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Samuel Beckett

Dec 24, 20206 min read

Waiting for Godot: a play about literature

'Waiting for Godot' by Samuel Beckett, first performed in 1953, is arguably a play confronting post-modern thinking about the...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Dec 12, 20207 min read

The Yellow Wallpaper - critical review: the importance & complications of language

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper', published in 1892, comments on the problem of language as a human construct....

William Faulkner

Dec 6, 202011 min read

As I Lay Dying - critical review: a novel about narration

Faulkner's 1930 novel 'As I Lay Dying' uses narration to create a novel not based on a plot of action, but of characters. Faulkner's...

Chinua Achebe

Nov 23, 20207 min read

Things Fall Apart - critical review: conversion or criticism of Aristotelian conventions of tragedy?

Chinua Achebe's 1958 'Things fall apart' seems both a criticism and conversion to Aristotelian ideas of classical tragedy. Achebe wrote...

Christopher Marlowe

Aug 26, 20208 min read

Doctor Faustus - critical review: Is Doctor Faustus a victim?

Christopher Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus' portrays individuals inferiority and victimhood to the ambiguities, and constraints, of the human...

Donna Tartt

Aug 23, 202012 min read

The Secret History - critical review: explored as a Greek Tragedy

Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History' follows a year of six classic student's lives at a New England College, starting the novel off with...

Homer

Aug 8, 202011 min read

The Odyssey - critical review

The Odyssey is the second epic poem attributed to Homer and explores the identity of one man: Odysseus. With this exploration comes an...

Homer

Aug 5, 20209 min read

The Iliad - critical review

The entirety of The Iliad is surrounded by the juxtaposition of the mortals compared to the immortal Gods. All the mortals are aware of...

Emily Bronte

Aug 3, 20208 min read

Wuthering heights - critical review

I read Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel 'Wuthering Heights' after reading the article 'Interrogating the Other - Stoker, Bronte and Shelley'...

Arthur Miller

Apr 21, 20205 min read

Death of a salesman - critical review

After being interested in the idea of the hero after reading 'The Iliad' and then 'Paradise Lost', I wanted to read something that looked...

James Hogg

Apr 21, 20209 min read

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - critical review

After reading 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray' and 'The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', I was interested in looking at the idea of...

Robert Louis Stevenson

Apr 14, 20206 min read

The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - critical review

After reading Oscar Wilde's 'Picture of Dorian Gray', I was interested in reading another Victorian novel that focused on the idea of the...

Oscar Wilde

Apr 8, 202011 min read

The Picture of Dorian Gray - critical review

I watched a series of lectures about the Supernatural and the evolution of the supernatural, and one key aspect of the course was the...

Ian McEwan

Mar 31, 20207 min read

Atonement - critical review

I read Ian McEwan's 'Atonement' after finishing Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs Dalloway' since I heard that they have been compared and in some...

Sophocles

Mar 29, 20206 min read

Antigone - critical review

Antigone, by Sophocles, is one most famous tragedies from ancient Greece and is still performed today all across the world. Sophocles was...

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