Myths are enduring facets of human nature because they allow cultures to bring order to chaos and to understand human behavior and the mysterious workings of the universe. Despite the presence of scientific and psychological explorations that define the Modern world, myths continue to shape our culture and literary art. In order to be more ...
Robert Pattinson, who plays a vampire in the popular Twilight movie series, is a distant relative of Vlad the Impaler on whom Brad Stoker based his immortal character Dracula. Many celebrities related to illustrious ancestors, including those of royal blood. What is even more amazing is that multiple celebrities share a common ancestor of great ...
“Magical Realism” is a broadly descriptive term for a movement in fiction originally brought to prominence by the surreal works of Czech author Franz Kafka (1883-1924). In novels of this genre, the frame or surface may be conventionally realistic, but contrasting elements — the supernatural, myths, dreams and fantasy — invade the realism and change ...
There are certain ground rules that come with the decision to become a recluse. The most obvious one is that you should never announce that you are a recluse. Greta Garbo can be forgiven for making this tragic mistake since she had little precedent on which to go. The result of her pronouncement that she ...
Literature banned on religious grounds has been in effect for thousands of years. In Athens, around 5th century, the treatise of Protagoras was singled out as offensive. The first sentence of his treatise read, ” Concerning the gods I am not able to know either that they do exist or that they do no exist ...
