In a “Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen, although Nora’s role as the submissive wife is initially exhibited through performances for her husband, the tarantella dance is later used as a method of distraction and ultimately as a metaphor for Nora’s growing disillusionment with her marriage. The multifaceted metaphor of dance and performance demonstrates role playing […]
In A Doll’s House and A Doll’s House Part 2, we see that being independent comes up many times in both plays with one of the characters, Nora Helmer. Being independent affects Nora in a number of ways because it is what she is trying to change about herself throughout both plays. Nora’s husband, Torvald […]
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Get startedA Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen has earned critical acclaim from many, ranging from the common masses to renowned linguists. In 1879 however, at the time of its publication, it was at sharp odds with both societal and literary conventions and so, it was heavily scrutinized. It was fundamentally different from Romantic dramas, the prevalent […]
In the play A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen the author gives the characters conservative roles of men and women from the nineteenth century. The play has a strong plot that contains a series of conflicts that the protagonist of the play must undertake throughout her life, facing an internal struggle between what she believes is […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by W. Shakespeare is a play that encapsulates everything love is today as well as back then. It demonstrates what lovers are willing to do and go through for each other. The characters, while going through different problems, are all dealing with the consequences of love. It brings to light that […]
When you first read the plays title it has social meanings and literal meanings. The title “ A Midsummer Night’s Dream” lets the reader know that the play is about a midnight dream during the middle of the summer. That’s what’s so significant about the plays title. The Genre of the play “A Midsummer Night’s […]
Midsummer Night Dream is a widely circulated play written by Shakespeare, and its language is very beautiful, and it has a fantastic color. Its theme is related to love. In this absurd and funny plot, people will begin to think about what love is and what love should be like. Love and marriage have been […]
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, the differences between comedy and tragedy are often mentioned throughout this comedy. Although it is often described as a comedy; however, it can also be looked at as a tragedy as well. William Shakespeare focused on the aspects of the character Bottom and him being a perfect […]
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a story about relationships, hatred, sleep, waking truth, hectic people, and the order that is mother nature and her magic. The play contains many binary opposites or elements that oppose one another, such as light and dark or love and hate. Shakespeare makes use of these binary opposites […]
In the stunning masterpiece by H.T. Green, we see the use of perfect artistic strokes, bright colors, and beautiful characters to engage its viewers. The painting explores the short and comical relationship between Titania, the Queen of Fairies, and Bottom, a man cursed with the head of a donkey. In the picture, the Queen, enchanted […]
Middle Eastern women are still the center of discrimination due to excessive male patriotism. In a nation overflowed with violence, terrorism, and war, women emitionally struggle to maintain hope as they are constantly subjected to persecution in their own homes. In the novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini depicts the lives of very different […]
A Thousand Splendid Suns, is a fiction novel by Khaled Hosseini. This sentiment informs Mariam’s life by showing how harsh the real world is for women in Afghanistan and how they are treated. It shows the reality of Mariam’s life by her learning about these things to become a stronger women and learn how to […]
A novel A Thousand Splendid Suns is written by contemporary author Khaled Husseini, it is a thrilling depiction of wars stricken in Afghanistan. It is a story oppression, sacrifice, suffering and war. The grief-stricken story is set in Afghanistan, which traverses quite a few years, is driven by the accounts of two ladies, Laila and Mariyam, […]
“Ultimately, the women in A Thousand Splendid Suns accept and endure the traditional gender norms in Afghan society.” Explore this view according to Khaled Hosseini’s representation of women in his novel. Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns takes place over different periods of time in Afghanistan, portraying the deeply entrenched views stemming from patriarchy that became the […]
A Thousand Splendid Suns is an outstanding novel published in 2007, written by Khalid Hosseini, who is known as a three-bestselling author. The subjects of this novel reflect on and have similarities in conflict like his previous book, The Kite Runner written in 2003. Khalid narrates the different aspects of afghan woman before and during […]
Feminist literature seeks to outline the struggles women face in society and the different ways these struggles are reflected,questioned and pondered upon due to widespread negative stereotyping of women in literature (Bertens, 2001).To accomplish this, Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns promotes determined female characters who strive slowly to overcome the suffocating restraints forced on them […]
There have been many novels throughout the course of history that have discussed many issues in current society. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, the idea of power and war against women has directly affected females in foreign countries like Afghanistan. This idea of power and war has been shown through treatment in […]
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a story focused on a couple who discovers an elderly man who hosts a pair of wings on his back. The couple is unsure what to do with the strange elderly man, so they hold him in their chicken coop until they come […]
‘A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings’ is a short story written by a Colombian writer named Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The short story was considered by most as an archetype of magic realism that helps the readers to see reality more closely. The story was about a family who found a drenched old man with […]
To say that this passage is confusing would be an understatement. When I read through the first time I found myself not retaining anything that I had read. My eyes just rolled over the words with no intention of learning what the author was truly trying to convey. It wasn’t until I had read it […]
The author I chose is Gabriel García Márquez (born March 6, 1927, Aracataca, Colombia—died April 17, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico), Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, mostly for his masterpiece Cien años de soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of […]
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” was written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and was originally published in 1995. This story is about a young couple who finds an old man with enormous wings washed up from the sea, and his wings covered in mud. They fear that he may be an angel sent to […]
Magical realism, a genre of literature that uses magical elements to make a point about reality, allows for the presentation of magical and fantastical elements which ultimately puts into question the standard structure of reality in modern day society. The short story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” written by a famous Latin American […]
‘Cruelty is the offspring of an evil mind and a coward heart,’ Ludovico Ariosto. These words accurately convey the meaning of ‘A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.’ In his stories, Gabriel Garcia Marquez easily combines the elements of reality and fantasy, modern achievements of philosophy and folk motifs of Indians, Africans, Spanish mythology and […]
Children’s literature is fundamental when it comes to developing the child’s comprehension capacity, to acquire new knowledge and when interacting with other children or adults. In a few words, it can be said that children’s literature is important since it contributes to the child’s social, emotional and cognitive development (Nikolajeva, 2015). Since childhood, both parents […]
“Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.” In the anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, protagonist Paul Baumer is enlisted into the war because of the influence from a schoolmaster. Although this schoolmaster has never been in a war himself and does not realize […]
The book All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque contains many instances of symbolism. The most prominent, I believe, is Kemmerich’s boots which symbolize the cheapness of life. The common mindset was that the dead shouldn’t need their possessions if someone else who is alive could use it. The soldiers who inherit […]
The internet was born in 1990 and has now, 28 years later, become a crucial aspect of our everyday lives. Plato is an ancient Greek philosopher whose writings explored justice, beauty, and equality. The book Allegory of the Cave stands out to people the most because it is relatable and can be applied in the […]
The Mahabharata is an ancient Indian epic well known for its 18TH book, the Bhagavad Gita. The Bhagavad Gita means the “Song of the Spirit” and contains dialogue between Sri Krishna and Prince Arjuna. In the book Arjuna is a leader of the Pandavas and is set to fight against the Kauravas to gain control […]
Nowadays, people often read books or watch movies to entertain themselves in their free time. Since the film was invented, the use of the book has vanished a lot. However, some argue that the film has negative effects on both the individual and society, because it makes us lazy and not very communicative to other […]
