Nathaniel Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown is about a Puritan man who through an unrealistic journey in the forest discovers that there is evil inside people The story begins at sunset with Young Goodman Brown leaving his house at Salem Village His three months wife Faith steps out of her house into the street and tries to persuade him to stay Goodman Brown is reluctant to postpone his journey and he says good bye but not without promising to return to her and follow her to heaven After leaving F
In 1909 ten years after the publication of Heart of Darkness except for the revision of his first story The Black Mate Joseph Conrad had not written a short work since the spring of 1907 Without warning he received a visit from Captain C M Marris recently returned from the Malay Seas As Conrad explained to Pinker It was like the raising of a lot of dead dead to me because most of them live out there and even read my books and wonder who the devil has been around taking notes My visitor told me
In this second version of William Goldings novel a group of cadets from an American military school are stranded on a desert island along with the wounded pilot after their plane crashes Eventually the camp divides Ralph Getty and Piggy Pipoly represent the values imposed by adults and civilisation while they struggle to maintain a signal fire Jack Furrh and his band of hunters giving way to more primitive impulses run rampage and turn murderous The film simplistically assuming the books centra
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings Julius Caesar I ii 134 135 Published in 1896 Dracula is an immensely popular novel which has never been out of print has been translated into at least a dozen languages and has been the subject of more films than any other novel Only recently however have students of literature begun to take it seriously partially because of the burgeoning interest in popular culture and partially because Dracula is a work which r
A Look Inside The Hollow Men Eliot a master of the written craft carefully thought out each aspect of his 1925 poem The Hollow Men Many differences in interpretation exist for Eliots complex poetry One issue never debated is the extensive range of things to consider in his TS Eliots writing Because TS Eliot often intertwined his writing by having one piece relate to another The Hollow Men is sometimes considered a mere appendage to The Waste Land The Hollow Men however proves to have many offer
Colonialism and Beyond in Chinua Achebes An Image of Africa Racism in Conrads Heart of Darkness No Longer at Ease Things Fall Apart Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness Emmanuel Nelsons Chinua Achebe Postcolonial African Writers Willene Taylors A Search for Values in Things Fall Apart Colin Turnbulls he Lonely African This course on colonial and post colonial literature satisfies my cravings for thought and literature that falls outside of the mainstream of the Eurocentric view of things Achebe Wal