How Dante Alighieri and Sir Philip Sidney Relate to Nature
This brief essay will examine and compare the functions of the term “Nature” in two different texts by two prominent…
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Here you can find poems, essays and other texts created by Omri Shabath.
Vladimir Nabokov Seperates Himself from Humbert in Lolita
Humbert Humbert, the fictional author of the fictitious book that is actually Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, narrates his life story in which…
The Eyesight Motif in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw
The 19th century produced some of the most notable horror novels in the history of the literary canon. Two such…
History’s Greatest Thinkers Define the Sublime (Longinus, Dante, Kant, Coleridge)
Many great thinkers throughout history tried to explore and explain what makes a literary text superior to others. Some of…
War Poems Reflect the “Truth”: There Is No Truth (Thanks, Nietzsche!)
In his essay, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” (1873), the renowned philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche discusses the relations…
How Anorexia Nervosa Is Expressed in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry
Modernity in the Western world has certainly provided humanity with new valuable means and improvements in almost all spheres of…
Escaping Paranoia with Drugs and Alcohol in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
Reading a text that is intentionally full of paranoid patterning and over-patterning by its author could instill the characters’ feeling…
The Contrasting Journeys of Odysseus and Candide
Almost since the rosy-fingered dawn of Western literature, many literary works have revolved around a journey of a hero. Throughout…
Countering Pornography with Poetry
In her constitutive essay from 1989, “Pornography: On Morality and Politics,” Catharine MacKinnon censures the legal stance of pornography harshly…
The Divine Comedy’s Reverberations in Mad Men and The Sopranos
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is one of the most iconic and famous texts ever written, which has been influencing other…
Girdle Power – Subjecting the Female Body through Poetry
In the chapter “Docile Bodies” from Discipline and Punish, the French philosopher Michel Foucault explains his theory that since the 17th…
Xenophobia and Immigration Anxieties in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the unmistakable villain is Count Dracula, a powerful vampire from Transylvania who endeavors to pervade Victorian London…
King Arthur’s Death in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur and Tennyson’s Idylls of the King
The legend of King Arthur is one of the most famous medieval stories ever known that still resonates even with…
Michel Foucault and the Silenced Female Voice in Hollywood
In the twentieth century, a few very impactful literary theories regarding voice and silence in the Western discourse were developed…
Connected: House and Character in A Rose for Emily
In the short story by William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily, there is a significant connection between the character of Emily and…