Synecdoche

To what extent is a Marxist reading of "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria 's Lover" useful in opening up potential meanings? Ultimately, the source of tragedy in both 'My Last Duchess ' and 'Porphyria 's Lover ', is the capitalistic societal structures that provoke the oppression of its people. Though this subjugation may arise from the corrupt economic system that Marxism critiques, Browning 's scrutiny of society may also delve into social barriers such as feminism, and the adverse…

In Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, the question of home is always close at hand. Questions such as what does it mean to be home and what is a home are constantly circulating throughout the text and tend to haunt the Mestiza body as a raced, foreign, and oriental body. She writes that “…in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano [emphasis original] is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry ‘home’ on my back.” This is a crucial interjection…

Before the earliest human ancestors learned to harness fire and even after the technological boom of the twenty-first century, love is an ever present emotion that accelerates the drive to reproduce. Love is the basis for budding relationships, whether they be familial, friendly, or romantic. Scientists, philosophers, authors, and even college students have tried to get to the core of what love is, how it is experienced, and whether it is biologically present or able to fluctuate or change.…

District Six in the ‘60s. This is similar to Ingrid Jonker’s poem, “The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga” (Moffett, 2003). The symbol of this one child is also illustrated to generalize what is going on of the entire population. This synecdoche portrays hope for the future, just as Opperman’s poem does. Jonker’s poem was also written in the 1960s as a response to the Massacre at Sharpeville where over sixty people died (Moffett, 2003). Both Jonker and Opperman use the symbol of a…

Creating Ambiguity in Natural Spaces: The Ecological Queering of Gender in Cereus Blooms at Night and Small Beauty I argue that Small Beauty and Cereus Blooms at Night establish ecological spaces as ambiguous in order to deconstruct preconceived limitations around the natural, and further explore — and encourage the exploration of — queer subjectivities, particularly genderqueer subjectivities, in an organic context. SMALL BEAUTY IN THE CONTEXT OF ORGANIC TRANSGENDERISM Nicole Seymour, a queer…

The Puritans followed the Bible as closely as possible. The magistrates referred to one scripture in the Bible time and time again as to see how to deal with the accused witches, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Exodus 22:18). Since the Puritans followed the Bible so strictly, they believed all accused witches that had been proven guilty were to be hanged or burned at the stake. The Puritans also believed North America to be the Devils country. They began to fear anything new and…

“Of Mice and Men” was also adapted to theater in both The States (2014) and Spain (2012). The Broadway version is something which caused a ripple of fame for director, Anna D. Shapiro. Spanish director Miguel del Arco presented his version of the novel as a play in Madrid in 2012, where it was also surrounded by amazing reviews. One might wonder how such a short novel could have inspired a chain of successful interpretations all over the world, but the answer lies in the simplicity and…

The bestiary genre has existed for centuries, introducing and entertaining its readers with compilations of both stories and facts about creatures who are familiar, unfamiliar, real, and imaginary. In some aspects, Henderson’s The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, a 21st century bestiary, is no different, since it still incorporates beasts ranging from the fire-defying salamander to the intelligent macaque. However, in other ways, this bestiary diverges from previous ones. Henderson’s bestiary…

Structure of the Poem The poem consists of twenty-six lines divided into two stanzas: first seven lines, second, nineteen lines. Line 6-7 are two questions that mark the first volta. In line 26, the last, is found the second volta or turning point. (English sonnet). It is also told in the first person singular where the speaker of the poem and main character are the same. Additionally, there are other unnamed individuals, who are more than one, but the speaker does not they how many. Thus, for…

“The local is dead long live the global” Assess the accuracy of this statement in terms of understandings of the globalising world presented in the texts you have studied In recent times, rapid economic development and technological innovation has impelled dominant global ways of thinking. These impending forces deterritorialise the world and encourage the transfer of information and values over conventional boundaries of time and space. Consequently national boundaries decrease in…