English literature holds a profound and enduring significance within the realms of culture and academia, its roots tracing back through the annals of time. It is a tapestry woven with the threads of creativity, intellect, and human experience, offering readers a panoramic view of the …
There are some psychological needs for human survival, and clothing is one of those few significant needs. America’s famous essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, a leading transcendentalist as well, demonstrates in his famous book Walden; or, Life in the Woods regarding the type of clothing and …
In Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, shelter is one of the few significant components, belongs to the psychological needs’ stage which is the most important among the five stages since the other stages’ needs are considered secondary until these psychological needs are met. Hence, discussions regarding …
Political satire is a kind of satire that specially concentrates on gaining amusement from political aspects. That device is used with a subversive intent where political discord and discussion are prohibited by an administration, as a way of continuing political arguments where arguments are expressly …
Jonathan Swift was arguably the greatest intellectual figure of the first half of the eighteenth century, who was a subtle observer of the follies and foibles of human society. In his master Gulliver’s Travels, he has highlighted both absurdities and good qualities of kings and …
Confession, in the Christian tradition, the acknowledgment of righteousness in public or private, is regarded as significant to obtain divine forgiveness. The need for confession is frequently stressed in the Bible. According to John 1:9, the word “confess” simply means to agree with God. The word in Greek …
Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood demands a psychoanalytic reading as it basically circles around the characters’ youth and psyche. The novel possesses a number of themes, i.e. loneliness; isolation; memory; death and life; alienation; mourning and melancholy; suicide; musical motif; existential crisis; lack and loss; sexuality, etc. and …
Divine transcendence refers to the notion of overcoming the physical limitation and soaring & going closer to the divine angelic order in order to experience the ultimate peace and happiness. Rainer Maria Rilke, in his famous Duino Elegies, a collection of ten elegies, comprehensively deals with …
Tereza had a very problematic childhood. She has a very significant relationship with her body and that relationship has something to do with her past. The philosophy of life of both Tereza’s mother and Tereza are totally poles apart. The value system that Tereza’s mom …
Professor Richard Holton (University of Cambridge) believes psychosomatic illness involves the beliefs or the other attitudes that the patient possesses and those have influences on the way of that illness presents and so, the symptoms are partly or perhaps entirely constituted as a result of the …