Literature

European religious and secular tradition has long viewed the role of women in the ancient narratives as negative. Beginning with Eve who seduced Adam and thus caused the downfall of the entire mankind, Western literature conceived mythological women as evil or, at least, irrational creatures. However, this view is, to a great extent, a fruit of precisely Western tradition. In fact, it is difficult to trace a general trend in presentation of women in the ancient texts.    In looking...

The thinking, attitude and behavior of humans are influenced by their desire to attain success in their lives. The pursuit of success blinds people towards the feelings and thoughts of other people. This attitude of human beings in depicted in the play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartwright. The play focuses on the life of Little Voice, a timid girl. Little voice is living with her domineering mother, Mari.  The death of her father has resulted in loneliness for Little Voice....

The emergence of Rococo arts and Neo-classical style in the seventeenth and eighteenth century had paid tribute to greatest eras in the history of art as well as of the world.  History accounted that the other marked the lighthearted and uneventful period in the history while the latest came out during the age of warfare and religious confrontation (Rococo), through which many artists had drawn inspiration from. As Honour and Fleming wrote,  their view of themselves and of the human condition ...

Freedom and prosperity are not always won in the battlefield. Guns are not the only weapons in winning a struggle. There were valiant men in history who paved the way to the ending of a long struggle with nothing but pens. A history maker like Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala gave life to the adage that the pen is mightier than the sword.According to Ralph Bauer in Encountering Colonial Latin American Indian ChroniclesFelipe Guaman Poma de Ayalas History of the New World,  In 1908, the German anthropologist...

Having the opportunity to study in the United States is one of the biggest achievements in my life being awarded with a scholarship is an icing on the cake. I came here with great hopes for a bright future for myself. However, I did not expect that living and studying away was far from being a piece of cake. In my first semester, I found it hard fitting in my school. While everyone had someone with them at all times, I was alone and watched from a corner. Though I tried to talk to some students...

Voltaire and Marquis de Sade can be considered as among the few notable literary writers.  Among their famous works are Candide and Justine respectively. On one hand, Voltaire is an essayist and a French Enlightenment writer. Most of his works are focused on civil liberties, specifically on free trade and freedom of religion. Voltaire serves as a pen name to Francois-Marie Arouet. On the other hand, Marquis de Sade is not only a writer but also a revolutionary and a French aristocrat. He is...

Of all the four gospels, the gospel according to St. John starts with Jesus Christ and his oneness with the Father since the beginning of time. It progresses with the story of John the Baptist, unlike the rest of the gospels which starts from the birth of Jesus. Johns gospel also presents longer conversations about the teachings of Jesus. It does not contain the stories about the baptism of Jesus, his temptation, transfiguration, exorcism and the Last Supper. Instead, it concentrates on the teaching...

The human society was undergoing numerous changes during the nineteenth century and these changes were reflected in all the aspects of human lives. The scientific advancements were influencing the thinking of the people, as they started to view things from scientific perspective rather than the teachings of the church. This influence was even evident in the field of literature and arts in the form of modernism. The modernist writers aimed to differ from the realist writers by utilizing new concepts...

Philip Roths The Conversion of Jews was written in 1950s followed by the Holocaust of World War II which is marked as the time when a large number of Jews settled in United States and assimilated into American culture to some extent while trying to maintain some degree of cultural solidarity. The story revolves around a Jewish teenager, Ozzie Freedman, who stands against the hypocrisy that he observed as a result of devotion to Jewish formalism. The story started with a conversation between Ozzie...

    The social and emotional needs of human beings are fulfilled through their interaction with each other and the society. When an individual is isolated from others or from the society, it has a detrimental effect on hisher behavior and thoughts. The two short stories Trifles by Susan Glaspell and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner bring forth the negative effects of isolation on the behavior of its characters. The story Trifles deals with the negative effect of isolation on a...