LITERATURE

This essay explores the twin threads of trauma and creation that for Plath seem inexplicably bound to her own poetic journey, and to that of women in her society.

Moments within 'The Great Gatsby' unveil that for someone like Gatsby, both "inside and out", the sordid system he occupies, with all its abuse, only leaves him wanting more.

One offers a searing condemnation of gendered stereotypes, yet in this pairing, it makes the mesmerising, violent rebirth of the latter all the more breath-taking.

"Heart of Darkness" extends not just a critique of colonialist thought, but the psychological struggle it endows on the individual when its immorality is exposed.

Marlow's struggle to reconcile his narrated experiences give insight into the turmoil left in the wake of a Western, colonial ideology.

Marlow's journey up the Congo River unearths far more when abstracted out of a post-colonial lens and gleaned as a tale of self-introspection.

Conrad challenges traditional ways of ‘seeing’, yet his own vision is undermined by cultural blind spots. Is this necessarily true?