Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
PART II
It must be moving to watch at the stage the entrance of Caesar with his retinue, especially upon the scene where Cassius has been cursing him. There are Brutus and Cassius isolated from other people, and involved in a secret talked. And there appears Caesar with a crowd. However, the effect produced is contrary to the expected, such as magnificent Caesar walking nobly with his people hailing him … Read the rest
Part 1
The scene begins with a public event, a foot race, where Mark Antony is also running. We hear Caesar quite confident with himself, giving orders to people who are listening to him and obeying his orders. Even Casca the conspirator appears to be an obedient man, telling people to be quiet and listen to Caesar. This is the background of the scene. There is peace and order. Things … Read the rest
When Lazarus rose from the grave, after three days and nights in the
mysterious thraldom of death, and returned alive to his home, it was a
long time before any one noticed the evil peculiarities in him that
were later to make his very name terrible. His friends and relatives
were jubilant that he had come back to life. They surrounded him with
tenderness, they were lavish of their eager … Read the rest
THE STORY BEHIND AN INCOMPETENT KING
“Starved of affection during childhood, ignored by his father in adolescence, and confronted by unsolved problems at his accession, Edward II sought advice, friendship, even affection, from ambitious favourites.”(Morgan, 176) It is strange that a king should be seeking affection and be in need of friendship. In fact, what is strange is that such a man as Edward II should be a king. But … Read the rest
I love you, said I
And tried in vain to read the lines on her face
Being desperately in need of a silent response.
Pointless as the attempt was
Myself went to the point and asked
–And how do you feel?
Pregnant as usual was Mrs. Surprise
She bore a child, legitimate,: pause
And then smiled her rosy lips
And then produced a gray response
–THIS IS AN HONOR,
Foreboding … Read the rest
I wrote this article at university on American myth of the wild west. Unfortunately I lost the works cited section. Therefore I don’t remember who Fink was to whose work I refer several times in the article.Apparently the West had some sort of wildness. It was the region where “civilization” arrived later. It had been the direction to go. And, in a sense, it had been what the young American … Read the rest
How far canand should we be sure of our lives? You have a job, a good wife, and good prospects for the future? Are you sure you won’t lose them tomorrow? The story of the man, whose name we are never given, in Leonid Andreyev’s The Man Who Found The Truth is a story of power and submission. What is the power? Perhaps it is life. Perhaps it is God. … Read the rest
This, too, begins with realistic elements like “we unshipped our goods and wintered there; for the Captain falling sick..”.
In this country everything is a scale of ten to one in relation to our familiar world.
Gulliver is caught on the shore by one of the natives and brought to a farmer’s house where he fights with two rats and kills them. There he establishes good relations with the farmer’s … Read the rest
This part begins with some information that Gulliver gives of himself and his family: his family had a small estate in Nottinghamshire, he attended Emanuel College in Cambridge etc. He always had a desire to travel, which he later fulfills most effectively. In his first voyage he is shipwrecked. After some struggle with the sea he is safely ashore on the coast of the empire of Lilliput. There he finds … Read the rest
“Gulliver’s Travels” consists of four parts, each of which is about a different voyage to another strange place. The original title of the book was “Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships.”.
This work is a famous satire of the contemporary England and its institutions. In it Jonathan Swift uses an ancient satirical … Read the rest
