Scheherazade

The previous stories of the Nights are a good point to begin our discussion of blackness and racial discrimination in the stories. While The Arabian Nights presents stories about the Islamic empire, it foists stories of slavery and blackness. Unlike the Atlantic trade slaves, slaves in the Arabian Nights “inhabit a different history from plantation slaves, and do not fit easily into abolitionist discourse: they were more frequently domestic or military.”(Slavery, blackness) In The Arabian Nights…

Writers of any story or essay are hypocritical in nature. Despite upholding truth and objectivity as standards, they act in a way which inhibits the authority of either axiom. This is best seen in Janet Malcolm’s essay “The Journalist and the Murderer”, where Joe McGinniss connives his subject and paints him as a narcissistic psychopath. He disregards truth by manipulating facts to benefit his personal image of his subject. The nature of his story also allows McGinniss to disregard objectivity…

Ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir Speaker: Blanche speaking to Stella when looking out the window at the neighbourhood that Stella and Stanley live in. Origin: A line from Edgar Allan Poe’s 1847 poem “Ulalume.” Written during the year Poe lost his wife, Virginia Clemm. Significance: While Blanche was staring out the window she says to Stella, “Oh I’m not going to be hypocritical, I’m going to be honestly critical about it! Never, never, never in my worst dreams could I picture - Only Poe! Only Mr.…

Genesis, Augustine’s Confession and The Thousands and One Nights are texts that manifest similarities and divergence if they are juxtaposed. Indeed, those three text have major common themes as religion, social and political milieus. Augustine’s Confession represent the first autobiographical work. Saint Augustin confesses his faults, and exalt the glory of God. He tells his depraved youth, and his conversion to Christianism. He wonders about the origin of the evil, delivers his reflections on…

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is a play about a former high school teacher, Blanche Dubois, who moved in with her sister and husband, Stella and Stanley. Blanche Dubois has been through many difficulties in order to fulfill the emptiness that is within her. Her young husband, Allen Gray committed suicide, she lost Belle Reve, and she lost her stature in Laurel. The driving force behind these actions were the empowerment of her desires. Williams uses allusions to develop the…

When it comes to the question of how to think like a poet, one could answer this in many ways. My initial reaction is to say that there is no way to think “like a poet” because poets do not think alike. To be a poet, one must have something to say that is worth saying. Therefore, if all poets thought alike, then their poetry would not be that good…right? However, poetry is not completely avant-garde and formless. There are specific modes of thinking that allow one to stand out as a poet. Jane…

D-Social injustice issue/s relating to the Loyal Men: The social injustice issue depicted is Suppression of individual rights. “Somebody, a traitor, was printing leaflets criticizing the Guide and his Revolutionary Committee”. The quotation refers to how the Revolution Men protect and defend their leader. They would fight anyone who criticizes the Guide or Gaddfi and revolutionary committee. They are abusive as best illustrated by Sharif who, in the story, emerges to search Baba’s house without…

Compare the ways in which the authors portray the central characters in The Necklace and Veronica. Through The Necklace De Maupassant cleverly crafts a moral fable in the story of Madame Loisel, almost imparting an ideology on the reader to be careful of that which he or she wishes for. He does this in a pre meditated fashion and plays the ironical part of the omniscient narrator. Pearce, when writing Veronica, used a different technique where he takes, what could be a realistic and true story…

What is a hero? Is a hero someone most people adore and love? What makes one person better than anyone else? Is it their characteristics or morals? Or is it their story from rags to riches, or from a bad king to a good one? Is it admirable that one person could change from a vastly evil to an immensely good person? A hero is someone who is idealized and recognized for courage, outstanding achievements, and noble qualities. Even in ancient texts, society picks special people to lift up and…

Yvonne De Carlo once said “I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.” Margaret Yvonne De Carlo was born on September 1st, 1922, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Her parents were William Middleton and Marie De Carlo. When Yvonne was three years old her father had abandoned her and her family, which drove her mother to pick up extra jobs as a waitress to make ends meet. Since she was Marie´s only child, she wanted her daughter to have a career in entertainment, so…