Samuel Beckett

Evaluating the Intertwining of First Native Culture and Indigenous Literature: Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse In English literature a formalist movement in the mid 20th century that emphasized the relationship between a text’s idea and its form - known as New Criticism - continues to strongly influence modern academic writing. New Criticism specifies that the object of study ought to be the text itself, not the response or the motivation of its author or readers. Rarely do New Criticism texts…

ASSIGNMENT 7: ESSAY After analysing the character of Yossarian from Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 in comparison to Gilgamesh from The Epic of Gilgamesh, we can conclude by saying that post-modern writers often went back to classical literature for inspiration. This statement can be proven by referring to the similarities and differences between the protagonist as well as the archetypal plots and themes. In literature we find two types of heroes: heroes and antiheroes. The difference between the two…

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.…

CHAPTER 1: CONCEPT OF FREEDOM George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a critic. His work as a London newspaper critic of music and drama emerged in The Quintessence of Ibsenism. His celebrated plays include Arms and the Man, You Never Can Tell and The Devil’s Disciple. His works present a bold intellectual criticism sugar-coated by a pretended lightness of tone. He rebelled against disordered thinking, and sought to puncture pierce pretensions. In the essay Freedom, G.B.Shaw reveals his…

An open definition of the 'suspension of disbelief' is the act of disbelieving the already-known knowledge to permit new information to be taken into consideration for a brief period of time. The suspension of disbelief in theatre is the act of suspending disbelief, to immerse oneself in the fictional nature of performance. It’s in human nature to use ways of knowing such as imagination and sense perception to entertain ourselves. Therefore, it is one the ways of knowing we usually rely on to…

“You mustn’t look ... for the old stable ego of character. There is another ego, according to whose action the individual is unrecognizable.” (D. H. Lawrence) How did modernism re‐conceive character? With the rise of modernism there came a huge change in the way characters were presented in works of literature. Up to this point the realist writers painted their characters in broad strokes, often using clichés and making people act in a different way to how a real person would behave…

cannot be controlled by any sort of plan or design. Thus, life may seem to be comic or dreadful but it never acquires the quality of tragedy since tragedy, with its artificial pomp and grandeur, “belongs to the cunning of the stage” (Murdoch 39). Theatre is thus marked, and ironically so by a former stage director, as facetious. And although Charles plans to spend his time swimming, eating, and, last but not least, reading his books, and Shakespeare in particular, his stay by the sea involves…

"Character Studies for Les Miserables." Stuartfernie. Stuart Fernie, n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2015. Stuart Fernie is one of the most famous writers, that's why I choose his article from his own website. In this article Fernie talks about the main characters, he focuses on the way of how they act, think and gives background about each one of them. He mentions many examples, and I'm interested in Valjean character because he is the most famous character in this novel. Fernie focuses on…

James Joyce During the late 1800s, a scholar was born unto the union of an Irish decedent in Dublin, Ireland. He was born with a minor eye problem and dealt with it all his life and that become chronic throughout his life. Being the first child of his parent and oldest Mr. Joyce was a smart young man growing up as a child, he show the interest of education as a little boy as a result his parent saw how determine he was toward learning. The parent of Joyce saw unusual behavior in him that…

Timebound and City of Bones Timebound and City of Bones are alike in many ways, but also differ in many ways. They are similar in that the main protagonists in both books care so deeply for their friends that they would do anything to get them back. They are similar also because the main protagonists are both related to the evil villains or antagonists in the story. City of Bones differs from Timebound because at the end the protagonist finds out about a sibling they never knew they had.…