Year One
A year has passed and still I ruminateAbout the gracious god or luck or fateThat anchored me where countless sonnets…
Category: Human Content
Here you can find poems, essays and other texts created by Omri Shabath.
Edward Said’s Orientalism: Influence, Significance and Criticism in Post-Colonialism Studies
After Edward Said’s work, Orientalism, was published in 1978, it created a lot of buzz and admiration in the academic world,…
Linguists Bakhtin and de Saussure on Language and Speech
Human beings own the rare ability in nature to use voice as a highly complex communication means, which sets them…
Fishing Context to Understand the Actual Meaning of Words
In his article, “Is There a Text in This Class?” from his book with the same title, Stanley Fish demonstrates…
The Darker Yet Insightful Layer of Golding’s Lord of the Flies
Novels can be seen as an onion. At first, the readers encounter the transparent outer layer, in which they discover…
Alternative Ending to the Picture of Dorian Gray (Chapter 20 Rewrite)
It was a lovely night, and he loved the soft touch of his silk scarf around his throat. As he…
Chaucer’s House of Fame Satirizes the Poets in Dante’s Inferno
In his poem, the House of Fame, Geoffrey Chaucer adopts several scenes from other poems of renowned poets and reworks them…
The Growing Pains of Great Expectations’ Pip and Wuthering Heights’ Cathy
One of the most pleasurable aspects of the novel is the possibility of witnessing the development and growth of the…
The Layers of Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
The short story “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway is a tale of a dangerous hunt…
Exploring “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road” by the Beatles
Persuasion is an art. Over the ages, human beings have attempted to develop, refine and perfect their ability to articulate…
The Taming of the Shrew’s Clothing Motif: Disguise, Social Class and Marriage
One of the main theatrical devices in almost any play is the clothing of the characters. The different types of…
The Place of Religion in Oedipus the King and the Canterbury Tales
Throughout history, religion has always taken a prominent role in people’s lives in Western culture to various degrees. However, even…
The Madwoman vs. the Goblin: Gilbert and Gubar’s Criticism of Christina Rossetti
The following excerpt is from one of the most constitutive texts of the 20th century, The Madwoman in the Attic, by Sandra…
The Canterbury Tales’ Relationships of the Wife of Bath and the Nun’s Priest
In both the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and the Nun’s Priest’s Tale from The Canterbury Tales, there are depictions of relationships…
Troilus’s Stages of Grief in the Texts of Chaucer and Shakespeare
The tragic love affair of Troilus and Cressida has been recounted and portrayed in the works of two of the…