Metaphysical Musings

Severance reads as factory lines of sentences, queues of commas lined up with ideas leading to a fevered apocalypse. It is a text that fully inhabits its ideas, in plot and form. It is full of modern-day malaise, detailing the experience of living after capitalism has stopped progressing and is instead manifested through monotony, automation, and homogeneity. How capitalistic structures have reached a complacency of new corporate-slop-shop-restaurants and the poverty cycle.

Introduction: Doctor Faustus - first performed in either 1592 or 1593 and officially published posthumously in 1604 is an Elizabethan era tragedy. Summing it up in adjectives, it is a short, beautiful, and haunting text. In Doctor Faustus, a romantic quality is imputed to the epistemically dissatisfied Renaissance man and his quest for knowledge through the gothic imagery, fantastical adventures, and the intrigue of the occult between heaven and hell. However, by the end,  Do

To what extent was Deng Xiaoping successful in reconciling a communist political vision with capitalist economic practices? The two main sources used by this investigation are Immanuel Hsü’s ‘The Rise of Modern China’ (specifically Part 7: China after Mao) and Martin King Whyte’s essay ‘China’s Post-Socialist Inequality’. The sources are distinct in their outlook. In Part 7, Hsu provides a micro survey of Deng’s actions and their immediate effects on China’s people, economy,

The portrayal of female characters in fiction can be simplified to an admixture of stereotypes. Stereotypes inform the gender roles that female characters are often written into a piece of literature to fulfil. It starts with a material role to which some broader social expectation is imputed. In older classic texts, rarely is the woman something beyond a wife, a mother, a widow or a servant. In playing stereotypical roles, they provide love, support, maternal sympathy and ot

Analyzing and comparing The Color Purple  by Alice Walker and Chronicle of a Death Foretold  by Gabriel García Márquez offers a similar yet different exploration of family, community relationships, and themes of power. Generally, power is represented through the autonomy and agency of individual characters. If a character does not have such autonomy, they are to a large degree powerless. The context a character is written into dictates this. Both novels delve into how these d