Since the second half of the twentieth century, there has been a commitment on the part of women writers and scholars to revise and rewrite the history and culture of colonial and post-colonial women. This panel seeks to examine issues of women's identities and bodies through literary representations and historical accounts. The aim will be to reconstruct women's identities through the representations of their bodies in literature and to analyse women's bodies historically as sites of abuse, ...
Tartuffe is a comic play written by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin who is widely known as Moliere. The play was first performed in 1664. Due to the widespread controversy that the play elicited, it was placed on ban by factions from the religious community. In fact, the play aroused immense objection from the religious organizations of France during the seventeenth century to the extent that the then Paris Archbishop issued a threat of excommunication on any person watching, listening or buying the p...
Tartuffe is the hypocrite in the play. He pretends to be a religious zealot in order to gain acceptance by the unsuspecting characters. Despite the fact that Tartuffe is discussed by virtually all characters from the commencement of the play he only appears in Act 3. As a matter of fact, the title of the play is in his name; a clear indication that he is the bone of contention. His devastating actions impact grossly on other characters. Various characters in play discuss him differently depen...
In life, people change in many different ways by either forcing themselves to change or by experiencing events. Everybody in life changes, sometimes it takes a long time but sometimes it's an immediate reaction but eventually they will change. Often people change due to experience or force it usually to better themselves. According to psychology, change can usually be good or bad depending on how it affects the person and society around the individual. Change, to become or make oneself or one...
A similarity exists in both the author's writing which is in disagreement to the dominant culture and the 'standard' societal ideas of their time. This is shown by the two modern works which I will be analyzing; Isabel Allende's The House of Spirits and A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen which develop the conflict of gender roles in their works. Both authors use in my opinion an authentic female character(s) and that by the end despite the male domination are able to rebel against societal 'norm'...
Traditionally an exposition of a play sets the tone, mood, reveals the main characters and also the major themes persisting in the play. The playwrights' Chekhov and Ibsen follow this tradition to some extent but in their own ways create an exposition in such a way that the audience's attention is immediately grasped. The Cherry Orchard was written in the post industrialization period. It was a period where the middle class came into vogue and peasants could buy land. There was a decline in t...
Do you know Jackie Chan is dead? A Los Angeles hospital reported that Jackie Chan had died of a heart attack on 3/29/2011. Fans swarmed Facebook after confirmation of his passing came through a source close to Chan. It shows that people believe information from the media, whether true or not, and are unable to distinguish which is correct. This relatively minor news story reflects how media can inaccurately depict reality even over long period of time and with whole segments of the population...
During the time period of Ambrose Bierce, much change was going on in the world. The country was divided. Slavery was the issue and it was causing major upheaval in the United States. There was serious political turmoil surrounding slavery, and it resulted in states seceding from the Union. The American Civil War was then fought, and thousands of people were killed or injured. After the war, the nation was trying to rebuild what was lost. Many people had lost so much in the war, such as loved...
If one were to ask Robert Frost the profound meanings of his poems, one would have gotten the reply, "If I wanted you to know I'd had told you in the poem (Stopping by Woods)." One of the most renowned poets of the twentieth century, Frost is most famous for his use of vivid images and attempt to appeal to the senses through nature. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is viewed by many to be one of his greatest works. The pensive mood of the poem tells the story of a traveler enjoying a quic...
Escaping can be a productive coping mechanism to life's many demands and challenges. There must be an exploration of their existence in this world full of confusion and desire to find their own entity. Robert Frosts' poem "Birches" is a reflective poem about an old man dwelling on his youthful days with a strong desire to return. He also knows that he has a responsibility stay as an adult with responsibilities. Consequently there may be controversy over this desire; he thinks that it is okay ...