Does Holden Caulfield epitomize Altruism or Misanthropic Nature?
Holden Caulfield manages to bring out the altruist in him, with all the negative attributions attached to his character. Holden Caulfield is the epitome of cynics in the outer world but there is a true innocent teenager buried under the image of a cynic. Salinger crafted Holden’s character much in relevance to his own self, making the young teenager a true recluse. The world perceives Holden as a rebel and a deviant but the phoney world denies that he is a conformist.
Is Patriarchy the Oppressor or the Victim of Gender Role and how has that been reflected in literature?
Shirley Manson often displays dark emotions in her lyrics.
PJ Harvey breaks through repression by her explicit unconventional lyrics, which have won the hearts of many music lovers.
Kamala Das, a much celebrated Indian feminist writer of the twenty first century passed away on May 31, 2009.
When you talk about ‘feminism’, the concept of ‘patriarchy’ is virtually raised directly or indirectly. Both come as heavily loaded concepts and they are often juxtaposed. Many feminist poets such as Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree), Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, Anna Akhmatova, etc to name a few talked substantially about feminism in different lights [...]
Existential protagonists are most often misunderstood as misanthropes who are curt, reticent, morose, disillusioned, and sometimes even mad besides being termed as cynics. They are often viewed by the society from the common man’s perspective who pretends and tries too hard to conform to the conventional societal norms set by the umpteen phonies. The existential [...]
Street photography is generally understood as “straight photography”, which apparently shows a pure vision of something such as, a single human movement caught precisely at a particular moment. Nevertheless, street photography doesn’t seem to be always chained by its subject matter as most of its works concentrate on other aspects rather strongly.
It is virtually true [...]
It certainly looks like the dream of many Blacks was achieved when Obama won the presidential elections of U.S.A. However, has Langston Hughes' dream been realized or does it continue to be deferred?
Existentialism is a concept that became popular during the World Wars in France and elsewhere in Europe, and just after it. French playwrights have often used the stage to express their views, and these views came to surface even during a Nazi occupation. Existentialism proposes that man is full of anxiety and despair with no [...]
While slavery and oppression against Africans is long gone, Indian dalits with a similar condition have been languishing for nearly 2000 years. Now they seem to have found their voice in postmodernism and other literary movements in west.
February 1, 2010
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