The Proverb in a Kafkaesque Lens
“It was living like a beetle!” said J.K. Rowling in her 2010 interview with Oprah. “Living like a beetle” is perhaps only a well-known proverb to the well-trained literary figures and contributors, which makes it logical to have been spoken by J.K. Rowling. It carries a strongly negative cultural connotation that relates it to someone […]
The Archetypal Uncovering of Light/ Truth through Stories
“OEDIPUS. Apollo. Apollo. Dear Children, the god was Apollo. He brought my sick, sick fate upon me. But the blinding hand was my own! How could I bear to see When all my sight was horror everywhere?” — OEDIPUS REX, EXODOS The “blind seer motif” or the “irony of vision” is a phenomenon of perception […]
Self-realization through Sylvia Plath’s Ariel
Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue Pour of tor and distances. To begin, and continue more, how about a quotation from D.H.Lawrence’s The Rainbow in regard to its character Ursula is pointed out: “The darkness and wetness of rain could not put out the hard, urgent, massive fire that was locked within these flanks.” […]
Anahita, the Persian Water Goddess
Anahita, the Persian water Goddess of fertility, when expressed and explained, brings along a certain point about which a collective agreement and merriment, as well, can be made. However, before the honour of acquaintance with this deity has come into frution, a very short concept had better be unfurled: To breach it, a travel to […]
Electra Complex in Queer Theory
Electra, Subversion of Oedipus? First things need be dealt first: At the heart of the mother-son-father triangle lies a complex that derives its name from the Greek myth of Oedipus the Rex. On purpose did Freud choose such title for this phenomenon. He concluded that perhaps, especially amongst boys, it is a propensity to direct […]
Antigone’s Existentialism
“Ismene: You have a hot mind over chilly things” (Antigone 160). “Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being— like a worm” (Sartre). The year that was still four to five centuries before the Common era, there was still- not as what is knowable, nowadays- no technical term to define or determine existential philosophy. On […]
Maya Angelou’s Phenomenal Woman: A Formalist-Feminist Study
Maya Angelou, who was an African-American modern woman poet, manifested the belief that a poet’s job is to help the moral standards of her culture and society to elevate. “I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, who teaches by being.” Here, as a truth can be […]
Narratological Analysis of Grimm Fairy Tales’ Simpleton
Amongst the recurring archetypes of the Grimm fairy tales, there’s one- always the youngest of his other two brothers- renowned as the Simpleton/ Dummling. He’s usually considered the laughing stock or the black sheep of his family. Why the fellow is observed inferior results from how naïve, natural, kind, and emotionally attached, one’s perception of […]