Alias Grace

Even her later novels such as The Robber Bride (1993) and Alias Grace (1996) features female characters trapped in the world of intelligence and complexity. The Handmaid’s Tale which came in the year 1985 is dominated by an unforgiving view of patriarchy and its legacies. Her next few books dealt less with speculative…

Zeus God of the Sky and owner of the master bolt, the object whose theft catalyzes Percy’s quest. Zeus is temperamental and proud, and it is best not to cross him. Chiron Chiron trains campers at Camp Half-Blood, and for a time, he went under the alias of Mr. Brunner, Percy's Latin teacher. Hades Hades is the god of the Underworld and presumed to be the one who stole Zeus' lightning bolt in an effort to start war. He is portrayed as an evil god who is self-serving. It is revealed later that…

Folk humour and satire were the replies due to the domination of the Catholic church of 19th-century French Canadian culture. A light comedy that ridiculed local traditions was typical of 19th-century theatre in Quebec. By the early 20th century, the sardonic practice was well developed in English Canada as demonstrated in the writings of Stephen Leacock. In his work Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town which was published in 1912, made Leacock legendary for his satirical wit, he used tragic irony…

Confidence: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Art of Asylum-Keeping, 1840-1883, Nancy Tomes. Reviews in American History 13.2 (1985): 211- 216. JSTOR. Web. 27 Nov. 2012. Niederhoff, Burkhard. “The Return of the Dead in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Alias Grace.” Connotations 16.1-3 (2006-2007). Literature Resource Center. Web. 27 Nov. 2012. Oikkonen, Venla. “Mad Embodiments: Female Corporeality and Insanity in Janet Frame’s Faces in…

Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian, commonly referred as simply Grey, has been published recently in a flurry of extravaganza and fanfare all over the Western World. It was released on 15th June, 2015. The date of its release coincides with the date of birth of Christian Grey—the vanguard and protagonist of this novel. It is an erotic romance story by British writer E.L. James—the author of an erstwhile super block buster hit the Fifty Shades of Grey. The novel under review is the…

CHAPTER –4 JURISPRUDENCE FOR PROTECTION OF WILD ANIMALS 4.1 INTRODUCTION In view of James Mill, every man desires to have for himself as many good things as possible, and there is not a sufficiency of good things for all, the strong, if left themselves, would take from the weak everything, or at least as much as they pleased; that the weak therefore, who are the greater, have an interest in conspiring to protect themselves against the strong. It also appeared, that almost all the things, which…

DANTE ALIGHIERI, A divided and divisive figure © Elizabeth Greenwood DANTE ALIGHIERI, a divided and divisive figure, by Elizabeth Greenwood FICTION by…