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Mrs. Midas Mrs. Midas holds intertextual semantic relations based on world text theory with Ovid’s king Midas’ story from Metamorphoses (Ziolkowski‏ 200). In Metamorphoses, Book XI, King Midas was granted a wish, viz., everything he touches, turns into gold. His wish proved to be a curse since his food and drink turn into gold. Upon his request, the wish was taken away. His foolishness did not stop at the curse-like wish; moreover, he commits another blunder when he judges Pan a winner in a…

“Friedrich Nietzsche on Master and Slave Morality,” an explication by Dr. John Armstrong, explains Friedrich Nietzsche's view on morality that argues Slave Morality is created to restrict “superior” people. To achieve such a claim, Armstrong compares and explains Master Morality and Slave Morality, and he further reveals the flaws of Slave Morality, “[the] artificial boundaries that constrain the strong from reaching their full potential” (5). Opening his analysis, Armstrong chronicles the…

In John Adams’ Reflection on the Missouri Question, Adam identifies the true motivation behind the expansion of slavery. Adam mentions that it is agreeable that slavery is an evil practice. Along with that statement, Adam points out that the practice of slavery is contradicting to their independence from Great Britain for freedom. Adam identifies the true motivation of expanding slavery is due to people’s soul pride and continue in their condition of being a master. It is not for labor that they…

The in-depth book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma by Camilla Townsend not only vividly describes the interaction of The English and Natives so well but sets explicitly the stage of what might have occurred during the Seventeenth century. Author Townsend approached this striking era in history with a focus on the chronological life story of Pocahontas. Furthermore, Townsend commenced the shortcomings and advantages that Pocahontas alongside her father Powhatan, and even the English…

Gandhi and Ambedkar both of them were prominent figures of Indian freedom struggle as well as nation building. Both of them wanted to build an India not only free from colonial exploitation, but also free from political, economic and social discrimination. Although they had similarities, they also had many dissimilarities and differences between their views on socio- economic- political freedom and state building of India. As a mass leader, Gandhi was more concerned about all the people of India…

In "Captivity," Sherman Alexie retells the historical backdrop of European venture into North America and the expulsion of Native Americans from their conventional grounds. The story appears to claim that Native American history as we probably am aware it rotates around Mary Rowlandson. Toward the start of the story, Alexie quotes Rowlandson's 1676 account, in which she was caught by Indians, one of whom "gave me a biscuit, which I put in my pocket, and not setting out to eat it, covered it…

INTRODUCTION Rabindranath Tagore- poet, short story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter – was born in a rich aristocratic family in Calcutta. He was the son of the religious reformer, Debendranath Tagore. He began to write verses early in life and after his studies in England, he returned to India in the late 1860s. He founded an experimental school in rural West Bengal at Shantiniketan, where he sought to blend the best in the Indian and Western traditions. Years of sadness…

The American dream has been talked about for the longest time ever, but what really is considered the American dream? According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, in the Great Gatsby, the people who lived the American dream lived a rich and high socialite life. These people were also married into a rich family and had high class and rich husbands. Throughout the essay, these concepts will be analyzed by comparing two different characters, Jay Gatsby and Myrtle, to show how important these attributes…

Taslima Nasrin’s ‘Lajja’ is a response to the anti-Hindu riots that broke out in Bangladesh after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in India. Its intent is to warn the people of Bangladesh that communalism is on the rise, that the Hindu minority is badly mistreated and that the secularism they once fought for is in grave danger. Nasrin utilizes fiction's mass emotional appeal, rather than its potential for distinction and universality. Lajja is a poignant and unrelenting account of the…

“when the first slave was brought to the cape“ is a powerful poem by Shabbir Banoobhai that tells history of slavery in South Africa which the naked eye cannot see. It is a poem that uncovers the thoughts of the oppressed slaves. This poem shows slavery in a very different light than other poems do. This is a positive showing of slavery. The poem, in my opinion, is a form of protest poetry to empower those who were considered others. This poem tackles a social issue of the others being seen as…