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Veronicas’ life is described in the eyes of a friend Okeke. He felt sorry for veronica when they were both children and talks of the difficulties in her life, her family was particularly poor and talks of her suspicious and brutal father, he would lie awake listening to her beatings. Okeke won a scholarship to university;…

Singing in Wide Sargasso Sea is used to emphasise both ‘hope’ and ‘despair’. Mr Rochester and Antoinette are brought close when he sings her a song ‘Shine bright, shine bright Robin as you die’ (pg 49). Antoinette is able to join in with him, allowing an intimate unity to be established between them. However, Rhys…

Song of Solomon is a novel of hope while Wide Sargasso Sea is a novel of despair. Discuss this assertion with particular comparison to the representation of culture and society. The quest for self identity is extremely important in defining whether Song of Solomon should be considered as a novel of ‘hope’ whilst Wide Sargasso…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” is exemplary in showing the forgoing of the spirit of religion and justice in the name of man-made codes such as honor. The writer portrays an unnamed town where the most vicious of crimes can be committed in the name of honor. The Vicario brothers who…

Marquez subtly transforms a historical murder into a crime thriller in his novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold[1]. The very first line of the novel informs the reader about the murder, which prompts the reader to discover how and why the protagonist, Santiago Nasar will be murdered. Marquez appraises the foretold death but leaves it…

People who dare to make a unique stand, people who don’t fit into the social rules and norms of the world, are rejected by the circle of Society. Society allows those who fit comfortably into its circle, obeys the regulations it creates and follows what everyone else in the group does. Being outside this circle…

The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima is a post-World War II novel centering on the ill-fated lovers, Shinji and Hatsue. At first glance, the novel appears to be a classical love story of a couple kept apart due to social and environmental obstacles, but a deeper analysis reveals that The Sound of Waves may…

My definition of context will also encompass all these criteria. It is important to note that ways of knowing act only as impulses to attain truth and their dependence on context is of negligible importance. My discussion will focus on how truths in different areas of knowledge are context dependent. I start my discussion by…

Thomas Hardy’s (1840-1928) novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) was Hardy’s attempt to take a closer look upon the ideals of his era, and through Tess and her story, criticize it. Hardy himself said of tragedy; “It may be put thus in brief: a tragedy exhibits a state of things in the life on an…

The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea. “What does the novel teach us about loneliness?” Loneliness is a condition of human life, an experience of being human. Everyone feels loneliness at one or more points of his or her life. In the novel “The sailor who fell from grace with the sea”, almost…