Epilogue

‘Macbeth and Lady Macbeth commit monstrous acts, but they are not monsters. Discuss.’ ‘Fate’ and ‘Ambition’ are the two keys components that drive the play Macbeth forward. In terms of plot and characterization, the two powerful characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth take fate into their hands to reach towards their goals which lead to a series of misfortunes and sins which turns them from an ambitious person into a monster. The play starts with the three witches quoting, ‘Fair is foul, and foul…

The Climax for IM’s identity is seeing the fluidity of the self and identify when he, at first willingly, when he personates Rhineheart. With the simple addition of sunglasses he has a new shell of identity to use. The entire effort to learning the brotherhood ideology disappeared along with the threat of Raz identifying him. When the women come up to him with the barest of encouragement from him she assumes he is the ‘Rhine’. And this theme continues throughout the scene with the addition go…

Berkin at the time that this text was published was a professor of history at Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center as well authored and edited other academic texts. This book was published around the same time as Kathleen M. Brown's (listed below) and while they do discuss similar topics, each brings new information to the theme. She begins her text in the Chesapeake area, where she focuses on the difference between those in the area rather than the similarities to the English- other authors…

Bahaa’ Taher is an example of success out of the village he narrates about in his novel Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery. His mother was a storyteller and his father was an influential religious figure in the village. Taher wrote this novel after he leaving Egypt to pursue his writing career. The underlying theme of his novel is to show the power of the past and its inability to change. Harbi and Safiyya, the two main characters of the novel, are paralleled in description throughout the novel.…

Anita Desai's first novel Cry, the Peacock (1963), is about Maya, a dissenting female who battles against three traditional forces in her life: male authority expressed by her husband; her female friends who play stereotypical submissive-wife roles; and her religion's beliefs in karma and detachment. Being over-sensitive, sentimental and imaginative Maya is a total contrast to the rational, logical, Gautam. By making a beautiful use of the symbolic technique, Anita Desai has delved deep into the…

Sembene Ousmane is touted as the Father of African cinema, not only for being one of the earliest film makers, but that he can equally boast of a filmography that encompasses all the basic styles and genres that characterize the broad categorizations of African cinema. Social realist narratives, colonial confrontation, and return to the origins, according to Manthia Diawara, are the three basic trends of films in Africa (Diawara 1992, 140). Right through his illustrious filmmaking career that…

Hannah Arendt is German Jew who emigrated to the United States. Arendt became a reporter for The New Yorker who covered the Eichmann trial in 1961. It was originally her idea to attend the trial and she felt that “she owed it to herself as a social critic, displaced person, witness and survivor” (Arendt xi) to be present for it. The articles that she wrote pertaining to the trial she eventually made into a book. The thesis of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report of the Banality of Evil is…

Storytelling is ubiquitous across human cultures. There is evidence of longstanding oral tradition through which narratives have been passed down for thousands of years. With the invention of written language came the story’s divergence into two main types, which evolved into the familiar literary and oral formats of modern day. There is no doubt that these two styles share a common ancestor, so to speak, and that they both serve the same basic purpose of transmitting information in a logical…

beginning. This kind of translation method remained the Chinese style. In the end of the original version of the Dream in Peony Pavilion, there is a little poem. It has no title, but in Xu Yuanchong’s translation, he added a title of ‘Epilogue of the Story’. The word of ‘Epilogue’ is usually appeared in English dramas, this little title is adapted to the form of the story. Looking at the original version of the Dream in Peony pavilion and the translation version by Xu Yuanchong, we can easily…

specific pondering about how do relatively normal human beings deal with the abstract concept that is love? One of the first stories about a couple who have been dating for a short period of time, is enacted through the prologue, interlogue, and epilogue. It could be inferred, that after…