Today's Date:
December 16, 2024
Analysis and Review of Fathers and Sons
The time during which the novel Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev takes place is one during which there is a great deal of class struggle. The serfs are almost going to be set free and while some of the →
The Intersection of History and Narrative: Conrad’s Lord Jim and the S.S. Jeddah
While there were many such voyages of British ships loaded with Muslim pilgrims that took place before and roughly around the same period that Conrad began writing Lord Jim, there is little doubt that the events that took place on →
The Maintenance of Morality in the Context of Chaos: The Characters in Novels by O’Brien, Shakespeare, and Coetzee
Morality can be partly defined as being empathetically connected to one’s sense humanity and, in a greater sense, tuned into the interconnectedness of all human beings. This aspect of our beings expresses itself most frequently in the decisions we make →
Fabliaux, Courtly Romances and the Question of Love in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
There are few more telling works of literature that speak to the challenges, passions and social order of the medieval period. Throughout the host of stories that comprises Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the concept of love in the Canterbury Tales emerges →
Ideal Marriage, Reality, and Chaucer
There are several stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer that seek to explore the issue of medieval love and marriage, in both its idealized form and the opposite of the blissful ideal that is seen in The Franklin’s →
Analysis of Beowulf
What do the poets in Beowulf sing about? To whom do they sing their songs? What is the purpose of their performances? Much of the subject matter the poets relate in Beowulf (click here for a full analysis of Beowulf) →
Canto 30: Symbolic Characterization and Dante’s Naturalism as Animalism
In Canto 30 of Dante’s Inferno, the reader is led through a lengthy, crowded section of hell where a collection of souls who are suffering eternal punishment for a wide range of sins are clustered together, mired in their own →
Annotated Bibliography of Creative Writing Resources
When undertaking the task of writing a literature review, not to mention getting a solid idea of the hypothesis or research questions you wish to explore, it helps to begin with an annotated or at least conceptual list of qualified →
Analysis and Review of One Hundred Years of Solitude
One of the most striking aspects of One Hundred Years of Solitude is how it manipulates expectations of genre. History, memory, reality and the supernatural are all intertwined and all given an equal amount of credence, although at different points. →
The Societal Aftermath of World War I and Europe’s “Lost Generation”
There are few ways to effectively communicate the gravity of the paradigm shift that occurred throughout Europe following the final declaration of the armistice on November 11, 1918 which put an end to one of the most devastating and bloody →
