
Understanding the Genre of Le Guin’s “Omelas”
A story like “Omelas” is valuable to utopian and dystopian critics alike because it allows the reader to determine whether it is a utopia or a dystopia. […]
A story like “Omelas” is valuable to utopian and dystopian critics alike because it allows the reader to determine whether it is a utopia or a dystopia. […]
Far from the world of evil and corrupt court, is the world of the forest. It is a world o true reality where there is no room for flattery. Here people live in harmony with nature and resolve all their conflicts. […]
Shakespeare shows the grim reality of politics in ‘Julius Caesar’. Replete with conspiracies and conflicts, we see how appearance and reality are ambiguous. […]
Shakespeare combines delightful repartee and the conventional comic path to investigate love in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. Sometimes, it is not a central authority or a powerful person that creates a block in a relationship. Rather it is the pride of the characters themselves that creates this block. […]
‘The Tempest’ is rich with the sense of the ongoing bounty of life, but also well aware of the sadness of loss and the inevitability of death, and also of the mystery of what lies beyond this life. […]
Unlike Caliban, Ariel brings the elements of harmony and forgiveness in ‘The Tempest’. He makes Prospero take the nobler action of mercy. […]
The interactions between Prospero and Caliban in Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ tells us a lot about human relationships. There is mutual hatred along with a heavy dependency for the sake of survival on the island. […]
Why is there such a long period of suffering in The Tempest for almost every character? The play is not a tragedy, yet, the harsh years and sorrow play long-lasting roles. As a romance, the suffering has to be there. […]
Every romance and comedy needs a character who tries to protect his daughter from the dangers of men and to block her love life. In The Tempest, it is Prospero who takes this role and takes the play away from realism with his spirit-angel and magic. […]
The elements of romance in ‘The Tempest’ show how this tragicomedy is organized and why some things happen in the play. […]
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