Literature

Pride is the main theme of The Rape of the Lock and is closely connected to the follies of beau monde that esteem semblances Pope satirizes the irrational materialism of bourgeois values that objectify the human beings by giving primacy to surface over substance. Pope reveals that the central concerns of womanhood at least for women of Belindas class, are social ones. Womans joy in gilded Chariots indicates an obsession with pomp and superficial splendour, while love for Ombre, suggests frivolity....

Innovative Minds Dont Think Alike and Youre Bored But Your Brain is Tuned In are two articles that talk about the human mindits capacity (or incapacity) to think outside of the box and the ironic effect that boredom do to our brains. The first article Innovative Minds Dont Think Alike by Janet Rae-Dupree talks about the curse of knowledge. The curse of knowledge is the term used to describe losing ones creativity. The curse of knowledge happens because the more people get smart at one thing, the...

War has always been one of the many harrowing and horrendous experiences of mankind and those soldiers who have underwent the horrors are also known to still have effects on them even after the war has long ended. But even if this is the case, nations still regale their subordinates with tall tales regarding the war and it does not matter if there can sometimes be no known logic behind its cause what matters is who wins and who receives all the wars glorious bounty. As such, different experiences...

The multiplicity of the multifaceted themes in Hamlet by William Shakespeare has been itself a theme of many scholarly discussions over the centuries. Among its many aspects, the existential Hamlet with its focus on the human existence, life, death and life beyond death is perhaps the basic one that first catches our attention. When a heinous crime like murder or betrayal is committed, the natural and the moral order are disrupted the balance of life is shaken. The results that may emanate from...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Stranger are two readings that bring about the main themes of Survival and Absurd by featuring weather in the settings consequences of events as they happen. The book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an important reading in the history of Russian literature during Krushchev Era. Russian Literature often highlights the theme of suffering. Alexander Solzhenitsyn tries to highlight the prevailing dehumanizing conditions during Stalin reign in...

Strange and Sad Working on Christmas I remember with nostalgia the only Christmas of its kind. It is one of bitter sweet experience that happened in 2007 when I was working with Care Childrens Home and the director had promised to take us to Hawaii for the Christmas holiday. Care Childrens Home is a non governmental organization in Chicago that serves the poor children in that area. As an employee, it is worthy noting that my roles as teacher got me a bigger opportunity to offer my service to the...

There are many different forms of literature, but perhaps most famous and most loved of the many kinds is poetry. Compared to other forms of literature like short stories and novels, poetry has been famous dating back to the time of Ancient Greece until now, wherein even poems are converted into modern songs. The wonderful thing about poetry is that not only would the readers be able to imagine the images conjured by the carefully selected words, but the lines in poems would also appeal to the hearing...

Communication is a means by which people talk, write and understand each other.  We must speak or write our thoughts and articulate our feelings to others in the same way that we must listen or read them to understand what they want us to know and feel.  Communication must always be a two-way thing. Language is a medium of Communication.  Its use and misuse may lead to offense, misunderstanding, insult and exchange of harshness. Oftentimes, when we do not exercise caution we tend...

What news How much more important to know what that is which was never old (Thoreau 3). Mr. Henry David Thoreaus used this exclamation to remind people that there is more to life than what we know and experience. Thoreaus tries to make people understand the reasons why he left all the good life in the city to go and live in the wilderness. He claims that I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had...

Credit cards have many advantages.  They can be used for the purchase of a product online, use in case of emergency, replaces the use of cash, can be used outside the country, and immediate purchase of any goods, products and services.  However, for those who do not know how to handle credit cards they may experience a lot of hardship and suffering.  Use of credit card may lead to large amount of consumer debts or the debt that is incurred primarily for the purchase of consumer goods...

Literary theory started as soon as literature started developing several centuries ago. According to the recorded history of literature, the Greeks were the first group of people to come up with literary theories. They are the first group to have had criticism of literature in the history of mankind. In the English literature history, literary theory started much later compared to the Greeks literature. It started with the Renaissance. The first theories included the defense of poesy and the Romans...