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Albert Camus, born on the 7th of November 1913 in Algeria, was a French journalist, author and philosopher. After World War I many Europeans lost faith and began to question certain aspects of life. Camus and various existential writers, such as Samuel Beckett, judged that life was mainly monotonous and grey and that the “loss…

Q: Confession: Who is speaking? Is the speech ironic? Why has Otsuka chosen to end the novel this way? What does this imply about our ability to separate out the ‘enemy’, the ‘other’, in our midst? In the chapter titled “Confession” the speaker admits to the reader the truths of the story. This person talks…

Questionï  An exploration of the beliefs of the Nurse and Chorus in the portrayal of Medea. Throughout the play Medea is evoked as a person with many different character traits. The Chorus and the Nurse portray their view points of Medea in many different was. As the Nurse knows Medea, she is aware of what…

Uma is the main character in the book and the author’s symbol for the grossly subservient role of women, especially in Indian society. The portrait painted of Uma is one of a not especially pretty girl who is clumsy, slow, and not academically inclined. Uma has an earnest desire to learn, despite her handicaps, because…

In some communities religion is seen as the daily bread of many lives, thus shaping the way the community lives and the way they perceive the world. Religion being foundation of some lives, people use it as a way to obtain peace for one’s soul, yet others can take advantage of religion to fulfill their…

Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House,” a controversial, Norwegian play focusing on a couple’s marriage has quite remarkable similarities and differences with Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” a captivating, Russian play about an aristocratic family and their inability to face change. While the first set the foundation for modern realism in drama, the second, 20 years…

The stage directions (represented here in italics) play the largest role in representing the house and delivering the situations of the characters but as an undertone, via the state of the house/setting, and the certain parts of the house which are revealed. Likewise, the introduction to the first act also embodies a large part of…

The two novels are very different in style and consequently the ways in which the protagonists are presented also differ. However despite this stylistic difference with Zola’s naturalistic style creating believable and gritty characters while Susskind’s post- modern approach is characterized by a far-fetched storyline featuring fantastic almost supernatural characters, some of the effects are…

It may be physical or psychological, and a cursory observation of human interactions makes it apparent that we engage psychologically in at least two different, not necessarily mutually exclusive types of “seeing”. One is where we employ external inputs to perceive the outside world. The other is the unadulterated gazing inside of our own conscious:…

  It becomes apparent that he is a man driven by circumstances, and not an evil heart. He also tells Nora, “I want no money from your husband… I want back on my feet” (804); illustrating that he is not driven by greed, but by a genuine desire to better himself for his children. The…