Literature

Spending a day without my cell phone, iPod and Facebook seemed almost impossible to me. Just the thought of doing away with them made me cringe already even before disregarding them. I would say it was an empty feeling I first had when I took away these important gadgets. How was I going to contact my friends and family during the day without my cell phone How would I know the latest happenings on campus without Facebook Wouldnt I get bored without my iPod These are some of the questions that kept...

Separated by two centuries Geoffrey Chaucer and John Milton were two very different authors, who nonetheless reflected the lessons of classical myth and literature, as well as the more contemporary influence of Christianity. In his poem  Ode on the Morning of Christs Nativity  Milton uses allusions to classical figures such as Apollo, the Fates, Pan, and other mythical deities to juxtapose the emergence of Christ in both a religious and cultural context. Similarly, Geoffrey Chaucer in...

These our actors,  As I foretold you, were all spirits and  Are melted into air, into thin air Prospero This tale of The Tempest by William Shakespeare deals about the staging and orchestration. Just like all the other works of William Shakespeare, The Tempest was able to receive positive critical regard since the time it was first published. The Tempest talks about one of the most wondrous association ever tackled in a romantic play. The aforementioned passage from the play speaks of...

The greed of power blinds human conscience and provokes an individual to commit unethical acts. The character of Claudius in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare succumbs to his greed for power and acts maliciously. The play focuses on the revenge exacted by Prince Hamlet of Denmark on his uncle Claudius. Claudius had killed Hamlets father, the King and taken the throne. Claudius even marries Gertrude, Hamlets mother. Prince Hamlet resolves to kill Claudius when the ghost of his father reveals...

Night is an autobiographical book by the award-winning writer Ellie Wiesel that contains the account of the authors experience in a prison camp during World War II. Elie almost gives up, but the people he interacts with, one way or another, keep his hope alive and strengthen his will to survive. Elie witnesses countless horrifying sights in the camp that are more than enough to churn the stomach of even the most hardened man. One of those is the hanging of a very young boy, who dies slowly because...

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  even that of the novel, 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 the words, the lines in poems would...

The Futurists Manifesto is an art movement in the early 20th century that rejects the ideals and foundations of the past, but upholds and worships the dynamism of the future. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was the one who originally wrote the manifesto, but he was later joined by Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carr, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini. The tone of the Futurists Manifesto is rebellious in nature. They deviate from the principles of other art movements that are mostly influenced and...

From the moment John Waters bought his first art print at the Baltimore Museum of Art at the age of eight, he began forming his manifesto. The print was a mass-produced Mir copy which he took home and hung proudly on his wall. Instead of being impressed, his friends taunted him for purchasing such an ugly painting. From this devastating experience John Waters learned that art does not exist simply to induce a pleasant feeling. Instead, according to him, art should both  provoke and inspire. ...