Literature

Many a man at war has used this statement, some still believe this statement, even today, but most have seen the dark side of war. Do I think this statement…

Flamineo is a central, and key character in the prominent revenge tragedy John Webster play, ‘The White Devil’. Flamineo is the secretary of the Duke of Brachiano. He has two…

The distinction between an antiwar novel and a pacifist novel is that an antiwar novel is opposed to any and all war, while a pacifist novel proposes a belief that…

Using at least one poem from each category, show how the attitudes to war changed and are reflected in the work of the war poets. I find poetry from the…

In my view Tennyson gives the impression of war being very noble, heroic, honourable yet also dark and those members of the Light Brigade participating in war are doomed and…

According to the international law, war is the declaration of violent intentions on another state or country. Through the ages there have been many ways of preserving the memories of…

In class we have been studying a number of different poems based on war. We looked closely at two in particular, they are “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen…

1. Use your knowledge of WWI to explain which two posters were published before 1916, and which one was published after 1916. Give reasons for your answers.Sources A, B and…

Stalemate is a term borrowed from chess. It means that, how ever hard they try neither player can make a winning move. It is a very good term to describe…

As both research and pattern in SCM have increased, the cognition base has besides grown. A historical position illustrates one important and necessary watercourse of literature is concerned with set…

In “The Racial Contract” Charles Mills defines a race traitor as a white person who rejects the inherent privilege of being white, and who attempts to combat the inequalities of…

In Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road, the author uses the color and overall concept of gray to create a vacuous world that pierces deep into the reader’s soul. Gray, as…

The desire for control can have disastrous consequences and both Aldous Huxley’s Brave new world and Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner :Directors cut” are dramatic futuristic depictions of potential worlds. Through…

In his much-admired novel, entitled The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald provides us with a variety of characters, themes, motifs, and symbols that all together chronicle an era that Fitzgerald…

Whether a comedy or a tragedy, William Shakespeare often portrays young men in love as intrepid, capricious creatures. In Romeo and Juliet, the title character of the play succumbs to…

Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea is much more then an appropriation of the classic novel Jane Eyre. It evokes poignancy because it serves as a metaphor for female oppression in…

As soon as the drama begins, Shakespeare creates dramatic effect by thrusting the audience into an argument between Rodgerigo and Iago. “Tush, never tell me” “I know my price, I…

We immediately see contrast between the two texts in their openings. The first sentence we read in ”Absolution”, ‘there was once a priest with cold, watery eyes, who, in the…

The two central characters in A Clockwork Orange and Riddley Walker are presented in very similar ways, both novels are written in a first person perspective – as if the…

Emily Bronte’s novel, “Wuthering Heights,” perhaps leaves the reader with more questions than answers. It touches on many themes that resonate with the reader, including social class, suffering and passionate…