Pride and Prejudice

Royal Bodies Hilary Mantel The 21st of February, award-winning and best-selling English writer, Hilary Mantel is born in 1952, who is particularly famous for her historical novels, held a speech, called “Royal Bodies”, at the first one of the year’s London Review of Books lectures at the British Museum. It’s focused on the UK monarchy, the royal family, how they’re being exposed to the public, what Hilary Mantel’s opinion on them and her style of approaching them. But what is her view on them,…

One of the most widely read books in the English language is written by Emily Brontë in early Victorian Age (1930–1901) – the novel Wuthering Heights, firstly published in 1847 as her only novel. While in the preceding Romantic period poetry had been the dominant genre, in Victorian period it was the novel which became very popular. Novelists were inspired more so by playwriters and poets than other novelists. People were so strict, hypocritical, prudish, and stiff, minding their own business…

Me Before You Me Before You is an adapted romantic film from one of the bestselling novels of Jojo Moyes, a renowned English romance novelist, and is directed by Thea Sharrock, an English theater director, and film director. This film provides many interesting scenarios, the meaning of title itself “Me Before You” and demonstrates the unexpected romantic relationship that occurs in a small town in England between a young English woman and a wealthy paralyzed business man from London. Love…

The Self in Society: Exploring Cultural Embeddedness in Gloria Naylor’s Fiction “Gloria Naylor is a strong voice, and a compassionate one,” said Brad Leithauser, Emily Dickinson lecturer in the humanities.” she writes-and speaks-with solid decided vigour of someone who has given her subject its thoughtful due.” Naylor believes herself to be a wordsmith and a storyteller. There is a reflection of her personal life and familial past in the form of names,…

1. THEME  Marriage Most of the story talked about marriage. Started from the Algernon conversation with Lane, Lady Bracknell’s plan to match Algernon with Mary Farquhar, the engagement of Jack and Gwendolen, the engagement of Cecily and Algernon, even the marriage of Lady Bracknell and the unmarried Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism.  Social class Social class is shown clearly in this novel by Lady Bracknell. She always behave coldly to people who were in the lower class than her. Her rejection to…

The most renowned and classic of the genre of literary nonsense novel, beloved by avid readers over the globe more than a century, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” was written by eminent English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll during the Victorian era. The inspiration for this fantasy fiction was a real little girl named Alice, the protagonist of the novel and Carroll invents a story related to this little girl which the title of this story ultimately…

Name:Maram Ahmed Fathy ID: 2014/00628 Faculty: Pharmacy Essay Spinsterhood Marriage is important but not very necessary as lot of people think. Some women marry because it is necessary to have children and for a stable life. Also woman may choose not to marry because she didn’t find the suitable man she dreams with , it is also expected that once the woman got married she has to leave work and care about her husband and children only. So spinsterhood is a wrong word for…

“Salvage the Bones” is a very influential piece of modern literature which tells the story of courage, bravery, self-realization, and coming of age. This is the second novel by the renowned author Jesmyn Ward. The book was a major success and was critically acclaimed. The books success resulted in Ward receiving the National Book Award for Fiction in 2011 for her work. The story is set in the fictional town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. The main character is a fifteen-year-old African American…

Characteristics of the MPDG? The 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl' (MPDG) is a trope commonly found in modern literature and film. This stock character can be found in a wide variety of works, from that of classics such as Truman Capote to newcomers such as John Green. The term 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl' was coined by Nathan Rabin, and was first used to describe Claire Colburn of the film “Elizabethtown". Rabin himself described the trope as "that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in…

"A Doll's House is the first full-blown example of Ibsen's modernism." While looking at the unreconciled ending of A Doll's House, which sets Nora's need to be first and foremost a human being against her roles as doll or as wife and mother, and offends society's need for faith in the idea of the divine and the beautiful to survive". The celebration and self-fulfillment of women was atypical for this time Promotion of equal rights and liberties I would like to look at this play from the…