Incubus

“In all my dreams,” Owen begins, indicating his profound inability to extricate himself from the unconscious repetitions of the scene that have infiltrated his psyche like an incubus, renewing their assault on him on a nightly basis. (Owen’s DULCE ET DECORUM EST). The war has taken a toll on his mental mindset. Stating “Behind the wagon that we flung him in, and watch the white eyes writhing in his face, like a devil’s sick of…

Lust Punished by foxes There are many odd things that happen in this story. It is also very different from other things that we have read in the past. The other fox spirits were handled and treated very differently than the one here. This story is about a man that collects aphrodisiacs as a hobby (Songling, 356-58). There are three characters in this story, four if you count the fox spirit (Songling, 356-58). The characters in this story are the wife, the husband, and the husbands friend…

Dawson, Ashley. “"Love Music, Hate Racism": The Cultural Politics of the Rock Against Racism Campaigns.” Postmodern Culture, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 12 Jan. 2006, muse.jhu.edu/article/192260. Accessed 17 Sept. 2017. In this essay, Ashley Dawson strategically analyses the way music has been used in time (specifically, 1976-1981), as a form of anti-racist speech in support of Black British pop culture. In order to achieve this feat, Dawson recalls time and researches various…

Dreams, I myself was never really interested in my own dreams until one night not too long ago I woke up with that unmistakable anxious feeling that one has after experiencing an unpleasant dream. It made me realize that I don’t talk about my dreams the good or the bad to anyone. Neither do most other people. That is because we as sophisticated adults tend to act as if bad dreams or any dreams at all are reserved for small children. Almost as if dreams were an unspoken taboo. However, dreams are…

In the Master and Margarita novel, Bulgakov describes how Margarita scrutinized the magical cream that smelled of swamp mud and carefully applied it on her body which suddenly reincarnated her into a young dark hair lady full of energy and freedom. She slipped down her window and flew at night to Woland’s residency with the words, “Invisible and free”. Azazello’s cream transformed thirty-year-old Margarita Nikolaevna into a witch to bring her on the Great Ball at Satan’s (Bulgakov, 228-59).…

“Why are we born?” is a question which has grabbed eyeballs of various philosophers, scientists and theologist throughout the history. This question has been subjected to utmost scrutiny since time immemorial. But sadly, we haven’t got an answer yet. It is a known fact that every creature has a certain life span and during his lifetime he faces various challenges. This is quite evident from the poem, which quotes “My strength and time were limited, I carried quite a load;” The first noble truth…

just smirked and looked at him and said, “it’s an ecumenical concept with us—black people— for some strange reason we speak whether we are close friends or complete strangers.” If only my eyes could record playable video I would show you some of the incubus glares; glares, I received from white counterparts on…

Robin had told his friend Helena that he wanted to talk to her about something personal and she had grinned and insisted on talking about it in her treehouse. He followed her through the copse at the back of her garden, barely keeping up. Her feet barely seemed to touch the leafy ground. She reached a beech tree with a tree house nestled in the branches and shinnied up the trunk. "Wait!" called Robin. A rope ladder came clattering down. Robin supposed he should haul himself up it, although he…

The soldiers of the 22nd and 28th Iowa defined themselves as citizens fighting in the defense of the republic. Their political attitudes as expressed in their own extant letters and their newspaper of choice, the Iowa City Weekly Republican, provide motive for their killing of Butler’s bloodhounds. Historians have agreed that the United States Army of the American Civil War was a force of volunteer citizen-soldiers and were conscious of their role as a political weapon. A republican ideology…