Gothic literature is characteristically concerned with transgression. Donna Heiland writes: ‘Gothic fiction at its core is about transgressions of all sorts: across national boundaries, social boundaries, sexual boundaries, the boundaries of one’s own identity.’ [1] Given the nature of the vampire myth, which is derived from folklore and spans across cultures, the vampire figure easily lends itself […]
Coketown, the city of fact, foreshadows the emergence of a monstrous mass urban society based on rationalism, anonymity and dehumanisation. The dominant feature of the town is its inherent ugliness. Its inhabitants lack individuality and are the product of an inhuman materialistic society. “It was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted […]
The exciting part about the Sims is to slowly build your house, invent characters and define life goals for them. I remember enjoying inventing infinite life scenarios, conceive love stories, friendships but also fights between the different Sims. This famous life simulation video game released in 2000 is one of the most successful games ever […]
Tim OBrien, in an interview has given his definition of truth, You have to understand about life itself. There is a truth as we live it; there is a truth as we tell it. Those two are not compatible all the time. There are times when the storys truth can be truer, I think, than […]
My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days. A time of peace, when the Avatar kept peace between the Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads, but that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, only he could stop the ruthless firebenders, […]
The significance of the title The Crucible is that it relates to the characters in the play because of the views of the society at the time. It relates to the characters John Proctor, and many others. In the play, John is put to a severe test during many occasions because of his belief and […]
Gulliver’s Travels is a pivotal work in the history of the novel as it exhibits the ways the novel inherits and develops Menippean satire and grotesque aesthetics. Gulliver’s Travels has rarely been regarded as a proper early novel like Robinson Crusoe or Pamela largely due to two conventional understandings of genre and aesthetics. The first […]
After reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s enthralling novel, “Half of a Yellow Sun” is not a conventional war story. It is a story whose characters live in a changing wartime atmosphere, doing their best to keep that environment at bay. And while the ravages of the Biafran war are well known, they do not manifest themselves […]
In the story ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’, the protagonist Elizabeth Bates awaits the return of her coalminer husband, blaming his drinking habits for his late return. She expects him to be brought home drunk “like a log” and ironically, it turns out that he had perished at the coal mine in an accident and his body, […]
An iconic feature in the California desert, the Salton Sea stands as a testament to the human element. What started as a manmade disaster has become an integral part of the local and global ecosystems sustaining marine life and providing a much needed stop along the Pacific Flyway. During the 1950’s and 60’s the Salton […]
