SAKUNTALA VS. WESTERN PLAYS Unlike Western plays, there is no tradition of tragedy in India, and Kalidasa's plays always have happy endings. In Hinduism, everyone has an infinite number of chances to achieve enlightenment and liberation from the wheel of rebirth. A life that ends badly is only a ...

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame "Love is a universal language." This popular quote from many movies and literary works describes the importance of love, and how there are no limits or barriers when dealing with love. Many people cannot even help whether or not they fall in love. There a...

Maggie Tulliver: Divided Needs Represented in Diverse Relations It is said that George Eliot's style of writing deals with much realism. Eliot, herself meant by a "realist" to be "an artist who values the truth of observation above the imaginative fancies of writers o...

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame "Love is a universal language." This popular quote from many movies and literary works describes the importance of love, and how there are no limits or barriers when dealing with love. Many people cannot even help whether or not they fall in love. T...

Written in 1966 and 1987 respectively, both Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and David Wagoner's "My Father's Garden" are two poems which pay special tribute to the speakers' fathers. Even though the poetic tones and family settings are different, however, th...