Nobel Prize in Literature

disobedience is a necessity in a democratic system to bring about foundational changes to the government. Civil disobedience is defined as “refusal to obey laws as a way of forcing the government to do or change something” (Merriam Webster). History and literature has many cases of civil disobedience: Antigone burying her brother Polyneices, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr.’s protests for civil rights, and Mahatma Gandhi’s freedom movement in India. Even with democratic systems and…

Economics meets psychology: these studies combine to create a unified study of behaviors behind economic thought and decisions individuals make. Behavioral economics became popular in the late 70’s, where individuals such as Daniel Kahneman a Nobel Prize winner and Amos Tversky who worked closely with Kahneman, painted the world with possibilities and insights to the fairly new economic study of behavioral economics. In modern day economics, other headliners like Uri Gneezy, John A. List,…

Author T.S. Eliot’s Influence on American Literary History Author T.S. Eliot, was an American-English poet, playwriter, literary critic, an editor and was a major contributor and leader of the Modernist movement in poetry. From his works like “The Waste Land” and then the what some call sequel “The Hollow Men,” Eliot’s style of writing not only had a huge influence on American literary history but also influenced many other writers such as Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite. After reading some…

Ernest Hemingway 's Personal Life in His Books Ernest Hemingway was seen as a macho man. He was known to include himself in his characters. He tended to describe himself as a masculine, nature enjoying, woman loving, often depressed, alcoholic, hero. Ernest Hemingway used his childhood and personal life experiences to write his literary works. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899 (Ernest Hemingway in Key West). Hemingway 's family was upper middle class. As a…

ABSTRACT This paper explores the allegorical aspect of Golding's novel 'Lord of the Flies', which is achieved in terms of character portrayal, narrative method, events and themes. Novel is a parable of life in the latter half of twentieth century, the nuclear age, when society seems to have reached technological maturity while human morality is still prepubescent. It is a sharp criticism on celebrated enlightenment rationality. Even in the late 21 century the lessons given by Golding is…

Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria. He was the second son of Catherine Marie Cardona, a house-keeper and factory worker, and Lucien Auguste Camus, a military veteran. But, however, after the WWI in which Camus is only a less than a year old, his father suffered and died at the first battle of the Marne. Then after his father’s death, he, his brother and their mother moved and lived to his maternal uncle and grandmother in Algiers. At the local Ecole Communale Camus…

were to state that “LolCats” or Facebook could be a distraction if browsed during business hours, his statement could be easily supported. With his general blanket term of “Internet” he by default includes encyclopedias, academic journals, classic literature, world news, and a number of other tools that today’s internet users utilize to deepen their knowledge, inspire, or educate. Mr. Carr refers to a study that texts read on the internet that have links included in them are actually harmful to…

author of 'Midaq Alley' is one of the most accomplished writers to come out of Africa and to make a mark on the world. He is one of the few African writers to have received a Nobel Prize for literature. At the time he was coming into his own as an author, his more naturalistic style was fading in vogue in the world of literature. There were many who considered his award an affirmative action move and derided him for that. However, many see him as the voice of the voiceless of Egypt and more…

Let us start talking about Sethe, this iron nigger woman and former slave, She was living in 124 with her daughter Denver. They had a company, a ghost. Paul.D came, he was one of Sweet Home men, where she lived there before with her husband Halle, she describes herself as: So as we read above, she had bad memories from the slave age, Torture traces in her back from 18 years ago, when schoolteacher's nephews whipped her. After they treated her like an animal. Although she was pregnant, she…

The 1960’s was one of the most eventful and controversial decades ever known. From the Civil Rights Movement and Women's Movement to the Vietnam War or even the Assassination of our beloved president John F. Kennedy. There were anti-war protests, anti-racism acts and marches that went for miles. One of the most known people involved in these events was the one and only, Bob Dylan. His career was a big impact on young people of the 1960’s It started when Bob Dylan begun listening to Little…