Category: Literary Criticism

In the nineteenth century, women were oppressed in American society at the time, and it was dangerous for women to fight back. The womens role in society wasnt pleasant either and no one could fully understand what it meant to be a woman or the hardships they were faced with at the time, to which…

Discoveries can provide new insights that transform an individuals perception of themselves and the world. Both William Shakespeares tragicomedy The Tempest (1611) and Laura Palmers memoir, Mystery is the Precinct Where I Found Peace (2002) highlight how introspection enables individuals to be emotionally transformed. Furthermore, both texts reveal how by reconsidering prior assumptions, individuals may…

Throughout history, women have been constrained by their corresponding societys beliefs, and nurture that instruct or compel them to be who they are not necessarily meant to be. This issue has been limiting feminine freedom and failed to admire the humanistic approach to consider all individuals to be equally free, fenced with no boundaries. This…

The successful reframing of prisons in texts engages an audience to explore the powerful change of perspectives on prisons through the isolation of characters and differing contexts. In the prose fiction Hag-Seed, Atwood’s appropriation of The Tempest, reframing the metaphorical prisons in Shakespeare’s’ The Tempest to a literal representation has shifted the audience to a…

The Tempest is a challenging play to categorize because it is considered by most scholars to be Shakespeare’s final solo piece. It has been classified as a ‘problem plays,’ and examination of the work has emphasized the work’s straightforward nature. Many have sought to link Prospero to Shakespeare himself, viewing the play as a last…

Relationships can often affect our sense of being to the point where we cannot discern the difference in how much we have changed within ourselves. Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour, Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper, and Jamaica Kincaids Girl convey that one can easily lose their identity and self-being which can lead…

Feminist literary criticism arose from the work of first-wave feminism but mostly came about from second-wave feminism in the early 1960s. Inspired by the civil rights movement in the US, women of all ages began fighting to secure a more prominent role in society. They strove for equality between men and women in the workforce.…

Are you happy in your life? Did you find happiness in your life? This question has been asked by people of all ages from different many countries. They asked what this happiness feeling is, what it’s like, and how it can be held longer. If you try asking people, what is happiness or what it…

Rather than centralizing on postcolonial critiques of Caliban as the colonized Other in The Tempest, Atwood reimagines a humanist critique of the Fletcher Correctional Players in Hag-Seed. Inspired by Canadas reformative prison literature of the Shakespeare Behind Bar program, Atwood adapts the universality of Shakespeares language to allow the inmates to transgress their mundane existence…

Elizabethan play or theatre, also known as English Renaissance theatre, is referred to as the plays written and performed during the reign of Elizabeth I of England from 1558 to 1603 CE. The actors of the play were generally touring troupes and the plays were written in blank verse. The plays, more often than not,…