Monthly Archives: April 2013

“The Lady with the Dog” (‘Dama s Sobachkoi’) was written in 1899 when Chekhov was at the height of his career. It is an account of the extramarital affair between Dmitri Dmitrievich Gurov and Anna Sergeevna. Their casual affair gradually … Continue reading →

“Diaries of A Madman”, by Lu Xun brought about strong emotions in me as I read it. My most prominent emotions were the feelings of sadness and guilt. Sadness when I put myself in the Elder brother’s place and guilt … Continue reading →

When I first began to read Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman, I read it in a very literal way and was a little bit confused. At first I asked myself questions like “Is he living in a poor society … Continue reading →

In Eliot’s – The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock he speaks of love and the various aspect one might experience when searching for love like self consciousness and female encounters (that are G rated). He highlights his insecurities that … Continue reading →

Rimbaud’s poem “ Night in the hell” shows many hallucinations of himself living in the  fantasy world. Nevertheless, the idea of the context is mainly about his suffering of being a sinner in the past. According to some scholars, he … Continue reading →

Spoiler Alert! What is Hedda Gabler like? Well, like Hedda Gabler. Ibsen makes a great decision by naming the play Hedda Gabler instead of Hedda Tesman. Hedda Gabler can never be the ideal wife or mother or take on any … Continue reading →

Hedda Gabler is one of plays by Henrik Ibsen about desperate wife of Victorian Era (1837-1901.) Hedda is a very intelligent and manipulative woman, who got married for a man, she does not love. She is not very pleasant; we … Continue reading →