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“His silent Griefs, swell up to Storms, And not one God, his Fury spares, He Curst his Birth, his Fate, his Stars, But more the Shepherdesses Charms ; Whose soft bewitching influence, Had Damn'd him to the Hell of Impotence.”

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The one character who perfectly demonstrates how her own luxuries and extravagance lead to others’ modesty is Sarah Millwood, the scheming prostitute in The London Merchant by George Lillo. However, I am going to argue that despite her...

The process of storytelling is an intrinsic element of human society, which fosters the connections of individuals through our shared human experiences and emotions. In particular, the cumulative poetry of Kenneth Slessor during the 20th Century...

Violence, for Ponyboy Curtis, is everywhere―his life in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma is constantly plagued with gang violence, child abuse, stabbings, shootings, and the constant fear of being ruthlessly attacked or even murdered by an opposing...

“Maybe someday you’ll count this one of the luckiest days of your life”, Alister said (63). This quotation from one of the short stories, “Amundsen” in Alice Munro’s Dear Life, illustrates that Alister regards this tragic end of the relationship...

Pudd’nhead Wilson is a novel written by Mark Twain that tells the story of two near-twins who were switched at birth. The babies were interchanged because Roxana, the enslaved mother of one child, Chambers, wanted to save her son from the horrors...

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, there is a greater awareness of social injustices. Although war, disasters, and oppression are prevalent throughout the world, there is still human resilience in the face of struggle. Former United...

In the Victorian era, women were deprived of rights and stripped of their sexuality. Submission defined women, while dominance defined men. This contrast is portrayed in the two most famous dramatic monologues of Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”...

In T.S. Elliot’s poem The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock, the author utilizes the structure of the Victorian dramatic monologue to give voice to Prufrock, a man who spends his allotted lines questioning both himself and the world around him. In...

A seemingly innocent spark of aspiration can spiral into an ignited wildfire of vengeance. The play written by William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth, is set in a kingdom in Scotland during the eleventh century; once peaceful and filled to...

The term archetypal deriving from the Greek words of “arkhe (primitive) + tupos (model) = arkhetupon: something moulded first as a model” (Stevenson 81), refers to the universal symbols, images, patterns that exist in the memory of the entire...

The choice between conformity and independence is one that every person must make at one point or another in his or her life. This truth has been explored in many novels and is frequently exhibited in the lives of the characters. In almost any...

Modernist Literature, having its roots in the industrial revolution, is an influential and artistic movement that emerged from the accumulation of other movements and works their artists produced. “In prose, Modernism is associated with attempts...

Although Plato does not specifically mention the Sirens in Homer’s The Odyssey, it is clear from his writing in Republic, Book X, that his negative perception of poetry would extend to these mythical creatures. Plato states that the “whole genre...

‘Trauma’ is a loaded word, as there is such a range of events which can cause a trauma, and also such a range of possible reactions to the trauma. Naomi Morgenstern wrote that “[t]rauma…is a theoretical figure for the insistence of history (its...

The concept of estrangement is important in categorizing science fiction writings as part of this genre, as Darko Suvin coined science fiction the “literature of cognitive estrangement” in 1979. This theory of estrangement was influenced by the...

Taking as a departure point Pierre Bourdieu’s well-established analysis on the forms of individual capital, Catherine Hakim theorises the existence of a fourth personal asset—erotic capital. She contends that women “generally have more erotic...

‘The Werewolf’ is a short fiction belonging to a collection of stories entitled ‘The Bloody Chamber’. Written by Angela Carter, ‘The werewolf’ is spin-off of the famous fable ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ depicting a scene between three characters: The...

“In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. [...] Every great work of art [...] is a celebration, an act of...

All different parts of the world speak in their own unique way. Dialect can change based off the region you are in, the family you are a part of, the way you were taught, and the society you were brought up in. Many authors write with a certain...

Alcoholism is a serious mental disease that affects a tremendous amount of families in the United States. Not only do the ones with the mental illness suffer, those around them are impacted too. When loved ones are addicted to alcohol, they can...

Ghostbusters was released in 2016, starring Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Leslie Jones. The film challenged typical stereotypes in the first place by placing women in the center, while also depicting men in ways that are...

The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland), the first feature length film with synchronous sound, was released in 1927 spurring many debates and arguments as to whether the addition of sound would have a positive or negative impact on film as an art form....

Art cinema is a highly contested term that is often associated with ‘taste’ and ‘decorum’ in contrast to more classical cinema (Neale, 2002, p103). The films associated with this mode owe their routes to a variety of artistic movements such as the...