William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is a timeless tragedy that continues to captivate audiences across centuries for its intricate depiction of human emotions. Among the many sent...
Aristotle once said that “A man doesn’t become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall”, and that is a tragic hero. A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment ...
Books transport us to an alternate reality, one that may be better than that we’re in. A story has the power to help you escape into a different dimension, one that may be full of imagination and crea...
My Absolute Darling is a novel by Gabriel Tallent about an inspiring victim of domestic abuse, Turtle Alveston and her survival journey. This is not your typical domestic abuse novel. While you may be...
Short summary Returning from a won battle, Macbeth and Banquo met three witches. They announce them the next Macbeth’s coronation as king of Scotland. Shortly after, once told it to her wife, Ma...
Gertrude, or the well-known “Nun of Monza”, is certainly one of the most interesting and mysterious characters of The Betrothed, the most famous novel of Alessandro Manzoni. Italian students usually d...
Storytelling and Oppression Literature plays a crucial role as a tool to express the injustice embedded in societies. Through a fictional story with characters that are fighting oppression and ...
Lord Byron and his society George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) managed, with no fear, to deal with his being. It’s important to define the society, pre-Victorian age, at the time very conform...
The Trojan war According to the Iliad, Paris was called as right judge to choose which deity had the primate to be the most beautiful; his choice was Aphrodite who in return promised him the love of H...
Welcome to the second topic in our Art 101 series – Illuminated manuscripts. Today we will be taking a whistle-stop tour through the history of illuminated manuscripts across Europe from...
Greek poet Homer Tradition here comes to tell about an author whose poems have changed the worldwide literature; Poet and orator, Homer from Greece, lived in 8-9 century BCE. About him v...
We all have heard about the myth of Atlantis at some point in our lives. There are many theories and different opinions on this topic and all of them are so interesting and are worth a read. Several w...
“An Essay Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe”, written by William Penn, consists of a peace proposal. In the tenth section, the author lists seven benefits that result from it....
What is the “Language Planning”? The term “language planning” was first introduced in literature by Haugen (1959). He used it to describe the efforts carried out in Norway to a...
Previously… National language planning is made up of three elements: status planning, corpus planning, and acquisition planning. The spread of Icelandic The dissemination of the linguistic patte...
3 Italian books that you should read – episode 2 is part of a series. If you want to read the previous articles, you can check them down below: 3 Italian books that you should read – episo...
3 Italian books that you should read – episode 1 This article will suggest you, our curious readers, 3 Italian books that you should read. Since Italian literature is so wide, you may not have h...
So, what ’twere like ‘i the early 1000s? Wait, let us rephrase! So, what was it like in the early 1000s? This question covers various spectrums like everyday life, customs, social norms,...
The most known and famous Russian writer with a medical education was – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. He wrote stories and novels already in the school but after it, he, even so, went to a medical fa...
Octavia E. Butler’s novel Fledgling presents the story of Shori, a vampire. Just from this information, it is easy to assume that this is an another vampire novel about romance and fantasy. Yet, the c...
Kurt Vonnegut is an American author of the bestseller “Slaughterhouse-Five” and the author of the very popular article “How To Write With Style”. He also was a teacher of writi...
Sofiya Tolstaya (Bers) was in a marriage with Lev Tolstoy from the year 1862 to 1910 and gave birth to 13 of his children. Threw all her life, she was writing her diaries since 11 years old and destro...
T.S. Eliot shows how World War I affected Americans by the symbolism in his poems, “The Hollow Men” and “The Waste Land”. World War I or The Great War in historical terms that lasted 4 years between 1...
Book recommendations from East Asian literature are from China this week. China is one of the East Asian countries which has an enormously rich culture. From its delicious noodles to its long history,...
Maus is not only a graphic novel, a biography, or an autobiography, it is a survival story. The graphic novel genre is one of the aspects of Postmodernism. Maus by Art Spiegelman, in particular, shows...
What is Sheol? The word “Sheol” is itself controversial in meaning and has divided critics. It usually refers to a grave, but also to the idea of an abyss. It is considered a borrowed term...
Haruki Murakami is one of the most popular Japanese writers nowadays. His books and stories are very interesting for people of different ages and it’s hard to find a person who doesn’t know any of the...
The Ancient Greeks and Romans had a strong perception of life and death. Gods manifested in almost every aspect of their lives, through myths and their oral tradition. The Pantheon acted as a foundati...
If you are lucky enough to be in Catalonia on the 23rd of April, you will experience one of the most beautiful and unique celebrations of this region, On that day, every year, Catalans celebrate ̶...
East Asian countries recently have started to spread all over the world in terms of their music, food, films as well as pieces of their literature. From Korea to China, the domination of Ea...