Category: Literary Criticism

Collingwood (1993) argues, if we take the word science to mean any organized body of knowledge, then it is clear that history is a science but a special kind: whose business is to study events inaccessible to our observation, and to study these events inferentially, arguing to them from something else which is accessible to…

What is History? A question that needs a lot of thinking to be done. Before I read the book I thought the definition that best suits the question is History is a narrative of what civilized men have thought or done in the past given by Will Durant. EH Carrs What is History? Not only…

Introduction In this document, we are going to study the work of EH Carr on history in the book what is history? The document is divided into 5 parts to give the reader a flexible experience in the reading. Some points, paragraphs, and lines are taken from historical sources given by E.H Carr in his…

Reflective Essay What is history? Though history had been there since ancient periods, most people and scholars are confused about what really history means. The definition of history is neither complicated nor easy. The question of what is history sometimes feels meaningless but also superfluous. The book What is History? by E.H Carr talks about…

Set in Ancient Greece, Euripides harrowing play Medea explores the conflict between Medea and the patriarchy amidst the breakdown of marriage. Medea can be viewed as a victim of Jason and the patriarchy due to the injustice she faces as both a woman and an outsider. However, it is Medea who proves that she is…

Euripides highlights the idea that manipulation comes from ones great ambition to seek a vengeance. Medea has the most extreme desire to accomplish her revenge on Jason after he ‘betrayed [Medea] and his own children for a princess’ bed.’ Euripides makes good use of foreshadowing to make it clear to the audience of Medea’s extreme…

The most intriguing part of a Greek tragedy is the involvement of a tragic hero, which consistently draws in a greater group of spectators and excites their feelings. A tragic hero is an honorable or imperial character whose pain is brought about by his own misinterpretation, and his experience consistently makes the audience feel dread…

In Medea author Euripides depicts how alienation can fuel rage. In title character Medeas place, she is left by her husband, Jason, for another woman and is soon to be exiled from her home. Both alienation and fear are ingrained into the daily lives of women in a patriarchal society. Todays society reflects that of…

Romeo and Juliet are the main protagonists of William Shakespeares romantic tragedy. Romeo, a descendant of Lord and Lady Montague, falls in love and secretly marries a young girl called Juliet, a descendant of Lord and Lady Capulet, whom of which happen to be the rival family. Romeo is a well-respected young man in Verona.…

Romeo and Juliet, one of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece which illuminate the complexities of human emotions and character that continuously engages many audiences on the subject of love and the tragic fates of a star-crossed lover; whose death ultimately reconciles their family fuels. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet explores the concept of tragic love and…