by Alexis Jennings | Jan 21, 2024 | Literature
Shakespeare’s tragicomedy ‘Hamlet’ is notable for only two female characters, both of whom are closely related to Hamlet as the protagonist: Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother and matriarch of the play, and Ophelia, Hamlet’s younger love. In this...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 21, 2024 | life essays
[ad_1] The Cold War was a period of tension whereby the Western world and the communist democracies of Eastern Europe were in conflict as a result of an ideological and geopolitical struggle for global influence. Tensions never led to direct military engagement, but...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 21, 2024 | Literature
Freud’s psychoanalytic theory was the idea that the mind is made of different parts that have the potential to conflict with one another. The three main parts are known as the id, ego, and superego. The id is irrational and emotional thought, while the superego is...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 21, 2024 | life essays
[ad_1] Our lives are packed with ups and downs, learning, challenges and choices; experience, commitment, and observance. It’s about joy, it’s about sadness and light, it’s about obscurity. Life is, therefore, a constant process of becoming and...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 21, 2024 | Literature
Chinua Achebe published his first novel ‘Things Fall Apart’ in 1958. Achebe wrote his novel in response to European novels that depicted Africans as savages who needed to be enlightened by the Europeans. Achebe presents to the reader his people’s history with both...
