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‘The city is the central locus of modernist writing’. Discuss this statement with reference to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Virginia Woolfe’s Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, and T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland. (more…)

‘The Forge’ is a sonnet with a clear division into an octave (the first eight lines) and a sestet (the final six lines). While the octave, apart from its initial reference to the narrator, focuses solely on the inanimate objects and occurrences inside and outside the forge, the sestet describes the blacksmith himself, and what he does. (more…)

Throughout The Tempest feelings of envy and desire are closely related to issues of power and ambition. Whether striving to regain a rightful title or planning to usurp another by treacherous means, characters within the play seem entirely driven by their lust for supremacy. (more…)

Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse (1990) is structured in three parts and each, to an extent, displays a different use of time. In this essay I would like to look at each of these and discuss the ways that the author represents not only the movement and affects of temporality but also how its is perceived and shapes people’s consciousnesses. (more…)

History is replete with voyages of discovery undertaken by explorers around the world mainly in search of food, raw material or expansion of empire. A rush for such voyages by the European navigators and explorers was at peak during the nineteenth century. (more…)

A contemporary and avid watcher of Synge’s plays at the Abbey Theatre was Sean O’ Casey, whose plays (also performed at the Abbey theatre) also provoked outrage for their stark realism and their political stance, which could often be seen as anti-nationalistic, but were more likely to have been attacked because of their complexity and the blurred, humanistic devices that O’ Casey tended to use. (more…)

The importance of literature on Ireland in the early years of the Twentieth Century can be measured in a number of ways. First, the literary revival, or at least its intentions was to allow Ireland the chance to establish its own literary identity entirely distinct from the predominant British literature at the time. (more…)