This essay analyses Christopher Marlowe’s play Tamburlaine the Great and its intricate interweaving of historical events and cultural nuances.Focusing on the character of Tamburlaine,the essay explores themes of powe...
Revenge permeates most of Shakespeare’s plays,and scholars understand the themes in historical context.Some believe that the plays involved revenge are evidence that the public was morally opposed to it.For others,ho...
Written in 1997 after the launch of NASA’s Mars probe,this short story by well-known sci-fi writer Yang Ping gains new relevance in light of China’s recent missions to the Red Planet.Set in a future human colony on ...
Hamlet,a play accomplished by Shakespeare probably in 1601,is often defined as a typical Elizabethan revenge tragedy which closely follows the dramatic conventions of revenge play set in ancient Greek and Roman times,...
This paper analyzed revenge in The Count of Monte Cristo.Bourdieu’s concept of habitus was used in the analysis with the help of field and capital.Dantes,an innocent and kind gentleman is unwillfully exposed to the o...
Euripides’Medea is one of the first Greek and Roman mythologies that pay attention to people’s thoughts and behaviors.And Wuthering Heights is one of many later literary works,in which prototypes of that are displac...
One-hundred years have passed since the original description of the commonly described phenomenon of persistent abdominal symptoms being triggered by an acute enteric infection. This first account was generated out of...
Although the main plot of Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was formed by Prynne and Dimmesdale who together committed an unforgivable sin,Chillingworth is long regarded as the real incarnation of evil.Different from ot...
Thinking about the problem of terrorism, the author finds its origins in the myth of the Trojan War, treating it as a battle for space, which was the primary basis for the civilizational leap--the expansion of the Gre...
Heathcliff and Mao Jie are tragic figures respectively from Wuthering Heights and Jade Goddess of Mercy written by Chinese writer Hai Yan. Both of them took frenzied revenge because of lovers' betrayal. There are many...