Anthony Burgess’s Clockwork Orange published in 1962 is both a dystopian novel depicting a fictitious bad future in which the world is much more exposed to ultra-violence and an anti-utopian text criticizing the government’s ...

Brecht is considered the founder of epic theatre. With this theatrical attitude, Brecht aims to show that realism which is imposed on people by bourgeois ideology is not the ultimate truth because reality changes in the ...

Considering the period in which he lived, known as the ‘Violent 70s’, it is not surprising that Ted Hughes deals with the theme of violence in his poems. Unlike Hughes’ contemporaries, man and animal dichotomy in his ...

In The Towers of Trebizond, in Chapter 22, Rose Macaulay begins to train an ape named Suliman which she bought before leaving Turkey. Though she criticizes the mission activities carried out by the Church, she intends ...

Although the notion of identity is assumed to be stable and unchanging in order to reinforce the binary opposition of the center/self and the ‘other,’ identities are fluid, and hence they are always at stake, which brings ...

James Joyce, in his A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, elaborates on the definition of art and illustrates what he had in mind about proper and improper art. Questions of art, poetics and pornography had been central ...

AphraBehn’s The Rover or the Banished Cavaliers, one of the prominent plays of the Restoration comedy, deals with male-female relationships, libertinism and the carvinalesque. After the puritan rule in Britain was ...

The patriarchal order of the society pushes the woman behind the surface mostly by regarding them as the secondary sex. As a result of this, they are ‘othered’ through gender and sexuality or economic and social issues, ...

“Star test” is a method of checking the validity of syllogistic arguments devised and first introduced by Gensler in 1973. In his paper “A Simplified Decision Procedure for Categorical Syllogism”, Gensler contrasts “star ...

Antropologists think that culture deeply affects people and shapes selves. It is a known fact that cultural themes have a great influence on the conceptions of self, emotion, child development, mental disorders and frames ...