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”
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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.”