Bridging across two continents and three distinct times Abraham Vergheses Cutting for Stone proves to be a timeless work of literature that pulls at the heartstrings of anyone who dares to read it Set in the backdrop of Ethiopia during a time of turmoil and revolutionary changes as well as in two major cities in the Eastern United States this fictional novel appears to parallel important junctures in Vergheses own life He was born in Ethiopia near Addis Ababa to Indian parents and had started h
Addiction to Chaos The Monster that Lay Dormant Inside Chaos is a term used to describes situations that are erratic and lack order This lack of order is something everyone to a certain degree has in common All the people in the world have some form of chaos in their lives but with authors like Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club and Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde A common motif that both of these books share is romanticism By expressing a sense of rebellion against nor
In Hard Times Charles Dickens gives us a close up look into what appears to be the ivory tower of the bourgeoisie of his day yet these middle class characters are viewed from a singular perspective the perspective of those at the bottom of the social and economic system Though Dickens characters tend to be well developed and presented with a thoroughly human quality the stereotypical figure of arrogant and demanding Bounderby fails to accurately capture the motivations and attitudes of the typi
Compare And Contrast My Last Duchess And Porphyrias Lover On the Issue of Love My Last Duchess and Porphyrias Lover are poems which were written by Robert Browning during the Victorian period The poems expose the failure of a relationship and the complex nature of love between a man and a woman The aspects of jealousy vanity pride obsessive desire beauty and flirtatious behaviour are depicted in both poems The poems were written in the form of a dramatic monologue this gives the reader an insig
Black shapes crouched lay sat between the trees leaning against the trunks clinging to the earth half coming out half effaced within the dim light in all the attitudes of pain abandonment and despair Conrad 14 Images such as these were not uncommon in the deep dense forests of the African continent during the empirical reign of Western Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Ideologies that had very little fluctuation among these empires sought to gain territory through th
The Theodore Dreiser novel Sister Carrie can be viewed from a critical standpoint as a critique of conspicuous consumerism which pervaded metropolitan Americans during the late nineteenth century The central figure in the novel is one Carrie Meeber an eighteen year old girl traveling to the big city of Chicago in order to experience life A Wisconsin farm girl Carrie dresses true to her ordinary circumstances She wears a plain blue dress and old shoes and observes a demure lady like disposition
During the sixteenth century in Italy marriages were pre arranged by the parents and or guardians whether or not their children had passionate feelings for each other Such is the case in William Shakespeares tragedy Romeo and Juliet The prospective groom County Paris actually appears to love his intended wife Juliet who unfortunately for Paris loves another manRomeo Under scrutiny Pariss love for Juliet rings false while Romeo only professes his own love more deeply Pariss insincere love does n
The theme of disruption refers to the unbalancing of what is natural a theme which is explored and opinionated in Mary Shelleys novel Frankenstein 1817 and Ridley Scotts Blade Runner Directors cut where disruptive actions of individuals involving the exploitation of nature bring about ironically the characters own downfall and more importantly an undesired outcome whilst playing god The critical theme outlined in both texts is humanitys desire for power which leads to the rejection of our natur
Shakespeares Macbeth was written during a time of great superstition demonology and the ideology of the divine king A king was more than a figurehead of power but a man who is appointed by God as a deputy on Earth with absolute power Kingship was part of the natural order and one could not upset this order in the eyes of God Demonology and superstition were part of Elizabethan life and affected the way many lived The fact that a man of such power as King James I was known to believe in demonolo