Today's Date:
December 16, 2024
The Theatrical Nature of Iago in Othello as Director, Actor, and Manipulative Confidante
Throughout Shakespeare’s play Othello, the character Iago is one of the main instigators of the action and serves the dual role of director and actor, thus putting the audience at his mercy as both director of the action and central →
Fate, Conflict, and the Will of the Gods in Homer’s Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid
In both Homer’s Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid, the gods and goddesses play a direct role in the fates of the main characters and serve as both guides as they fulfill their destinies while at other times, are petty, cruel, and →
Concluding Thoughts: The End of Notes from Underground
The conclusion of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground is a fitting one as is the case in the author’ other books like Crime and Punishment, for instance. Although it may be a frustrating ending for the reader in that it →
Analysis and Review of Montaigne and Othello
Shakespeare’s Othello is a play wrought with the intricacies of the human mind. While Othello and Desdemona begin a life together in marital bliss, dissatisfaction from her father and allusions to an affair with Cassio soon taint the once perfect →
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets: Naturalism and Environmental Inevitability
In Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane, squalid and devastating conditions prove more resilient and determining than the power of will or character. This is not only one of the most prominent aspects that defines this as →
Injustice and its Implications in The Play To Kill a Mockingbird
The central issue in the play by Christopher Sergel, which is based on the text by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, is that of injustice, especially as it is connected to intolerance. In the case of this play, the →
Analysis and Review of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The matter of narrative authority or, for that matter, authenticity in slave narratives is almost a secondary concern when compared to the slave narrative’s main goal, which is to communicate and, in the cases of these two texts, criticize racial →
Henry V and the Reconciliation of the “Little Bit of Harry”
There are numerous examples in Shakespeare of power corrupting absolutely, greed running rampant, and of course, some exaggeration of Shakespearean gender roles. Shakespeare’s Henry V features a conflicted central character that is both tied to his past as a carousing, →
Defining Russia Through Philosophical Definitions: Nihilism and the Old Order
The nihilist philosophy as expressed most succinctly by Bazarov, is defined, understood, and received differently by nearly all of the central characters in Fathers and Sons (click here for a full analysis of the book) by Turgenev. Ultimately, by presenting →
