The aim of this paper is to explore, by contrasting Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Jean Cocteau’s The Infernal Machine, how mythological stories and characters are in their essence archetypes that are e ... Read More
Understanding the human mind and its intricacies is what informs the works of the prolific septuagenarian contemporary British playwright, Edward Bond. His distinctive approach toward this effort i ... Read More
This research paper ventures to show that Sartre’s The Flies, unlike other modern renderings of the play, depends, thematically and structurally, upon the choices that Orestes makes. Sartre’s Oreste ... Read More
In the course of literary criticism, various critics have been analyzing the socio-economic and psychological dimensions of the theme of suicide in Ibsen’s plays. In the present study of Ibsen’s Ro ... Read More
This paper draws from Sigmund Freud’s reference to the Evil Eye in his essay titled ‘The “Uncanny”’. The concept is expounded as part of the psycho-cultural space we live in. This paper argues that ... Read More
By translation (tarjamah) of one language to another is meant the expression of the meaning of its text in a language different from its original language in order that those not familiar with it ma ... Read More
This paper attempts to demonstrate how and why Ben Jonson’s play The Alchemist is a valuable literary and historical document in that it charts important shifts and changes in the English language a ... Read More
This piece (written in response to reading about our environmental crises, especially concerns raised by Erazim Kohak, 1999) is an invitation to readers for an intentional and reflective pause, as r ... Read More