Category: Literature

Cat’s Cradle is the most representative text of Vonnegut’s early years. The novel contains all his basic motifs and techniques, the quintessence of philosophy and style, and the pinnacle of verbal equilibrium. This unpretentious at first glance narrative has the features of confession and picaresque. Still, most of all, it is dark and mocking, in…

Table of Contents Central intellectual concerns in the plays Conflict in the plays Value of ‘old’ play in present society Works Cited Central intellectual concerns in the plays The two most prominent matters in the play Night of the Iguana comprise issues revolving around the concepts of morality and gender roles. The society’s perspective of…

It is important to note that both Don Quixote and the Art of Courtly Love explore differential themes. The former focuses on sanity, falsehood, and chivalry, whereas the latter centers around the nature of love and its preservation. However, one should be aware that both share one common theme, which is love itself. Thus, both…

Table of Contents Days 1-7 Days 8-14 References Days 1-7 I was reading Foucault’s Discipline and Punish for two weeks, and particular episodes attracted my attention and stimulated my thinking. Overall, the book describes the role of power in society and analyzes the social and theoretical mechanisms that have influenced changes in Western penitentiary systems.…

Chinese history is diverse and interesting. The life led by ancient Chinese is hard to understand from Western perspective, however, many beliefs held by Chinese people and family issues are very close to modern system. As depicted in the book “The Story of the Stone” by Cao Xuegin, the Chinese society was divided into wealthy…

Concerning the comparison of structures, the fourteen-line Italian, referred to as Petrarchan, poetic structural form is used in the poem The World Is Too Much with Us. It has a six-line sestet and, in addition, a subsequent eight-line octave. The majority of the sentences in the poem are written in iambic pentameter and follow the…

Table of Contents Introduction Grimmelshausen Opinions of Social Class Differences Progression from a Swineherd to a Court Jester and to a HuntsmAn Use of the Novel by Historians References Introduction Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen in 1668 wrote a classic fiction novel in German. The novel is regarded as a classic Baroque style work and…

Silence as a foundation to freedom & psychological wellbeing Kathleen Norris (10) in her book ‘The Secret Ingredient’ concurs with Theologian Thomas Merton, that silence is foundational to human freedom and psychological well-being. This generally means that for a person to be psychologically healthy and in a good state as to make sound judgments, he…

Written in 1752, the novel The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella by Charlotte Lenox was a masterful representation of societal orders of the eighteenth century through the main character’s life and adventures. This work stirs various emotions and makes contemporary young ladies deliberate on the notion of romance and its role in contemporary…

The speaker in the poem Still I Rise by Maya Angelou is the author herself, but she also represents the whole Black community that has suffered from oppression throughout history. The poem does not seem to address anyone in particular, but the “you” in it refers to the people who have oppressed and continue to…