Othello A Critical Review Othello A Critical Review Prof Niamat Ali Depatment of English Govt Islamia College Kasur Pakistan Shakespeare the crown of English literature can rightfully boast of his marvelous achievements as a dramatist His plays both comedies and tragedies have a sterling worth of their own The magnet of his plays pulls the iron dust of thoughts and the reader feels himself bound by silky ropes of interest and pleasure He maintains such an artistic balance in his writings as is
Is Kim Against Women In the beginning of Kim by Rudyard Kipling the reader is introduced to a male dominated world In this novel women are seldom mentioned and when they are it is not in a flattering way In the introduction written by Edward Said he says that in this novel women are debased an unsuitable for male attention pg 12 This statement id supported any time through out the novel Although women are not glorified they are not all portrayed in a negative way There are a few women who Kim d
Let the Birds Fly Free A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini tells the story of an Afghani woman Mariam who lived to experience the history of Afghanistan from before the Soviet War until after the Taliban rule Windows and Mirrors Reflections on the War in Afghanistan is a collection of 45 murals sponsored by American Friends Service Committee drawn and painted by U S and international artists and collection of drawings by Afghan youth These paintings strongly express the old time saying
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is a popular childrens book about a young girl named Alice who travels to a land full of riddles and rhymes where nothing makes sense and everything is a contradiction As Alice travels down the rabbit hole the reader is instantly removed from reality and transported to a fantasy world that isnt what you would typically expect in childrens literature This is a story that shows the struggle of a young girl growing up in wonderland she meets a series of charact
MASCULINITY IN THINGS FALL APART Things Fall Apart is set in the 1890s during the coming of the white man to Nigeria The novel portrays the clash between the whites colonial government and the traditional culture of the Igbo people The novel is about a very strong mans rise to great prestige fortune and power which in the end were overshadowed by his inevitable death Okonkwos demise was not because of colonization but rather his downfall was attributed by his obsession with masculinity Okonkwos
Things Fall Apart Essay Before the Western colonization of the Ibo people the Ibo society was a complex and unified group of clansman When the Ibo people encountered the white men it brought chaos and drastic changes towards the Ibo society Things began to fall apart as the unification between the African tribes deteriorated The Western colonization of the Ibo people destroyed the Ibo culture and changed the traditions of the tribes because they introduced a new religion government and perspect
Things Fall Apart Major Essay In his novel Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe attempts to answer many questions such as Is fate real Achebe provides readers with a few options to this question some of which are logical and others that are superstitions adapted by the Igbo culture of Africa Achebe clearly states the idea of an individuals chi yet characters have their own beliefs about that superstition For example Okonkwo the main character of the novel and other members of his clan believe in dif
Things Fall Apart The theme of the book Things Fall Apart which focuses on the breakdown of a society as well as the main characters personal breakdown stems from many conflicts of interests and misunderstandings throughout the book There is not one single moment in the book where everything falls apart but many times throughout In the beginning a lot of problems arise from Okonkwos anger problems and his inability to see others views His ignorance is what ultimately leads to his exile from his
Okonkwo is a wealthy and respected warrior of the Umuofia clan which is located in lower Niger He is haunted by the actions of his father Unoka who was cowardly and died in shame and left many village debts unpaid Okonkwos comeback was to become a clansman warrior and a great farmer In Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart symbolism is used as a way of foreshadowing when he discusses the plague of locusts fire and animal imagery Achebe uses the locusts to foreshadow the arrival of the white men who