Characterisation

Having an altered perception of the world, Ken Kesey created the captivating novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. In his novel Kesey has constructed a world within a psychiatric ward, which becomes a microcosm of society. In this world the assumed deaf and dumb Chief Bromden, and other timid patients are heavily controlled by Nurse Ratched, an authority apart of the powerful and dehumanising combine. Through figurative language, foreshadowing and motifs readers are warned about the influence…

John Boyne’s novel, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, gives the reader an insight into the deceiving and inhumane nature of the holocaust. He perfectly portrays the innocence of childhood and the harsh diversity between race, family and culture through elements of literature: setting, fable, theme and symbolism. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is illustrated through the eyes of the child, as children are naive and unaware of the horrors around them. Instead of examining the big picture of the Holocaust…

therefore we can never understand it while living. When looking at the sociological approach towards death we come across ‘death-denying’. It has become common within society to say that contemporary western society is ‘death-denying’. This characterisation, which sociologists have named the ‘denial of death thesis’ was created between the period of 1955 and 1985. We’ll look at this is detail and with the information…

Othello, the Moor of Venice composed by William Shakespeare is a tragic exploration of fundamental concerns to humanity such as love, jealousy and ambition. These were all influential aspects of society during the Elizabethan era and have remained applicable to a variety of audiences throughout the centuries. It was these overarching concerns which lead to the capacity of Shakespeare in launching the examination of a multitude of other thematic concerns fundamental to the human condition. Such…

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar revolves around one of the central characters Marcus Brutus, a tragic hero who is torn between his loyalty to his friend and duty to his nation. Brutus is honoured as a selfless conspirator, who acts in the pursuit of his public, political responsibilities, his judgment guided by his own personal values and morals. Brutus’s sense of honour and nobility are constantly exploited and taken advantage of by the men he is surrounded by who are filled with abhorrence and…

1883. He’s well known for his operas and his most famous work is that of “The Flying Dutchman”. Willa Cather, instead, wasn’t a musician but was an author of the realist movement. The story in question shows how setting can have an effect on characterisation and the events that take place in a story. Cather also shows the relevance of setting and time to the story’s overall meaning. Cather lived from 1873 to…

he was once following his father, his father is now following him. Seamus Heaney creates an ending of emotion, it makes the readers think about what has happened between the relationship of the father and son. Heaney uses Interior monologue, characterisation of himself and his father and sentence structure, to create…

In fact, claiming that “one thing [is] to have the concept of a certain type of statements, and another to call it ‘laws of nature’” (Steinle, 2008, p. 216) is methodologically problematic. Moreover, if we add to this Steinle’s two general characterisations of laws –empirical regularities and principles of explanation–, this would validate the introduction of virtually any seventeenth century author concerned with natural philosophy. In consequence, the problem of laws of nature…

according to fourth century Athenian law, a husband was reserved the right to kill his wife’s adulterer, if he caught them in the act. In Lysias 1.22-27, Euphiletos carefully recounts the events of the murder, traversing the territory of self-characterisation from…

Good morning distinguished guests I’m Samantha Crawford and it’s a pleasure to be here discussing the performance Absurd by Homunculus theatre company. Absurd is about “An internationally renowned brother and sister comic duo… doing a lecture on 4 adaptions of 4 Absurdist Plays” (Humunculous theatre company, n.d.).This production successfully produced a fascinating and interesting theatrical form of entertainment through the clever utilisation of the elements of drama; specially movement,…