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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What does it mean to read beyond the headline? The headline does not contain the complete truth as many assume. The fact is If there are clues whether an article is fake or not, there are going to be ...
As Shakespeare once said, “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Juliet’s words on her balcony about her love were chosen thoughtfully and the symbolism well thought throu...
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...
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...
This beautiful world-renowned work is full of magic and unique characters. Certainly created for children, the story can seem somewhat dark. Virginia Woolf commented on this work and its sequel “...
There is more than Guinness and whiskey in Irish Culture, like Irish Writers. Nowadays Ireland is associated with Guinness, potato memes on the internet, Irish whiskey, and lately with Brexit. Since ...
Many of us are maybe familiar with putting off tasks, or going over deadlines, which are labelled as procrastinating. Why do people procrastinate? Does it only bring disadvantages, or does it also hav...
Detective Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, Tuppence, and Tommy Beresford. All are famous in the fiction world for their marvelous feats of intelligence and bravery. All characters birthed from the br...
One of the most important novelists of the nineteenth century was the English writer Jane Austen. With her literary work focusing on the thoughts and feelings of limited characters, Austen created a v...
Platonic Love is really what we think it is? We all have heard the expression “Platonic Love”. We immediately associate this expression with impossible, idealized love. That unattai...
Born on January 25, 1882, and died on March 28, 1942, Virginia Woolf is one of the most important modernist writers of all time. Her works were written in the stream of consciousness style and interio...
The ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho, was born in Lesbos in the 7th century BC. Here we shed some light on her period as one of the greatest lyric poets. Although information about her life is limited,...