In the movie “The Painted Veil”, which is a story surrounded with love and romance, there are three very different yet interesting couple relationships.

Kitty and Walter Fane are the protagonists. At the beginning of the movie, Kitty was a self-...

Like every other form of systemic oppression, patriarchy has its roots spread across different cultures, places and time periods. There is no denying that women have been marginalized, both in fact and in fiction, well into the 20th century. In an...

In “Salvatore” William Somerset Maugham questions what it means to be good, and whether a life is better spent being “merely” good than chasing love, ambition, or wealth. Maugham centres his narrative around a young fisherman, Salvatore, and his...