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A Look At Theme in “Everything is Illuminated”
People whisper lies and secrets to and fro throughout their daily lives; at times they could be discussing hot topics of gossip, at other times they could be merely reminding themselves of a subject. Every person at some point in time will believe a lie, hear a secret, or tell a lie. The greatest lies…
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Sleep Dealer (2008) Mini Analysis
Sleep Dealer depicts a dystopian future that explores the many ways in which technology both oppresses and connects migrants through the use of “nodes”. A border wall, similar to what the current United States President Trump has discussed building, has ended unauthorized Mexico-US immigration. However, migrant workers are now replaced by robots, remotely controlled by…
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Fried Green Tomatoes and the Nature of Love
Question: What does the novel Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg suggest about the nature of love? Throughout the book “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe,” any reader can observe the constantly developing versions of love between both major and minor characters. This is apparent in the exclusively intense “friendship” shared between Ruth Jamison…
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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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Descend into the Spiral: A Review
What does it mean to be afraid of a concept that on its own is not frightening? How could one even conceive of such horror? In the manga, Uzumaki by Junji Ito, the shape of the spiral takes on this horrific role, as it manifests as a sort of Lovecraftian monster in order to terrify,…
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