“The Eve of St. Agnes” can be said as a boundary work when focusing on the colour purple. This essay will discuss about Keats’s usage of colour purple as the symbolization of mortality, and discover the reason why it started from “The Eve of St. Agnes”. I...
So far, we examined Ishiguro’s short stories and first three novels. The first and the second novels were set in Japan that Ishiguro had not seen for almost 30 years and mainly deal with Japanese. Then, why did Ishiguro try to write the third novel, The Remai...
In this chapter we will look at how the English writer JG Ballard wrote about Shanghai in his autobiography novel-Empire of the Sun. Ballard was born and grew up to sixteen in Shanghai during the Second War. This is an account of JG Ballard's childhood in Shan...
In the Chapter?, we defined what ‘Britpop’ phenomenon was to think about its birth from internal and external factors. The economic policy of the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the rise of ‘rave culture’ were internal factors. It was external factor ...
Comparing Sherlock Holmes with a real wizard in literature must be the interesting attempt, because their similar attributes clarify the wizardly aspect of Holmes. I would like to pick up Merlin, a famous wizard in Arthurian legend, who seems to be a suitable ...
I will discuss about the colour usage in John Keats’s The Eve of St. Agnes by using statistics, and analyzes the meanings and effects of the prominent colour terms, purple. Why colours and why John Keats? Colour studies have been developing throughout the age...
On discussing Balin’s weapons, I would like to introduce Balin’s tale at first. Balin is a member of the Knights of the Round Table. After the first Lady of the Lake gave Excalibur to Arthur, another lady came with a beautiful sword. She says only “a passin...