Waiting for Godot: a play about literature
'Waiting for Godot' by Samuel Beckett, first performed in 1953, is arguably a play confronting post-modern thinking about the...
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critical book reviews
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Dec 12, 2020
- 7 min
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, 2020
- 11 min
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, 2020
- 7 min
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, 2020
- 8 min
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, 2020
- 12 min
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, 2020
- 11 min
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, 2020
- 9 min
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, 2020
- 8 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 9 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 11 min
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, 2020
- 7 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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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