Wuthering Heights

For hundred of years, the term “Madness” or “Mentally ill” has been used as a universal account to describe all peculiar or disturbing human behavior that society cannot normalize (Gomory, Tomi, David Cohen, and Stuart A. Kirk). Different types of peculiar behaviors can be classified as a mental illness. “ In Lovesick, Frank Tallis, believes that we can best define love as a mental illness.” He claims that passion-love harbours various psychiatric disorders. Some disorders include:…

Did you know that Ellis Bell, the author of one of the greatest love stories ever told, Wuthering Heights, was actually a female who used this pen name as a cover up? Emily Bronte wrote the book under a masculine name because in the late 1800’s it was frowned upon for women to exceed through any form of entertainment. The 1920’s are noted to be a turnaround for females who aspired to write and publish novels. The “Roaring Twenties” was a significant transition in American entertainment because…

INTRODUCTION Humour, comedy and laughter occupy a large space in the accounts of the Victorian literature and culture. On the one hand, comic representations were everywhere, and attained a high cultural prominence (Rosenthal, 2015). Many of the Victorian novelists recognized as masters in using humour such as Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray being the most prominent in the use of comic techniques (Ibid.). Meanwhile, it was a comic periodical, it was the time that became the…

Looking at headlines all over the United States, they have been flooded with negativity and tragedy. The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has left many families in shock. The lives taken are an unimaginable thing for these families to go through. The damage done by the shootings that have happened throughout time have left big questions on how to deal with the loss of a loved one to something so tragic. Even for the fellow students who didn’t lose a direct member of the family,…

The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital. The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised…