08/12/2022

Critical Review on ‘Items that have gone missing inside the Lucy Temerlin institute for broken shapeshifters containment room’.

‘Items that have gone missing inside the Lucy Temerlin institute for broken shapeshifters containment room’ is a short story written by Kuzhali Manickavel in June 2021. The best way to describe Manickavel’s story is to claim that it is almost kaleidoscopic: every time it is read, a new interpretation can be construed. This review will include overall analyses to try […]

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08/12/2022

“How does Phillis Wheatley use her origins to respond to the idea of colonial rule?”

Focusing on ‘To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth’. Wheatley was commissioned to write the eulogy ‘To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth’ in 1773, in honour of his recent appointment. Wheatley’s poems tend to discuss freedom, imagination, and her origins. For example: ‘on Being Brought from Africa to America’ and ‘On Imagination’. Yet, the main theme of […]

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20/10/2022

Comparing the Odyssey and the Iliad to the Penelopiad

The Odyssey and The Iliad are two of the oldest pieces of surviving literature in the modern world. They were originally written around the 9th or 8th century BCE by Homer, and since then they have been translated into countless languages, including English, numerous times, with each editor and translator leaving their own interpretation of these epic tales. These classics […]

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20/10/2022

The treatment of death in the literature of the Restoration and eighteenth century

Focusing on ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’. ‘The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.’[1] There is no doubt of death being the main theme of Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. The tolling of a bell is immediately mentioned, which, in Gray’s time, ‘accumulated almost inescapable associations with the passing bell.’[2] Gray explores the theme of death […]

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