Emily Brontë first published the novel Wuthering Heights in 1847. H. G. Wells first published the novella The Time Machine in 1895. Each of the 19th-century works of fiction expresses a...
Strophe Although commonly represented as a poem to a man, doing so would misrepresent many of the underlying aspects of the world Shakespeare lived in.[1] Shakespeare existed in a world that had...
Speculative and science fiction can serve as a methodology to explore the nature of humanity and the development of new technology and how it will affect culture. In regard to pathology in...
Rupetta (Sulway, 2013) is a post-modern reinterpretation of the Jewish golem fable. The mechanical “woman” created in the story has been said to express sentience and immortality. For the most...
Part 1: The Case Introduction George Orwell warned of the power of repressed speech and the rise of Big Brother in 1984. Yet today, in a culture of ‘woke’ values and virtue signalling, in times of...
Cheney (220) discusses many aspects of republican thought, and analyses the changes in political structures to argue that the West’s most enduring problem stems directly from human mortality. This...
Shakespeare cared little for historical accuracy; rather, the author used historical events as psychological markers that would ‘jog’ the memory of his audience. Callaghan (1993) said that the...
The reflection task of asking why cultural maintenance is important comes with a presupposition that needs to be addressed, before it is possible to investigate and see whether cultural...
Great stories often embed many different perspectives of reality, and contain stories within stories. The Great Gatsby embeds layer upon layer of alternative tales and alternative methodologies of...
Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus In knowingly choosing rebellion, Prometheus set the stage, defining a choice of opposing tyranny and unjust laws, starting the march down the long path towards equality...