Essays: English

Introduction Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss, published in 2006 and winner of the Man Booker Prize, is a profound exploration of postcolonial identity, ...

Introduction Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (2006) is a profound exploration of the complexities of identity, the lingering impacts of colonisation, and the ...

Introduction Literary texts have long served as a medium to explore complex societal constructs, including legal themes such as justice, authority, and the moral ...

Introduction George Orwell’s *Animal Farm* (1945) is a seminal allegorical novella that critiques the disillusionment of revolutionary ideals and the failure of equality within ...

Introduction This essay explores the characterisation of Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s seminal novel, *Frankenstein* (1818), with a specific focus on the assertion that ...

Introduction Orhan Pamuk’s My Name Is Red (1998) offers a profound exploration of the tensions between different ways of painting and seeing, set against ...

Introduction This essay explores Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” first published in 1820, through the unique perspective of a physics student. Though ...

Introduction This essay explores Washington Irving’s *The Legend of Sleepy Hollow* (1820) through an unconventional lens, that of a physics student, to argue that ...

Introduction This essay offers a comparative analysis of two Romantic-era poems, William Wordsworth’s ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ (1807) and Thomas Moore’s ‘The ...

Introduction Ezra Pound, a pivotal figure in modernist literature, remains one of the most controversial and innovative poets of the 20th century. His magnum ...