— Anonymous I think that Life of A Sensuous Woman by Ihara Saikaku is a great work because of how radical it was for its time and the manner in which it approaches the idea of love. Given that the story was written in a conservative sixteenth-century Japan, Saikaku took a great risk in writing […]
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“Endgame” by Samuel Beckett is one of many literary texts that I don’t understand…
— Anonymous “Endgame” by Samuel Beckett is one of many literary texts that I don’t understand. When I first read the play, I was quite confused by the situation the characters are in. I did not understand the theme or purpose of this play because there was a lot of repetition that seemed absurd. This […]
I feel like this story, The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy, is very relatable especially due to our current circumstances…
— Abdulla Al Sudman I feel like this story, The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy, is very relatable especially due to our current circumstances. It speaks on how human beings naturally follow a specific path and for the longest time they believe that that’s the only path that should be taken. And this routine […]
“Bewitched,” by Ueda Akinari, is an interesting piece of literature…
— Abdulla Al Sudman “Bewitched,” by Ueda Akinari, is an interesting piece of literature for me because it really touches upon something much deeper than a man’s attraction to beauty, instead on how beauty, and as an extension women, are perceived by people. This is a “Great Work” because it illustrates how people thought and […]
I genuinely love how thought provoking the story is…
— Anonymous I genuinely love how thought provoking the story is. It relates to two things that I often contemplate on, time and life. Ivan Ilyich were driven to become successful before he gets ill. He believes that living to the standard of upper class is to only proper way to live a life. Because […]
