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‘ Introduction ‘Why were some people fated, like Job, to live a never-ending debate between themselves and their sense of what they believed life should be’? (Wright 24). This question posed by protagonist Cross Damon in Richard Wright’s novel The Outsider (1953) illustrates his alienated position from society and his feeling that he has lost … Read more
‘I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.’ ‘ June Jordan The position of black American … Read more
The Color Purple by Alice Walker is an acclaimed novel in which the situation of African American woman in the 1930s is discussed. Women’s main responsibilities centered around the domestic sphere: They raised the children, ran the household, cooked the food, as well as worked in the field when needed. However, they still found themselves … Read more
George Bernard Shaw is perhaps one of the most significant writers of the modern era. Though he is more known as a playwright, Shaw was. At the same time, a respected critic, novelist, journalist, and essayist. As noted social reformer, Shaw wrote plays that dramatized social commentaries, and almost in 1925 he was awarded the … Read more
John Steinbeck writes loneliness of 1930s in the story, Of Mice and Men. At the time of 1930s, The Great Depression and Dust Bowl were occurred in the United States. Because of those accidents, many workers struggled to find stable jobs and workplaces. People moved around all over the United States in order to find … Read more
Albert Camus. The French- Algerian writer of The Stranger or otherwise known as The Outsider, presents the book from the point of view of the protagonist that lives and performs the main action of killing a person, that the book revolves around in the French-Algeria. Gives the reader a glimpse on the scenery and the … Read more
In her biography, Forster states that on writing the savage Jamaica Inn, du Maurier sets out ‘to demonstrate the unevenness of the relationship between the sexes’ and to scrutinize and discover the roles, produced repeatedly right through the history of the Gothic genre, of ‘the man as brute and the woman as victim.'(121) He emphasizes … Read more
Susan Hill’s novel The Woman in Black (1983) is a fundamental example of women’s Gothic Horror. It successfully employs well-known Gothic conventions and tropes that have already been embraced by fans of the genre such as loneliness, gloominess, vengeance, death, the afterlife, the smudging of reality and fantasy, the descent into madness. The novel being … Read more
Analysis of the postcard: Just Two Coons The postcard ‘Just two Coons’ is a very representational postcard. It is one amongst the many caricatures of the black Americans. The postcard has a lot that one can identify and associate with the historical manipulation and disgrace that the African Americans faced (Branscombe, Schmitt & Harvey 135). … Read more
Abstract This paper is based on the study of postcolonialism theory in order to analyze and explain Racism, by applying it to Alice Walker’s novel, ‘The Color Purple’.. This Racism between Afro-Americans is applied to the analysis of Alice Walker’s narrative. The conclusions show that no culture remains as it is and the only constant … Read more
INTRODUCTION The play ‘A Doll’s house’ is a three act play written by Henrik Ibsen. The play is significant for its critical attitude toward 19th century marriage norms. It aroused great controversy at the time, as it concludes with the protagonist, Nora, leaving her husband and children because she wants to discover herself. Ibsen was … Read more
The ‘Joy Luck Club’ is about reflection. As the mothers wisdom they’re sophistication and pain, their experience and love to their daughters, and the daughters come to learn and value their parents, the novel conveys its affluent messages. Amy Tan’s novel interprets that her story is about finding that aspect of hope that allows a … Read more
I. Introduction : As Leonardo de Vinci said in the fifteenth century about visual storytelling ”And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his memberification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe, the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the … Read more
Quote (Kathy: Circumstance) * My name is Kathy. H and I have been a carer now for over eleven years’ (Ishiguro 1) Analysis * Introduces a sign of what to come Quote 2 (Kathy: State of Mind) * ‘Driving around the country now, I still see things that remind me of Hailsham’ (Ishiguro 6) Analysis … Read more
The book ‘Lean In’ is written by Sheryl Sandberg, who is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Facebook. Sheryl Sandberg has been ranked eight on Fortune’s list of the 50 most powerful women in business and has become one of America’s most galvanizing leaders, and an icon for millions of women juggling work and family. … Read more
