By Brian Nzomo There was a horrible fascination in them all. He saw them at night, and they troubled his imagination in the day. The Renaissance knew of strange manners of poisoning,—poisoning by a helmet and a lighted torch, by an embroidered glove and a jewelled fan, by a gilded pomander and by an amberContinue reading “A REVIEW OF ‘THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY’ BY OSCAR WILDE”
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A REVIEW OF TESS OF THE D’UBERVILLES BY THOMAS HARDY
By B.N Wendo Tess of the D’ubervilles was a bruising read. It was long. Very long indeed. The writer, Thomas Hardy, wrote in complex sentence structures and sometimes heavy English. The Epic of the female protagonist, Tess, was tackled incredibly. Her metamorphosis from a naive and spineless sixteen year old girl to a hale butContinue reading “A REVIEW OF TESS OF THE D’UBERVILLES BY THOMAS HARDY”
TROJAN WOMEN (TROIADES) – EURIPIDES
By Brian Nzomo Majority of the Greek poetics speak of valiant and stoic men. Tragedies, as Aristotle indicated, is a genre of the poetics dedicated to the calamitous deeds that befall man. Like the Joycerian modernist characters, tragedies are unstoppable forces that emanate from the crude errors in a protagonist’s reasoning. Not merely punishment forContinue reading “TROJAN WOMEN (TROIADES) – EURIPIDES”
ARISTOCRATIC FEARS: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BY JANE AUSTEN.
By Brian Nzomo PRIDE AND PREJUDICE- JANE AUSTEN (1813) Perhaps Ralph Waldo Emerson was right about the lives of these Englanders of the Recency period. Sterile in imagination, lives pallid with bromidic traditions, the annoying need to mince expressions and repackaging them in an amiable way. I watched a few episodes of Bridgerton. And inContinue reading “ARISTOCRATIC FEARS: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BY JANE AUSTEN.”
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