Essays on Colonialism

Symbolism in literature, in terms of The Concise Oxford Dictionary is described as anything that stands for or represents something else beyond it. In much simpler terms, symbolism is the practice of defining a figure, character, or object that is then used to represent complex...

More than thirty million soldiers and civilians died during World War I. The tragic war took place in Europe from 1914 to 1918, after a Serbian assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. The assassination initiated the war, but deeper reasons continued it. There were...

This essay discusses the significance of the History House in Arundhati Roy’s ‘The God of Small things’. The novel ‘The God of Small Things’ narrates about the twins’ childhood experience whose lives were ruined by the “love laws” that stipulated how and who should be...

‘The God of Small Things’ is a semi-autobiographical novel, a debut novel and only novel written the by the popular Indian author- activists, Arundhati Roy. The novel is centered on the twins Rahel and Esthappen, who part in their youth and united later in their...

In the grand scheme of things, it seems quite odd that the vast majority of people have decided it is important to perform, study, and read plays written by a man who has been dead for over four hundred years. This of course, refers to...

T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is oft-described as a poem of fragmentation. In the wake of the first World War, Eliot was left to contend with a civilization in pieces: he felt that Western culture, chiefly his adopted England, was in a state of...

In current times, Vietnamese women more and more assert their important positions in workplace and society with many famous leaders such as Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, Tong Thi Phong. Back to the timelines of Vietnam during the wars against to occupation of France and the...