Part One: Several of our works this week portray significant or complex relationships between characters. Choose one that stood out to you as particularly moving or engaging. Describe the relationship and explain its personal resonance with you.   Part Two: Research one of this week’s authors and tell us what about his or her biography struck you as being reflective of issues in the work. Be sure […]

Personal assumptions and predispositions about the stalwart Romantic poet, William Wordsworth went on to be further substantiated. When one thinks of Wordsworth, his apotheosis of beauty and euphoria about the world encompasses one’s thought. The poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” goes on to portray the indomitable zeal of the eminent poet when it comes to admiration of the natural beauty of the world […]

The True Sexual Morality is a book written by Daniel Heimbach with the main purpose of illuminating the sexual culture in the church. The book serves to address three main purposes within the society. First, it seeks to identify ways in which our churches and society are getting into a sexual chaos. It also seeks to motivate believers on the importance of regaining and teaching […]

When considering the genre of Romantic Fiction, it is important to distinguish two main criteria. The first one is that the story should tell about the relationship and romantic love between two people. Secondly, the positive end of the story leaves the reader believing that love and relationship are very real and endure right next to them, and that love wins at all.

Narrative point of view refers to the position of the narrator in relation to the story that one is narrating. As such, when evaluating the point of view of the narrator, one focuses on the relationship between the narrator and the characters in the story. There are three major points of view that narrators can adopt while narrating a story. These are first-person, second-person, and […]

The characters in A Streetcar Named Desire make a number of choices, and one of the most memorable is Stanley’s decision to rape Blanche. Stanley chooses to do this because he wants to regain power over her. Her criticism and lack of respect towards him cause him to feel inferior and to worry that his wife no longer respects his authority.

The Comedy of Errors is one of the most acclaimed plays written by the stalwart literary artist, William Shakespeare. The playwright leaves no stone unturned to impact the audience with the quintessence of dramatic elements and affective appeal. A scrutiny of the play would lead to an introspective comprehension of the intricacies of the dramatic narrative. The play stands out with its effective characterization and […]

First Name Last Name Instructor Course 11 October 2017 Discussion Questions: Exploring Jonathan Haidt’s “The Righteous Mind” 1. In Chapter 1, “Where Does Morality Come From,” Jonathan Haidt discusses the origins of morality, which include social constructions humans have been following for years. Apart from the nature / nurture debate—a psychological breakdown of morals—Haidt also goes over how morals are related to the body (i.e. […]

Immortalist by Chloe Benjamin is a novel of sweeping ambition and fiendish poignancy. Aptly titled, the book grapples with the matters of life and death as well as an expiry date ending the latter and initiating the former. Benjamin is keenly aware of the inherent sorrow underlying one’s failure to cheat mortality, and she is not ashamed to explore it in a gimmicky premise of […]

  Ernest Cline who wrote Ready Player One in 2011 could have scarcely predicted that his vision (or preview) of the dystopian future would turn stale and sour less than a decade after the book’s publication. The proliferation of VR sets has rendered the once groundbreaking Literary Role Playing Game (LitRPG) genre farcical if not downright anachronistic. This pesky fact notwithstanding, the book works. It […]