When men return to the naturalistic state of living, free from all human interventions and social standards, certain laws shall cease to apply. In particular, situations should challenge the flexibilities of rigid regulations, for human ingenuity may not anticipate all possible outcomes outside of human societies. The case of the Speluncean explorers epitomises survival situations that take pl...

How does costuming of the three Weird Sisters in Macbeth on the Shakespearean stage correspond to the identities of the stereotyped witches in Elizabethan England?

 

The three Weird Sisters, as supernatural witches in Shakespeare’s tragedy ‘Macbeth’ were stereotyped as grotesque and were disrespected in the Elizabethan society in which the play was performed. (Britannica School) Witches, i...

Cheers for Appetite

 

Learn to travel, travel to learn. Growing up, the increasing appetite for knowledge and progress as a learner is truly empowering. 

 

'Years, gone. Since when has the timid girl grown up? I still recall the time when she could only communicate with her English-speaking playmates with broken language, and silently watched her friends swim in the lovely lake during a v...

----The Role of Memory in Freud and Woolf’s Work

 

Sigmund Freud and Virginia Woolf, although distinct thinkers of two Areas of Knowledge (the Human Sciences and Literature), both use memory in their work. 

 

To Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, memory is ‘traumatic’, because memory is often the cause of his patients’ despair. Thus, his growing knowledge base of memory’s impact o...