Essays on Philology

Throughout the play, Medea is a varied character who attains numerous characteristics compared to women of his times. She, therefore, received different treatment from the society. Why was she a different being? One, Medea was obsessed with supernatural powers, a trait that made her so unique and distinct. Nonetheless, she was unscrupulous, spiteful, and compelled with retaliation. Because of the daily encounters in her life experiences, the situations that arose could have been thought to have played a critical role in shaping certain characteristics and actions by Medea. Most people were scared of her, including the males in the ...

19th of April 2016

Thesis Statement Many scholars and critics have sought to find some hidden meaning and messages in the works of Shakespeare. However, despite the abundance of allegory, sarcasm and on satire, the reader’s attention should not be diverted from the main problem that the author shows in “Othello” and this is the issue of race and discrimination within the society of those days. This topic has not yet been fully described and is of interest as it shows some controversial noted in terms of the understanding of racism as we know it now, and how people understood it in ...

Article Summary: Levy, Leo B., "The Problem of Faith in `Young Goodman Brown'”, Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 75(3) July 1975: 375-87. In "The Problem of Faith in `Young Goodman Brown'” (Journal of English and Germanic Philology, July, 1975), Leo Levy finds that the story is ambiguous about whether the protagonist is dreaming, mentally disturbed or undergoing a crisis of faith (Faith) because all three elements are present in the story. Although the most important event in the story is the witch’s Sabbath in the forest, Hawthorne never makes it clear if this was a real or ...