Allah is the proper name of God, however, we know Him generally through His attributes. These attributes describe how Allah manifests Himself to us. God's attributes are innumerable since human intell...
Color Symbolism in The Great Gatsby
Nick Caraway, the narrator, Is one of the few characters who does not exhale the major laws that the other characters do. He Is able to see what Is wrong In society, at the same time as what Is positi...
Love, Hate and Beyond. Emotions, Culture and Practice
When analysing grief in an ethnographic fashion it can be quite difficult as it is such a sensitive issue. My partner and myself worked together to devise a project that could target the issue of grie...
Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost
Critics abroad have argued about who the hero is of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost:” Satan, Adam or Christ, the Son? Since Milton’s overall theme stated in the opening lines of Book I is to rela...
My Personal Harsh Lesson in Death
Van's life is described as "most simple and ordinary and therefore most terrible" (Tolstoy 42). So what would happen when death befalls him? What would be with his material pursuits in life? Rather, w...
Paradise Lost begins and ends with Man, but this is not Man as we know him in daily life, nor indeed as he is usually depicted in literature, but a perfect, pre-lapsarian Man. The primary concern of t...
Satan as a Renaissance character
Satan as renaissance character OR Paradise Lost under the influence of renaissance. Milton is the son both of the Renaissance and Reformation. Renaissance begins with the ancient Greek literature. Ren...
Using a Ghost During the Elizabethan Period. Hamlet
During the Elizabethan period, a ghost was seen as a common feature in most tragedy plays. Shakespeare's Hamlet is a prime example of the use of a 'ghost' to entice fear and apprehension amongst the E...
William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
Flake's use of the pastoral in Songs of Innocence and Experience Put simply, Flake's Songs of Innocence and Experience Juxtapose the innocent pastoral world of childhood against an adult world of corr...
Women Rights in Islam – Modernizing or Outdated?
Women Rights in Islam - Modernizing or Outdated? Definition According to the Oxford dictionary, ‘Women’s Rights are the rights that promote a position of social and legal equality, of women to men...