Essays on Corporeal

William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” has been celebrated as one of the best plays ever written, and its popularity is proven by the fact that the play is still being enacted, centuries after being presented to the public for the first time. Partially, its universal appeal is explained by the fact that the play tackles issues that are still relevant for the contemporary audiences, such as betrayal, revenge and love, among many others. The play’s universality is so great that director Michael Almereyda was able to adapt it to the screen by changing the setting of the story to ...

There is a common discussion amongst those interested in literature about the metaphors and allusions in the works of Lewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll first invented the Alice character in the work Alice in Wonderland, published in 1865. Scholars studying Carroll’s stories, including Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass have debated whether or not he was able to weave together abstract notions into a cogent story, or if he simply delivered fractured fairy tales for a 20th Century audience. The truth is that Carroll worked purely within the realm of thte imagination, and although he did occasionally ...

The idea of having different and multiple perspectives is not a new idea. Often times, people would take different stances on certain matters because of the type of culture they have, and the type of environment they are part of. Due to the external factors present in their surroundings, people react to issues differently depending on what their environment says about it. The article written by Paul Bloom in 2004 is an example of how people would have different perspectives and stances in anything under the sun. As what its title says, The Duel Between Body and Soul, it ...