The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke is a part detective novel, part historical downfall. Lawler’s book traces the story of — and the literal obsessive search for — the lost colony of Roanoke, the first English settlement...
Every human being is comprised of physiological and psychological aspects. The circumstances of our life have the direct impact on the psyche. The characters of Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture are some of the lifetime examples to prove that adverse situations alter our behaviour. The...
In her work entitled “Border Lover”, Merlinda Bobis encapsulates the Filipino experience of transnationalism through the lens of a teenage girl. She writes about the interaction and exchanges the girl has with her grandmother on her annual visit, depicting the effects of diaspora on the...
“Miracles from Heaven” is an incredible true story of the Beam’s family. It is based on Christy Beam, the writer and mother, who recounts the true story of her younger daughter having a near-death experience and being cured of incurable diseases. The first disease being...
On September 27 we were 500 000 who were asking for changes in the system so that human activities would stop destroying our mother nature. In his own way in the short story “All Gold Canyon” Jack London denounces our destroying behaviors when he begins...
Despite the implications of the First World War, an internal struggle individuals experience is through physical decay of their surroundings. The dehumanisation of the modern age is presented in Preludes by T.S. Eliot through the fragmentation of the body in the synecdoche 'muddy feet' and...
T.S. Elliot as a progenitor of Modernism believes poetry’s capability of encompassing the totality and vagaries of human experience in the era of rapid industrial expansion, which he perceived as fractured and denigrated. His unique linguistic and structural arrangement communicates the paralysis of a generation,...
The ability of texts to have a lasting value or resonance with the reader lies in their power to create a distinctive voice through which they express their concerns of the human experience. Influenced by the post war paradigm of existentialism in the early twentieth...
In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oats their main protagonists are in constant battle with good versus evil and later realize that bad things can happen to good...
Irony is a literary term that has three subcategories and is commonly used in writing. The three types of irony are dramatic irony, situational irony, and verbal irony. In 1984 by George Orwell, all three subcategories of irony are used to highlight the injustice that...
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