Waiting for Godot: a play about literature
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critical book reviews
'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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