Usurper

Summary of Whutering Heights In 1801, Lockwood comes to Wuthering Heights in order to rent a house called Thrushcross Grange. Here, he meets Heathcliff, a man who lives in the Wuthering Heights. In this stormy house, Lockwood’s curiosity takes him to ask Nelly, the housekeeper, the story of Heathcliff and the strange events of Whutering Heights. Nelly begins the story and Lockwood takes notes in his diary. To start with, Nelly, as a young woman, starts to work as a servant in Wuthering Heights…

Victor Hugo, the creator of the book the movie is based on, was exiled in his own way. Hugo wrote his novel in response to his own exile from his home in France for his criticism against the French government. As a result, Hugo became an important French writer who spoke out against his banishment and the oppression in France. He used his experience in exile to create several misunderstood characters in his famous novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and, as a result, he has been able to create…

An exploration of the idea of a plural form of gender that emerges from Schoene Harwood’s essay About Man making and Cixous’s Sortes. This essay will engage Schoene-Harwood’s essay on man making and Cixous’s essay on the tradtional binaries of gender to find a relation between these diverse yet similar theories of masculinity and feminism. This essay will predominantly focus on analysing the notion of a plural form of gender that emerges within both texts with an engagement of Gender and…

"[T]here was a unifying theme that ran through most of the judgments made about Ireland and the Irish in Victorian England, and that theme had a distinctly ethnic and racial character. Stated simply, this consensus amounted to an assumption or a conviction that the 'native Irish ' were alien in race and inferior in culture to the Anglo-Saxons" (Curtis 5). In North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, this Victorian undercurrent of anti-Irish sentiment is felt throughout the novel. The novel 's view…

The novel “The Castle of Otranto” is written by the well-known predecessor of the gothic fiction – the author Horace Walpole. He contributed greatly to the Gothic genre and inspired a lot of famous authors such as Edgar Allen Poe and Daphne du Maurier. His novel was published in 1529, but it is well-known that it was written a lot earlier, supposedly around the era of the first Crusade. In his work, Horace Walpole attempts to combine Old Romance with New Romance – supernatural elements and…

Korea has a history over 5000 years and yet does not seem to be able to maintain it as one country. Due to North Korea’s struggle with her economy, a myriad of North Koreans evacuates to South Korea by crossing over the 38th parallel and risking their lives. Nevertheless, walking around Seoul, there are hardly any North Koreans. When they are found in public, South Koreans either keep distance from them or stare at them with despise; the 38th parallel seems to be segregating the North and the…

representation created by Thought Cafe, I am not giving you an open letter, moving along. Sorry, I'm scared of ghosts. Even though they aren't real; they definitely aren't real. Anyway, there's also the fact that killing a king, even if that king is a usurper, was generally seen as like, not a fantastic idea. Except when it came to…

As a of a victim of colonization, Ireland has a long history of patriotic writers that comment on the effects of British colonialism, as well as themes of nationalism and conservatism through their writings. The introduction of Gothic literature, and its fearful conventions of the supernatural and the uncanny, has allowed Irish writers to align nationalist motifs within their texts through a more analogous narrative. As Laura Doyle writes, “The Gothic text has been shown to represent colonialism…

The diffusion of Egyptian cults in the Greek and Roman World Sources The Roman imperial fleet was one of the main gateways for diffusion of Egyptian cults into the Roman world, and both merchant and war fleets had significant role in that diffusion. One of the most important parts of the research of this diffusion is to determinate the groups of citizens who were involved in it. In order to do that we have to find the sources from Greek and Roman periods such as epigraphic inscriptions, literary…

The animals in a farm named Manor Farm attempt to assert their Otherness in contrast to the oppressive human interference through a Rebellion. The word Rebellion appears with a capital ‘R’, as if the animals have almost found their harmony with deifying the act of Othering. The capitalized ‘Rebellion’ seems a raw simulation of the anthropocentric deity-figure that appears in grand narratives of the religious kind. The Rebellion of Manor Farm turns bloody and resembles in all its subtlety the…