Category: Literature
“The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle” is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and was first published in 1851 as part of the collection “The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told …
“The Artist of the Beautiful” is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and was first published in 1844. It tells the tale of Owen Warland, a talented young …
“Wakefield” is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1835. The story revolves around a man named Mr. Wakefield, who inexplicably decides to leave his wife …
“Young Goodman Brown” is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American author, and was first published in 1835. The story is set in Salem Village, Massachusetts, during …
Major Themes Oedipus complex: Perhaps Sigmund Freud’s most celebrated theory of sexuality, the Oedipus complex takes its name from the title character of the Greek play Oedipus Rex. In …
Mother-Son Relationship Mother-Son Relationship 1: Her children, but more specifically William, are the only bright spot in Mrs. Morel’s frustrated, disgusted life. She despises the life she has with …
SHAKESPEARE SEEN IN THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Q.1 Every man’s performance, to be rightly estimated, must be compared with the state of the age in which he lived’ with his …
Critics on Johnson and his Preface to Shakespeare W:K. Wimsatt. Johnson entertained very sound views about the philological part of an editor’s duties. His performance in this respect was, …
JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE’S MERITS Johnson Wood Krutch : If, as may certainly be maintained, the final test of a critic is willingness and ability to recognize excellence even when …
JOHNSON’S PREFERENCE FOR SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES T.S. Eliot. Why should Johnson have thought Shakespeare’s comic parts were spontaneous, and that his tragic parts were laboured? Here; it seems to me, …