Category: Literature

Over the years, the role assigned to women in marriage has always been limited to child bearing and upbringing, and performing ordinary domestic chores such as cooking, washing, general cleaning, etc. Looking at it skeptically, this perception and attitude within the community, requiring women to be submissive to their husbands has denied most women the…

Table of Contents The Lion’s Pride of the Hero: Song of Roland vs. The Iliad Learning to be Dutiful: Roland and Achilles On the Problem of Religion, or the Complicity of God-and-Man Relationships Works Cited The Lion’s Pride of the Hero: Song of Roland vs. The Iliad Although the authors of the greatest poems ever…

The word literature is most commonly used to refer to works of creative imagination such as poetry, drama, fiction as well as non-fiction. It represents the entire culture of a people, including their language and history. Through literature people are able to conserve their way of life and history, making it easily accessible to later…

Table of Contents Summary Literary Criticism Related Works Comparison of Two Characters Historical Circumstances Reflection on the Text Discussion Questions Works Cited Summary Moon. The story of Moon starts with the description of a girl’s affection to two blond twins who managed to humiliate her in the most violent way. This was a Chinese-American fat…

Ganeshananthan’s, “Hippocrates”, is a wonderful short story which reveals the sufferings caused by the ethnic violence in Sri Lanka. Like her novel, Love Story, it probes into the terrific nature of the human situations in which human life loses all values and relationships. The narrator in the story says that “there was no point in…

Each work of poetry has a specific poetic voice. It is not only the author’s style or message of the work, it is the voice of the poem itself and it is not always identified with the author. In fact, it is the description of the imaginative person that occurred in specific situation. It goes…

Table of Contents Introduction History of sexuality: power Fundamental characteristics of power Application of Foucault’s definition of power in the present American society Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Michael Foucault was a French philosopher. He was also recognized in other fields such as sociology and history. Foucault was born in 1926 and later died in the…

Maxine Hong Kingston’s work has long fascinated critics for its investigation of speech, language and storytelling as a means of unlocking some of the deepest secrets of the Chinese culture, a culture that observes very clear behavioral distinctions between genders. Kingston belongs to a culture wherein women “use story as a means to understanding and…

In the story Mrs. Dutta writes aletter,we encounter Mrs.Dutta, the main character breaking into song once her son and his family have left in a huff. She is in the kitchen,her favourite place and sings along with the reassuringhum of the refrigerator,though her voice is rusty and a little off key. The writer says that…

As poets Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes differed greatly, not only temporally and geographically, but also in respect to the life situations that each poet drew from when creating their poems. Both poets harbored revolutionary thoughts and used their poems to express these thoughts to a wider audience. This essay will present general impressions toward…