The main theme in ‘Monsieur Lazhar’, a film directed by Philippe Falardeau, is death. This film is a dramatic comedy that takes place in a primary school in Canada where a teacher has committed suicide, and is then replaced by ‘Monsieur Bachir Lazhar’, an Algerian immigrant seeking asylum, after having left his home country due to threats to his family, […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]