Literature as a Path to Peace
Literature serves as a powerful tool for promoting peace by addressing conflict, advocating for reconciliation, and fostering empathy. Through historical narratives, religious texts, and social and political commentaries, literature unites diverse societies, encouraging dialogue and understanding, ultimately contributing to global harmony and the pursuit of peace.
Religious Undertones in Robinson Crusoe
*Robinson Crusoe* by Daniel Defoe mirrors the story of Adam and Eve’s Original Sin, focusing on disobedience, guilt, and repentance. Crusoe, defying his father’s advice, faces isolation and hardship on a deserted island as punishment, paralleling Adam and Eve’s expulsion from paradise. Through suffering, Crusoe finds repentance and reconnects with God.
The Waste Land: Eliot’s Masterpiece of Modern Despair
T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” reflects the post-World War I generation’s disillusionment and spiritual decay. Blending various literary traditions and historical references, it explores themes of fragmentation, societal collapse, and spiritual decline. Despite despair, the poem hints at hope through spiritual rebirth, advocating a return to morality.
Seeking Light in a Darkened World
But, I love my heart
That beats slowly,
That listens to me patiently,
And never stops beating,
To make me alive.
Edward Durrell Stone: Modernism’s Maverick
When critically examining his works as a modernist pioneer, Stone came under significant controversy as his stylistic progression increasingly fell out of favor due to his shift from the International Style to a more “romantic” modern aesthetic that incorporated decoration along with aspects of monumentality, regionalism (the importance of vernacularity), historicism, and fantasy.
The Dilemma of Aliza, An Inspiring Writer
Aliza noticed a mimosa tree and started to think how it had grown so large. She was a writer, she observed everything deeply. There was a breeze coming on, “I have to write a poem but is it funny to write a poem on a mimosa tree? No, not at all”, she reassured herself and began writing.
Subconscious Mind and Memory: A Hybrid Third Space-We Exist In
Human beings are bound by the idea of fear: fear of a place, the lost home, or a rank that they consider to be their secure place. In contemporary world, the home has become a place of experiencing uncanny sensations because people are bound to the structure of their minds and memories that they cannot abandon.
Real Beauty Lies Within!
True beauty comes from within and the real beauty lies within, yes looks are good. People are pretty, elegant, and gorgeous, however, setting such high beauty standards and making people feel left out incapable enough to fit in, is a torment.
Literature: a Pathway to Peace
Literature is the soft power that has the strength to change the way we think, challenge our beliefs, and questions our ideals. It is a kind of therapy that not only helps us to find our inner peace but external peace as well.
Woman of Patience
Woman of patience,
how much longer will you wait?
Until your heart
which doesn’t beat for you
