds in a post-colonial Ghana grappling with what it means to be independent. The account is unforgiving. Author Ayi Kwei Armah describes a state mired in corruption that teeters on the edge of a military coup. Delving deep into Ghana, it questions the source of the rot within … Read more
