Category: Essays
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An Essay on Women’s Fiction in the 20th Century
“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history” – Virgina Woolf, ‘A Room of One’s Own’ The existences of women in fiction and reality are inextricably linked: the lives of literary women have, and always will, mirror…
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Painting Ghosts: A Review of No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Trigger warning: this review contains discussion of mental health, depression, drug abuse, and suicide. ‘If we knew the antonym of crime, I think we would know its true nature. God… salvation … love … light. But for God there is the antonym Satan, for salvation is perdition, for love there is hate, for light there…
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Champagne Vs. Tea Parties: The Fragile Lives of the Upper Class in Mrs Dalloway and The Great Gatsby
Privilege, when destabilised, shows its hollowness—a truth depicted by both Virginia Woolf in Mrs. Dalloway and F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby. Indeed, in both novels the upper classes experience a growing disillusionment when the stability and privilege of their lives are disrupted by changing circumstances. While Mrs. Dalloway is set in London and…
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