Medieval literature

In literature the color red can symbolize many different things. It represents emotions such as anger and hostility as well as love. Interestingly enough, it can also be used to represent Native Americans hence the name of the National Football League team the…

Name: Jocelyn Toh Sze Lyn Candidate Number: 2259 School: Tenby International School Penang Centre: MY401 _______________________________________________________________________ How does Shakespeare present the theme of deception in Macbeth? Throughout the play of Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, events always have a twist to them. Deception, which is defined as “the act of tricking someone by telling them something that is not true”, can be seen in the play through the main characters…

< What does Jonathan swift criticize in Gulliver’s Travels?> Today, I have studied the article about dystopia which is the opposite of ideal world. It also means ‘ the not good place’ and ‘no place’. As Trump’s cabinet appeared, the old novels about dystopia begun to best sellers. The most famous work is Jonathan Sift’s “Gulliver’s Travels.” I wondered what the author criticizes in each country. According to S. N. Gillani, Gulliver’s Travels is a great work of social satire. There is a…

Chinua Achebe's novel, “Things Fall Apart” is a story that teaches a lesson. It is a story that takes you on a journey of the main character Okonkwo's life hardships, accomplishments, and defeat. Achebe gives the reader a front-row view and perspective of the lives and rituals of the Ibo people of Umuofia by creating a story full of imagery and symbolism to set the tone and pull you in “the drums beat and the flutes sang….Okonkwo was as slippery as a fish in water. Every muscle and every nerve…

his acceptance speech of the Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobel Media AB, 2005) and elaborated on this. Pinter specified that one always finds truth to be elusive in the world of drama, and that the rummage through multiple and contradictory truths in a play is significant. Tener (1973) also analyzes that Pinter roots up the obscurity in everything, among which “semantic uncertainty” is crucial (p. 175). Indeed, the winner of the America Award in Literature and the Franz Kafka Prize dedicated his…

Paradise Lost holds some of the greatest literary elements throughout its series of books. This work, by John Milton, showcases many persuasive skills and rhetoric. Aristotle once stated that rhetoric classifies as “the ability, in each particular case, to see the available means of persuasion.” Among the three main arguments in Paradise Lost, each carry, at least, one form of Aristotle’s rhetorics: Ethos, Pathos, and/or Logos. Whether it be Eve persuading Adam, or Satan persuading Eve, each…

Realism: Realism is a literary movement which began in France in middle of nineteen century. It deals with the themes and ideas associated with daily life. A realistic picture of society with issues related to common man and social and cultural system are portrayed as it is. Realism was the reaction against “Romanticism” where life is depicted with all its harsh and soft realities, where relations and situations are presented without idealizing, flattering or romanticizing. It deals specially…

American Romanticism was a literary movement that started in the 19th century. American Romanticism shares a lot of similar qualities with transcendentalism. Walt Whitman wrote about similar topics as Emily Dickinson, although they lived two very different lives. Walt Whitman was a transcendentalist who lived in New York and did journalism. Emily Dickinson was a romanticist who fell in love with a married man and then continued to spend most of her life in seclusion. Walt Whitman and Emily…

English Studies 178 Group Tutorial: Writing Tutorial – Topic Analysis Name: Taydren van Vuren Student Number: 20801351 Tutor: Danie Stader Essay 1: “My Son the Fanatic”, Hanif Kureishi Critically analyse the relationship between Kureishi’s characterisation of Parvez and the notion of belonging in “My Son the Fanatic.” In your essay, consider the manner in which the belongings are used to comment on the meaning of belonging. The representation of characters in novels or short stories and…

A simple analysis on Oscar Wilde’s Salome Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. Scintillating with wit, he has left many talented works, and he was famous for his poems, fairy tales, novel and plays. First written in French, Salome was a single-act tragedy, which became his representative work of aestheticism. Originally, the story of Salome was come from the Bible (the New Testament: Mark 6:17-29 and Matthew 14:3-11), in which the name Salome wasn’t even mentioned.…