Category: Essays
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Sex and Violence in William Blake’s “Vision of the Daughters of Albion”
William Blake’s defiance against his society’s traditional, orthodox ideals concerning sex and sexuality are seen throughout many of his poems, and even his artworks. The poem in which Blake most extensively elaborates his celebration of love, and his critique of sexual repression is Visions of the Daughters of Albion (here on shortened to Visions). Visions…
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The Performance of Motherhood in Peter Pan: Growing Up is a Trap
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie opens with a scene in the Darling household’s nursery, where the novel also ends through a kind of closure by return. The nursery, for the Darling children, represents a place of maternal comfort, for it is in this room in their home where they are taken care of by their…
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Wuthering Heights: On Violence and the Roles it Plays
“All’s fair in love and war” is a memorable quotation and idiom on the human psyche, representing the simple acceptance of immoral behaviors as these acts only transpire when the terms or situation is dire. This idiom, in specific aspects, can appear to represent a kind of anthem for violence; meaning that any and all…
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The Feminine and the Gothic: Landscape as a Mirror
Gothic literature often focuses on themes of death, decay, and both physical and psychological terror. Gothic style also suggests a belief in the supernatural, and thus many Gothic texts contain an air of mystery and intrigue. This mystery and intrigue is further promoted through the values of the Gothic aesthetic–that aesthetic being descriptions of fog,…
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