Albert II

The existence of violence within literature serves a purpose in the sense that it helps to decipher the personality and background of a character. We psychoanalyze people in our everyday lives based upon the violent nature of a man or woman. In Albert Camus’ The Stranger, the protagonist, Meursault, it is witnessed that this man does not seem to have some sort of abnormal behavior, based on his expressions. However, we cannot judge a person without seeing the true nature of this man. Within the…

Envision a world without civilization, no rationality or any means of leadership. Would there still be the existence of equality and tranquillity or absolute turmoil? In William Golding’s thrilling allegorical novel “Lord of the Flies” without the main protagonist, Ralph, only chaos and pandemonium would occur. When a group of British boys is stranded on an uninhabited island they disastrously attempt to govern themselves. Conflict abides between two contradicting characters, Jack and Ralph, who…

bare tree develops into having “four or five leaves.” (47). This creates uncertainty among the time that has passed in the audience. In addition, the boy also calls Vladimir “Mister Albert…?” (39) many times leading to the question: does the boy just not know Vladimir’s name or is Godot actually looking for an Albert and not Vladimir or Estragon at all? We are prevented from ever understanding the play because it is absurdist and uncertainty is everywhere. These parallels are essential to…

Though brief and comedic, Jean-Paul Sartre’s play “No Exit” offers insight into the basic ideas of his philosophy about freedom vs confinement. Sartre is able to portray the applicability of this philosophy to daily life though the commonplace setting of the work and the diversity of the basic character types found throughout the play. The main principles behind this one of Sartre’s philosophies are detailed through the three main characters, Cradeau Inez and Estelle, and their confinement to a…

writer of great luminosity, passion and complexity. The story Conrad depicts in ‘Heart of Darkness’ is based on the real backdrop that happened during the time of ‘Leopold II of Belgium’. The second king, Leopold II set an eye on Congo and colonized Africa. He brings out the sufferance of the people of Congo under the rule of Leopold II. People were enslaved, exploited, abused and their natural resources like Ivory were exploited. Where by the poem, The White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling is…

In the words of Gabriel Garcia Márquez, one of the most renowned Latin American authors, “The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, only serves to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.” These words echo throughout one of Márquez’s most brilliant works, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, published in 1981. Chronicle of a Death Foretold is infused with magical elements, which contradict the journalistic nature of the novel. The result is a suspended…

Jean-Paul Sartre was a French Philosopher, novelist and literary critic. He was born on the 21st of June, 1905. During his life, he was one of the important figures in the philosophy of existentialism and also one of the prominent individuals in the 20th century French philosophy and Marxism. Existentialism is a 20th century philosophy which is basically centred on the analysis of existence, freedom and choice. It is the understanding that humans define their purpose in life and try to make…

Introduction The Time Machine and the Sound of Thunder are both science fiction stories. Their central plots are about Time Travel. Compare and contrast these two stories. This assessment has asked me to compare and contrast the stories of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. In this assignment the differences in language and characters will be compared and contrasted. The genre of the short story will be contrasted with the short novel. The different ways the…

Professor Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics who deeply cares studying about the scientific and logic aspects of things, has no feelings for others or himself other than when and has no manners. He does not at all care about other feelings, has no manners and will say whatever he wants to no matter what. Under Myer Briggs, he is an ENTJ as he posses the trait of extroversion, intuition, thinking and judging. An extroverted person is outgoing, talkative, can easily talk with strangers, and…

The theatre of the absurd is a word coined by the Hungarian critic Martin Esslin to describe the works written during 1950’s and 1960’s.The word ‘absurd’ was first used by French philosopher Albert Camus in his work The Myth Of Sisyphus in which represents the existence of humans as meaningless. Also, Camus believed that since human beings cannot provide a rational explanation for the existence of the universe, hence it can be seen as meaningless, shallow and absurd. Martin Esslin described the…